[QUOTE=Poltergeist Three;18688549][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorra_(film[/url])
Much of Gomorra takes place in and around a crumbling housing project, that in establishing shots looks as if it were a rotting labyrinth pyramid. The very structure of the film's slums serves itself as a visual metaphor for the Camorra crime institution in Naples. It's a bureaucratic shuffle, rivaling a large capitalist corporation, equally ruthless but in different senses of the term. Their products are drugs, extortion, and toxic sludge. Their version of corporate take-over involves murderously shameless acts of extreme violence.
Matteo Garrone deftly directs Gomorra, based on the novel of the same name by Roberto Saviano. It contains a labyrinth plot serving to depict a labyrinth lifestyle. One storyline focuses on a young boy, Toto, who lives in that decaying pyramid, and wants to join up with the gangsters who run it. By the end of the film, his youth will be shattered, and he'll have done things to those around him that would have seemed unthinkable before. He's the ground soldier in the gangster empire.
Don Ciro is an aging money runner, delivering rations to the families of mob prisoners. He gets increasingly caught between the war between factions within the complexes, and before long takes to wearing a bullet proof vest in fear of his own safety.
Roberto is a college graduate, given a high profile job working with Franco, who runs a scheme disposing of garbage and waste from the city by burying it in the countryside - a move that has sent the cancer rate in the countryside through the roof. Roberto must face his own conscious as he becomes more and more aware of the corruption of work.
Pasquale is a talented designer, who's put to work by his friend and boss completing a contract for dresses in less time than he and the workers should like. At great personal risk to himself, he takes an offer from a Chinese factory boss to gives lessons to his workers. The job means crossing the Comorra, so he is hidden in the trunk on the drive to the factory, with a modified hole behind the backseat so he can stick his head out to breath and chat.
The other storyline follows two Scarface-wannabes who long to be the crime bosses of all bosses. They cross the local boss by stealing drugs from dealers, causing trouble, then by stealing weapons from a mob cache, raising Cain. They are knuckle-heads, a couple of kids too stupid to see the truth behind the phony glorification of the gangster lifestyle.
That phony glorification is entirely absent here. Garrone observes his gangsters with an eye of contempt. There is no Robin Hood imagery in Gomorra. It puts on full display the ruthlessness of the gangster culture. It's a gangster as capitalist world, one where turning to killing kids or a woman is looked down upon, but not off-limits.
The film starts off with a fantastic sequence of tanning machines and surprisingly graphic murder, which would lead one to think that they were moving headlong into a Scorsese-like blood bath of macabre. You'd be wrong though. Gomorra is a very patient film, slowly unraveling its stories. It's clearly influenced by the early Italian Neo-Realists, and also has elements that reminded me of the gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville. Garrone shoots in a documentary style with hand-held camera shots. It jumps between its story lines with utmost patience, which might slow down the film's pace more than many would like or are accustomed to. If you do not realize the scope of the Camorra's activity in nearly all facets of commercial and communal life in and around Naples, the connection between the stories may seem unclear. But that's one of the main services of the picture, to show us just how entrenched the mafia has remained in parts of Italy.
Although mob movies are a dime a dozen, Gamorra enters as a gangster epic with freshness. It's a very European film, and as far as gangster pictures go, with its no nonsense documentary style, and only slowly escalating violence and patience it feels like a unique addition to the genre. Gomorra is sure to split, maybe even downright annoy audiences looking for something more conventional. It defies at least most of the genre's clichés, and aims high with its quiet ambitions.
Gomorra won the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and has been slotted as Italy's official entry into the 2009 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film.
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I just said "the hell" because theres two guys in underwear with a AK-47 & SMG aiming at the beach
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Hands down.[/QUOTE]
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[b]Recent Favorite:[/b] The Wrestler - Great story, and Mickey Rourke did a good job in it.
[b]Recent Worst:[/b] Quantum of Solace - Probably the worst 007 movie I've seen, real letdown.
[b]Favorite:[/b] Die Hard - Great movie, probably seen it a thousand times and will most likely watch it a thousand more.
[b]Worst:[/b] Romeo + Julliet - The "modernized" version, even though they talk Shakespearean. The 1968 movie was infinitely better.
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Burn After Reading
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Really? I thought it was damn good. I've always liked the Cohen Brothers' movies, though.
[QUOTE=Poltergeist Three;18688549][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorra_(film[/url])
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Sounds a lot like a European version of City of Men, which I loved.
I know I get dumbed or disagreed but Watchmen is one of my favorite movies now :>
[QUOTE=Fijgum;18696976]I know I get dumbed or disagreed but Watchmen is one of my favorite movies now :>[/QUOTE]
that movie was okay
Inglorious basterds and district 9 and moon are all really good. Terminator salvation not so much bit still a really cool film.
