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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Leadfingers Date: 24 Aug 09 - 01:50 PM And THAT was 200 !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Janie Date: 24 Aug 09 - 08:55 PM Recently watched "Mongol", a Russian or Mongolian film (not sure which) about the rise of Ghengis Khan. Was interesting and entertaining. Assuming the costumes and sets were well researched, I learned a wee bit of something about a culture and history I know absolutely nothing about. Not sure why it won an Academy Award for best Foreign Language film. It was, as I say, entertaining, but not remarkable. I don't how many times I've looked at "The King of Scotland" and put it back, undecided. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll definitely grab it. Just watched "The Soloist", and then read the book. Highly recommend both. Much more realistic portrayal of an individual with Schizophrenia than "A Beautiful Mind" (A movie loved, by the way, but highly romantisized and unrealistic portrayal of a person with the disorder.) Deals very honestly and accurately with a number of issues, including family, homelessness, and the need for a variety of approaches to offer respectful assistance, as well as the potential importance of relationship. Having worked in this field for a number of years, I thought Lopez, in the book, did a very good job of portraying how much one is challenged within one's self to maintain meaningful relationship, and also how ultimately rewarding it can be. I wasn't sure, however, how clear that would be to some one who has never had a family member or friend with severe and persistent mental illness. Ultimately, what I most applaud, is the respect Lopez understood that Nathaniel deserved, his struggle to offer that respect, and ultimately, his success in doing so. That is, in my view, the heart of the relationship that mutually benefitted them both. Don't just watch the movie. Read the book. But watch the movie first or you will be disappointed in the movie. (Ain't that nearly always the case?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 30 Aug 09 - 12:22 AM Now I've got anew list, thanks to you folks! We just watched a charmer called "Stardust" which came out in 2007. Based on a story by Neil Gaiman. Definitely a good, fun/campy movie with small parts featuring Peter O'Toole, Robin Deniro and a not so small part with Michelle Pfeiffer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,Janie Date: 30 Aug 09 - 01:19 AM Sum Yung Sun and I watched Stardust a few years back. It was a lot of fun! Watched a very intriguing movie Friday night, "Goodbye Solo." Low budget indie film with Souleymane Sy Savane and Red West. Directed by Ramin Bahrani. Filmed in Winston-Salem, NC. It won the Critic's Award at the Vienna Film Festival. Wonderful, spare acting, and sociologically and psychologically complex. Not a feel-good movie, but it is not a sad or disturbing movie either. Makes you think. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Aug 09 - 01:25 AM Ratatouille - Wonderful animated film about an utterly charming little French rat named Remi who dreams of becoming a great cook. This movie could not be better. It's a masterpiece. 10 out of 10. Der Untergang - German language film about Hitler's last days in the Berlin Bunker as seen through the eyes of his hired secretary/typist, a rather innocent young woman named Traudl Junge who answered the ad and got the job (in 1943?). She survived the war and lived to tell of those last terrible days in the FuehrerBunker. This movie is, I think, the finest film that's ever been made about Hitler's end and the various people around him at the time. It doesn't preach or take any position...it just shows what happened according to the historical record, what the various people said and did, and it's chilling. One lengthy scene from Der Untergang has been used again and again on Youtube to concoct various humorous "Hitler rants" about jazz music, Michael Jackson, etc... Never mind worrying about that. Just watch the original movie and see the scene in context. It's tremendously well acted and totally believable throughout. Das Boot - Another great German language film...this one about a German U-boat crew during WWII. The Kriegsmarine's U-boat service had the highest casualty rate in the German forces by the end of the war. This movie shows what they went through in a very realistic fashion. Ruthless People - Hilarious old comedy film with Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, and Bette Midler. Funny from beginning to end. The Big Country - Absolutely classic western adventure film with sterling performances by Gregory Peck, Burl Ives, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Charles Bickford, Carrol Baker, and Chuck Connors. This one stands alone among westerns. It's unlike any other. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof - The young Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman at their best. Burl Ives in another great performance. Terrific movie. Suddenly Last Summer - One of Liz Taylor's best early films. A very interesting tale indeed. Now, several of those are old movies. Just thought I'd mention them, because they are among the best. