http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?...roller;housing
Great documentary on Sixto Rodriguez - bizarre and interesting.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?...roller;housing
Great documentary on Sixto Rodriguez - bizarre and interesting.
[QUOTE=YesNo;1176181]The Avengers has a couple of sexy women with guns
I preferred the sexy men with all the power, Loki's smile just melts me, one of the best villains in Marvel.
I just saw Frankenstein from 1931 it was OK, more funny than scary, maybe because of years of violent movies.
Also saw 'Land and freedom' pretty good, I didn't know that much about this war so this movie and a lecture were both very interesting.
I've often wondered what women think of those female figures who kick butt in these action movies. I didn't expect Loki to melt anyone, but he is a great villain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helga
I recently saw Hot Tub Time Machine. It was 2 for $1 day at the library. That's my only excuse, but it was entertaining. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231587/
Score 6/10
in this particular movie I loved Cobie Smulders, she was awesome, Black Widow was cool too but Smulders was a surprise.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
My son tells me I always like the bad guys in movies, guess it's the young girl in me or something...
That first seen with Loki where he appears in the SHIELD headquarters he looks up with the most evil and awesome smile... I kinda liked that I guess
The Heiress is a filmed version of Henry James's Washington Square. Directed by William Wyler, it stars Olivia de Havilland as the timid daughter of Ralph Richardson who, since his wife died, keeps her tied to him by making her emotionally insecure. Montgomery Clift is the fortune hunter after her money. Richardson knows instinctively that Clift is only really interested in her inheritance but she is convinced that he wants her for herself. The acting is first rate and Olivia de Havilland won that year's Academy Award for her part.
Here's a scene that's at the heart of the story. 10/10
http://youtu.be/VV3M5R9JIMw
I liked Cobie Smulders. She did not get a large enough role. Of course, Scarlet Johansson made a lovely Black Widow. Even my wife was amused when the bad guys were forced to give her the phone while they were supposedly interrogating her at a secret location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OJqPJRjHkEQuote:
Originally Posted by Helga
Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) is the only one that seemed a bit too small, but when he aimed the arrows he became convincing.
Last night I saw The Tree of Life: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/
It was unusual the way the scenes portrayed prehistoric life and then went on to tell the story of a family whose eldest son died. I liked the contrast between living by "grace" and living by "nature".
Score: 8/10
Oh yes, my six year old loves female heroes and he loved that scene cause she hits them with a chair (I sound like a bad mom now)...Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Hawkeye was the best 'good' guy in it, even though he was a mindless drone half the time, he will probably get a bigger part in the new Captain America movie and in the next Avengers.
I saw 'Kick ***' yesterday and liked it, I can't stand Nicolas Cage but he was almost cool in this one.
In Time. A rather novel take on the Robin Hood theme. I enjoyed it. 7/10
I watched Disney’s Hercules with my nieces and didn’t really like it.
The other movie that I happened to see was Thor. My young cousin who is 13 had a crush on Loki and she wanted me to see her favourite film. It was good and we both enjoyed it. 7/10
I just watched "Happythankyoumoreplease" and I loved it. Good story, great actors and an overall optimistic tune. Very, very nice!
On the Road...6/10. Meh.
I thought Helga might have been an exception, but it looks like Loki has more appeal among females than I gave him credit for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
I saw Due Date: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231583/
Score: 8/10
The Lavender hill mob
10/10
Utterly classic Ealing Comedy starring Alec Guiness and Stanley Holloway about a cunning way to "get away" with stealing a million.
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Originally Posted by YesNo
Haha… I’m not a fan of Loki’s though; he is good looking man, but not my type of guy. :smilewinkgrin:
I have just watched Leave Her to Heaven with Gene Tierney, Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde in what must be the 'Woman's Picture' to end all women's pictures. The technicolour is outstanding and everyone is in top melodramatic form. Of its type, I would have to give it 10/10 and I think all the ladies would agree that they really don't make endings as romantic as this anymore.
http://youtu.be/lo2mXwiH4FU
Martha Marcy May Marlene-an independent film. A suspenseful film about a young girl trying to leave a cult. 8/10
Baghead-spoof of horror movies. Hilarious. 8/10
Tamara Drewe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Drewe_%28film%29
Score: 10/10
There was a scene when the sophisticated 15-year old Jody (Jessica Barden) exclaims, "Oh!--My!--God!," which I thought was a charming way to expose her ultimate naivete about the adults around her. Jody and her companion reminded me of Oberon and Puck.
Cloud Atlas. 10/10. One of the best movies I've ever seen.
Paranormal IV; -4/10
A meh Halloween treat.
Carnage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnage_%282011_film%29
Score: 10/10
This is portrayal of how arguments get started and keep going. Four adults find themselves in a heated argument, ultimately each one against all the rest. Individually they sporadically try to reconcile their differences, perhaps when they are feeling temporarily good, but then they get pulled back into the argument when those good feelings disappear and they need to project the temporary bad feelings onto one of the others.
I guess the moral is that silence or courtesy is best when one is in a bad mood.
