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Saw Fargo and Juno

Fargo was a typical Coen brothers film. I guess what I liked most is how the subject matter was pretty serious, yet at a lot of times during the movie I was laughing, mostly because of that accent.

Juno was a pretty charming movie. Ellen Page was great.
 
Divergent - Enjoyable towards the end, when things start to get interesting, but overall, I found it pretty disappointing. I have not read the books, but I imagine they must go into a lot of detail to develop the characters and explain the strange dystopian world they live in. Unfortunately, it doesn't translate very well to film, and it ends up long and drawn out, and ultimately uneventful for about 80% of the movie.

I'm sure many people do/will compare this to The Hunger Games, because the similarities are apparent. But as someone else mentioned earlier, the first Hunger Games movie was a standalone story within a bigger arc, whereas Divergent builds up to something that will happen in the sequels, but feels incomplete on its own.
 
Saving Private Ryan: First 30 minutes were insanely great. After that it calmed down a bit. Pretty good movie.
 
A Serious Man: This is another Coen brother movie. It was similar to Inside Llewyn Davis actually, so I really liked it. It is kind of cryptic since everything in this movie has some sort of symbolism or meaning.

Up in the Air: I liked this film. George Clooney, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga were all really good. Plus I loved the shots of the McNamara terminal in Detroit. I'm from southeastern Michigan so it was cool seeing the airport I go to in a best picture nominee.
 
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impulse462 said:
A Serious Man: This is another Coen brother movie. It was similar to Inside Llewyn Davis actually, so I really liked it. It is kind of cryptic since everything in this movie has some sort of symbolism or meaning.

Up in the Air: I liked this film. George Clooney, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga were all really good. Plus I loved the shots of the McNamara terminal in Detroit. I'm from southeastern Michigan so it was cool seeing the airport I go to in a best picture nominee.
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As part of my job I visited the Detroit Airport often. I wonder how much time they spent their filming and how they managed it? :)

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ucfgrad93 said:
I love that movie. It is incredible.
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Me too.
 
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Schindler's List: I had seen parts of this movie in high school but not the whole thing. Really powerful and the black and white sort of adds to the overall atmosphere to the whole thing. Hard to believe a lot of that actually happened in real life.

Psycho: This is the first Alfred Hitchcock film I've seen and I really liked it. Was pretty suspenseful too. I guess it goes to show you don't need tremendous amounts of special effects/gore to create a thriller, just the right atmosphere.
 
Red Dawn (2012 remake) - Laughable plot, but despite such terrible reviews (12% on RT), I actually enjoyed it.

50/50 - Aside from Anna Kendrick's character, who seemed out of place, this was excellent from start to finish.
 
impulse462 said:
Schindler's List: I had seen parts of this movie in high school but not the whole thing. Really powerful and the black and white sort of adds to the overall atmosphere to the whole thing. Hard to believe a lot of that actually happened in real life.

Psycho: This is the first Alfred Hitchcock film I've seen and I really liked it. Was pretty suspenseful too. I guess it goes to show you don't need tremendous amounts of special effects/gore to create a thriller, just the right atmosphere.
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Proven methods of traditional horror: leave it up to viewers imagination, allow the audience to see the threat the character does not see, and of course the shock scene. :) :)
 
Saw Gravity last night. Beautiful and very well shot. Lots of symbolism but this is no Russian version of Solaris or 2001.
 
The Impossible - Watched this the other night with the family, and we thought it was excellent. A touching depiction of survival and the human spirit. Some parts were slow, but overall, it was very moving.
 
ritmomundo said:
The Impossible - Watched this the other night with the family, and we thought it was excellent. A touching depiction of survival and the human spirit. Some parts were slow, but overall, it was very moving.
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Our family watched that a while ago and like you we all loved it. Great movie.
 
obeygiant said:
The Grand Budapest Hotel was a riot.
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Ah, really? Is it as good as it sounds and as I think (and hope) it might be? So, you recommend it passionately? Great.

Actually, it got great reviews in the 'quality' press, and, when I am next home, I hope to try to catch it.

On another thread (the 'What Book Are You Reading?' thread), a discussion has evolved around the movie 'Battleship Potemkin', which, by mutual agreement (that is, myself and Happybunny), is regarded as a classic.

The discussion evolved after Happybunny mentioned a few books he had read on Russian history, namely, biographies of a few Tsars (Peter the Great and Nicholas II, and the formidable Catherine the Great) and then mentioned a book on the 'Battleship Potemkin', which, inevitably, gave rise to a discussion about the classic movie.

In a previous life, I used to teach Russian and Soviet history, and several years ago some of my students were running the university art house cinema; somehow, they obtained a version of the movie 'Battleship Potemkin' and one wonderful evening we watched it together. Truly revolutionary, in every sense of the word, a tour de force of cinematography, and an absolutely awesome movie. The scene on the Odessa steps is spellbinding, as is the shot of the spectacles.
 
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Watched Gandhi. Was inspiring. Now that spring break is over though, no more fun (including movies) until the end of the semester.
 
impulse462 said:
Schindler's List: I had seen parts of this movie in high school but not the whole thing. Really powerful and the black and white sort of adds to the overall atmosphere to the whole thing. Hard to believe a lot of that actually happened in real life.

Psycho: This is the first Alfred Hitchcock film I've seen and I really liked it. Was pretty suspenseful too. I guess it goes to show you don't need tremendous amounts of special effects/gore to create a thriller, just the right atmosphere.
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To be honest, I never really liked Schindler's List, although I applaud that this subject matter has been brought to the screen in a way designed to appeal to a US audience. Spielberg leans far too hard on the button marked 'sentimental', which I, as a European, find extremely off putting; give me the bitter-sweet integrity of an authentic art form which depicts human nature in all the messy glory of lived life instead.

In any case, there are far better European movies about World War II and the Holocaust, more subtle and understated, and, as a result, a lot more powerful.

Two which I thought - and think - especially excellent and thought provoking, and powerful, precisely because they were so flagrantly attempting to tug at heart strings, - and they are both foreign language movies, which come with complete with sub-titles - were "Au Revoir, Les Enfants", and "The Assault", the former French, and latter Dutch.

Ah, "Psycho". Well, yes, as a thriller and horror story, and indeed, as an example of cinematic story telling, yes, it is shows a cinematic craftsman's utter mastery of his craft. However, and here again, as with Spielberg, I may be in a minority, but I don't much like Hitchcock; above all, I don't care for the nasty note of misogyny that flickers like a beady night-light through much of what Hitchcock made, especially his later (US based) work.


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Watched Gandhi. Was inspiring. Now that spring break is over though, no more fun (including movies) until the end of the semester.
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I remember watching that movie years ago, some years after it first came out. This was a labour of love for Richard Attenborough, and features an excellent cast; Ben Kingsley as Gandhi was superb, but the rest of the cast were also very impressive.
 
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Planet of the Apes (1968)- watched on Netflix.

When I was in 9th grade, a friends Mom offered to take us to the movies and she offered two movies, Gone With The Wind and a new movie Planet of the Apes. Yep, two 15 year olds picked science fiction adventure over a Civil War movie. Planet of the Apes was grand and still enjoyable for me to watch today. I finally did see Gone With The Wind 7 years later and was bowled over by this sweeping saga. :)
 
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