"Children of Heaven" (Iranian) -- sweet film with a 4K kids race at the end that rivals a "Chariots of Fire" race. It's a kids movie, but very intelligent, educational, great filming style and location, good story. Up for an Academy Award.
"Children of Heaven" (Iranian) -- sweet film with a 4K kids race at the end that rivals a "Chariots of Fire" race. It's a kids movie, but very intelligent, educational, great filming style and location, good story. Up for an Academy Award.
Originally Posted by byquist
I've seen that. It's sweet but it got kind of annoying to me...and that's strange it's up for Academy Awards because I saw it at least two years ago, and definitely the same movie.
The last film I saw was Star Wars Episode IV...for the first time....I know, it's sad.
7/10 I liked it.
Vintagepiper,
I agree that they exchanged shoes one or two many times for my tastes, but I liked all the attn. to character -- say the P.E. coach who the boy had to cajole and cry into giving him a time trial run, the Dad, the Mom and neighbors, the partial-disciplinarian Principal, the girl who got the pink shoes. Plus the excellent two leads. Director got a lot out of his cast. Even the goldfish added something. It was up in 1999 I think and lost to that undeniably excellent WWII concentration camp film with the Italian actor/director. Any other year it might have won.
It would be nice if international politicians would all sit down together for a showing of "Children" and reconsider all the anger, competition, hating and violence.
I think it was all the whining that got on my nerves...I know they had reason to, but still. All in all, I agree, it is a very good film with an amazing message that I wish people would listen to more.
The last movie i saw was legally blonde. it is so great and it waslike the 7th time i saw it .
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High School Musical
I was prejudiced against it....but I confess I loved it....
8/10
Forrest Gump:A very touching movie, which will break your heart on some places and on others, it will mend it like nothing happened. It's story is about dealing with losses. I liked it a lot. I loved Forrest's character, his way of making others happy whenever he was glad and whenever he was sad, he would make the movie-watcher feel bad.
It surely deserves 10/10.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang: 9/10. Hilarious film-noir send-up. Stars Robert Downey Jr. as a thief-turned-actor-turned-private investigator, and Val Kilmer as a gay PI hired to teach him the ropes. Great buddy flick.
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I just watched it yesterday and I wanted to post a review here and here you are with it.
I also liked it as it was very funny. I loved Kilmer's style. I will give the movie, 8/10.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I just finished watching "The Libertine" and am having a bit of a mixed reaction to it. I really enjoyed Mr. Depp's performance; I do not in fact think I could trust someone else in such a wildly raunchy role. Actually, from the perspective of performance, I was pretty convinced by everyone in the film. But, for whatever reason, nearly the entire thing has this annoying unsteady-camera effect that, in a few scenes, becomes simply ridiculous. Even as I write this, I am brought to wonder if perhaps this has some connection to Mr. Wilmot's being at all times thoroughly saturated with alcohol. That is my best guess, and I think the film could nevertheless have, in a few places at least, done without it. The other big complaint I had was with the music. In the second half, it most agreeably smoothes itself out; until then, however, it draws some negative attention to itself by clashing with the drama taking place. The most obvious instance of this is in Elizabeth's first "acting lesson" with Wilmot, when, at a time when such important things are being said, the music is downright relaxing! I found myself thinking silence would have been preferable, but that is perhaps just me. There is also a kind of annoying motive, slightly irregular-sounding, that is apparently associated with the decadence of Mr. Wilmot and his little world of bawdiness and indulgence, but this seems to disappear as the honesty of Wilmot's position - rather than the simple grossness of it all - begins to make itself evident. Altogether I would say I liked it fairly well, and give it a 7.5 out of ten. If nothing else, Depp's recitations of Wilmot's poetry, filthy as it is, makes it worth seeing.
Her Majesty, with the fine actress who played the grandmother in Whale Rider.
Some will think this a goody-goody movie, but it's got a deep cultural issue, troubled brother, funny group of ladies (maybe a comical take-off on the original Manchurian Candidate), and painful, but familiar, jolt of New Zealand history.
"Osama" -- stunned by it a couple years ago. Equally as difficult a film the second time around. Everyone must see it. Somewhat along the lines of "Raise the Red Lantern" and what's going on in that south Utah town as we speak, although that gives some indications of being voluntary.
Invincible. It's about Vince Papale and the Philly Eagles. It was pretty good, I'd give it a 9/10, and I don't even like american football that much.
I've recntly seen "Black cat, white cat" by Kusturica for the second time. Still hilarious, although it, of course, can't be even compared to one of my favorite movies ever "Underground".
I saw The Lady in the Water yesterday, but I didn't like it at all. Although the director had already been responsible for The Sixth Sense I find that he has enormously phased out since. His new movie was no more than cheesy fantasy to me, and some of the actors did a bad job (especially the director who chose to star himself...). Plus, I didn't like the background story which was of the moralising "humanity is so bad / has deliberately moved away from nature / has to be saved by benevolent creatures who know better..."
I'd give The Lady in the Water 3/10. (Three because the music was okay at times.)
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