I love Paul. Especially the girl who swears a lot.Originally Posted by Helga
I love Paul. Especially the girl who swears a lot.
Simon Pegg eh? They get obscurer and obscurer.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
I watched Disney’s Beauty and the Beast with nieces last night. Though I’ve seen it hundreds of times before but never got bored. I think it’s the best animation by Disney ever.
I love this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_lp1vEs5A4
I watched Villain (don't ask) a typical piece of British 1970s rubbish about a sadistic (ho hum) vicious ( surprise surprise) homosexual ( yawn) gangster played by Richard Burton. Yes, that Richard Burton who went from being a potentially great actor to a Hollywood icon of such overblown nonsense as Cleopatra, The Robe, Alexander the Great etc. while partially redeeming himself in some fairly good roles along the way. Anyhow, Villain is one of a number of British films of the period, specifically designed to appeal to that section of the cinema going public that identifies with lowlife and thinks that its highly coloured depiction by miscast actors gives credence to the imaginative depiction of their own even more pointless existence.
2/10
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
The piles are giving you gyp again, I see.
Thankfully I don't suffer from them but it's a cinch that you do judging from your picture.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Got a Tremors project going. I'll be watching all four movies and the TV series. So far:
Tremors: A few clumsy bits where they had to hit buttons and a few bits where the low budget detracts, but this is still a tremendous modern B monster movie. 8.5/10.
Tremors 2: This, on the other hand, is just a B movie, and not a good one. Actors who look like they're acting (even Fred Ward and Michael Gross, who were both perfect in the original), the new characters are all generic, nobody has chemistry, and the script is purely by numbers. 5/10
Except now I can't find the DVDs with 3 & 4 and the show. So tonight was Battle Royale, which is still tremendous. 9/10
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I saw Prometheus this weekend. It was watchable, it just didn't leave me astounded or thinking, which was what I was hoping for. 5/10
Meek's Cutoff 8/10 What a beautiful movie. I have to admit that I watched this at home and my attention wandered. I'm not sure I could have happily watched this in the theater. I never would have thought that such an arrid and empty landscape could be so beautiful, and Michelle Williams is awesome, as usual. This movie is based on true events. The real wagon train had a thousand or so people, I gather, whereas in the movie the cast of characters is pared down to nine, the better to create psycological tension, I suppose.
Some of the usual western tropes are present-the lack of water, the presence of Indians, accidents and illness-but there is a complete lack of even the delicate beginnings of an infrastructure for civilization. Just these intrepid settlers, literally putting one foot in front of the other, and the hope that drives them.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
I enjoyed 4 in a weird way. It was very nonsensical with lots of bad acting but its perfect when you're drunk.
Meeks Cutoff is a great movie. Also, Kelly Reichart' other great film is "Old Joy" with Will Oldham. Very quiet film similiar in feel to Meeks Cutoff - I would watch out for her, one of the best on the indy side.
I like the way the Chicago Reader critic opened his review of Prometheus: "The plot of this Alien prequel was a carefully guarded secret—so carefully guarded, in fact, that not even the movie reveals it."
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Same here. The usual special effects, alien landscape, inscrutable alien purposes and violence, with some predictable characters - including the cowardly Brit. (The geologist). I had hoped for a good film: the critics on the review show had panned it, but I had to agree with them. 6/10 I think all the Alien films were better.
From my picture? How do you come to that conclusion, Holmes?
I saw Benny & Joon (1993) last night: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106387/
It was story of Benny, who was acting too responsibly, dropping his fear and and his sister Joon beginning to assume more responsibility for her life. Very well done.
I give it a 10 although IMDb gave it a 7.
My blog: https://frankhubeny.blog/
I once saw a film in which one of the characters was supposed to be a sufferer, and sitting with a lugubrious expression as though his mind were elsewhere was exactly how he was portrayed by the actor playing the part.
I watched Count Five and Die, a film about espionage. Set in London during 1945, it concerns a group of agents under the command of the excellent Nigel Patrick who plays a British Army major in control of a plan to fool the Germans into believing that an allied invasion will take place through Holland. Overlooking the fact that such a plan would have involved many more than is shown in the film, the authentic scenes of a bomb scarred London in the 1950s when the film was actually made, add realism to a story that starts out well enough but degenerates into melodrama as the film reaches its conclusion.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
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