"Children of Heaven" (Iranian) -- sweet film with a 4K kids race at the end that rivals a "Chariots of Fire" race. It's a kids movie, but very intelligent, educational, great filming style and location, good story. Up for an Academy Award.
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"Children of Heaven" (Iranian) -- sweet film with a 4K kids race at the end that rivals a "Chariots of Fire" race. It's a kids movie, but very intelligent, educational, great filming style and location, good story. Up for an Academy Award.
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I've seen that. It's sweet but it got kind of annoying to me...and that's strange it's up for Academy Awards because I saw it at least two years ago, and definitely the same movie.
The last film I saw was Star Wars Episode IV...for the first time....I know, it's sad.
7/10 I liked it.
Vintagepiper,
I agree that they exchanged shoes one or two many times for my tastes, but I liked all the attn. to character -- say the P.E. coach who the boy had to cajole and cry into giving him a time trial run, the Dad, the Mom and neighbors, the partial-disciplinarian Principal, the girl who got the pink shoes. Plus the excellent two leads. Director got a lot out of his cast. Even the goldfish added something. It was up in 1999 I think and lost to that undeniably excellent WWII concentration camp film with the Italian actor/director. Any other year it might have won.
It would be nice if international politicians would all sit down together for a showing of "Children" and reconsider all the anger, competition, hating and violence.
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I think it was all the whining that got on my nerves...I know they had reason to, but still. All in all, I agree, it is a very good film with an amazing message that I wish people would listen to more.
The last movie i saw was legally blonde. it is so great and it waslike the 7th time i saw it .
have a nice day
High School Musical
I was prejudiced against it....but I confess I loved it....
8/10
Forrest Gump:A very touching movie, which will break your heart on some places and on others, it will mend it like nothing happened. It's story is about dealing with losses. I liked it a lot. I loved Forrest's character, his way of making others happy whenever he was glad and whenever he was sad, he would make the movie-watcher feel bad.
It surely deserves 10/10.:D
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang: 9/10. Hilarious film-noir send-up. Stars Robert Downey Jr. as a thief-turned-actor-turned-private investigator, and Val Kilmer as a gay PI hired to teach him the ropes. Great buddy flick.
I just watched it yesterday and I wanted to post a review here and here you are with it.:DQuote:
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I also liked it as it was very funny. I loved Kilmer's style. I will give the movie, 8/10.
I just finished watching "The Libertine" and am having a bit of a mixed reaction to it. I really enjoyed Mr. Depp's performance; I do not in fact think I could trust someone else in such a wildly raunchy role. Actually, from the perspective of performance, I was pretty convinced by everyone in the film. But, for whatever reason, nearly the entire thing has this annoying unsteady-camera effect that, in a few scenes, becomes simply ridiculous. Even as I write this, I am brought to wonder if perhaps this has some connection to Mr. Wilmot's being at all times thoroughly saturated with alcohol. That is my best guess, and I think the film could nevertheless have, in a few places at least, done without it. The other big complaint I had was with the music. In the second half, it most agreeably smoothes itself out; until then, however, it draws some negative attention to itself by clashing with the drama taking place. The most obvious instance of this is in Elizabeth's first "acting lesson" with Wilmot, when, at a time when such important things are being said, the music is downright relaxing! I found myself thinking silence would have been preferable, but that is perhaps just me. There is also a kind of annoying motive, slightly irregular-sounding, that is apparently associated with the decadence of Mr. Wilmot and his little world of bawdiness and indulgence, but this seems to disappear as the honesty of Wilmot's position - rather than the simple grossness of it all - begins to make itself evident. Altogether I would say I liked it fairly well, and give it a 7.5 out of ten. If nothing else, Depp's recitations of Wilmot's poetry, filthy as it is, makes it worth seeing.
Her Majesty, with the fine actress who played the grandmother in Whale Rider.
Some will think this a goody-goody movie, but it's got a deep cultural issue, troubled brother, funny group of ladies (maybe a comical take-off on the original Manchurian Candidate), and painful, but familiar, jolt of New Zealand history.
"Osama" -- stunned by it a couple years ago. Equally as difficult a film the second time around. Everyone must see it. Somewhat along the lines of "Raise the Red Lantern" and what's going on in that south Utah town as we speak, although that gives some indications of being voluntary.
Invincible. It's about Vince Papale and the Philly Eagles. It was pretty good, I'd give it a 9/10, and I don't even like american football that much.
