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Happy Feet - One goes to watch Mad Max Fury Road and then finds oneself watching dancing animated penguins shortly after. I guess that's logical. I really didn't like the opening musical number, but there was a lot of enjoyable stuff later on. Made me laugh. Beautiful animation and the baby penguin who was basically step dancing as soon as he got out of his egg was adorable. I love penguins anyway, and the Emperor penguins are just the best. :D And yes, the person who was comparing this and MMFR and inspired me to watch it, had good points, I see what he meant.
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More Tom Hardy movies:
RocknRolla - not among Guy Richie's best work, but ok. I couldn't help thinking at times that hasn't he done similar stuff, before, just better... Not that it was bad, just didn't feel very fresh. Handsome Bob, though. :P
It was also worth watching the Tom Hardy-Idris Elba interview afterwards on YT, the interviewer asking Hardy "How jealous are you of this guy [Elba] bla bla Beyoncé bla bla..." and Elba laughing and Hardy going all sincere and innocent, with the now-that-question-was-a-bit-silly-face "I'm gay... so not remotely" and Elba tries to be helpful: "You're Handsome Bob, Handsome Bob's gay" [btw, suggesting that he is must have been Gerald Butler's best contribution to the movie]
Hardy: "No I'm gay"
Elba: "Oh, Oh..."
Hardy: "Thanks though."
Elba. "...Oh I didn't know."
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Gideon's Daughter - A re-watch. I liked this, also the second time around.
That song, though. :x It appeared a couple of times in this, and I still hear it in my head. Beautiful.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - A re-watch. That cast... It makes me kinda sad that Gary Oldman will probably never get an Oscar. Not that it's essential, and many other greats never did, either, but still. I hope he isn't blacklisted though, or anything...
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Another Russell Crowe movie:
The Quick And The Dead - Watching this it felt like it was made such a long time ago... and indeed, it was made back when Sharon Stone got her name on the poster and Russell Crowe and Leonardo Di Caprio did not, apparently. And Leo's character was called Kid and he looked like one. I really liked Sharon Stone in this, which kinda surprised me. Crowe, too, but didn't surprise me, I usually do. Gene Hackman, not surprisingly, made a believable villain.
First off, I may have a been a bit under the influence during this film, which only accented how weird it was. Shot in black & white, it's a mysterious vampire romance crime thriller, of sorts? Very hard to explain. However, it's an Iranian film, shot in Farsi, that was filmed all in California, which makes it all the more unique to me. The only thing I knew about it going into it was that it seemed to get some pretty good reviews in the festivals, and after I saw it pop up on Netflix, I had to give it a blind watch. It's slow at times, but you never know where it's going (which is what I appreciated), and the black & white works so well for the film as a whole.
'Noah' (2014)
I gave my "movie buff" friend hell for watching and loving something like this, yet he doesn't watch films prior to the 80's, nor does he like great works of perfection such as the first two 'Terminator' films, so I had to see what it was all about. Sure enough, my suspicions were right: bad acting, horrible pacing issues, some scenes shown were given no explanation to them, and really awful CG throughout.
I have a great fondness for these movies. Sad it was the last one but a lovely tribute to Mickey Rooney and of course Robin Williams!
What can I say? I'm a scientist, a fan of well-made movies and totally Benedicted. So here's a film I just had to watch. Took me long enough too. But now that I've watched The Imitation Game, I can honestly say I love this film!
The Brothers Grimm - Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as the brothers, with Peter Stormare, Monica Bellucci, Jonathan Pryce, etc. in other roles.
This felt a bit messy and like it was trying too hard and kinda failing. I remember I tried to watch this years ago and decided it wasn't very good and gave up. This time I felt kinda same, but did finish it. It was fine visually, but just didn't feel particularly interesting or convincing or exciting.
The Soloist - Directed by Joe Wright. Leads: Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx - great performances from both.
This was great. Moved me. So un-Hollywood-like. Felt surprisingly authentic considering what it was about. Difficult stuff handled well. I had no idea beforehand what the movie was about at all (I like finding out while actually watching). I didn't know it was a true story until it was over. And it was beautiful.
1. Revenge of the Sith
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Return of the Jedi
4. A New Hope
5. Attack of the Clones
6. The Phantom Menace
Truthfully, I don't dislike any of them. I've always felt the prequels get bashed too much; while admittedly there are plenty of flaws (especially in Episodes 1 and 2), there is still a lot to enjoy in my opinion. As for the originals, all classic, fun movies to watch - I'm in the majority that likes Empire Strikes back the most of the old ones, and the minority that likes Return of the Jedi more than A New Hope. Very enjoyable marathon, interested in what The Force Awakens will bring to the table...
