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Papal Bull
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posted 04 September 2008 04:52 PM      Profile for Papal Bull   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The old thread was getting long and was degenerating into a hilarious back and forth of insults between Cueball and I (which I am sure we will continue in this thread, eventually).

So, new thread - better than the old thread

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posted 04 September 2008 04:58 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Watch the movie again. It completely example how the western countries ignored the plight of Iranian communists. Racially stygamtized and unsupported by anyone she ends up living on the streets. This section amounts to half of the movie. Were you sleeping?

In any case your arguement has slipped into a bit of Rumsfeldian logic about the "absence of evidence," with your question about me proving that it could not.

I am saying that it did not. Its not as if the round up off the Iranian left was any big secret. Just watch the movie again.

Sorry to interupt you in your naive reverie. I didn't realize that we were supposed to talk about political movies, seperate from what they are about, as a kind of theoretical excersize in aesthetics.

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posted 04 September 2008 05:02 PM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What movie are you two talking about?
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Persepolis. Its a good movie worth watching. I just don't think it, or anything like it, would have been made outside of the Eastern Block in 1983. No mainstream western release has talked about this issue, even laterally, until now.

In fact, none were. Certainly none that portray the Stalanist Iranian left as the heros of social reform in Iran.

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posted 04 September 2008 08:16 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I recently saw The Last King of Scotland, with Forest Whitaker playing the role of Idi Amin. Whitaker has to be the most under-rated actor out there. I want to see Bird again now.

One interesting device used in the film was that of a fictional white doctor who worked as Amin's advisor, and who represented the complicity of the West in Amin's crimes.


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posted 04 September 2008 08:18 PM      Profile for Papal Bull   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The Last King of Scotland was great.

Whittaker was in 'Street Kings' with Keanu Reeves. I've not the chance to see it yet, but I've heard good things!


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posted 05 September 2008 06:24 AM      Profile for melovesproles     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Whitaker has to be the most under-rated actor out there.

I second that. I was kind of expecting 'The Last Kind of Scotland' to be awful from the preview, looked like it would be a horror film about 'evil' African dictators but it actually was very well done and Whitaker was incredible.

'Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai' with Whitaker is one of my all time faves too.


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posted 05 September 2008 06:42 AM      Profile for melovesproles     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Whitaker has to be the most under-rated actor out there.

I second that. I was kind of expecting 'The Last Kind of Scotland' to be awful from the preview, looked like it would be a horror film about 'evil' African dictators but it actually was very well done and Whitaker was incredible.

'Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai' with Whitaker is one of my all time faves too.


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quote:
Persepolis. Its a good movie worth watching. I just don't think it, or anything like it, would have been made outside of the Eastern Block in 1983. No mainstream western release has talked about this issue, even laterally, until now.

In fact, none were. Certainly none that portray the Stalanist Iranian left as the heros of social reform in Iran.


I saw Persepolis with an American friend of mine; it was an excellent and thought-provoking film, especially for her as she knew next to nothing about Iran and was not expecting the film to be so educational. I'd advise anyone to watch it but especially Americans; with their newfound national interest in Iran they should learn as much about the place and its history as they can.

And as another plus I loved the animation style(s); not enough inventive animated films for adults these days IMV.


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quote:
Originally posted by It's Me D:
not enough inventive animated films for adults these days IMV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc


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posted 05 September 2008 09:25 AM      Profile for It's Me D     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
PB that is just about the exact opposite of what I meant!

Although I did enjoy the Earthbound screen capture in the background


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posted 05 September 2008 08:48 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Just because it was on TV, I thought I'd try watching 300. I made it through about five minutes, when it was announced that a beast was coming from Persia; an army of slaves that was going to devour the world's last hope for reason and justice.

Sparta? Are you kidding me?

Shurely the guy meant that Iran was going to unleash WMD at the USA.


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posted 05 September 2008 09:00 PM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
al-Qa'bong

Have you seen the more historical accurate movie called "The 300 Spartans" filmed in 1961?


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posted 05 September 2008 11:19 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Nope, but I've seen Burt Lancaster in the eerily Iraqesque Vietnam film, Go Tell the Spartans.

Why do you ask?


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I own Spartacus. Is that the same one?

