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Post by Dreamfire on Jan 15, 2007 1:33:28 GMT -5
Okay Okay Innuvik, Here's my contribution. Just saw Mel Gibson's Apocalypto
Wow! Abosultely fabulous voyage into history and Iwoudl saya must see for the big screen.
Billed as very violent however in my estimation there was nothing gratuitous or extreme. A shining example of filmmakingof our era.
;D
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Post by inuvik on Jan 15, 2007 11:11:41 GMT -5
Wow! Abosultely fabulous voyage into history and I would say a must see for the big screen. Billed as very violent however in my estimation there was nothing gratuitous or extreme. A shining example of filmmaking of our era. Oh I want to see this! You're the only person I know who has, so good to know it's not too violent.
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Post by housemouse on Jan 15, 2007 12:51:05 GMT -5
Wow! Abosultely fabulous voyage into history and I would say a must see for the big screen. Billed as very violent however in my estimation there was nothing gratuitous or extreme. A shining example of filmmaking of our era. Oh I want to see this! You're the only person I know who has, so good to know it's not too violent. I have not been able to bring myself to see this since his anti-Semitic tirade. I can't even watch my beloved Lethal Weapon or The Year of Living Dangerously. Oh Mel, Mel, Mel, why?
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Post by Dreamfire on Jan 15, 2007 20:36:33 GMT -5
Oh I want to see this! You're the only person I know who has, so good to know it's not too violent. I'm not sur whatyou think "too violent is"?
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Post by Dreamfire on Jan 15, 2007 20:38:11 GMT -5
I have not been able to bring myself to see this since his anti-Semitic tirade. I can't even watch my beloved Lethal Weapon or The Year of Living Dangerously. Oh Mel, Mel, Mel, why? Hey Housemouse, remember he is only one of like a zillion people who put their time and care and artisic energy into creating it. And I have to tell you the "actors" who are not star actors at all are 100% amazing.
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Post by Chris on Jan 16, 2007 9:40:06 GMT -5
I would like to recommend "Das Leben der Anderen" - in English "The Lives of Others" I had to see it at work (interpreted for a Deaf student who was working with the film as a part of a project) and dreaded having to see a German movie - expecting it to be boring, boring, boring.... At least I got payed to watch it, I thought But I was proven wrong, this movie is anything but boring. Everything is just great, great script, great directing, great cast, really good performances from all actors, the story is incredible and the portrayal of Eastern Germany is just perfect. The only bad thing about this movie, is that it is very long, more than to hours. It doesn't feel that long though because you are so eager to find out what happens next. It takes places in Eastern Germany in the early 1980s when Germany was still divided in East and West. It is about a Stasi-officer (Stasi was the Eastern Germany secret police, feared by everyone) who is surveilling an Author and his girlfriend who is an actress, basically because the Minister of Culture is interested in her and wants to get rid of her boyfriend. The way to do so is to keep him under surveillance and hopefully find something on him that proves that he is not loyal to The Socialist Party and therefore get him arrested. It was actually nominated for a Golden Globe but sadly did not win Modified to add: I forgot about it back then, but it did win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film Take care and keep smiling - Chris
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Post by inuvik on Jan 16, 2007 12:24:29 GMT -5
Oh I want to see this! You're the only person I know who has, so good to know it's not too violent. I'm not sur whatyou think "too violent is"? Well, the only movie I ever walked out of because of violence was Natural Born Killers, in the theatre. And, I had to stop watching Clockwork Orange, I had rented it.
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Post by inuvik on May 9, 2007 12:13:15 GMT -5
I just literally stepped out of The Painted Veil (internet terminals in the lobby, cool). This is in a very limited release, but any of you in big cities who have a chance to see it should go. It's another film based on a W. Somerset Maugham book. It's very formal, very quiet and subdued filmmaking. It's about a couple who live basically a whole lifetime in about 3 months. It's set in China in the 1920's, and is a very tragic, very lovely film. Stars Edward Norton and Naomi Watts. People were sniffing and shedding tears, including me, but there's no melodrama. It's a very understated film, like a Merchant/Ivory production. It's one of the best films I have ever seen. This came out on DVD yesterday. Since I saw the film, I have read the book and bought and listened to the soundtrack. I'll be buying the DVD this weekend. This will be the only DVD I have purchased that doesn't have Eric Stoltz in it. That shows I much I absolutely loved this film! Everyone, please rent it, you will not be disappointed. Here's the official site, which has the trailer: wip.warnerbros.com/paintedveil/I was amazed at how different it was from the book. There are often small differences, but they changed key items in the book to totally change the meaning of the plot! In this case, I liked the movie better. I think Hollywood changed it to make it more romantic and tragic.
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Post by inuvik on Aug 10, 2007 16:35:53 GMT -5
The Bourne Supremacy. Saw it on the weekend--a great "end" to the trilogy. And what a great trilogy it was!
