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kljesta64 on 15 February 2013

dark city ?



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SvennoJ on 15 February 2013

Correct, Dark city.

A film noir style SF movie from 1998. One of those great 'wake up without knowing who or where you are' kind of movies. The plot shares a lot of similarities with The matrix, filmed at the same studio they even share some of the same sets. There is one big difference apart from the style. While the matrix lets people live out there own lives, dark city poses the question whether memories determine someones personality. I love the look of the movie, the acting and the ideas it poses. Although the matrix offers bigger entertainment value I prefer the story progression in Dark city.  Both are great anyway (The matrix is still coming up in my list)



Veknoid_Outcast on 16 February 2013
SvennoJ said:

Correct, Dark city.

A film noir style SF movie from 1998. One of those great 'wake up without knowing who or where you are' kind of movies. The plot shares a lot of similarities with The matrix, filmed at the same studio they even share some of the same sets. There is one big difference apart from the style. While the matrix lets people live out there own lives, dark city poses the question whether memories determine someones personality. I love the look of the movie, the acting and the ideas it poses. Although the matrix offers bigger entertainment value I prefer the story progression in Dark city.  Both are great anyway (The matrix is still coming up in my list)

So happy to see love for Dark City. It's an overlooked masterpiece.



Veknoid_Outcast on 16 February 2013

My #17 is Double Indemnity, another film by Billy Wilder -- but not the last on my list. Double Indemnity is the prototypical film noir. Along with The Maltese Falcon, it went a long way to write the rules of the sub-genre. Wilder and cinematographer John F. Seitz work brilliantly together to make the movie look stark, shadowy, guilty, and lonely. They would pair up again in another movie further down the list.



Jamesdawn on 16 February 2013

My top movies are:

 

1. Identity Thief

2. Texas Chainsaw 3D

3. Zero Dark Thirty

4. The Liability

5. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters



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Veknoid_Outcast on 16 February 2013

Clue for my #16:

This movie features a famous sequence that was later borrowed by Brian DePalma in The Untouchables.



Chris Hu on 16 February 2013
SvennoJ said:
Aliens.

I'll give an easier clue for my nr 17. It shares a lot of similarities with The Matrix, but was released earlier.

That's the movie I kinda knew someone would get it on the first guess will post it now.



SvennoJ on 16 February 2013
Veknoid_Outcast said:

Clue for my #16:

This movie features a famous sequence that was later borrowed by Brian DePalma in The Untouchables.

I looked it up, interesting movie. I wish these old movies weren't so expensive. Something's not right when a decade old movie is $8-10 and a nearly century old movie is $34.

The Alfred Hitchkock masterpiece blu-ray collection looks very enticing to me, but at $198 it still comes to over $13 a movie and I don't even know if I will like most of them. I'll add it on my watch list anyway for when it comes down in price.

Anyway decided to give the new Dredd a try, (3D) blu-ray + digital copy for $11.49.



SvennoJ on 16 February 2013

My next movie is the first of 5 from my favorite director.
One of the mottos in this story could be 'you are only as old as you feel you are'



Chris Hu on 16 February 2013

Posted my 17th pick Aliens next on my list is another movie that has a great score by Bernard Herrmann.