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A Werewolf Boy - Neuk-dae-so-nyeon (2012) - IMDb
Watched this on Netflix...expected some horror, but turns out this is really a romance fairytale. This Korean film is probably geared more towards teenage girls - with that type of cartoonish, overacting by side characters...but it turns out to be a decent film that sucked me in never the less (only stopped it for one bathroom break)...and, did in fact, get me a bit misty at the end...lol.
Tower Heist (Brett Radner 2011)
I enjoyed this succession of cliches and one-dimensional ideas because Alan Alda gets humiliated and sent to prison. I don't like Alan Alda. I didn't like MASH, I don't like his Mush. I don't like his voice, or his smug self-satisfied persona. He is a creep. It is worth watching to see him in prison garb, long may it stay that way.
Frozen. Not bad
Harry Potter and the Deathly Shallows.
Next time i see her, I'm going to punch JK Rowling right in the cunt...She killed Dobby!
The Last Tycoon, a 1971 film adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's last unfinished novel directed by Elia Kazan. A stellar cast including Robert Di Niro, Robert Mitcham, Angelica Houston, Theresa Russell, Jack Nicholson, and many others. A screenplay by Harold Pinter that almost parodies his cliched pregnant pauses and the most wooden leading lady I have ever seen (the daughter of Roy Boulting) in her only major role ( surely favours were called in - she later became a yoga teacher in California) Dire and directionless.
Enter the Dragon
Game of Death
Didn't see the film or read the book, but according to IMDB it was 1976 not 1971 and for good measure someone on imdb rates it more than you do. As I am not a fan of Fitzgerald or Kazan, with a few exceptions, I will take your word for it. As for the leading lady, was that Tony Curtis?Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Here is the review:
Misunderstood masterpiece 11 August 2001 | by
De Niro was an unexpected surprise as Monroe Starr in this brilliant adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished last novel. He gives a thoughtful, sensitive, and intelligent performance as this character, who was modeled on MGM producer, Irving Thalberg. Fitzgerald wrote about Hollywood from the inside, and from the perspective of someone who was destroying himself by being inside. He could ask for nothing better than to have English playwright Harold Pinter create this stark, human screenplay and then have Elia Kazan realize it.
In addition to De Niro's definitive performance, we get a series of perfect cameos (usually an impossibility) from Tony Curtis, Jeanne Moreau, Robert Mitchum, and others. We also get two screen debuts of merit -- Angelica Huston (in a small, but memorable scene) and an excellent Teresa Russell as Starr's would-be sweetheart. The critics hated the movie, and it did poorly in box offices, but it was truly, like Fitzgerald himself, an American masterpiece.
That is where I stopped reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Forgot Curtis was also in it and yep, got the year wrong. It also had Jeanne Moreau and Donald pleasance. The so called leading lady was Ingrid Boulting
Do you have strong views on Kazan, Prospero?Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Awfully sorry, did you have to change your underwear?Quote:
Originally Posted by algebra1900
Kazan? On the waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire put him in the first rank of great directors but his behaviour under McCarthy was despicable. But I don't claim to know about his reasons in detail. It certainly cost him the friendship of the great Arthur Miller.
Then you would have enjoyed this little T.V. Movie classic...BTW...read the Trivia segment on the IMDB site:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
The Glass House (TV Movie 1972) - IMDb
Nobody has proved capable of bringing Fitzgerald's elegant prose to life on the big screen; every version of Gatsby focuses on the superficial rather than the substance, even the bw version with Alan Ladd. The only bearable adaptation I can remember was a BBC version of Tender is the Night made in the 80s with Peter Strauss and Mary Steenburgen brilliant as the faint disguise of Zelda.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Read Fitzgerald. Don't watch it.
The Warriors(1979)...
Say it with me:
"WAARRIORS..., COME OUT & PLAAAAY!"
Monsters, Inc...I have a very exciting life and refined taste in movies
Gravity.
Zero Gravity!
Good FX but lousy story!
BIG ASS SPIDER - love my crappy cheapo budget sci/horror flicks .. this one was actually quite good as it goes .. great great cover song of the pixies in the opening scene ...
BIG ASS SPIDER! opening scene [HD video 1080p] - YouTube
Its on lovefilm now if anyone has that .. its worth a watch, quite funny :)
Thanks for the link, bizarre. Also means I can avoid it...Quote:
Originally Posted by fred41
Two films yesterday:
Elysium (Neill Bloomkamp 2013)
I didn't look closely at the box or I would have left it in the shop, as this director's District 9 was rubbish and Elysium follows it into the charity shop. I think Jodie Foster was embarrassed at being asked to speak in an odd Anglo-French accent, her French was immaculate. I couldn't work out if she was chief of police or a real estate agent. I don't think it matters. The villain, a white South African called Kruger rants in Afrikaans slang which seems a bit odd even in LA in 2154. Matt Damon walks around with the remains of a bicycle stuck to his body and is of course, able to do things which most mortals cannot do, like saving damsels in distress.
