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 Posted: 12 Jul 2012 at 5:17pm |
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"Psycho" what a classic. I love me mum too
Saw "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" Good Stuff
Saw the next night a horror and cannot even remember the title. This one anyway was about a psycho paperboy who murders people.
 What impresses me in these movies is how the female lead keeps staying in the house with murders, break ins, etc. I would have been long gone, myself |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2012 at 5:34pm |
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Did you see Hollywood version or original Swedish one? I saw both and there is quite a big difference between them - I liked Swedish much more
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Posted: 12 Jul 2012 at 5:43pm |
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The last movie I watched on big screen (last week) was "Two Days In New York" - Woody Allen-influenced European film about NYC (or how Europeans see it)
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Posted: 12 Jul 2012 at 8:06pm |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2012 at 10:23pm |
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I remember that paperboy film I think - it was terrible, right?  Yes, Psycho just has so much in the way of trailblazing too - and not just for showing the toilet flushing - which I think was just as difficult for Hitch to get past the censors as anything else in the film |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2012 at 6:05pm |
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Psycho is an absolute classic. I like how Hitchcock shot it when she first takes off with the money. It would not be the same in colour. Raging Bull is another. Black and White films are not appreciated by the youngies today. We had to watch them because everything was black and white on television when I was a kid. Still don't know how I watched sport in black and white. That is one thing that colour improved.
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Posted: 05 Aug 2012 at 11:22am |
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didn't like
 anyway, great performance of Natalie Portman
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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ...
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 4:03am |
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Last weekend watched on big screen Woody Allen's new movie "To Rome With Love". Classic Allen, already usual for him European destination (not Paris but Rome this time), lot of his usual tricks, but film is not boring at all. I like Allen's films even if he started to repeat himself too often
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/06/woody-allen-to-rome-with-love.html#ixzz26FEI0Ml7 Edited by snobb - 12 Sep 2012 at 4:06am |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 11:50am |
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Last films I've watched:
Bananas by Woody Allen: early Allen is pretty fun, more bizarre, very 70's-ish with the music and topics. Recommended. Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard: one of the classics of the French New Wave. The acting is great, it's not very experimental as later Godard films, so I think anyone with a tiny interest in Cinema can enjoy this. Simple plot with great scenes and dialogues. |
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 at 2:54pm |
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Also, just watched:
That Obscure Object of Desire by Luis Buñuel: I was surprised by how down-to-earth it was, I thought it would be a surreal fest like the movies he did not long before this. It was good, interesting (and innovating) that there are two actresses for one role. Pretty minimalistic in characters and plot, very few social/political/religious criticism. Yep, Buñuel, Allen and Godard are favourites of mine. I should go on and watch stuff I haven't seen at all haha, like Hitchock, Truffaut, etc. Oh dear.
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Posted: 03 Dec 2012 at 7:33pm |
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I recently saw the film "Flight", it was alright, I like Denzel Washington. Has anyone else seen it?
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Posted: 03 Dec 2012 at 7:39pm |
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No, I don't go to many movies these days.
Did the plane go upside down?!?!
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Posted: 03 Dec 2012 at 7:53pm |
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Yeah, it did. It was pretty neat.
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Posted: 03 Dec 2012 at 8:00pm |
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That would about do it for me and flying, that's quite an image.
I was in an airport lobby in Atlanta once and they were showing a movie at the bar that had a plane crashing through the airport and I thought what a weird movie to show people who are about to get on a plane. the bartender agreed with me, but i can't remember if he changed the channel or not.
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Posted: 03 Dec 2012 at 8:09pm |
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That's bizarre, I'm not a huge fan of flying anyway. So seeing that kind of thing would probably send me home.
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Posted: 04 Dec 2012 at 1:50am |
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The last movie I watched was " 7 Psychopaths" (a few weeks ago). Mix of Tarantino and Guy Ritchie, one of seven psycho is Tom Waits ( a guy with white rabbit)
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Posted: 11 Jan 2013 at 10:24pm |
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I saw The Hobbit a couple weeks ago. To be honest I was pretty disappointed.
On another note, I saw the Tarantino movie "Django Unchained", and was surprised at how much I liked it. It's certainly not for everybody, though. Lots of blood. |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2013 at 10:56pm |
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That sounds like Tarantino, huh? I'm interested in seeing Django Unchained, absolutely. I think the Hobbit might be a bit disappointing for me, personally - for one, as I don't think it needs to be a trilogy. But I'll go see it and have a look, what was it specifically that you didn't enjoy, Amilisom? The acting? CGI? Did they change too much? Curious, as I reckon I'll go see it soon |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2013 at 2:08am |
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The two below are from PA: The Mission. Simplicity + Essence = Brilliance. This one is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant in every way. Many ideas in this film are delivered visually and verbally in a very simple, yet thought-out fashion. Now, I don't really know how accurate are the details about the customs of the natives, their appearances, and such in the film, so I don't find myself eligible to discuss this particular part. The rest of the film is just something one cannot pin down. The script is downright-solid, no bulls$%t. I just wish I could quote oh-so-many lines. And it's like as if a couple of characters could read my mind on the issue of cultural conversion. Morricone was definitely the man for the soundtrack job. Of course, De Niro and Irons were the ... (ahem ... I'm not gonna use the word "stars"; I'm gonna go with "excellent lead actors") ... excellent lead actors who really put their effort into the parts they were doing. The camera work was adequate (the sole Oscar-winner for the film, though). The landscapes were simply gorgeous. The battle scene was done with utter sense of humanity, but it's not the only exclamation mark in the whole movie. Overall, top-notch. This guy Roland Joffé surely knew how to shoot a good one.
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Unbreakable. A very puzzling affair that might have been intended by the scriptwriter/producer/director of the work M. Night Shyamalan as an attempt to make a very realistic sci-fi-based drama, but, of course, I may be wrong about his intentions. There seem to be somewhat convoluted ideas diluted in what at first thought may seem like filler, whereas those "filler" scenes simply function as links between the more important ones. Also, it appears that the mastermind behind the film wanted to bring out certain issues such as family problems, the presence and the functioning of the mentally ill in our society, and such. But to what end? And if I'm wrong, then, in the end, I have no idea what all this "superhero in the real world" stuff means. Did I like the movie overall? I thought it was OK, though I want to believe that its quality is beyond my enjoyment.
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