Last movie I watched was Spiderman 2 I was thinking of watching the other woman with Cameron Diaz but Kate Upton seems such a bimbo.
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Last movie I watched was Spiderman 2 I was thinking of watching the other woman with Cameron Diaz but Kate Upton seems such a bimbo.
Movies are an escape for me, and I enjoy being surprised. I get predictability every day when I open my laptop at 6:30 AM and face work for the next 10 hours. Trish, thanks for your take on the film, despite my own difference with it. I have enjoyed a couple of Cormac McCarthy books and adaptations, I guess just not this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
EDIT: and thanks RL and P for your reviews of Calvary. Definitely one that I'll be on that watch out for.
An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa, 1963)
I have been watching Japanese films most of my life but only got around to seeing this well-known film over the weekend, and what a strange film it is too. I wonder if this is the first feature film in which the main character is a man dressed as a woman -in this precise case an Onnegata -the man who plays female roles in Kabuki theatre. I don't know how close this is to being 'transgendered' but the actor not only does not change into male attire off stage, but women fall for 'him' too. The film has the most bizarre mix of music from traditional Kabuki, to modern jazz and some schmaltzy orchestral music suitable for some romantic B film. The sets seems almost entirely stage-bound, but the panoramic shots of the Kabuki stage are wonderful. In sum a disappointing film as the story is not so gripping and the climax under-stated, but it has some eclectic qualities.
Revenge of a Kabuki Actor - A Kon Ichikawa Film - YouTube
Odd Thomas! Loved it, though nothing about it was original. Really sad at the end. :(
The Monuments Men. Clooney, Damon, Goodman, Murray, Dujardin and Bonneville. Perfect cast. Need i say more!?!?!
Because it has had such bad reviews, yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by stan.smith
In advance of the UK premiere of an American version of Godzilla, the Telegraph has published a fascinating article on the history of the Japanese original which underlines how the experience of nuclear war is embedded in the film, and follows through the changes to society and attitudes with the sequels that followed. It is very long article but worth reading for those interested in this film and goes some way to forcing a re-evaluation of what was clearly not 'just' a 'monster' film when it was made (and then re-cut for the American market...)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...s-no-joke.html
Just saw Neighbors with GF last night. Couldn't stop laughing, funny!!!!
Ordinary Decent Criminal with Kevin Spacey, brilliant movie that.
***WARNING***
Grace of Monaco, the new biopic starring Nicole Kidman, is reviewed in Thursday's Guardian as "a film so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire risk."
Here's the rest of his review to enjoy. It's a tour de force.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014...-nicole-kidman
Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman - It was a good film. Persona remains my favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJxC-rG6Eak
:iagree:Yes ,good article on Gojira lore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Looking forward to the new one too.
I caught up with "Mud" , a film much praised by a buddy of mine in the industry. Frankly I found it rather sophorific. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Sam Shepard, and Reese Witherspoon.
Mud Movie Trailer (2013) - YouTube
The reviews are better than the film, and there was a French person, I think, on BBC Radio taking the history to pieces too.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertlouis
As I am sure you know, Through a Glass Darkly (1961) is one of a trilogy of films on faith and sexuality which continue with Winter Light (1963) and The Silence (1963). Although I agree with you on Persona I could not live without the trilogy, as they are among Bergman's most intense films and were made when Bergman was at his most fluent.Quote:
Originally Posted by maaarc
The first Hollywood remake ignored the history and doubtless the second one will too. More bangs, screams and cgi. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
How exactly does more money fuck up a better original every time?
The generation going to see the new versions doesn't usually know the originals. I think the technical argument is that CGI can do things which were impossible before, but I also think this does tend to replace the 'message' of the original with a technical display minus content. I doubt many people were aware there was a social message in the original Godzilla, I did not before reading the article. Shelley's Frankenstein is firmly part of the 19th century's romantic anti-capitalism, and Dracula to me has undertones of anti-semitism. I don't know what the film theorists have devised, but I think monster films are sublimations of a threatening other...
