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Re: I loved this movie

Postby Yellow Crayon » Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:33 pm

Crazy/Beautiful.



Althought Kirsten Dunst looks like she hasnt showered throughout the whole movie, its really touching and very quotable. And everybody's looking for good quotes.

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Re: I loved this movie

Postby Gatito Grande » Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:26 pm

At this time while Mel Gibson's "Jesus Chainsaw Massacre" is packin 'em in, I want to make a plug for The Last Temptation of Christ (which Bravo is showing this weekend). I hadn't seen it since years ago in the theater, and I'd forgotten just how good it is. Yeah, Willem Dafoe's Jesus is still Uber-European (no less than Jim Caweasel's ;) ), but he does a really good job showing his agonizing spirit vs. flesh conflict. Harvey Keitel's Judas IsCarrotTop (thank you, Tom Robbins!) is really good too---as is Barbara Hershey in all her henna'd glory as Mary Magdalene.



Most of all, I just really love the look, sound and feel of the movie. Scorsese was really inspired in shooting it in Morocco: it's wonderfully tribal. Peter Gabriel's score is awesome: good googly-moogly, I must find that CD *cough*Download?*cough* somewhere!



The idea that Christians could find this movie objectionable is, well, objectionable in the extreme (I thought that pre-seminary in '88, and I think that post-doc now). It doesn't claim to be "Gospel", but it does raise some really powerful spiritual questions (which too many Christians would rather not ask, hence the protests).



If you're Christian (or if you're not), make a point of seeing Last Temptation: you'll thank . . . someone you did! :p



GG Some great cameos: David Bowie as an archly ironic Pilate, Harry Dean Stanton as superbly cynical Paul, Roberts Blossom as a guru who's deader than he appears . . . and ooh, just noticed that the funny guy who played Cybil's ex-husband Ira on the "Cybil" show, is one of the apostles (complaining about birds pecking out your eyes if you're crucified: good stuff!) :hmm Out

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Re: I loved this movie

Postby sam7777 » Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:10 pm

GG: I think that "The Last Temptation of Christ" had a strong spiritual component that is sorely lacking from later films.



I'd like to put out a plug for one of my favorites, now coming out on dvd:

'Schindler's List' Makes DVD Debut
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A German war profiteer inexplicably trades the fortune he's built on the backs of Jewish labor to save those same workers from Nazi extermination.



Thirty-five years later, an Australian writer wanders into a Beverly Hills luggage store owned by one of those Jewish survivors and becomes captivated by the man's story of how he endured World War II.



Two years after that, a Hollywood studio chief hands the industry's most famous young director the Australian's novel, the story of 1,100 Jews and the industrialist who rescued them.



That's the tenuous thread leading to Steven Spielberg's 1993 masterpiece "Schindler's List," which debuts on DVD Tuesday. It features a 77-minute documentary with interviews from Holocaust survivors but no deleted scenes, audio commentary or other standard DVD trappings about the movie itself -- "I prefer people to know only the movie I made and not the movie I might have made or should have made," Spielberg said.



The DVD comes nearly 10 years after the film won seven Academy Awards, including best picture and director. This year also marks the 10-year anniversary of Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which he started to gather videotaped recollections of Jews and other victims, along with witnesses to the Holocaust.



"Making the film had been a nightmare to relive all the horrific memories of history day in and day out," Spielberg said last week at an event marking the foundation's anniversary. "But the accomplishments of the foundation have become a dream. I hoped back then that it could become a significant vehicle for tolerance education so that future generations would never forget the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity."



The foundation has collected 120,000 hours of interviews with 52,000 Holocaust survivors and witnesses.
It's a great film: powerful and uplifiting with fantastic perfomances by Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes. I found it to be a very spiritual experience and it restored my faith in humanity to see good done in the depths of evil. Not an easy film to watch but definitly an amazing experience. It also does not take huge historical liberties. This for me is Stephen Spielberg's best film. Another film I can reccommend is "Shoah" a 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust That directed by Claude Lanzmann. Lanzmann interviewed survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis. An important historical document as well as a chilling testimony to the evil that men do. It has no blood or gore but still counts as one of the most chilling portrayals of suffering and evil that I have seen. You don't need buckets of blood to show real suffering IMHO. The image of one person quietly talking about how they were hurt is more moving (to me anyway) than any Hollywood FX.

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Re: I loved this movie

Postby Yellow Crayon » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:11 pm

The Boondock Saints.