Last night I watched one of Eric Rohmer's Comedies & Proverbs called My Girlfriend's Boyfriend. What a brilliant French director.


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I just watched "Razing Arizona" while trying to digest half-baked Alaska. Two thumbs down.
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I just watched "The Brave One' (2007) because it has Jodie Foster in it, but it's a dark film, man. It sort of appeals to the vigilante in all of us. Don't you ever wish you could get revenge on someone who done you bad?
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I enjoy watching Spartacus, it is a classic.
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Burt Lancaster? The Swimmer! You almost feel sorry for upper class wannabes after that classic. He was good as Elmer Gantry, too.

"No Country for Old Men" Strange. Very strange brooding, ominous, evol in dark places movie. It weirded me out


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Just watched the animated film Ratatouille which I've seen before, but it's such a likeable film, and hilarious in some places, and there was nothing else on, so I played it through my stereo system - loud - and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Hmmm, must dig up my Ratatouille recipe again, a peasant dish, yes, but a feast for the senses. Wish I could add a chef's hat to this smiley:

ETA: Ratatouille: The Movie and the Dish

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posted 07 September 2008 08:28 PM      Profile for Papal Bull   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So far Pixar is yet to disappoint me. Working on one of their movies would be a dream job. I absolutely love animation.

I did, however, watch both the Forbidden Kingdom and Baby Mama.

Forbidden Kingdom is a pass - it is a really bad rip off of the Last Action Hero. Or better yet, it is like the Neverending Story, but with more kung fu and really crappy writing. I fell asleep a few times and it did not hold my interest. Even the fight choreography couldn't hold my interest.

Baby Mama, on the other hand, was awesome. Tina Fey has proven herself to an excellent comedian. The flick was great until the last 10 minutes where they muddled it up by having to tie together all of the loose ends in a happy deus ex machina. Oh well, Steve Martin was a good laugh.


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I absolutely love animation.

Funny, I'd say the same thing.

I hate Pixar; I've never enjoyed one of their films.


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quote:
Originally posted by It's Me D:

Funny, I'd say the same thing.

I hate Pixar; I've never enjoyed one of their films.


Really? I find that shocking. I mean, sure, the Randian references of an individual overcoming everything, and by sheer force of will altering the total reality around them. But hell, unlike Ayn, we've got some damned good writing on our hands! The styles that they use are gorgeous and convey life far better than the photorealism-fantasy of, say, Final Fantasy. I could go on and gush all about Pixar all day. Their shorts are particularly awesome, and they are actually using technology to create a really cool piece of mass art. In terms of the message it is as agitprop as anything today. It isn't about being happy, per se. It isn't about getting what you want. It is about the will to do that. That is the exact opposite message that the majority of people receive constantly.


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While walking to Zellers through the mall with my missus (why else would I be there?) I saw a poster for a new film, called "Passchendaele."

I'm going to go see it. There's no way I can't.

quote:
The film was inspired by Gross's relationship with his grandfather. Like many veterans, he was reticent about sharing his experiences with his family. In a rare conversation on a fishing trip, Dunne told the story of bayonetting a young German through the face and killing him during a battle.

A long time later, as Dunne lay in hospital bed in the last days of his life, his family was mystified by Dunne's behaviour, asking forgiveness over and over. Only Gross knew that he was speaking to the young German he had killed.

"He went completely out of his mind at the end. He started telling me about a hideous event that happened during a skirmish in a little ruined town in World War I. He'd killed someone in a miserable, horrible way and that had obviously haunted him throughout the rest of his life. As my grandfather died, in his mind he was back in that town, trying to find a German boy whom he'd bayonetted in the forehead.

He'd lived with that memory all his life - and he was of a time when people kept things to themselves. When he finally told the story, it really affected me and I've not been able to get it out of my head


[from the wikipaedia site on "Passchendaele (film)." babble won't allow the URL for the site, so I cannot link to it.)


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I just saw Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940). Wonderful film.

'The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed'.

Look up, Hannah.


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Hmm, The Great Dictator. I have two words, Paulette Goddard.

I read somewhere an interview with someone in Artie Shaw's orchestra who said he couldn't remember anything about shooting the film, Second Chorus, except hanging around with the band, looking at Goddard's legs.


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How about the true life story "American Gangster"?