Forest Whitaker and James McAvoy as Ebony and Ivory aka Idi Amin and his Scottish doctor. Worth a watch, but will not revisit.
I hadn't seen this film in a long time, but I had forgotten how catchy the soundtrack was. Cameron Diaz makes quite an entrance too.
I don't know if anyone else agrees with this statement, but 1995 was the year for some damn good (or at least pretty entertaining) action films: 'Bad Boys', 'Kiss of Death', 'Die Hard With A Vengeance', 'Braveheart', 'Under Siege 2', 'Desperado', this movie, 'Fair Game', some movie called 'Goldeneye', 'Heat', and I'm sure there's quite a few others I have yet to see. This was probably one of the better roles I've seen Banderas in, if only because he's an absolute psycho in this. I loved Stallone in this, as well. He's never really worked for me as a sly hitman, but he plays the role of a retiring hitman with morals quite well in this one. Had some pretty good action sequences in it, as well, even though a few of them ripped straight from some classics. Still, I really enjoyed this one!
Jurassic Park (1993)
I remember it vividly, how Jurassic Park took our cinemas by storm. It was quite the adventure. 'Real dinosaurs' was the thing that everybody talked about in '93. I was a young boy and this hype impressed the hell out of me. My parents took me to a museum with dinosaurs, they bought me a book with dino pictures and I even got a VHS copy of a dinosaur documentary for my birthday which actually necessitated my parents into buying our first VCR. :p
Since '93, I have watched Jurassic Park well over 40 times. I wore out the tape I had of it and also put my Jurassic Park DVD in heavy rotation. It's both part of my 'film nostalgia' and simply a film I enjoy very much. It's not my favourite Spielberg, but still close. I do recognise there are some 'flaws', if one can call them flaws. More like tiny imperfections.
Firstly, Spielberg's manipulative tendencies are all over the place. At times it's very obvious that we are told by the film to go "whoooa!" and "ooooh!" and "OMG!" even if there isn't necessarily a reason for that. For example, we spend a lot of time with the overwhelmed faces of Laura Dern and Sam Neill while Williams' score rises to achieve the ultimate in romance, before we actually see a dinosaur ourselves. Granted, they are impressive, but Spielberg literally dictates our own overwhelmed emotions. He does it again with the coming of the T-Rex. He brings in children to partner up with a man who loathes them and then forces this unlikely companionship to spend the night together and go through a series of ordeals and funny moments, just so that they will bond fast and melt our hearts. But I don't mind. This is how Spielberg works. He did it with E.T., Temple Of Doom, Hook, ... And he always brings out the child in me so he does it right.
Secondly, there's not really a lot of story in this film. It's an adventure. We assemble a team that will appeal to a wide demographic, find a reason to drop them on Isla Nublar, and then embark on a roller-coaster ride which is as much ours as it is the characters'. Because it's all fascinating and new, we don't mind getting a few lessons in cloning and DNA and the ethics of it all. Neither do we mind a tour through the park that coincides with heavy rainfall and winds and immediately separates people so that we can spend the remainder of the film bringing them back together. In a sense, that's a pretty weak story. Dr. Grant and John Hammond go through an arc of some sort, in both cases one in which they find some kind of redemption. Grant needs to learn about how nice it is to have kids and Hammond has to find out that you don't mess with nature.
But in the end I again don't mind. Just look at those amazing effects by Stan Winston and others, effects that still hold up! Listen to Williams' awesome score! Feel the excitement! You'd almost wish the park were actually real, if only you could go through the same routine and of course survive it. :D
It's interesting to notice that Michael Crichton had already done some kind of theme-park-gone-crazy project with Westworld. Needless to say that the power of Spielberg made Jurassic Park even greater than Westworld. The only thing Westworld had that Jurassic Park lacked was Yul Brynner. ;-)
Anyway, Jurassic Park is still a tremendous movie. I'm looking forward to Jurassic World but I doubt it can ever be a stronger film than Jurassic Park.
5/5
Even today, she's still as beautiful as ever.
Agreed together with Carole Bouquet.
For an opera buff and a Mozart aficionado like myself, it is a great treat. I am developing an obsession over it. Seemingly a simple filmed stage adaptation of the opera, it is actually a brilliant mise en abyme and a delight to watch. Oh and Swedes are beautiful people.
"If you can't fix what's broken, you'll go insane." - Max
Mad Max Fury Road
Oh, I just needed to go and see it for the second time on Friday.
