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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #21330 on: October 22, 2009, 02:53:47 AM »
The Girlfriend Experience
Dir. Steven Soderbergh

No description of this film really does it justice.  I think that is mainly due to everyone focusing on the main character's job as an escort.  It also doesn't help that Sasha Grey is a high profile adult film star.  The movie itself is more about economics than it the sex trade and her lies its strength.  It is a film about perspective.  Seeing the economic crisis through the mindset of an 'it' girl escort, someone who, like the monetary climate, has seasons.   She's young, fit and beautiful but soon she'll get older and a younger model will replace her.  She needs to act now and act fast.  One of the most beautiful scenes is carried out between her and a client of 2 years.  The client is stroking her hair with such affection and mentioning how important she is in his life when he realizes he's been seeing her for two years.  The first thing that came to my mind was "How much longer can she do this?" and "How old was she when she started?"  I also thought that the shock of the realization might make his affection wain, but it doesn't and the scene ends with him studying her with such admiration in his eyes.  I was really moved by it.

The film is a bit meandering, but well made.  Grey herself has moments of brilliance, but I often found her cold, hard to read and empty.  I hope she continues acting in mainstream material, she's got the ability, she just needs to warm up a bit.  Her beauty is intoxicating, for this reason she is so popular in the realm of Blue Cinema, but would be most appropriate gracing glossy magazines hocking perfume, cosmetics and high fashion.  Even with such elegant beauty Soderbergh finds angles that are not the least bit flattering when he needs to make her more vulnerable. 

A solid outing.

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #21331 on: October 22, 2009, 04:23:02 AM »
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945) -

I watched pretty much most of the second half of this in my British film class. To be honest I didn't really like it. The narration was just plain awful; talk about saying exactly what was going on in the film. I could tell it was a well made film, but it wasn't for me.

Rating: Not interested in going back to see the whole thing.

That's too bad, Corndog, as this is one of my favourite films of all time. I don't know if I can say anything to make you reconsider and go back and watch the whole thing, but I would say that it is absolutely impossible to really get the film if you haven't been there from the beginning. The scenes in the café/bar are a framing device that gain infinitely in weight and meaning if you've watched the whole film, and I would also say that you need to see the protagonists meet and make that connection for the film to work. Hmmmm, maybe one day you will change your mind after all and give it another shot...

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #21332 on: October 22, 2009, 06:26:44 AM »
Deep Rising:

It's trashy fun - but it does run out of steam by the last act. On top of that, the movie is almost 2 hours long (really pushing it for a mindless action, creature film). The CGI is mind-numbingly bad, even for the 90s. My friends and I watched it together on late night cable, making fun of it the whole way through. It's surreal seeing Djimon Hounsou in such a campy role (his death is probably the funniest bit in the movie).

Couple of observations:
Treat Williams' hair never changes, even when he goes underwater.
Can you really sink a ship and cash in on the insurance?
How did the creature live in the deep sea for all these years (considering it decides to surface and eat 2,000 people IN ONE NIGHT!)?

6/10 (just 'cause it's fun).
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #21333 on: October 22, 2009, 07:44:26 AM »
I agree. It's a fun movie. I'm still hoping for a sequel. The end more then hints at it!
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #21334 on: October 22, 2009, 09:44:59 AM »
There was a night when both Titanic and Deep Rising were on HBO and HBO2 or something at the same time. I watched Deep Rising. I don't regret it.
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #21335 on: October 22, 2009, 10:07:16 AM »
Badlands

I'm not really sure when I was supposed to care. Shouldn't two psychopaths be interesting or at the very least evoke empathy/disdain/horror/pity or something? A shame. 5/10.
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #21336 on: October 22, 2009, 11:44:46 AM »
My Malick favorites rank by year: Most recent as #1, though they are all spectacular. I guess this means Tree of Life is going to be earth shatteringly great.
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #21337 on: October 22, 2009, 11:53:58 AM »
BRONSON

No, not the biography of Charles Bronson the actor rather Charlie Bronson, Britain's most famous criminal.  And the name is just his criminal nickname, earned for his death wish attitude.  Tom Hardy, an English bad boy himself delivers one hell of a performance.  its too bad its not an especially interesting film, and anything this film does well still doesn't come close to the brilliance of a film like Chopper.  Worth a look for UK Film Fanatics.

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #21338 on: October 22, 2009, 02:43:13 PM »
JSA: Joint Security Area by Chan-wook Park-****1/2/*****

Definitely an overlooked film that had a few issues early on as it started out slow and the actors speaking English wasn't very good.  Yet, once the story got going in Korean and the investigation of what happened in the deaths of two North Korean soldiers by a South Korean sergeant.  That's when the film became interesting for me and I was invested in the story and characters.  Plus, I got a great insight into why the chances of a possible reunification between North and South Korea seems impossible due to political reasons.  It's definitely a film that I think more people should see. 
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #21339 on: October 22, 2009, 03:02:58 PM »
BRONSON

No, not the biography of Charles Bronson the actor rather Charlie Bronson, Britain's most famous criminal.  And the name is just his criminal nickname, earned for his death wish attitude.  Tom Hardy, an English bad boy himself delivers one hell of a performance.  its too bad its not an especially interesting film, and anything this film does well still doesn't come close to the brilliance of a film like Chopper.  Worth a look for UK Film Fanatics.

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I want to see this film more than just about anything else currently out there. Aside from A Serious Man, but after I see that I will be dying to see Bronson.