OldBoy

are ORIGINAL!!

even if based on source material, i love a movie that shows me something new. is not a remake, reboot or some shit like that. not that i hate all that stuff, but when i watch something like The American and am totally blown away by the artfullness and originality i am more in awe than if it were a based on something known for awhile.

there is such a lack of an original idea in Hollywood nowadays that something new is so refreshing and more than welcolmed.

Tarantino

...sigh.

edstein

Feature unknown actors that turn out to be really amazing.

OldBoy

davidh777

Rewatched LA Confidential the other day--what a cast!

JumpCutz

...are good.


This thread is awesome.

dhmac

...kill a dog, particularly on-screen.

(Don't get me wrong, I love dogs but filmmakers seems virtually terrified to kill a dog in a movie so it seems ballsy when one does that.)

GoldenJCJ

...scare me through the atmosphere it provides and makes me use my imagination. I enjoy a good gory movie as much as the next guy but tons of gore does not equal scary.

Osiris3657

Scott1598=Buttmunker?

Shannon Nutt

I like ambiguous endings, or at least ones that don't wrap things up in a bow. MYSTIC RIVER is a good example.

arminius

have everybody get killed at the end.

Matthew Chmiel

Also when children are killed, particularly on-screen.

Man, with Grindhouse you have both a child accidentally killing himself with a gun AND a dog getting ran over by a truck. Double win!

rw2516

I don't once think about taking a piss till it's over.

Alan Smithee

don't let a happy ending come up at the last minute (like the hero starting to breathe after looking like he's gonna die.)

Troy Stiffler

Straight faced action flicks with class. A dumbed down action flick can still pull me in. But the ones with a solid cast, visuals, etc. are always amazing to me. I grew up on action movies - looking back a lot of them were really dumb - but I like them anyways.

Rockmjd23

are genuinly scary

PatD

...that beats the odds against getting made. Like a TV series that lasted less than a season and getting a feature-length theatrical film to conclude the story arc.

Joss Whedon's "Serenity" was a frickin' miracle...and great frickin' SF flick with INTELLIGENCE, WIT, and ORIGINALITY (JJ Abrams take note...yeah right.)

riotinmyskull

...that don't cause scott1598 to make a thread.

whoopdido

Won't be too many of those because...newsflash...they don't make any money.

Sorry but Arrested Development ain't getting made.

PatD

I know.

I guess more on-screen adventures of Captain Reyolds and Co. will have to go the wayside so we can get a new version of "The Wrath of Khan" with Seth Rogen as Khan Noonien Singh or some such shit.

Arpeggi

Worst post of all time.

PatD

Worst reply of all time.

nando820

...that make me care

PopcornTreeCt

... don't make me check my cell phone for the time. Harry Potter finale kept my eyes glued to the screen the entire time.

... make me laugh every few minutes. Thank you Horrible Bosses and 30 Minutes or Less.

... provide me with "oh shit" moments. Magneto stopping missiles mid-air was neat but using his power to stab a man with a knife was an "oh shit" moment.

The Bus

Primal Fear and Pulp Fiction being great examples from the 90s for this.