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Oh no, really? I liked it but I was all about Seth Rogen for a while so that might have something to do with it. I guess I like raunchy humor maybe. One of my favorite characters was Jodi - my college roomnmate was like that freshman year. She sounded exactly like her...when she said "Are you hungry?"Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Sweeney Todd. I liked it, the songs were great and the music all together was really good... there was something missing from the plot I think, it needed something epic or, I don't know. Helena Bonham Carter was great and Johnny depp too like usual, and the young boy was so good... dark and disgusting, very Burtonian.... 7/10
Casino by Martin Scorsese
Superbly acted film with excellent shots. Robert de Niro performed well, as did Joe Pesci but Sharon Stone takes the cake. This almost 4-hour crime-drama is worth sitting through as it takes you to the interesting, violent, yet sometimes overwhelming world of a Las Vegas casino run by a mafia.
The soundtrack of the film, with tracks from Rolling Stones, Devo, the Animals..etc is also ace. :thumbs_up
8/10
Iron Man...now maybe a dozen times viewed
9/10 (hoping that the next one could be better)
Downy presents great wit as usual. The movie inspires my creative and inventive side. Plus it has good music...
The Secret of Kells.
Last night I watched this rather surprise nomination for Best Animated Feature at this year's Oscars. It's a real shame it didn't win, because it is very obviously a work of great love and care.
It's an odd fairy tale set in the 9th Century, and it focuses on the creation of the famous Book of Kells, one of the great masterpieces of Insular art. Brendan, the main character, is a young monk at Kells, and the nephew of the Abbot. His uncle has become obsessed with fortifying the monastry against the ravages of the Viking northmen, and has everybody building walls around the place, while the master illuminator Aidan of Iona tries to promote the continued importance of the monastry's intellectual work. Brendan is caught between loyalty to his uncle, and an immense sense of wonder over the unfinished Book of Iona.
I won't spoil the story - it is simple but captivating. The art style is incredible, carrying the viewer in a dream-like fantasy from start to finish, and focuses with joy and affection on the beauty of the Insular art style.
This is an excellent film - I cannot recommend it enough!
The Men Who Stare at Goats... 7/10
It was better than Avatar.
Up. Visually spectacular. It is no "Not Another Teen Movie," however.
I have the DVD of this film for months now but haven't had the chance to watch it yet. Your rating (7/10) is enticing though.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
7/10
I think I fell in love more with George Peppard and his character- the sensitive and bookish writer Paul Varjack than I was with Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn). But that may stem from the fact that I could identify with Holly's philosophy with not wanting to "belong to anyone" & “I’m like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don’t even belong to each other.” Paul refutes this argument, making me feel more pathetic than I already was by saying:
You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You’re chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say, “Okay, life’s a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.” You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
Further reading of the wiki of this film told me of the controversy surrounding the character of Holly's Japanese neighbor Mr Yunioshi (Mickey Rooney), who portrays a stereotypical, loud, buck-toothed Asian. The Asian community back in the days were apparently offended and the director Blake Edwards was quoted saying "Looking back, I wish I had never done it...and I would give anything to be able to recast it, but it's there, and onward and upward." I was honestly surprised, reading about it. Mr. Yunioshi's antics in the film to me, were a bit theatrical but non-offensive.
Overall, I thought the film was slightly overrated. Just, slightly. Audrey Hepburn was charming as always, and the art direction was great and so was the Cat, I loved the Cat; that no-name slob. But something tells me the book by Truman Capote will be much better.
It Happened One Night - Oh what a joy it is to watch a film like this. One may argue that it is a fantasy and that it invented all of the cliches that we know in romantic-comedies today, I don't care. This film is so perfect, so perfectly written, so perfectly acted, so perfectly funny, that it becomes a fantastic hymn to love and life.
Sometimes I feel humilated as a critic, because sometimes some movies are so great that they're indescribable. This is Capra's best film, and undoubtably one of the greatest romantic-comedies ever made (in my opinion, the best) with one of the greatest scripts. Please see this with a loved one! 10/10
Defiance - 10/10
I do not give out perfect ratings often. I won't go on about it, but I strongly reccomend it.
One of my favorites.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
Zombieland - How can a Zombie movie go wrong?? 8/10.
The Reader. I have ambiguous feelings about it. It was quite interesting as a storyline and I liked the psychological impact, but it was much more slow than it should have been and many of its conclusions were a bit rash or unjustified. Good movie, however. I would give it a 7/10.
Misery. 9.2/10. One of the few movies I've watched where I've been cringing and horrified nearly the entire time.
last night we finished a three weekend 'marathon' of sort watching all Star wars movies. I really do love'em. and I'm trying to teach my boy all about these movies, my favourite is Return of the jedi but they are of course all very entertaining....
when my son is a little bit older it will be a Star trek marathon
but all SW get 8-9 out of 10
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 10/10
I think I may have taken the "Princess for a weekend" theme too seriously. :lol:
I watched this tonight with my sisters and we were all charmed and nostalgic by the end of the film. So much memories. You can never go wrong with a Disney classic.