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my two cents about Les Miserables....
WOW...that was some suck. If it was a movie based on the book, with less singing, i would have enjoyed it more. Russell Crowe singing is enough to ruin anyone's day. I've slowly decided that it isn't a very good movie and is something I won't re-watch.
because evoking a positive emotional response is better for the box office than a negative one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
if spielberg did a movie about stalin or pol pot, he'd make them seem like victims of circumstance and the hero.
Just watched the new Total Recall
For a remake, it was very good. Similar, but not identical with quite a few subtle nods to the original. I give it a 7 out of 10
What is trulyscary is that you are right -there is a film called Mongol about the early years of Genghiz Khan, soaked in sentiment it is hard to believe he became one of the most prolific mass murderers in history; but then the Russians had a lot of problems in 20008 when they had their version of the Greatest Russian on tv and it looked like Stalin was going to win! He came third behind Pyotr Stolypin (the last Tsar's Prime Minister) and the winner, Alexander Nevsky. In 2005 Ronald Reagan won it for the USA -no further comment!Quote:
Originally Posted by RallyCola
I have that Genghis Khan film but have never got around to watching it. It's true he was a terrible mass murderer, but he is still idolised in Mongolia i believe as the greatest figure their history has produced.
Did they ever do a comparable thing about the greatest Briton? Thatcher or Churchill would probably win.
That was supposed to be the first of a triliogy. Do you know the progress on the other 2? I agree the first being sappy really scratching my head.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Churchill made it as the 'Greatest Briton' even though he was half-American; how Shakespeare never made it should be the subject of an enquiry given that he must be the most loved Englishman who ever lived. It was as scandalous as Reagan winning the American version, a sad commentary on political ignorance.
Dino -no idea about parts 2 and 3 of Mongol -great shots of the Mongolian landscape, that's the best one can say, and probably already done by National Geographic.
You can always dust off the John Wayne version. Haven't we formed a circle and poked this film with a stick before? Shoulda got Robert Mitchum instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1K0Y-I6vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXu6QmxpJE
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...341_SY450_.jpg
Train....stupid hostel ripped off butt still funny 2 watch.
http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1015474/
A good Horror Film on a train is Horror Express. You got Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Telly Savalas plays a Cossack. Can't lose. The creepy Rasputin-type character almost steals the thing. Hammer-like but a Spanish production.Quote:
Originally Posted by ImpulZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L86jAuTQZ-E