Let's see. Recently I've seen
The White Ribbon. The cinematography was truly spectacular.
The Great Gatsby. Not as bad as it could have been, but still pretty boring.
Now I want to see Blue Is The Warmest Color, when it comes out.
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Let's see. Recently I've seen
The White Ribbon. The cinematography was truly spectacular.
The Great Gatsby. Not as bad as it could have been, but still pretty boring.
Now I want to see Blue Is The Warmest Color, when it comes out.
I saw The Great Gatsby. It was pretty good. Somehow I got through high school without having to read the book. Now I just might read it. I'm interested in Gatsby's lover. Score: 8/10
There were a couple of weird comedies that were in the library that I also sat through:
John Dies at the End: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1783732/ This is about as close as I want to get to alternate universes, but I was able to sit through it with amused interest. Score 7/10
Team America: World Police: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/?ref_=sr_1 This one I almost stopped watching. It was rude, crude and two of the actors, who were just puppets, even got nude for a puppet sex scene. Overall, it is more appropriate for a teenage audience, but my daughters didn't want to waste their time on it, so, maybe a male teenage audience. Team America, of course, does more damage than the terrorists they are trying to fight except at the end when they do save the world with one second to spare. The bad guys were Kim Jong Il and the members of the Film Actor's Guild. Many of the scenes, however, were predicable. Score: 4/10
Flicking through YouTube's manifold collection of films, I alighted on Where the Sidewalk Ends. With a cast including Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Karl Malden, Gary Merill and directed by Otto Preminger, it seemed to be a cinch for a smackeroo ( sorry about that, watching American films noir does that sort of thing) but unfortunately it suffered from the lack of plausibility inherent in a majority of, if not all, crime dramas. The script by the legendary Ben Hecht was risible, which is par for the course in this type of film, but the acting, given the constraints of the genre, was good and, despite the aforementioned drawbacks, provided an entertaining 95 mins.
What do you think of Jeremy Renner, Qimi?Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Recently I have seen "Ironman". It was quite good and very funny as usual:) 7/10
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937). 7/10
A major success in its day, this film now seems overly sentimental and contrived. The story centres on an elderly couple losing their home due to mortgage foreclosure and their enforced separation as each goes to stay in a different location with younger family members. The problems of trying to fit the old people in with their offspring leads to tensions and much unhappiness for all concerned. The direction was competent and the acting, especially from the old couple, was good but the script was mawkish and doesn't pass muster today.
Make Way For Tomorrow does seem to deal with a contemporary issue although I haven't seen it.
I recently saw The Sorcerer and the White Snake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sor...he_White_Snake Score 9/10
This is a variation of an ancient Chinese legend. When my wife examined the description of the movie on the cover she immediately recognized it as the "White Snake story". I never heard of it before. It is probably like not hearing about Beauty and the Beast. The story is about good and evil and romantic love.
If I Were You: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587309/
Score: 10/10
A woman by accident finds her husband with his lover at a restaurant. She follows the lover to her apartment and establishs a relationship which leads her to a whole new world. Very unusual, funny and something I wouldn't mind seeing again.
I've watched People Like Us recently and really liked it. Chris Pine performed quite well in the film. I’ll look forward to see his more films. 8/10
Watched 'Warm Bodies' I like zombies and Shakespeare. A bit of both one more than the other. I enjoyed it, I love John Malcovitch.
I saw another movie of Chris Pine last night, This Means War. It was not as good as People Like Us, but I enjoyed it anyway. 7/10
I have just watched The Clue of the Silver Key, one of a series of B pictures based on crime stories by Edgar Wallace and which were a major feature of early 1960s British cinema, The actors were all stock performers whose names will mean nothing to US film goers but are instantly recognisable to aficionados of British B movies. Many of these films have achieved a perverse cult status because of their low production values. This film is a prime example because, and I am not joking, the butler did it.
You know, that probably counts as a spoiler, because nobody would actually expect that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Ah, but it's not difficult to spot the culprit because, while all the other suspects are tense and edgy, the butler is remarkably relaxed and jovial until unmasked. The interest, insofar as there is any, lies in how he was able to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
I watched a Michael winterbottom film called 'The Trip'. It advertised that I would be laughing all of the way through.
I thought a few moments of it were amusing, but it did show lovely footage of the British countryside, and some lovely food. I have since realised that a lot of it was improvised, which changed my impressions of it entirely.
7/10 for me now, before maybe a 6.