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You fellas are a little fastidious and like to peck away at each other.
I think we can all agree that Tyler Perry's "Madea Goes to Jail" grossed nearly 100 million dollars and is therefore a great movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
I have a tenant who wrote a film that had a budget of $10 Million but grossed an embarrassing $317,382. It received a 7.3 on IMDb. How can you tell if that's a good film? Ask the few people leaving the theater if they liked it. As far as success there isn't any. I hope he's allowed to write another film worthy of a 7.3. His rent will be due eventually again.
On account of it being Veteran's Day I just finished watching Kelly's Heroes
so....i finally caught Skyfall this weekend.
as a movie devoid of any affiliation to the Bond franchise, it drags and is not very good.
as a bond movie, it is terrible.
don't believe the hype. the story has no arc, it is not realistic and of course the villain has an overcomplicated plan that has to work perfectly well at every turn after being unnoticed and dormant for years for vengeance, and bond becomes nothing more than a testament to what the movie preaches against (old ways vs. new ways).
i was so damn disappointed. the only positive is that javier channeled a gay anton chiguar and was funny but otherwise one dimensional.
this is by far the worst of the modern Bond flicks (pierce and craig).
Watched the latest version of “The Three Musketeers” with my gf yesterday. By director Paul W.S. Anderson, (2011) with a good, largely British cast. Yet another delirium based on the beautifully written novel from Dumas. I remember watching a series in 7 or 8 episodes, maybe 40 years ago, that faithfully followed the novel, and included parts of Dumas’ follow up, “40 Years After” and “The Vicomte de Bragelone”; it still is unfortunately the best adaptation I’ve seen to this day. This movie is beautifully made, great special effects, quite entertaining with a lot of action, but it’s a teenager movie, if not a child movie. Seem like a Walt Disney production. The thin plot line mimics from afar the original one but is otherwise filled with ridiculous developments. Utterly disappointing once again. (My gf fell asleep half way through...)
The Three Musketeers 3D (2011) - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube
Three Musketeers - Official Trailer 2 [HD] - YouTube
An interesting list indeed Stavros - thank you. And I note with a degree of enthusiasm that Bill Murray will be appearing as FDR in a new movie - promising combination of a favourite actor and a personal hero in the person of Roosevelt. I'll also wait with a degree of trepidation till I see Spielberg's Lincoln - his take on War Horse was a horrible and over-sentimentalised mess after the brilliance and sheer emotion of the stage version, which also has a vastly superior soundtrack to John Williams' overblown efforts in the film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
BUT.... it has Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, and that for me is enough to justify parting with the necessary folding. I'm firmly with Prospero on that.
So, Stavros, I ask with a degree of some trepidation - who do you consider to be the best actors currently working in film?
Hey, there were Komodo Dragons in the film . They also had that Wiry Goofy Guy as the villian & you can't forget the DiverShitty involved with the new Money-Penny .
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Originally Posted by RallyCola
Yes of course, because I just don't relate to the work that Day-Lewis has done, though I really can't accept that winning an oscar is the confirmation of his skills, it has to be based on more than that, and that is also true of everyone else. My tone is irritating and I am aware of that, it has got me into trouble in the past, nothing serious but definitely embarrassing, but I do sometimes think people are too timid when being asked to express themselves. These days nobody I think, would be allowed to publish this kind of journalism, which nevertheless was typical of Hanslick -it is his review of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto from 1881:Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
The Russian composer Tchaikovsky is surely no ordinary talent, but rather, an inflated one, obsessed with posturing as a genius, lacking discrimination and taste….The same can be said for his new, long, and ambitious Violin Concerto. For a while it proceeds soberly, musically, and not mindlessly, but soon vulgarity gains the upper hand and dominates until the end of the first movement. The violin is no longer played; it is tugged about, torn, beaten black and blue….The Adagio is well on the way to reconciling us and winning us over, but it soon breaks off to make way for a finale that transports us to the brutal and wretched jollity of a Russian church festival. We see a host of savage, vulgar faces, we hear crude curses, and smell the booze. In the course of a discussion of obscene illustrations, Friedrich Vischer once maintained that there were pictures which one could see stink. Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto for the first time confronts us with the hideous idea that there may be compositions whose stink one can hear.
Dino I watched Dario Argento's The Bird with Crystal Plumage, his directorial debut in 1970, but it was disappointing, do you rate it? As usual the dubbing was cackhanded and awful.