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Started by FunkMonk, March 10, 2009, 08:53:46 PM

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#1936
October 06, 2009, 05:00:31 PM
On the Town.  Brilliant Gene Kelly and dazzling Sinatra.  Unfortunately bowdlerized lyrics ruin the songs.
What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
-Jose Canseco

There you go, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.
-Every cop, The Wire

"It is always good to be known for one's Krapp."
-John Hurt

Admiral Yi

#1937
October 06, 2009, 05:28:05 PM
Speaking of Sinatra I saw a bit of the original Ocean's 11 a while back.  Crap.

BuddhaRhubarb

#1938
October 06, 2009, 07:10:39 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 06, 2009, 05:28:05 PM
Speaking of Sinatra I saw a bit of the original Ocean's 11 a while back.  Crap.

you should watch the SCTV parody: Maudlin's 11... better than either of the other movies.
:p

DisturbedPervert

#1939
October 06, 2009, 07:14:36 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2009, 01:28:42 AM
Zombieland :thumbsup:

I can't believe that guy wasn't Micheal Cera.

BuddhaRhubarb

#1940
October 06, 2009, 07:17:51 PM
:p

CountDeMoney

#1941
October 06, 2009, 07:42:48 PM
"Boomerang" is on cable right now.  Probably my all-time fave Eddie Murphy flick.
Hilarious on several accounts.

Syt

#1942
October 07, 2009, 12:08:22 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Duque de Bragança

#1943
October 07, 2009, 05:12:27 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 06, 2009, 04:30:51 PM
The White Ribbon (by Michael Haneke, Golden Palm in Cannes 2009)

A b/w movie set in 1913 rural West Prussia. Selling itself as a mystery about weird attacks and incidents in the year leading up to WW1, it is more of a portrait of the patriarchic-authoritarian society of rural protestant Prussia as precursor to the 3rd Reich.

The story is told from the point of view of the village teacher, and in the end more questions remain open than are answered. Even who commited the deeds remains partially without conclusion (though there's strong hints).

While within the families the father reigns supreme, the village is ruled by a baron, with pastor, doctor and teacher following in hierarchy. Draconic and physical disciplining of children is the norm, though parents will defend them against outsiders.

The movie feels authentic in costume and customs, showing one year in the countryside. Living conditions look accurate. The movie does not seem to use artificial lighting. There is no soundtrack besides what is on screen, so no music except when someone plays an instrument or sings. You get plenty of creaking floorboards and leather shoes, coaches etc. The pace of the movie is slow, never hectic. In fact, stepping out of the movie (silent end credits) back into the entertainment center the multiplex is in was sensory overload with all its colors, lights and sounds.

Language was beautiful. The narrator and pastor used wonderfully constructed sentences with proper grammar and use of tenses. Less educated persons speak accordingly less refined.

Overall it was like watching an Ingmar Bergmann film, in the best meaning of the words.

9 cute shy nannies out of 10

Seems like Fanny und Alexander judging by your description. Theatrical or TV version though ;)?

Sophie Scholl

#1944
October 08, 2009, 01:58:20 AM
Not to get all Timmah... but they have Robotech on Hulu now! :w00t:
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

HisMajestyBOB

#1945
October 08, 2009, 07:41:48 AM
Just watched Quantum of Solace. Good movie, though parts of it were a bit silly. Especially the hotel at the end - what kind of idiot engineer replaces all the insulation in the walls with easily exploded hydrogen?

Still, looking forward to the next Bond film.
Three lovely Prada points for HoI2 help

Eddie Teach

#1946
October 08, 2009, 07:37:24 PM
Viva Maria(1965)

French film starring Brigitte Bardot as an Irish terrorist who falls in with a carnival, invents burlesque and ends up leading a revolution in central America. 7.69 beehives on the train tracks out of 10.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

#1947
October 08, 2009, 07:42:16 PM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 08, 2009, 07:41:48 AM
Just watched Quantum of Solace. Good movie, though parts of it were a bit silly. Especially the hotel at the end - what kind of idiot engineer replaces all the insulation in the walls with easily exploded hydrogen?

Still, looking forward to the next Bond film.

That movie made me want to vomit. :(
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HisMajestyBOB

#1948
October 08, 2009, 07:48:36 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 08, 2009, 07:42:16 PM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 08, 2009, 07:41:48 AM
Just watched Quantum of Solace. Good movie, though parts of it were a bit silly. Especially the hotel at the end - what kind of idiot engineer replaces all the insulation in the walls with easily exploded hydrogen?

Still, looking forward to the next Bond film.

That movie made me want to vomit. :(

Why?
Three lovely Prada points for HoI2 help

Darth Wagtaros

#1949
October 08, 2009, 07:53:41 PM
It wasn't especially good.


Halloween this year makes me nostalgic for the Disney classic, Mr. Boogedy, and its sequel.  NOt sure why I even remember them.
PDH!
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