A very strange tale but interesting none-the-less.

What is not believable is Washington's characterization - there is a lot of this in American films. Murdering psychos with consciences.

What is it about this that makes films from the Godfather to the Dark Knight so bad in the end?


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I dunno,The Godfather is the greatest film ever made.
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I suppose the The Godfather is okay, but unlike a dozen other films I could name, I have no real desire to ever see it again. Just this week I watched Meet Joe Black and The Holiday, both of which I never get tired of watching again and again and again. I even liked Apocalypse Now more than I liked The Godfather.
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I first became aware of Forrest Whitaker in the Crying Game and I was then surprised to find I'd already seen him in Fast times at Ridgemont High.

Just saw Burn This After Reading very dark and funny.


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quote:
Originally posted by Boom Boom:
Just this week I watched Meet Joe Black and

Possibly Brad Pitt's worst film ever? Maybe not (Seven Years in Tibet comes to mind). Why do you like this one?

Speaking of whom, although I like most of the films he's in, I never really respected Brad Pitt's acting skills until I saw him first in Babel 2 years ago, then in Fight Club (which I only just saw this past year).


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While I'm on the topic of "nice to look at, but can they act?", I used to

* checking to make sure Makwa's not around *

poo-poo Tom Cruise's acting skills until I saw him in Vanilla Sky, then re-watched A Few Good Men, and Rain Man. He does a great job in Rain Man.


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quote:
Originally posted by jas:
Possibly Brad Pitt's worst film ever? Maybe not (Seven Years in Tibet comes to mind). Why do you like this one?


I thought Pitt did a great job of playing Death - ethereal, foreboding, mysterious. And Claire Forlani and Anthony Hopkins are very good in this.

ETA: It's an especially great movie when you think about it - Death is a spirit who takes on the body of someone who just died in a car crash - to learn about why humans like life so much. Along the way, Death (in the body of Pitt who plays both the guy who died and the spirit of Death) falls in love with Claire Forlani's character, and at the end, returns the original body that he grabbed back to life so that person can continue to romance the Claire Forlani character. It's a great story line even if you don't like the acting!

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quote:
Originally posted by jas:

...poo-poo Tom Cruise's acting skills until I saw him in Vanilla Sky, then re-watched A Few Good Men, and Rain Man. He does a great job in Rain Man.


I liked Cruise in both A Few Good Men, and Rain Man. I forced myself to watch Cruise and Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut (I had heard it was a terrible film) but I actually thought it was an interesting (perverse?) two hours although, admittedly, the acting was awful.

ETA: Just watched Michael Clayton (2007). Wow!!!

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Cruise is actually a great actor, but he so often can't get out of his own way that he ends up an irritating parody of his hot-shot persona. He's so caught up in playing TOM CRUISE, the role he never drops, that it interferes with the characters he's supposed to inhabit. He is frequently unwatchable because of this.

Still, he's great in a number of movies but one of my favourite Tom Cruise performances is as the vampire Lestat. Who knew? I thought he would be awful and instead he was engaging, charismatic, reptilian yet seductive.

Incidentally, Brad Pitt gives probably his worst performance ever in the same movie as the grating bore Louis. Pitt's very watchable but has to be cast in a role that suits him (like Fight Club, his best role by far). He's really not an actor in any significant sense. I never notice a dramatic difference in any of the characters he plays.


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Tom Cruise is a very talented actor.
I've actually met Ron Kovic and Cruise played him to a tee in Born On the Fourth of July

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Blairza, I'd forgotten about this one. Funny, I just saw that in the 2nd-hand video store the other day, but the cover image, coupled with the title, made it look like another "Risky Business" or "Top Gun", and I passed it over, thinking, oh yeah, Reagan-era rah-rah militarism. But you're right, it wasn't about that, and he had a good performance in that one.

ETA: I'm just remembering his performance in "Magnolia" was pretty awesome, too. That was a case where the Tom Cruise trademark served the role well.

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Stop-Loss

A film that gives a pretty good picture why the US is having a harder time finding pawns to go maintain its occupation of Iraq. Some critics complain of "melodrama" in its portrayal of how the experience of everyday violence in a conflict overseas gets translated into the back-home environment, but for me that was one of the most salient points of the film.

