Freedom Writers

Dune

House of 1000 corpses.

The exorcist - dont fuck with religion kids

Requiem for a Dream. Don't do drugs.

The Mission..

Rocky

A knights tale, fighting the cast system and marriage outside of it

[removed]

Air Bud

Glengarry Glen Ross

If I were you, I'd give Andrei Rublev a chance. I would say it's arguably Tarkovsky's most beautiful film. It's more action packed, lots of battles and deaths, yet deals with a lot of philosophical themes like individualism, mortality, and religion.

I thought both parts of Ivan The Terrible were great though unlike many experts I prefer the second to the first. Since I thought both Mirror and Stalker were only pretty good but really boring movies I never bothered watching Andrei Rublev. I was on my last day of my free Criterion trial where I was watching the films near the top of the 2012 S&S 100 and my choice was quit now or watch Andrei Rublev and then quit and I proudly picked quit now. At that point I had seen the top 26 in the S&S and while all were good or better Mirror was the worst for me.

So what were your favorite movies by Eisenstein?

My mind can't wrap around the idea of someone who enjoys Ivan The Terrible but had trouble getting into Andrei Rublev.

Well we disagree on two things since I think Eisenstein is great and Tarkovsky is incredibly overrated.

The man is a genius

I still maintain that Vincent D'Onofrio's performance in MiB is one of the best physical performances of any movie. Obviously the makeup was doing a lot to help with the transformation, but he genuinely looks and moves like a giant alien cockroach inside a human skin suit.

Well, people praise these movies and claim they're great. I can't go around offering handicaps for political environment. I felt like they were so wooden and lacking any true life. Nevsky was very interesting sometimes at least, but I stand by my opinion on Ivan.

>I followed up on Potemkin with Alexander Nevsky and Ivan The Terrible. These 2 movies were, for the most part, laughably mediocre. Not good, not bad, just completely mediocre and forgettable. Nevsky had a lot of interesting moments. But Ivan The Terrible was completely forgettable. I saw it was even (rightly or wrongly) nominated for an entry in 'Fifty Worst Movies of All Time'.

You have to factor in that Stalin was in charge during this time. So Eisenstein didn't have as much creative freedom (regarding plot, character development, etc.) as he might have liked.

No.

No, but don't want to pirate it

And it's not available also in my area, just checked

Have you unofficially watched it already?

An idiot also

Lazy basterd, I am