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Amergin Date: 30 Aug 09 - 07:37 AM Secret Life of Bees with Dakota Fanning....god she is a fine young actress...Queen Latifah...and several others....great film. Yojimbo by the great Akira Kurosawa..... The Proposition....a very dark bloody Australian Western. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: robomatic Date: 30 Aug 09 - 04:55 PM Saw "District 9" last night. Sort of social Science Fiction. Like most sci-fi of its ilk, it is not necessarily coherent as either (Science or Fiction) but I felt entertained, and there was a lot of action, and I found the effects pretty good. The set-up was interesting, that a large number of aliens (as in from another planet) arrive unannounced, need a place to stay, and accrue resentment from the locals, who ignore aliens their ways and their technologies at their peril. In theme, this one was reminiscent to "Alienation" which I can't recall in enough detail to be useful. All I think of in "Alienation" is 'Mandy Patinkin in a rubber suit'. Peter Jackson was behind the effort, the actors were by and large not 'names'. It was good not great, well acted, well filmed, and way better than such films as "Independence Day" and the Spielberg effort "War Of The Worlds". This is not high praise as those flicks sucked for story. As a movie with a story to tell, I much preferred "Cloverfield" which gave a genuine new spin to the Godzilla/ King Kong theme. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Aug 09 - 04:59 PM "Cloverfield" was interesting, and quite original. I wouldn't rate it a great movie...but not bad. "Independence Day" was one of the 4 or 5 worst movies I've ever seen in my life. Another on that list was the American version of "Godzilla" by the same director. He seems to specialize in making incredibly bad movies with lots of spectacular special effects. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: robomatic Date: 30 Aug 09 - 07:25 PM LH, I totally agree. I was a volunteer DJ when ID came out, and I spent about ten minutes on air bitching about what a piece of uh 'work' it was. Someone called in to the station to say I'd pretty much put the plot on the air and spoiled it for him. My reaction: what plot? All that and a free advertisement to Macintosh computers which apparently have alien code in their OS (now evicted in the new streamlined version of "Snow Leopard") |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 31 Aug 09 - 09:46 AM On IFC, two-violence/war/genocide movies; summaries adapted from IMDb: MILAN (2007), a short about NATO bombings in Yugoslavia. Set in Serbia during the 1999 NATO bombing, the movie follows one boy as he plays hide-and-seek with his older brother. During the game, he finds a soldier, a survivor of an F117 plane crash. THE GREY ZONE, about the Sonderkommados at Nazi death camps. The locations are extremely reflective of recently-documentaried photos of camp settings. Like seeing BW stills of death come to life and then, death again. During the Jewish Holocaust of the Second World War, as part of the genocidal "Final Solution", several death camps are established in occupied Poland to recieve, process, and exterminate the Jews of Europe..... The true story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew chosen by Josef Mengele to be the head pathologist at Auschwitz. Nyiszli was one of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos - Special Squads of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life. Together, the Sonderkommandos struggled to organize the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz. Both excuciating but manageable in short doses. IMDB has more info on both. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 31 Aug 09 - 11:53 AM I saw "District 9" last night. It's very good. Best sci-fi film I've seen in a long time, and it's got some very keen social satire in it about some of the worst aspects of contemporary human civilization. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Stringsinger Date: 31 Aug 09 - 04:01 PM Hi Kat, I have seen many movies and the ones that I like stick out like shiny diamonds. Midnight Cowboy was written by a great guy and a wonderful writer named Waldo Salt. He collaborated with Earl Robinson on a musical about the building of the subway system in New York called "Sand Hog". Too bad what happened to Voigt. Waldo was a mentor of mine in folk music although he probably didn't know it. Wild Strawberries and Seventh Seal remain for me. I love Bergman. Some acting tour de forces: Viva Villa with Wallace Beery. I have tastes with which many would disagree. I adored "The Golden Compass" and "The Road to Wellville". Most Hollywood movies (which I've seen on TCM) are poorly written, stiffly acted and always leave a bad taste in my mouth when they are done. I don't like Traffaut. Hitchcock for me is a complete waste of time. Alain Renais' Hiroshima Mon Amor