I'm a little surprised that I hadn't heard of it before seeing it on the rental shelf, nor, as far as I can tell, has it been mentioned here. But it seems Iraq war films haven't been doing well at the box office, although no one can quite agree why.

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I saw Babel sometime last year but Pitt doesn't seem to have had any impression on me one way or the other. I've never thought of him as a noteworthy actor. Cate Blanchett, on the other hand, is generally a strong actress, and was a disappointment in the film. I didn't like the film, though the High and Middle Atlas shots were stunning, so that may be why Pitt's role remains a vacuum in my memory. Last night we watched Arcand's Les Invasions barbares. A good film; sad and funny.
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Adriana Barraza's performance of the housekeeper Amelia lost and delirious in the border desert while her two young charges begin to lose consciousness stood out the most for me. Utterly panic-inducing, heartbreaking.
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You're right about those scenes, jas. Very disturbing on a personal level. It also disturbed me that Pitt and Blanchett's characters were the only ones without difficult decisions to make and/or to be represented as irresponsible or 'depraved'...I hope I am remembering the film correctly.
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Not sure what you mean by that. I mean, certainly, the characters don't start out as very likable: just a self-absorbed privileged white couple experiencing marriage troubles, who, inexplicably, decide to vacation in Morocco. I don't think their characters are supposed to mean much beyond that - and what I respect about both of their performances is that they don't try and take it beyond that. They stay within the role even though they're stars and we expect more from their presence in the film. But then throw these two characters into an unimaginable, extreme situation and see what happens. I think they kept it real to the bitter end. But their white privilege stays intact, and is even reinforced at the end when they "graciously" don't press charges against the housekeeper.
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In fact, thinking about it, we know that their presence in the film was probably mainly to attract a more mainstream audience to a film that otherwise might not have. And, if this is true, we could also imagine that Pitt's and Blanchett's characters - the white privileged Richard and Susan Jones and their mysterious marital ennui - might have drawn in a certain segment of the viewing population that also might otherwise have not bothered. The way I see it, this way, an important look-in-the-mirror for white upper and middle-class America actually gets communicated.
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Brad Pitt was quite enjoyable in '12 Monkeys'
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posted 06 October 2008 07:02 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
There's two movies I haven't seen in a long while, so I emailed TMN.ca tonight to see if they would please show them. They are: "Apocalypse Now" and Walt Dizzy's "Fantasia". I love these flicks almost as much as I love the smell of napalm in the morning (just kidding - I borrowed a famous quote from Apocalypse Now).
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posted 06 October 2008 08:33 PM      Profile for ebodyknows   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
There is this canadian cinematic genius that seems to have slipt under the mainstream radar for reasons that escape me(then we wonder why we need to spend money on culture?)....

His name is Robert Morin. His film 'Yes Sir! Madame...' is an unequivocal masterpiece in my mind.

It's a bilingual movie, so it's better if you speak both languages but my father still had a powerfully visceral responce to the work while only understanding one of them.

Also worth checking out:
'the left side of the fridge' and 'Of Whales, the Moon, and Men'

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posted 12 October 2008 05:24 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Just watched Elizabeth: The Golden Age which was a sequel to the first Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, and a whole bunch of other big names. Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Philip of Spain, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada - a really great film, I'm not sure better than the first one, but still great, what with a generous helping of treason and deceit.

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posted 14 October 2008 06:30 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
it/s election night, but I/m watching Judgement At Nurenberg (1961) on the telly, with my laptop ready to read what folks have to say on babble about how things are going. I've seen this film several times before, but it's still riveting every single time.
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posted 14 October 2008 08:06 PM      Profile for Lard Tunderin' Jeezus   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Watched 'Drunken Master', a 1978 Jackie Chan flick with the kids tonite. They've been getting into martial arts movies like The Forbidden Kingdom and (my favorite) Kung Fu Hustle.

Much better than them watching me scream and curse and pull my hair out watching the election.


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posted 14 October 2008 11:21 PM      Profile for Sky Captain   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by It's Me D:
not enough inventive animated films for adults these days IMV.

Oh please, yes there are. And I have a partial list, too:

Millennium Actress

Perfect Blue

Tokyo Godfathers

Paprika

Waking Life

A Scanner Darkly

Check them out before you come up with the bullshit you just said.


