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Post by phil on May 23, 2004 9:59:42 GMT -5
Question Period :
- A movie script you'd have love to write ...
- An actor(actress)who gives you terrible complexes ...
- The last Foreign movie you saw ...
- One memorable quote in a movie ...
- Favorite Musical ...
- Favorite Black & White movie ...
- Favorite Silent Movie ...
N/P : Warren Zevon ~ Genius ~ Excitable Boy
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on May 23, 2004 10:12:30 GMT -5
- A movie script you'd have love to write ...
Adaptation
- An actor(actress)who gives you terrible complexes ...
Pauly Shore in a bad way, Cate Blanchett in a good way
- One memorable quote in a movie ...
"I don't think any word can explain a man's life" - Citizen Kane
- Favorite Musical ...
Um....talk about severely lacking. West Side Story maybe.
- Favorite Black & White movie ...
Young Frankenstein
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Post by kats on May 23, 2004 10:19:39 GMT -5
- A movie script you'd have love to write ...
something intelligent? no, probably not. tossing up between virgin suicides and the world according to garp, only because i want to be john irving. or anything by tarantino.
- An actor(actress)who gives you terrible complexes ...
if by complexes you mean makes your pants happy, gwyneth. if you're talking about actors you can't stand...there's way too many for me to list. brad pitt (though i'm hard pressed to find films he's been in that were awful, besides the mexican and meet joe black, but julia roberts can ruin any film)...brendon fraser. he's insipid.
- The last Foreign movie you saw ...
buena vista social club and that was in january. no, wait. there was a mexican film i saw about these two girls that had this weird psychotic relationship and one ends up killing the other one and sleeping in her bed..but i'll never be able to remember the name of it.
One memorable quote in a movie ...
"do they speak english in what?"- jules in pulp fiction
- Favorite Musical ...
this is really hard to choose. i loved chicago..and i had so many reservations going into it...but it was a fantastic adaption of the musical. cabaret is tops. so is the wizard of oz. can't stand moulin rouge. eck.
- Favorite Black & White movie ...
1931 jame whale's frankenstein or the obvious choice in casablanca.
- Favorite Silent Movie ...
ashamed to say i don't know.
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Post by kats on May 23, 2004 10:21:06 GMT -5
you don't like pauly shore? come on, encino man was a masterpiece!
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Post by Ampage on May 23, 2004 17:42:13 GMT -5
Question Period :
- A movie script you'd have love to write ...
HEATHERS
- An actor(actress)who gives you terrible complexes ...
LOOKSWISE: BRAD PITT & KATIE HOLMES ANNOYINGWISE: ANTONIO & MELANIE
- The last Foreign movie you saw ...
WHALE RIDER
- One memorable quote in a movie ...
"I LIKE YOUR HAIR CARRIE......CAUSE IT'S SHORT." JULIETTE LEWIS AS ADELE KORNERS IN "KALIFORNIA" (STILL CRACKS MY BUTT UP!)
- Favorite Musical ...
CHICAGO! CHICAGO! CHIGAGO!
- Favorite Black & White movie ...
WOW, NOT SURE, MAYBE.........
- Favorite Silent Movie ...
"SILENT MOVIE" (TRULY I THINK ITS THE ONLY ONE O HAVE SEEN, I KNOW, I AM BAD. JUST NOT INTO THE OLDIES MUCH)
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on May 23, 2004 20:57:05 GMT -5
 Shrek 2 [*** of 4 stars] When you have a winning formula it's best to stick with it and that's exactly what the Shrek team did in this sequel. The highs are higher and the lows are lower, but your reaction is bound to be exactly that of the first film because of their striking similarity. Once again every fairy tale under the son is aped for cheap laughs and once again a princess must decide if it's really best for her to be hitched to a foul green ogre. Where the inventiveness character and story wise lacks it once again makes up for in some funny jokes and a few great side characters; namely Puss-in-Boots. This swashbuckling cat is so darn dashing, hilarious, and cute that it's impossible to not love the heck out of him (just try, I dare you). He's a fantastic character that I would die to see get his own film. Antonio Banderas does his best zorro (amazing, isn't it) and tweaks it to play for cutesy and hits a home run. Puss along with a Mission Impossible rescue involving Donkey's fairy tale friends supply enough well done spoofing to make up for most of the simplistic shortcomings. Mary alert: Both Tom Waits and Nick Cave ("People Ain't No Good") are used as voices/songs for a bar singer. |
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Post by rockkid on May 23, 2004 23:22:01 GMT -5
Went to see the ‘new” version of The Punisher today.
