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Posted: 3/4/2009 10:33:13 PM | "Life Aquatic" is quirky, slow, surreal and brilliant. I know a lot of people hated it and I can understand that. I didn't like it the first time I saw it.
Same for "No Country For Old Men". But I find I'm hooked on it - I've seen it maybe 10 times which is something I rarely do. Each time I pick up something new. I even put captioning on because a lot of the local dialect was lost on me. Amazing dialogue! Again - many didn't care for it and I can understand it. | |
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Posted: 3/4/2009 10:38:44 PM | Watched Flash of Genius last night and it was the perfect movie to lull me to sleep. Maybe only more enjoyed by the more technically minded out there but it's a superb story, well told and very well acted by Greg Kinear and Lauren Graham -- wondering what she's been doing since Gilmore Girls. She's a hottie.
Yeah, I don't like Sean Penn. He dated Madonna, need I say more? I'm sure it helped his career but she comes across about as deep as Lindsay Lohan.
A little older, but even for non sports fan We Are Marshall was a really good film :up: with a lot of uplifting moments. It surprised me by liking it much more than I expected plus I got a lot of chuckles out of the 70s polyester clothing and hairdo's... | |
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Posted: 3/5/2009 12:42:03 PM | The most recent movie I have seen is "I've loved you so long".
It is the story of two sisters who haven't seen each other for fifteen years. I won't say more less I spoil it for you.
Other good movies that I have seen in the past three months include:
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marley and Me
Changeling
Revolutionary Road
Wrestler
Role Models
I am longing forward to seeing "Two lovers" with Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line) and Gwyneth Paltrow. | |
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Posted: 3/6/2009 1:44:27 AM | Just got back from Watchmen...
I am trying to decide what I thought of it. Some parts of it was amazing, special effects were mindblowing; very artistically done; and unbelievably bloody. They started it half an hour late, so it was well after 3 by the time it was over, and it was not a short movie. Tons of twists.
Kind of confusing, extremely uh, well, there wasn't a whole lot left to the imagination (ok, there was NOTHING left to the imagination) in a couple of the characters... (especially when the one became 50 feet tall... holy cow; somehow imagine trying to get the paint off everything might not have been lots of fun for the actor)...
I would have liked it more if it didn't start at after 12:30 at night. But definitely creative, artistic, and interesting story. But bloody, graphic, extreme and I shut my eyes through I think 2/3rd of it.
Guess B+ for me. Maybe i'll feel otherwise when I'm more wide awake.
(they were advertising Tarantino's next movie with Pitt... that one looks like it won't be real fluffy either). | |
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Posted: 3/8/2009 3:52:53 AM | Since I'm really old, I'll list some really old movies.
"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension" - Paul Weller as Buckaroo Banzai - nuclear physicist, martial arts master, musician . . . Jon Lithgow as Dr. Emilio Lizardo who's head was invaded by the evil Lord Warfin while in the eighth dimension . . . and so on.
"Dr. Strangelove" - Peter Sellers in three roles. In the '60s, a crazed Air Force general sends a nuclear bomber group grove towards Moscow. "Fluoradation, Mandrake, fluoridation is a communist plot." Ominous and funny. Sellers and George C. Scott are brilliant.
"Airplane!" - Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Robert Stack and Peter Graves all change from bland straight to hysterical parodists in this parody of mid-flight danger and passenger heroics. This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.
"High Plains Drifter" - A town in the middle of nowhere nervously awaits the return of 3 gunfighters they betrayed into prison after they killed the sheriff at the townspeople's request. Clint Eastwood shows up and agrees to help guard the town. But is he the reincarnation of the dead sheriff?
"What's Up, Do" - too long to explain in any detail. Just say everyone goes to San Francisco with identical luggage. Barbara Streisand decides to steel Ryan O'Neal away from Madeline Kahn.
"The Producers" - the original and the best. Gene Wilder tells Zero Mostel how to make money by producing a Broadway flop. Together they produce Kenneth Mars' "Springtime for Hitler".
"His Girl Friday" - fast-moving, witty romance. Former reporter Rosalind Russel is getting married, but not if Cary Grant, ex-editor and husband can bamboozle her into a last story on a condemmed murderer's execution. Russel hides the escaped murder, Grant disappears Russel's fiance. | |
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Posted: 3/8/2009 10:22:41 PM | Saw Watchmen last night and just felt flat!
Didn't really get into it and I thought the use of music didn't work too well.
