your right. got them completely confused. thanks for clarifying that! the minute i read your post i realised i'd made the mistake. cheers!Originally Posted by Mark F.
your right. got them completely confused. thanks for clarifying that! the minute i read your post i realised i'd made the mistake. cheers!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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I haven't seen any of his italian films but I really want to see The Red Desert and The Night as well as L'Aventura.
The Passenger is excellent, with one of the most amazing final shots I've ever seen. It stars Jack Nicholson in one of his best and early roles. Very strange thriller with a very anxious atmosphere. See it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073580/
I've also seen Blowup which was remade as Blow Out by De Palma. Pretty good film.
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
I hope DVDs count, as I can't remember when I've been
in a real theatre.
Last movie I've seen:
Good Night and Good Luck a docudrama about
Edward R. Morrow.
I'd give it Four Stars. Not only is the movie damn near perfect, it's refreshingly short.
auntie's blog:
http://journals.aol.com/auntshecky71...without-clues/
I've heard mixed reviews on this one, but thought I would give it a chance...
Apocalypto......never was much of a Gibson fan....
but I was totally pulled into this one, beautiful scenery, direction fairly well done, and I enjoyed it...
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death"-anon
I took my boys to see the transformers. I assumed that it was for kids since it’s about toys and there used to be a cartoon. I didn’t check the rating.
1) “Bros before hoes man!” I could have lived with out this line as it didn’t really add to the story and I don’t want to explain this to my four year old (I’m sure I misspelled that so no one needs to tell me, I don’t really care how to spell it) There were a lot of overt sexual overtones!
2) There was this whole masturbation discussion that also didn’t add to the movie. I think it was there more for shock value. It just went on and on and the same thing could have been accomplished by saying more cryptic things that the older crowd would have understood and would not have been objectionable for the younger crowd.
3) There was this whole peeing on people thing that was absolutely offensive. How rude and not at all funny!
None of these three things contributed to the plot and really hurt the quality of the movie which was otherwise fine. It’s a very juvenile story that didn’t need the “older” humor to be any good. In fact I think I would be offended if someone were trying to attract me or my demographic with this kind of humor.
That said, I totally left the theater wanting to join the army and fight alien robots. I think the military had to have a hand in the making of this movie to foster this kind of emotion during a time when maybe fewer people are planning on joining the military. My four year old wants me to buy the movie, and I won’t be able to because of the things I mentioned.
Marie Antoinette (2006)
When this was out at the cinemas, everybody was talking about it! Either how good it was or how it lacked historical context.
Personally I found it too long, to the point that I couldn't wait for it to finish. I had the impression that, at the beginning, things would pick up but it just dragged and the end was so anticlimatic.
It's supposed to be more about Marie Antoinette and her point of view of her life at Versailles, but it just wasn't. It didn't really show why she's in the position of being priviledged and spoiled without realising the consequences of her actions or why she couldn't conform to the french court. The whole film is just glimpses of certain points of her life but it lacks fluidity in the whole story.
5/10
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
Black Snake Moan....
Only watch if its free.....its a waste of time...
The only good thing in it was a scene in a night club towards the end, where a good blues song was performed....
otherwise its a thumbs down, big time...
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death"-anon
Wow Jack Nickholson in an Antonioni film? That sounds very interesting..i knew the film by its french title by the way..
"L'aventura" is the part of the trilogy ("La note", "L'eclisse") i haven't seen but judging by the other two, i bet it's a great film..
EDIT
Last films i saw :
"Le cercle rouge" , Jean-Pierre Melville..Wow what a movie! I loved it. 9/10
"Detective", Jean-Luc Godard..i chose perhaps the worst period to see a Godard film..so i won't rate it till i get to watch it again.
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Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
Home Alone 2(watched it for third time).6/10
Leaping and hopping like a frog now, but still have a long way to go before I get crowned as "King Frog"!
"Blanc" ("White") - Krzystoff Kieslowski
So I finally watched the second of KK's "Three Colors" trilogy yesterday, and was pretty impressed. It's what they call a "dark comedy", about what this Polish guy in France does after his wife divorces him and kicks him out. It's a fairly serious film, but is very amusing in some places, with interesting and more authentic comedy than one would find in, say, a Ben Stiller movie or a sitcom. I do not think it could be any better, really. If the third turns out to be as good as the others, I might have to buy the trilogy.
10/10
French and Polish with English subtitles.
Starring Julie Delpy and some Polish guy whose name I can't begin to spell.
300- Cool style, awesome action...gorgeous men
and great acting. I love it!
Also saw Bourne Ultimatum yesterday(?) with my buddy. Really, really good. I wasn't a big fan of the second one, but this one was very good. Not nearly as shakey as the second movie.
If you haven't seen No Reservations, wait until it comes out on video. It wasn't a bad movie, but one of those that I could have waited to see at home for a much cheaper price. AND...(I've gone to the movies 3 times in 4 days...free passes though)...Chuck and Larry, it was funny, not one of the best movies, but if you like Adam Sandler and if you like to laugh, its worth it. I don't regret seeing it in theaters, but I wouldn't go back and pay eight dollars to see it again. I'd just rent it. Its good though.
I agree.
Not totaly boring but I did expect much more from this movie and was dissapointed.
I'm behind the power curve a bit, so I just got around to seeing Babel. I'm not too sure if I liked it or not. I enjoyed the film, but there were some big holes in the ending that I would have liked to see filled. I really want to know what that note said. The little girl in Japan also made me very uncomfortable. I think that it was likely the point of her character, though, so I'm not too worried about that. The acting was good, and I liked the plot for the most part. Overall I would have to give it 7/10. I liked it, but I'm not too sure I'll rush out to buy it.
Taste of Cherry by Abbas Kiarostami. Man drives around the Iranian country side looking for someone to bury him. Pretty good movie, with some rather subtle discussions of suicide, life, and consequence. Some of the shots bored me though -- mostly POV from a car -- , and the ending just confused me. Was that the ending or the start of the "making the film" ??
Anyways, not bad though, possibly I will watch more films directed by Iranians. 3/5
so the movie Evelyn last night. I spent most of the movie teary eyed and laughing.9/10. 1 point deducted for Pierce Brosnans terrible Dublin Accent.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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