American Hustle
It was hard to follow just what what going on, but the characters were enjoyable.
Score: 9/10
Raising Arizona
Wonderful movie.
Score: 10/10
American Hustle
It was hard to follow just what what going on, but the characters were enjoyable.
Score: 9/10
Raising Arizona
Wonderful movie.
Score: 10/10
Last edited by YesNo; 05-19-2014 at 11:10 PM.
Classic. Since you liked this, you might also like Kung Fu Hustle, which has a similar live-action Warner Brothers cartoon feel to it.Originally Posted by YesNo
The first two Christopher Reeve Superman movies are still tremendous fun. I liked some things about Man of Steel, but I think overall it paled in comparison.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Kung Fu Hustle is in the library! I'll check it out tomorrow.
Kung Fu Hustle: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373074/
Entertaining and original. Sometimes I couldn't tell the good guys from the bad guys. The subtitle on the edition I watched read "From walking disaster to kung fu master" which was cute. There was an unromantic romantic theme that resolved itself in the end.
Score: 9/10
Glad you liked it! Then I feel safe in recommending Stephen Chow's previous movie, Shaolin Soccer.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
OMG. The library has Shaolin Soccer as well.
I tried watching Zatoichi at Large and fell asleep. Zatoichi is a blind samurai. It is so far so over the top of my expectations of what either anime or any video should look like that my score is still ?/10.
Godzilla (2014) - some nice directing touches, but probably one of the worst scripts of any blockbuster I've ever seen - and that's saying something.
I've never seen any of the Zatoichi movies, though I know they're hugely popular in Japan. I think my father has seen some of them and recommended them.
Fun fact: Shintaro Katsu, who played Zatoichi in the original Zatoichi films, was the younger brother of Tomisaburo Wakayama, who played protagonist Itto Ogami in the concurrently-running Lone Wolf and Cub movies.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Dambusters. I'd forgotten what a great movie it is. It just tells the story, no annoying token characters, no contrived comedy moments, no added on love interest. And the sound track, no annoying music overlaying the action, just those heavy merlin engines droning ominously. an absolute classic.
Last edited by prendrelemick; 05-31-2014 at 12:19 PM.
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Yes it's a marvellous war film that gets to the heart of what aerial warfare is about but if you think it's a classic, watch The Way to the Stars ( the RAF's motto 'Per ardua ad astra') for the human story behind bomber command's pilots and crews. Made while the war was still being fought, it has a stupendous cast of actors and a first rate director in Anthony Asquith, son of the former Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith.
Last edited by Emil Miller; 05-31-2014 at 01:09 PM.
"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 saw three very different comedies:
Shaolin Soccer, that Calidore recommended. This had a lot of wild soccer action, but the most entertaining part was the relationship between the girl who made buns and the poor kung fu soccer leader.
Score: 8/10
Neighbors: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2004420/
This was about a family with an infant child who found out a hard partying fraternity had just moved in next door. They crossed the line so many times in trying to get the fraternity to keep the noise down, that, if there are any bad guys in this movie, it was that couple. This is not to say the fraternity members were saints. The only reason they moved in was because they burnt their last house down.
Score: 7/10
A Million Ways to Die in the West: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2557490/?ref_=nv_sr_1
This one was truly wonderful. However, being in the theater with only 20 other people on Friday evening made me think this was going to be as bad as Johnny Depp's Transcendence, but right from the beginning it delivered the expected entertainment value.
Score: 9/10
Treasure planet! 2002 movie has aged pretty darn well! I forgot how good it is.
8/10 They could have done more with the cyborg's moral ambiguity. As it stands, he just sort of spontaneously bounces back and forth between good and bad. Also, the movie only needed 1 comic sidekick, and the robot was obnoxious. The art was actually really good, but something bothered me about the main character. His eyes were off; either too small or too high or something. (Also, his scar randomly shifts to different sides of his face) But hey, cool aliens, space pirates, and LITERAL spaceships! I need to go back and rewatch all the Disney movies.
Last edited by Hwo Thumb; 06-01-2014 at 01:29 AM.
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Hugo by Martin Scorsese **** Story, set design, lighting, acting, everything. Best picture spouse and I have seen in years.
Flight by ? (Zemekis?) Excellent acting by Denzel Washington ***1/2
This is no match for the 1946 American version but is worth watching for its curiosity value. The action is shifted to England but the storyline remains essentially the same with an ageing Robert Mitchum playing the hard-boiled expat private eye Philip Marlowe, supported by a stellar cast of British actors who are not best served by Michael Winner's somewhat ham-fisted direction.
To be fair, the plot is very convoluted and quite unbelievable and Mitchum is too old to make a creditable ladies man although he is quite convincing as the laconic detective with a conscience.
7/10
"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.
Home Fries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Fries_(film)
It amazes me how cute Drew Barrymore is although she's not everyone's Angelina Jolie.
Anyway, the plot of boy meets girl starts with the boy finding out the hard way that the girl is his step-father's lover and pregnant. It's hard to make things right since he and his wacko brother, egged on by his even wackier mother, have just given his step father a heart attack by pretending to shoot him in a military helicopter and those two now want to do worse to her.
Score: 9/10
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