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Post by gyro on Mar 28, 2009 0:12:19 GMT
Just finished watching The Wrestler. Good movie, good performance from Mickey. Kind of a darker Rocky type thang. A couple of bits toward the end are a tad contrived or cliched, but overall a good show.
Not necessarily something to watch if you're in need of cheering up though ....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2009 9:50:08 GMT
Among the movies I saw over the weekend, I saw that thing with Clive Owen and Julia Roberts -- Duplicity. They have pretty good screen chemistry, but I thought that for a piece of fluff, the movie was unnecessarily complicated. To its credit, it made no use of car chases, explosions or blood loss.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2009 16:09:21 GMT
Today I went to see the Czech film Country Teacher, an excellent tale of romantic and sexual upheaval set in Czech farm country. It was extremely interesting from an anthropological standpoint, showing the importance of alcohol in peasant life among other things. There are also two birth scenes with calves, completely authentic and fraught with suspense. (I was wondering among other things how much training the actors had received for doing this sort of thing, because it sure as hell didn't look easy.)
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Post by tillystar on Apr 14, 2009 12:20:32 GMT
I went to see Watchmen last night. I am not a fan of superhero films but the trailer looked so dark I had to go and see it. It was great, very dark and gritty, very highly stylised; every image was so carefully thought out. Not as much action as most of these kind of films but maybe that is what I liked about it. Some of the reveiws say it is too long, I did start to drift off towards the end but I wouldn't have wanted it to stop any sooner as was quite entranced.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 18, 2009 20:31:24 GMT
We saw "Age of Stupid" this afternoon. Hopefully it can wake a few people up.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 24, 2009 19:21:35 GMT
went to a wine tasting and projection of "Bottle Shock". excellent fun!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2009 11:36:55 GMT
I went to see a horror movie today in which Zac Efron turned into Matthew Perry. Oh, what a sad and terrible thing to happen!
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Post by BigIain on Apr 25, 2009 20:32:18 GMT
I finally got around to seeing Slumdog last night. Its a heap of crap, but the grown up girl towards the end of the movie is very beautiful
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2009 16:41:36 GMT
I saw a very strange Argentine movie today: La sangre brota
It follows the lives of various people who seem to have no relation to each other (yes, that is a whole genre in itself now) -- a young ecstasy dealer, a taxi driver, an erotic nymphette, etc...
And yes, there is plenty of impure blood in it, although nobody dies.
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 9, 2009 18:53:26 GMT
Saw "End of the line" yesterday. A documentary about the global fishing industry. Extremely interesting and well made.
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Post by bjd on Jun 9, 2009 19:24:05 GMT
I haven't seen many movies lately - the last was Duplicity. Okay for what it was, but not memorable since I had forgotten that I had seen it before reading Kerouac's post above.
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Post by tillystar on Jun 11, 2009 14:36:44 GMT
I started to watch Night at the Museum the other night but I had to stop before I gauged my own eyes out with a wooden spoon.
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Post by bjd on Jun 15, 2009 11:31:42 GMT
We went to see Easy Virtue last night. The stupid French title was "Un Mariage de Rêve" (A Dream Marriage). It was pretty good, although some of the casting was strange and bits were predictable. But I enjoyed the dialogue. Most of the people reading subtitles would have missed the puns and English humour.
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Post by distantshores on Jun 17, 2009 14:11:29 GMT
My last movie was Angels and Demons. I'm a movie buff. I usually go to the matinees as they are cheaper and much less crowded. Some of the recent movies I have seen are Dark Knight, X Files, Iron Man, Body of Lies, Fast and The Furious, Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull, National Treasure, and several others I can't remember. I took my two oldest grandsons to Wall E, Horton Hears A Who, Monsters vs Aliens, and The Pink Panther II. I like anything with Nicholas Cage, or Harrison Ford, although he is getting pretty old. I love the Indiana Jones type movies. And probably my favorite series was the Bourne movies, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, and Bourne Ultimatum. They were awesome in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2009 14:18:20 GMT
I saw 'Les Beaux Gosses' which was part of the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes film festival even though it qualifies as a 'teen comedy.' I am wondering if they will change the title for release in Québec due to a major variation in the meaning of the word 'gosses' between French and Québecois.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 17, 2009 15:24:33 GMT
Which you are not going to divulge?
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Post by bjd on Jun 17, 2009 15:47:45 GMT
I will -- gosses in France means kids, in Quebec it means testicles.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 17, 2009 16:03:10 GMT
*snork!*
I'm sure there are people reading movie reviews and getting good laughs right now in Québec.
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Post by tillystar on Jun 19, 2009 10:35:09 GMT
I watched The Duchess with Keira Knightly last night, she didn't annoy me as she usually does, she was good i'll give it to her.
I really enjoyed it and the story, which was based on real life, was fascinating. Oh and of course - the costumes!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2009 10:52:57 GMT
Saw Duchess recently also, agree with you tilly on all counts, especially the costumes. I do like those period pieces quite a lot. The book was good too.
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Post by imec on Jun 19, 2009 13:13:24 GMT
I don't watch many, but I recently bought a DVD of Man on Wire - which I've watched several times now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2009 13:30:19 GMT
It's a shame that I have little interest in watching films on video, because I was quite tempted by the Virgin Megastore offer on the Champs Elysées yesterday. The market for that kind of item is collapsing so rapidly that even most of the recent DVD's were being sold 5 for 30€ or 10 for 50€. A just-released DVD is generally put on the market somewhere between 19€ and 24€ and most of the ones on sale had only been out for 3 months or so.
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Post by imec on Jun 19, 2009 14:17:23 GMT
It's a shame that I have little interest in watching films on video, It's the only way I watch them. The last feature film I saw at a cinema was Midnight Express... yes, that's 30 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2009 14:31:19 GMT
You've made up for it in concert halls though!
My husband practically tied me to a chair to rewatch Midnight Express before leaving for Turkey.
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Post by bjd on Jun 19, 2009 16:22:15 GMT
I just walked over to the local movie theatre to see Good Morning, England but they had gone and changed the programme on me. So now I'll go tomorrow night. I prefer going out to movies too -- there is just something about sitting in front of a big screen rather than in front of a TV or a computer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2009 16:46:00 GMT
Thanks for the recommendations on The Duchess. It's the kind of movie I enjoy, but had avoided it strictly because of Keira Knightly.
(& I will mention here again that The Young Victoria is totally worth seeing for the costumes alone!)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2009 17:34:01 GMT
Girly movies!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2009 17:47:40 GMT
Can't argue with that!
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Post by tillystar on Jun 22, 2009 13:35:21 GMT
This weekend I watched Ali, it was OK but much blander/ordinary than I imagined it would be there was nothing outstanding about it and given the subject I thought there would be, and Talk to Her (Habla con Ella), l love, love, loved it...haven't seen an Almodavar film I don't love yet.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2009 6:31:50 GMT
I'll go see Hangover this week. Has anybody seen it?
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