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Looking at my IMDb ratings, my top 5 were:

1. Prisoners
2. Gravity
3. Only God Forgives
4. The Wolverine
5. Trance


Those were pretty much the only ones that made it to 7 or above for me. Some days free ahead and lots of movies to catch up on so it may change.

EDIT: Sometimes I think IMDb is randomly forgetting ratings. I'd probably tie Trance with Side Effects which I also enjoyed as a solid piece of storytelling.

EDIT 2: Yeah, so... Prisoners is fucking great. Fincher meets some recent Asian thriller sensibilities.

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I used to like Deep Blue Sea quite a bit, but seeing it again a few months ago made me realize I personally don't think it holds up as well as I thought it did. I guess if you look at it as more of an expensive B-movie it works better. Still I think it's kind of empty in a way. Familiar story beats but not enough personality. I think Deep Rising is a better example of that kind of film, it's more playful and I think it suits it better.

Deep Blue Sea has Tom Jane though which it definitely has going for it.

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The plot is pretty bland, and the acting aswell. It feels pretty cheesy overall. But, I still came out with more "yeh" than "meh" once it was over.

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Love this film, definitely one of, if not my favourite scary movie.

I don't really think any "horror" movie released after this one is quite as successful in combining all aspects of cinema into a very natural feeling, scary, and intimate package.
Most scary movies of recent are just dull, clichéd and monotone. Poltergeist has a great contrast between the scary parts and the intimate drama, which makes it all the more effective when they snap back and forth. I would personally definitely not trim the film in any way.

A recent scary movie I really liked was "Insidious". Yet, even that immediately fails to generate this contrast by having creepy violin score over an ominous title card, immediately telling you in no uncertain terms what the film is going to be.

"They don't make them like they used to" is my main feeling with Poltergeist.

Plus all the effects are absolutely gorgeous here. The optical light effects are stunning and any modern CG would look completely different from it. The practical puppet effects are beautiful aswell.

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Crap, I cannot think of anything... I like the idea of a thread though.


EDIT: OK, how about this feeling I've had for a while: Hans Zimmer is the worst thing to happen to film music in recent years.

He has done alot of great and moving work in the past, and glimpses of good work recently. But also recently, his dense orchestrations, repeating, epic ostinatos and thick mixes as heard in movies like The Dark Knight, Inception, Man Of Steel, have seen his soundtracks move in the direction of substituting intelligence and subtlety, and replacing it with nothing short of a repetitive, increasingly derivative, aureal assault. There simply isn't room for anything intelligent or interesting to compete with the onslaught of string and brass chords. Everything is structured in easily digested 4/4 meter with no rhythmic flair whatsoever. It's radio pop, now also in soundtrack form.

Now if it was just Zimmer though I'd be OK with it. But a consequence of this general style/approach still being sought after by studios and alot of moviegoers is that almost every major blockbuster is required to include elements of it. As a music lover and hobby composer I'm sick of it.

As much good music Zimmer has made over the years, a big part of me wishes he wouldn't have taken the mainstream soundtrack world with as much storm as he did.

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I guess I'll avoid "The Bay". A bit like Renny Harlin doing the Dyatlov Pass Incident recently. If I had seen the movie without knowing anything I'd have guessed it was a student film. Nothing about it hinted that there was an experienced filmmaker behind it.

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Jesus, you are a better man than I am. The Sean William Scott movie sounds kind of appealing, heist movies tend to be hard to completely botch since they always have that inherent appeal of how it's going to end. In my head I see Ocean's Eleven with SWS in Clooneys role. I'm intrigued.

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Looks like a pretty nice day at the movies overall.