Good Movies...

[umzzzzz]

sino nakanood na ng FF7 advent children...asteg yung CG

dukes of hazzard ok para sa kin...40 yr old virgin maganda story...chicken little hindi mashado...

[Isuzoom]

spy game - Robert Redford, Brad Pitt

the shawshank redemption - Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman

[mrpink]

don't know if you consider it as knights and myth .. pero try the conan series ni arnold at yung original na beastmaster ni marc singer (andoon rin si tanya roberts) ..

[FrankDrebin]

How about a classic Pinoy movie like George Estregan's Batuta ni Drakula?

[Isuzoom]

Lumuha talaga ako sa Batuta ni Drakula...

[flakez]

wow, thanks sa mga reply. ang dami din pala. subukan kong maghanap ng mga yan, un ay kung may makikita ako nung iba. hehehe. ung ring of nebulung bago lang diba. siguro un muna unahin ko.

[number001]

Screen gems: A year's films in review
By JOE MORGENSTERN ; Wall Street Journal

Talk about saving the best for last. As in previous years, Hollywood's studios and distributors have waited until the holiday – and award – season to flood the market with films, some of them really good. That's the old news, and very much a mixed blessing, since it's hard to navigate the flood, and easy to recall those many months of the past year when the multiplexes offered little or nothing to moviegoers with a modicum of taste. But the new and exciting news is that the studio system, after marching so long to its own tin drum, is in disarray. Kids said "no" to the usual swill that Hollywood served them last summer. Sure things like "King Kong" are suddenly unsure, while risky ventures like "Brokeback Mountain" or "Capote" are breaking through. In the midst of confusion and multiple menaces -- soaring budgets, slipping attendance, DVDs, videogames -- there's a sense that the movies, and movie lovers, may be facing better days.


Just look at what's out there at the moment. I wasn't a supporter in every case, but I'm happy to acknowledge the substance and diversity of such films as "Walk the Line," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," "Syriana," "Munich," "Jarhead," "In Her Shoes," "March of the Penguins," "Shopgirl," "Transamerica," "The Constant Gardener," "The Squid and the Whale," "Pride & Prejudice," "A History of Violence," "Mrs. Henderson Presents," "Cache" and "Corpse Bride." Before we hail the dawn of a new day, however, several unpleasant realities must be acknowledged. Diversity was part of the promise when the multiplex era dawned. Remember that shining vision of several screens within each theater complex regularly devoted to art films, or fascinating documentaries, along with the mainstream fare? The promise hasn't been fulfilled. Instead, most multiplexes have become giant vending machines dedicated not only to pushing overpriced popcorn and soda but to putting the hit du jour, whatever it may be, on as many screens as the traffic will bear.

More damaging still to the cause of varied entertainment is the studios' fixation on market share, which, at this time every year, spawns a subfixation on awards. Because awards often translate into market share, Hollywood's theory is to hold the strongest cards in its hand until the last minute, because people who vote in critics' groups don't remember what opened earlier in the year. This feast-or-famine release pattern takes a terrible toll on audience loyalty by turning long stretches of the year into an entertainment wasteland.

So what makes 2005 different? The year has called into question some of the basic precepts of the movie business, or rather the movie business as it has been reconceived by the entertainment conglomerates: That remakes are safer than originals ("Bewitched" and "The Legend of Zorro"); that anything can be stuffed down kids' throats if enough marketing money is spent on it ("The Island"); that special effects automatically equate with magic ("Stealth"); that filmmakers, rather than the films they make, also equate with magic (Peter Jackson is a certified prodigy, but "King Kong" is still a 90-minute idea inside a 187-minute ape suit).

It's no exaggeration to say that the future of the medium is in flux, but flux may provide long-overdue opportunities for gifted filmmakers, for small or midsize films, for features or documentaries that take energy from the outside world, rather than from the insular world of the studios.

Every year ends for movie critics with the ritual choice of 10 best films. At the top of my list is "Brokeback Mountain," Ang Lee's drama of two cowboys hiding their love for each other behind shaky hetero***ual facades in the Marlboro Country of the 1960s and 1970s. Critics love this film. More importantly, though, moviegoers are embracing it. Mr. Lee's direction is masterful, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are flawless in the starring roles, and the film is both classic and modern: It brings us up against deep feelings we know well -- love, longing, loneliness -- but in a new, startling way.