Enough said.

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Re: I loved this movie

Postby AshWeezer » Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:00 pm

I just saw the movie Thirteen. It's such an awesome movie. I have so much more respect for Evan Rachel Wood. And Nikki Reed, shes only 16, played in the movie and co-wrote it.

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Re: I loved this movie

Postby Warduke » Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:05 pm

Oh, I just saw that last night. Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed were both amazing. Very gritty and real.


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Re: I loved this movie

Postby Firefoot » Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:07 pm

Hi, all... creeping out of lurkdom to respond to this comment of Dr. G's in the "Hated this Movie" thread:



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I must say that judging from the previews that movie that got an oscar nomination (I forgot the name, it´s about three guys and horse races) would bore the shit out of me. That has got to be one of the worst trailers I ever saw. Cliched lines, dramatic weeping and whining, hurt, pain, glory, hope, cheesy music. Blergh, it seemed like a bunch of pretentious melodramatic crap.




I'm guessing you're talking about Seabiscuit here, which I saw last summer and really enjoyed. IMO, the trailers for this movie didn't do it justice--for some weird reason, when the individual scenes were taken out of context, they just lost something. I went to see it almost on a whim (it was miserably hot/ muggy, and there wasn't much else playing that I hadn't already seen) and came out of the theater walking on air. Unfortunately, my tendonitis prevents me from going into a lot of detail about why I liked it, so I'm quoting one of the reviews from amazon.com, posted on October 14 by "a viewer from Boston." This sums up my reactions pretty nicely.



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The Little Horse that Could

The term "feel-good movie" is, like "popcorn flick" and "chick flick," one of those sweeping and usually inaccurate generalizations that are used to color any number of superficially similar films. If the definition is stretched broadly enough, "feel-good" can be used to describe anything from Chariots of Fire to My Big Fat Greek Wedding. In the summer of 2003, however, there were two movies for which "feel-good" was both accurate and complimentary. One was Bend it Like Beckham. The other was Seabiscuit.



For those not familiar with the story, Seabiscuit was a famous racehorse of the Depression era, competing between 1936 and 1940. His career is chronicled in the marvelous book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand. Hillenbrand's lengthy, detail-rich narrative is, like many great books, too complex to transfer note for note to film, but writer-director Gary Ross takes on the formidable challenge of bringing Seabiscuit's tale to life on the big screen. Ross wisely chooses to follow Hillenbrand's lead, building the story around the three men who respectively owned, trained, and raced the horse: wealthy auto salesman Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), cowboy Tom Smith (Chris Cooper), and jockey Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire). Ross makes shrewd choices about which details and characters to delete, which events to compress or eliminate altogether, and which aspects of the story to highlight. The result is a wonderful character-driven drama, a story about the power of friendship, love, hope, courage, and never giving up.



Ross takes his leisurely time introducing the three men. Seabiscuit himself doesn't even make an appearance until about an hour into the movie, and when he does, he's the catalyst that brings the trio together; the trials and triumphs they experience are all the more satisfying because the viewer understands each character's history. In the process of rebuilding this broken-down racehorse and making him a champion, the three men, each wounded in his own way, also heal each other and mend their broken lives. Inadvertently, they provide millions of Americans with an unlikely cultural icon, an underdog hero who gives ordinary people a badly-needed dose of hope.



The story, with its ups, downs, and amazing comeback, might seem mere Hollywood contrivance were it not based on actual events. Even the most casual moviegoer pretty much knows how the tale will end, but that doesn't diminish the enjoyment of it in the least. The tone of the film helps sell its credibility: warmly sentimental without being saccharine or manipulative, funny without being crude or cynical, beautiful without being artsy or pretentious. The tragic moments are doubly powerful because they're filmed with an eloquent understatement. Ross employs a wonderful visual shorthand, conveying just as much in images--if not more so--than he does in dialogue. He delivers a lot of the film's humor with the same technique: abundant one-liners and quick reaction shots produce any number of genuinely laugh-out-loud moments.



The cast is uniformly outstanding. Bridges gives a terrific performance; he makes Howard warm and charming and fatherly and likeable, a great guy with a big heart. Cooper's role as Smith is smaller, but he hits exactly the right notes as a survivor of America's vanishing frontier, a man more comfortable with horses than with people. But the undisputed star of the show is Maguire, who is simply luminous as Pollard--as well he should be; the jockey’s role was written specifically for him. Pollard has been wounded more deeply and more often then the other two leads, and perhaps for this reason, the viewer's heart goes out to him the most strongly: he's angry and vulnerable, scarred physically and psychologically, but funny and likable and literate, all at the same time. Maguire develops the character beautifully as the movie progresses; the viewer sees Pollard slowly let down his barriers and make connections with his new surrogate family.



