For me, it gets better every time I see it and it was excellent the first time (the only one of his I was able to see in the theater.) I might suggest a rewatch depending if you've only seen it once and what your palette likes. If you like his other stuff, I imagine it could grow on you. I believe he loved the movie and making the movie but hated the publicity surrounding it, as always. Love and sex and relationships and trust and the metaphorical masks we wear and the differing masks we "try on" to see how it is to be different than how we currently are and how just even the curiosity of a different life can be dangerous to our physical and emotional lives. The draw of power, the draw of the forbidden, the taboo of infidelity (not within society, but within a relationship) when really, should it be such a horrible thing when there is love and trust and we are all humans with deep complexities? Why can we not be open about our desires and curiosities even with those we feel so connected to? We even hide such things from ourselves for fear of what it might do to us/our relationships+lives. Ooof, I could ramble awhile, I'll stop now.

Bingo! Saw the film recently for the first time. It's nuts when you read afterwards about how narrowly the film follows the real events, specifically w.r.t the climactic scene.

You're turn!

It's a great movie, but it's been many years ago since I saw it. Never would have guessed it from those photos.

Okay, here's the next one.

Yes because good films didn't get made until after Dark City.

And what might those good films be...?

right...so Michael Bay must be a god to you. *eye-roll*

Anyways use your posts for what you like - I certainly don't mind seeing what younger people are into but if your film appreciation only goes back to Dark City that's some pretty shallow taste, but really you're just saying this out of ignorance. If you haven't seen much from the past it's easy to dismiss it.

I posted this article in another thread (I believe) but it's worth posting here as well just to hammer how dull and unimaginative studio films are getting these days.

Battle beyond the Stars.

Well, that was fast. Though I guess that is an image that's hard to forget...

I suppose it is, but I also happen to really love that film in general.

Here's another one that bad_fur_day1 will "enjoy".

So do I. I was really surprised how good it was, especially given how bad the studios previous low budget sci-fi Starcrash turned out. But Battle Beyond the Stars really is about as fun a space-western as you can find. If the new Star Wars movie will be half as enjoyable it'll be a success.

I didn't say my film appreciation only goes back to Dark City. Not liking The Rock or Bad Boys seems equally strange to me as I must to you.

Serpico was a fine choice, I just didn't recognize it. I'm not agaisn't a bit of 70's Westworld, Excorcist, Alien and Last House on the Left. Black Swan, Bronson, American Psycho, The Presitge, Memento negate the opinion that only dull and unimaginative films are made lately.

Some of my favourite since you wanted to know;

The Shinning, Heat, Black Swan, Zero Dark Thirty, Se7en, Casino Royale, Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, Tron Legacy, Commando, The Running Man, Drive, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Master and Commander, Gladiator, Fright Night, Child's Play, A Clockwork Orange, Deathproof, Beetlejuice, Road to Perdidtion, Hook, The Incredibles, Last Action Hero, Jackie Brown, True Lies, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Avengers, Babe, Fight Club, Inception, IP Man, The Devil's Rejects, Predator, Skyfall, Bad Boys 2, The Jackal, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Top Gun, Mad Max, Troy, Natural Born Killers, Mission Impossible 3, The Mask, Rock n Rolla, Oceans Eleven, Swordfish, The Score, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Funny Games, Fury, Hannibal, Silence of the Lambs, Ghostbusters, Hellraiser, Harry Potter, The DaVinci Code, Collateral, Home Alone, La Femme Nikita, Labirynth, Edge of Tomorrow, Manhunter, Pacific Rim, Return of the Living Dead, Romancing the Stone, Spartan, Tank Girl, Terminator, Sherlock Holmes, The Witches of Eastwick, The Thomas Crown Affair, Johnny Mnemonic, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sin City, The Dark Knight, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, V for Vendetta, Ironman, Braveheart, Appocalipto, Kill Bill, The Bourne Identity, Dark City, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Back to the Future, Conan, Eyes Wide Shut, Under Seige, Lethal Weapon, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Payback, John Wick, Speed, Evolution, Galaxy Quest, A Few Good Men, Redbelt, 3:10 to Yuma, Alien, Aliens, Goodfellas, The Departed, Cape Fear, The Watchmen, Hellboy, 300, Spirited Away, Die Hard, Escape from New York, First Blood, Night Watch, The Devil's Advocate, Total Recall, Unforgiven, Cannibal Holocaust, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Shawshank Redemption, The Prestige,The Goonies, Indiana Jones, Hackers, LA Confidential, Training Day, Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Gone Girl, Ratatouille, Wanted, The Fly, Memento, The Cable Guy, City of God, Castaway, Terminator 2, Valhalla Rising, The Cell, Any Given Sunday, Dredd, Demolition Man, Perfect Storm, Public Enemies, Elizabeth, Prisoners, Nightcrawler, Let Me In, Drag Me to Hell, Evil Dead, Saw, Predator 2, Predators, Desperado, Alexander, American Gangster, Scarface, X-Men, Rambo 4, Rocky Balboa, Disturbia, Event Horizon, Reservoir Dogs, A Man Called Hero, The Last Starfighter, The Princess Bride, The Crow, Hardware, Sleepy Hollow, Dead Man, Last Man Standing, The Craft, Kick Ass...

I can keep this up all day if you want. :P Go ahead and talk to me about film appreciation.

I've met young people that don't like the Labyrinth and havn't seen Die Hard, so I can see where you guys are coming from I guess. Even though it's very hard for me to understand why you'd watch a 1940's film.

Your killin me InfraSuperman. :P

Interesting, I've never really thought of the film, or tried to watch it, with such a meta interpretation in mind. I suppose that that could affect how much one enjoys the film, or any other film interpreted similarly. But like you said, it also depends on your palate, which is perhaps why I think I didn't really enjoy the film.
As for his other stuff, come to think of it, I haven't really seen that many of his other films: only Full Metal Jacket and Space Odyssey, both of which I loved. Hmm, I really should fix that. Think I'll start with The Shining, and move onto Dr Strangelove.

I see you've listed The Departed and Last Man Standing, so I'm curious - are The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Jackal, The Thomas Crown Affair, and 3:10 to Yuma the original ones or the Hollywood remakes?



Second pic looks familiar - Henry Fonda film?

As annoying as it will be to the oldies here, all the remakes. :P

Bruce Willis performance in The Jackel I particularly like, as well as Pierce Brosnan's Thomas Crown and Crowe's Ben Wade, he isn't who he looks like.

The original Swedish (I think) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo I prefer.

Also come to think of it I should have added Ridley Scott and DeCaprio's Body of Lies, that is killer. Oh and totally Con Air.

The original of The Day of the Jackal is so much better...
I've seen the remake with Bruce Willis and Jack Black (lol) exactly once and the old one 3 times by now.
An assassin shopping for a huge unprecise turret with obviously flawed aiming software that has to be mounted on a truck? Haha! No thanks. I'll take the one shot gun-kit concealed in a crutch.

But that's Hollywood for you: "Mah need biggor gunns!"

I f**king love that gun!

You mentioned Jack Black which reminds me I forgot Tropic Thunder and Gravity.

For the same reasons you'd watch any other. I think pre-judging a movie because of how old it is is always a silly thing to do, no matter whether it's dismissing it because it's old, or because it's new. There's plenty of movies from 1940's that feel like they aged less than some from just ten years ago, and just as many old classics that really don't hold up today.