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Post by Avril on Dec 1, 2010 6:34:16 GMT -5
Saw two previews today:
Black Swan with Natalie Portman as a virginal ballerina trying to be bad enough to dance the black swan in Swan Lake, Vincent Cassel as a svengali choreographer, Barbara HersheyBar as a smothermother, and Winona Ryder as a retiring Drama Queen, if they ever really retire. It was suitably psychotic and the mark of its worth for me was that I didn't know what was real and what was imagined or symbolic, until the end. Excellent performances all round. I absolutely hated the HersheyBar.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The voyage of the Dawn Treader. This was the third Narnia in a series of seven, this one directed very ably in 3-D by Michael Apted. It was thrilling, moving, inspiring (it's the Mouse Reepicheep who really steals the show) and the graphics are okay. If you're familiar with the books, this is the one where the total prig cousin Eustace gets turned into a dragon and redeems himself.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Dec 1, 2010 10:26:07 GMT -5
Waaahhh, I stopped at the Wardrobe Book. I dont know, the wardrobe seemed a good place to stop. Heh. ;D How much of the original cast is in the Dawn Treader? Why did they make this movie? Did the sequel turn a profit? Haf you seen HARRY POTTER or KINGS SPEECH yet?
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Post by Avril on Dec 2, 2010 4:30:31 GMT -5
No to HP and the other one. Maybe on cable.
Today I saw Blue Valentine, starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling in as dysfunctional a relationship as you'd ever want to see. Or not, as the case may be. It was sort of like my book on toxic relationship ties without the good bits, the way out.
Truly excellent and believable performances all round. The movie went back and forwards from six years ago to today and believe me, this is one movie about relationships that shows how falling in love=conveniently fitting a fantasy on your lover and finding out the bitter needy, manipulative truth down the track. Eck. Anyway. A reviewer colleague there mentioned 'they say this is about Michelle's relationship with Heath Ledger'. Hmmm, well that's an obvious conclusion to infer, but I have no evidence to support it.
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Post by Avril on Dec 2, 2010 4:50:03 GMT -5
Waaahhh, I stopped at the Wardrobe Book. I dont know, the wardrobe seemed a good place to stop. Heh. ;D How much of the original cast is in the Dawn Treader? Why did they make this movie? Did the sequel turn a profit? Well there are seven Narnia stories, but I realise the genre is a wee bit overworked at the moment with HP and LOTR, and the budget is obviously not going to be anywhere near as big for Narnia. Despite that, the books are my favourites way beyond Tolkien and Rowling. The movies reflect their budgets, but there's still enough real magic in Narnia for me to faithfully follow unpopular sequels. Repeating cast members include Georgie Henley and Skandar Keynes Tilda Swinton as a spectral version of her Ice Queen witch, and of course Liam Neeson as the sepulchral voice of Aslan.
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Post by Avril on Dec 2, 2010 22:01:59 GMT -5
Just saw Love and Other Drugs starring the double pulchritudinousness of Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.
It's a comedy romance with a slight twist, but that's only partly what makes it so good. It's about a Pfizer salesman (Jake) who meets Maggie (Hathaway), a 26-year-old early-onset Parkinson's sufferer while he's masquerading as a medical intern and she's bare breasted in a consulting room. A very good 'meet cute' followed by feisty Maggie beating him up in the car park, because she's no idiot and the piles of drug samples in the boot of his car are a dead giveaway to his real occupation of parasite on the sick, suck up to the medical profession and pussy hound.
Because he's a narcissist with ADD and she's sick, the affair they embark on is intentionally shallow and sex-based. There are lots of slick-dialogue moments where they warn each other not to get serious and try to convince each other that he is a shithead, so neither of them will get hurt, by, you know, anything remotely resembling human connection or caring. In fact, he actually has a panic attack the first time he realises it's not working and oh oh, he's in lurve. Hang on, look at her - who wouldn't be, on the first lowering of a Hathaway eyelash!
