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Okay, I just watched my new copy and it was crazy. Liked it a LOT more this time. Bits of Silent Running in there, 2001 of course, with a touch of Armageddon (I LOVE that flick SO much). Very impressionistic at times... still, I can't say it's a fave, merely a good experience. Well made.
The stardust/God references were particularly nice.
Totally great last two minutes.
Fort Apache - John Ford movie starring John Wayne & Henry Fonda, epic and Shirley Temple was actually quite a dish when she grew older.
Hope it gets a release, its worth buying for the Ellis Island sequence alone. Looks fantastic in HD wide screen, there is a real clarity to the transfer in daylight sequences.
Anyways, I even enjoyed it more than I ever did before (the film, that is), and surprisingly, it isn't that different from the show, but the comedic tone is noticeable in this. Come on, if you have Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in a movie, you can't expect a dead serious something from the flick, can you? Opposed to what "the original fans" claim, the original Starsky and Hutch do have humourous moments more than you know. So, I am appreciating the movie a lot more than I did before, as I stated. It's probably the greatest parody of a 1970s period piece ever done.
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@Birdelson, I love JCS, I own it & it always brings me to tears it's so great.
Oh my gosh; it just got worse and worse. I really really disliked this film. Can't even believe it's Coppola.
@talos7 Keanu is shocking not his best performance and he has had some stinkers.
Will do. Godfather 1 and 2 are two of my favorite films ever, Godfather 3 I like okay, The Conversation is extremely good, Apocalypse Now was epic (admittedly not my cup of tea), The Rainmaker was decent, Dracula.... Did not like. Those are what I've seen.
EDIT: Also saw The Outsiders. So-so.
The musical soundtrack of this movie is amazing, one of the most haunting and powerful you will ever hear.
As for the filming, I found it to be too stylish. It worked in parts, but only in parts. Plus, there was that romantic plot between Drac and Mina, which doesn't exist in the original novel (in the novel, when Mina is bitten, it is treated, rightly so, as a rape). So, that wasn't the right adaptation for me (I'm still waiting for it). Kenneth Branagh was more successful with his Frankenstein.
I'm on a bit of an Emily Blunt kick at the moment. The recent The Girl On A Train trailer and a recent Sicario rewatch have whetted my appetite for all things Emily.
So I sought out and purchased this little known Aussie made thriller starring Blunt, Sam Neill, and Susan Sarandon in the lead. It's an interesting little film. Sophie (Sarandon) and Craig (Neill) are a married couple with two young daughters living a perfect suburban life. He's a successful architect and she's a budding painter. Her mother has just passed away, leading her to a little depression. Soon she is having fears that Craig's new sexy employee Mara, played by Blunt, could be having designs on her hubby and family. Is this real, or is it just a fantasy obsession? The remainder of the film focuses on Sophie getting into binds due to her view on Mara, and leads to an interesting unexpected twist at the end.
It definitely has a made for tv vibe, but the excellent performances by the 3 leads more than makes up for it.
The local cinema are running a sci fi festival this weekend. Unfortunately I missed Blade Runner on Friday as I was working. Never saw that on the big screen.
Never saw 2001 on the big screen before either, so I took my son and went this morning.
A few people left during the first segment, maybe they had a weekend pass and knew nothing about the film. Guess they missed the laser guns.
This film is something else. It s themes of evolution and conciousness make a good backdrop for the sheer marvel of this state of the art artistic achievement from 1968. The majestic music by Strauss (both Richard and Johann) adds another dimension to those gorgeous pictures. The effects are still impressive, nearly 50 years later.
The copy broke down five minutes before the film ended, and that was a real disappointment as it was during my favourite part of the movie. No tears from me though, as I have seen it many times before and got my money back.
I just watched this thriller starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor & Michelle Williams as the leads. Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge & Charlotte Rampling play supporting roles.
McGregor is a workaholic accountant/auditor Jonathan McQuarry, who runs into Jackman's lawyer Wyatt Bose during a late night working at an office. Bose introduces him to secret sexual escapades among New York's corporate crowd. During one of these trysts, he meets and falls for William's character. Then she disappears, and McQuarry is blackmailed into using his audit position to swindle money out of a client.
This was a pretty dull thriller, that's been done before and better. It's a bit of a cross between the superior 1990 Rob Lowe/James Spader starring Bad Influence and the 2005 Clive Owen/Jennifer Aniston starring Derailed, but not quite up to the levels of either.
Worth watching only if you really like the lead actors.
It's about the most faithful adaptation there is, the Christopher Lee Dracula sent me to sleep when I saw it a few years back. I'm sory I don't get the hammer love.
Also that is as far removed from Stokers novel as you can get. Oldman's Count is also the most literary accurate.
Lee's look is nothing like the character Stoker wrote about.
I don't doubt what you say (haven't seen the Lee version), but apparently a lot of the timeline was messed up in the one I saw. Just watched it with someone else who said it was very unlike the novel. Either way I didn't enjoy the film.
Watching American Graffiti (1973) now. Decent film.
Everyone else bar Waits as Renfield is sub standard to utterly dreadful.
As for the Hammer love, I think it's the way the portrayals are made that I love about them, and at times they haunt me, really. But, we can all agree that Horror of Dracula (1958) is definitely their best. Hammer lost their quality ground by the time the 1970s came around.
American Grafitti has a wonderful score. Bram Stoker s Dracula is one of my all time favourites.
1st time seeing this film since seeing it in theaters last year. Entertaining, I though the actions scenes were cool, Cap and Thor work well with each other. I still think the first Avengers movie is better story wise and it has a better villain. Ultron started off cool and then he became too "blah" and not as menacing. B+