Just finished 'Jeff, who lives at home' and I simply loved it. very very good and funny. I really like Jason Segel and Ed Helms was very cool in a role so different from his 'Office' character
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Just finished 'Jeff, who lives at home' and I simply loved it. very very good and funny. I really like Jason Segel and Ed Helms was very cool in a role so different from his 'Office' character
Oh dear I am finding myself watching Hannah and Her Sisters yet again (8/9th viewing?) this really is one of my favourite Woody Allen's, brilliant stuff. It's such a musical piece as well with some great jazz (as ever) and other songs + Bach. Not a perfect film but a solid 8.75 out of 10 I would give it! I think it would make a good stage adaptation as well, I could see it as that anyway. Michael Caine is a bit stiff in it but he is quite funny for it.
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Watched Star yesterday night. it is a Russian made account of a patrol behind German lines in WW2. i didn't like it much and turned off after half an hour. I could see where it was going - clumsy I would call it - and a bit dated. 4/10
Watched "In Bruges"10/10 great movie, lots of everything.
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Just watched 50/50 and I really liked it. funny and not too serious.
Caught it last year by accident - and it was very good. One of the best modern films I''ve seen for a while.Quote:
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Hi paulclem,
I taped it quite by chance as a late movie, I missed out on some of the very Irish dialogue plus it was full of adds so yesterday I hired it from my DVD store and this time I will watch it with subtitles for a rewatch.
I told my husband about the movie and he was quite surprised that I (a very senior viewer) enjoyed it so much!!!
Hazel
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Mirror Mirror with Julia Robert
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Not bad for a fairy tale.
7/10
Big trouble in Little China. 10/10 as usual
Harry Black and the Tiger (1958).
Stewart Granger plays Harry Black, a big game hunter called in by an Indian provincial governor to hunt down a man-eating tiger that is terrorising villagers.
Black lost a leg during WWII as a result of one of his men's cowardice and it's a tricky situation when the man turns up as the manager of a plantation in the region. To make matters worse, Black and the man's wife had a love affair in Scotland before the husband was released from a German POW camp.
Despite the eternal triangle part of the film, the scenes involving the tiger and it's instinctive realization that Black means to kill it make for highly watchable film making. I don't know how they got the tiger act as it did but it's uncanny how felines seem to sense when their prey is vulnerable and the danger that they face from people trying to kill them.
7/10
I want to see this-and also maybe "In Bruges," which I've heard is good.Quote:
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I watched "The Five Year Engagement" with Segal the other night. It was funny. I think he co-wrote the screenplay, too. 8/10
Tonight I watched "Incendiary" with Michelle Williams and Ewan MacGregor. 10/10 I had never heard of it before, and Netflix recommended it, based on things I've watched. I've never even watched anything they've "recommended" but this was good. I love Michelle Williams; I think she is one of the best of the younger actresses out there. And Ewan MacGregor is also very good. I had never paid much attention to him before, but I saw "Salmon Fishing in the Yeman" last week, and while it was a better than average rom-com, nothing really original, something about his understated performance caught my eye. I appreciate that he is understated on screen as well as in how he lives his life. He undertakes a variety of roles, and he's good in all of them.
Yeman: 8/10
Over the last couple of days I have been watching Rocky I, II and III. I just fancied it, good fun. I love this scene in Rocky III, totally class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJnKm6ftPu0
' The Birds' By Alfred Hitchcock 10/10 obvious
I watched Wall E; it was a waste of time. 3/10
Other movie that I’ve seen is Crazy Hearts. It was a brilliant performance by Jeff Bridges. I didn’t know he is so into music. 8/10
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Sicko, a documentary by Michael Moore. I'm beginning to really like this bloke. He looks at how The U.S. medical system is the most inside out and back to front in the entire world, resulting in no insurance policies being payed out on people who need urgent treatment, how they're basically worthless for anyone who wants to live a full life. A case in point about having a 'pre-existing condition': everywhere else for the sufferers it means more treatment. while in the good ol' USA it means thanks for supporting your money grubbing Insurance Company, now Piss Off!
Good bit at the end contrasting Great Britain's Free Medicare for all - even the poorest have a life expectancy three years longer than the wealthiest American.
And whose fault is the mess? None other than everyone's favorite Tricky Richard M. Nixon.
