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Elysium w/ Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. I liked it.
Elysium Trailer - YouTube
Godfather
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
blacula[1972] & scream, blacula, scream[1973]
The Barbarian Invasions.... a 2004 french canadian film about a man wo is termially ill with cancer. Sounds like a real downer, but it is actually funny and moving. really impressive film.
" the barbarian invasions " - (les invasions barbares) - trailer 2003. - YouTube
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) HQ trailer - YouTube
Also "Cloud Atlas' - sadly from an intriguing book the film is a mess.
Cloud Atlas Extended Trailer #1 (2012) - Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Wachowski Movie HD - YouTube
And a few minutes of this drivel. From the once terrific David Lynch.
INLAND EMPIRE Trailer - YouTube
The Judge. I'm not a big fan of Robert Downey Jr., but I liked this film. Robert Duvall was amazing as usual. This movie was very touching and thought provoking. It is the best I've seen in a long time.
Watching 'Big Fish' again. Love it. Speaks to me. In addition, PearlJams 'Man of the Hour' over the credits...after the final scene reveal. Beautiful.
Lucy Was Really Good..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUmvWm5ZDQ
John Wick is an awesome action flick !
Average plot but very bloody, and superb close gun-range battles and
hand to hand fighting.
Watched "Walk the Line" again.
'Jimi'
Andre was outstanding in the title role: can't polish a turd though, and however hard they tried to roll it in glitter, the screenwriter needs be shot at dawn. Dialogue stank, and the director was clearly out of their depth. All in all a pile of shite...And who the fuck cast their virgin, halfwit family member as Keef.
Grow up Hollywood (who am I kidding)
Though I love Johnny Cash I actually hated WALK THE LINE because to me it was tedious and went over the same ground over and over 'I love you June...Im a drug addict...go away John and get help....' OK, two hours into it I think the message became clear. On the other hand, the cameo by Ginnifer Goodwin as his first wife....I have a weird attraction to her and love her so much in everything she is in that I bought the DVD
Isn't it true they didn't get the rights to any Hendrix music? As a fun aside, WalMart s featuring a DVD called HENDRIX which is nothing but a 30 min interview with Leroy Hendrix or whatever his brothers name is in an attempt to trick someoneQuote:
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Jimmy, it was shocking...and even if they had resurrected the great man himself..the dialogue was laughable. Having said that, sadly, parting with cash money to see it, I've been finding laughter, or any substansive positive emotion, in short supply...cut.Quote:
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The Book of Life - very nicely made - visually stunning
Also saw Fury - somewhat frustrating - the 1st 100 minutes had the making of an all time classic - but the last set piece was OTT heroics. Still worth seeing overall - but could have been so much more
I Spit On Your Grave 2
A bit of an unpleasant mess, really! :shrug
The new Turtles movie. Was not half as bad as i feared either
Not strictly a Movie but Im playing catch up on The Walking Dead.
Im upto Series 4 at the moment and loving it
Best TV show iv ever seen StingerZ. Even better than Game Of Thrones. Iv just started season 5 and its killing me having to wait a week for each episode ( I watched the first 4 seasons back to back)
I saw Book of Life, too. Your comments are correct but the story itself is a little weak. I had hoped this might be an animation flick with more adult themes, but sadly it barely rose above any of the Shrek or Toy Story movies. I'm not asking for another Fritz the Cat but it would be nice if someone could use animation to tell a story that rose above the pablum served up by Pixar/Dreamworks & Disney, indie and short animation excepted.Quote:
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A Most Wanted Man.
Excellent performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman even if you do have to listen quite hard to pick up a lot of the dialogue.
Intelligent thriller with the beautiful Rachel McAdams.
She'd have it!
"Fury". I kept waiting for it to take off but it never did. After seeing "Saving Private Ryan" and balling like a baby the first 15 minutes all else pales in comparison.
Fury was the last movie I saw also. Not what I expected. It made the Americans look worse than the Germans !
Fury had some great action and performances, even Shia la shit was good, but it's depiction of women was pretty bad and almost everyone in it as an Ass hole lol. Amend those 2 things and you'd have a much better film. Still a decent war movie though. But the poor treatment of women In it (verbal jokes too) went too far for me and felt out of place. The dinner scene (and it's build up) just felt so off, almost every part of it.
The judge was really good.
