Really Farnoosh? :smile5: I struggled through this one. The American guy she met in India really irritated me. I liked the Italian part though.Quote:
Originally Posted by farnoosh
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Really Farnoosh? :smile5: I struggled through this one. The American guy she met in India really irritated me. I liked the Italian part though.Quote:
Originally Posted by farnoosh
Just watched 'O brother where art thou' in class. saw it when it came out and probably once or twice after that, I always love the Coen brothers they just make good movies. I haven't seen them all though but I really should! loved Fargo, the big lebowski, barton fink and raising arizona, not a huge fan of burn after reading but it wasn't bad, I have a brad pitt complex, he annoys me. didn't like ladykillers, but then again i quit watching after about 20 minuets.
funny how university students can argue about the meaning of a film, all like it but argue about this and that in it. I loved it and wonder about many things in it but not in a way that makes me want to argue about it.
I just saw Summer of the Colt (an Argentinean movie about children and teenagers in a family ranch owned by grandparents). I think it's very good.
pretty in pink, can't help but love Hughes. I know they are aimed at teenagers but I'm almost twenty-six-teen. I just like'em
I love Hughes movies! I've been on a Hughes bender lately. Lots of Weird Science and brat pack and Home Alone. I love his hilarious older people.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374546/
Currently watching Spring, Summer, Winter etc, etc. I'm enjoying it very much so far. Nice scenery and Buddhist stuff. Recommended.
Saw The Women in Black earlier in the week as well. Not bad but didn't work as well as the play. Good to see Hammer Horror produce something again though.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman, not bad
Mark Strong, Fantastic
Rating (w/o reading the books or seeing bbc version)--8/10
Rating (having done both)--6/10
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
I just got that one the other day. Haven't watched it yet.
"We Need to Talk About Kevin" -- pretty good, a bit disturbing. 7/10 I guess.
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" -- not bad, worth watching. Another 7/10 or so.
I just watched Breaking Dawn part 1. It was quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen in my life.
The plot is already so incredibly awful, but I did enjoy the movies because I thought they were pretty and I liked the music. This one, however, was not even remotely interesting. I talked through the entire thing, making up my own lines to the really really tedious and bland storyline.
This is what happens when you try to milk the system by turning a perfectly normal one-part-plot into a two-part-movie. They had to drag everything out in order to stretch it into two movies. The fourth book could have easily been done into one movie. Tip: DON'T make the wedding scene an entire half an hour. DON'T make the honeymoon scene another dreadfully boring half an hour where all they do is play chess, not have sex, and swim in the ocean.
Part of me has always sort of enjoyed the movies for the scenery and stuff but I guess as time goes on, I'm realizing what a complete load of crap Twilight is, and I don't even want to be around it anymore. It's marketed towards the most cliche, ridiculous 13 year old girls who think that romance is a love triangle between two (arguably) hot men who risk their lives daily to keep them safe and that the entire world revolves around them and their "uniqueness" compared to the insignificance of every other girl. Complete trash. It's turning young girls into idiots who think life falls apart if their boyfriend leaves them and to expect fairy tale romance when that doesn't even exist. I'm so over teenage romance expectations. They're in for a big disappointment.
Master & Commander - 9/10
But maybe I'm just such a sucker for Naval movies.
I agree that the Twilight movies are horrible. I watched them strictly for MST3K type purposes, like for mocking and hilarity. If they're viewed as comedies, they're actually somewhat good. Haha. Actually, no. No, they are not.Quote:
Originally Posted by PMLondonderry
Skyline. Quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. .5/10.
The Painted Veil. 8/10 I loved it, even if they did change the ending. Edward Norton and Naomi Watts did a fine job. Good period piece.
Alvin and the Chipmunks III: Chipwrecked. Probably better than Skyline, if Mutatis is any judge.
This is one of my favourite novels, how did they change the ending?Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Still the best films I've seen this year are The Squid and the Whale and Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring.
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The Painted Veil. 8/10 I loved it, even if they did change the ending. Edward Norton and Naomi Watts did a fine job. Good period piece.
This is one of those rare pieces that both Mrs Neely and I enjoy. It is indeed a good film, we have seen it about 4 times. I would give it a 9.1.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
**Spoiler**
Well I can't remember the exact ending in the book because I have seen the film too often, but he dies and she goes back to London. Doesn't that happen in the book as well?
Yes that's exactly what happens, but prior to her departure she arrives in back in Hong Kong, older and wiser, and sees Charles Townsend for what he really is. On her return to London, she finds that her mother has died and leaves with her father for the Bahamas where he has been offered a government post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
Yes she stumbles upon Charles in London in the film and stubs him also. It ends here in the film. It's a good film you'd probably enjoy it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I actually saw a bit of it in a preview on TV just before it came out. It got very good reviews and it looked quite authentic but fell into the trap, common nowadays, of having everyone parading around in spotless costume which should have been a little less so given the period and especially the location.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
A version made during the 1930s, of which I have also seen an extract, was very good on costume but had the ridiculous Hollywood idea of starring Greta Garbo in the lead role: a woman who was just about as far removed from the character in the book as it is possible to get.
It was just bad bad and more bad. Absolutely nothing interesting happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Varenne Rodin
However, it did provide a few inside jokes between my parents and I. "Jacob imprinted" is now a favorite new phrase for "Jacob just **** himself." (I kid you not. The way Edward says it, after Jacob jumps off the porch, made our entire living room laugh outloud. Each of us was thinking the same thing.)
