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05-30-2007, 02:17 AM
malwethien

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Originally Posted by Jamesian

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

It pains me to say this, but I honestly did not want to sit through this 4/10

I agree completely....I'm glad that there are other people out there who did not like this movie...it was utterly ridiculous! You give it a 4/10...that's very generous...I gave it a 2/10!
05-30-2007, 08:05 AM
quasimodo1

To Jamesian:

Regarding your post on "pirates", I just knew it would be a waste, never considered viewing it, the Madison Ave people have really grown transparent in promoting movies; they might have drawn more people in to be disappointed and disgruntled had they been a little more subtle. quasimodo1
05-30-2007, 08:54 AM
Adolescent09

Just saw for the fifth time: Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarrantino

My opinion:

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Originally Posted by Adol

Pulp Fiction is merely a stage of randomness accentuated by ironies and goofs intertwining the roles each brilliant actor in it plays, not as a specific person. But as normal people. It was with a sense of quirky, cynical normality void of the formulaic prosaicness in cliché action flicks, that Director Quentin Tarrantino instigated the production, and hence boosted his fame into a household name of Pulp Fiction. Each actor plays a strong mental part in a precarious and cavernous compilation of events, which in a formulaic sense of direction would conclude idyllically with the bad guys locked away and the good guys grinning ear to ear.. But here's the ingenious twist to it.. There are no 'good guys' in the film! With witty mockery in his tone, good camera angles and blundered events, Quentin Tarrantino presents us with a cast of people who appear perfectly normal and then twist on a downward, devilish spiral. Simply said, Quentin Tarrantino castigates the formulaic 'good guy' in cheap action flicks with solid good to bad guy transitions inherent in each one of the most memorable cast of actors of the '90s. Tim Roth's Ringo and Amanda Plummer's Yolanda are just two characters whose quirky discussion at an average bar paves their identities from good to evil as Ringo deduces that robbing a coffee shop can be just as lucrative and more subtle than a bank heist. The last scene of the movie plays brilliantly to this effect as Jules and Vincent alleviate the situation. Quentin Tarrantino beautifully intertwines the story of Jules and Vincent in the coffee shop heist by showing us their random discussion of hamburgers and their translations overseas. Their stories along with the dazzling choreography of Mia and Vincent at a Saturday Night restaurant sets a stage of purely inspired abnormality. In order not to give away the rest of the plot of the film which has been generally known and globally discussed since the year of its release, I will cut my comment short by saying that if you wish to see anomalous directing, decked with a cast that is anything but incompetent, see this now..

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Originally Posted by malwethien

I agree completely....I'm glad that there are other people out there who did not like this movie...it was utterly ridiculous! You give it a 4/10...that's very generous...I gave it a 2/10!

Regarding the Pirates of the Carribean series in general... I for one had no interest in any of them. But I'm sure many of you wouldn't adopt my beliefs.
05-30-2007, 09:15 AM
SleepyWitch

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Originally Posted by Adolescent09

Regarding the Pirates of the Carribean series in general... I for one had no interest in any of them.

me neither. i haven't watched any of them.
could you give me a plot summary of the first one?
05-30-2007, 04:25 PM
Haven

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Originally Posted by Janine

Haven, Thanks, I think I will check out this film - it sounds really good. I like the Tango, although I haven't the foggest idea how to do it. It is nice to watch and a very sexy dance. The facts you provided here on the film are quite interesting. I will keep an eye out for it. I have seen the title before and thought it looked like a good film. Thanks ~J

http://www.sonypictures.com/classics...illsclips.html
http://www.sonypictures.com/classics...spiration.html

Sally Potter, my mistake although there is a Porter in the Crew

http://www.sonypictures.com/classics.../sp-pv-1a.html

Anyway, if you manage to get hold of it, I am sure you will enjoy. It is one of those special, 'different' films that you don't get to see that often, [unless you make a very special effort].
05-30-2007, 05:00 PM
aeroport

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Originally Posted by malwethien

I agree completely....I'm glad that there are other people out there who did not like this movie...it was utterly ridiculous! You give it a 4/10...that's very generous...I gave it a 2/10!

