Paul.
It's good. For fairly light entertainment. Well, pure escapism -- :)
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Paul.
It's good. For fairly light entertainment. Well, pure escapism -- :)
Paul International Movie Trailer 2 Official (HD) - YouTube
Eat the Rich.
Two very different but excellent films both seen today.
The Ides of March - political drama which is deeply cynical about the whole process and nature of politics. Written, directed by and starring George Clooney.
My Week With Marilyn - to be released in USA and UK next week. It's gonna get lots of awards - a feelgood but bitter sweet film about the encounter between Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier when they were filming in the UK in the 1950s. Michelle Williams terrific as Monroe - no easy feat - and Kenneth Branagh as Olivier.
Horrible Bosses, right before that Tower Heist........
p.s. Brett Ratner sucks as a director
Not as good as the first one. The only Horror were the performances.
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Finally got a quality disc of the film Quilombo....great historical drama. Also, another foreign language film Princessa.
Princessa was a very interesting film. If Quilombo is half as good I need to seek it out.
Classic Scorsese
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Casino is a terrible film, ill-conceived and badly written, just another one of Scorsese's tired efforts. Even Goodfellas doesn't match up to Mean Streets, which is one of the two 'classic Scorsese' films, the other being Raging Bull, most of his other films are tepid or just too self-indulgent.
What a pity we cannot erase Marilyn Monroe from history; this was a woman with no talent whose alleged popularity was based on her tits and her ass, and nothing else. I cannot think of a single film which she stars in which is worth seeing, The Prince and the Showgirl being one very long embarrassment.
"Some Like It Hot", Stavros... or are you totally estranged from popular culture?
I like the Bourne trilogy (with the exception of Finney and Cox) Clint Eastwood's dollars films, for some reason car chases like Bullitt, The Driver, Transporter even though cars as objects do not interest me, I also thought Soderbergh did the Ocean's films well, but as for Some Like it Not, the film fails on every level, not just because of the lack of any humour in it, but also a complete lack of credibility from start to finish from the music hall drag queens to the unforgivable casting of Monroe, guaranteed to sink every film under the weight of her breasts. Sorry, its the same with Elvis -mention those names and I feel an earthquake coming on. And there must be some highly regarded film star who drives you into paroxysms of rage for whatever reason, maybe just the sound of their voice -?Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Ugh, I can't tell you how pissed I was at the remake of Clash of the Titans. What a joke!!! From your description of Immortals, I will definitely wait for this one to come out on cable.Quote:
Originally Posted by LibertyHarkness
Sorry you didn't enjoy Casino as much as I did. Love Goodfellas, Raging Bull, and Mean Streets too. Waiting for Mean Streets to come out on Blu-ray.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Casino is too long, and to me it covers issues that have been done before, and better -the problem with Mafia films is that there have been three outstanding classics by which to judge them-On the Waterfront, and The Godfather I and II. Waterfront is more historically accurate than The Godfather which is admittedly more ambitious, but Mean Streets works because it is set at a lower level and has a superb script and superb acting -Casino doesn't match up script and acting, and as far as I know, Vegas dramas never work -The Cooler was a failure; but the comedies do work -the Ocean's films. But lets not start a Mafia thread. I can't right now think of all the mafia films -I guess we would have to go back to Cagney (but not lacey)...
I guess Bette Davis - gives me the creeps - but is a pretty good actress.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
And I agree Elvis films were terrible. But his early rock and roll music was and remains astonishing. (It is possible to like Puccini, Penderecki and Presley IMHO)
It is possible to like Puccini, Penderecki and Presley IMHO
Of course it is...but not in my house. I also have a broad, catholic taste in music, there just isn't room for people without talent.
Immortals 3D. Loved it.
Subjectivity Stavros..... what do you think of Dylan, Elvis Costello and, let me see, John Cage?
just watched Brighton Rock and The Firm both crap
which version of the Firm? not the shitty remake? or the original one from the 80s set in london?