As wonderful as each performances is, the chemistry that the actors have together is even more notable. It's true ensemble acting; the cast as a whole adds up to more than the sum of its individual players. The supporting folks are also terrific. Elizabeth Banks gives a strong turn as Howard's warm and supportive second wife, Marcela; real-life jockey Gary Stevens makes a confident acting debut as legendary rider George Woolf; and William H. Macy is hilarious as fictional radio personality "Tick Tock" McGlaughlin, who provides much of the movie's humor.



Of course, this is also a movie about horse racing, and Ross doesn't disappoint. The races are filmed with an intimate excitement that conveys the beauty, pulse-pounding exhilaration, and sometimes brutality of thoroughbred racing. However, unlike many action movies, the racing sequences never take over the story; they are all the more breathtaking because the viewer knows and cares about the characters who are pouring their lives into these glorious animals.



Visually, the movie is a feast. The 1930s are re-created fabulously, from the cars and towns and trains to the characters' smart suits and hats to the wonderful old racetracks. The widescreen cinematography is magnificent, and the lovely score by Randy Newman infuses the movie with equal measures of beauty, humor, and nostalgia.



The main complaint critics have leveled at the film center around the use of voice-over narration (handled ably by historian David McCullough) and archival photographs to provide some historical context for the story. This was a risky choice artistically, but it enables Ross to convey the social forces at work in Seabiscuit's world without taking awkward detours in plot and character development. For the most part, the narration is used sparingly and in the right places. A couple of the later sequences could probably have been trimmed out, but they hardly ruin the movie.



Probably the only mis-step Ross makes is drawing too many overt parallels between the rebuilding of the racehorse and the rebuilding of the nation via Roosevelt's New Deal. Ross makes it fully clear in the story that Seabiscuit had become a symbol of hope; he didn't need to use the narrative sequences to hammer this point in quite so strongly. Sixty thousand people pouring into a racetrack to watch a horse run for two minutes is testament enough to the affection that Seabiscuit inspired. But even here, Ross isn't too far off the mark: the New Deal may have provided jobs, but Seabiscuit gave people something intangible: the belief that they, too, could overcome the odds and triumph over adversity.



Although best seen on a big screen, the DVD will no doubt be chock-full of extra goodies. In the theater or at home, viewers can be assured their money will be well-spent: Seabiscuit is a movie that satisfies on pretty much every level.




Definitely worth borrowing/ renting, IMO.



Creeping back to lurkdom,

Firefoot

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"The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last for a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

--Mark Twain

Edited by: Firefoot at: 3/11/04 11:09 am
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Re: I loved this movie

Postby Gatito Grande » Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:33 am

I'm not a fan of gangster movies (30 years later, I've still never seen The Godfather!), but I did finally get to see a flick I've heard about for years, and it did not disappoint: the British mob flick The Long Good Friday.



Twists, turns, yet believability: all the hallmarks of this movie. Bob Hoskins somehow manages to look both sexy *and* repulsive at the same time (I have no idea how!), whereas Helen Mirren is sexy and nothing but (and also Large and In Charge!). My DirecTV program guide gave Pierce Brosnan a co-star billing, even though he's on-screen for all of 30 seconds (in two scenes as "____ Gunman #2"): hey, it was 1980!



Particularly refreshing (esp. for its time) is the attitude towards homosexuality: Bob Hoskins' capo---his oldest Army buddy---just is gay. Fact of life, no big deal. (Though warning: cliche' is still in force). The violence is graphic (it is a gangster flick) without being gratuitous: I appreciated that.



If you've never seen this film (and you can deal with a few True-to-Life Crime scenes), give this movie a try.



GG How we know this is a *British* Gangster Movie: before the Big Shakedown, they actually have to pass out the guns! :rolleyes Out

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Re: I loved this movie

Postby astrangerhere » Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:58 am

While we're on British movies, "Following" was great. Wicked twists and turns and remarkably Nior feel to it.



a.s.h.