Perhaps I was lenient, but my main problem was with the script. It was painful watching the actors deliver some of those (positively absurd) lines, but then they didn't really have anything to work with, so I can't criticize that too much. And I can't say it was poorly made, really; I didn't have any quarrel with the technical aspects of the film or the direction - maybe that's simply because I was preoccupied with the sorry condition of the script.
Essentially, as you sit through the epic list of credits waiting for the (utterly pointless) clip at the very end, you see that there were a huge number of people who more or less did a good job. One simply wishes the screenwriters had been among them...
Revised verdict: 3/10
05-30-2007, 06:01 PM
Mark F.

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Originally Posted by SleepyWitch

me neither. i haven't watched any of them.
could you give me a plot summary of the first one?

Johnny Depp imitates a drunk man. Orlando Bloom looks unbelievably insipid, even by his own standards. Some good sword fights with cool special effects. That kind of sums up the first film. Oh, I forgot to mention, they're disguised as pirates and the whole thing takes place on a boat.
05-30-2007, 11:16 PM
metal134

The Outlaw Josey Wales; 7/10

Damn good Western, but it takes a while to really get the story going.
05-31-2007, 12:34 AM
malwethien

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Originally Posted by Jamesian

Perhaps I was lenient, but my main problem was with the script. It was painful watching the actors deliver some of those (positively absurd) lines, but then they didn't really have anything to work with, so I can't criticize that too much. And I can't say it was poorly made, really; I didn't have any quarrel with the technical aspects of the film or the direction - maybe that's simply because I was preoccupied with the sorry condition of the script.
Essentially, as you sit through the epic list of credits waiting for the (utterly pointless) clip at the very end, you see that there were a huge number of people who more or less did a good job. One simply wishes the screenwriters had been among them...
Revised verdict: 3/10

I think my main problem with it is how there were so many "subplots" that lead nowhere! Like the "singing" coin...it was supposed to lead to the Brethen Court...but what was the purpose of that again? To free Calypso...but why did they need to do that?? Then there was the 9 of 8s was it? Also another dead end...then the "big" fight with all the pirate lords which didn't happen....anyway...it just goes on and on....

Not to mention all the holes in the plot that they didn't even seem to bother to cover up!

Of course special FX-wise it was great......
05-31-2007, 04:58 AM
SleepyWitch

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Originally Posted by Mark F.

Johnny Depp imitates a drunk man. Orlando Bloom looks unbelievably insipid, even by his own standards. Some good sword fights with cool special effects. That kind of sums up the first film. Oh, I forgot to mention, they're disguised as pirates and the whole thing takes place on a boat.

so it's basically the same as all those boring B-rate pirate films in the 60s-80s only with cooler props?
05-31-2007, 09:45 AM
vheissu

The lives of others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarc

A very, very good film: the story of a government secret observer in East Germany during the 1980s who is ordered to spy on a theatre author and his lover in order to find anything suspicious and arrest him. That's just a simple outline of the plot, it's a bit more intricate than that but I've got limited time.

9/10
05-31-2007, 11:09 AM
Mark F.

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Originally Posted by SleepyWitch

so it's basically the same as all those boring B-rate pirate films in the 60s-80s only with cooler props?

Something along those lines, yeah.
05-31-2007, 05:58 PM
metal134

Death of a Salesman 10/10

I read Arthur Miller's play a long time ago, but only just got around to seeing a production of it. And boy what a version it was. Dustin Hoffman gave one of the best acting performances I've ever seen in any movie or play, hands down. John Malkovich gave a helluva perfomance himself.
05-31-2007, 09:10 PM
malwethien

Zodiac - starring Jake Gyllenhaal (sp?), Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey, Jr.

It starts out good...very interesting. By the middle part, it becomes a little dragging...and the story kind of shifts...It seems very long and by the end of the film you say to yourself.."what? that's it?!"

I give it a 5/10
05-31-2007, 09:17 PM
jon1jt

Waitress.

a great lead, great flick