Like the drugs he sells with panache and accustomed marketing pizazz in a highly competitive market (his rival offers trips to Hawai'i as incentive to doctors and medical personnel to prescribe his Prozac instead of Pfizer's Zoloft), this movie sells a crock of dreams to a needy market without a lot of choice.
The illusion that there is one special person out there who can see you for who you really are and make that real for you, someone who can save you and provide endlessly for your bottomless neediness - this is extremely well done. In fact, the movie's name is absolute truth in marketing. Mirabile dictu.
I almost believed it, myself.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Dec 2, 2010 22:29:49 GMT -5
Yahhh, I got that ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY when theyre both nekiddity on the cover so I didnt even bother reading the article. Hahahaha! Oh, for the good old days when Anne Hathaway just looked so hot in Prada. Now she has to act too.
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Post by Avril on Dec 6, 2010 6:42:40 GMT -5
Somewhere written and directed by Sofia Coppola, starring Steven Dorff as a waste-of-space over-paid actor and Elle Fanning as his 11-year-old daughter, who comes to stay and supposedly makes him re-consider his empty, pussy- and pill-chasing lifestyle.
She's a breath of fresh air, but even she cannot save this movie from being probably the most boring we've ever seen.
Coppola specialises in showing vapid people leading meaningless lives and monotonously hammering that tedium home in triplicate to her audiences. I was really hoping that with Elle in it, the movie would actually go where the title indicated. It didn't. If you thought Lost in Translation was slow and meandering, neither plot nor character driven, and wonder whether this movie is any better, don't bother. It's more of the same ad infinitum.
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Post by sunfrog on Dec 6, 2010 8:13:08 GMT -5
I liked Lost in Translation. I might even own a copy around here somewhere. Or not. Maybe. I'm not thinking too clearly at the moment. It's 6 AM and I just invented an ingenious door that leads to a secret staircase in a dream. It will require a watchmaker to build the mechanism. Maybe I should type the dream down in another thread before I forget it.
For movies I've been watching Alfred Hitchcock spy thrillers whilst sick in bed. I watched The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Juno and the Paycock. I bought one of those dvds with 5 of his movies on it for $4 out of the cheapie bin things and haven't had time to watch it until now. There are two more movies on it but I'm saving those to watch later.
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Post by Avril on Dec 6, 2010 19:25:18 GMT -5
Our TV sound is on the blink and we're waiting for a new cable. In the meantime, we're watching DVDs from our personal library. I really wanted to watch Blade Runner: The director's cut but can't find it! I thought we had Rashomon on DVD too, but we must've had them both on videotape. Anyway, I taped Rashomon last night and we might be able to watch it when the replacement cable arrives.
I cannot believe Coppola got a Golden Lion for Somewhere.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Dec 6, 2010 20:21:31 GMT -5
Critics like her becuz they are astonished that someone who weighs less than a Hepplewhite chair can make a movie.
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Post by Avril on Dec 7, 2010 4:15:08 GMT -5
Nothing to do with her dynastic pedigree, then....
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Post by dragrat on Jan 1, 2011 2:29:46 GMT -5
I saw a film today on DvD. First time in ages have I had the chance to do so..
Its called Brick Lane. A classical tale of a woman who is married to a man in London. This is not a marriage of love and thus unexpectedly a young man entres her life.. Trouble is afoot, what happens next...
Its a lovely short film about a women realising her potential for independents from her husband's authority...
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Post by Frito Freddie on Jan 22, 2011 12:45:27 GMT -5
They were showing Heath Ledger films in the local cinema and I took my mom there. She refused to see it when it frst came out but I have worn her down and she loved the movie. She was so affected byh it, she needed tissues! Haha Click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJlYq6JMb8&feature=related
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 22, 2011 16:41:17 GMT -5
Hurmmm, wouldnt haf been comfortable sitting next to my mum watching BROKEBACK. She wuz kinda easy to shock.
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Post by sunfrog on Jan 22, 2011 19:46:42 GMT -5
I saw most of this movie. I didn't see the end. I didn't think it was that gay. In fact, it wasn't gay enough. I wanted to see some nudity and roping not just manly man kisses. Bleh~
Do men like to hold heads when they kiss? Hmm...
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