I've recntly seen "Black cat, white cat" by Kusturica for the second time. Still hilarious, although it, of course, can't be even compared to one of my favorite movies ever "Underground".
I saw The Lady in the Water yesterday, but I didn't like it at all. Although the director had already been responsible for The Sixth Sense I find that he has enormously phased out since. His new movie was no more than cheesy fantasy to me, and some of the actors did a bad job (especially the director who chose to star himself...). Plus, I didn't like the background story which was of the moralising "humanity is so bad / has deliberately moved away from nature / has to be saved by benevolent creatures who know better..."
I'd give The Lady in the Water 3/10. (Three because the music was okay at times.)
I LOVE that film! A big reason that people have been disappointed in it is that they expect it to be like Shyamalan's other movies. It isn't, so you're going to be let down if you expect that. It is completely different, but wonderful in its own way. I thought he did a nice job of acting, and the type of story was great for me personally, so I loved it. I've given it a 9/10.Quote:
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Have you seen The Village?
"Crank" 7/10...great and very creative action movie, lots of originality and hilarious characterization...but that's about it. Don't go expecting more than action, there is zero romance, zero drama, zero modern importance, and fractional comedy.
Beerfest 8/10
This is a man's movie. Lot's of guy humor in here but females can also appreciate it.
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'The Seventh Seal' directed by Ingmar Bergman.
I requested this on TCM and they finally played it tonight, and wow it was well worth it. This movie was absolutely fantastic, one of the best I've ever seen, with some very memorable scenes, as well as a good chunk of dark humour, a wonderful plot, and themes that quite intrigued me. For anyone who has not heard of this or who has not seen it, I highly suggest you check it out (especially the existentialists in the forum, I know there are a few of you). Anyways, just because I refuse to give anything a score of 10/10 (Besides that blonde in the third row *whistle*) I'll give it a 9.9/10.
Khamosh Pani (Silent Water) - 10/10
An excellent movie, about a woman (from now India) left behind in (now) Pakistan after partition. A sad tale, it depicts the anguish of such people, how they are torn between then and now, this woman was torn between what her son wanted her to do (considering himself and her a Muslim) and her brother who is a Sikh, and she eventually chooses the middle path and jumps into the well, from which she ran away initially at the time of partition (people used to do such things during those days, to save the honour of their women). It is such a sad tale.
Re-saw Spike Lee's "The Inside Man," extremely filmy film. He does a good documentary on the CD. I've worked and talked to Spike a couple of times, and he's a pleasant guy. He knows film. Duh - the head of NYU Film School.
Currently watching the end of Fellowship of the Ring with my sister for the bazillionth time and loving it :D
Tristan and Isolde: am such a sucker for romantic movies. but dont tell anyone! i loved it. found Tristan v.ry attractive, he looks completely different to the actor in the posters, did they change the actors or something last minute?
(poor u vntage! i mean watching movie with your sister! if shes anything like my baby sister than u have my respect cos mine never ever shuts up, we see a movie that wev seen before she'll start telling me what happens next-like I dont know! And if we see a movie that we havent seen shel ask me 'what happens next?' and I give that look which comes to understand as : 'shut up or il kill you' but she has a short term memory so one second later we are back to square one!)
Yesterday, I watched Rosemary's Baby. It was a really good movie, about the things only a mother can do for her baby. It was really symbolic. The writer did a very good job with how a mother can even accept the baby she had from devil, and actors and actresses acting made the movie even more interesting.
But there were bits in movies, which looked very unreal and which wouldn't make me want to believe them. That's why I will give it 8/10.
I watched Harold and Maude this weekend for the...I don't know, 50th time and it never gets old or boring. I love this movie, I love the humour, I love the relationship between Harold and Maude, somehow you are able to get over the 'ick' factor of the fact that Harold is about 20 and Maude is almost 80 to really enjoy them together and rejoice that they found each other. Harold's mother just kills me, everything she says is a riot, the soundtrack, all by Cat Stevens is perfect, it's simply one of the greatest movies ever made.
I give it a 9/10 simply because of the plot line with the military guy because I thought that was weird and out of place.
