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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31200 on: May 13, 2010, 05:21:59 PM »
Iron Man 2

I wrote this review twice, because the first one was a product of pure rage. I might post it later for those interested.

Good review, though you're harsher than I'd be.

He isn't harsh enough.
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31201 on: May 13, 2010, 05:27:27 PM »
Iron Man 2 >>>>>>>>>> Indy 4

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31202 on: May 13, 2010, 05:40:41 PM »
Iron Man 2

I wrote this review twice, because the first one was a product of pure rage. I might post it later for those interested.

Good review, though you're harsher than I'd be.

He isn't harsh enough.
That's where my rage review comes in.

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31203 on: May 13, 2010, 09:14:31 PM »
Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (Les Blank, 1980)

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Working Girl (Mike Nichols, 1988)

Verdict: Working Girl moves on

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31204 on: May 13, 2010, 11:40:13 PM »
Robin Hood

I'm pretty ignorant to the Robin Hood legend, and so, unlike... say... Ebert, I won't be comparing it to the wittiness of Erryl Flynn or anything along those lines.  This really isn't a fun film.  There are moments where you'll definitely smile, though.  However, general tone is that it's very serious, and it's also very methodical in pacing.  There are maybe 5 "action" scenes in the entire film, and 2 are really early on, while 2 are at the end.  Whether you enjoy spending time with the characters, and letting things develop, will likely determine how much you like it, while I enjoyed the film overall a great deal, my wife hated it and slept through the last half.

The problem, for me, was that when the stakes were risen, and we got to the big action scenes and big emotional payoffs, it didn't hit me as much, and was my least favorite part of the film.  It went from a 5 star contender downhill pretty quick.  I still thought that 80% of the film was pretty brilliant, and that's enough for ****

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31205 on: May 13, 2010, 11:42:16 PM »
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (2004)

Rest assured, not only can I still occasionally like a movie, I can even like a quiet Asian one. The highly acclaimed Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring takes place completely in a single, beautiful valley, filled with a lake and a floating room, serving as a monastery. It is an absolutely serene setting, and I was in a meditative (or perhaps just sleep-deprived) mood that fit. However, I would not call this a serene film.

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Anyway, there is so much of interest here and I can't claim that it all meant something to me. The doors without walls for example catch my attention, but I'm not exactly sure what is being said through that. I think the film is a bit of a cypher and can be read in many ways...and I choose this one particular interpretation. Either way, I highly recommend this and having now seen two of Kim Ki-duk's works I am intrigued to visit more of them.

Rating: 4/5

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31206 on: May 13, 2010, 11:52:53 PM »
The World - "...Shijie has some of the longest takes I've ever seen in a movie, and it needs to be praised for this...I give Shijie a Are we dead?/10"

Iron Man 2

I wrote this review twice, because the first one was a product of pure rage. I might post it later for those interested.

It's a shame that the studio wouldn't make nearly as much money had they made the movie about what you described (and all us comic fans would rather it be about). Nice review, you hit on some stuff I hadn't thought of... gotta rethink my position.

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31207 on: May 14, 2010, 01:22:30 AM »
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010) */*****

Doing a quick search around the web for definitions of the word “porn” led me to the general consensus that porn seems to be explicit depictions of sexual behavior meant to arouse sexual excitement in the viewer.  The term “torture porn” has been thrown around the film world a lot lately to describe works like Hostel and the Saw series.  I guess what people are getting at is that these films are explicit depictions of torture meant to arouse some sort of sadistic pleasure in its viewers.  By all accounts writer/director Tom Six’s new film The Human Centipede should fit right into the genre.  The question I must raise is, what do you call a film that contains little more than explicit scenes of torture and somehow manages to bore?  With the first installment in his Human Centipede series Tom Six may have created the first torture lullaby...

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31208 on: May 14, 2010, 01:39:00 AM »


Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party (Robert Brinkmann, 2005)

It was jdc who originally turned me on to the Tobolowsky Files podcast and it quickly became a favourite.

So glad you like it, I am eager to have the new podcasts to come out.  I have not watched the original film that was the inspiration to the podcast yet but have it on my list to find.
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #31209 on: May 14, 2010, 06:35:24 AM »
Man's Castle (Frank Borzage, 1933)

According to the newspapers the banks of this country are full of gold, the granaries are bursting with grain, and yet there are 12 million people out of work.

A love story about Bill (Spencer Tracy) and Trina (Loretta Young). They meet while Bill, dressed in a suit and top hat, is feeding the pigeons, while Trina looks hungrily at the bread going to the birds. Turns out that Bill's suit has a flashing advertisement on the chest, and that Bill is just as broke as Trina.

Trina looks so hungry on a physical level, all skin and bones, those huge eyes staring up at Bill. But the way she kisses and hangs on to Bill suggests a different kind of hunger. A moonlight skinny dip in a pond near the New York Depression shanty town, purifies the new lovers, and sanctifies their carnal love. Damn, I love pre-Code movies!

Spencer Tracy is certainly no Charles Farrell when it comes to looks or physical presence, but he has other gifts, and brings them to the fore. Constantly putting Trina down, poking her, pulling her hair, it's obvious that it's all bluff, and there's a real tenderness and sincerity under it all. The thing that really gets me about a lot of Borzage's films is that men are often all bluster around the women, but there's never even the threat of implied violence in their actions, the threatening nature of masculinity so often seen in Hollywood films. His films are endlessly fascinating, just to watch the endless manifestations and variations in the interactions of the main couple. Bill seems scared, baffled, overwhelmed by this elemental force that has engulfed him, and all the wise-cracking comes across as so much hot air. He tries to run, jumping onto a passing freight train, but he jumps off and crashes to the ground.

I love the under(over)current, the fact that it mixes with the Depression milieu so perfectly, and you get these desperate, crazed, beautiful moments. The pregnancy monologue: "You're a prisoner inside of me!" and the final shot of the couple in the boxcar (!! amazing!!). Trina has this rapturous look on her face, of complete abandonment. Bill is submissive, bowed, at the mercy of this force. Both are happy, content. A moment like Steinbeck put in Grapes of Wrath, but couldn't make it in Ford's adaptation. Crazy good. Borzage good.
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