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Loved this movie

Postby chilled monkey » Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:16 am

I recently saw "Josie and the Pussycats", and I absolutely loved it. A cheerful, fun movie with likeable characters, an amusing story (and it's nice to find a movie that is actually FUNNY as opposed to the 'gross-out' crap which I despise), and really good acting from all concerned. Rachel Leigh Cook is perfect as Josie, and Tara Reid is hilarious as Melody.



It also has a cameo by Seth Green.

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Dawn of the Dead 2004

Postby darkmagicwillow » Sun Mar 21, 2004 4:37 pm

The new Dawn of the Dead is an excellent horror film, though I doubt this version will get the four stars the original movie received from Roger Ebert in 1978. The original is one of my favorite horror movies, along with its predecessor Night of the Living Dead. While vampires may be the aristocrats of the undead, zombies are the common people, and as such, have a greater impact on society en masse.



A good cast (Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, and Mekhi Phifer, among others) and the sprinting zombies update this classic for the modern era, as does the setting of the film in modern suburbia. The pace of the film is fast, as it's as much an action movie as a horror movie. Ana's (Sarah Polley's) happy surburan life collapses in a single morning, while the collapse of the city and society doesn't lag far behind as she flees to the mall.



I suspect the changes are necessary for the film to impact a modern audience. However, the element of social satire of the original film, where the mindless, insatiable zombies were equated with consumers, is gone, though an undercurrent of dark humor runs through the movie. Btw, if you want a happy ending, leave before the credits roll. Otherwise, you're left with something much more ambiguous and potentially dark.

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"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit." -- "Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost."

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Re:

Postby allykat » Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:25 pm

I didn't want to believe the hype, but I finally saw "Finding Nemo"and totally loved it!!!

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Re:

Postby Jennpurr » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:23 pm

"Ooooh, the bubbles!"



Sorry. :blush



I couldn't resist.



Dory. :heart



Jen *sigh*

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Re:

Postby Cicca » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:53 pm

heheheheh

Another one gets hooked by Nemo!



And Jen.... Your av! :thud

Beautiful Amber. Mmmmmmmmmm









Ok, a movie that I liked? Hidalgo. :grin I've probably already mentioned it, but whatever! Viggo Mortensen. Yum. Louise Lombard! Yum! Zuleikha Robinson. So so cool!

Is there a hyphen in anal-retentive?

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Postby bowieinberlin » Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:13 am

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."



Wow. Amazing. Thought-provoking. I forgot I was watching Jim Carrey -- he is just phenomenal; as is Kate Winslet (who I can finally forgive for "Titanic") and the rest of the cast (yay! David Cross!). This movie broke my heart and made me happy, both in one trippy-as-hell punch. And also, The Polyphonic Spree!



Go see it.

"My pants are reaching a crisis point!" -- MST3K

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Re:

Postby Jennpurr » Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:16 pm

Cicca,



Thank you, sweetie. :kiss



Jen

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Re: A Mighty Wind & 28 Days Later

Postby pookie ray » Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:58 pm

I bought A Mighty Wind a couple months ago and never got to watch it till last week and I loved it! I love Christopher Guest's other "mocku-mentaries"(Waiting for Guffman and Best In Show) but I think AMW is the best out of all three because of the soundtrack. It's amazingly good especially knowing that the songs on it are written and performed by the actors in the movie. My new favorite song is "A Kiss Over the End of the Rainbow". Go watch the movie and then run to get the soundtrack because those songs will be stuck in your head for weeks.

Film grade: A

Soundtrack: A++



28 Days Later scared the hell out of me, but I'm also a big scaredy-cat and secure in that role. I love post-apocalyptic stories and this one was good, plus the zombies were pretty cool. The beginning scene in deserted London was amazing, seeing such a busy city completely abandoned scared me more than the zombies.

Film grade: B

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Re: A Mighty Wind & 28 Days Later

Postby SySnootles » Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:57 am

Oh I'm totally on board with you, pookie ray. A Mighty Wind is an absolutely fabulous movie. I saw it in a theater during its original release last summer, and haven't been able to get the songs out of my head since. I grabbed the DVD as soon as it came out, and as soon as I can gather some more expendable funds, I'm buying the soundtrack. I still tear up when I hear "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow." What a beautiful part that played in the movie. And who knew that Eugene Levy could sing so well (not to mention play the guitar)!!



When mentioning mock-u-mentaries, you can't forget the one that started it all -- "This Is Spinal Tap." If you're familiar with that movie, watching A Mighty Wind has a whole nother edge to it... The Folksman were the three (constantly living) members of Spinal Tap. It's surreal.





