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Post by En on Mar 24, 2004 17:39:24 GMT -5
*shakes head* There was one summer when my da sent me to the noon showing of E.T. because that was cheaper than running our air conditioner. I saw it like 30 times $0.50 for kids' matinees....
Anyone ever seen The Gods Must Be Crazy?
...more on Brazil, which I will talk about until someone duct tapes my mouth shut: I finally figured out what the deal was with the large number of ducts. And I literally mean ducts -- almost every scene in the film has people acting against a background of vast quantities of ductwork. It's a symbol of the blatant invasiveness of bureaucracy in our lives. I love stuff like that....
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Post by Natz on Mar 25, 2004 14:38:46 GMT -5
Oh i loved E. T when i was a kid. It was interesting the way E.T became a special friend to elliot. The kids matinee over here is actually quite expensive its £3.00 so tickets range from 3.00-5.00.
I haven't actually seen it go up above £5.00 but in the smaller family run cinema the prices tend to be more expensive. Its the only cinema people are allowed to smoke in.
En is Brazil scary?
Erm by ducts do you mean the vents that you get in the walls and the celing or does it mean something different over there?
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Post by En on Mar 25, 2004 15:47:24 GMT -5
Hm. I don't think I've ever seen a cinema people could smoke in, except in films. (When did the US crack down on indoor smoking? Anyone know?)
Brazil definitely has some... er... tense moments. One of the first scenes has a guy getting seized by this sort of storm-trooper squad, and there are a few explosions and stuff. But yes to the duct question; there are pipes and vent shafts and... well... ducts, everywhere. It's crazy.
...I just got The Art of X2 (Collector's edition) as a birthday gift... it rocks ;D Full script, big sections of the storyboards, lots of background info on the film and director, and reprints of several of Nightcrawler's circus posters
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Post by KoNeko on Mar 26, 2004 9:12:42 GMT -5
*laughs* Oh, I remembered The Gods must be Crazy! I loved that pic, and I remembered when he walked to the end of the world, it made me cry for some reason. I don't know, I was just a kid then, but yeah. I really liked it. Fond memories.
We got Brazil from the video store last night (no connection with your going on about it- Neko picked it) but we haven't watched it yet... I'll let you know when I have.
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Post by Calantha on Apr 8, 2004 11:39:10 GMT -5
I watched Shattered Glass yesterday. It's about the reporter, Stephen Glass, who made up part of or all of like...half of his stories he wrote. I really enjoyed it although it was a little slow at points. It was interesting to see it from his perspective and also a little frightening--how easily he lied and then had to lie more to cover up his tracts. Very interesting, particuarly if you're interested in journalism. Good movie overall.
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Post by Natz on Apr 9, 2004 13:58:23 GMT -5
I went to see Mona Lisa Smile the other day. It was quite good. This teacher went to this really conservative college and tried to make the girls see that they could be other things apart from housewifes which was the aim of the college. She made things stand out more clearly for them and that they did have a choice in what they could do. All in all not a bad film but i wouldn't go mad about it.
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Post by Simply Panda on Apr 9, 2004 15:37:45 GMT -5
I saw 21 Grams yesterday... it was really good (but depressing) It's kinda hard to get used to the pace of the movie... but once you do it works (that's kinda hard to explain). I can't really say too much about what its about cause it would give away a bunch... but I can say it has a lot to do with death. Go see it!
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 9, 2004 23:21:43 GMT -5
21 Grams is one of those films that I want to see but still haven't.
Oh! That said, in the past week, I saw Monster (Cal, the gory bits weren't that bad, but the rape scene made me go all ), Starsky and Hutch (seriously dumb-funny) and 50 First dates (not my first pick of film but it wasn't that bad. If you get over the cheesy idea behind it, it's actually raising a lot of questions about psychology and philosophy of mind so yeah...)
I still want to see Secret Window. It looks crap, but I want to see it.
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Post by Calavera Diablos on Apr 12, 2004 2:24:55 GMT -5
Muhahahaha! The Secret Window is based on the Stephen King story "Secret Window, Secret Garden". It was pretty bad, but somehow Johnny Depp managed to save it from being too horrifyingly bad with his lovable quirkyness. Basically, Johnny Depp is a novelist going through a divorce with his wife. he's currently hiding out in a cabin, surviving on potato chips (despite his cook/maid being there to make him real food) and 12+ hours of sleep. A creepy, backwater feller named Shooter shows up claiming that Johnny stole his story ("The Secret Window" is Johnny's title, Shooter's is something like "Harvest Time", but the documents are apparently the same, word for word) and begins to harrass Johnny until he can come up with evidence that his story wasn't plagirized. I warn you, the ending nearly made me cry with laughter.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 13, 2004 3:54:45 GMT -5
That bad, eh Cally? *grins*
Oh! Last night I saw Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind (Dir: Charlie Kaufman of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation fame). Really really cool stuff. Jim Carrey (in a non-funny role) is Joel, who undergoes a procedure to remove the memories of his girlfriend Clem (Kate Winslet) from his head. The idea itself is pretty trippy, and it's a really interesting... experience, just watching him experience having his memories erased. You have to think a bit to stay with the film though, so if you're after stargiht-out classic Jim Carrey stuff, look elsewhere. But otherwise, it was great. Excellent cast too.
