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'Late Night Shopping'. Nice movie, great fun.

Spent a lot of the time trying to figure out where I'd seen the actor with slackerish appearance before. Thought it was something that was great fun as well but when I checked it at IMDb it turns out that it was the television series 'The House That Jack Built' which was fun but still not great fun.
 
novella said:
yes yes yes, jenn. I saw Zissou two nights ago and I also am not sure I liked it. My fave character was Willem Dafoe as Klausie. He was funny. But the movie as a whole had a melancholoy allegorical quality that didn't really gel with the comedy. But the end was affecting. And then there was that black guitar player singing Bowie songs in French. He was sort of like the chorus in a Greek tragedy. I also liked the various fish-actors (pair of dophins, whale in window). The thing was sort of schizophrenic. I don't know either . . .
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that was my feeling too. it didn't seem to fit together. as separate pieces, most of the scenes were funny, or interesting, or moving. but all together ....... :confused: i felt like i'd been to this huge buffet and ate a little of everything, but got home with the feeling of " i could've eaten a bit more..."
 
The Final Cut

A very interesting premise, which sounds like a Philip K. Dick story (but, alas, isn't) and which falters in the end. The story was just too thin, which is a waste of a perfectly good opportunity.

Cheers
 
spent the last three hours watching casino. it was extremely awesome. for one, I had to wait a year for it to come out on dvd, so I was pretty enthusiastic. plus, goodfellas is one of my all-time favorite movies, and they're similar in a lot of ways. scorsese was really on the ball back then.
 
Just watched Skycaptain and the World of Tomorrow. It was horrible. Acting was bad and the story was even worse.

I loved Life Aquatic. It was definitely Wes Anderson’s weakest flick, but I love everything he does. And I kinda dug the Portugese Bowie tunes. Very strange, but I dug it.
 
I couldn't even get to the end of Sky Captain! If that's the world of tomrrow then you can let the giant robots crush me to icky bits right now! :D
 
I kinda liked Sky Captain, but I have a penchant for films with an experimental visual style.

It was a whole lot better than The Life Aquatic - what a heap of steaming donkey doo that was.

Cheers
 
I did really like the visual style of Sky Captain. I have a feeling it's ahead of it's time and all movies will be made that way in the future.

For visual style you can't beat Sin City tho. I'm actually considering going to see that movie for a second time!!!
 
The way Sin City was shot was very similar to the way Sky Captain was shot, actually - it's just that Sin City had the added value of black and white interlaced with coloured elements.

Add to that better source material, and you end up with the best film of '05 sofar.

Cheers
 
i watched stand by me again last night. i love that film. one of the few times where the film equalled the story(the body by stephen king). the film where river phoenix made his entrance. god how i loved him. i watch it and everytime i am filled with nostalgia for summer, and childhood. richard dreyfuss' voice over is wonderful and kiefer sutherland in one of his meanest roles. it's a great, great movie.
 
I saw Saving Private Ryan for the first time because my kid wanted to watch it. NOBODY EVER MENTIONED THAT IT HAD A PLOT!!?? I was very pleasantly surprised. I was expecting some meandering gorefest with a lot of flag waving and tear jerker deaths. At least it has a plot. Funny enough, I must've heard 29 people talk about that movie and not mention that it tells a story.
 
i think with spr, the gore and violence is so shocking that people forget there is a story in there. i liked it but won't watch it again.
 
jenngorham said:
i watched stand by me again last night. i love that film. one of the few times where the film equalled the story(the body by stephen king). the film where river phoenix made his entrance. god how i loved him. i watch it and everytime i am filled with nostalgia for summer, and childhood. richard dreyfuss' voice over is wonderful and kiefer sutherland in one of his meanest roles. it's a great, great movie.
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Excellent film, indeed.

Cheers
 
Stand By Me is one of the few movies I liked as much as the written form. Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile are a few others. What's with Frank Darabont (sp?) anyway? He seems to adapt Stephen King with perfection. I heard he's doing The Mist as his next project.
 
novella said:
I saw Saving Private Ryan for the first time because my kid wanted to watch it. NOBODY EVER MENTIONED THAT IT HAD A PLOT!!?? I was very pleasantly surprised. I was expecting some meandering gorefest with a lot of flag waving and tear jerker deaths. At least it has a plot. Funny enough, I must've heard 29 people talk about that movie and not mention that it tells a story.
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I was also pleasantly surprised that it had a plot. There was indeed some meandering gore and flag waving and tear jerker deaths, but that was more background noise than anything else. The first half hour of the movie still leaves me with my jaw hanging open and my heart beating to a dangerous rhythm.
 
sirmyk said:
Stand By Me is one of the few movies I liked as much as the written form. Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile are a few others. What's with Frank Darabont (sp?) anyway? He seems to adapt Stephen King with perfection. I heard he's doing The Mist as his next project.
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Really? Interesting - I love Darabont.

Seeing Batman Begins later tonight.

Cheers
 
batman begins is da shizzle. anyway, I just finished the fifth season of south park with my brother. man, that scott tenorman episode is really funny. why don't you go cry to your mummy, l'ttle cry baby? WTF. haha.
 
The last thing I watched was "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Amazing Colossal Man"--very funny, but not as good as the "Cave Dwellers" one.

In "The Amazing Colossal Man" a guy gets hit with a plutonium bomb and starts gettign taller and taller. So, the military takes care of him. But the weird/funny thing is, he's all mopey and snappy at everyone about it even though everyone's trying to take care of him and cure him.
 
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