Turtles was surprisingly not as bad as I feared, the story is stupid and the human stuff dull, fox is poor but the turtles are fun and the action decent (can't touch the 1990 film though)
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I love the walking dead, I'm on the current series 5, just awesome, rick is my fav character
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I loved the cloud atlas film, thought it was beautiful in pales too, it's very complicated and layered though,
I've not read the book.
Places
Hunger Games Part 2, which I guess will be followed by Hunger Games Part 3 Part1, followed by Part 3 Part 2. Confusing.
Anyway, this latest version (Part 2) which is on Netflix is hardly the stuff of legends. Not exactly Empire Strikes Back-ish in quality despite leaving us in mid-story. Obviously they're trying to morph this series into The Matrix, where the main character is some sort of savior. It's pretty poor in comparison. J-Law is not saving this series despite what they're trying to do with her character. With Part 3 Part 1 coming out very soon, it would be cool if she bailed on Part 3 Part 2. A lot of Hollywood execs would shit their pants if she did that, but I doubt that she has the guts to do it. I have no idea why Woody Harrelson would continue to want to be associated with this unless they're about to foreclose on one of his mansions. Critically acclaimed shit like True Detective doesn't exactly pay the mortgage on Santa Monica homes.
True Detective (HBO)
I mentioned this in my last post and technically it's not a movie, but I caught this on video and was very, very impressed. And really, one could be forgiven for thinking of this as a very long movie (8 hours), especially considering they're doing season 2 with an entirely different cast and entirely different storyline.
Casting Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey in a crime drama at the peak of the careers is practically a can't miss, but the author of the book who drafted the screenplay brought a pretty damn good story to the table, as well. Some damn good television and since they're not stretching the Harrelson/McConaughey story any further, it's about as tight a story as has been told in television format.
Just caught "The Raid 2" ...this is the Indonesian martial arts follow up to "Raid:Redemption". If you loved the first film, then you'll probably love this one too. The dialogue's somewhat silly and you sometimes lose a little track, but your watching this for visceral reasons and it certainly satisfies on that level. Enjoy it...I did.
I watch Avengers last night followed by Ironman then Ironman 2 today.
Shawsank redemption
Odelay - I didn't get the hype for True Detective and maybe that's because I heard a lot of hype before seeing it. I thought the friction between the two detectives was forced and waaaay too choreographed (you never talk ....now you talk too much...lets keep the car a place of silent refection). That said, if you haven't heard the hype, I do definitely recommend it and would love to hear another opinion.
Whatever happened to the beautiful Thara Wells video when she stripped on a live Spanish, Italian, European or South American television talk show; I was fortunate to have caught it on youtube years ago. I cannot find her video anywhere. I was truly amazed on how she stripped on stage and poured milk all over her body. I think was one of the best striptease I had ever seen. It was sexy, hot and clean!
Sorry to inform you but the third film in The Hunger Games franchise is out soon and is calledQuote:
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -Part 1...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I reviewed this a month or so ago, and found the whole thing riddled with cliches and tediously familiar plots, and see it as a 'liberal American' view of that 'other' America which is simultaneously Christian and pagan, morally righteous and morally depraved, in which very weird people live deep in the woods, are incestuous, own ferocious dogs, and don't pay taxes. And so on.Quote:
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The Maze Runner (Wes Ball, 2015)
So much running, such little amazement...
Carnage (Roman Polanski, 2011)
This film is an adaptation of a stage play by Yasmina Reza (Le Dieu du Carnage), and, as with most of her plays attempts to show how humans use language to deceive, protect, attack, explain, sympathise, destroy -and so on. Her use of language, particularly in French, has the acid sarcasm and rhythmic impulse that is found in the literature of the 18th century, Rabelais comes to mind. Strip away the restraints of language and social custom, Reza seems to say, and you will find that humans revert to a 'natural' condition in which they are selfish, arrogant, brutal and violent, a view of human nature that is neither original nor accurate. The acting is outstanding, Jodie Foster in particular, although Christoph Waltz reprises every other role he has played, being an actor of limited expression. It is hard to believe Kate Winslet's character is an investment broker, but then the simple idea that she and her husband are rich enough to pay for the other couple's dental treatment is not on the agenda. The film cost $25m to make with four actors, a few minor roles, mostly on the telephone, and a list of credits that goes on forever. Polanski, most of whose films are not worth a second look, does a competent job. Worth it if you like Jodie Foster, and I do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPX6-4Bo7XU