I just watched lord of the rings lol
About to watch serenity while i webcam :)
Must confess I just watched this.. Erm.... what can I say. One guy fucked by 20 girls.
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That is odd name of the website vanished after i posted
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video number 38171
I get it... not allowed or some reason.
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There are three films called The Firm -one is the Sidney Pollack film with Tomi la Cruise about lawyers (USA, 1993); and there are two UK films about football hooligans, the first with Gary Oldman made in 1989. Haven't seen any of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by LibertyHarkness
Brighton Rock -can another film of this dire novel be worth watching? Imagine, Greene decided to call his villain anti-hero Pinky with no sense of irony at all. Somebody once said of Brighton it looks like a town that is 'helping the police with their enquiries'...!!
"Brighton Rock" The remake was bad - with some decent performances. Not enough to save the film though. As you say Stavros, not a good book to begin with.
The Lost Future
Is there anything Sean Bean wont do for money?
What's he in next, Raiders of Dinos' Underpants! ?
Is that in 3D? I have the glasses...but not the insurance...Quote:
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Christ...I hope not! :hide-1:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
The last films I saw were two by Hollywood's highest flyers.
"War Horse" - Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the stage lay about world war one. Beautifully filmed, wonderful horses, great acting but somehow Spielberg finds it hard to avoid cuteness. All in all a good one to introduce kids to the horrors of war in a gentle way. But Spielberg manages to make the Somme look almost beautiful.
And then a kids film Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" in 3D... a really delightful and hugely entertaining new film and the best use yet of 3D in fiction. (Wim Wenders used it to terrific effect in his dance documentary "Pina")
I have spent the last two evenings watching Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. Once was not enough. Malick is well known for shooting hours of film that are then edited into something brilliant but imperfect, in The Thin Red Line and The New World you can see the joins. This is less of a problem here.
The film is about a man, Sean Penn, an architect, who lives in a world of glass, steel and concrete, and whose life is emotionally sterile. He sees a tree growing in the midst of this forest of glass, and it revives the memories of his youth, and a brother who died at the age of 19. He says the first word in the film Brother, and most of the film is his memories of childhood in Waco, Texas in the 1950s with a stern, keyboard-playing father (Brad Pitt) who represents the way of nature -hard-edged, competitive and combative, dissastisfied with the world as it is- and his mother (Jessica Chastain) who adopts the way of grace, accepting everything as it is. Though they may appear to be active-passive, masculine-feminine traits, Penn's anxiety is only resolved at the end when he becomes reconciled with the truth of who he is, and accepts the way of grace, and is redeemed.
Like it or not, this is a religious film, and that may be why many people dislike it.
The film begins with a quotation:
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?...when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of god shouted for joy? Job 38:4,7
Job, famously afflicted with everything bad you can think of, but never losing his faith in God (even though his friends reckon he must have done something pretty bad to be so badly punished), eventually loses it and asks God Why? To which God responds in the quote above, suggesting Job hasn't, as it were, seen the whole picture -of how Job is one part of the whole universe and must decide what that means to him: and then showers him with goodness and riches as a thank you present.
This context is crucial for what is seen next: a mother receives a telegram telling her that her son has died. In their grief, both parents ask God to tell them Why? And, just as in the book of Job God answers the question with a more detailed description of the creation of the world than found in Genesis, Malick presents a visually stunning version in film, which begins with a shaft of light (Thomas Wilfred's Lumia Opus 161), and then images that are, or resemble the imagery that was actually taken of star clusters by the Discovery mission. Douglas Trumbull also advised on this section, which is a triumph, including the dinosaurs, one of which represents the way of nature, another the way of grace, value that, Malick seems to be suggesting, are eternal.
