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Post by Mighty Jack on May 23, 2009 0:36:38 GMT -5
I don't care for the director and in truth I'm pretty well sick of the Terminator story. I have no desire to see it but my brother does, and I could get dragged to it against my will. I'll just tell him to drop and by and take you instead CH I watched Benjamin Button again - I liked it even more this time out... except for the final act SPOILERS What a cop out to have him leave the love of his life and his new baby (Before she can know him, he says).... and then he comes back and Daisy has to take care of him anyway!! So what was the point of him leaving!! Grrr, that sequence angered me (I knew someone who's father died young. While they were hurt and angry about this, never once did they say... "Boy I sure wish I never knew my dad", and in fact was grateful for the brief time they had.That nearly ruined a magical movie for me. Wonderful but flawed. I also watched Indiana Jones 4 unriffed... I'll have to amend my original view on the acting... Cate was terrible in this, it's the first time I've been disappointed in one of her performances. She slips out of that cheesy Russian accent a lot. Moose and Squirrel would be very amused.
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Post by Torgo on May 23, 2009 8:20:15 GMT -5
The new Terminator movie was a step in the right direction after the bland and boring Sarah Connor Chronicles, but it was just not interesting. The action was cool, but I just couldn't get into it.
But two minutes of digital Arnie beating up Christian Bale made it worth the price of admission.
Overall, not Charlie's Angels bad and definatly not James Cameron good. If they give it the next movie to someone other than McG I might have some actual hope for it.
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Post by angilasman on May 23, 2009 13:53:42 GMT -5
The Spirit of the Beehive
Classic Spanish film from the '70s set during the Spanish Civil War concerning two little girls who see the Universal Frankenstein and believe the monster is real (at least the smallest one does). There is also their mother, who secretly sends letters to her lover, a rebel soldier. Their father, and older man, is a beekeeper.
Despite the huge themes dealt with, this film has a very slice-of-life feel to it, and I was very suprised by the strange and beautiful ending.
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Post by Crowfan on May 23, 2009 19:57:39 GMT -5
Star Trek. Totally AWESOME!!! Once it got going, I really had a blast. All the actors were great, but Simon Pegg as Scotty stole the show.
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Post by Joker on May 24, 2009 3:28:48 GMT -5
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
This is actually a very good anti-war film from Dalton Trumbo. It was an Instant View on Netflix.
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Post by reaperg on May 24, 2009 9:51:47 GMT -5
"Star Trek". Believe the hype.
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Post by Hellcat on May 24, 2009 10:50:03 GMT -5
The Lives Of Others
Excellent movie set in East Germany about 5 years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It involves an agent of the Stasi, the state police agency tasked with spying on the populace in order to root out any signs of subversive activity. He is ordered to monitor a playwright and his actress girlfriend, and so he spends hours electronically eavesdropping on their conversations. He is privy to their most intimate moments, and as time goes on he becomes increasingly conflicted. The story is gripping and very moving. I loved it and I highly recommend it.
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Post by angilasman on May 24, 2009 13:27:52 GMT -5
The Cocoanuts
The (four) Marx Brothers in their first feature film. I got both of the boxed sets of their films and am setting about watching them in order (which means I should probably order Love Happy soon). This one is an extremely early sound picture so it's very "rough" in its filming. It's an adaptation of the brother's Broadway play and it's basically just the play with a camera pointed at it.
-These things usually detract from people's ratings of the film, but although I like that the later films become more polished then this one I think The Cocoanuts' roughness is endearing and very interesting from a historical perspective. The brothers comedy is a sharp as ever, naturally, and there are some rather nice muscial numbers. The last scene (at the engagement party) had me rolling as the brothers almost rebel against the movie's storyline and just keep bouncing joke after joke after joke off the walls while the denoument takes its sweet time.