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I watched Religulous on the weekend. I liked the theme, but not the delivery. Maher's targets were all imbeciles, which made one feel kinda sorry for their ignorance, not angry about it. I came away thinking "those poor, poor, deluded, defective Religionists" rather than being all fired up, and wanting to take the world back from religious madness.
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I just started reading American Fascists, Chris Hedges' book on the religious right, and now want to hide under the bed.
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posted 25 October 2008 06:00 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Just watched August Rush (2007). Good movie, fabulous music.
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quote:
Originally posted by Stargazer:
I own Spartacus.

Hmm. Stargazer is much more Patrician than I would have thought...

All these chanels I get, someone's always doing a Kubric festival. I was watching Thparticuth the other day and wondering what the musical score might have been if Kubric had more autonomy-- and casting, too. Douglas was a favorite of Kubric's, but I'm sure Tony Curtis was not his choice.

A interesting film by Kubric that doesn't get as much attention is "Paths of Glory." When "Full Metal Jacket" was first released, and I saw it at the theatre, I wasn't impressed. But years later, after watching it a few times, it has grown on me.

Tell me, Boom Boom, do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?


Watched "Doomsday" with Malcolm MacDowel the other day. There were so many things wrong with this movie, I cannot, and will not begin. Many thumbs down.


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posted 25 October 2008 06:29 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Tommy_Paine:
Tell me, Boom Boom, do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?

Not sure what this has to do with a movie thread, but I don' eat either of those. I stay away from shellfish in general, although I make an exception for locally harvested Snow Crab, which are incredibly delicious either by themselves, or added to sandwiches and salads.

I'm watching a documentary on Luciano Pavarotti - great stuff, even if I don't understand Italian.


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posted 25 October 2008 06:40 PM      Profile for Tommy_Paine     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thought I'd have fun. It's dialogue from Spartacus, between Crassus (Larry Olivier) and his body slave (Tony Curtis). It wasn't really about oysters and snails and the scene was cut from the original release.


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posted 25 October 2008 06:45 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ah, I see. I cn't remember anything from Spartacus, it's been ages since I've seen it.

The Who on in 15 minutes! Won't be fooled again.


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posted 25 October 2008 06:54 PM      Profile for TVParkdale     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
There's another version of Spartacus but I haven't been able to get a copy that's supposed to be excellent.

Trying to remember which country put it out as a miniseries?

Oh yeah and Fav movie of all time? The 9th Configuration. If you haven't seen it, try it. It's for people with oddball tastes


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quote:
Originally posted by Lard Tunderin' Jeezus:
Watched 'Drunken Master', a 1978 Jackie Chan flick with the kids tonite. They've been getting into martial arts movies like The Forbidden Kingdom and (my favorite) Kung Fu Hustle.

Much better than them watching me scream and curse and pull my hair out watching the election.


LOVED the Drunken Master series!

Try getting "Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan" for Shaw camp at it's finest and for serious fans try, "Harikiri" and "Sword of Doom".


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I'm waiting for a movie version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Seems to me, with all the interest in China, and Chinese cinema being rather excellent, someone would make this film.
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posted 25 October 2008 07:45 PM      Profile for vaudree     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I want to see Stop-Loss

Just got Fight Club at the clearance bin at Superstore last Tuesday when I was picking up the Hulk.

Forbidden Kingdom is out but have to wait until Christmas to see it.

Lots of teen boy movies out this season:

Nov 4 Get Smart
Nov 9 Kung Fu Panda
Nov 11 Hellboy II
Nov 18 Wall-E
Nov 25 Hancock
Dec 2 Narnia 2
Dec 9 Dark Knight
Dec 16 Mummy 3


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quote:
Originally posted by Tommy_Paine:
I'm waiting for a movie version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Seems to me, with all the interest in China, and Chinese cinema being rather excellent, someone would make this film.

That is a book?

3 line synopsis pls?


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posted 25 October 2008 08:39 PM      Profile for TVParkdale     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by vaudree:
I want to see Stop-Loss

Just got Fight Club at the clearance bin at Superstore last Tuesday when I was picking up the Hulk.

Forbidden Kingdom is out but have to wait until Christmas to see it.