9/10 (bit slow in parts)
Dead Poets Society 11/10
Just got back from Premium Rush. Excellent, no-fat chase movie. 9/10
This film directed by Henry Hathaway is an outstanding example of what Hollywood could do when it wanted to.
The cast is perfect for the task of presenting a gripping story taken from a true life incident and has a terrific script that perfectly matches the action. James Stewart is superb as the cynical reporter who is directed by his editor, played brilliantly by Lee J Cobb, to follow up an 11 year murder of a police officer. Everyone concerned in the making of this film created one of the USA's best crime stories ever filmed.
Here's the opening:
http://youtu.be/P1YYgkfoFBE
That looks OK actually, and the youtube comments below it are interesting, for once.Quote:
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I do fear that another session of Hannah and Her Sisters might be upon me tonight.:ack2: It's absolutely worth watching just for the music alone. 10/10*.
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"Hunger Games" -- since I don't need to see it again for maybe 20 years, so-so. She did a good acting job, though. Stanley Tucci was funny. Sort of combo of Brazil, Blade Runner, that man in a bubble movie with Jim Carey, yea the Truman Show by great director Peter Weir. Plus good costumes. Best scene: when the little girl is shot by an arrow and dies in the heroine's arms -- very poignant.
If you decide to watch Call Northside 777, you cannot watch it except in sections, when you should click on CN part 2, CN part 3, etc etc the posters name to look for is mbarac88. It's a bit of a nuisance but well worth it. There are other people who've posted bits and pieces but they won't match up.Quote:
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Ceremony: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341341/
Score: 6/10
It's a movie about a guy who was "twenty-three and a half" years old who crashed a wedding with his friend to try to win back the older bride who was only interested in him as a fling. I thought it would be a nice chick flick for my wife and I to vegetatively enjoy together, but it was a bit wierder than that. My wife ultimately didn't watch it. At first I wondered why I was even watching it, but I had nothing better that I could motivate myself to do.
When it was over, I kind of enjoyed it.
Tale of Two Sisters: Korean film about two sisters coming home from a mental hospital to their father and stepmother, and the strange things that start happening in the house. 8.5/10, subject to change on rewatching depending on how clean the mindscrews end up being.
Reincarnation (Rinne): A film is being made about a "real-life" (in the movie) murder case. The lead actress starts seeing things, but she's not the only one. Excellent time-bendy ghost movie by the writer/director of the original Ju-on/Grudge films, which I also loved. 9.5/10
Drag Me to Hell: Gypsy-curse movie by Sam Raimi; very disappointing considering. Had nice bits, but that's about it. Needed more gung-ho energy from everyone, and more organic wackiness rather than just hitting a few Requisite Raimi Beats. 6/10
Unknown: Liam Neeson wakes up from a four-day coma to discover that someone else is now him. Some logical holes ignored (and introduced to sell the situation), but a decent Hollywood thriller overall. 7.5/10
Middle Men: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1251757/
Nice story. It kept me interested throughout. The two genius-idiots who kept getting into trouble were well portrayed.
Score: 9/10
watched The Dark Knight Rises it was good movie and want to watch again .....
Up in the Air: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193138/
Although it is not the main plot of the movie, Anna Kendrick plays the role of a 23 year old female relating to people over 25 with her youth being the contrast to their relative age. The other movie was 50/50. It makes me think that maturity doesn't happen until 25 or so.
Another good story well portrayed.
Score: 9/10
I saw the tv movie 'Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D'
Oh it was so much fun and so bad in a very great way. One of the best bad movies. Hasselhoff, I don't really know what to say about him, just that he was not the worst actor in it!
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
Directed and scripted by Orson Welles, this film has been much talked about over the years but it didn't live up to expectation. Starring Welles and Rita Hayworth, it was one of those stories involving murder without actually pinpointing who was supposed to be murdering who or why. The whole film had a surrealistic atmosphere and was totally unbelievable. I got the impression that nobody knew what they were supposed to be doing even though the production values were above par for a crime thriller. The ending in a fairground hall of mirrors was simply ridiculous.
5/10
Night of the Eagle (1961)
British horror story with Peter Wyngarde as a college professor of psychology who discovers that his wife is a witch involved in voodoo practices.
Infantile rubbish made for the younger (very younger ) segment of cinema goers. I must have had a brainstorm watching it in the first place.
0/10
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I have just watched the above, it was great 8/10 great country music.