And chilled monkey, Josie and the Pussycats is on my list of my favorite movies of all time. Even the soundtrack is excellent. The way commercialism was captured in the film was hilarious, and disturbingly accurate. And the three lead actresses did an awesome job. Let's not forget Parker Posey... what a hilarious villian!!



Two excellent movies covered here. I love Kittens' taste in movies!

Catie



When I'm 130 years old, I want a pill that makes me so happy and so unself-conscious and so randy I'm willing to make love to my fuzzy bed slippers on my front lawn and yodel at the same time. -- Scott Adams from Dilbert and the way of the Weasel

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Re: Kittens tast in movies

Postby chilled monkey » Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:56 am

SySnootles: Yep, Kittens do have good taste in movies. Well you know what they say about great minds thinking alike...



It doesn't really count (since I haven't seen it yet), but I am looking forwards to Blade 3. I really enjoyed the first two, and it sounds like it'll be good.

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Got the movie bug...

Postby Willowlicious » Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:08 pm

We've been on another DVD-watching marathon at our house and here are some of the films we've liked (although several have already been mentioned):



Shattered Glass (Peter Sarsgaard is terrific and what could be a dry subject--New Republic writer fakes most of his stories--is successfully turned into a psychological thriller. Loved it.)



Laurel Canyon (Story was only moderately successful, but Frances McDormand gives a sexy and multi-layered performance.)



My Life Without Me (Wonderfully unsentimental performance by Sarah Polley.)



I Capture the Castle (Never read the book, didn't really expect to like the movie, but was pleasantly surprised.)



Capturing the Friedmans (We found this documentary about the over-zealous prosecution of a partially guilty pedophile and his probably innocent son fascinating and very sad. Nothing is quite as it seems.)



Lost in Translation (Some people found it boring, but we loved its languid pacing. Plus, it has Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray. That's enough for me!)



Thirteen (Outstanding cast.)



American Splendor (Very quirky narrative structure actually works.)



Amy









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Re: Got the movie bug...

Postby AmbeRocks » Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:44 am

I just saw Taking Lives, with Angelina Jolie :drool (always looking better ain't she?!)



The movie is pretty good, the story surprises us a couple of times, and it was filmed right where i live, so that was cool too!



Lots of close-up shots, some action, lots of Angelina, what more to ask?!

A big must for all her fans...:heart





jen:fallen

There is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing - Nietzsche

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The Movie Bug Keeps Bitin'

Postby Willowlicious » Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:40 pm

We watched "The Magdalene Sisters" tonight. If you're looking for a movie that will both raise your feminist ire and confirm your deep-seated suspicion of organized religion, this is it. I also recommend the documentary that is included on the DVD. It gives you a better idea why the girls at these laundries didn't just get up and leave. I can't believe that this went on, in some form, up until 1996.



Amy

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Re: The Movie Bug Keeps Bitin'

Postby guardian146 » Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:48 pm

I just saw Jersey Girls (I was supposed to see Hellboy but when I got there an Hour and Half early it was already sold out, but thats besides the point), I liked it. George Carlin was just funny as hell in this movie, a definite highlight. If you like any of Kevin Smiths movies (Dogma, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) you'll like Jersey Girls. It was written and directed by Kevin Smith. Anywho I recommend you to go see this movie even if you really don't like J'Lo, shes not in it for long.



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Re: The Movie Bug Keeps Bitin'

Postby Garner » Mon Apr 05, 2004 10:08 am

I saw Hellboy Sunday and overall it was a very good, but not great, film. Ron Perlman was very good and the look for Hellboy was perfect. Selma (Blair?) was very good as Liz, but wasn't in it enough for my taste. John Hurt was perfect as well. There was a lot of action, some characterization, and the plot held together pretty well. I was impressed that the CGI were very good. Probably better than what I have seen on the Van Helsing trailers so far. The movie sort of ends, not oddly, but mildly cliched. The body count is also very high on all sides which is worth knowing going in, but there isn't much real gore. Actually hardly any. I liked it and would definitely say go see it.



Garner



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Re: The Magdalene Sisters

Postby mollyig » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:44 am

Hi Willowlicious, "The Magdalene Sisters" is a good film, isn't it? I had read some books giving accounts of what went on in the laundries, so knew some of what to expect, but was still horrified.