Directly after this the first child is born, and then a second, and the film follows the development of a family of two parents and three boys until the father loses his job at the plant and they have to move away. To some this is ok but the tedious heart of the film, yet the closely observed rituals and play of family life are beautifully balanced with the overall themes of the film, and the three boys are so natural, as it were, that it is hard to believe any of them had a script or that they were acting. There are subtle touches too -a boy on the margins of the children's group has been badly burned in a fire and lost part of his scalp; I wonder if this is Malick hinting at a dislike of extreme religious cults such as the one that was trashed in Waco in the 1990s? Malick's mystical religious tendency is also similar to Tarkovsky, and in one short sequence Chastain is levitated, just as the Tarkovsky's mother was in Mirror (if not in precisely the same way).
I could go on and on; but its simple really: the best new film of 2011, and one of the best films I have ever seen.
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Originally Posted by Stavros
I always liked Absolute Beginner's because it had Tenpole Tudore in it
"The Iron Lady". This portrait of Thatcher - in her dotage (a sort of lioness in winter) - does not work. Meryl Streep catches her vocal inflexions perfectly and looks the part for the Thatcher of her years in office - but the prosthetics make the ageing Baroness look even more monstrous than she was/is in real life. Its a muddle in narrative terms - miscast with Jim Broadbent as Dennis - and impossible to watch without one's prejudices intervening (for good or ill). Streep might win an Oscar but the film is an unworthy vehicle for her talents.
And a wonderful opening shot - a long long track through the house and the street (as i recall). Plus a great title track by Bowie.Quote:
Originally Posted by russtafa
Having watched The Tree of Life twice this week, and having seen it compared to The Fountain, I bought the latter in a charity shop for £3.99 -£3 more than it is worth. The film is well-made, but bears no comparison with Malick's film which has depth, vision, and meaning. The Fountain comes across as some sort of New Age fantasy set in the past, the present and the future -the past Mayan mysticism and the Mayan Tree of Life is visually well done, but handled on the level of a comic book; the present-day relationship between a 'scientist/doctor' and his wife did not interest me; the future man living in a bubble in outer space, practising yoga and..never mind...I think I'll stop there.
The last movie I seen was "Bad Teacher" staring Cameron Diaz it was okay. It was alittle too much stupid, direct, and dirty humor but it was good. Also watched "Bridesmaids" I liked it more then Bad Teacher. It was a cute little movie. I actually wrote a review about it on my blog and tgirlforums. http://ditatumbles.tumblr.com/post/1...74/bridesmaids link.
Downloading "Friends with Benefits" now with Justin Timberlake and someone else. I'm behind on the movies I want to watch I have to update my self already.
I watched Friends with benefits last night, i enjoyed it, but it has the same old boy meets girl formula in it :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ditadior
Sshhhhhh! It finished downloading im five minutes in. And yes I love multi tasking, it's the only way I actually get to watch a movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mayrah
Great Blu-ray. Only $11.99 at Best Buy.
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"Beginners" - Ewan mcGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent (very beautiful) and a hugely cute dog. But it was dull.
“Martha Marcy May Marlene” - a largely unknown cast. A subtle and rather disturbing film about religious cults and the way they can totally demolish a personality.
I need some down time. So I saw two movies in one week: J. Edgar and Hugo.
Hugo is an eminently enjoyable celebration of the work of Georges Melies (with accents over the e's). I recommend it to all.
I'm still mulling over J. Edgar, a dark and complex depiction of J.E. Hoover's life and career. At the moment I'm inclined to characterize it as a very very sad love story. It's (imo) very well directed and acted. I give it a thumbs up.
Hi Trish, glad you enjoyed Hugo with its wonderful tribute to Georges Méliés. It has had rather mealy mouthed reviews in the UK - but I thought it was a wonderfully joyous film. And so different from most of what Scorsese has done. (some very indifferent films in recent years. Gangs of New York or Shutter island anyone!) He also mad the recent George Harrison documentary. At four hours a little overlong but with some wonderful material.