Tristan and Isolde was the last film I viewed in the last month...
The film is perfect for me:thumbs_up
The background music is so affecting..the plot is amazing..many struggle inside the characters....Amazing!!
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Tristan and Isolde was the last film I viewed in the last month...
The film is perfect for me:thumbs_up
The background music is so affecting..the plot is amazing..many struggle inside the characters....Amazing!!
October Sky - 8/10.
The acting was pretty good. Plot was very interesting. The photography and some other elements were okay too and most of all it had my favourite hero in it! :D
Mamma Mia 9/10. Point deducted because of Pierce Brosnans voice.
Went with my Mam and two of my sisters. Very enjoyable. :nod:
"Network" -- 9/10
I remember watching "Bulworth" back when it first came out and thinking that it was an interesting commentary on society and American politics. Now that I've seen "Network", I realize that "Bulworth" was a timid, safe rip-off of Sidney Lumet's 1976 movie. This film predicted the rise of "reality television", shock jocks, and the dangerous mixing of entertainment and news on tv. The only drawback I saw was the depiction of women: they were either power-hungry, corrupt, and amoral, or passive and traditional.
"Street Fight" -- 9/10
An amazing documentary following 32 year-old Cory Booker in his underdog campaign against longtime incumbent Sharpe James to become mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Booker represented all that is good about American democracy, and his opponent was one of the most corrupt and scary politicians I've seen in any U.S. political documentaries. The mayor had businesses closed down if they put a Cory Booker sign in their windows. Police officers were filmed destroying Booker signs. The Booker campaign office was broken into and important documents were stolen. James called Booker (both are African-American Democrats), among other things, a "f**got", a "Republican", a "carpet-bagger", and "a Black Jew". James had the endorsement of many in the local and national Party establishment, and he was joined by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on the campaign trail. Even when Bill Clinton declined endorsing him, James sent out flyers implying that Clinton did endorse him. Even though both candidates had raised about $2 million, James told the media that Booker had raised $10 million and was trying to "buy" the election. Anyway, I highly recommend this documentary, especially when the current presidential campaign is going further into the gutter.
I saw 'The Dark Knight' recently.
I can't seem to make up my mind about it. I really need to see it again. However, what I can say now, is that the plot seemed to be a bit far-reaching.
During the entire movie, events were almost always propelled by the actions of the Joker. At the end, when the Joker is caught, one would naturally assume that the movie ends there.
But then, it actually ends with the demise of Dent, who is supposed to be the 'good man of justice' for all of Gotham. It's as if Nolan had to stretch to make the point of Batman being the 'Dark Knight'.
of course events were almost always propelled by the actions of the Joker, the bad guy creates the problem and then batman goes off to fight him...if the joker didn't do anything then the movie wouldn't be focused around him and if the Joker wasn't there, then the movie would be propelled by another bad guy. Batman needs a bad guy to exist. He fights the bad guys. duh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tournesol
And the movie doesn't end with the demise of the Joker, nor should that be expected, as previously showed before the ending of the movie, we can see that through the loss of his "love" he is hospitalized and wants to hurt all of those that were an indirect cause of the death and you should have known that harvey would change, he's two-faced harvey, common batman knowledge. And um, he'd stretch the point of Batman being the dark knight because...oh...maybe...thats the movie title! :p
Anyways: Most recent movie 21, with Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, and Kate Bosworth. I give it a 9/10....it was good, very good, but it wasn't exceptional. Jim Sturgess is my future husband, he just doesn't know it yet. :p
I really liked this movie. I watched it for the first time only a few months ago. I think it is interesting to know that it is a true story, too. Yes, the fact that Jake is in the film helps to make it all that more interesting. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
I think I am the only one that didn't mind Pierce Brosnan's voice. :p Maybe because I went into the theater really expecting to not hear anything too spectacular (I was judging by his speaking voice). Besides, I knew he wasn't going to sing too many songs. So I didn't care. I could've done without Dominic Cooper in that role, though. But we all (well, anyone who has been to the Austen forum ;) ) know how I feel about him. :sick: I really liked this movie, though. It turned out to be much better than I thought it would. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
The Pineapple Express 9/10
Hilarious, James Franco is just too funny.
Sahara 9/10. lot's of action.
Pensive, glad you liked it.Quote:
October Sky - 8/10.
The acting was pretty good. Plot was very interesting. The photography and some other elements were okay too and most of all it had my favourite hero in it!
