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Can heavily recommend the German movie Oh Boy. Haven't had this before, but watching a terrific movie about ones own generation, playing in the city where you're born is, ahem, quite touching. 
Yes, I'm with you on this; and very fair comment.
The exact same criticism was made about the French movie Amalié - which I really liked (and the soundtrack, by Yann Tiersen, was superb) - namely that its depiction of a white Paris little reflects the reality of that city, especially life as lived in the outer suburbs where many immigrants live.
Ohh, I guess they are all on my list to rent. What was wrong with Oblivion besides Tom Cruise?
30th anniversary of 'Valley Girl' which i didn't like much, but really liked (and just watched again) 'My Chauffeur' also starring Deborah Foreman from a couple years later. still find myself quoting bits of it now and then...
Penn and Teller rock!
Penn and Teller rock!
Has anyone seen the latest 'Star Trek' movie (the second in the 'new' 'prequel' series, with Zachary Quinto as a very impressive younger Mr Spock and Chris Pine as a cocky young W.T. Kirk?)
The Guardian gave it an excellent review yesterday - a source which commends itself to me - and I must say I really enjoyed the first of this series when I saw it a few years ago.
The Guardian gave it an excellent review yesterday - a source which commends itself to me - and I must say I really enjoyed the first of this series when I saw it a few years ago.
LA Confidential - Hopefully the first Russell Crowe I'll like, but Spacey, DeVito and Kim Basinger will make up for it anyway. The young Crowe looks actually exactly like a 'drunk' Shia LeBeouf.
Ah, now. That movie. Well, well.
After it came out, I had read reviews, and later, also heard reports from people I knew who had seen it who had all raved about the movie. Then, I watched it, and, for quite a while, I wondered what the point was. I remember I was on the verge of leaving, and dismissing it as incomprehensible and self-indulgent, and asking myself just exactly what all the fuss was about, when, in a pivotal scene, everything fell into place. After that, I couldn't tear myself away, and the ending is predictably superb.
Kevin Spacey, Danny De Villo, Guy Pearce and Kim Basinger are all (predictably) excellent; so, actually, - perhaps surprisingly - is Russell Crowe. And James Cromwell, (whom I had the privilege of seeing play live, on stage, in an outstanding version of Long Day's Journey Into Night), is spell-binding.
Costumes, cars, settings, ambience music - and above, all, multi-layered period nuance - are all terrific - this is an utterly compelling movie, and one of the few I would readily watch again. And again. I think you'll enjoy it.
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Perhaps one might say that this is an example of the right actor for the right part...I, too, thought he was fine in this. Not so much in some other part.
Serendipitous casting...
Perhaps one might say that this is an example of the right actor for the right part...I, too, thought he was fine in this. Not so much in some other part.
Serendipitous casting...
When I think of right actor for the part, I think of Crowe in Gladiator (best picture). Wow.
When I think of right actor for the part, I think of Crowe in Gladiator (best picture). Wow.
Don't let Twietee hear you say that
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The last movie I sat down and watched start to finish was the 1994 Bela Lugosi film, "Voodoo Man".
Don't let Twietee hear you say that
Haha...he just made it onto my ignore list
Never saw Gladiator actually. But agree with scepticalscibe; great movie all around. I did know the ending already, but could enjoy it nonetheless. Always a good sign for quality.
Btw, Pluto, you've finally seen Ghost in the Shell? Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
^ just noticed OldMuley's post. Bela Lugosi still made movies in the 90s?? How was it, quite curious?!
I watched Resident Evil: Retribution last night - I wish I could have that time back from my life - what a bad movie.
I'm not a huge fan of the franchise but I did see the first movie. That was ok, but it seems the franchise went down hill in both story line, acting and just about every other category.
I'm not a huge fan of the franchise but I did see the first movie. That was ok, but it seems the franchise went down hill in both story line, acting and just about every other category.
When I think of right actor for the part, I think of Crowe in Gladiator (best picture). Wow.
Hm. Good entertainment, but ah, a movie which I simply couldn't believe in. The old theory of theatre/movies - the so-called 'willing suspension of disbelief' could not be invoked by Gladiator. I recognise that it can work as entertainment, but just could not actually believe it.....
Don't let Twietee hear you say that
Yes, I'm with twietee on this one.
Haha...he just made it onto my ignore list
Never saw Gladiator actually. But agree with scepticalscibe; great movie all around. I did know the ending already, but could enjoy it nonetheless. Always a good sign for quality.
Btw, Pluto, you've finally seen Ghost in the Shell? Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
^ just noticed OldMuley's post. Bela Lugosi still made movies in the 90s?? How was it, quite curious?!
