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@ Mona. I finally received An American Crime from my inter-library loan and watched it last night along with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. WOW, you were right that AAC was disturbing and more so because based on true events. Ellen Page looks exactly the same today. I did not realize she was in the movie. TGWTDT was really intense as well. The casting was perfect. Lisbeth was a little more ripped than I had imagined her though. :)
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ms.petra wrote: "@ Mona - I love documentaries.The Stoning of Soraya M is disturbing because it is based on true events. It is horrifying to know these things are happening as we speak.
http://hotair.com/archives/..."
Ms. Petra: Sorry for the delay. I haven't been able to spend much time on GR lately. Anyway, thanks for the links. I did check them out.
Marie Claire magazine often has "world report" articles. Check them out on MarieClaire.com if you're interested.
Although I think that punishments such as these are barbaric and inhumane, I think some who are charged with crimes get off way too easy. A good example of this is the case of EUNICE SPRY, the foster mother in the UK charged with horrific child abuse.
Saw Inception last night. It was hard to follow at first, but I eventually caught on. A lot of the plot twists were easy to predict (if you've seen a lot of action pics), but it was a fun show.One thing that bugged me was my usual rant about action movies. It seems that the guys with automatic weapons NEVER HIT ANYTHING, but the guys with the handguns are perfect shots. Grrr.
I really want to see Inception...Instead, I got The Runaways from Redbox. Very disappointing, and (as Jackie predicted) I felt like a perv every time Dakota Fanning wore something slutty on screen.
How the hell did they run out of kid-sized glasses at that movie?My kids don't like 3-D movies anymore. They say the glasses suck.
I have just watched Spirited Away with my daughter, she is studying it for her English class as part of the study of animation.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/
It was very good. My daughter really enjoyed it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/
It was very good. My daughter really enjoyed it.
You haven't seen stupid 3D until you've been to a Midnite Movie showing of 3D Prison Girls. Oddly enough, all the, er, things you'd expect to be in 3D, weren't.
I just saw THE STONING OF SORAYA M. It was based on a true story and an international bestseller which I now want to read.The movie was well-made, authentic, and compelling. It was a very disturbing, graphic, and memorable film.
BunWat wrote: "I think I would give up after a fortnight, because I would be tired."
Quitter! :-)
Quitter! :-)
Mona wrote: "I just saw THE STONING OF SORAYA M. It was based on a true story and an international bestseller which I now want to read.The movie was well-made, authentic, and compelling. It was a very disturb..."
Mona, I thought it was one of the best of last year.
ms.petra wrote: "Mona wrote: "I just saw THE STONING OF SORAYA M. It was based on a true story and an international bestseller which I now want to read.The movie was well-made, authentic, and compelling. It was a..."
Ms. Petra, Some movies stay with you and this is one of them. I watched the special features on the DVD too about the making of the movie. Unfortunately, my library system doesn't have the book so I'll have to see if I can find it at a library sale/thrift store.
On a different note, and I know this is the wrong thread, are you still watching LAST COMIC STANDING? They eliminated someone I liked this week. Sometimes the blank,puzzled expressions on hubby's face after a set is funnier than the set :).
I did watch last night. I liked Mike DeStafano, Roy Wood, and Myq Kaplan. The guy from St. louis had a good video, Tommy I think is his name. I didn't watch the last couple of weeks so I didn't know how Rachel Feinstein did. I wish she was is the finals just so there was a woman.
We watched To Kill a Mockingbird the other night. The story is great (loved the book) -- but the acting from 1962 was a bit over the top, with most lines delivered as profound pronouncements. So not up to the standards of today. But I enjoyed it. Robert Duval's part was quite endearing. If you haven't seen it, I won't spoil it for you.
If you haven't seen Inception yet, then what the hell are you waiting for?
I haven't seen a movie that messed with my mind like this since Memento, and that's no small irony, considering both films were directed by Christopher Nolan.
I'm eager to see it again. Amazing, amazing film!