was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. You can't show those pictures in a story-line without being horrified. It made the story irrelevant. Olivier's Hamlet wasn't bad. Citizen Kane is always worth seeing once. The Battle of Algiers is an important lesson for US foreign policy. I loved "The King of Hearts" with Alan Bates. Well, there's "City Lights" and "Modern Times" and I love anything with Laurel and Hardy in it. "Grapes of Wrath". "Wizard of Oz". (For me, Cabaret worked better as a film than it did onstage. "Westside Story"..terrible...just the opposite if you saw the stage production). There are some interesting movies (not that I would call great) such as "Salt of the Earth". "The God's Must Be Crazy". Seen any good movies I have to confess being pulled into Scorcese's "Taxi Driver" and "Mean Streets" but I can't honestly say I liked 'em. BTW, Woody Allen's movies are cloying like a bad taffy. (My opinion, of course). Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 31 Aug 09 - 04:07 PM I liked the movie "The Golden Compass" too. Then I went and read the book. Very good. Then I read the 2nd book in the trilogy. Not so good at all...I actively disliked it by the end. I have never bothered to read the 3rd book, having lost my taste for the story by the end of the 2nd one. The author of those books has a particularly negative emotional hangup that dominates his story line, and it's not one I have much natural sympathy for. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Joe_F Date: 31 Aug 09 - 08:46 PM I just re-viewed _The Male Animal_. It wasn't as funny as the play, but it was still funny. A mixture of farce, satire, and propaganda -- cf. _The Great Dictator_ & _Revenge of the Nerds_. The satire is on machismo, which will always fetch me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: michaelr Date: 31 Aug 09 - 09:51 PM "Julie and Julia" is delightful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: robomatic Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:39 PM I liked the books of "The Golden Compass" The movie was okay but apparently roused some animosity on the part of the Narnia set. I'm not aware of a projected sequel, and Lyra's gettin' on... Meanwhile, NPR had a spot on "District 9" Apparently pretty popular in the States, but South Africans not as pro-. One interesting tidbit was that in the real South Africa there was a "District 6" and you can guess for whom that was reserved. I tend to give movies points for guts even if they are less than PC. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 31 Aug 09 - 10:44 PM Me too. ;-) Of course, one person's political correctness may not match another's...which is to say, different people may have different sacred cows. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Sep 09 - 04:16 PM Whaddayagonnado when you've seen ALL the Tom and Jerry's? (Five times?) Shorts seen on IFC-- some are pretty weird (squeam alert): THIS IS ME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrcMDsmc_Dc SPIDER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koeLu6OYnwg&feature=PlayList&p=3E86CF38E7F0A7CC&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=66 THE FIGHTING CHOLITAS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFXSsoyLpLg TYGER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LsMoUtBlDk WRONG Pretty sick, can;t find it at YouTube WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHslQ3JVJ7U With aquatics! MILAN (posted earlier, here's the video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcGRtKFIjWY ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: freda underhill Date: 04 Sep 09 - 10:25 AM Romuald et Juliette |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: freda underhill Date: 04 Sep 09 - 10:28 AM and another love story, but this time not a French comedy,and from a long way away samson and delilah |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Sep 09 - 10:51 AM Another GREAT short-- easy to see why it won at Cannes, AND-- it has something for everybody! Too bad YouTube had to split it into two parts to "fit." DEBT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSgneVVeGo (part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhDdnR60WQM (part 2) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 05 Sep 09 - 01:31 PM Looked at "Flying Down to Rio" (1933) last night. Nostalgia plus! One of the first musicals with great choreography. A weird number features showgirls doing their thing on the wings of those tincan planes of the time, the planes flying in formation. A feature was a spectacular dance sequence based on the "Carioca." Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers were in supporting roles to Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond, a break-in for them and sort of a swansong for Raymond and del Rio (she couldn't lose her Latin accent). Great fun! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: heric Date: 05 Sep 09 - 02:00 PM No, I saw Repulsion, Roman Polanski 1965. I was hoping Catherine Deneueve would commit suicide before I did, and that was on "fast play." It was like watching dried paint crack. Oh, yes: I saw The Class, written, produced by, and starring a French French teacher in France, based on his real life story, as a psuedo-documentary. No action, almost entirely inside the classroom, quite compelling all the way through and lingers on. And Sugar, Everyman's tale of inspiration, striving, and The Results, told by a Dominican Republic baseball player who makes the minor leagues. Which is much like The Wrestler, best I've seen in a long while. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Neil D Date: 06 Sep 09 - 01:52 AM "In Bruges" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: robomatic Date: 06 Sep 09 - 05:36 PM oh, get me started on French movies: In my youth I saw two French flicks that sucked so bad it put me off the genre for years (and by two I mean trois): First was a 'histerical historical' snoozefest which we had to see for school. It was called "Louis Cat-horse." It was all in French and it doesn't matter if it was subtitled because it was pretty much edited in real time, the main scene being an interminable dinner which went on forever. When the king was going through the many halls of Versaille (which the movie showed being constructed pretty much in real time) on the way too (and from) dinner, various standing extras were reqired to yell "Le Roi!" a appropriate intersections. This went on for so many times that when he vanished from the corridors for a moment, one of my schoolmates yelled (imagine a coarse New England accent here) "Where's 'Le RWAAAAAAA?'" the only bit of levity to this mass expenditure of le film. The only known cure for this movie is a quick round of Gilbert & Sullian but at the time the films of Gilbert & Sullivan were being strangled by the courts and actor's equity. My fellow schoolmates reacted with the same benumbed reflexes as myself, and the effect was so noted by the school authorities that next month, as we showed signs of recovery, they sent us to see it all over again. Sometime later, and probably on my own nickel, I saw a suspense thriller called "Le Boucher" (The Butcher). It was a thrill-a-minute, and by that I'm talking about a minute on Jupiter which takes about a billion years to go around the sun one time (It's gone around about twice since God made Darwin). Anyhow, a byoutifull French gal is visiting a charming town in the suburbs of Paris which is about fifty miles out, and she's caught the eye of the local boucher which is French and sounds kinda like he could be a baker or a bootcher but he's really a butcher. He takes a shine to her and she keeps coming by because she gets hungry. He saves the good cuts for her. But all around, people keep on dying. And well, the screenplay comes to life and wanders up and down the aisles screaming alternately c'est le boucher! and occasionally in a French accent: "heet's thee bootcher, heet's thee bootcher!" which the entire audience can here and often responds telling the animated script "yeah, like that's a surprise!" so anyway the distraction is welcome, but the movie is still rolling slowly on, and the cute gal is still showing up for her regular meat pies. There is no tension, there is no flirtation. There is no nothing. There is animated stasis. People die, young French woman shows up to get the cut de jour, and butcher guy looks shifty. Finally for some reason, probably to avoid being hit under the chin by the closing credits, he confesses, to the pretty French girl. He is the killer. He feels bad about it, too. And that's pretty much how the film fin'd. The cute gal was still alive, too, but the audience had died. Some years later, full of dread, and with a cute blonde, I attended a French film for the third time in my young life, this time by a great director full of la criticisme de la nouvelle ague: It was by Bunuel and it was called "La Charme Discrete de la Bourgeosie". It totally does not matter if it was subtitled, which it was. The film was a surreal critique, which either means it was a critique of class done in a surreal style, or it was a surreal critique or it was a critique of a surreal class. It involves a bunch of upper class nimrods trying to have a meal together so they can talk about those not present, which is one of the standard human conditions (talking about those not present OR not being there, take your pick). In the early part of the film they are at a restauranat where the waiter is on the table, because he's already seen the script and passed himself off as dead (or not speaking, or trying the clever third position: Being there AND being spoken about). Ultimately these hungry well clothed people playing hookey from their jobs (as actors) wind up in a restaurant which gets attacked by terrorists, but not the new terrorists, the old kind who wore red berets and liked to shoot up airports. Many of them (the real terrorists) later became lawyers and bankers, but that's an entirely different, much scarier story than this. The best scene in the whole movie is when a terrorist goes up to a restaurant table and lifts the tablecloth, exposing one of the nastier wealthy bourgeois characters, who is holding in his hand a chicken leg, and defiantly chews it in his the terrorist'sface. Earning him his just reward, the same reward I'd've cheerfully awarded Bunuel had I had my Kalashnikov with me. The only only good thing to say about this movie was that the film was like a bludgeon to my cute blonde friend and she was helpless before the crude advances of youth. So anyhow, this is just to say that I do love French films. I think they are great and I heartily endorse them and am probably going off to see one right now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Sep 09 - 12:01 AM Waking Ned Devine Good music, too. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 20 Sep 09 - 10:42 AM Breaker Morant. Especially loved the references to race relations. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Jack Blandiver Date: 21 Sep 09 - 07:45 AM District 9 Solid robust storytelling replete with laugh-out-loud humour, searching metaphor, a thoroughly unlikely (and unlikeable) hero and a touching tenderness that made sure I watched the credits roll through my tears. Ups the anti on the genre; the most thrilling and inspirational sci-fi since Aliens.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Sep 09 - 03:55 PM I agree. It's an excellent movie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Mrrzy Date: 22 Sep 09 - 10:09 AM Gran Torino. Man, I didn't even know there WERE so many racial slurs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Sep 09 - 10:51 AM There's no end to it. You just have to hang around the wrong people. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,heric Date: 01 Oct 09 - 04:39 PM I saw a very, very bad movie: The Informers. I can't remember anything as bad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Oct 09 - 04:41 PM When it comes to bad movies, the competition is vicious and the field is very, very extensive. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Oct 09 - 04:42 PM Legend of 1900 ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,heric Date: 01 Oct 09 - 04:51 PM Yes LH but this is new on DVD with Billy Bob and Mickey Rourke so I thought a public service announcement was merited. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: billhudson Date: 02 Oct 09 - 11:19 AM Jacob Young's documentary -DANCING OUTLAW Liey Schreiber film, Everything Is Illuminated Berhard Wicki, West German film, The Bridge Joseph Losey's film, The Boy with the Green Hair Jim Jarmusch.'s film, Down by law Any 1950's English films |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Becca72 Date: 08 Oct 09 - 12:41 PM Just watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe from Netflix last night. Wonderful! I wish I'd seen it in the theatre! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 22 May 10 - 11:29 PM We just watched The Fastest Indian in the World with Anthony Hopkins acting as Bert Munro, the man from New Zealand who set a world record on an old Indian motorcycle at Bonneville Salt Flats. What a great movie and such an amazing man he was...Kiwis be proud! Really incredible. The only thing that bothered me was I thought Hopkins shouldn't have tried a New Zealand accent as he didn't quite get it, esp. when compared to the real Kiwis who acted in the movie, too, imo. It's Hopkins, though, and he did a superb job regardless. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: jacqui.c Date: 23 May 10 - 02:55 PM I just watched "Good Night And Good Luck" - about Ed Murrow's taking on McCarthy. Directed and co-written by George Clooney. Fascinating subject matter - that really was a scary time in the annals of the American people. Just the short extracts of what I guess were actual hearings were enough to make me glad that I wasn't in the USA at that time. David Strathairn, playing Murrow, came over very well, although I can't say whether he made an authentic Murrow. It was very definitely another time, if only shown in the constant lighting up of cigarettes. That was a time when smoking was socially acceptable. It's not surprising that he died early from lung cancer. What a departure from the normal Clooney image. The part he played (Fred Friendly) was nowhere near the normal Clooney roles. It took a few minutes to realise that it WAS George. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,Neil D Date: 23 May 10 - 04:03 PM I agree with S O'P. I thought "District 9" a better movie than either of the 2 big Oscar nominated pictures from last year, "Avatar" and "Hurt Locker". The movie I've seen lately I heartily recommend is "Smoke Signals", the first feature film written, directed, and co-produced by Indians to ever receive a major distribution deal. It's not a recent release (1998) and it's not something you find in the average video store or Red Box. Luckily my library is in a swap network with libraries all over the country and were able to find it for me. It is a subtly nuanced story with lots of humor and even more heart. Since Huck Finn our best stories have been about journeys and friendship and man's dubious interaction with society. Writer Sherman Alexie does a wonderful job of using those themes to tell a tale about Natives that is also a great American story. Here is a clip from the end of the film which captures its essence and grandeur without spoiling the plot:How Do We Forgive Our Fathers? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 23 May 10 - 04:44 PM Neil, we had a special screening at the Casper College in WY when Smoke Signals came out. I am glad you liked it so well. I have never forgotten it and bought the soundtrack right after seeing the movie, plus read Alexie's other books. Fantastic talent and breathtaking writing. I would recommend it to any and all and would hope they would use it in history classes, etc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: michaelr Date: 23 May 10 - 04:59 PM Best movie I've seen in a long time is a Swedish film: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The actress who plays the title character gives a tour de force performance. Plotting and suspense-building are superb. Don't wait for the watered-down Hollywood version now in the works. Cheers, Michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 May 10 - 05:10 PM I thought "District 9" was very good. On the other hand, I thought "Avatar" was absolutely wonderful, really unforgettable, and I enjoyed it more than any other movie I've seen in the last 20 years. I haven't seen "The Hurt Locker", because the subject holds little or no interest for me. "Smoke Signals" looks very good, going by that clip that was posted. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: DougR Date: 23 May 10 - 05:25 PM My wife and I watched a very good film last night, "As It Is In Heaven" a Swedish film we got through Netflix. I should think anyone who enjoys music would enjoy it. It's kind of a Swedish "Brassed Off." DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Becca72 Date: 23 May 10 - 05:35 PM One for the "to be avoided" file: Ghost Writer. Absolutely horrible. I expected so much more from Pierce Brosnan and Ewan MacGregor. Very predictable and painfully slow. That $9 could have been much better spent. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: gnu Date: 23 May 10 - 06:05 PM Becca... I haven't been out to a movie theatre for over ten years. The sound was so loud, I walked out after ten minutes and asked for my $ back because it hurt my ears. They said no, so I picked up two foot long subs, a large popcorn, a HUGE coke (who could drink that much?) and said, "Call the cops. I'll be out in the parking lot for ten minutes. Ford F150, black over silver. Plate is CHC-160." The cops never arrived. Good munch. Never went back. Watched the movie two years later on cable... it sucked. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 May 10 - 09:12 PM They keep pushing the envelope up and up on sound volume, low frequency stuff that hits you like earthquake aftershocks, quick cut visuals that bombard your senses but don't give you time to really see what the hell is happening...and an absolutely ridiculous number of thunderingly over-amplified previews and ads before you even get to see the movie you just paid a hefty price for. And they try to sucker you into buying popcorn with way too much salt on it, and other junk food that's no damn good for you at all. This is what happens in a decadent consumption-oriented society that's lost touch with reality, I guess... Nevertheless, a few really good movies still do get made, in spite of it all. And the seats are very well designed in the modern cineplex, I'll give 'em that...a big ergonomic improvement over the theatres of my youth. I am pretty careful which movies I go to, so I seldom end up seeing one that "sucks". And I accordingly ignore probably about 98% of all the movies that get realeased in any given year. Works for me. As for the half-hour of bombastic previews that precede the feature film, I have just about mastered the art of entering the theatre when they're almost all done. And as for the popcorn and other junk food, I simply don't buy it. I drink water instead. The corporate movie industry hates people like me, but probably not quite as much as they hate you, gnu. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 23 May 10 - 10:24 PM When we go to a theatre, which is almost never, we still sneak in our own goodies in my purse...I carry an extra large one then. Most times I don't carry one at all. I took my grandson to a matinée, got popcorn with no butter, low salt (they have started offering that) and two small drinks as it was a special treat for him. Afternoon rates are cheaper, right? It cost me $35 ad I haven't been back since. LH, you'll really like the humour in Smoke Signals, imo. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 May 10 - 11:05 PM The best time to see any movie is in the afternoon, specially on a slow day. There'll be very little audience there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 23 May 10 - 11:56 PM I agree. Just saw the last vignette of three in a 1957 John Ford movie which I posted about in the Rising of the Moon thread. Hope I can find a copy to watch the two I missed. |