1. What's your favorite movie in the last couple of years, or just this year, or just last year.
[b]Shrek[/b]
2. What's your least favorite movie in the last couple of years.
[b]Cloverfield[/b]
3. What's your favorite movie of all time.
[b]Jurassic Park[/b]
4. What's the worst movie you've ever seen.(Recently)
[b]Beverly Hills Chihuahua[/b]
1. What's your favorite movie in the last couple of years, or just this year, or just last year.
Defiance
2. What's your least favorite movie in the last couple of years,
hmm...tropic thunder
3. What's your favorite movie of all time
Defiance
Road To Perdition
Into The Wild
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
4. What's the worst movie you've ever seen
Hands down tropic thunder
1. either Inglourious Basterds, district 9, or up
2. um.. new moon. don't even need to see it to know it's shit.
3. either 2001, stalker, the fountain, aliens, or sunshine. or ghost and the darkness. too many... can't... decide....
4. cyborg 2. it's only positive aspect is a sex scene with an 18 year old angelina jolie, but it's interspersed with shots of an old man.
now the part where I judge people based on their tastes:
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[b]Where The Wild Things Are[/b][/QUOTE]
I loved that book. but Hollywood inevitably ruins everything pure and good in world.
[QUOTE=The.Joker;18678048]1. Surrogates was a nice one, Gamer was good too.
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you need some better taste in movies.
Moon, Adventureland and District 9 probably. My favourite movie of all time is probably City of God.
I watched Inglorious Basterds and liked it, not as much as Tarantinos other movies though, gonna have to watch it again.
1. What's your favorite movie in the last couple of years, or just this year, or just last year. - Eagle Eye
2. What's your least favorite movie in the last couple of years- Twatlight and New Moon, Aliens in the Attic
3. What's your favorite movie of all time- Halloween, Back to the Future, or Spider-Man 2
4. What's the worst movie you've ever seen- Jason X, Batman and Robin
1. What's your favorite movie in the last couple of years, or just this year, or just last year.
Law Abiding Citizen - I love explosions, especially when the explosions are hard to explain how the hell he did it. Seriously, go see it.
2. What's your least favorite movie in the last couple of years.
Any of those really shit movies that try to be funny in the same vain as airplane but instead fail hard. Like Superhero Movie, Epic Movie, etc, etc
3. What's your favorite movie of all time.
Shoot 'em Up - It's definitely high up in the awesome list. Fantastic gunplay, amazing soundtrack, brilliant everything (just don't pay too much attention to the story, that's sort of loosely draped over the awesome).
4. What's the worst movie you've ever seen.(Recently)
I don't tend to sit through too many terrible movies, but the one that springs to my mind the most is Alexander. It was so long and crap that it actually has a DVD change halfway through the film... I'd rather drink hornets than watch that again.
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favorite movie of all time: "Ed Wood" (1994)
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UP was a good show
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So much Furry... So little time :suicide:
[QUOTE=sebbonaparta;18679194]There Will Be Blood is amazing. I love that movie, it's a truly masterful work. The cinematography was stunning, and the story was deep and satisfying, and illustrated how greed overtook an entrepreneur to the point where he was overcome and fell into a sort of insanity for control and money. I consider it one of the best movies of all time, ranking there with the classics from Kubrick, who is my favorite director.[/QUOTE]
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Moon, Inglourious Basterds, District 9 and I've yet to see The Road and I hope it earns it's place here.
Inglourious Basterds, District 9.
Not that recent but Watchmen
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Watched it during class today and I happen to find it pretty good.
Why wouldn't you watch the original Frankenstein
I saw 500 Days of Summer a few weekends ago, I didn't see it when it was out in theaters and they were showing it on campus. It was pretty good with clever writing and producing.
District 9 was good, Inglorious /b/tards was okay but it seemed unsatisfying in the end, but a fun shoot 'em up nonetheless. 2012 was cool for the special effects and the pack of Twizzlers I got. 4th Kind was okay until I learned how hoaxed it was, but still made me think a lot.
1. What's your favorite movie in the last couple of years, or just this year, or just last year?
It's between The Dark Knight, Gran Torino and Up.
2. What's your least favorite movie in the last couple of years?
That Journey to the Centre of the Earth 3D movie last year.
3. What's your favorite movie of all time?
Gremlins :v:
4. What's the worst movie you've ever seen?
Another vote for any of the spoof movies.
My favorite movie is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, hands down.
Worst movie ever was Death Proof.
[QUOTE=Hazardous Melon;18713929]Inglourious Basterds, District 9.[/QUOTE]
both are kick ass shows
[QUOTE=Euphorium;18694085]Really? I thought it was damn good. I've always liked the Cohen Brothers' movies, though.[/QUOTE]
I dunno, it just seemed so pointless and boring to me.
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