Incidentally, Joni Mitchell wrote a song called "The Magdalene Laundries". For anyone interested, the lyrics are here


"Love is just like breathing when it's true" Indigo Girls

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Re: movies

Postby undertarasspell » Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:27 am

I saw the original Dawn Of The Dead yesterday, and although it was really good, I couldn't get over the fact that the zombies moved so slowly, and if you just shot them they die.

(About Willow) "She has magick fingers. On the keyboard - Tara, "The Wisdom of War"

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Re: movies

Postby Yellow Crayon » Sun Apr 11, 2004 5:39 pm

I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the first time the other day, very well put together.



Although there were some, "ew, that's just plain nasty" parts, it was a good movie. Some parts were like, "oh man, if that wasnt a true fact, who writes this stuff?". But, all around a good one.

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Re: movies

Postby veiled isis moon » Sat Apr 24, 2004 6:21 am

I recently saw the remake of Dawn of the Dead and thought it was wicked. Some people i had spoken to about it didn't rate it but i loved. Im not someone who scares very easily but my legs were flying everywhere, and i was literally sitting on my mates lap! She wasn't best pleased, kinda drew attention! And, i really had to control myself when all i wanted to do was scream at the screen, these zombies were popping up everywhere with the blood and the eyes, scary stuff.



I watched the original as well not long after on the tv, didn't think much of it to be honest. The zombies were more funny then scary, they walked around so slow, not that intimidating.



So i would recommend the remake of Dawn of the Dead, it's funny but it will scare the s*** outa you too!



Michellex

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Re: movies

Postby allykat » Sat Apr 24, 2004 6:55 am

I loved House of Sand and Fog. Totally depressing, loved it!



ETA: Just watched "Josie and the Pussycats"! FUN,FUN, FUN!

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Blow Dry

Postby Gatito Grande » Thu Apr 29, 2004 2:25 pm

Has anyone else ever heard of this movie? I stumbled upon on WE (the Women's Entertainment channel), and had never heard of it, myself (it's from 2000).



Josh Hartnett (doing a passable North Country Brit accent, IMO) and Rachel Leigh Cook are the hot young Yanks in the flick, but it's genre is that perennial British staple, "the eccentric British small town comedy."



Only Blow Dry has as much drama as comedy: sweet pathos. Best of all, Natasha Richardson and Rachel Griffiths play lovers! :applause



The sitch: artsy-fartsy British hair stylists are holding their annual competition, this year in the small Yorkshire town of "Keighly" (pronounced Keith-lee). Living in the town, are some past winners (from years gone by): Alan Rickman, his ex-wife (co-stylist) Richardson, and his ex-model (also a stylist) Griffiths. On the eve of their biggest competition, 10 years ago, both Richardson and Griffiths "left" Rickman, and ran off together (Richardson leaving their then young son Brian---now played by Hartnett---w/ Rickman. Brian also now cuts hair!). This left a lot of bad blood for all concerned (kinda hard to believe that they all stayed in this same small town, but hey).



So, the Big Competition is coming to town: is Our Fractured Family (inc. Griffiths) going to let by-gones be by-gones, and compete for the prize?



Very much adding to the drama (in fact, probably the catalytic factor): Richardson is dying of cancer. :( That fact that she can't bring herself to tell Griffiths that the cancer has come back, adds to her crisis. She needs to do this, but she also wants to "put things right" w/ her ex and son. Here follows the movie . . .



[Subplot: Rickman/Richardson's biggest rival, a snoot (and cheat) from London, is in the competition, visiting them to put 'em down (and eggs 'em back into competing). Rachel Leigh Cook plays his Yankee-raised daughter (childhood friend of Hartnett: naturally, romance is kindled).]



I love WE for showing this little gem: and it is a little movie---nothing earth-shattering . . . and nothing very physical between Richardson and Griffiths, unfortunately, in what was shown. Ah yes, "what was shown": the movie was very obviously edited in at least a couple of places (Griffiths' Grand Finale, and also model Heidi Klum, pretty obviously showed more skin than WE included). So, it's possible that Richardson and Griffiths did more than briefly kiss a couple of times.



GG sez Check it Out! :grin



GG Definitely would like to see it un-cut . . . if only for Griffiths' spectacular display at the end. She's wild and wonderful! (Then again, I've always found RG a hottie :drool ) Out



"Believes a miracle cure for Richardson's cancer was later found . . . " :pray

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