No, I agree with you; it is not a movie I would be remotely interested in seeing again; I saw it once (over some Christmas some years ago) and it failed to stir me; okay, I'll amend that - the CGI was good, and Joaquin Phoenix wasn't bad.
Haha...he just made it onto my ignore list
^ just noticed OldMuley's post. Bela Lugosi still made movies in the 90s?? How was it, quite curious?!
If he made a movie in 1990, then he really was nosferatu, since he died in 1956!!!
"Voodoo Man" was 1944...a little typo there...
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Guffaws with laughter; brilliant.
Mind you, I am always surprised when someone who was an - say, a cinematic icon decades earlier dies and you realise that they had been around (just not so visible) for quite some time.
On Nosferatu, I know we mentioned it ages ago, but I recall being absolutely mesmerised, stunned and utterly transported when I saw the original 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' as an undergrad at an art-house university screening a quarter of a century ago. It was simply spellbinding and quite brilliant - and I was awestruck that a movie made in 1919 could be so flawlessly superb.
If he made a movie in 1990, then he really was nosferatu, since he died in 1956!!!
"Voodoo Man" was 1944...a little typo there...
Guffaws with laughter; brilliant.
Mind you, I am always surprised when someone who was an - say, a cinematic icon decades earlier dies and you realise that they had been around (just not so visible) for quite some time.
On Nosferatu, I know we mentioned it ages ago, but I recall being absolutely mesmerised, stunned and utterly transported when I saw the original 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' as an undergrad at an art-house university screening a quarter of a century ago. It was simply spellbinding and quite brilliant - and I was awestruck that a movie made in 1919 could be so flawlessly superb.
This is not a debate, all personal opinion, but what did you find unbelievable?
-that he did not side with the deviate son who murdered his father and escaped?
-that he ended up a slave and gladiator?
-that the emperor had difficulties deciding to get rid of him?
-that the emperor decided to fight the Gladiator after fixing the match?
While it could be argued that in real life the emperor would have simply ordered him killed, that is neither here nor there, when it comes to being entertained.
I find this variation on the story within the realm of enjoyment and no problems at all with suspension of disbelief.
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Guffaws with laughter; brilliant.
Mind you, I am always surprised when someone who was an - say, a cinematic icon decades earlier dies and you realise that they had been around (just not so visible) for quite some time.
On Nosferatu, I know we mentioned it ages ago, but I recall being absolutely mesmerised, stunned and utterly transported when I saw the original 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' as an undergrad at an art-house university screening a quarter of a century ago. It was simply spellbinding and quite brilliant - and I was awestruck that a movie made in 1919 could be so flawlessly superb.
"...Cabinet..." really displayed German cinematic expressionism to a larger audience than earlier efforts. And the 1922, F.W. Murnau "Nosferatu" was, imo, visually brilliant. Also the stories about the star, Max Schreck, never allowing anyone on the set ever to see him out of costume or character made it that much creepier. He was, apparently, a trifle strange!
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Scepticalscribe, I wasn't talking about Gladiator when I wrote "good movie all around". Words got mixed up a bit, since I referred to LA Confidental.
Vodoo Man, I've never heard about it. Is it wrth watching? I'm generally more into Karloff, but can appreciate a well made Lugosi 40s movie, of course. I really liked the Black Cat and especially Island of the Lost Souls (where he only played a minor role / cameo). And yeah, I was actually calculating the decades which must have accumulated into the 90s. But hard to tell how old he was back then when all you've seen are more or less lots of thick layers of make-up. I figured him minimum in his mid 30s in 1945 (thinking he must have been much older actually), that would have made him around 80 years old in the 90s...creepy stuff
About Nosferatu: I can heavily recommend the Eureka deluxe version with audio commentary. Very interesting (ok, admittedly for someone without any knowledge) stuff to learn about visual concepts or cinematography (i.e. the fast forward scene with the carriage when Hutton first enters into the realms of Nosferatu; and so forth).
Vodoo Man, I've never heard about it. Is it wrth watching? I'm generally more into Karloff, but can appreciate a well made Lugosi 40s movie, of course. I really liked the Black Cat and especially Island of the Lost Souls (where he only played a minor role / cameo). And yeah, I was actually calculating the decades which must have accumulated into the 90s. But hard to tell how old he was back then when all you've seen are more or less lots of thick layers of make-up. I figured him minimum in his mid 30s in 1945 (thinking he must have been much older actually), that would have made him around 80 years old in the 90s...creepy stuff
About Nosferatu: I can heavily recommend the Eureka deluxe version with audio commentary. Very interesting (ok, admittedly for someone without any knowledge) stuff to learn about visual concepts or cinematography (i.e. the fast forward scene with the carriage when Hutton first enters into the realms of Nosferatu; and so forth).
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