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Classics of our era; Are there any?
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CloneTrooper Aug 17 2009, 10:56 AM Post #16
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Hmm looking through my movies,

Another is We Were Soliders, if not for this decades obsession with Telling it like it was and "Getting it Right".

A Vietnam War movie that doesnt have an over-arching Far-Left taint to it is hard to find, but this is one of them. Tells the stories of the men who were there, both North Vietnamese Regulars and an American Air Cav Battalion.

There was also Black Hawk Down as well.

You'll only ever get 1 or 2 Hollywood Movies that are utterly faithful to what happened, but I think these two, along with Letters and Flags are examples of Our Era of War Movie.

Its interesting, I think War Movies are one of the Best Barometer's for their era's views and conventions.

After WWII up until Vietnam, they were the Romance and War/Patriotic Hero Movie/Documentary style that beat the drumlike Sands of Iwo Jima and Patton, The Longest Day, Battle of Britain.

Then after Vietnam you move into the likes of Apocalypse Now, Platoon, 4th of July and im going to say this.....Rambo (Like it or not, its the depiction of the Vietnam Vet as an "Evil" and something you dont want in your town) that were decidedly Anti-War and the ill-treatment of Veterans and showed the darker side of War and its after effects.

Then in the 90's, you move to the more realistic and bloody war movies which were started with Saving Private Ryan and its D-Day Sequence, moving through Band of Brothers, We Were Soliders, Letters and Flags.

Of course there will always be the flashy War Movie that flies in the face of realism....but every era always produces half a dozen Classic War Movies.
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Darth_Level3 Aug 17 2009, 11:13 AM Post #17
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The Dark Knight?
Watchmen?

Its hard for movies coming out now because of how recent they are...maybe it will take some time to see how they age.

Exactly right. That's why it's so hard to pick some of the truly best movies from this decade...they're still too recent to sit down and say "You know what, this is a classic movie for the ages".

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CloneTrooper Aug 17 2009, 11:16 AM Post #18
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The Dark Knight?
Watchmen?

Its hard for movies coming out now because of how recent they are...maybe it will take some time to see how they age.

Exactly right. That's why it's so hard to pick some of the truly best movies from this decade...they're still too recent to sit down and say "You know what, this is a classic movie for the ages".

Except for Downfall.

I can catagorically state that that movie is a Classic, and will be a Classic for many years to come.

It is a magnificent piece of Cinema and you should all watch it.
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Jason_Level3 Aug 17 2009, 01:23 PM Post #19
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The Dark Knight?
Watchmen?

Its hard for movies coming out now because of how recent they are...maybe it will take some time to see how they age.

Exactly right. That's why it's so hard to pick some of the truly best movies from this decade...they're still too recent to sit down and say "You know what, this is a classic movie for the ages".

Except for Downfall.

I can catagorically state that that movie is a Classic, and will be a Classic for many years to come.

It is a magnificent piece of Cinema and you should all watch it.

This.
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Seferoth Aug 17 2009, 05:57 PM Post #20
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i think to name a movie of this decade you have to wait til next decade and then look back and say WOW THAT WAS A CLASSIC MOVIE OF THE LAST DECADE
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From newer releases I will comfortably say that The Dark Knight will pull through as a classic.

Although I liked The Wrestler and Slumdog Millionaire, I'm not sure if they will be deemed as classics because I think people overhype themselves on low budget indie productions.
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From newer releases I will comfortably say that The Dark Knight will pull through as a classic.

Although I liked The Wrestler and Slumdog Millionaire, I'm not sure if they will be deemed as classics because I think people overhype themselves on low budget indie productions.

Aronovsky is one of my favourite directors, yet I still haven't seen The Wrestler. Sad fucking panda.
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Gran Torino might stand the test, A History of Violence?? Gotta agree with Sin City, what you think of Kill Bill?! Training Day perhaps. Will think of more as the year goes on
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Gran Torino might stand the test, A History of Violence?? Gotta agree with Sin City, what you think of Kill Bill?! Training Day perhaps. Will think of more as the year goes on

Sin City! YES!!! Now that's a Classic!
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Gotta agree with Cloverfield. Not to everyone's taste, but so different from ever other monster movie that came before it, and the filming style is so noughties.
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what you think of Kill Bill?!

I thought they was still kinda good, but I felt that Tarantino was too self aware of his own filming techniques and many of the weird things in the films just didn't flow well with the story.
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personally i think giving something the title of classic has died off..

everything is about money these days and people dont put their hearts into it as art.

watchmen is definitely one of the best movies ive seen in a long time.
and i love it for its intellectual, morally questioning storyline. but people these days are too fucking dumbed down, thus we have c grade stoner movies and shows such as "dance your ass off"
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CloneTrooper Aug 18 2009, 01:44 AM Post #28
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personally i think giving something the title of classic has died off..

everything is about money these days and people dont put their hearts into it as art.

watchmen is definitely one of the best movies ive seen in a long time.
and i love it for its intellectual, morally questioning storyline. but people these days are too fucking dumbed down, thus we have c grade stoner movies and shows such as "dance your ass off"

Not everything is about money.

Stuff you go to see at Village is, but go to one of the Arthouse's or small cinema's and you see the stuff that isnt made with Money the Sole Object.

Try looking deeper than the surface? or is that too hard for you?
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Flamestrike Aug 18 2009, 01:54 AM Post #29
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personally i think giving something the title of classic has died off..

everything is about money these days and people dont put their hearts into it as art.

watchmen is definitely one of the best movies ive seen in a long time.
and i love it for its intellectual, morally questioning storyline. but people these days are too fucking dumbed down, thus we have c grade stoner movies and shows such as "dance your ass off"

Not everything is about money.

Stuff you go to see at Village is, but go to one of the Arthouse's or small cinema's and you see the stuff that isnt made with Money the Sole Object.

Try looking deeper than the surface? or is that too hard for you?

umm last time i checked. half the movies that you call classics were never small arthouse films...the clint eastwood movies were legends but they sure were big when they came out aswell.

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Kart Aug 18 2009, 02:04 AM Post #30
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Aug 18 2009, 12:44 AM
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Aug 17 2009, 11:56 PM
personally i think giving something the title of classic has died off..

everything is about money these days and people dont put their hearts into it as art.

watchmen is definitely one of the best movies ive seen in a long time.
and i love it for its intellectual, morally questioning storyline. but people these days are too fucking dumbed down, thus we have c grade stoner movies and shows such as "dance your ass off"

Not everything is about money.

Stuff you go to see at Village is, but go to one of the Arthouse's or small cinema's and you see the stuff that isnt made with Money the Sole Object.

Try looking deeper than the surface? or is that too hard for you?

umm last time i checked. half the movies that you call classics were never small arthouse films...the clint eastwood movies were legends but they sure were big when they came out aswell.

They are called legendary cause of mainstream popularity.

Take for example the new Transformers movies. Typical MICHAEL BAY EXPLOSION-A-THON flick but every 9 kids out of 10 in my year level love that kind of shit. There's no symbolism or pressing on underlying concerns, not that there's anything wrong with that, (Hell, I don't mind the occasional mindless akshun friller flick myself) but I'd rather see movies that really deserve it develop a legendary cult following with the audience.
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