I haven't seen a movie that messed with my mind like this since Memento, and that's no small irony, considering both films were directed by Christopher Nolan.
I'm eager to see it again. Amazing, amazing film!
@Gus: I want want want to see Inception but everybody has already seen it or doesn't want to.@Gail: Spirited Away is one of my favorite movies ever.
I saw it, Gabby81, and I thought it was pretty good! The plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but that's not the point (wait, the Russians are the bad guys? Still???). The point is how cool Angelina Jolie's character is, and how resourceful she is at escaping, McGuyverlike, from various situations.
I would say it's akin to a Die Hard movie, with some spy stuff thrown in.
I really appreciated that the dog in the movie is NOT used to emphasize how bad the bad guys are, but reassuringly taken care of early on. :)
ms.petra wrote: "I did watch last night. I liked Mike DeStafano, Roy Wood, and Myq Kaplan. The guy from St. louis had a good video, Tommy I think is his name. I didn't watch the last couple of weeks so I didn't kno..."Ms Petra: I like Mike DeStefano too even if his set isn't especially funny. Roy Wood's set was pretty good. That Hispanic guy is funny without saying anything. There's that other guy, Jonathan Thymius, that always looks like he's lost. He reminds me of a guy in my parents' social circle. This guy is an Indian version of J. Thymius.
I DVR the show. I was sorry to see Rachel leave because she's really talented when it comes to voices/personas and, yeah, she's a woman.
The female judge reminds me of a college classmate/friend of a friend. Same style of speaking and laugh.
Sarah Pi wrote:
"@Gail: Spirited Away is one of my favorite movies ever."
I had never heard of it before, so didn't know what to expect. My daughter likes to watch movies with me, a bit of a 'girly time sharing' thing. She had been told by her friends that it was weird, I really couldn't understand that reaction after watching it.
I can understand why it would be a favourite.
"@Gail: Spirited Away is one of my favorite movies ever."
I had never heard of it before, so didn't know what to expect. My daughter likes to watch movies with me, a bit of a 'girly time sharing' thing. She had been told by her friends that it was weird, I really couldn't understand that reaction after watching it.
I can understand why it would be a favourite.
Sarah, even if you have to go by yourself, go see Inception. You will not be disappointed.
Much to my family's chagrin, Sex Pistols night at Chez Clark:
Often annoyingly scrambled and silly, the “Great Rock ‘n Roll Swindle” describes the formation of the Sex Pistols by impresario Malcolm McLaren, who offers pearls of wisdom throughout on how to build a musical phenomenon, i.e., “A band that can’t play is better than a band that can play.” And how.
There is, however, some great footage of the Sex Pistols performing and interesting newsreel clips, but the real reason to tune in is footage of a clearly doomed Sid Vicious caught in irresistible free fall, delivering Eddie Cochran’s “Something Else” in his BVD’s and a gaudily orchestrated “My Way,” filmed in a Paris theater in front of an assembled cast of snooty, middle-aged extras, punctuated by Sidney busting caps in their collective ass.
"Everybody on the planet knows Malcolm's (McLaren) full of shit," proclaims Steve Jones early on in Julien Temple's "The Filth and the Fury," making it clear from the onset that this is the band's own version of events and a whole lot closer to the truth than "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle." If you're still not convinced, a particularly bitter John Lydon seals it with his characterization of his former manager as a man who did virtually nothing but "steal my ideas and claim them as his own."
There's an amazing quantity of live footage (some of it dazzling), but a dearth of archive interview material with the articulate Lydon, which makes it difficult to reconstruct the group's importance. But the story itself beggars belief even after 30 years; blow-by-blow analyses of the Grundy show (Jones admits to four bottles of Blue Nun before they went on air), the record company debacles, and Lydon's dislike of Glenn Matlock ("When you talk like an arsehole and look like an arsehole, you're an arsehole"), who would eventually be replaced by the hapless Sid Vicious. As Jones points out, "Sid couldn't play a fuckin' note," so Vicious turns to heroin and the dreadful Nancy Spungen (dismissed by Lydon as "a hooker"), and the rest is hideously inevitable.