They were trying to make an 'important' movie and say something but I just don't think it worked. I'm also one of those people who have read the graphic novel and think it is extremely overrated. :)
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Posted: 3/9/2009 6:31:01 AM | How is Watchmen (the graphic novel) overrated? Where exactly does it fail?
The story is profound and tightly woven. The characters and backdrops are briliantly conceived. The stories within and around the main story are excellent. The art is beautifully studied, and precisely matches the story. I think only Dave Gibbons could tell a story as invovled as this.
It can't be all things to all men. If you want a comic where the Hulk smashes things and hyper inflated women zip around striking glamour model poses, then its not for you.
The film was never going to live up to it. | |
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Posted: 3/9/2009 6:58:58 AM | | Snatch is one hell of a movie. Guy Ritchie is a brilliant director so i recommend Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels also. Fight Club is up there with the best too. And to throw in an oldie...you cant go wrong with The Great Escape | |
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Posted: 3/10/2009 8:07:42 AM | I finally saw Milk the other day and loved it. I see why Penn won best actor, he acted just like Harvey Milk. Reminded me of Jamie Fox playing Ray. Besides that I saw Madea Goes To Jail which is a comedy, a good one and most comedies I don't care for. The Changeling was very good also, so it looks like I'm on a winning streak.  | |
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Posted: 3/10/2009 11:43:10 PM | Re: Watchmen (movie and graphic novel) - I just don't think it succeeded as much as other people. I really think a lot of people end up liking it because they know they should (just like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen records). It is almost fashionable to agree on how good it is. Art is ok and of course it is written well but I think there are other graphic novels equally or better written and drawn. There is intellectual snobbery also involved. Somehow if you don't appreciate the Watchmen you must not understand it......very bogus.
Same for Benjamin Button...left me cold and bored. | |
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Posted: 3/11/2009 7:09:58 AM | "Red" - Excellent film based on Jack Ketchum's novel. Brian Cox was outstanding as a man who tries to find justice when teens shoot and kill his dog. Co-directed by Lucky McKee(writer/director of May)
"My Name is Bruce"- Very fun with Bruce Campbell playing a caricature of himself. You'll never look at bean-curd the same way again.
" Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead" - Ultra silly, over the top horror comedy splatter musical that totally pokes fun at everything 'fast food'. Lloyd Kaufman does it again.
Two comedies I really enjoyed were "Run, Fat Boy, Run" with Simon Pegg(Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), and "Death At A Funeral" | |
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Posted: 3/11/2009 4:36:41 PM | Some older films-
"American Movie"- Great documentary about Mark Borchardt trying to make his own movie with the help of friends, and family.
"Murder By Death"- Fantastic mystery-comedy poking fun at some of movie and tv's famous detectives.
"American Pop"- Ralph Bakshi's animated history of four generations of a family and a fictitious look at their involvement in the evolution of popular music. From vaudeville to punk.
"Kenny and Co."- Before Don Coscarelli made Phantasm, he made this coming of age tale of two boys dealing with bullies, death, and first love during the week leading up to Halloween.
"Bubba Ho-tep"- Also from Coscarelli. Bruce Campbell plays an elderly Elvis alive and forgotten in a Southern Texas retirement home, who befriends a man(Ossie Davis) who thinks he is JFK, together they try to stop a mummy who is sucking the souls of the residents.
"The World, the Flesh and the Devil"- Excellent late 50's end of the world film about 3 lone survivors of the nuclear war, and in some ways ahead of its time as it deals with Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, and Mel Ferrer caught in a love triangle with strong racial tension.
"Harold and Maude"- Young Harold obsessed with death, meets 79 year old Maude who lives life to the fullest.
"Meet the Hollowheads"- Surreal late 80's comedy about a family living in another world/dimension having the dad's boss over for dinner. | |
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Posted: 3/11/2009 6:47:18 PM |
Watchmen (movie and graphic novel) - I just don't think it succeeded as much as other people. I really think a lot of people end up liking it because they know they should (just like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen records). It is almost fashionable to agree on how good it is. Art is ok and of course it is written well but I think there are other graphic novels equally or better written and drawn. There is intellectual snobbery also involved. Somehow if you don't appreciate the Watchmen you must not understand it......very bogus.
I see what you mean, I suppose people might do that, I get the same feeling about Harry Potter. I read Watchmen a little while after it came out, but long before the recent film was even considered, even before superhero films were fashionable (again).
I think it has the best concept of what a world with superheros would actually be like. Their motivations, their human failings, the consequences. Nothing before or after has done that. Sandman (for example) is genius, but not in the same register.