Lots of teen boy movies out this season:

Nov 4 Get Smart--timewaster
Nov 9 Kung Fu Panda--cute but no cigar
Nov 11 Hellboy II--passable
Nov 18 Wall-E--unknown
Nov 25 Hancock--unknown
Dec 2 Narnia 2--passable
Dec 9 Dark Knight--definitely worth the watch 2x
Dec 16 Mummy 3--blech


Fight Club is worth spending some time watching a few times to catch all the undertones.

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Yes, I prided myself on being able to capture the frame in each of the instances that Pitt's character appears for a split-second before he enters the plot. I guess I had more time than was healthy for me that week

That makes for a good Babble MOVIES TRIVIA QUESTION, though: without looking it up online (although you can watch the movie), in how many scenes, and which ones, does Tyler Durden appear as a split-second hallucination to the narrator before they actually meet?

I will share the pics here if I can, and if it doesn't violate any copyright.


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Just watched How She Move (2008). Incredible dancing to great rap. I'd love to see this stuff live.
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posted 27 October 2008 06:39 PM      Profile for TVParkdale     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by jas:
Yes, I prided myself on being able to capture the frame in each of the instances that Pitt's character appears for a split-second before he enters the plot. I guess I had more time than was healthy for me that week

That makes for a good Babble MOVIES TRIVIA QUESTION, though: without looking it up online (although you can watch the movie), in how many scenes, and which ones, does Tyler Durden appear as a split-second hallucination to the narrator before they actually meet?

I will share the pics here if I can, and if it doesn't violate any copyright.


It's "fair use" if you add commentary or are using it for critiquing purposes.

And I think the answer is 6?


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Have some fun.

SNAG-documentaries


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quote:
Originally posted by TVParkdale:

... And I think the answer is 6?

Can you name which scenes? If it's 6 then I definitely didn't catch them all. I don't think it's 6.


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posted 28 October 2008 11:10 AM      Profile for TVParkdale     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by jas:

Can you name which scenes? If it's 6 then I definitely didn't catch them all. I don't think it's 6.


Look HERE:

Fight Club--Hidden scenes

This guy found 5.


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I said, no looking online! So not only do you not win the prize, but you've ruined my trivia quiz.

Anyway, I missed the one in the copy room. The fifth instance occurred at the end of the film, so is technically not part of my question, and there's no proof that it is, or is intended to be, any character in the film.


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posted 28 October 2008 12:59 PM      Profile for It's Me D     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Oh please, yes there are. And I have a partial list, too:

Millennium Actress

Perfect Blue

Tokyo Godfathers

Paprika

Waking Life

A Scanner Darkly

Check them out before you come up with the bullshit you just said.


Thanks for the personal attack random noob; I have seen all these pictures and they are an example of just how scarce good animate fare aimed at adults has become (which is not to suggest they are bad films). Of six films you've listed four are Japanese and the other two are from the same director; so that shows what exactly: its hard to find more than one director working in adult animation in all of North America?

The Japanese have great animated films for adults, many cultures outside North America still do (such as Persepolis which was discussed earlier); the fact remains that we North Americans have slid backwards with respect to producing animation for adults and it is something to be upset about. Looking back a couple decades the scene was more promising, particularly the works of Ralph Bakshi which were for the most part excellent and always groundbreaking.

But hey, why do I bother responding, if you think that North America is currently producing great animated films for adults then enjoy; just layoff with the personal attacks against someone who obviously cares for the medium and the genre a great deal more than you do.


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Perfect Blue wasn't bad. I really like anime, with my favourite genre being romance anime. The love triangles rock. IMO the best anime in this genre is Peach Girl.

Peach Girl - Espisode 1


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quote:
Originally posted by TVParkdale:

3 line synopsis pls?


The average plot synopsis for Romance of the Three Kingdoms is longer than War & Peace

I just watched "I Am Legend", I was impressed, to say the least, given that I didn't have high hopes for the film.

I'm going to watch Ghost World tonight, which is something I have been meaning to see for a while.

Being a movie clerk is sweet!


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quote:
Originally posted by Papal Bull:

The average plot synopsis for Romance of the Three Kingdoms is longer than War & Peace

I just watched "I Am Legend", I was impressed, to say the least, given that I didn't have high hopes for the film.

I'm going to watch Ghost World tonight, which is something I have been meaning to see for a while.