However, hands down, this has got to have been the icing on the cake. This is possibly the worst scene in the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mdmE...eature=related
Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith's 1915 adaptation of Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman, Doublleday, Page & Co., 1906.
The novel was the second novel of Dixon's Klan triolgy, The Leopard's Spots, The Clansman, and The Traitor.. Dixon's idolized uncle was a Klan chieftan, and the novel and movie were the most controversial in our history for glorifying the Klan. The novel and movie were credited with the revival of the Klan in 1915. Our images of the Klan with white robes, pointy hats, and burning crosses originated with this movie and the novel. These icons were universal with the Second Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's. I watched this movie on You Tube for the historical interest, and was so taken that I bought the DVD at Barnes and Noble.
The movie is three hours long and was one of the very first spectaculars ever produced. It incorporated historically accurate reproductions of various scenes of the Civil War. Lillian Gish starred as Emily, and was a great actress--one who survived the conversion to talkies. The first sixty minutes are devoted to getting to know the two families, one Northern and one Southern, who play an important part throughout the movie. At sixty minutes, the Civil War begins, and most of the war scenery is developed around Sherman's march from Atlanta to the Sea. At 120 minutes the war ends with a memorable scene of Lincoln's assassination. The remainder of the movie is based on the era of Reconstruction.
The Klan is started, but never founded. In actual fact, the Klan was founded as a social club by six friends in Pulaski, TN. In the movie, the Klan is started by one man outraged by the actions of the Republicans and Scalawags. In a near final scene it rides like the cavalry, complete with appropriate music, to the rescue of our protagonist family's patriarch holed up in a cabin fighting of a Negro/Republican insurrection.
Hahaha. Wow. Now I have to see the movie. That is....like some 1970's cheap voiceover stuff in morning action cartoons. Haha. It's good to laugh. Thanks for the link, Londonderry.Quote:
Originally Posted by PMLondonderry
No, that movie was fantastic. Russel Crowe is so wonderful.Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
If you liked that one. A&E put out 8 movies based on the character of Horatio Hornblower. They can be watched on youtube, but your local library may also have them. They are fairly close to the books by C.S. Forester.Quote:
Originally Posted by KCurtis
I just watched Shark Night. I would have to give it 6/10. For the genera it was pretty well made, and it amused me immensely. If you don't like shark movies and b quality movies, then give it a pass. I personally love that kind of thing so I was pleasantly surprised with this one.
I just saw The Artist. I saw it with a friend, we both really liked it. It was different for me to see a silent movie, it was very very well done. I give it a 9, as it really was flawless.
My boy and I were watching X-men First class and I can't help it I just love it. I saw it before and just wanted to see it with him. I think it is one of the best x-men movies.
And Fassbender is extremely hot, so that is enough to want to watch it again.
We are gonna watch Iron Man tonight, I have seen it a few times but the boy hasn't.
Ip Man. I give it a 9 out of 10. Was very amusing, and startling at the same time.
"Moneyball" -- 8/10 for me, but I'm also a big fan of baseball.
I saw Master and Commander when it was in theaters. I fell asleep. One of the most boring movies I've ever seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by KCurtis
First Class is my favorite of the X-Men movies, too, with X2 coming in a really close second.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helga
I agree X-2 was really good but X-3 was awful!!! and then Wolverine was just OK I think, but I have high hopes for the second Wolverine movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
My boy loved Iron Man, I like parts of it but I don't know there is something about it that bugs me, it's better than Iron man 2 though, way better.
I saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy last night, and I found it very confusing and somewhat boring. So I gave up and got mad instead. And I love Gary Oldman, but I should have known it would be confusing, as I had not read the books. My husband loves those stories, so he ofcourse knew what was going on and he has a fantastic memory for names and details. I was befuddled. I can't rate it fairly, the acting was very good, and I guess Oldman was good at portraying a dull person.
"J Edgar" -- found it boring. Already knew a bit about the guy and I guess the acting was good, but it was dull for me. 5/10
Spoiler AlertQuote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I can't find my copy of the book, but I seem to remember that while Kitty did indeed change after they arrived in China, becoming less shallow and vain, she did not love Walter, although she did respect him and what he was doing. This was born out in how she chose to live her life when she returned to England (after meeting Charles Townsend one more time) by caring for her father and son in a caring and loving manner.
But the movie version has Walter Fane and Kittly fall in love. It's a sweeter, more bittersweet ending (and a bit more traditional, too). I didn't dislike it, it was just different.
I saw the new Three Musketeers movie. I'll give it a 4, or maybe a 5 out of 10. I think that the movie with Charlie Sheen and Tim Curry was far, far superior. This was just dismal.
I enjoyed watching The Descendants. 8/10
This is a scene from '7 Days in May, directed by John Frankenheimer and that I watched last night. It deals with a plot by the military to take over of the US and, while the film has it's faults, this scene between the president and the leader of the coup is absolutely riveting.
Nobody can act like this now but just watch Burt Lancaster and Frederic March to see what we have lost.
http://youtu.be/b6YLVOjTcHg
Nuh uh. Here you go:Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Evz-Nuec_U
"I'm asking you to marry me you little fool..."
Watching Rebecca for the sixteenth time. One of Hitchcock's best from a great book.
I saw 50/50. Rating 10/10.