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Post by Joker on May 24, 2009 22:47:09 GMT -5
Colt .38 Special Squad
This is an okay cop film from Italy where a special squad is set up to take down dangerous criminals. I thought that they would be vigilantes, but they do things according to the law (just a little more violently). Then some criminals get a hold of several boxes of dynamite and become terrorists, threatening the whole city unless they get $10 million in uncut diamonds. Not as cool as I thought it would be though.
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 25, 2009 9:46:25 GMT -5
Fellowship of the Ring, extended cut. I wanted to see Cate Blanchett's extra scenes, and the giving of the gifts was a marvelous moment, but damn I really can't stand these movies. All the self importance, the slow motion and leaden over cook speaches and that damned Elijah Woods. I've heard folks complain about Emo Peter Parker in Spider-Man, but he's got nothing on Emo Frodo. I couldn't take 5 minutes of him, looking at that mopey face and hearing that mopey voice. Gah, go away Frodo! I'm sticking to the Rifftrax versions from now on.
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Post by Crowfan on May 25, 2009 12:52:18 GMT -5
Martyrs. Stupid French movie about a girl who is abused as a child, escapes and then finds out who her abusers were and kills them. Problem is, the abusers are part of some cult who torture young girls to the point of death to find out what is beyond life. I've said it before and I'll say it again "What the hell is wrong with French people?" Not recommended.
Walled In. Based on a book and graphic novel, the movie opens with sixteen people being walled into a building in 1993. The suspect was not found. Today, the building is scheduled for demolition but the building has secrets and fear. I guess I missed the point of this cause I didn't really enjoy it. Not recommended.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on May 26, 2009 21:39:46 GMT -5
Okay, I saw Terminator: Salvation. I think it's a pretty good action movie with a handful of kickass scenes. It's a major step up from the laughable T3 (which was watchable, but essentially a hammy retread of the second movie) but, as expected, not up to the first two. The great moments involving the more traditional terminator models are well worth watching, and it was much better than other McG films I've seen. But two minutes of digital Arnie beating up Christian Bale made it worth the price of admission. I so wish I hadn't known that was coming. They kept it a secret really well, and the moment you see him stands up with the first two movies in the series.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on May 27, 2009 8:00:28 GMT -5
Charlotte Gray While I'm right with Roger Ebert on Dark City, I part ways with him here. He gave it 2 and a half stars and said it had a story "you can't believe for a moment" Bite me Rog, and speak for yourself. Not only beleiveable but one of the best films I've ever seen. Very, VERY underated film about a woman who joins the British service and works undercover in France to undermine the Nazis. In the extras Cate Blanchett spoke of one of the women who served in this branch and how she parachuted into France, as Cate's charcater did... so eat my shorts Ebert! lol Most reviewers panned it, but I liked it. Not the best I've ever seen, but I love WWII European theatre spy movies and novels--truly, I cannot get enough of them. And this one was quite good.
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Post by angilasman on May 27, 2009 13:26:49 GMT -5
Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, and Horse Feathers.
My Marx madness continues. I hope Universal seeks out those missing frames of the film from the scenes in Thelma Todd's room in Horse Feathers. Several good lines are chopped up and the brothers occasionally teleport "Girl in Gold Boots style" sporadically for like a two-minure interval.
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Post by Chuck on May 27, 2009 20:39:58 GMT -5
Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, and Horse Feathers. My Marx madness continues. I hope Universal seeks out those missing frames of the film from the scenes in Thelma Todd's room in Horse Feathers. Several good lines are chopped up and the brothers occasionally teleport "Girl in Gold Boots style" sporadically for like a two-minure interval. The very opening shot of Night at the Opera (the pan into the restaurant) is forever gone, I'm afraid. (For years, Chicago only showed a cut to hell version of At The Circus. People up here didn't know about the opening shot of the dinner scene with Margaret Dumont grandly entering the enormous dining room filled with the elite 400, with Groucho's voice going "390, 391, 392, 393, . . . 400! Well, they all showed up. No second helpings.") (I believe that's the line.)
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