Hobbled by the backlash against "God Save the Queen" as punk declined into uniformity, the Pistols fled to America, where they simply fell to bits, Lydon still characterizing his bandmates as "total wanker cowards" while Jones now admits regret, wishing they'd lasted longer. But Sid's addiction would probably still have dragged them down. A 1978 interview reveals him to be less stupid than he seemed - thoughtful and amusing in fact - but totally doomed. When asked where he wants to be, Sid glumly replies "under the ground," and you know he means it.
Wisely, Temple ends the story here, having delivered a compelling documentary that succeeds in conjuring something of the Pistols' humor, energy, and tragedy. This is history, and it's important. We're the future...
Often annoyingly scrambled and silly, the “Great Rock ‘n Roll Swindle” describes the formation of the Sex Pistols by impresario Malcolm McLaren, who offers pearls of wisdom throughout on how to build a musical phenomenon, i.e., “A band that can’t play is better than a band that can play.” And how.
There is, however, some great footage of the Sex Pistols performing and interesting newsreel clips, but the real reason to tune in is footage of a clearly doomed Sid Vicious caught in irresistible free fall, delivering Eddie Cochran’s “Something Else” in his BVD’s and a gaudily orchestrated “My Way,” filmed in a Paris theater in front of an assembled cast of snooty, middle-aged extras, punctuated by Sidney busting caps in their collective ass.
"Everybody on the planet knows Malcolm's (McLaren) full of shit," proclaims Steve Jones early on in Julien Temple's "The Filth and the Fury," making it clear from the onset that this is the band's own version of events and a whole lot closer to the truth than "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle." If you're still not convinced, a particularly bitter John Lydon seals it with his characterization of his former manager as a man who did virtually nothing but "steal my ideas and claim them as his own."
There's an amazing quantity of live footage (some of it dazzling), but a dearth of archive interview material with the articulate Lydon, which makes it difficult to reconstruct the group's importance. But the story itself beggars belief even after 30 years; blow-by-blow analyses of the Grundy show (Jones admits to four bottles of Blue Nun before they went on air), the record company debacles, and Lydon's dislike of Glenn Matlock ("When you talk like an arsehole and look like an arsehole, you're an arsehole"), who would eventually be replaced by the hapless Sid Vicious. As Jones points out, "Sid couldn't play a fuckin' note," so Vicious turns to heroin and the dreadful Nancy Spungen (dismissed by Lydon as "a hooker"), and the rest is hideously inevitable.
Hobbled by the backlash against "God Save the Queen" as punk declined into uniformity, the Pistols fled to America, where they simply fell to bits, Lydon still characterizing his bandmates as "total wanker cowards" while Jones now admits regret, wishing they'd lasted longer. But Sid's addiction would probably still have dragged them down. A 1978 interview reveals him to be less stupid than he seemed - thoughtful and amusing in fact - but totally doomed. When asked where he wants to be, Sid glumly replies "under the ground," and you know he means it.
Wisely, Temple ends the story here, having delivered a compelling documentary that succeeds in conjuring something of the Pistols' humor, energy, and tragedy. This is history, and it's important. We're the future...
I haven't seen The Filth and the Fury. I'll check it out.Clark, have you read England's Dreaming?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...
RandomAnthony wrote: "I haven't seen The Filth and the Fury. I'll check it out.
Clark, have you read England's Dreaming?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33..."
Yes. I thought it was great, if not a bit dry in parts. Have you read it?
I'd also recommend the Clash documentary "Westway to the World" if you haven't already seen it.
Clark, have you read England's Dreaming?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33..."
Yes. I thought it was great, if not a bit dry in parts. Have you read it?
I'd also recommend the Clash documentary "Westway to the World" if you haven't already seen it.
