Wow vampires! Whatever next!( could it be vampires?) the words total bollocks spring to mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
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Wow vampires! Whatever next!( could it be vampires?) the words total bollocks spring to mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
I saw Bel Ami and was disappointed with it. Robert Pattinson was a poor choice for the lead role. He kept on playing a vampire throughout the movie. 2/10
Given the absolute rubbish that's foisted onto dumbed-down audiences these days, I'm not sure whether you are joking or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
Yeah, I'm getting tired of vampires myself. Maybe Abe Lincoln Alien Killer will come out next.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
That movie was a rent 2 for $1 deal at the library. The other movie was "Margot at the Wedding". Score 5/10.
In some ways these were both technically competent, but I didn't understand why the characters were acting the way they were. Even nutty characters have an inner consistency. For example, Jack Black was using a chain saw to cut down a rather large tree while arguing with the woman he was planning to marry the next day. She was standing only a few feet from him while the saw was cutting into the tree. It didn't make sense. Why would anyone approach someone doing something like that? Of course he would leave the tree partially cut down. That made sense, not that anyone in their right mind would do something like that, but these characters were not in their right mind.
Black Narcissus was an old move (1947), but the visual display was amazing. It is worth seeing just for that. Score: 8/10
What I don't get about film viewers nowadays is the total lack of a critical faculty when choosing what to watch. I mean, any film with vampires, aliens, zombies etc. etc., is by definition a lot of crap. Anyone who doesn't agree with the idea that there has been a dumbing down of the masses must be blind, given that what was once a niche part of film making has now become the norm.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
However, the scenario with the woman standing a few feet away from someone using a chainsaw isn't so far-fetched, as there was a case in England a few years ago where a woman interrupted her husband while he was standing on a ladder using one when he fell of the ladder and the chain saw actually decapitated her.
Black Narcissus is a much respected British film made by the then famed team of Powell and Pressburger and starred, among others, a very young Jean Simmons. I saw it some time ago and would also have given it 8/10
You're probably right about film viewers. The dumb part is not so much in the initial choice. That might be an innocent mistake. The dumb part is in watching the movie to the end which I actually did with Abe Lincoln and the vampires. I mean I was only out 50 cents and I didn't even have to walk out of a theater. I just had to turn it off.
My wife has more taste than I do. If a movie doesn't start making sense to her early on, she's off doing something else.
I just watched Bronson/Fonda Once upon a time in the west. I thought it was a verygood one of the oldies.
I love the book but didn’t like the movie and the actor who played Georges Duroy. I hope you are not including me in the category of ‘dumbed-down’ audience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
My Week With Marilyn
7/10
Do you watch vampire films?Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
Usually I don’t watch such movies, but I confess I’ve seen a couple of vampire films with my friends. They love these movies specially Twilight films.
La Signora di Tutti (1934; Max Ophuls)
9/10
Wonderful film. More raw than Ophuls later work, but more daringly experimental and nakedly emotional too.
'Interlude' with Oskar Werner and Babara Ferris (1968) This British film concerns the extra-marital affair between a famous conductor and a young female reporter who is sent to interview him. Adulterous affairs are legion among conductors so the basic premise is acceptable but, as the title suggests, they tend not to last and usually end in painful break-up.
The theme is rather hackneyed and the performances not particularly good, although it does capture some of the desolate undertone's that such affairs are prone to. Given their messy and inevitably doomed conclusion, one would think that they are best avoided but it only goes to show that men can seldom resist a pretty face.
5/10
Brave.
This was a nice mother-daughter story without a single vampire in the entire movie. I liked her red hair.
Score: 10/10
Leolo-- the best movie ever for me.