Being a movie clerk is sweet!


I actually liked the original "Omega Man" better. Personal taste, I guess.

Other dystopian movies I liked were the original Rollerball, Dark City and of course Bladerunner.


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posted 28 October 2008 07:57 PM      Profile for Tommy_Paine     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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The average plot synopsis for Romance of the Three Kingdoms is longer than War & Peace


Yeah. And I wouldn't try to do a screen play that attempted to cover the whole epic. It would be like trying to condence "Lord of the Rings" into a 90 minute movie. Still, there are many stories within the big story that could be done justice in movie format.


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posted 28 October 2008 08:07 PM      Profile for TVParkdale     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Tommy_Paine:

Yeah. And I wouldn't try to do a screen play that attempted to cover the whole epic. It would be like trying to condence "Lord of the Rings" into a 90 minute movie. Still, there are many stories within the big story that could be done justice in movie format.


Wouldn't it make a better mini-series then?

LOTR Synopsis:

Cute hobbit saves mankind by going on perilous journey with loyal friends to drop an evil entity's ring into a pool of fire.


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HBO's mini series "Rome" seemed to do well. But here, I would have started the story much earlier, perhaps where Colleen McCullough did, with the arrival of Gius Marius into Roman politics. An even more interesting time than Julius Ceasar's.

A series would be cost prohibitive, with today's fractured T.V. audience. Even HBO was very tentative with it's "Rome" series-- waiting to see if season 1 got the ratings to justify season 2.


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quote:
Originally posted by Tommy_Paine:
HBO's mini series "Rome" seemed to do well. But here, I would have started the story much earlier, perhaps where Colleen McCullough did, with the arrival of Gius Marius into Roman politics. An even more interesting time than Julius Ceasar's.

A series would be cost prohibitive, with today's fractured T.V. audience. Even HBO was very tentative with it's "Rome" series-- waiting to see if season 1 got the ratings to justify season 2.


Would 8-20 hours cover it? That's a fair sized chunk for a good story.

Rome was excellent I also liked Dune/Children of Dune, The Tin Man, The Lost Room and 'way back--The Strauss Family. What about Shogun sized?


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quote:
Originally posted by Tommy_Paine:
HBO's mini series "Rome" seemed to do well. But here, I would have started the story much earlier, perhaps where Colleen McCullough did, with the arrival of Gius Marius into Roman politics. An even more interesting time than Julius Ceasar's.

A series would be cost prohibitive, with today's fractured T.V. audience. Even HBO was very tentative with it's "Rome" series-- waiting to see if season 1 got the ratings to justify season 2.


I believe there were also international co-production partners, which raised the budget considerably and helped to justify the investment in the second season.

It was very good, but I didn't like how they ended things with Vorenus, purely on a narrative level.


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I actually liked the original "Omega Man" better. Personal taste, I guess.

Actually Omega Man was itself a remake, the original would be "The Last Man on Earth" with Vincent Price I like all the versions, I am glad the latest returned to the original book title though

quote:
I also liked Dune/Children of Dune

You liked the mini-series and the movie? Thats a rarity; I have met a few who like the mini-series (bleh ) but generally those who do HATE Lynch's movie. Lynch's movie of Dune is awesome


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quote:
Originally posted by Timebandit:

I believe there were also international co-production partners, which raised the budget considerably and helped to justify the investment in the second season.

It was very good, but I didn't like how they ended things with Vorenus, purely on a narrative level.


There are also problems keeping an ensamble together. I think a lot of those who appeared on "Rome" were and wanted to be doing other things.

Vorenus had to die. I knew he was going to die right from the first episode, without knowing the plot details. Vorenus was the old, moral and traditional Roman. Pullo, the new and pragmatic Roman. The relationship between Vorenus and Pullo aptly mirrored the political upheaval.

If you didn't like it, blame Cato and his political cronies. Everything was their fault.


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quote:
Originally posted by It's Me D:

You liked the mini-series and the movie? Thats a rarity; I have met a few who like the mini-series (bleh ) but generally those who do HATE Lynch's movie. Lynch's movie of Dune is awesome


Opposite actually. I can live with the movie if I ignore the actual storyline of Dune.