LadyWentworth, I recommended it to Pensive a few months back. I really loved this movie - I saw it about 2 yrs ago but I should watch it again since my library owns it. I loved watching the special features all about the guy who the story was based on. That made it more interesting and meaningful, knowing it was based on truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
I am anxious now to see this film. I probably would be like you and not expect too much from Brosnan's voice. I think once in an film shot in Ireland he sang in a pub and he was ok, not bad, no spectacular either, but he fit the role and the song was fine for him. This movie looks like a great deal of fun by the trailers that I have seen on TV.Quote:
I think I am the only one that didn't mind Pierce Brosnan's voice. :p Maybe because I went into the theater really expecting to not hear anything too spectacular (I was judging by his speaking voice). Besides, I knew he wasn't going to sing too many songs. So I didn't care. I could've done without Dominic Cooper in that role, though. But we all (well, anyone who has been to the Austen forum ;) ) know how I feel about him. :sick: I really liked this movie, though. It turned out to be much better than I thought it would. :)
:thumbs_up You said it!Quote:
Originally Posted by OswaldTheOsprey
So, I take it that you haven't seen the stage show, right? Well, it is basically EXACTLY the same. I really liked it on stage. So I had to go see the film, of course. :) Seriously? The two best parts of the film for me were Colin Firth (he is just great :p) and getting to hear the fantastic song "Dancing Queen" while watching it performed on the big screen. :) It is just a simple, fun film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Gone Baby Gone - 8/10
I thought it was OK. Casey Affleck was very good. I liked Ben's direction, but it wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be.
The Dark Knight - ?/10
This is my second time seeing it and I still don't know what to rate it.
Step Brothers - 9/10
Oh, is this movie crude! :D
Swing Vote - 8.75/10
Unlike most people, I guess, I liked this movie. It was, for me, just a nice little film. I didn't expect anymore from it than what it gave me, which was just a story. Nothing more, nothing less.
Brideshead Revisited - 7/10
This was OK. At the same time, it didn't do much for me. Somewhat of a disappointment, actually. There is only one man that could EVER be Charles Ryder amd that is Jeremy Irons. The man who stars in this is NOT Jeremy Irons!! Not even close. I tried to not compare, but I couldn't control it.
Pineapple Express - 10/10
:D :D :D The best movie I have seen all year so far. It is so stupid. :p It is just great. :D :D I especially liked the last scene. If you've seen it, you know the scene. :D
Orson Welles' "The Stranger" for the third time this summer--amazing film! Track down this very intense gem.
I have it and love it. That is the one with the clock, right? Let me know - if so that it the one I came across by accident in a dollar bin. Great film!Quote:
Originally Posted by byquist
I recently watched a collection of three works by the astonishingly great but somehow completely unknown (even among the most ardent of film buffs) auteur Evgeni Bauer, who was sort of Russia's equivalent to D.W. Griffith. The three films presented on the DVD (entitled "Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer") were "Twilight of a Woman's Soul," "After Death" and "The Dying Swan," and they are three of the most literate, fascinating and symbolically rich works that I have ever seen, unrelentingly dark and hauntingly beautiful portraits of obsession, death, insanity and doomed love, accentuated by absolutely fantastic orchestral scores, which are moving, sad and eerily dissonant. Bauer possessed a mind-boggling mastery of the medium, and he was so far ahead of his time (on a thematic level as well as a technical one) it is hard to believe so few people have ever heard of him (I wonder if Hitchcock was a fan, because "After Death" seems a lot like a percursor to "Vertigo"). "Twilight of a Woman's Soul" is great, though the storyline is a little ordinary, but the other two are among the finest films ever committed to celluloid; they are worth the price of admission for the stunning dream sequences alone.
Begotten (E.Elias Merhige, 1991): ...But there is absolutely no question as to why few people have heard of this film. I'm not completely sure what to make of it; admittedly I've never been much of a fan of avant-garde cinema. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy symbolism and experimentation, but generally when they are confined within the boundaries of conventional plot structure (although strangely enough my attitude is the opposite when it comes to documentaries, two of my favorites being "Lessons of Darkness" and "Man with the Movie Camera") rather than floating in free-form abstraction. Still, I think that cinema should be a challenging, visceral experience, and in this regard "Begotten" is certainly a success. Though I had no problem whatsoever watching it, I realize that not everybody is as desensitized as I am, and so I should go ahead and point out that this is not a film for the squeamish, as it contains graphic violence and nudity (including a rape scene), grotesque deformities and numerous scenes of some kind of pain and suffering. Even the visual style here might be stomach-churning to somebody who isn't used to this kind of thing; the film is presented in pure black and white without any half-tones (which is evidently a very arduous and painstaking thing to accomplish), and as a result the style of the film is nightmarish, and many of the images are ambiguous and difficult to make out, though they typically give the impression that something sick and depraved is happening, which almost makes it ("fear of the unknown") even scarier.