Now I want to see it again. :D
Killer Joe
Well bloody hell... This was extremely unpleasant in many ways, yet it was also sort of good. Directed by William Friedkin. Great acting and well done. Includes a bunch of shitty characters, most of them not that bright, Joe (Matthew McConaughey) has more brains than the rest of them put together, but he's also the meanest and sickest of them all. Includes dark humor, violence and disgusting abuse. SPOILER: It doesn't have a happy end. (Duh!)
For some reason The Lost World is heavily criticised for lacking inspiration and interesting characters, something I strongly disagree with. It's an adventurous creature feature which offers a lot of excitement and delicious effects. Lacking inspiration? It is so obviously inspired by the great Ray Harrihausen monster flicks of old. Lacking interesting characters? Point is, you don't need characters on this theme park ride, you need bait. The fun is not in the humans, it's in the humans getting eaten by big bad dinosaurs. Then still, The Lost World has an interesting cast. And Williams' score is once again spot-on.
Look, Spielberg generally makes two kinds of movies: powerful drama's which are often historical epics, and adrenalized action / adventure experiences. I compare this to two kinds of video games I like to play: some require me to think, others require me to just shoot-'em-up, but both kinds are fun. The Lost World isn't chess or even Portal, it's the dinosaur equivalent of Duke Nukem. Why must that be a bad thing? Spielberg made Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan but sometimes we just want another Raiders, E.T. or even - yes, EVEN - War Of The Worlds.
Now I admit I'm hardly a trustworthy Spielberg critic: I love everything the man does. So for what it's worth:
5/5
such a fantastic movie, and one that doesn't seem to age despite being completely 80's.. I wasn't old enough to enjoy the movie when it came out (i think i was barely a year old at the time) so my first viewing of the movie didn't come until much later... I had caught pieces of it on TV over the years, but my first sit down watch straight through came when I was in 9th grade - my Social Science teacher brought it in for us to watch, as we were learning about stereotypes at the time.. and i have loved the film ever since. The characters and their struggles are so identifiable when you're that age - no matter what walk of life you come from, you knew people in school who were like Bender, or Brian, or even the Principal... It's a movie that I never get sick of, and I love that my sister has passed the love of this movie down to her kids who, along with Sixteen Candles, love this movie as well.
Watched it three times, back to back to back. I loved it except for the Dylan Thomas poem being shoved down our throat.
300: Rise of an Empire
I know I'm way late to have finally seen it, but at last I got around to it last night! Spoilers regarding the plot ahead, and it would be dumb to hide my whole post, so I'll just say don't read if you haven't seen it.
Like the new Sin City movie, I feel this movie may have been too little, too late. I remember having interest when the first trailers started coming out, but it was unclear whether this would be a prequel or sequel. Well, it's actually a little of both... and I stress little. Most of the movie takes place during the first 300 movie, and it tells you exactly when. For example, Themistocles visits Sparta to meet with Leonidas and they're like 'oh he's not here, he's out visiting the Oracle', etc.
I finished the movie slightly underwhelmed. While it had the same style and action as the first 300, Themistocles was no Leonidas. I remember seeing 300 opening night in 2006 with a bunch of college friends and we left the theater PUMPED!! Leonidas was like the new badass to aspire to be... everyone wanted to learn the '300 workout'. Fun times for sure.
Also it was a little annoying that the Queen showed up briefly throughout the movie and then at the very end she arrives with the rest of Sparta, and the movie looks like things are starting to shape up and then.... it ends!!!
I said this to my girlfriend who watched it with me, and my best friend who loaned me the bluray and they both agreed: Rise of an Empire kind of sucks as a stand alone movie. A clever video editor could splice it into 300 and make it into one long epic movie and many plotpoints and character developments would benefit. Especially since most of it takes place during 300, as well as shows what happens before and after. Take the final scene I mentioned above, with the Queen and Sparta showing up for battle.... that would have been a really great scene if it happened right after seeing Leonidas killed!
Does anyone agree? Rise of an Empire looks like a collection of deleted scenes from a long, grand movie.
not really a movie obviously - though i consider this and Band Of Brothers more like a 10 hour long movie.... I have never seen The Pacific, I picked it up because i absolutely love Band Of Brothers, and seeing as how this is produced by the same people - plus that it got excellent reviews, i decided to pick it up (blu ray was only $25 at Best Buy)..
curious if anyone here has watched The Pacific, what are your thoughts on it? Is it a good companion piece to have alongside Band Of Brothers?