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Post by En on Apr 14, 2004 15:50:24 GMT -5
Just caught Timeline and was, I fear, pretty disappointed. The premise was presented well in the book (by Michael Crichton; first good thing he's written since Jurassic Park), but the way the film was written, it came off as hokey. Anybody else get that vibe? I dunno.
The old professor looked like John Cleese when his beard was off. I found that distracting, because I kept wanting him to be witty
The character of Andre Marek was interesting and not badly acted, and his love interest provided one of the few continuous threads to the story line. But I wanted to shoot Chris and Kate, though I'd steal his "Ireland" t-shirt (see last scene) before I shot him.
Some nice moments, a bit of hair-raising, but I felt the possibilities were under-realised in favour of upping the number of extremely brief suspense scenes, and that didn't give me an overall sense of following a story so much as feeling like I was at an amusement park... and since I'd rather enjoyed the book, like I was at an amusement park after eating a heavy meal.
I want to see both Eternal Sunshine and Secret Window... *sigh* DVDs should be released the minute the films have gone out of the theatres. I get so behind.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 24, 2004 0:36:27 GMT -5
Aha, En. I feel your pain about Timeline. The casting was terrible... and Billy Connolly usually is a pretty funny guy, so I have no idea how he got cast as the professor... The book was so good as well, I was really not impressed with the film.
Oh! Kill Bill Vol. 2!! Not as gory as Vol. 1, but good all the same. This time they look more at kung fu and Chinese cinema (as opposed to the Japanese film culture in Vol. 1) so there are a lot of subtitles, beard stroking and zooming in on shifty eyes. Pretty cool. I have to watch it again to give a more comprehensive review but yeah, it was awesome.
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Post by moira on Apr 24, 2004 1:04:49 GMT -5
Yeah, I've wanted to see Secret Window, but from the comments I hear, everyone says the same thing, that the story was weird, and not that good. Then again...Johnny Depp usually takes the odd kind of movies that don't ever get Acadamy ratings
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a movie I really want to see as well, but I'll probably wait and see it when it comes to the dollar theater, or on dvd. I love Jim Carrey in serious roles, and the idea of erasing memories really intrigued me...
Haven't seen the Kill Bill movies at all, they're not really my type of movie, and there's just something about Quinten Terantino (forgive my spelling) that just kind of...creeps me out, lol.
Now, this is kind of an old review, but I saw Down With Love last night. And...it was cute, and funny in some places, but....ack, I didn't like it. The last half hour just sort of ruined the whole thing for me. He was playing her, then it turned out she was playing him all along, and then he played her, and she played him, and....it was too much playing for me
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Post by Simply Panda on Apr 24, 2004 2:25:46 GMT -5
I finally saw the first Kill Bill... I thought it was excellent. It wasn't at all what i expected, which is neither good or bad. But... yeah... I also didn't think the gore was so bad... cause, well... it wasn't very realistic (which is a good thing) but the cinematography was absolutly incredible! I just got done watching a movie that came out in the 80's... Grave of the Fireflies... OM FRIGGIN G. It was sooo good. It's anime... but if your not into anime, you should see it anyway, cause honestly... anime just has a bad rep because of most of the crap they release in the states. Oh... and heres a quote from Ebert... "Grave of the Fireflies" is a powerful dramatic film that happens to be animated, and I know what the critic Ernest Rister means when he compares it to "Schindler's List" and says, "It is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen." (sorry... after i saw it I had to do a little research) but yeah... it's that good. I was bawling at the end... and in the middle... and at various other times during the movie. Oh... i guess I should let you know what its about... Takes place during WWII, 2 kids in japan are left alone because their father is off at war and their mother is killed by napalm. They end up going to live with an aunt who is kind of a witch... they go through all sorts of trials and that's about it... i don't wanna give too much away... just go see it! okay... i'm done now, i've rambled on too much
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Post by have you ever turned to dust? on Apr 26, 2004 22:05:19 GMT -5
I love Kill Bill volume 1, can't wait to see the second one, I'm really excited because my old algebra teacher is has credits as one of the editors...
I'm watching Hedwig and the Angry Inch in my homeroom and it's such a weird movie.. hot damn..
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