The other nine films are in alphabetical order:

"Cache" is many things, all of them deeply satisfying. Written and directed with lapidary precision by the Austrian director Michael Haneke, this French-language feature about a privileged family finding itself under surveillance is a rigorously constructed mystery, a psychological drama, a formalist investigation of surfaces and underlying realities and, most remarkably, a heartbreaking look at a potentially rich life that has gone unlived. Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche, superb as always, are joined by the distinguished stage and screen actor Maurice Benichou.

"Capote," the best film ever made about writers and writing, presents another opportunity to see one of our finest actors at the top of his form: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote, who invented the nonfiction novel with "In Cold Blood" and slashed and burned bloodlessly through his friends and sources in the process. Among other distinctions, "Capote" is an impressive feature-film debut for its director, Bennett Miller.

"Grizzly Man" takes up permanent residence in one's memory. There's simply no way to forget the seductive, self-destructive and ultimately insane figure of Timothy Treadwell, the young man who would -- and does -- die for his love of grizzly bears. Werner Herzog's documentary, filmed in Alaska and utilizing Treadwell's own videotapes of himself in the field, leaves it to us to decide what impelled this ***ually unresolved and intensely narcissistic man to reinvent himself as a solitary savior of grizzlies.

"Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire," directed by Mike Newell, is the fourth of the prodigiously popular series, and thus far the best, much to the surprise of those of us who thought the previous film, directed by Alfonso Cuaron, wouldn't be topped. Like "Brokeback Mountain" -- wait, wait, let me explain -- this latest film is a work of extraordinary and comprehensive craftsmanship: The dark look of it, the sets, the music, the ominous action and, of course, the performances are all of a piece. With Harry and his cohorts growing up, it's becoming on all counts.

"Head-On," a stunning film in German and Turkish, was written and directed by the 31-year-old Fatih Akin as a love story, though it's also a tale of scorned Turkish immigrants caught between cultures. A powerful actor named Birol Unel plays the Turkish-born German hero, Cahit, a cokehead who's well on the way to doing himself in when he meets Sibel, a young drama queen for whom love and marriage mean nothing, at first, but the possibility of escape from her conservative Muslim parents. (She's played exquisitely by the novice actress Sibel Kekilli.)

"Junebug" is a compelling drama, directed by Phil Morrison from a script by Angus MacLachlan. Embeth Davidtz is Madeleine, a sophisticated dealer in outsider art who travels with her new husband, George (Alessandro Nivola), to meet his family in small-town North Carolina. Without irony or condescension, and without ever lapsing into dismal cliches about the American cultural divide, "Junebug" navigates and illuminates both cultures. Amy Adams gives a lovely, ardent performance as George's pregnant sister-in-law Ashley, lost in a bad marriage and foolish dreams.

"Millions" was directed by the stylish British filmmaker Danny Boyle, but it's a radical departure from the grunginess of "Trainspotting" or "Shallow Grave" (although sharing with the latter an essential plot element). This time Mr. Boyle, with his writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, has given us a magical fable of goodness that's never treacly, with religious overtones that are as playful as they are provocative. It's all about what happens when 7-year-old Damian, who has a wonderfully lurid fixation with the lives of the saints, finds a huge amount of money that must be quickly spent, or given away, before the United Kingdom switches its currency to the euro. Damian is played by Alex Etel, who must be seen to be adored.

"Walk the Line" finds new life in a well-worn form, the biopic. There's nothing radical about the content or style of this film about Johnny Cash and June Carter, but the roles are played with huge verve and conviction by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon -- both of whom do their own excellent singing -- and James Mangold directs each scene of the conventional script as though he'd never seen anything like it before.

"Wedding Crashers" isn't a great film. Still, it's an important film, as well as a terrifically funny one, because, in a summer of formulaic flops, it was a breath of fresh air that young audiences inhaled gratefully. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are the motor-mouthed con men who crash weddings to pick up girls, but Mr. Vaughn's mouth, especially, seems to go from idle to surreal in no time flat.

