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Scepticalscribe said:
Thanks for seconding the recommendation for 'No Country For Old Men.' Will most certainly place it in my to keep an eye out for list.
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i found it to be rather polarizing among my friends. it somehow can be described as "a movie for movie buffs".
Not as extreme as "Drive" (which was fantastic IMHO but i also had friends which thought otherwise

edit:silly me... forgot to state my own opinion: i really liked it, clear recommendation
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Thanks for seconding the recommendation for 'No Country For Old Men.' Will most certainly place it in my to keep an eye out for list.

Re 'The Best years Of Our Lives', I remember reading about it years ago in one of the many books one of my brothers had about the history of cinema, which was his passion. Some time later, I actually managed to see it.

An excellent, beautifully told, sharply observed, wonderfully acted movie. A genuine classic.
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I also recommend No Country for Old Men. It actually took a second viewing for me to fully appreciate it, but great movie. There Will Be Blood is also really good too. Daniel Day-Lewis just drives that entire film.
 
Watched Barbara (2012)- Honestly I don't often watch this kind of a story, a German film with sub-titles (Netflix) taking place soon after WWII where an East German doctor is sent from Berlin out to work in a country hospital for asking to leave for the West. There she receives frequent harassment from the Stasi, but develops a friendship with another doctor who was being punished for a mistake he made, she helps some patients, while she continues to plan on sneaking out. It was interesting human interest story, but not great. It was put up for an Oscar in the foreign film category, but did not make the final cut. It did win 10 awards of some kind or another.

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I just watched The Great Gatsby. Well, the truth be told, I watched 35 minutes, and felt that the producers owe me a huge amount of money for sticking it out that long.

I would say the film is all surface, but, in fact, it is a black hole out of which nothing of an cinematic value can escape. From the first incredibly badly read voice over, I was lost in the total cinematic void of this film. The acting...no...the reading of the incredibly bad script, was nonexistent. As some reviewer said, Toby McQuire was like a mannequin who came to life, but didn't know it came to life.

The direction and cinematography attempted to be "creative"...a huge mistake. Going across the water...whiz! Going back...whiz! Very creative...whiz! Too many whizzes!

Ok...enough. An appalling, wooden, awful script. Marble statutes declaiming their lines. Horrendous direction, if there actually was a director. There is absolutely nothing, IMO, to recommend this movie.

It's so frightfully bad, it's just bad. An unbelievable $105,000,000 wasted on total crap!

Avoid this turkey (with apologies to turkeys) at all cost.

Of course...just one man's opinion...:p
 
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Shrink said:
I just watched The Great Gatsby. Well, the truth be told, I watched 35 minutes, and felt that the producers owe me a huge amount of money for sticking it out that long.

I would say the film is all surface, but, in fact, it is a black hole out of which nothing of an cinematic value can escape. From the first incredibly badly read voice over, I was lost in the total cinematic void of this film. The acting...no...the reading of the incredibly bad script, was nonexistent. As some reviewer said, Toby McQuire was like a mannequin who came to life, but didn't know it came to life.

The direction and cinematography attempted to be "creative"...a huge mistake. Going across the water...whiz! Going back...whiz! Very creative...whiz! Too many whizzes!

Ok...enough. An appalling, wooden, awful script. Marble statutes declaiming their lines. Horrendous direction, if there actually was a director. There is absolutely nothing, IMO, to recommend this movie.

It's so frightfully bad, it's just bad. An unbelievable $105,000,000 wasted on total crap!

Avoid this turkey (with apologies to turkeys) at all cost.

Of course...just one man's opinion...:p
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I rather like heartfelt reviews which eviscerate a dreadful movie. Movie demolition job noted, and thank you for it.

Now, as an aside, what do you think of the book this (dreadful) movie purportedly was based on?

I love (much) of the writing of John Steinbeck, some of Ernest Hemingway's work, again, some of of Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and so on, but I'll readily admit that I never warmed to 'The Great Gatsby' even as a book, and I suspect that even in an ideal world (great director, script, cinematography, fidelity to the story in tone and content, superb cast, etc. etc.), it would be a devilishly hard story to successfully translate to the screen. However, each to their own.

Back in the - um, 1980s, and 1990s, I used to watch the legendary film critic Barry Norman on the BBC, almost religiously, most weeks. His articulate demolition jobs, encyclopaedic knowledge of movies, and their back history, his impeccable taste and impressive standards, his integrity and complete lack of cant and deference to idiotic stars and the world of PR which surrounded them meant that he was revered chez nous, and my brother and I paid close heed to his recommendations (and his dislikes). (Mind you, intelligent, thoughtful, articulate stars welcomed the opportunity to talk with him).