Oh well, my friend, who went with me, liked it too, but it just didn't do for me...But given that it was the late screening starting at midnight, I was maybe just too tired to enjoy anything :DQuote:
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No, I haven't seen the village yet, though I think that I might like to one day, but at daylight :p
I finished "The Phantom of the Opera" last night. It had excellent music and an interesting and mysterious plot. Unless you think about what's happening, there's a lot you won't figure out. Maybe a 7 out of 10
Lucky Number Sleven.
I loved it. It had one of my favorite actresses. Lucy Liu is awesome. Crazy plot. Made very little sense at first, but as movie progressed, it was so cool.
The film Elizabethtown was the last one I saw.
I actually liked it. The ending went a tad too far for my liking; I would have liked it better had the film ended a few seconds before a certain event. But the film was good; interesting and the actors played very well. I'd give it a 7/10.
I saw Volver by P.Almodovar this week.
I was impressed with Penelope Cruz's acting (which was actually realistic) and the film had an interesting plot, although a bit far fetched!
I'll give it 10/10 since it's one of the few actually good films that are out at the moment.
How did you like the beginning, where there were like 9 graphic deaths in the first 15 minutes . . . . . with a vague sense of importance imparted, but no explanation?Quote:
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The last one was "Illusionist". It was rather interesting to watch. Norton is doing a good job there. 7/10
Rivers and Tides, -- won some awards. If you are patient, there's a lot there. For art artists it's a must see; nature/environmental gurus a must see. Forces you to slow down, examine time and what's important. More of education than entertainment, although it's personable.
I just watched Russian Ark last night, and have to say it is one of the more interesting films I've seen lately. It's basically an hour-and-a-half-long tour through the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersberg - all done in one single, continuous shot! Pretty wild, I must say. The only primary characters are the camerman (the director) and a highly nationalistic French cicerone who walks around this giant museum with him as the rooms transform to present scenes from 300 years worth of Russian history. They talk about it, and it's interesting. That's all I will say. I give it a 9/10, only because I thought the director's remarks were obviously added to the thing, as his tone does not sound like one of exchange with the cicerone. Sounds like a documentary, I know, but it really is much more, and is just entirely different from anything. Watch it!
I'll give that a 7/10 too and which event are your referring to?Quote:
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I watched the Terminal yesterday with Tom Hanks, and quite surprisingly I liked it and even genuinely laughed. Id give it 6/10.
I just finished watching Doom...and Beowulf and Grendel...and the Pink Panther with Steve Martin (heh, today was a tad underproductive)
The Pink Panther: I was rather skeptical about it, considering no one can replace Peter Sellers, but after stubbornly watching the first few minutes of it, I started to get into the action, and enjoyed it...I'd say about a 6.5 - 7 out of 10.
Beowulf and Grendel: Well, it was a little dissapointing, the action of the movie was rather disjointed, and it sorta followed the story...so 5 - 10.
Doom: It was kinda fun, kinda predictable, not scary, really cheasy with the first person shooter sequence, and well, slightly odd at the end, and completley different from the original video game story line, but hey, it was cheap entertainment...with a bfg...which was sorely underused. so...6 - 10.
Went to cinema today and saw Click (Adam Sandler). Pretty funny movie with good message: all work and no play (esp. with the ones you love) leads you to nothing.
7 out of 10
Diva -- saw a couple times 15 or 20 yrs. ago and was impressed then, now re-saw. Has both special artistry and tough grit. Very French. Very wide in its impressions, very slickly filmed. A must see for the student of film.
Hard Candy – Little Red Riding Hood Gets Revenge on the Big Bad Wolf
In Hard Candy, Little Red Riding Hood Gets Revenge on the Big Bad Wolf. In this case, the big, bad wolf is a 32-year-old photographer, Jeff, who has arranged to meet a fourteen-year old girl whom he met online. The fourteen year old girl is Hayley Stark who is an honors student with a short, boyish haircut and a pretty face. As it turns out, Jeff is in over his head when he invites Hayley to his home.
Maybe there’s something wrong with me, but I couldn’t help but sympathize with Jeff as the story progressed. Even when the movie ended, it was never clear to me who the bad guy (or girl) really was.
Ellen Page’s performance was impressive and creepy, and as she walked away from Jeff’s house wearing her red hoodie, I wasn’t quite sure that justice had been served.
If the producers of Hard Candy intended to produce a creepy movie, then they certainly succeeded.
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Wicked. Awesome. Movie.
By the way, I read some of the online discussion about Hard Candy, and I have to say, there are some genuinely vicious people out there.