Which movie should I watch?
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August 13th, 2016
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I bought 3 DVDs today. I can’t decide which one to watch first.
Which one is best, in your opinion?
1. No country for old men
2. In the electric mist
3. The black dahlia
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Depends on what you’re in the mood for. NCFOM is good, suspenseful.
I have never heard of ITEM and being a murder mystery fan I’d probably go for TBD.
No Country For Old Men is the best of the three, I think. The Black Dahlia strayed too far from the truth for my taste, for the sake of Hollywood appeal and titillation. It’s entertaining enough, though, and I know not everyone is as interested in true crime as I am.
Never heard of Electric Mist.
I guess NCFOM, but I usually buy 5 movies, then go home and watch Fight Club
Well I watched No country. Really good. Tommy LJ is always worth watching In the electric mist also has him which is why I bought it.
Your user name is @filmfann and you don’t bother watching the five movies?
LOL. I was “Friendo” on Answerbag (same avatar). I vote for No Country for Old Men.
No Country For Old Men
Aside from all the other film’s merits, Anton Chigurh is one of the most challenging and rewarding character studies in all of film.
Javier Bardem’s performance is entrancing, detailed, subtle. A joy to observe and analyze.
Another vote for No Country for Old Men. Great film.
No Country for Old Men, is BAD ASS. But if you watch it 1st, you’ll be disappointed in the other two.
If you can’t make a choice, flip a coin….
“Do you know how crazy you are?”
”...Do you mean the nature of this conversation?”
@MrGrimm888 A three sided coin~
A vs B, winner goes against C, winner of that, the movie that is watched, easy breezy.
I watched In the Electric Mist last night. It was good but a little strange. It had Tommy Lee Jones and Kelly Macdonald and southern accents, same as No Country which felt a little bit confusing.
It’s the Black Dahlia tonight then…
@Hypocrisy Central. I was just busting your balls, like most do when you opine. Lol.
The Black Dahlia was very strange. I didn’t understand it much. I got very confused as to who was who, why they did what they did, who knew who. Very good looking film.
Looks like I got the order right, if watching them in order of preference were my aim.
So any recommendations for another movie?
Gran Torino
Unleashed
Outlaw Josie Wells
Carlito’s Way
The Black Stallion Returns
Gravity
Martian
Donnie Brasco
Breaking Away
The Thing (John Carpenter’s version)
@Stinley, do you have a preferred genre?
Regarding No Country For Old Men:
Jeffrey Overstreet adds that “the scenes in which Chigurh stalks Moss are as suspenseful as anything the Coens have ever staged. And that has as much to do with what we hear as what we see. No Country for Old Men lacks a traditional soundtrack, but don’t say it doesn’t have music. The blip-blip-blip of a transponder becomes as frightening as the famous theme from Jaws. The sound of footsteps on the hardwood floors of a hotel hallway are as ominous as the drums of war. When the leather of a briefcase squeaks against the metal of a ventilation shaft, you’ll cringe, and the distant echo of a telephone ringing in a hotel lobby will jangle your nerves.”
@Call_Me_Jay I watch about 50–75 movies a month. Trust me. I am not underfed on films.
@Earthbound_Misfit no particular genre. Ones with puzzles are good. Not too violent – shooting is ok but not torture
^^I’d like to say that torture is way too common now in movies. I love a good horror movie, but ever since Saw,or around that time,horror movies evolved into having torture scenes. A lot. Someone bound and tortured is NOT entertainment to me. It is pure sadistic voyeurism. I don’t condemn those who watch these movies, but I don’t like them(the movies . )
My friend says it scares him. So being scared is his reason for watching those films. I find torture movies disgusting.
I wish the ‘fad’ would stop.
Puzzles, like a whodunit mystery, or those films known as “mindfuck movies”?
Pi, Memento, Ghajini, Requiem for a Dream, The Prestige, The Illusionist, Boxing Helena, The Final Cut
And, the Spanish version of The Secret in their Eyes. Avoid the American remake.
I really enjoy hyper-violence films, so I, personally, just hope they stop doing them in the USA, because America does them so poorly (see: Hostel and its sequels). Korea is awesome for bloody psych-horror/torture porn flicks. (The films listed above are mindfuck movies but not torture porn.)
@Seek I liked Memento and The Prestige. I will look at the others you mentioned
@Hypocrisy_Central I’ve not heard of any of yours but will check them out
^ Just a warning, Boxing Helena is a mindfuck movie.
But in the lamest, laughable way possible.
It is pretty lame, but it’s fun.
Why waste your time on Boxing Helena, when Human Centipede is out there?
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