Best Christmas Film ever!
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Best Christmas Film ever!
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"Source Code".. sharp little sc-fi film.
'Source Code' Trailer - YouTube
Jake Gyllenhaal can be relied on for a better-than-average film even if this one was predictable; I also like Vera Farmiga, she was enchanting in Henry's Crime, a rather daft film which at least had some Chekhov. Farmiga didn't speak English until she was 6, having been born into a Ukrainian family.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
I do not know if this is classified as a film, but he is a crazy Russian!:wiggle:
Hitman - YouTube
Flight
&
Skyfall
The Hunter...very good.
Last night I watched: American: The Bill Hicks Story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIaTFag26vc
"A Liar's Autobiography" This is an animated film purporting to tell the story of Graham Chapman, the Monty Python who was gay and died of cancer several years go. It is a pointless, crass and unfunny piece of film making.
Looper.
I enjoyed the trailer more than the film. :shrug
Got to agree with thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Jericho
Four Brothers (Again).
Fukkin love this film, so many great one-liners!
Four Brothers Toilet Edit 1 - YouTube
"Two Headed Shark Attack". Bad! But not even funny bad. Very very bad. Terrible!
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Dino suggested a rating scale to me: 1 to 5 whisky bottles, 1 being the best to 5 being the worst. Well, this one deserves an easy
Also watched "The Woman in Black", a soft horror movie directed by James Watkins, with Daniel Radcliffe. A young lawyer is sent in a small town to close an inheritance file no one seems to be able to dig into. My girlfriend liked it a lot. The setting, probably largely made by computer, is just amazing. The story line is interresting and in the end, the movie is not that bad. Thin, quite soft to my taste as a horror flick, but it keep your interrest alive and does the job.
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On Dino's scale, still a
"My Talk With Dean Spanley". Not too sure what to think of this one. Weird. But good actors playing well, good lines, quite intelligent with spirited dialogues. Here's the story line, largely taken from IMDb: Each Thursday, a man approaching middle age calls upon his father, aged, caustic, nihilistic, and emotionally distant, perhaps from the loss of a son in the Boer War and his wife soon after. On this day, the son suggests they attend a visiting guru's lecture on the transmigration of souls. There they chat with a vicar and a soldier of fortune; dinner follows. Over glasses of Hungarian Tokay, the vicar, Dean Spanley, reveals that he's been a dog in his former life and starts telling the story... Funny all the way through and surprisingly touching. Not great cinema by any mean, a bit too muchy for my taste, but not that bad.
With a surprising Peter O'Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neil, Bryan Brown and Judy Parfitt, all very good.
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On Dino's scale, I'll be generous enough to give this one a
You've been on an all night movie marathon, Dan?
I just gave Dan an excuse to drink. Carry on, Daniel.:cheers:
This guy really likes movies. Can't tell if he just saw a really bad one or 5 good ones in a row.
From Friday and Saturday. My girlfriend and I, we just get on the old futon and watch a few, cuddling and drinking; for her it's sherry, for me, well, Scotch whisky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Thanks, Dino! I sometimes wish I'd need excuses to drink... Unfortunately (or, by good easy going life standards, fortunately) almost every event in my day seem like a reason to celebrate... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
Love that scaling system, Dino!
I saw two movies this weekend.
"Night Mother'
and
"Girl Interrupted"
Educational
I enjoyed a lot "Night Mother", with Sissy Spaceck, strangely from a director by the name of Tom Moore, obviously not the male adult performer. From a play by Marsha Norman.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yvonne183
The intimate dialogue and debate between a mother and her divorced, hopeless daughter who decided to suicide. No lace and fluffiness in this one. Very well conducted and poignant. Good movie, Yvonne.
Skyfall-enjoyed the movie overall but some aspects were too pat explanations of the Bond mythology
Inland Empire, a David Lynch movie on Channel 4 last night. Another over-intense narrative with rather too much handheld close-up photography. Not one of his best, but it had the redeeming feature of Laura Dern as the star.
In the can for watching later this week, Micmacs, a film by the guy who made Amelie, supposedly another tour de force of visual effects. We'll see.