I have just watched Thérèse Desqueyroux, a French film version of François Mauriac's great novel of the same name. Made in 1962, this acclaimed film stars Emmanuelle Riva as the eponymous heroine and Philippe Noiret as her overbearingly complacent husband in performances that are the essence of great acting. Riva IS Thérèse and Noiret IS Bernard. There was an extraordinary sense of déjà vu in watching this film as I hadn't read the novel for some years but it all came flooding back exactly as I had imagined it. When I read that it had been filmed on Mauriac's own estate near Bordeaux and that he had collaborated on the script I understood why this is the definitive film version of the book.
It has just been remade with Audrey Tautou in the title role and has been received with mixed reviews. Not surprising really, why bother trying to improve on the perfect?
10/10
To Rome With Love: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1859650/
There were 4 stories situated in Rome in this movie. Outside of location, there didn't seem to be any other connection between them. Two of the stories seemed too absurd to take seriously.
Score: 5/10
The Killer is Loose (1956), with Joseph Cotten and Rhonda Flemyng.
This is an obvious precursor to Cape Fear in which a convicted criminal, whose wife was accidentally shot by a police officer, escapes from prison and goes in search of the wife of the policeman who was responsible for his own wife's death. It wasn't bad even though slightly implausible and Joseph Cotten, who was usually given meatier roles to play, looked a bit lost in his part as the policeman desperately trying to protect his wife. Directed by Budd Boetticher, known for his B pictures, it showed a similar lack of directorial control but was still watchable. 5/10
My daughter told me that we have all the Harry Potter movies and so I spent the past 8 days watching them in order, one each evening. Once I got to the 4th one she started watching them with me.
She said they get "darker" and more interesting and she's right. The last two are the best in my opinion. The first two are entertaining, but I get a little annoyed with Harry winning everything and the good guys and the bad guys are too clearly divided. In the last few movies, as Voldemort leaves everything in a mess, the good and bad get complicated, Harry isn't the only one saving the day and the final ending is perfect.
Overall score: 10/10
This evening I watched Twisted Nerve a nineteen sixties film staring Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett in the lead roles. With all those mini-skirts the film looks peculiarly dated and while well-made it doesn't come off as the pseudo medico/horror it was intended to be. There is a notable cast of supporting actors including the ubiquitous Timothy West who usually overacts but gives a very convincing performance as a police inspector. One of a number of British shockers along similar lines to Peeping Tom, Blowup and The Collector, it comes across as a typical piece of 1960s excess.
4/10
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I used to love Haley Mills when I was a child.
I saw The Phantom of the Opera recently, a home viewing in someone's personal screening room. It was actually the 25th anniversary production of the play that was filmed. At the time it was streamed around the world.
Anyway, while I've enjoyed the music for years, I'd never seen the play for some reason. It was wonderful. I loved it. So over the top romantic. It's kind of nice to indulge in that sort of thing occasionally. The three young actors in the lead roles did a marvelous job of sing, acting, and emoting in general. 10/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb1kzpCtmqs
She was absolutely brilliant in her first film Tiger Bay, filmed when she was only twelve-years-old. The whole cast were exceptional but John Mills (her actual father) despite his magnificent performance, was acted off the screen by his daughter who gave one of the greatest child performances in screen history.Quote:
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The horrorthon continues.
The Abandoned: An adopted woman inherits her birth family's old abandoned farmhouse, and strange occurrences occur. Very good haunt movie with some time-bendy sauce on top, though not nearly to the extent Takashi Shimizu uses in his movies. 8.5/10
Gravedancers: Three yuppies dance on some graves while drunk and strange happenings happen. A classic case of a low-budget movie trying to look big-budget with its little money. Result: Bad CGI and obvious rubber masks. Also, bland script and cypher characters. Next time try to do a few things well and buy a writer with what's left. 5/10
Scarecrows: Haven't seen this since on VHS back in the day, and have always wanted to see it again. Another low-budget (almost certainly much lower than Gravedancers) C-movie, but doesn't try to do more than it can. Not much in the way of characters or acting, but gets points for good look-and-feel, the occasional bit of truly oddball humor, and not feeling the need to give more than a bare-bones, throwaway explanation for the scarecrows. 6/10 if you don't like this kind of thing, 8/10 if you do.
The Frightened City (1961) a tedious film about protection racketeering in London starring Sean Connery before he became a big noise playing James Bond.
Although I usually find something about these old British black and white films to hold my interest, in this instance I did not.
0/10