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Just finished re-watching the fantastic BBC 95 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice - marvellous!
There's going to be a viewing void tomorrow night. Mrs Neely suggests we fill it with North and South, another great adaptation. Yes it is period drama month in the Neely household (previous to those was Jane Eyre).
Revisited Blade Runner as the lad wanted to see it. I had forgotten most of it - I seem to remember that I was drunk - it was a long time ago - and so really enjoyed it. I think the film focused on the stronger parts of Dick's story. Good film - 8/10
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I watched it last year and simply loved it. It's lot better than the movie.
Just saw Cabin in the woods. oh so very interesting! not as much horror as I expected and more funny than scary. loved the idea behind it and good actors in it. Drew Goddard is a good director, he and Joss Whedon wrote the script together and it has Whedon fingerprints all over it.
the title says it all, a very cool movie!
Last night we watched "The Iron Lady" which I am giving a 10 due to Maryl Streep's performance. She is truly a wonderful actress. The movie was very good, but she is what kept us riveted to the screen.
Passion of the Christ
Horrible
My favourite writer once said that time is so precious that there's a perverse delight in wasting it; so recently, I watched a piece of nonsense called Kiss Me Deadly which was total B******s.
Staying in the same mood, I am thinking that my next YouTube film will be a monumentally crass melodrama as only Hollywood could make 'em.
Once seen never forgotten no matter how hard one tries.
http://youtu.be/1-8_mCE148U
I enjoyed watching Horrible Bosses. 7/10
I saw The Tourist and enjoyed it a lot. 7/10
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I certainly agree.
I enjoyed The Tourist and Horrible Bosses (saw it twice), but the following stand out in my mind as perhaps not a total waste of time and I'd give them a 10/10. They probably don't deserve that considering the average ratings on IMDb are around 6.
Restless http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1498569/
Tiny Furniture http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570989/
Because of the censorship inherent in political correctness, certain films that were once repeated on some TV stations have now been effectively banned but are still available on YouTube. Apart from some excellent films on YouTube, there are also many that will appeal to the connoisseur of cinematic kitsch. Among these is one that I watched recently called 'Staircase' that concerns two homosexual hairdressers who live above their shop in London. Directed, surprisingly, by Stanley Donen who excelled in musicals such as 'Singing in the Rain', it stars Richard Burton and Rex Harrison who give two of the most camp performances ever to blight the screen. There is no actual storyline but rather a series of vignettes in which both men try scoring points off each other with verbal *****iness.
Although the homosexuality is implied rather than explicitly presented, the 'plot' revolves around a court summons issued to the Rex Harrison character for wearing women's clothes in public and his fear of being exposed as homosexual.
Made in 1969, it seems a fitting end to a decade of silliness when the vox had never been so pop and remains so until this day.
On a scale of 0 - 10 it has gotta be zero.
http://youtu.be/GF8ypuUnD2o
Currently watching The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Woody Allen. This is one I have not seen yet and it's a cracker. Classic Woody fun.
Everything Must Go with Will Ferrell. ugh! is Zilch a score?
He's done some crap films. We were very disappointed with Elf. All the funny bits were in the trailer.Quote:
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Watched The Thin Red Line - Terence Malick's war film with poetry and philosophy thrown in. There are lots of lingering shots and scenes of soldiers crawling through grass, but I liked it. 8/10
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Hey! I quite liked Elf. Still do. The end's a little corny, but I can live with it.
I've never seen The Thin Red Line. I mean, what's it about? I love his other three movies, though. :D
I watched "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" tonight. It was a pleasand diversion. 7/10
I have just watched 'And God Created Woman' after a break of some time and, given that Brigitte Bardot had remained in the memory as an actress of mainly sexploitation films, was pleasantly surprised at just how good it is.
Performance wise, the film is held together by the German actor Curt Jurgens who speaks remarkably good French and has the gravitas to bring conviction to his role, but Bardot is also very good and in this film at least is one of the most naturally beautiful women in the history of cinema.