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Post by hoosier on Aug 10, 2007 18:33:45 GMT -5
I am sooo far behind in movies its not even funny! I recently purchased the 300. Being a history buff (and my major in college) and remembering an old movie about the Spartans at Thermopylae, I really wanted to see this one, that and the stories about the innovative film making. It is quite graphic, real slice and dice with body parts flying everywhere, and it sort of reminded me of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with the stop/go action etc. Purists would argue that it is a rather loose interpretation of the historical fact with the writers and director going for sensationalism and shock value but I disagree. I thought it was a rather clever. The narrator is a warrior sent back for reinforcements who recounts the heroics of the Spartans against overwhelming odds and while he seems to be embellishing the truth, you have to suspend disbelief and put yourself into their shoes and realize what they were up against. I don't want to give too much away, but I did like it.
If you want to read a novel on the Spartans at Thermopyle I would recommend Stephen Pressman's The Gates of Fire.
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Post by Dreamfire on Aug 11, 2007 19:39:55 GMT -5
He Hooohoo, I LOVED this movie. i thought it was one of the best movies of the year. The way they took the viewer from a harsh, almost mono chromatic view to fantasy realism of the cyclops and giant elephants was truly motion picture craft at the apex. The story made no pretense to be anything other than myth come alive and won my vote for best movie of the year. I am sooo far behind in movies its not even funny! I recently purchased the 300. Being a history buff (and my major in college) and remembering an old movie about the Spartans at Thermopylae, I really wanted to see this one, that and the stories about the innovative film making. It is quite graphic, real slice and dice with body parts flying everywhere, and it sort of reminded me of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with the stop/go action etc. Purists would argue that it is a rather loose interpretation of the historical fact with the writers and director going for sensationalism and shock value but I disagree. I thought it was a rather clever. The narrator is a warrior sent back for reinforcements who recounts the heroics of the Spartans against overwhelming odds and while he seems to be embellishing the truth, you have to suspend disbelief and put yourself into their shoes and realize what they were up against. I don't want to give too much away, but I did like it. If you want to read a novel on the Spartans at Thermopyle I would recommend Stephen Pressman's The Gates of Fire.
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Post by Dreamfire on Aug 11, 2007 19:43:12 GMT -5
PS. Favorite scene was the one where the bad guy tried to turn the tables on the wife and betray her after making a deal and she drover her dagger into his heart. Go woman!
( oh my that makes me sound very blood thirsty!) Anyone else like that scene?
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Post by matilda on Aug 12, 2007 1:27:08 GMT -5
Oh I want to see this! You're the only person I know who has, so good to know it's not too violent. I have not been able to bring myself to see this since his anti-Semitic tirade. I can't even watch my beloved Lethal Weapon or The Year of Living Dangerously. Oh Mel, Mel, Mel, why? With you, housemouse. This is not a new thing for old Mel. He was notorious for his rather unusual views when he lived in Sydney and some fairly atrocious expounding of said unusual views via bar room behaviour late at night. In fact his parents emigrated to Australia in the late 60s from the U.S. because they didn't like the moral fibre of their home country and what it was becoming in their view (looks OK to me, and I've never been able to see how it's entirely different here in Australia, but hey we both live in democracies and everyone's entitled to their views). It really is a shame in terms of some of his other films, the one I miss seeing most is Year of Living Dangerously, it's such a wonderful depiction of Indonesian life and politics and that particular period in its history - sadly not to be. Thanks Mel and the entire Gibson family for that one. Regretfully Matilda
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Post by hoosier on Aug 13, 2007 17:35:52 GMT -5
PS. Favorite scene was the one where the bad guy tried to turn the tables on the wife and betray her after making a deal and she drover her dagger into his heart. Go woman! ( oh my that makes me sound very blood thirsty!) Anyone else like that scene? Yesss! I was really glad when that traitor got his comeuppance--and especially in front of all those old men who were probably having lurid thoughts in their heads after he told them she had tried to bribe him with her "womanly wiles". He was definitely one of those characters that gives you the creepy-crawlies and the "ooh icks"! I think one of my favorites scenes was when Xerxes was grazed by the arrow and lost a few of his piercings and earrings. The audacity of a mere human daring to inflict pain on a god on earth! Showing to his army that he too could bleed! His shock was palpable. A great movie.
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Post by inuvik on Nov 16, 2007 14:26:00 GMT -5
I saw No Country for Old Men last night at a free preview screening. It's a wonderful film! Very cinematic, in that there are several long periods with no dialogue. The camera does the work. Just what I feel movies should be, as a visual medium.
It's very atmospheric and moody. Just fantastic. Rolling Stone apparently feels it is the best movie of the year (so the promoters said last night).
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