Ho hum what to say…….
I go against all the reviewers here when I say I much prefer the original with Dolf.
Most of the roles were throw away parts IMO.
Especially Ms. Stamos.
I’d love to be able to say it was gritty & thrilling but I can’t. It wasn’t even campy in a comic book (which it should have been) way.
At least the first big screen version had camp!
Frankly in this incarnation ole Frank Castles story is unrateable.
No rk popcorns for this puppy.
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Post by rockkid on May 23, 2004 23:33:16 GMT -5
Oh I did forget there is one interesting cringe worthy piercing torture scene.
And Travolta should have skipped this one.
Question Period :
- A movie script you'd have love to write ...
The Ginger Snaps series. Angst & horror in over drive.
- An actor(actress)who gives you terrible complexes ...
Looks wise Miss Jolie
- The last Foreign movie you saw ...
Mama tu tambien
- One memorable quote in a movie ...
- I love the smell of napalm in the morning
- Favorite Musical ...
- Westside Story or Moulin Rouge (damn funny)
- Favorite Black & White movie ...
- Nosferatu
- Favorite Silent Movie ...
- See above
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Post by luke on May 24, 2004 1:00:33 GMT -5
Totally disagree with you, kid. The Punisher was the best all-out adrenaline flick since the second Rambo. The brutality was amazing. Lucky for us, too much time wasn't given to Stamos and the gang, because, yeah, they sucked. But they're really easy to look past, especially with the best kill'em all ending since Scarface. As a fan of the old comic books, I say that Frank Black could not have been portrayed or acted any better. Great tribute to the comic book, I'd certainly watch this thing again before I'd pop in Spider-Man or
X-Men, although I did enjoy both of those films.
My next big film prolly won't be until The Devil's Rejects. Gonna be fucking awesome if this thing makes the October release like it's supposed to.
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Post by Thorngrub on May 24, 2004 11:29:26 GMT -5
- A movie script you'd have love to write ... [glow=red,1,300]A Scanner Darkly[/glow] - An actor(actress)who gives you terrible complexes ... [glow=pink,2,300]I don't know (Julia Roberts)  [/glow] - The last Foreign movie you saw ... [glow=red,2,300]City Of God[/glow] - One memorable quote in a movie ... [glow=pink,1,300]"Dream Is Destiny" ~ Waking Life[/glow] - Favorite Musical ... [glow=red,1,300]The Sound Of Music[/glow] - Favorite Black & White movie ... [glow=black,1,300]Zelig[/glow] - Favorite Silent Movie ... [glow=pink,2,300]Nosferatu[/glow] |
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Post by Thorngrub on May 24, 2004 15:37:28 GMT -5
!Film / lit - geek alert! I just saw, for the first time, the first half of the BBC's production of GORMENGHAST (adapted from the infamous Mervyn Peake novel). As that is one of my favourite books, I could hardly wait to check it out...and I couldn't believe my eyes at what a great production they made of it. This young actor by the name of Jonathan Rhys-Meyer turned out an impeccable performance as Steerpike, the wretched Kitchen-scoundrel who breaks free from the fat, psychopathic Head Cook and begins weaseling his way up through the various levels of aristocracy in order to take over whatever foothold of power he can gain in the ancient, labyrinthine Castle of Gormenghast. The actress who portrays Fuchsia is Neve McIntosh, and she does a terrific take on the princess's hysterical silliness. None other than Christopher Lee portrays Flay, the mad earl's guardian. He was perfectly cast in this role. [He also personally knew Mervyn Peake -- a claim few of his contemporaries, if any, can make] Richard Griffiths [the loathsome stepfather of Harry Potter in the films] portrays the even more loathsome Swelter, Head Cook who has it out for Flay. The actor who portrays the young Titus is also a perfectly cast Cameron Powrie in his 13-yr old guise (I haven't gotten to the final 3 episodes, or final half of this series, so I have yet to get to the actor who plays him as a young man -- someone by the name of Andrew N. Robertson). From the impeccable casting in this film, I'd wager he'll make a perfect Titus Groan. This actor by the name of John Sessions carries off a hilarious Dr. Prunesquallor -- nearly every line he utters will make you spit out your drink with laughter. Ian Richardson's take as the demented 76th Earl Lord Groan is another wonderful perfomance. All in all a lovely production -- you can rent it on DVD. It is 6 hours long -- I'm going to watch the final half of it tonight. See ya'll around.  |
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Post by PC on May 24, 2004 15:47:44 GMT -5
- A movie script you'd have love to write...