Loved the miniseries though. The hats were annoying. Costuming in Lynch was better. Wish Duke Atredies [actor?] could improve, he's over the top one minute and deadpan the next


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quote:
Originally posted by Tommy_Paine:

There are also problems keeping an ensamble together. I think a lot of those who appeared on "Rome" were and wanted to be doing other things.

Vorenus had to die. I knew he was going to die right from the first episode, without knowing the plot details. Vorenus was the old, moral and traditional Roman. Pullo, the new and pragmatic Roman. The relationship between Vorenus and Pullo aptly mirrored the political upheaval.

If you didn't like it, blame Cato and his political cronies. Everything was their fault.


I agree with you there was no "out" for Vorenus.

I liked your analysis but I'd say Vorenus didn't survive for other reasons...

Like Marc Antony they "suffered the same sickness" meeting anything that challenged their egos with violence and rage. They both *enjoyed* violence and disruption.

Vorenus, was emotionally fragile as was Marc Antony.

Pullo, on the other hand let his heart, lead him. Emotionally, he had inner strength to survive prison, torture and complicated life circumstances plus the same experiences that broke Vorenus.

Pullo learned to *use* violence, not be driven by it. So, he survived...


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quote:
Originally posted by vaudree:
I want to see Stop-Loss


You can find it here:


Stop Loss CD 1

STop Loss CD 2


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I just rewatched "Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears". It is pretty good. I'm sure that there is a lot of criticism one can toss on it, particularly at the end. However, doesn't change the fact it is has a very well composed story. Plus, it has the actor from The Cranes Are Flying!
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quote:
Originally posted by Tommy_Paine:

There are also problems keeping an ensamble together. I think a lot of those who appeared on "Rome" were and wanted to be doing other things.

Vorenus had to die. I knew he was going to die right from the first episode, without knowing the plot details. Vorenus was the old, moral and traditional Roman. Pullo, the new and pragmatic Roman. The relationship between Vorenus and Pullo aptly mirrored the political upheaval.

If you didn't like it, blame Cato and his political cronies. Everything was their fault.


It was the ambiguity, actually, that bothered me most. If that had been narratively clear it would have been a pisser anyway but we don't know that he died -- not in the way that we know all other characters who met their end in the series did.


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quote:
Originally posted by Timebandit:

It was the ambiguity, actually, that bothered me most. If that had been narratively clear it would have been a pisser anyway but we don't know that he died -- not in the way that we know all other characters who met their end in the series did.


Ambiguity? How ambiguous is septicemia and dying in the arms of his daughter?

Did I miss something?


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Saw Passchendaele last night. The technical departments richly deserve to win any awards they are nominated for. I realize they were working with a much larger budget than most Canadian feature films, but even allowing for that advantage their work was fantastic. The cast were also excellent, in isolation the acting in each scene was first rate. I would, though, only give the movie a moderate recommendation. Gross over-reached himself... the writing and editing were extremely uneven and the direction (in places) was clearly more suitable for the stage than the screen. The script and final cut should have been subjected to a ruthless editing process by someone other than the writer/director (Gross). The first half hour of the film raised my expectations and the remaining 90 minutes trashed them. It was not quite the total vanity project that, say, Dances With Wolves turned out to be, but it still disappointed me that Gross failed to subject the film to the kind of editing he needed.
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quote:
Originally posted by Papal Bull:
I'm going to watch Ghost World tonight, which is something I have been meaning to see for a while.

Skip Ghost World: it's masturbation on a mental level, about two shiftless losers who need a life, and who I secretly wish could get drafted and be sent to Iraq/Afghanistan. I know it sound dumb, but I'd rather hang out with the characters from the High School Musical movies instead, or the kids from Dazed & Confused.

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It was actually quite good. They are shiftless losers that need to get a life. And that is the crux of the movie, one of them does, and one of them doesn't. It primarily focuses on the friction between the two friends as they diverge after high school. You never really feel "bad" for either of the characters or the choices that they make, because the movie highlights the desolate wasteland of plenty that they live in - sub-urban California.

The score to the film is really well placed, the characters become increasingly developed, and it is based on an awesome comic book.

And High School Musical? Really?

Now, onto the Ninth Configuration. I picked it up because the DVD cover has an astronaut on the moon with a crucified Jesus in front of him casting a shadow. It looked really cool.


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