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I can! I loved watching him play the sides the entire time. It was great.
=)) the entire time I watched it and looked up at the title of the film, I would say aloud (to myself...in my room...alone) "Yo...jimbo!" Haha. I'll never, ever unsee it.
:-O
More wallet violation for me.... #-o
You should see me. Barnes & Noble is having a 50% off all Criterion films sale right now. I'm going in-store Friday with a load of coupons and buying all of these:
'Che'
'The Samurai Trilogy'
'Traffic'
'Yojimbo/Sanjuro'
And these will be blind buys. Definitely the first two, iffy on the second. Not sure if I really want to spend $150 on movies when I'm broke:
'Seven Samurai'
'Kagemusha'
'Tess'
'Brazil'
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Sun-Charles-Bronson/dp/B000ROAPTA
That was a really cool film. Not nearly Kurosawa, but a lot of fun. AND, directed by our own Terence Young!
It's wild seeing an older DVD go for $30. Even paying $14 or so for 'Hell Night' on DVD the other night was surprising to me, but if a film is good enough and not available on blu-ray, then I'm willing to shell out the proper cash for it. I hope after my trip Friday, that's the last set of movie purchasing I do for a long while...but probably not. :P
William Wyler's Roman Holiday is a film every romantic should watch. It tells the story of a young royal princess who sneaks out of her palace for an innocent bit of pure fun with a reporter, played by Gregory Peck. The princess herself is played by Audrey Hepburn in her first lead role and one which would lead her straight into winning the Oscar. And why not! She was only 24 when she starred in Roman Holiday but she makes every heart beat faster, including mine. :x
Roman Holiday is a heart-warming film, and they don't make them like this anymore.
It was free, so I figured why not. Aaron Eckhart (who sounds like Haley's version of Freddy Krueger in this film) plays Adam - Frankenstein's monster - as he evades hell-spawned demons for hundreds of years. Cheesy acting, terrible CGI, really bad editing. It's the perfect running time for a movie you'd expect to be a fun way to kill 90 minutes, but it's completely bad, instead. I don't even deem this rental-worthy...even if it's for the price of free.
Sounds like it'll be one of those films that garners a solid number of Razzie nominations come early next year.
I knew the film was bad from the start with the title. I'm surprised not a single person stood up the entire time during filmmaking and thought "Wait...you guys DO know that the monster isn't Frankenstein, right?" And even though in the film it is shown that he is 'Adam,' the monster of Frankenstein, he still calls himself 'Frankenstein.' I don't get it. I suppose with a film like this, you really aren't supposed to question any of the glaring issues it has.
What did Chuck ever see in her?
:P
Did you like it? I haven't seen that film in a very, very long time. I remember enjoying it, but I think I saw it in sixth grade or something in one of my classes. Seems like a very random choice for any class, now that I think about it...
How far can a lie go? Just ask Shirley MacClaine and Audrey Hepburn. In this exceptionally powerful drama film by William Wyler they play two young ladies who open a private school for girls. When one of those girls, a spoiled bully, doesn't get what she wants, she makes up a story about the two teachers that sets in motion a dramatic chain of events, including accusations of morally despicable behaviour, court cases and more. Lillian Hellman, on whose play this film is based, was blacklisted by the HUAC; I wonder how much the theme of the story is inspired by Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunts.
Can a lie really go that far? The story certainly is told in a convincing way. And in an unpredictable way! I constantly thought I could tell how the film would end, but I was time and again proven wrong. The acting is great. This is Wyler's second film with Audrey after her Oscar winning Roman Holiday (1953) and they would reconvene five years after The Children's Hour for How To Steal A Million. Once again though, Audrey would steal my heart.
I, for one, won't lie. The Children's Hour is a marvellous film. It proved a box office failure at the time, perhaps because of its additional theme of lesbianism, but was nevertheless nominated for five Oscars and has since its release regained much praise. I find the story to be as significant today as it was then. A great film.
This is why I watch movies. I went into it knowing nothing, just a small idea of the plot, I knew Scarlett Johnasson was in it, and that was it. I suggest you do the same if you've heard of the film or if it interests you. Small plot: Scarlett plays an alien from another planet who comes to Earth to feed off the bodies of men who she swoons with sexual promises. Of course, she starts to feel compassion as time goes on. Some might call it 'artsy,' or boring, or slow, and I can get that, that's how I felt at the beginning of the movie: long periods of silence, of nothingness, but as it kicks off and you start realizing what's going on, it gets better. Her initial attempts at getting men to come along with her are great because the director used a hidden camera, so the men had absolutely no idea it was a movie until after the scene was finished. If you feel like this might be for you, please do check it out. I thought it was going to be dull, and loved it more and more as it went along. There's a certain uniqueness to it that I don't see in films too often.
Good choices. I myself would say Charade. It's the closest he's ever come to Hitchcock I think. I love Cary Grant in that film. ;-)
To honor what would have been the 103rd birthday of Ginger Rogers, yesterday, I felt in the mood to watch one of my favourite Ginger films, and my favourite Fred & Ginger film. The 6th of their 10 films, the two come together perfectly, a joy to watch.
When Eight Bells Toll
Hopkins gives a good stab at a working class Bond. I like the theme, but the fights could have been done better, especially the one in the graveyard.
I have seen 8 of the 10..
1. Swing Time (1936)
2. Carefree (1938)
3. Shall We Dance (1937)
4. The Story Of Vernon & Irene Castle (1939)
5. Top Hat (1937)
6. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
7. Flying Down To Rio (1933)
8. Follow The Fleet (1936)
That leaves Roberta & The Berkleys Of Broadway.
Rocketeer, bought this a few months back. Great fun Dalton and Arkin are excellent, Jennifer Connoly is gorgeos, remember watching this first time around. Enjoyed it as much now as I did then. Good score by Horner, flying sequences and action stand up well.
The only thing I was really interested in during this film was figuring out what the terrorist attack was going to be. That was it. Didn't care for the characters that much, the editing was horrid (still not sure why I ever trust these generic action films to have proper editing. Who hires these people?), the action sequences were predictable and dull, and you pretty much saw the entire film in the trailers, so nothing new was presented. It was a pretty bad film, yet another one that I thought would be entertaining enough to spend 90 minutes on, but sadly, it wasn't.
Well, you both just listed some of my very favorite films! I adore Audrey, Gene, and Cary - all three. 8-> Singing in the Rain is still one of the all time great movies ever made and one I need to see again soon. On the Town is so much fun and captures a sense of America at that time. And Charade is sublime (I own that one). I think I'll try to catch some Audrey this weekend, as well as buy Singing in the Rain if I can (sometimes older movies are for sale here).
And, dear MajorDSmythe and Birdleson, how I love Fred and Ginger! Swing Time is my favorite, followed by Shall We Dance and Top Hat (really nearly a 3 way tie for me). Ginger was a wonderful personality on screen and I like her in everything I've seen. Fred was worthy of all the acclaim and I enjoy so many of his films (The Band Wagon comes to mind, too).
10 - The Nun's Story
9 - Love In The Afternoon
8 - Paris When It Sizzles
7 - How To Steal A Million
6 - Charade
5 - Funny Face
4 - The Children's Hour
3 - Breakfast At Tiffany's
2 - Roman Holiday
1 - Sabrina
I have yet to watch My Fair Lady, War And Peace, Robin And Marion and a few others. ;-)
Finally, your name may not be Sabrina, @4EverBonded, but I know your heart is at least as beautiful as hers. :-)