I had high hopes for a Wachowski/Tykwer collaboration (especially if Tykwer was able to rein in the Wachowskis' excesses), but upon reading some write-ups, it seems more like an Art Film that one is expected to inspect more than watch, and either find layers of meaning or invent some so as not to appear lame. Did you enjoy it as a narrative or mostly as Art?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis
Damsels in Distress: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667307/
Score: 7/10
It was a little weird and it ended as a musical, but it was entertaining.
Narrative, definitely. I'm not a huge fan of most art films. Cloud Atlas is fast paced, never boring, and even throws in some cool action. It's deep and makes you think, bit an art film? I wouldn't categorize it as such at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
Tut tut boys. What is wrong with an art film? I love them. Having said that, however, I do think "Cloud Atlas" is a fun, accessible movie. It's definitely a movie on a grand scale, but it works,without making you work overly hard to "get" it if all you want to do is sit back and enjoy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
I've read the book. It's better, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the movie tremendously! 8/10
A Girl Walks Into a Bar: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1682246/
Score: 3/10
After watching this movie I am beginning to see a difference between creativity and just one odd thing happening after the other without much point.
I really enjoyed watching Match Point directed by Woody Allen. The ending was just superb. 8/10
oh yes it is one of the best of his 2000 something movies!
I watched Apocalypse Now, saw it years ago but had forgotten a whole lot. Many great scenes and it's shot in a great way using lights and sound in way that make it even better. My favorite scene is when Sheen kills the lady that is wounded on the river boat.
It's a ten!
This one turned up in the library. It was an interesting story, but the dialog did not seem realistic. I did like how the courtroom scene reached a climax and then the movie swiftly ended going back to the attorney explaining what finally happened and then the final scene. It was enjoyable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
It occurred to me that I had a hard time distinguishing Ellen from Ruth. They looked too much alike. Of course, they had quite different personalities. I recall Ellen did look particularly wicked when Richard's brother was drowning.
Score: 7/10, but I actually have no basis on which to score these. 5+ is good. Below 5 just means I had no clue what was going on.
Build My Gallows High stars Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas. Once Mitchum appears in trench coat and snap brim trilby, you know you're back in the world of films noire with their complicated plots including double and triple crosses and dangerous femmes fatales . In this one the femme is truly fatale with her killing of the hero at the end of an exercise in fatuity. It's always a pity when good actors are handed the wooden spoon by directors like Jacques (I Walked With a Zombie) Tourneur but he couldn't do much with this adaptation from a typical piece of pulp fiction of the period.
http://youtu.be/dn8EImlkRV8
Some critics have made it out to be far more of a pastiche than it is. I agree that it does get bogged down in parts, I admire its ambition more than its execution. Sin City is probably a better example of parallel narratives being executed in film, but the anthology structure is a bit easier to convey than the intertwining narratives in Cloud Atlas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis
I liked the movie but it is flawed.
Me too, it really flew under the radar critically and box office. Woody Allen films get a polite applause nowadays - at best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
The Stranger (1946) is directed by Orson Welles and stars Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young.
The plot, which is one of the first post-war Nazi hunting stories, details the tracking down of a suspected ex-Nazi living in a small US community under the anonymity of a pseudonym and a position as professor at a local school for boys. Edward G Robinson plays the US government agent who traces his quarry ( Orson Welles ) and exposes the truth behind the respectable facade that Welles has built up among the townspeople.
I remember being impressed by the film when I first saw it on TV years ago but this time round it seemed rather flat and unconvincing, but it's not bad and gets 6/10.
Film is a type of narrative I suppose. Here are some I've enjoyed.
BicycleThieves
The Cow and I
The Big Lebowski
Les Infants du Paradis
Withnail and I
Once There were Heroes
Trees Lounge
Andrew Rublev
The Seventh Seal
Lacombe Lucien
In general I detest war films and silly fantasy stuff
Probably that was damn all to do with the conversation but that is life - it diverges.
Probably that was damn all to do with the conversation but that is life - it diverges.
Oops. "Posted" twice. Bodach's prerogative. What are the best Nicholson films? The Pledge, The King of Marvin Gardens and The Postman Always Rings Twice
I watched Poltergeist last night (have seen it before but not at midnight on my own in a haunted house). 9/10
Don't forget Chinatown.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eiseabhal
Bang the Drum Slowly -- pretty good, about a baseball player, played by De Niro, who is dying. 7/10
House of Sand and Fog - Tough to watch, great acting. 8/10
Awakenings -- based on book by Oliver Sacks. Patients "wake up" for a while. Great movie. 9/10
The Illusionist -- Fantastic
(all on you tube)
The Perks of being a wall flower - I loved it five stars
I watched Carnage, a film by Roman Polanski. It’s a nice, funny movie with a good cast. 7/10
Recently I have gone to the cinema to watch "Lawless". To tell you the truth, I wasn`t astonished. It was a quite good movie but I wouldn`t recomment it.
Shia LaBouf as a gangster, it`s not a good idea in my opinion.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer, or something like that.
Technically, I suppose it was well done. There were ugly vampires running toward you with their mouths open wide. However, I didn't like the portrayal of the south in the US Civil War as being overrun by vampires.
Score: 3/10