Unfortunately it was all downhill from then on when publicity replaced performance in a series of rip-offs in which she was in the same woman between two men scenario with the make-up becoming more liberally applied with successive films.
Roger Vadim directs with great style using the coastal scenery to such effect that the little fishing port of St. Tropez became a major tourist attraction.
http://youtu.be/evoO8c9D3O4
This is one Allen movie I didn't like... something about him not being a nervous wreck bugged me...Quote:
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Just came home from seeing The Avengers, it was so very good! my nerdy brain was working overtime. I went with a friend who hasn't seen many movies like this and knows little about them I pointed out Stan Lee when his regular cameo came and after the movie she asked me 'who is this Stanley?'
Stan Lee!! was my answer.
The last movie I saw at the cinema was 'The Artist'. I'm glad I went to it at the cinema- it's just one of those movies you need to, I guess. The way the actors used body language and visual cues to communicate their message was wonderful. The music, cinematography and the whole style of the movie was just excellent. I'll give it an 8 out of 10, since the story was a bit too simple and predictable, but I walked out of the cinema with a smile just as I did when I saw the new Muppet movie.
Dark Shadows
This movie gets a 3/10 for false advertising. The previews led me to believe that this would be some funny, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Dark Shadows series, but most all of the funny scenes were shown in the previews. The movie itself went on too long, and the only point of it that I could see was to showcase the skills of the make-up artists and all the other artists who were responsible for the way that Johnny Depp's, Eva Greene's and Bella Heathcote's complexions appeared in this movie. While I was not admiring the white skin and the dark eye make-up, I was cringing at the melodrama. And maybe I shouldn't have expected more than the melodrama, given the nature of the series itself, but the previews were misleading. It looked like it might be funny, but it really wasn't at all, and all 3 of my 3/10 rating goes to the overall look of presentataion and look of the film.
Cowboys and Aliens - 7/10. I just can't get behind Harrison Ford playing a jerky guy. Over all fairly entertaining.
Hot Fuzz
Corny, silly, weird, but quite funny and entertaining
7.5/10
"Rainmaker" a John Grisham novel, great movie, great cast 10/10:nod:
I watched Wolverine with my son last night, it was the first time he saw it and it is still good. Not the best X movie but good, my son loved it when he didn't have knives but bones tearing out of his hands. It's Ghostbusters one tonight I think...
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The Thin Red Line is a philosophical war film that intersperses the action with the inner dialogues of the characters including the dead. It's quite an unusual film. it does have lingering shots - some of which are quite beautiful, but then there's the contrast of the war and the horror.
Watched Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Very good - understated, in that drab 50's British style. 7/10
I will need to watch it again as I was zoning in and out with fatigue, but - you know - when you want to watch something good...
The Avengers. It was AWESOME! I'm a huge comic book nerd, and it was such a perfect movie to feed that part of me. The Amazing Spiderman and The Dark Knight Rises have a lot to compete with, but I'm betting the latter will be even better.
9/10 (minus a point becaus of Scarlett Johansen's horrible, horrible acting)
Ghostbusters- always good, a classic and I just love Bill Murray!
So I watched this film called 'Zombieland' last night on LoveFilm and it was supposed to be a 'Comedy' and I didn't laugh once, I promise you. I looked at the reviews on the internet this morning and I'm astonished that it has so much critical and commercial praise.
What am I missing? The two female characters were shallow and almost like charicatures, and the same was the case for the male lead (the older one with the guns) blah blah blah that's the same for a lot of films. I couldn't really establish a plot, probably because there were times when the characters ran back into where the zombies were and did some truly rediculous things to get themselves back into trouble, so I couldn't really view it as a survival horror/comedy where they were running for their lives. The violence was just...not really neccessary, though I've seen way worse. It was just odd.
Another thing I noted was that it made fun of zombie-movie cliches (the Rules of survival etc.) and yet consciously used a number of cliches in the plot. The cameo of Bill Murray is sad because he's just a washed up actor now.