If he openly disdained a movie (he loathed the Rocky franchise, for example, viewing it as both politically moronic while utterly trite from a narrative viewpoint), or recommended one (his passionate recommendation of both 'Au Revoir, Les Enfants', and 'Lone Star' impelled me to make time to see them both), I took him seriously, and heeded him.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
I rather like heartfelt reviews which eviscerate a dreadful movie. Movie demolition job noted, and thank you for it.

Now, as an aside, what do you think of the book this (dreadful) movie purportedly was based on?

I love (much) of the writing of John Steinbeck, some of Ernest Hemingway's work, again, some of of Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and so on, but I'll readily admit that I never warmed to 'The Great Gatsby' even as a book, and I suspect that even in an ideal world (great director, script, cinematography, fidelity to the story in tone and content, superb cast, etc. etc.), it would be a devilishly hard story to successfully translate to the screen. However, each to their own.

Back in the - um, 1980s, and 1990s, I used to watch the legendary film critic Barry Norman on the BBC, almost religiously, most weeks. His articulate demolition jobs, encyclopaedic knowledge of movies, and their back history, his impeccable taste and impressive standards, his integrity and complete lack of cant and deference to idiotic stars and the world of PR which surrounded them meant that he was revered chez nous, and my brother and I paid close heed to his recommendations (and his dislikes). (Mind you, intelligent, thoughtful, articulate stars welcomed the opportunity to talk with him).

If he openly disdained a movie (he loathed the Rocky franchise, for example, viewing it is politically moronic and utterly trite from a narrative viewpoint), or recommended one (his passionate recommendation of both 'Au Revoir, Les Enfants', and 'Lone Star' impelled me to make time to see them both), I took him seriously, and heeded him.
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I'm embarrassed to report that I have not read the book, but the two movie adaptations were so bad that I'm sure that you are correct that the book must be very difficult to bring it to the screen.

That said, this current version of Gatsby almost makes the 1974 version look mediocre...almost.

I, too, thought the Rocky series was ridiculous trash. The forced and absurd "feel good" garbage, along with the insanely over the top music, stopped me from watching beyond viewing the whole first movie, and about 20 minutes of the second movie. Cheap emotional button pushing is offensive.
 
Shrink said:
I just watched The Great Gatsby. Well, the truth be told, I watched 35 minutes, and felt that the producers owe me a huge amount of money for sticking it out that long.

I would say the film is all surface, but, in fact, it is a black hole out of which nothing of an cinematic value can escape. From the first incredibly badly read voice over, I was lost in the total cinematic void of this film. The acting...no...the reading of the incredibly bad script, was nonexistent. As some reviewer said, Toby McQuire was like a mannequin who came to life, but didn't know it came to life.

The direction and cinematography attempted to be "creative"...a huge mistake. Going across the water...whiz! Going back...whiz! Very creative...whiz! Too many whizzes!

Ok...enough. An appalling, wooden, awful script. Marble statutes declaiming their lines. Horrendous direction, if there actually was a director. There is absolutely nothing, IMO, to recommend this movie.

It's so frightfully bad, it's just bad. An unbelievable $105,000,000 wasted on total crap!

Avoid this turkey (with apologies to turkeys) at all cost.

Of course...just one man's opinion...:p
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Actually the film's title is simply just Gatsby and I agree, Baz Luhrmann was just too over the top with this adaptation. On the other hand, Leo redeemed himself mostly in The Wolf of Wall Street, another movie about financial and cultural excess.
 
albertfallickwa said:
Actually the film's title is simply just Gatsby and I agree, Baz Luhrmann was just too over the top with this adaptation. On the other hand, Leo redeemed himself mostly in The Wolf of Wall Street, another movie about financial and cultural excess.
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I'm sure that you are right about the Title of that disaster.

On my On Screen Guide, and at IMDb it was listed as The Great Gatsby...my bad!
 
Shrink said:
I'm sure that you are right about the Title of that disaster.

On my On Screen Guide, and at IMDb it was listed as The Great Gatsby...my bad!
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The Great Gatsby refers to the awful Robert Redford movie from the 1970's with Mia Farrow and Gatsby refers to the awful mess that Leo and I think Carey Mulligan. I just hated Tobey Maguire as the narrator Nick Carraway.

Both movies sucked. In fact, I never have seen a good adaptation of any Fitzgerald novel.

On the other hand, for short story, The CUrious Case of Benjamin BUtton is a solid way to take Fitzgerald onto the big screen. It's also a Criterion Collection selection too.
 
albertfallickwa said:
The Great Gatsby refers to the awful Robert Redford movie from the 1970's with Mia Farrow and Gatsby refers to the awful mess that Leo and I think Carey Mulligan. I just hated Tobey Maguire as the narrator Nick Carraway.

Both movies sucked. In fact, I never have seen a good adaptation of any Fitzgerald novel.

