Inception - Brilliant.
Original, smart, action packed and has that Nolan style of quick scene cuts so you never get a chance to stop thinking. One that i will watch over and over again certainly.
Inception - Brilliant.
Original, smart, action packed and has that Nolan style of quick scene cuts so you never get a chance to stop thinking. One that i will watch over and over again certainly.
Mother Night - Wow this really shocked me with how good it was, surprised it's not better known. A great Vonnegut storyline, excellent performance by Nolte too.
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Well... It was ok... I wasn't fully satisfied but it was a good effort...
Some Angels...are destined to fall...
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead--really quite intense in its portrayal of alienation. Filmed in a bleached washed-out sterile style, it's gut-wrenching.
Philip S. Hoffman is great; Marisa Tomei shows some nice T'n'A.
The Karate Kid
Loved the original, so didn't go with high hopes. Surprisingly okay... not great, but I enjoyed it.
~ I cannot stand people who are not serious about food. It is so shallow of them. (Oscar Wilde)~
What more do you need to have a decent movie?Originally Posted by Sebas. Melmoth
I saw Rec. Well, i'd give it 7/10, but really it was a bit poor, and the premise was ridiculous. However it was better than the average zombie/infected movie.
Inception I like Christopher Nolan, and this one was pretty cool. Interesting plot and good actors, even though I can't stand DiCaprio, he was good. a few scenes where amazing and I just can't help but admire Nolan. there is just something about DiCaprio that really annoys me, almost as much as Nicholas Cage.
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
Hannibal (2001)
http://www.amazon.com/Hannibal-Two-D...0511193&sr=1-1
Fairly entertaining; visually interesting.
Dragon Quest -124/10. Would seriously recommend tweazing out your eyes before watching this movie. To its credit, it was funny. Not sure it was meant to be.
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Inception - amazing (10/10)
Before going to see it, I was doubtful it would live up to the hype - but it did
~ I cannot stand people who are not serious about food. It is so shallow of them. (Oscar Wilde)~
Inception was good. 10/10 does the top stop?
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
Hitler: A Film from Germany - To call this film a masterpiece would be an understatement. And yet, it is an imperfect film. When Sontag called Syberberg's epic experimental 7 hour long film about Hitler "the most extraordinary film I've ever seen", she was not being hyperbolic. Francis Ford Coppola also was right when he considered it to tower above all other contemporary films.
Most films are equivalent to one or two pages of literature; this film contains volumes. Theatrical, epic, Brechtian, Wagnerian, brooding, self-referential and without narrative, this phantasmagoria on Nazi Germany consists of extended monolouges, philosophical inquiry, puppetry, circus-like theatricality, collage, pastiche, anything Sybreberg can use to portray his profound and dark vision of Nazi Germany and it's effect on Western civilization. This film is not a portrait of Nazi Germany, rather, it is a portrait of the Dantesque Hell in which the ghosts of Nazi Germany wander endlessly.
I could not begin to convey to you the ideas presented in this film. It is bitterly ironic to extreme measures and the viewer who is not thinking will mistake Syberberg's ironic sketches as an aestheticization of Nazism, while they are indeed scathing critiques of it in a uniquely non-liberal and non-humanist manner. It is a nightmare of history from which we are trying to awake, as Joyce would put it.
It seems that the measure of a good critic is if he can watch Hitler: A Film from Germany and describe what he has just seen. I am clearly not a good critic, as I can hardly convey the greatness and grandioseness of this film. I will quote one critic as to help me, Andrew Tracy:
"With the temperament of a Romantic and the sardonic irony of a Brechtian, Syberberg tries to break through the conundrum by having it both ways. Like Godard’s own television-spawned monument Histoire(s)du Cinéma (1988-98), Our Hitler is a messianic work unmoored from any faith in the sacred, a purifying work littered with cultural detritus, a noble work steeped in vulgarity. It valourizes and romanticizes the unifying and totalizing power of cinema, that “new child of the century,” even as it derides that very power as the enabler of banalization, repetition, and commercialization. It is a work forever conscious of the hopeless contradiction, the impossibility of its chosen task, even as that very impossibility heightens the urgency of what it is compelled to say, over and over again."
But Sontag is the defining critic on this film and her essay (wherever you may find it, it is not on the internet) will help you decide if you have what it takes to sit through this incredibly long film and appreciate its genius. Here is a wonderful video essay that gives you a little taste of the film, and is the best preview imaginable for such a long film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8sfBoid8_Y
So yes, I've thrown some gigantic statements at you, and some exceptional names, but do I think you should see the film? Indeed it is not meant as entertainment and the word experimental should be underlined, even though it poorly describes the films aesthetic. This film is clearly not meant for a common audience, it contains references and depends on an immense amount of literary, cultural, historical and cinematic knowledge. I would definitely recommend you the common reader to check out Sontag's video essay, but as to seeing the entire film, I cannot promise that even one of you will enjoy it much less understand it. I hope this does not sound elitist. Indeed I didn't understand parts of the film. It is a labyrinth at times seeming to take place in the mind of a dead Hitler and at times taking place in an underworld of hell.
This film is a monument of words. Indeed, no film I've seen has been more chatty. But there is pure poetry in those words and at times, pure genius. It is a cinematic Sublime and a creative feat in the history of art. 10/10
The Moments of Dominion
That happen on the Soul
And leave it with a Discontent
Too exquisite — to tell —
-Emily Dickinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVW8GCnr9-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGIvr6WVw4
The Chorus (Les Choristes) -- French Sister Act II, sympathetic. 400 Blows Truffaut would have really liked this one.
Driving Miss Daisy - 9.34/10 I really enjoyed the character development but was a little confused by the time line, and there were a couple points that I wish had been further developed.
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. "
-Louis Aragon
I think the last movie I saw was called "Zombie Strippers"...It wasn't that good but funny. I think I will give it a 5/10.
"The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of the people and then they take themselves out of the slums. Christ changes men, who then changes their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature." ~ Ezra Taft Benson
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