I read the first couple hundred pages in a cabin outside the Boulder mountains. Then I left and never finished. I saw a good Ramones documentary a couple years back, don't remember what it's called...
RandomAnthony wrote: "I read the first couple hundred pages in a cabin outside the Boulder mountains. Then I left and never finished. I saw a good Ramones documentary a couple years back, don't remember what it's call..."
"End of the Century"?
"End of the Century"?
I saw Hot Tub Time Machine yesterday and laughed my ass off. I did not expect that.
I have Daybreakers, Edge of Darkness, and The Holiday that I need to watch this weekend before taking them back to the library.I have many others but those 3 are due soonest.
RandomAnthony wrote: "I saw Hot Tub Time Machine yesterday and laughed my ass off. I did not expect that."THey're showing it on the pier as a free movie sometime this week. That surprised me too- usually they go for cult classics. Is it a cult classic in the making?
Man, see, I wanted to SEE that, Hot Tub Time Machine, I mean, but no one would go with me! I think you have to be a certain age to appreciate it.
And I imagine some of the ladies dig John Cusak:)Yes, End of the Century, by the way, thanks, Clark...
Zu hates John Cusack. I didn't know he was hateable.
RA, yeah, Hot Tub Time Machine is a cult classic in the making.
Yes, I agree, I could see Hot Tub Time Machine as a cult classic. I'd watch parts again. Seriously. Rob Coddry is fantastic.
BunWat wrote: "Hot Tub Time Machine was very funny. I woulda gone with ya Jax, but again with the uncooperative space time continuum."Sometimes I think we should just start ignoring the STC and do as we will.
Oh, I'm sorry, Gabby! I know the storyline didn't make sense if you thought about it, but I was enjoying all the hat stealing so much, I didn't mind. Thanks, Bun, I do appreciate the thought!
Gabby thanks for the review. I guess I will wait for the DVD to come out. I loved Angelina in WANTED and was hoping SALT would be that kind of ass-kicking movie.
Hee. Momento sounds like a birthday party magician.
I feel so stupid when people say that Inception wasn't confusing or hard to follow. It made me think really hard, but that's a good thing.
I watched Spirited Away on the weekend.
Oh wait, thats what I watched last weekend. OK so my daughter wanted to watch it again, she also got my son to watch it with us this time. They both loved it. It was well worth the second viewing.
Oh wait, thats what I watched last weekend. OK so my daughter wanted to watch it again, she also got my son to watch it with us this time. They both loved it. It was well worth the second viewing.
I love Spirited Away too, Gail. I'm a big Miyazaki fan, but that one, especially, since it's based on Japanese culture, which I find fascinating.
It is so beautifully done. It is interesting. She is studying it for English. There is a Japanese girl in her class who has watched the Japanese version as well as the English version. There are two striking differences between the two. The character of the young girl has been altered significantly. The Japanese version is far less whiny, and there is no back ground music.
We watched Daybreakers and Edge of Darkness on DVD. Both were just so-so.
watched WHIP IT, Drew Barrymore's directorial debut and another great performance by Ellen Page. I am loving Ellen Page right now. I liked the movie as it hit home regarding one's children and letting them make their own decisions. Not always easy for a parent, but necessary.
So Whip It<?I> is good? I've passed that one by at the library a couple times.
It's fun. Well acted. Not accurate about roller derby, except the cameraderie, but it gets the excitement right.
I do want to see Whip It. It's coming on Cinemax at the end of the month. Not to mention I'm a roller derby geek, so there you have it.
And no one talks shit about Ellen Page in my presence. Hell, she was damned good in Inception.
And no one talks shit about Ellen Page in my presence. Hell, she was damned good in Inception.
Yes, she was, much better than mister furrowed brow.
Who? Joseph Gordon-Levitt? He has a soft spot in my heart...'cause he's so sexy.
I love Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He was awesome in Brick. And 500 Days of Summer.
Yes, Brick, I agree, is a fantastic and often overlooked film.
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He can't be sexy. He's, like, 12.
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