The film was never going to carry the message of the graphic novel, its just not Hollywood enough. Drieberg is a real person in the graphic novel. A middle aged impotent man, full of doubt and weakness, he seems ridiculous in a costume. Hollywood can't do that, the heroes have to be heroic, the bad guys have to be evil, the world is simple in Hollywood.
All Hollywood can do is turn some of the story threads into soap opera. | |
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Posted: 3/12/2009 11:16:20 AM | | They are away to start shooting next month a biop of the late Ian Dury i would like to see that. | |
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Posted: 3/12/2009 3:52:31 PM | | Brad Pitt did not win an oscar,but i have heard "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" is worth viewing so that movie is next on my list | |
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Posted: 3/13/2009 8:16:33 AM | | I don't go to the cinema that often, but I went recently to see Slum Dog Millionaire, I thought it was a fantastic film and worth every one of the awards it won at the oscars! | |
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Posted: 3/13/2009 11:55:08 PM | Benjamin Button was a good movie, but really really really long... (and slightly disturbing at one point; having an 80 year old in love with a 9 year old was slightly weird...)
but otherwise it was really well done.
Finally going to see Slumdog tomorrow with my daughter. | |
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Posted: 3/14/2009 2:43:24 PM | "TAKING CHANCE"......True story about this Marine officer that volunteers to escort a young PFC's body home to his family, simply tells an amazing story that anyone regardless of there political belifes will appreciate.......HBO simply rock's with the "QUALITY" programming they put out.  | |
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Posted: 3/22/2009 7:24:20 PM | I haven't seen Watchmen.. and I do know what's being said.. if you do NOT like something.. you must just.. NOT get it.. like you must be stupid or something. I came to that case yesterday having bought, and actually NOT judging "Twilight".. actually knew VERY VERY little about the moive. so I had no real.. preconceptions either way.. one person told me.. don't expect a vampire movie. expect a chick flick.. so I even had that much in line when I sat down.. and it just struck me as a story about a creepy pale faced stalker.. some girl who really liked her ipod.. and all of her pale uninteresting.. Iguess.. friends? Who.. really had NOTHING to do in buttcrack.. Washington .. so.. this new..Ipod tuned girl must be the most fascinating thing EVER!!
bleh.. sadly.. it made Lost Boys 2, which I watched later seem a MASTERPIECE. then again.. I spacked out until I heard Feldman talking.. and the flick ended RIGHT when it was getting good with Feldman and Haim about to have the smack down.
and no.. I am not DUMB.. I count in my collection.. well a vast array from schlock horror.. to.. schlock comedy. hahaha.. but I just.. love almost ANYTHING.. I love the Cohen Bros.. Chick Russell, Frank Darabont.. Copolla.. Speilberg. Lucas.. Stallone.. Van Damme.. Damon.. Affleck.. Gibson.. ok.. I will admit.. MOST if not all of my collection doesn't predate.. probably 1960, with Psycho.. although.. IF it were available I'd have The African Queen.. as well as Song of the South (oh.. I do have some older Disney flicks, Snow White and Bambi. and Pinocchio).
but. yeah.. I feel like.. oh there must be something wrong with you.. for NOT loving Twilight.. or. Watchmen.. or Titanic.. or.. the millions of other films that you're told you SHOULD love.. then again.. I always felt Titanic was a RIP off and LA Confidential or Good Will Hunting should have won best picture that year.. then again.. I still think Chasing Amy should have been nominated in best screenplay for '97..
as for recent movies..
Gran Torino was excellent..
Sex Drive (give it a shot.. its a cute homage to 80s flicks.. mostly The Sure Thing).
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (probably my favorite comedy of the YEAR).
Walk Hard (its just hilarious.. and.. the FAKE songs are catchy as hell).
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Role Models
I guess I've been on a real comedy kick lately..
oh.. and just for flat out WEIRD and different.. check out
Repo: The Genetic Opera. | |
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Posted: 3/22/2009 9:32:53 PM | Slumdog Millionaire was good. The music and the cinematography gave what was an otherwise often told story something unique.
A friend and I went to Taken recently. Very fast-paced. Reminded me of the Borne movies in that the lead just takes people out in the most efficient way possible without a lot of excess drama. It is violent and it will make parents never want to let their teenage daughters out of their sight.
Has anyone caught Duplicity yet? Looks smart and sexy. Just my style. | |
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Posted: 3/23/2009 7:05:52 AM | | A Complete History of My Sexual Failures....So funny,one of those movies that makes you laugh but behind that facade is a world of brooding questions about yourself and your prior relationships. | |
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