I really liked this one- it's now officially my favorite vampire movie.
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I really liked this one- it's now officially my favorite vampire movie.
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Originally Posted by vheissu
The Kite Runner
Amazing! I was so emotionally moved.
5 stars!
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Originally Posted by librarius_qui
Sand Pebbles
:thumbs_up :thumbs_up :thumbs_up :thumbs_up &1/2:thumbs_up
I'd give 10,
but my father was at the side, and told the movie's sin,
so it should be 9.99,
but I'll give it 10/10.~
lq
Tim, t.f.
I watched Drillbit Taylor.
I want my 110 minutes back.
:crash:
Citizen Kane
What's there to say? I liked it, but I do not really understand why it should be the best American movie ever... I think I should look into the background a bit more (I watched RKO 281 yesterday), after all it is from 1941!
7/10
I saw How Green Was My Valley, the 1930's John Ford film based on the novel of the same name. It was okay. I really enjoyed the novel, when I read it a few years back.
7.5/10
Oh heavens, I love this movie so much when I was a kid, I ended up reading the book; it's a great book, too. It's been years, but I would love to see the movie again. I studied the film director in College. Only a 7.5 for a Ford film? I don't recall it well enough now, but I think it is a classic. I hope to see it again sometime soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Comedian
Yep, just looked it up on Amazon and found this information:
This is the movie you saw, right?
How Green Was My Valley (1941) ~ Walter Pigeon and Mauren O'Hara, directed by John Ford. Based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn
This film beat out Citizen Kane in 1941 for the Academy Award. The picture also won Oscars for Best Director (Ford), Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp), Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematography
On Amazon, it's rated a 4 1/2 star
Glad you mentioned it, I think I am going to buy it; I recall loving this film.
for whatever reason i was drinking with some friends and someone put on pulp fiction and i loved it as much as every time i've ever seen it. Not really the right party movie cause i got SO into it, I didn't want to talk to anyone.
10/10! SO GOOD!
star trek the new movie... as a big st fan I don't know what to say about it, it was probably a good movie but it was very difficult to accept everything they were doing. Checov was perfect, Spock was pretty good too but Kirk, man that is a bad actor who played him. I think I need to see it a few times so I can deal with the changes they made. for the most part it was a good story, but I need to get used to it, it is very strange how this affects me...
Yep. That's it. You'll have to take my ratings with a grain of salt, Janie. I don't like movies that much, in general. Old movies even less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
But isn't it really sad? Doesn't their family end up in a far worse place than they began? Life is hard enough-I just can't watch people working so hard and ending up with so little. But I could watch "Schindler's List" again. Don't ask me why. I think that it's so tragic that it verges on the unreal for me; that and the fact that it gives you a shred of hope in humanity with its' depiction of Schindler. I mention this movie only because I think it's on HBO right now-and I haven't seen it since the first time I saw it in the theater.Quote:
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Mammoth! Though the theme of the story is not something new, but the movie finely and succesfully depict the 3 different yet similiar emotional struggles of the characters coming from different social and cultural backgrounds.
:thumbs_up:thumbs_up.
Saw the "illuminati" film two nights ago (thought i might as well throw some money out of the window :D)
Saw Star Trek. It was the best. I have a new thing to obsess about now. First it was LOTR, then Star Wars and now Star Trek. I never watched the series (old or new). I went to see a couple of movies when I was younger with my Dad (Search for Spock) but I didn't really pay attention or get was so great about it. But now I'm considering going back and watching some of the old movies and shows. It was a fantastic movie. :thumbs_up :thumbs_up
gimissung, it was a really sad movie, but very moving. I think you missed the point, if you didn't see that there was something uplifting at the end that transcended that deep sadness. First off, I love the fact, they chose to use B/W for this film; the coal scenes were much more effective and full of pathos and a hard life. Second, I thought immediately of D.H.Lawrence (who I study extensively and love) and the major element of the story - the coal mines and how it impacted society and families and how it marred the countryside forever. It was their way of life and yet it ruined their beautiful valley in the end. I found this story very poignant and well constructed. I may write more on it later this evening. I have to get my thoughts together on it. It won a ton of awards that year and rightfully so, I believe. I never judge a movie, as to whether I can watch it again. To me this movie was long and yet it was stunning. The cinematography was unparelleled. I think one has to take it back and place it in it's time frame. This film was produced, just prior to the escalation of WWII; bombing of Pearl Harbor, etc. I watched the extra featurette and got a lot of the background from that. Did you realise that Maureen O'Hara was only 19 in this production? She was gorgeous and the way Ford photographed the two women was stunning. I love John Ford films; his sense was totally artistic. He said this was his all time favorite film. I find that interesting. It certainly was 'progressive' to my thinking, for the time. This film could apply to the hardships and loss of jobs of today.Quote:
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Personally, I thought it was an amazing film and it felt, for the most part realistic. I can't get over how they constructed that Welsh village in the California hills; originally it was planned it would be shot on location in Wales. It looked totally authentic and I found the setting to be a 'character' of it's own - almost an ominious presence that sat looking over the houses; the layout was incredible.
The direction was impecable; the acting excellent. I could not get over how amazing Roddy McDowel was as a child actor; I believe this was his first role. Some parts were overly sentimental or overly dramatized or a little corny, but basically, I overlooked this fact, because I thought, 'this film is from that era of old classics. You really can't compare it to Schindler's list, which I could now watch again, too. For a long time I couldn't. It was just too horrid. I don't think this story had near the blantant horror that Schindler's list had displayed in it. I still recall the small child hiding in a toilet. That really got to me. And the way, the one Nazi, played by Ralph Fiennes, just picked off humans like they were pigeons. I couldn't take that. Also, Schindler's List is a modern made film and this film is not. This film belongs to the classics of yesterday and rates up there with "Grapes of Wrath", also directed by John Ford, I believe.
I have to say I would give this film at least a 9/10, if not higher. My only complaint was it did end sort of abruptly, but perhaps that was more effective; who am I to say? I guess I would have liked to know what then became of the one couple in the story; I think that was left for interpretation but I believe I came up with my own answer and that satisfied me.