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, watch a gonna do you will smith and martin lawerance come for you...
Bad boys 1995 - funny movie!
I saw GODZILLA last night and it was pretty good.It was way better than the previous one. I never listen to what the critics say about movies.Everyone has his or her opinion about movies.Its a summer movie about monsters so no deep thinkning is involved just sit back and watch.On another note I would like to see the uneditied version .
Yes I did, some years ago. It's a fantastic movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by tsmandy
Dean Spanley. A quirky, humorous exploration of father-son relationships and reincarnation.
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really fun movie. very surprised at how well crafted it was (obviously the director of the film has a great knowledge and respect for the original as well as a healthy fascination with the kaiju ega) very loud too.
pretty good film IMHO - Kiss Me Deadly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HES8eEUaBL0
I just saw Godzilla yesterday. It I really liked it. I think David Strathairn is a very under-rated actor. I loved his work in Alphas too. Plus I got to go with someone really cool.
I went to see it tonight in spite of my previous reservations, and it isn't the sort of thing I'd usually go to, but I just fancied something a little mindless for once.Quote:
Originally Posted by crystalsopen
It's actually very good for what it is, and it does track back to the Japanese original too. Impressive effects, although the 3D didn't really add much.
What I actually found most impressive was the sound. Amazing.
Just watched "YellowBrickRoad" on Netflix. Reddit said it was great, I didn't feel it. "The Bay" was entertaining, though!
Space Battleship Yamato
http://www.reviewgraveyard.com/00_re...hip-yamato.jpg
watched Ronin 47 ... awful movie . destroyed the real history of the true ronin 47 ...
Mega Piranaha , great dumb mindless scifi channel d movie trash lol comedy gold :)
The darkest hour
The Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s9o_kb-gZg
sad.....not a movie a documentary - slums of Philippines
The Cremator (1969)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgrEUPp4JM
This be one crazy MOFO movie.
From a review online:
The movie takes place against the backdrop of the political radicalization of Europe during the 1930s, more specifically the demise of the golden era of the First Czechoslovak Republic and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia under Nazi Germany. Spiritually, the movie takes place in the aftermath of the death of Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama in 1933.
Karl Kopfrkingl works at a crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is not just cremating the dead, but liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces gathering at the Czech border, he descends into a mania that allows him to enact his disturbed beliefs.
In late 1930's Prague, Kopfrking (Hrusínský) is a misguided, enigmatic crematorium operator. He is an impeccably groomed, eerie, and meticulous figure, always talking in a hypnotic, soft spoken, poetic manner. He is overly preoccupied with mortality, morbidity, and the human soul, and deeply devoted to the funerary arts.
Kopfrking feels a physical affection for the instrumentality of his trade, lovingly caressing the equipment of the crematory process. He speaks constantly, literally and metaphorically, of death and the liberation of the soul through the process of cremation.
As the story progresses, he becomes increasingly obsessed with his work, finding it glorifying and cathartic. He sees visions of the ghost of his living wife in her youth, along with his future incarnation, as he begins a spiraling descent into fantasy and madness. He is on a mission to free the souls of the deceased (and in time the not-so deceased) through the pyrolization of human flesh, be it living or dead—just as long as that flesh is consumed and vaporized by fire.
The pre-WWII German propaganda machine is enveloping Eastern Europe, polarizing aspiring Nazis and oppositionists. Drawn toward the philosophy of the Third Reich, Kopfrking becomes morbidly obsessed with racial purity and the percentage of German blood flowing within his own veins—literally, to the point of having his vessels opened and the contents examined. While The Cremator is not a raving anti-Nazi film, it uses the political ideology as an allegory for exploring the phenomenon of sweeping, consuming mass delusion and insanity.
