French movies

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-10 02:20pm

Anyone here watch French movies some of them are really funny,like the Taxi trilogy,here`s a link to info about the first two movies,notice its in french but there is pictures for the non-french speaking people.
TAXI

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-06-10 02:34pm

Watched a subtitled version of Taxi 2, really enjoyed it, such was the level of enjoyment that the subtitles soon became irrelevant and having to read the words on subtitles was barely noticeable by the end of the film.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-06-10 05:21pm

I remember seeing a funny one that was remade here. I forget the name of it but it involved two men both looking for what they thought was their daughter.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-10 05:26pm

Dalton wrote:I remember seeing a funny one that was remade here. I forget the name of it but it involved two men both looking for what they thought was their daughter.

Was one of the actors Gerard Depardieu?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-06-10 05:31pm

Not the very lame Just Visiting, was it?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-06-10 05:38pm

Montcalm wrote:
Dalton wrote:I remember seeing a funny one that was remade here. I forget the name of it but it involved two men both looking for what they thought was their daughter.
Was one of the actors Gerard Depardieu?

Actually, I'm not entirely sure...

And it wasn't Just Visiting.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-06-10 05:42pm

I could've seen Taxi 2 at the uni cinema but forgot.

I still haven't seen the original but I hear it's great though Hollywood has remade or is remaking it.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-06-10 05:43pm

Well, Nikita for one was waaaays better than the US-remake.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-06-10 05:57pm

Dalton wrote:I remember seeing a funny one that was remade here. I forget the name of it but it involved two men both looking for what they thought was their daughter.

The movie you're thinking of is Les Comperes, which was remade by Ivan Reitman (director of Ghostbusters, Evolution) as Father's Day, starring Robin Williams and Billy Crystal.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-06-10 05:58pm

Dalton wrote:Actually, I'm not entirely sure...

And it wasn't Just Visiting.

Here we go! Thanks to a tip from my brother (he remembered the remake had Robin Williams and Billy Crystal) I found out that the original did star Gerard Depardieu. It was called Les Compères, produced in 1983. The remake was called Father's Day and was made in 1997.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-06-10 06:32pm

Dalton wrote:
Dalton wrote:Actually, I'm not entirely sure...

And it wasn't Just Visiting.
Here we go! Thanks to a tip from my brother (he remembered the remake had Robin Williams and Billy Crystal) I found out that the original did star Gerard Depardieu. It was called Les Compères, produced in 1983. The remake was called Father's Day and was made in 1997.

I could have told you that

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-06-11 01:48am

Robert Treder wrote:
Dalton wrote:
Dalton wrote:Actually, I'm not entirely sure...

And it wasn't Just Visiting.
Here we go! Thanks to a tip from my brother (he remembered the remake had Robin Williams and Billy Crystal) I found out that the original did star Gerard Depardieu. It was called Les Compères, produced in 1983. The remake was called Father's Day and was made in 1997.
I could have told you that

You, our resident pop culture junkie? Yeah right!

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-06-11 01:59am

I've watched a fair amount of New Wave films. Some are good, some are bad. It mostly depends on the subject matter, really.

I quite enjoyed Cleo From 5 to 7, A Woman is a Woman, and especially Pierrot le fou.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-06-11 05:37am

Oh yeah, and about French movies, Truffaut's stuff is cool; I just watched Day for Night recently and liked it a lot. Amelie is fucking awesome, and I like Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources a lot. Depardieu's version of Cyrano de Bergerac was cool too.

In my high school French class, we watched La Boum every year. It sucks, but it kinda grew on me after four years. My French teacher also showed us Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, which was pretty good. She showed Le Roi de Coeur, but I was absent for the first part. The parts I saw were awesome, though.

And for an American movie about making a French movie, CQ is hella badass. Gotta love Jeremy Davies.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-06-11 06:51am

Gerard Depardieu? doesn't the French film industry require he be in every movie?

But serously, i recently watched Amiele and it was quite good.

generator_g1 · Post by **generator_g1** » 2003-06-11 07:07am

the only French film that I've seen in which i can remember the title was Emmanuel...although TV Asie on cable shows a lot of French movies. On another note, how about Run, Lola, Run? I know it's German but did anybody see it already?

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-06-11 07:09am

The Visitors and Visitors 2 are hilarious.