I think I watched it hoping it would be a clever and sophisticated comedy with slapstick etc. but the violence was just macabre and not used for any satirical purposes in my opinion. I think it was more like Rob Zombie's House of a 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects, and Natural Born Killers.
Anway, I won't be watching it again for a revised opinion.
I went to the the movies and saw "The Iron Lady" starring Meryl Streep, she played a wonderful role, although I felt the movie dwelled too much on Thatcher's dementian ithat she developed in her later years, other than that 8/10 from me.
Last night I watched another of Streep's movies on DVD "Doubt" 10/10.
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Another Earth
This is a sci-fi film with no name actors about a high school grad who causes a car accident that kills a family, and she tries to atone for the deaths when she gets out of prison. At the time of the event, another planet similar to earth was discovered - in fact it was like a mirror earth - or another earth (which is the name of the movie). It was okay - there were a lot of new agey ideas that found their way into the dialogue. There was mention of Plato's allegory of the cave, questions about the nature of reality etc etc - all woven into the story. I came home from work, I was dead tired, it was on and I watched it.
I watch "Plath" starring Gwyneth Paltrow. She did a good job with Sylvia Plath and so did Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes. 8/10
finished Firefly yesterday and just watched Serenity.
Great movie 9/10 one minus cause it's one of two movies that have a scene that make me very angry at Whedon, saying it would be a huge spoiler but I am pretty sure that if you've seen it you know what I mean.
We watched Midnight in Paris last night. I loved it! It was funny and poignant, and made fun of Hollywood - great music, cast, and just a fun watch. It was nice to watch a film with no violence. And my favorite writer (Fitzgerald) was in it. I will give it a 9
A stupid timewaster called Dragonball Evolution. Well it was on in the background at least and I was only vaguely aware of it. The reason it was on at all is the director used to be interesting but he's gone downhill something rotten of late. The script was amateurish and the plot unbelievably contrived - seemed to have beeen written to fill itself in.
'Hey - let's put on show!'
'You mean make a movie..?'
'Or a movie...'
'Cool. What'll it'll be about?
'Who cares! We'll just make it up as we go along!'
'What'll be the hook to get people to watch it?'
'Um, explosions, special effects and-... how about Kung Fu!?'
'Kung Fu?'
'Yeah - and an evil demon who wants to take over the world and something about dragons because I like dragons.'
'I like dragons too.'
'Are we agreed we all like dragons?'
'All we need is some investment money and we'll be set!'
'I know a producer who likes dragons...'
'Excellent - we're halfway there!'
The Avengers - 8/10, Fun, mindless entertainment.
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I saw Mallrats again,I think it's one of my favorite Kevin Smith movie!
I don't read the comics (not sure why?) so I just went with it. Although I do need to see Thor, Captain America, and The Hulk now.Quote:
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I saw the Avengers with my friend who hadn't seen all the other movies and knew little about them, during the break I tried to explain all the connections between the movies and the Tesserac and why Banner is Hulk and that Stark's dad knew Rogers and in Iron man II he looks at his dads diary and sees drawings of the tesserac. It's all connected. I was also looking for some 'Whedon actors' cameo. After going on about this for about 5 minuets I realized the people around me were all quiet, now that shut me up.Quote:
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After the movie I heard some guys talking about Bana as the first Hulk and I just thougth to myself 'jerks' and started explaining loudly to my friend how Lou Ferriggino was Hulk years ago and still is credited as him in all Hulk movies, cause he talks for him.
OK now I have babbled on about this in a rate a movie thread so I am gonna shut up and talk to myself. but you should see the these movies 'Thor' and 'Captain America' are very very good.
I watched The Rescuers Down Under with my nieces yesterday. 7/10
A clip from the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN_6J...eature=related
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Stark's Dad knew Rogers? OK, now I have to see Iron Man II again as well!!
Dark Shadows - 7/10. Humorous and highly entertaining.