First and foremost, this appears to be an allegory steeped heavily in paganistic religious symbolism (the three main characters are "God killing himself," "Mother Earth" and "Son of Earth") but it is so esoteric that I simply have no idea what the filmmaker is trying to say. Is this a criticism of religion? Or a denouncement of the cruelties of humanity? Or perhaps even an examination of the dangers of childbirth? But it probably doesn't matter, as the key here is really emotional impact, not intellectualism. "Begotten" is comprised of a series of graphic, taboo-defying sequences that, due to the inherent nightmarish qualities and surreal aesthetics, feel like a purely natural thematic progression, rather than an attempt to simply "shock and disturb." It's sort of difficult to describe, a statement to which I am sure the people who have seen this (all 40 of them) would attest. Many of these scenes are quite effective (specifically the opening disembowlment), but the problem is that throughout most of the film's almost unbearable 80-minute run-time, absolutely nothing happens, and boredom and lack of interest begin to set in very quickly. If Merhige had crafted a short film which featured a random collage of only those and similar scenes (I think randomness and lack of linearity would even add to it as a recreation of a nightmare), then this could be a truly haunting experience, that kind that permanently sticks to a person's psyche. Instead, it plods on and on, only occasionally showing the audience anything of interest. All aspiring avant-garde filmmakers should take note of that: brevity is the key.
Yay, somebody who recognizes the random hilariousness of the Pineapple Express. I don't even smoke pot and yet laughed from start to finish, one of my favorites of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
Empire of the Sun
I saw it to see why Christian Bale won an award created solely for his performance and was left underwhelmed. The conditions of the POW camps shown in the movie were absolutely amazing compared to what they were actually like and the movie felt like it could have ended about six different times. I did like John Malkovich in the movie though.
6.5/10
Nims Island
I'll give it a 5/10. It was good, and Gerard Butler was a hottie, but the movie just wasn't my cup of tea.
Mama Mia~~~~ 4 of 10.... it was too cheesy for my tastes....
Though Colin Firth was great:)
I don't see how a person couldn't/wouldn't like it. It is great! Thus far it is #1 on my list for 2008. It is hilarious! I would seriously like to see this nominated for Best Comedy at the Golden Globes! It deserves it, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by TEND
Tropic Thunder - 8.75/10
When it is good, it is very good. When it isn't, it isn't bad, but it is only OK in my opinion. There are some really good lines in there. There are some very good moments. I particulary like the beginning of the film with the "trailers". My favorite being Robert Downey's. That was pretty funny. It was a good movie, I guess, but I was a little disappointed.
The Wings of the Dove
mm, well..... 7 out of 10...
I liked the music, the customs, the heroes:p But it's so tragic at the end:bawling: but a pretty tragic end, though I couldn't comprehend it.. I think if it is with another end, I'll rate it 10/10
I just got around to watching The Dark Knight and I am glad I got to experience it in a theater. It was excellent.
11/10
Why So Serious?
City of God: 9/10
Heer-Ranjha: 7/10
Little Miss Sunshine - 8/10
The Waterboy 8/10
It was hilarious. I ♥ Adam Sandler.
Anna`s Storm
5/10
Henry Poole Is Here
9.75/10
One of the better movies that I have seen this summer.
I agree. There were some great lines ("You went full retard. You never go full retard!") and Robert Downey Jr. was great. Overall, I was a little let down. I still enjoyed it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales were good and Arabian Nights is definitely among Pasolini's best with Theorem, Salo and Accattone. Each of the films look at sex from a different angle and as always Pasolini is very respectful of the original works that inspired him. After this Salo seems like an even more intelligent film than before, I must watch it again. There are stil a few of his films, mostly the documentaries and Medea, that I haven't seen but anybody interested in literature should watch Pasolini's work.
Actually, that is a line that I have been quoting quite often since I saw it. :) I heard someone say that it is the funniest movie of the year, but I have seen better. Of course it is all just a matter of opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by djy78usa
Elizabeth: The Golden Age - 8/10
It was good. Just not as good as the first.
About Schmidt - 9/10
I liked it. :)
My movie is anonymous,many apologies.
Last movie in theater- Dark Knight. 8.5 /10. Thought it deserved a 9.5 at first but after a couple of weeks from seeing it, realized that I would still rather watch Spiderman 1 and 2 again than the Dark Knight. Not that that makes it bad, it's still a fantastic movie but I am still a bigger fan of the spidey superhero movies.
On Tv- no reservations. 6/10. nice little flick.
Wanted 3/10. I wanted to see a great action movie and what I got was a dud - well that is the luck of the draw.
Motorpsycho 8/10
Not quite as good as Russ Meyer's masterpiece, "Faster, Pusscat! Kill! Kill!" but still highly influential and fun.
The Thin Red Line 10/10
Watched Juno couple of nights ago and loved it.
Oh the one thing I liked the best about Juno were its soundtracks! They were all just amazing, especially liked Piaza New York Catcher! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
*starts singing*
Elope with me Miss Private
We will set something ablaze
Trail for the devil to erase
I watched Iron Man a few nights ago. It wasn't bad. As far as summer action movies go, it wasn't as good as Dark Knight, but was better than Hancock.
Somewhere along the way, Robert Downey Jr. has become one of my favorite actors currently working.
ET - 9.5/10. Still a darn good movie!!!
For me it is "Sticking With You" (Velvet Underground!), "A Well Respected Man" and "All I Want is You".Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
Tonight I watched "Bride and Prejudice" again after two years. Liked it though I wish the English/American cast was better.