Yes, I do love The Shining and A Clockwork Orange, as well as Full Metal Jacket... Clockwork is actually a terrific adaptation, though I really did love the book (and I rarely think films can achieve what novels can, but Kubrick always made such great films, and all of them were adapted)
"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours." -Aldous Huxley
"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." -William Blake
Hmmmm..eyes wide shut is my least favourite Kubrick film..i think it has something to do with T Cruise (i dislike him as an actor).
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, and many others, in "John Adams" miniseries. This is good history and great acting -- a tight study, serious, not just for entertainment; it's slow sometimes, but a great chunk of film.
Tom Cruise can get a little difficult, I agree. He stars in a few of my favorite films, such as Vanilla Sky and Jerry Maguire, but I also cannot look past an over-enthusiastic, ridiculous man who endlessly preaches scientology and who put his unborn baby at risk by placing it under radiation while purchasing his own ultrasound machine to "see his child whenever he wanted."Originally Posted by manolia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I really like it specially the story which is based on Fitzgerald short story with the same name. It really illustrates the concept of time and the only eternal thing (love) very beautifully. 9/10
Art is a lie that leads to the truth.
--Picasso
Out of Africa 10/10
It is such an amazing movie.
Star Trek III - did not finish it because it is late but I will.
10/10, I was always completely and utterly ignorant of anything to do with Star Trek, but I loved this movie so far
Troy
Don't know, that's why I'm going to read the Illiad again.
As far as an isolated piece, I like it VERY much.~
He's Just Not that Into You 8.5/10
So painfully true...
Ironic how everything worked out in the end, huh?
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Milk- 9/10
There were some sort of... abrupt bits. Maybe it's because I watched it at a very ungodly hour of the night that I found some bits abrupt and out of time with the rest of the film. Sean Penn, as always, was fantastic though, and his acting gets at least a 15/10.
Naked except for a cigarette, you let your mind drift and forget your disbelief. Feel the chill down your back and the flutter of wings through dandelion fields, and forget the pull of gravity in a night without stars.
I lack eloquence and commitment to my arguments. They are half baked, and I will begin passionately, and then abandon them.
The Importance of Being Earnest- 9/10
It was pretty funny, and Judi Dench is awesome.
And
Mr. and Mrs. Smith- 8/10
The original Hitchcock version, not the crappy King and Queen of the USA version...
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I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Maddie, this is one of my all-time favorite films! I just bought myself a copy, even though my library owns it. It is that good, isn't it? I just love the entire film. The scenery is gorgeous and makes one want to go to Africa. I loved all the characters and the acting is superb. I think I would give it a 15/10! I can't wait now to view it again.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I spent my Saturday night watching the DVD Caligula (directed by Bob Guccione). As much as I like the story and the whole drama, the explicit violence and sex scenes are just too much for me. Also, I feel the depiction of this third Roman emperor's evil side is, somewhat, too extreme. As I read, he was actually a noble man in his first year of his reign, but the movie showed him as a total vicious since the beginning. Also, he also gave some contributions to the city of Rome in terms of infrastructures. Well, perhaps that's the idea of this movie, to explore and exaggerate the evil side of him!
Milk 10/10
Rachel Getting Married 9/10
Even though Rachel Getting Married was one of these best movies i've seen this year and i liked it more than anything I saw this year, I concede that Milk was a better film just cause it is.
I'm losing all those stupid games
That I swore I'd never play
I agree with you..when i watched this film i couldn't believe that it was listed as a historical filmmost people that are in the renting dvd bussiness definately never watch the films they rent.
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
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