In previous years I've listed 10 runners-up after my 10 best. For 2005, many more were worthy of note: "Hustle & Flow," "Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," "The Beat That My Heart Skipped," "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," "Brothers," "The Upside of Anger," "Cinderella Man," "Mad Hot Ballroom," "Touch the Sound," "Murderball," "Ballets Russes," "Rize," "Dreamer,", "Duma," "Downfall," "Up and Down," "Saraband," "Turtles Can Fly," "Kings and Queen," "Look at Me," Japan's "Nobody Knows" and "Howl's Moving Castle," China's "The World," and South Korea's "Oldboy."

Look at that -- 24 more. It's almost a glut.

[ranod55]

[/I]1)kingkong

2) the chronicles of narnia;the lion,the witch,and the wardrobe

3) fun with dick and jane

4) cheaper by the dozen2

5) the family stone

6) memoir's of a geisha

7) the ringer

8) rumor has it

9) wolf creek

10) harry potter and the goblet of fire

11) aeonflux

12) the constant gardener

13) doom

14) the fog

15) chicken little in disney

16) derailed

17) flight plan

18) a history of violence

19) saw ii

20) the ice harvest

21) syriana

22) munich

23) zathura

24) jarhead

25) black dawn

26)the descent

27) serenity

[niky]

I can't believe Morgenstern actually liked "Goblet of Fire". The pacing was bad, the acting was wooden in parts, and the director lacked the wondrous touch the Alfonso Cuaron had... I sincerely hope they bring the spanish director back for the next one.

The Legend of Zorro was extremely stupido. Bring a big bag of popcorn and call all the kids to watch with you if you buy the DVD, because it's also mucho fun.

[Elroi]

just finished watching Narnia.. mabagal pacing ng movie at di maganda animations and effects..

[Elroi]

just finished watching Narnia.. mabagal pacing ng movie at di maganda animations and effects..

yung lumang version pala napanood ko kaya ganun..

[docpete]

the producers, starring nathan lane.The best so far this year.

[BlueGirl]

yung pinakarecent na napanuod ko was kingkong.ok lang..natagalan lang ako dahil 3hours-di lang sanay!haha...

so far ang favorite kong movie na recently lang napalabas: Troy,phantom of the opera,house of flying daggers.yung iba : something's gotta give,finding nemo,garfield the movie,shark tale,story of us.(kahit na ilang beses ko panuorin ok lng,kabisado ko na nga lines..hahaha!

hindi ko pa napanuod just like heaven ska in her shoes..

[imprezawrxsti]

KUTOB. directed by J Reyes...Malakas ang kutob ko na maganda ito...

[chris_d]

Lord of War pinanood ko kagabi, the story was better than I had expected. 8/10

[stinkaboy]

cidade de deus
hotel rwanda
dark water
ladder 49
a perfect murder
crime of father amaro
italian job
the score
traffic
enemy at the gates
alfie

bala at lipstick hehehe

[number001]

The Chronicles of Narnia:The Lion, The Witch,and The Wardrobe

I first watched this as a play by Trumpet's production at Meralco Theater around 4 yrs ago. Watched the movie last weekend and it readily exceeded all my expectations for the movie. For once in a very long while (animations aside), a movie that does NOT have the token profanity, nudity, and other undesirable themes common in every other movie released. The story is really good, given the symbolism that it epouses (watch this instead of "The Passion", since both film have similar purposes anyhow). Acting by the young actors and actresses are bit mediocre, but really tolerable.

[Jun aka Pekto]

I like to travel and I like comedies:

Smokey and the Bandit
The Cannonball Run movies
Raising Arizona
Midnight Run
There's Something About Mary

also, I never get tired of....
Independence Day

Otherwise, my favorite are historical movies, especially The Crusades. Thus: Kingdom of Heaven.

[just4u]

FRESH FROM THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS - brokeback mountain and transamerica

[wren]

ewan ko...brokeback mountain is getting a lot of accolades, pero wala akong desire na manood nyan .