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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2012 20:31:15 GMT
I still haven't seen 'The Queen'. I should rectify that.
Kerouac, I agree about your observation regarding Dev Patel of slum dog millionaire. As much as I like him and his portrayal in the Slum dog movie, I would have liked to have seen a new Indian actor play the part in Marigold Hotel. There are so many undiscovered great actors in India just waiting for the opportunity to prove themselves.
Rightly or wrongly, I will always associate Dev Patel with the Slum dog movie, when a film makes it to those kind of heights it's hard not to.
Anyway, I am still waiting to see Marigold Hotel!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2012 21:08:38 GMT
Okay, I went to see Ridley Scott's Promotheus yesterday. Very well done, excellent 3D (but not as nice as Avatar, since Ridley Scott's world is so desolate and depressing and not as pretty as Pandora). Of course also very predictable to anyone who saw any of the Alien movies -- they're all going to get wiped out horribly until there is just one survivor.
And once again, I am sorry to say that the ending is presented in a way to allow unlimited sequels.
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Post by joanne28 on Jun 20, 2012 14:39:56 GMT
I did see The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel a couple of weeks ago and I found it to be a sweet and enjoyable movie. The start might be a bit rocky but with a line-up of those actors, who cares?
I will go see anything Judi Dench is in. A few years ago when DH and I were in London, we decided to go to the theatre. Judi Dench was in the cast but the gentlemen at the box office told us that a) she was only on stage for about 5 minutes and b) there were no decent seats left at all for the times we had available. I thought that was quite decent of them and we decided (very reluctantly on my part) to pass up the tickets & went to see something else.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2012 10:08:17 GMT
678 has been out for some time here (also called Cairo 678 and in France 'The Women of Bus 678'), but I just finally went to see it today.
It is a really exceptional movie about sexual harrassment in Egypt and the role of women in society in general. It follows the lives of three women and how they deal with the situation but it is also a fascinating portrayal of modern Cairo with comedy clubs and group therapy sessions. It is also based on true events.
It might be worth mentioning that the revolution in Egypt started just one month after the movie was released there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 10:47:26 GMT
I don't know what possessed me to go see the new version of Bel Ami with Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott-Thomas. Oh, actually I guess I do -- "how wrong can they possibly get it?" For example, two scenes showing Sacré Coeur in the background, yes that same basilica that they finished building in 1914 even though the story takes place in 1885. The main Paris street scenes were as usual -- I recognized Budapest within 2 seconds. It doesn't look one bit like Paris unless the criterium is "buildings made out of stone - all European cities look alike."
I will not fault the actors. Robert Pattinson still has not learned to act, but that served his role admirably. The actresses were all quite good, but the best one was Marion Cotillard who had enough sense to turn down a role in the film.
The plot will always be delightfully evil, but that's why the story has been told so many times, just like Dangerous Liaisons.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 1, 2012 14:06:02 GMT
The actresses were all quite good, but the best one was Marion Cotillard who had enough sense to turn down a role in the film. ;D Actually, a movie with Uma Thurman & Kirstin Scott-Thomas automatically seems worth seeing.
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Post by nycgirl on Jul 1, 2012 14:37:06 GMT
I have no desire to see it. Robert Pattinson has no sexual charisma whatsoever.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 15:11:03 GMT
Obviously not for real people, but he is quite credible as a boytoy for cougars.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 2, 2012 2:35:39 GMT
I had to look him up.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
NYCGirl put it kindly.
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Post by nycgirl on Jul 2, 2012 4:03:06 GMT
Obviously not for real people, but he is quite credible as a boytoy for cougars. And 12-year-old Twihards. When I was 12, I liked Johnny Depp.
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Post by nycgirl on Jul 4, 2012 22:47:03 GMT
I really enjoyed The Amazing Spider-man. I understand why people feel it's redundant, but as a big Spider-man fan, I eat this stuff up. Andrew Garfield was very likable and had sparkling chemistry with Emma Stone. Plus, (mild spoiler)... I liked the fact that the civilian heroine had a direct hand in saving the day. This is despite the fact that the NY Times published a rather snide piece about how lame and anti-feminist comic book movies are.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2012 23:47:03 GMT
Andrew Garfield's most interesting role so far has been Boy A.
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Post by nycgirl on Jul 5, 2012 3:19:13 GMT
Just googled it, sounds pretty rough.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2012 10:41:25 GMT
I made the mistake of going to see Woody Allen's To Rome with Love (mostly because I wanted to see Rome). What a total load of horseshit! I am embarrassed for him.
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Post by joanne28 on Jul 8, 2012 15:02:48 GMT
I saw Snow White and the Huntsman with my DIL Friday night. Another pleasant time waster which filched quite a bit from Lord of the Rings and Tales of Narnia. These days it seems I only feel like escapist movies and fiction.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2012 15:37:48 GMT
That's on my list for the coming week, but it has been on the list for about 4 weeks now and somehow it's never the one that I pick at the megaplex.
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Post by lola on Jul 10, 2012 16:56:19 GMT
I really liked Moonrise Kingdom.
Took advantage of a 106F Sunday matinee and went to the Tivoli by myself. (the Tivoli mention is for casimira. It's divided into 4 theaters now, but still has character and as a bonus serves froufrou coffee drinks, good quality baked goods and wine at the concession stand.)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2012 17:16:43 GMT
Okay, I did get around to seeing Snow White and the Huntsman today. I liked it, but I agree with what most of the critics said about Charlize Theron acting much too hysterically. Not her fault: the director's fault.