The gathering of Nazi forces on the border offers Kopfrking an opportunity to realize his misguided aspirations on a grand scale, one much larger than he could have ever hoped for, one seemingly without limit. Before applying his fervor and passion to the task, he hatches a plan to betray and destroy his own acquaintances, colleagues and family.
While there are elements of black satire in the The Cremator, the movie is so compelling as to nearly overshadow it. The film insidiously and steadily flows to its inevitable and horrifying conclusion like a hot rivulet of liquefied fat.
The production design is crisp and symmetrical. Stanislav Milota’s stunning black and white cinematography is haunting and beautiful. It features successions of extreme closeups that emphasize the slightly grotesque and disturbing features of the biological condition. Milota’s use of black and white film stock’s enhanced tonal range is artfully employed to focus attention on rich textures and multitudes of shades. This gives The Cremator a uniquely unsettling dreamlike quality. The musical score by Zdenek Liska is alluring, phantasmic, and aesthetically intriguing. Viewing The Cremator is akin to experiencing a nightmare that one is reluctant to wake from.
The Cremator was a Czech nominee for the Best Foreign Film Oscar.
I had a lovely time seeing X-men with a client last night.
He just wanted a dinner and movie date.
Blue is the Warmest Color
My favorite love story on film is Brokeback Mountain. It surprised me when I reached that conclusion because although I find Ang Lee's films usually enjoyable, I would have never thought a film by him could rise to that level of affectation for me. But of course, Annie Proulx's story, the setting and the great acting had a lot to do with my high opinion, too.
I liked Stavros' and Prospero's write ups of this movie, so I don't know that I have much more to add from a critique standpoint. As for my opinion, this movie almost rises to the level of Brokeback. Both movies took me back to painful experiences in my own life. But they also both depict love as something completely transformational, and eternal, I might add. I found very little that was fake in this movie. As Stavros points out, the closeups are amazing. Watching the characters, this up close, made it feel like I was in an emotional simulator.
Twenty minutes into the film on Netflix, I noticed there was almost 2.5 hours remaining. I thought... holy jesus, do I really want to spend this much time watching the movie? After that brief moment, I never thought about it again.
I will add one thing that isn't any kind of spoiler that I really enjoyed. The length of the film allowed the filmmaker to show people actually eating, sleeping, thinking, etc. Doing real things. Fuzz gets in a person's hair and it takes awhile to remove it. They show that. And the other thing they show is a lot of dancing, but not just one time as a gimmick, but as a thing that changes depending on the venue, the company of people, and the passage of time. It was one of the threads throughout the movie that helped to hold it all together.
I recommend it.
XMEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST:
Very Good but not a classic great, IMO. Quicksilver (who will also be in Avengers 2 Age of Ultron) was a hoot. Mystique, Magneto, Wolverine and the Sentinels lead the way. Saw very little of Storm. Wish Colossuss had a bigger role.
X-Men - Days of Future Past 3D
The Two Faces of January. Fine adaptation of a lesser-known Patricia Highsmith novel with Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac. Set in Greece and Turkey in the early 60s, it captures the delicious mix of tension and moral ambiguity that made the late Ms Highsmith such a beguiling author. Fine performances from the leads, minimal sex or violence, but all in all an entirely satisfying 96 minutes; if you can't tell the story in less than 100 minutes, don't make the film, if it's a thriller.
Oh, and the score, by Alberto Iglesias, is perfect, like Bernard Herrmann at his very best for Hitchcock.
a horrible Syfy documentary about space aliens and ufo's, it was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
Escape Plan...Stallone & Schwarzenegger...I was entertained and mildly amused!
"A bout de Souffle (Breathless)". Jean Luc Godard's first film. Superb.
Ă€ bout de souffle (Trailer) - YouTube
and "The Lincoln Lawyer"
The Lincoln Lawyer Movie Trailer Official (HD) - YouTube
A plodding and predictable courtroom film. Watchable but not much more.