Kill Bill: Vol. 2.
- An actor(actress)who gives you terrible complexes...
Ben Affleck (in a bad way).
- The last Foreign movie you saw...
Spirited Away.
- One memorable quote in a movie...
"This one goes to eleven." - This is Spinal Tap
- Favorite Musical...
Maybe West Side Story, though I haven't seen it in years. And Chicago was pretty entertaining, though certainly not the "best picture" of its year ('02).
- Favorite Black & White movie...
Haven't seen too many...so I'll say Schindler's List.
- Favorite Silent Movie...
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari creeped me out.
~PunkChick
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Post by RocDoc on May 24, 2004 17:57:24 GMT -5
Watched Intolerable Cruelty starting Thursday night, finishing Friday and this was quite the weird little movie....Zeta-Jones just looking cooly (icily, in fact) gorgeous and Clooney doing that same sorta twitchy hyperactive character he played in O Brother...and generally I like the Coens, but this one seemed sorta flat with a buncha characters who just seemed to be plug-ins in the script, just to fill a hole for a particular 'types' they needed...tho Billy Bob did a nice turn...2 and a ½ RK(tm)Popcorns for this one...
Last night watched Veronica Guerin and found it pretty cool to see such a 'realistically' dreary look at urban Dublin life just like, 7-8 years ago, which astonished me to the levels of poverty, corruption and addiction they were suffering through. Shit, I was in Lithuania around the same time and as bad as it was there, THIS seemed even WORSE, in a country which had been 'free' all along....whoa! Eye-opening.
But I had problems with this film in much the same way that I did with Boys Don't Cry, where someone's attempting to 'effect change' without any rational recognition of possible consequences. Violent consequences.
There was a real-life Veronica Guerin who apparently served as a very heroic focus in Ireland of ridding at least Dublin of Irish Mafiosi who were intro-ing heroin to the youth there and then completely amorally raking in beaucoup bucks.
But the set-up here was the exhibiting of some VERY cold-blooded characters protecting their 'interests', juxtaposed with Guerin's very 'normal' life as a journo with a husband and her own Mom serving as Nanny to their 4 year-old son, who simply delighted in taunting these VERY dangerous dudes, who were very often ratchetted to mania either through their drugs or through them simply being fucked-in-the-head Capone wannabes...
I'm sitting there thinking 'Um, maybe you should back off just a bit here? Let someone ELSE take a turn rather than shoulder ALL the risk yourself', eh?'
She had a philanthropic hero-streak, yeah....but she did amajor disservice to her own family by exposing them very foolishly to some extreme danger....
The dialogue in this was one of the best parts of the show....extremely quick Irish-accented back-and-forth convos which I found really cool and charming for the most part....but that glaring lack of common sense, of being self-sacrificing to an absolute fault without seeing she was dragging her family to the sacrifice as well...that rankled me a bit, but as atmosphere and such, I'll still give a 3 RK(tm)Popcorns
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Post by Ampage on May 24, 2004 18:39:39 GMT -5
All due respect, but how can you critique someones life? Supposedly, thats how Veronica was. Balls to the wall, I am gonna get you sucka! Would I do that, to that extreme? NO! But you can't begrudge a movie because it tells the stroy of someone who kicked ass selflessly. Where would the world be without some of these heroes? Can't sit around waiting on the police all the time.
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Post by Kensterberg on May 24, 2004 18:39:51 GMT -5
Question Period :
- A movie script you'd have love to write ...
His Girl Friday.
- An actor(actress)who gives you terrible complexes ...
Good: Cate Blanchett (she's always absolutely amaziing, always)
Bad: Brad Pitt (I just don't see the appeal)
- The last Foreign movie you saw ...
Whale Rider -- excellent film, BTW.
- One memorable quote in a movie ...
"When 300 years old you are, look this good you will not" -- Yoda, Star Wars Episode Six, The Return of the Jedi.
- Favorite Musical ...
Chicago.
- Favorite Black & White movie ...
His Girl Friday (easily one of my three favorite film ever), followed by the original Bride of Frankenstein, and then the Beatles Hard Day's Night (Phil did say "favorite," not "best!").
- Favorite Silent Movie ...
This is a real toughy, as I just haven't seen that many of 'em ... but I think I'd have to go with one of those old Charlie Chaplin fims ... I just don't know the names.
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