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Post by bjd on Jul 19, 2012 7:17:02 GMT
Finally went to see The Marigold Hotel last night. Fun, although requiring a fair amount of suspension of disbelief. And filmed to make you want to hop on the next plane to Jaipur.
They are also going to play Woody Allen's Rome movie. Thought of going to see it just to see Rome but it has had awful reviews, including Kerouac's just above. Is it that bad?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2012 12:06:01 GMT
In my opinion, yes, it is that bad.
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Post by htmb on Jul 21, 2012 2:17:20 GMT
Madagascar 3. It is really cute if you're under the age of six.
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Post by nycgirl on Jul 22, 2012 3:19:10 GMT
I just saw The Dark Knight Rises and it was very good, possibly the best of the trilogy. Great action sequences and good use of NYC locales, but the human element was not neglected (with Michael Caine giving a particularly poignant performance). I'm glad I stayed off the movie message boards, because there were some surprising twists that I didn't see coming.
On another note, the tragedy of the Colorado shootings are very fresh in my mind, and I couldn't help but have a heavy heart during the first action set piece, thinking, "This is the part when all those people were killed." Such a horrible, senseless tragedy. It was also strange to see the movie theater crawling with cops. An employee told me that every theater nationwide showing The Dark Knight Rises had beefed-up security.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2012 11:32:34 GMT
Oh god, I went to see Kill List wondering how it possibly could have received a very rare 16+ age rating in France. Now I know. It's about two rather flabby contract killers in the UK (they don't all look like Jason Statham apparently) who come up against what might be satanism. Or maybe something else. Yikes!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2012 17:27:49 GMT
I saw The Dark Knight Rises yesterday (*yawn*). I'm pretty sure it delivers what its fans require, but I am just not a fan. Let fans be reassured, however: it is not at all the final chapter that it claims to be. The final moments set up all the necessary elements for the inevitable sequel, even if Christian Bale bails.
Today I went to see 360, one of the countless renditions of La Ronde. A connects to B connects to C connects to D connects to E connects to F, etc. It's by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, but it is mostly an Anglo-Austrian coproduction, with American, French, German, Brazilian elements. Good cast and some good scenes but also some uninteresting cast and some not good scenes. The moment with the greatest tension for me was when the Brazilian girl tries to seduce the sex offender just released from prison in Denver and who is trying to arrive at the halfway house elsewhere in the U.S. At the same time, I had absolutely no interest in Jude Law's life or in Jamel Debbouze's Muslim infidelity conflicts. And who gives a shit about anything that old ham Anthony Hopkins does?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2012 11:11:06 GMT
I went to see the latest version of Jane Eyre, which was released very late here and probably only because of Michael Fassbender. I always feel like an entomologist watching these perverse and masochistic "ladies' entertainment."
Actually, the movie wasn't all that bad, but I could tell that it was whizzing past a lot of the plot details along the way. I think you should have the courage to make a four-hour movie or not make it at all. Since this lasts just two hours, it's like half of the explanations and events are missing.
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Post by lola on Aug 1, 2012 1:42:56 GMT
My daughter and I saw this in the theater, mostly because a few years ago we toured Haddon Hall outside Bakewell, where it was filmed. ("There's that rose bush!" etc.)
I thought the Jane was very good, and also young Jane.. Maybe they assumed target audience had mostly read the book and seen a movie version or two, so they could skip some key details..
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Post by bjd on Aug 11, 2012 9:07:54 GMT
Since it was so hot here and the movie theatre nearby is air conditioned, I decided to go see To Rome with Love despite the lack of positive reviews. Meh. It was nice to see Rome and to listen to Italian being spoken. I actually didn't have to read the subtitles most of the time. The stories themselves pretty stupid and unbelievable and didn't come together at any point in the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 19:28:06 GMT
I see three or four films a week so obviously I am not going to talk about most of them here since either they will never be released in other parts of the world or else they are major films that require no further discussion (although I would like to say in passing that, like nycgirl, I enjoyed The Amazing Spider-Man -- and I was totally bored by The Dark Knight Rises which just took its crap too seriously while the plot had the most gigantic holes imaginable in it. I mean really, if you blow up every bridge and tunnel to Manhattan Gotham City to enslave the residents, and then your movie says that 3 months have passed and yet everybody seems almost normal -- please tell me how those people were fed!)
Anyway, the reason I am here is to say that I very much enjoyed the Australian movie The Sapphires, a movie about aboriginal girl singers who get hired to be black soul singers in Vietnam in 1968. "Based on a true story" and with an aboriginal director, so it really gave a good, uncondescending view of normal aboriginal families at that time.
The actresses were magnificent, as was Irish actor Chris O'Dowd.
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 11, 2012 19:34:30 GMT
I haven't posted in here in a very long time. apologies.
I went to see Nostalgia de la Luz - Nostalgia for the light Thursday night.
A documentary about the Atacama desert and its "regular visitors" - the astronomers, the archeologists, the "mothers of the plaza de Mayo" (am I the only one who remembers them? every person I've spoken to about these have looked at me with a puzzled expression). It is poignant, but what incredible cinematography! I understand it received many prizes around the world thoroughly deserved. A word of advice, though, if you watch it... bring tissues!
Monday students pay half price at the cinema, so I'll go watch "A simple Life" a (Hong Kong) chinese film about the reversal of roles when one grows old.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2012 21:57:21 GMT
Oooo ~~ wanna see The Sapphires! "Magnificent" definitely seems like the right adjective for the leads. Annie, I have to admit I'm one of those with a puzzled expression.
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