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Oh spit! I'm gonna have to pull out the dictionary to make sure you didn't just insult me. brb
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I just watched Taken.My kids will not be leaving the country until they are 40.
isn't that the truth. I watched that movie and my daughter went on spring break the next day.
I thought the movie Taken was very good. But I just watched Broken Bridges and I loved it.
Went and saw Up today, it was a very good movie, one I can recommend for almost any age group. Actually there was almost every age group in the theater. Sorry Nools, I just wasn't quite as excited as you about it.
I saw Up yesterday, and the theater was packed with kids. So I was really impressed that the movie held their interest as well as it did - no fussing at all!Great movie, loved Dug and Kevin especially!
OMG. Tarsem's The Fall is a stunning visual and storytelling masterpiece (reviewer calls it a "tour de force"). If you get a chance to rent, buy, or borrow it, I highly recommend it. The girl in the movie, Alexandria, is darling... absolutely precious. Plus, David Fincher and Spike Jonze produced it. Gah. A definite new favorite.***SO WATCH IT!!!***
The movie that always brings a smile to my face . . . Strictly Ballroom.
I didn't mean to, but I ended up watching all of There Will Be Blood yesterday. The film's climax, where Daniel Day-Lewis' Daniel Plainview drunken humiliates and berates Eli Sunday - "I drink your milkshake...SLUUURRRP!...I drink it up!" is sheer genius.
Another great flick I watched recently was The Wrestler. A bit melodramatic, but, boy howdy, Mickey Rourke's performance was simply sublime and heartbreaking. What a pleasure to see him finally return to greatness.
On the other hand...Slumdog Millionaire was pretty ho-hum. Can anyone really tell me what the fuss was all about?
Another great flick I watched recently was The Wrestler. A bit melodramatic, but, boy howdy, Mickey Rourke's performance was simply sublime and heartbreaking. What a pleasure to see him finally return to greatness.
On the other hand...Slumdog Millionaire was pretty ho-hum. Can anyone really tell me what the fuss was all about?
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Slumdog Millionaire is a cute romantic flick. Well a different and strange approach to a romantic flick. I enjoyed the movie.Made me want to watch Memento again.
OMG PEOPLES! YOU NEED TO SEE TARSEM'S THE FALL!!! I tried to be subtle earlier, but I can't be subtle about this. It's URGENT!
Oh, and I watched Dear Frankie eleventy billion times in the past few days (including once with the director commentary).
Gee, I can't tell Heidi did you like the movie? ;).
We should have an enthusiasm-off between Heidi and Nools. May the best movie win.
I'd throw down the gauntlet, but I don't think I could hold a candle to Nools. She'd probably win, hands down. :)
Heidi can you tell me how you really liked the movie? What is it about - The Fall?
It's a visual and storytelling masterpiece. If I tell you anymore... well, I can't. Just watch it.
OH. Here... even better: frame stills & trailer from the official movie website.Seriously. Great stuff. I wouldn't steer you wrong... not when it comes to film.
EBERT'S REVIEW:The Fall
Finding new images in a world of imagination
Release Date: 2008 Ebert Rating: **** May 29, 2008
By Roger Ebert
Tarsem's "The Fall" is a mad folly, an extravagant visual orgy, a free-fall from reality into uncharted realms. Surely it is one of the wildest indulgences a director has ever granted himself. Tarsem, for two decades a leading director of music videos and TV commercials, spent millions of his own money to finance "The Fall," filmed it for four years in 28 countries and has made a movie that you might want to see for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it.
"The Fall" is so audacious that when Variety calls it a "vanity project," you can only admire the man vain enough to make it. It tells a simple story with vast romantic images so stunning I had to check twice, three times, to be sure the film actually claims to have absolutely no computer-generated imagery. None? What about the Labyrinth of Despair, with no exit? The intersecting walls of zig-zagging staircases? The man who emerges from the burning tree? Perhaps the key words are "computer-generated." Perhaps some of the images are created by more traditional kinds of special effects.
The story framework for the imagery is straightforward. In Los Angeles, circa 1915, a silent movie stunt man has his legs paralyzed while performing a reckless stunt. He convalesces in a half-deserted hospital, its corridors of cream and lime stretching from ward to ward of mostly empty beds, their pillows and sheets awaiting the harvest of World War I. The stunt man is Roy (Lee Pace), pleasant in appearance, confiding in speech, happy to make a new friend of a little girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru).
Roy tells a story to Alexandria, involving adventurers who change appearance as quickly as a child's imagination can do its work. We see the process. He tells her of an "Indian" who has a wigwam and a squaw. She does not know these words, and envisions an Indian from a land of palaces, turbans and swamis. The verbal story is input from Roy; the visual story is output from Alexandria.