I never got to the end of Inland Empire. I had trouble with Lost Highway too; I felt he was somewhat repeating himself, that the subject had too much to do with that of Mulholand Drive. But in the end, I got to like it. As to Mulholand Drive, I loved it. The best to me remains Wild at Heart, especially in the weirder style, getting weirder and weirder, by the way…Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
I also watched this extended piece of vanity last night. I am surprised anyone gets taken in by this con-man posing as a film-maker. Take a tired, tepid moral tale of good versus evil, and wrap it up in non-sequiturs and you have a David Lynch filmm vide Inland Empire -husband/wife gets jealous of husband/wife who is/may be having an affair and it all ends badly, because they don't share David Lynch's Morals of Yesteryear Corrupted By Liberals. Isn't it time that someone told Mr Lynch to forget about the rabbits, the rabbis and the rascals and just make a tv sermon for some evangelical channel? At least in Blue Velvet he marks his card at the very beginning when the all-American Boy Jeff is told by his grandmother not to go to the 'other side of the tracks' when going out at night, which of course he does, to become tangled up in that other America that intellectually-challenged Republican trash like Lynch want 'cleansed'.Quote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
True. There is that easy moralistic connotation in several of Lynch’s movies. But in the weirder style, the one from, say, Blue Velvet on, I’m not sure you can say the same of Wild at Heart or of Mulholand Dr. In the first, yes, we’re talking about a guy who’s trying is best to stay out of trouble, but he’s a gangster! In the second one, much deeper, as far as I’m concerned (unless I read in it what I project myself), he deals with identity, empathy, social pressure and role playing, all of that in very well, softly photograph, beautifully coloured settings with a solid cast –especially the lovely Naomi Watts. Then again, he doesn’t concede anything to the viewer and his pictures are increasingly difficult to “read”, so much so that in the end, it really is too much, and gets to be totally disinteresting. I trust your judgement on Inland Empire, Stavros, as I never got through more than a half hour of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
I admit I find your analysis absolutely adequate for Twin Peaks and some other of his movies. Great, enlightening comments as usual…
Red dawn
"The Imposter" a feature lengthy documentary featuring a quite remarkable story - a young Frenchman who impersonated a missing thirteen year old boy from Texas. The family accepted that he was their missing son - even though he looked nothing like him, spoke with a French accent and had imperfect English and was 24 years old. The denouement leaves many open questions.
Any of you guys seen Hitchcock yet?
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Yes - saw "Hitchcock" a couple of weeks ago. Excellent film. All focuses around the making of Psycho.
And a great final shot.
Thanks buddy. I'm sold. Probably see it this week or next. I'm a really bad procrastinator when it comes to going to the movies. I'd like to see this on a big screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Hmmm Mulholland Drive...starry-eyed Hollywood wannabe rich and famous arrives from the Prairies, ends up on the backside of a jaded diner addicted to heroin and bad men, even though she actually showed some talent. Isn't it wicked how Hollywood corrupts the young? You are surely not fooled by all that empty gesturing and groping of attractive women in apartments they don't own -perhaps like Kubrick Lynch has discovered a way of ogling semi-naked women he isn't married to. I am sure Lynch has his admirers, but not me. I once knew someone who claimed Blue Velvet was the greatest film ever made, mind you the week after it was Brazil. Some people are never pleased.Quote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
David Lynch is real hit and miss with me. I like The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet but just can't get into his more obscure work. I did enjoy him as an actor in Louie recently.
I thoroughly enjoyed the chaotic absurdity of Twin Peaks.
This one is for Stavros.... sadly only nine minutes of the 12 hour film
Andy Warhol - Empire - YouTube
Let's see.... In the past 2 days....
Wrath of the Titans,Prometheus,Ted,The Man With the Iron Fists,The Avengers,Dredd,Expendables 2,and,sadly,the new Resident Evil...
The BBC are running their own Hitchcock bio over Christmas called The Girl, about Hitch's fixation with Tippi Hedren who starred in The Birds and Marnie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Toby Jones plays Hitchcock. I suspect he'll outshine Hopkins, just as he did Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote.
She's dead ....... she's wrapped in plasticQuote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Blue Velvet ..... rotflmao . I made my mother watch that film . Why, because she was raised in the Lumberton, NC area . She didn't recognize any of it . .... lmao . It was filmed in Wilmington, NC where my mother spent a few years in .Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
savages, one of the best movies ive seen in a long time.
No thanks -when form becomes content and content becomes form you have cinematic solipsism; you know yourself that in even the austere films of Bela Tarr something happens, there is a story and it is told with a visual style that makes sense in its own context even if it is too extreme for many people. Warhol, by contrast, was a lazy individual with nothing to say, as exhibited by this kind of film and his so-called 'art'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
You’re right once again, Stavros, the story line is such as you describe. But what about the constant confusion about the identity of the characters? The Naomie Watts character, is she not also the blonde imposed on the director? is she not also her own brunette companion who’s precisely, strangely amnesiac and tries to find whom she is? Is there not a story of role changing through the “magic” of that key box superimposed on the obvious role play everyone in this Hollywood context has to adopt and lead so artificially? Is the candour of the main character not also mocked in some way? There’s a play or a relation between dreams and reality that doesn’t present the former as a golden way to the latter, it seems to me. I don’t pretend to understand a quite mysterious movie, but it seems to be deeper than just a story of a young woman corrupt by Hollywood. It’s all about identity, empathy, social role and position, false sense of freedom, and so on. I don’t know. That’s the way I saw it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros