http://movieloner.com The Place to Find Overlooked, Underrated, and Obscure Films Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:02:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What is the best science fiction film ever made? Time's up, I need an answer. If you answered Blade Runner, you are correct. A visual masterpiece that still looks as gorgeous today as it did twenty-five years ago, Ridley Scott's dystopian noir classic about a 2019 Los Angeles cop assigned ... http://movieloner.com/10-great-movie-scenes-2-blade-runner/288/ For my money, there is no greater movie about war than Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. It captures the massive violence, senseless death, and psychological toll of war better than any film in the genre. Adapted from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it details the mission of Captain Willard, ... http://movieloner.com/10-great-movie-scenes-3-apocalypse-now/287/ Normally, sweeping romantic epics make me ill. I find them to be overly melodramatic and too much in love with the idea of being a sweeping romantic epic. One exception is the late Anthony Minghella's masterful adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's beautiful novel about a Hungarian mapmaker who falls in love ... http://movieloner.com/10-great-movie-scenes-4-the-english-patient/286/ I've written more than enough praise about Fight Club so I'll spare you an extended treatise detailing my love for this film. Safe to say it's a smart examination of male alienation and the decline of masculinity in modern day society. Director David Fincher employs his particular moody style effectively ... http://movieloner.com/10-great-movie-scenes-5-fight-club/285/ Amidst all the Dark Knight hoopla and fanfare another comic book classic entered the spotlight Thursday night. Of course I'm talking about the trailer for Watchmen that screened prior to Dark Knight. The highly anticipated adaptation of Alan Moore's seminal graphic novel is poised to be one of 2009's biggest ... http://movieloner.com/who-watches-the-watchmen/284/ I've seen every James Bond movie multiple times. Yes, that includes the laughable Never Say Never Again and the utterly ridiculous License to Kill. What is the best Bond movie? In my mind, there is no doubt. The winner is 2006's Casino Royale. Like most fans of the series, I ... http://movieloner.com/10-great-movie-scenes-6-casino-royale/283/ Of all Martin Scorsese's films the one that amazes me the most is The Last Temptation of Christ. Sure Raging Bull is a cinematographic wonder, Goodfellas a gritty mob classic, and Taxi Driver a mesmerizing descent into madness, but it's the story of Christ as adapted from Nikos Kazantzakis' controversial ... http://movieloner.com/10-great-movie-scenes-7-the-last-temptation-of-christ/282/ It's not often that a scene can make my heart beat faster. I can probably count on one hand the number of times this has occurred. The phenomenal car chase finale to The Road Warrior and Indiana Jones daring escape from the tomb of the Golden Idol in Raiders of ... http://movieloner.com/10-great-movie-scenes-8-heat/281/