On the other hand, for short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a solid way to take Fitzgerald onto the big screen. It's also a Criterion Collection selection too.
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Regarding CCBB, once was enough for me. :) I thought the remake of The Great Gatsby was just awful with the same visualization as Moulin Rouge. Not a fan of the original either. :)
 
Saw Frozen. I liked it. Some people said they didn't like the songs interjected all the time, but I didn't mind it.
 
I'm watching a marathon of Lash La Rue movies.

About the most low of low budget films made in the 40s. The studio, PRC, was at the very bottom of the Poverty Row studios of the time.

Wonderful, astoundingly low budget Westerns. Not really recommended, unless you enjoy, as I do, wonderful examples of the low budget Westerns (PRC, Lone Star, Republic, and the like), smile inducing examples of what you can do with a $23.00 budget.;) :D
 
Caught both "Muppets Most Wanted" and "Divergent" this weekend.

Muppets was definitely less inspired than the reboot movie, but was still fun. The usual Muppets zaniness. Nowhere near as good as the Lego movie though.

Divergent felt quite derivative, but was still enjoyable nevertheless. The one thing that bothered me about it was that it really just felt like the beginning of the story, unlike the Hunger Games which felt complete as a standalone book and movie. Of course my son tells me the book was better...

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Because it was on, I watched the Great Escape this evening. An absolute classic. Also showing a Bridge too Far this evening, but I can't stay up until 2:40. I'll be shattered when the alarm goes off at 6:20. But for anybody that hasn't seen it, another classic.

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impulse462 said:
I finally watched The Matrix; 14 years too late. That was epic.
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Just leave it there. Don't watch the sequels!
 
Just caught Frozen. This was really good- good story, outstanding songs. It deserved Oscars for best animation and song IMO. When I had originally seen the trailers I really feared it was about this overly cute snowman, but thankfully it (the movie) was not and it turns out I liked Olaf! :D Was it ever explained how this little girl got these powers, naturally? Somehow I missed that...

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impulse462 said:
I finally watched The Matrix; 14 years too late. That was epic.
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Reloaded is worthy, the excitement and cinematics of the highway chase scene was super! Revolutions is not as good as what came before it, although one heck of a fight scene for the climax.
 
Huntn said:
Just caught Frozen. This was really good- good story, outstanding songs. It deserved Oscars for best animation and song IMO. When I had originally seen the trailers I really feared it was about this overly cute snowman, but thankfully it (the movie) was not and it turns out I liked Olaf! :D Was it ever explained how this little girl got these powers, naturally? Somehow I missed that...
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I keep hearing good things about this this movie, I'm just going to have to watch it.
 
Crusader007 said:
After Hours - Scorsese's underrated comedy about how wrong things occur at the right time :)
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I'll try to catch this. It brings to mind Into the Night a 1985 Jeff Goldblum movie about a man who can't sleep, discovers his wife is having an affair, and take off into the night, meets a girl who is in trouble and has a little adventure. In fact, I'd like to watch this again. :)
 
Apple fanboy said:
Just leave it there. Don't watch the sequels!
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SandboxGeneral said:
Yeah, unless you're bored, don't go out of your way for the next two. The first was great; saw it many times (for free) at the base theater.
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Huntn said:
Reloaded is worthy, the excitement and cinematics of the highway chase scene was super! Revolutions is not as good as what came before it, although one heck of a fight scene for the climax.
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I ended up watching Reloaded. I liked it, but wasn't as good as the first one.

I also watched Unforgiven and Shakespeare in Love. Unforgiven was pretty good, especially when he goes back to the brothel (I think). I'm surprised at the amount of flak Shakespeare in Love got. I surprisingly really liked it, but all I hear about is how it shouldn't have beaten Saving Private Ryan. I'll have to watch that, although I'm not that into war movies.
 
impulse462 said:
I ended up watching Reloaded. I liked it, but wasn't as good as the first one.

I also watched Unforgiven and Shakespeare in Love. Unforgiven was pretty good, especially when he goes back to the brothel (I think). I'm surprised at the amount of flak Shakespeare in Love got. I surprisingly really liked it, but all I hear about is how it shouldn't have beaten Saving Private Ryan. I'll have to watch that, although I'm not that into war movies.
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Unforgiven is one of my all time favorites. Good choice!
 
impulse462 said:
I ended up watching Reloaded. I liked it, but wasn't as good as the first one.

I also watched Unforgiven and Shakespeare in Love. Unforgiven was pretty good, especially when he goes back to the brothel (I think). I'm surprised at the amount of flak Shakespeare in Love got. I surprisingly really liked it, but all I hear about is how it shouldn't have beaten Saving Private Ryan. I'll have to watch that, although I'm not that into war movies.
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I've not seen all of Clint's movies but I remember thinking that Unforgiven put him on the map as a respected film maker. I don't remember that much about Shakespeare in Love other than it was good, however it should not have beaten SPR for Best Picture.
 
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