Elysium Trailer #2 2013 Official - Matt Damon Movie [HD] - YouTube
Freedomland (Joe Roth 2006)
I bought this for £2.50. Two fine actors, Samuel L Jackson (whose wife is also in the film), Julianne Moore in a stale and predictable story, acting is good but it is all a bit too worthy with confused direction. At times the film is about the police discriminating against Black people, but this acts as a diversion from the main plot, while some characters, like the lead woman's brother, come and then disappear from the film. Overpriced at 2.50. Another one heading to the charity shop.
Freedomland trailer - YouTube
WORST Movies of 2013:
The WORST Movies of 2013 - YouTube
Best Films of 2013
The Best Films of 2013 - YouTube
Eragon.
Yeah, yeah, i know, but i enjoyed it! :shrug
last night, i sat through Admission with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd...some shitastic movie my wife dvr'ed. skip it...it sucked.
to get toe elysium as was posted above...that's what happens with you give a "visionary director with a social conscience" a hollywood budget. it sucked in so many ways that i can't list them. i really though this dude was going to make good on his mutant movie idea instead of just making it a one-off youtube thing.
Visionary? Social Conscience? I could see how the separate development of the haves from the have-nots can be read as mimicking apartheid in South Africa, but that is as far as it went, it was the film itself that failed at every level. It is amazing how much money people will part for to produce this stuff, same thing was said of Eragon although that was commercially successful.Quote:
Originally Posted by RallyCola
well, i put it in quotes because that is how NB was classified after district 9.
as far as a story goes, district 9 built tension far better than elysium and also was somewhat less predictable, albeit not very good in the end. i can buy into the idea of oppression of what you do not understand more than i can buy into the "you are destined for great things" idea.
as far as movie making goes, i feel that district 9, with its grit and naive storytelling was just better paced and suited than elysium where the notes NB wanted to hit are immediate and rushed. elysium depends on too many traditional plot devices...the criminal turned straight...the old girl from the neighborhood that saw good in him...the selfish turned selfless, the tragic hero. The difference to me is that in district 9, you are really not routing for the prawns to get set free...you are routing for wikus to get his comeuppance but learn from it. the story telling allows you to decide whether or not you care about CJ and his son. In Elysium, you are told without a doubt that you are supposed to care about the little girl, hate Kruger and root for Matt Damon to save the day.
as far as acting goes, that i had no preconceived notion of what Copley would be like so that helped me keep and open mind with D9. Matt Damon was Jason Bourne meets iron man in Elysium and could not escape being matt damon. i didn't think he brought anything to the role that was noteworthy. Couple that with the fact that I think Alice Braga can't act well and Jodie Foster has not done a good movie in 20 years, I feel again, district 9 has an edge.
overall, i do favor district 9 over elysium by far, but that is not saying much because elysium is also on my list of movies i have seen that i wish i didn't. it is just another director that made a good movie then was given access to additional cash and cast and fucked up his sophomore attempt.
I thought Jodie Foster was good in Spike Lee's Inside Man (2006) one of the few films Lee has made that is worth watching even if it does have lumberjack Washington in it. Looking back over her cv, I don't think she has had as many good parts she might have, possibly because she doesn't seem to like certain types of scene which women are expected to slot into, and there aren't that many parts for women which do not concern sex.
I was crushed when this show ended.
Delocated: Death Erection - YouTube
Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977)
let me be clear...other than taxi driver, i have not seen a jodie foster movie before the accused. but we are talking about the same woman that did anna and the king, nim's island and flightplan. i was not a big fan of inside man but i guess she did ok in that. For me, contact was alright too but the last movie i think i enjoyed her in was Maverick with mel gibson and james garner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane is worth seeing. Martin Sheen would give Charlie Sheen douche chills after he saw his father in this.Quote:
Originally Posted by RallyCola
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE (1976) HD TRAILER - YouTube
I think I like her more than I like most of her films; but I must register my surprise that anyone would sit down and watch anything with Mel Gibson...hmmm...Quote:
Originally Posted by RallyCola
I saw it on tv years and years ago and was quite surprised as she was 13 when she made it and appears in the nude too as well as in that bed scene -I think these days it would not even be made, and I doubt it is on tv schedules.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
as a dude that grew up on 80s/90s action movies, the Mad Max series and LW1 and 2 are requisite viewing though not very good. Maverick is not a movie i paid to see in 1994...i saw it on cable much later and enjoyed it for the mindless entertainment it is. other than that, i tend not to like his stuff. I really can't sit through Braveheart or The Patriot. my wife made me watch Ransom but only because she loves the smashing pumpkins and they did the soundtrack. fuck Signs (and everything m night shamalamadingdong does). Conspiracy Theory and Air America are ok and other than that, i don't think I've seen much else he has doneQuote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
So many films of the 1970s should never be remade or touched now. People are such over-sensitive pussies that they could never deal with it. There would be a bigger line around the block full of weepy masochists looking and hoping for something to be outraged or offended by building up to their personal climax, a massive orgasm of pissing and moaning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Thanks for reading all my pissing and moaning...
the last movie that I watched was Prisoners
Insidious, one of the better horror films to be released in some time.
Frozen River [2008] Working-class white woman teams up with a Mohawk[Native American--not hairstyle]woman to smuggle illegal immigrants from Canada [across reservation land] to America...
The Shining (1980)...
Though I did channel switch to watch that new Tricia Helfer show "Killer Women"