The story involves Roy (playing the Black Bandit) and his friends: a bomb-throwing Italian anarchist, an escaped African slave, an Indian (from India), and Charles Darwin and his pet monkey, Wallace. Their sworn enemy, Governor Odious, has stranded them on a desert island, but they come ashore (riding swimming elephants, of course) and wage war on him.
Roy draws out the story for a personal motive; after Alexandria brings him some communion wafers from the hospital chapel, he persuades her to steal some morphine tablets from the dispensary. Paralyzed and having lost his great love (she is the Princess in his story), he hopes to kill himself. There is a wonderful scene of the little girl trying to draw him back to life.
Either you are drawn into the world of this movie or you are not. It is preposterous, of course, but I vote with Werner Herzog, who says if we do not find new images, we will perish. Here a line of bowmen shoot hundreds of arrows into the air. So many of them fall into the back of the escaped slave that he falls backward and the weight of his body is supported by them, as on a bed of nails with dozens of foot-long arrows. There is scene of the monkey Wallace chasing a butterfly through impossible architecture.
At this point in reviews of movies like "The Fall" (not that there are any), I usually announce that I have accomplished my work. I have described what the movie does, how it looks while it is doing it, and what the director has achieved. Well, what has he achieved? "The Fall" is beautiful for its own sake. And there is the sweet charm of the young Romanian actress Catinca Untaru, who may have been dubbed for all I know, but speaks with the innocence of childhood, working her way through tangles of words. She regards with equal wonder the reality she lives in, and the fantasy she pretends to. It is her imagination that creates the images of Roy's story, and they have a purity and power beyond all calculation. Roy is her perfect storyteller, she is his perfect listener, and together they build a world.
Ebert notes: The movie's R rating should not dissuade bright teenagers from this celebration of the imagination.
riding swimming elephants, of courseIt has elephants. I will watch.
Erm... I new here. Never posted before. What's up people?
Welcome to TC Rachel, come join the plethora of jocularity we have going on here.
Thought that I would throw a couple words of the day in, since they have both been used on me today.
Thought that I would throw a couple words of the day in, since they have both been used on me today.
Plethora, Jim? Plethora?Rachel, just let it all hang out here. It can be a bit of fun. Sally keeps us all in line with the constant threat of banishment behind the ficus. But that's not as bad as it sounds when you say it out loud.
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Is he hiding behind a bonsai? Is that what you short people hide behind? Is the ficus like a redwood to you?
Hahaha!! I'm suddenly scared of getting banished behind the ficus. I'm way shorter than that little dude. You'd never find me ever again!
Just saw Good Bye Solo tonight at our local indie theatre. It's about a cab driver in Winston-Salem, NC. It was very well done -- but very unsettling.http://www.goodbyesolomovie.com/
Rachel wrote: "Hahaha!! I'm suddenly scared of getting banished behind the ficus. I'm way shorter than that little dude. You'd never find me ever again!"
Oh never fear about being lost behind the ficus Rachel, Larry and I are there on a regular basis. But a fair warning there is quite a collection of assorted articles back there.
Oh never fear about being lost behind the ficus Rachel, Larry and I are there on a regular basis. But a fair warning there is quite a collection of assorted articles back there.
Ko -- was it gory? Or just scary? I love Raimi's humor-horror, but I sometimes have to work up the nerve, since I don't go for horror in general.
Has any one watched Monsters Vs Aliens yet? What about Terminator Salvation?
What kind of assorted articles, exactly? Ooh, can I bring teddy? LOL
I saw Monsters Vs. Aliens - very funny! It's "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" mixed with "Mars Attacks" and "A Bug's Life", kind of.I saw it in 3-D, and it was really cool!
I loved Hellboy and the sequel.I have borrowed The Fall from my sister, though I had to put up with a number of I-told-you-so's, since when I visited her she tried to get me to watch it and I didn't. She was a little offended that a relative stranger's recommendation would get me to watch it, but hers didn't.
Will report back once I've seen it.
Been catching up on tv series on the websites for free before heading out to hit all the movies.On the list: Star Trek, Transformers 2, Up
Finally saw Vicky Cristina Barcelona. I loved the way it was shot - the city was beautiful. The music was great. I liked Bardem, and the girl who played Vicky, but Scarlett Johansen irritated me in this one. Saw Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist the other night too. Cute but nothing special. I did like that they were using real NYC clubs. And that they had magic parking luck. Do you know how long it takes to find parking near Arlene's Grocery on a weekend night? Start with the fact that there are five to ten bands playing most nights, all of whom need to park a vehicle or two.
I saw Rachel Getting Married last night. Parts were very difficult to watch for me, due to members in my family with similar problems. I thought it was well done. The father got on my nerves. The wedding lasted far too long, for me anyway.
Nick and Nora disappointed me a little, but I had heard so many good things about it. I tried to watch Rachel Getting Married twice and failed both times.
Turned it off. Couldn't handle it.
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