Cloud Atlas. 10/10. One of the best movies I've ever seen.
Cloud Atlas. 10/10. One of the best movies I've ever seen.
Paranormal IV; -4/10
A meh Halloween treat.
Carnage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnage_%282011_film%29
Score: 10/10
This is portrayal of how arguments get started and keep going. Four adults find themselves in a heated argument, ultimately each one against all the rest. Individually they sporadically try to reconcile their differences, perhaps when they are feeling temporarily good, but then they get pulled back into the argument when those good feelings disappear and they need to project the temporary bad feelings onto one of the others.
I guess the moral is that silence or courtesy is best when one is in a bad mood.
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I had high hopes for a Wachowski/Tykwer collaboration (especially if Tykwer was able to rein in the Wachowskis' excesses), but upon reading some write-ups, it seems more like an Art Film that one is expected to inspect more than watch, and either find layers of meaning or invent some so as not to appear lame. Did you enjoy it as a narrative or mostly as Art?Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Damsels in Distress: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667307/
Score: 7/10
It was a little weird and it ended as a musical, but it was entertaining.
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Narrative, definitely. I'm not a huge fan of most art films. Cloud Atlas is fast paced, never boring, and even throws in some cool action. It's deep and makes you think, bit an art film? I wouldn't categorize it as such at all.
Tut tut boys. What is wrong with an art film? I love them. Having said that, however, I do think "Cloud Atlas" is a fun, accessible movie. It's definitely a movie on a grand scale, but it works,without making you work overly hard to "get" it if all you want to do is sit back and enjoy.
I've read the book. It's better, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the movie tremendously! 8/10
"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
A Girl Walks Into a Bar: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1682246/
Score: 3/10
After watching this movie I am beginning to see a difference between creativity and just one odd thing happening after the other without much point.
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I really enjoyed watching Match Point directed by Woody Allen. The ending was just superb. 8/10
oh yes it is one of the best of his 2000 something movies!
I watched Apocalypse Now, saw it years ago but had forgotten a whole lot. Many great scenes and it's shot in a great way using lights and sound in way that make it even better. My favorite scene is when Sheen kills the lady that is wounded on the river boat.
It's a ten!
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
This one turned up in the library. It was an interesting story, but the dialog did not seem realistic. I did like how the courtroom scene reached a climax and then the movie swiftly ended going back to the attorney explaining what finally happened and then the final scene. It was enjoyable.
It occurred to me that I had a hard time distinguishing Ellen from Ruth. They looked too much alike. Of course, they had quite different personalities. I recall Ellen did look particularly wicked when Richard's brother was drowning.
Score: 7/10, but I actually have no basis on which to score these. 5+ is good. Below 5 just means I had no clue what was going on.
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Build My Gallows High stars Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas. Once Mitchum appears in trench coat and snap brim trilby, you know you're back in the world of films noire with their complicated plots including double and triple crosses and dangerous femmes fatales . In this one the femme is truly fatale with her killing of the hero at the end of an exercise in fatuity. It's always a pity when good actors are handed the wooden spoon by directors like Jacques (I Walked With a Zombie) Tourneur but he couldn't do much with this adaptation from a typical piece of pulp fiction of the period.
http://youtu.be/dn8EImlkRV8
"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.
Some critics have made it out to be far more of a pastiche than it is. I agree that it does get bogged down in parts, I admire its ambition more than its execution. Sin City is probably a better example of parallel narratives being executed in film, but the anthology structure is a bit easier to convey than the intertwining narratives in Cloud Atlas.
I liked the movie but it is flawed.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Me too, it really flew under the radar critically and box office. Woody Allen films get a polite applause nowadays - at best.
The Stranger (1946) is directed by Orson Welles and stars Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young.
The plot, which is one of the first post-war Nazi hunting stories, details the tracking down of a suspected ex-Nazi living in a small US community under the anonymity of a pseudonym and a position as professor at a local school for boys. Edward G Robinson plays the US government agent who traces his quarry ( Orson Welles ) and exposes the truth behind the respectable facade that Welles has built up among the townspeople.
I remember being impressed by the film when I first saw it on TV years ago but this time round it seemed rather flat and unconvincing, but it's not bad and gets 6/10.
"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.
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