MOVIES you watched this week? (DVD) - Page 17

iamnotafraid · #**241** 01-14-2010, 02:07 AM

9

I liked it. Finally something different for a change.
Great sounding.

Dodfather · #**242** 01-17-2010, 04:40 PM

Just watched (500) Days Of Summer. My God, it was amazing. Just fantastic. The most interesting movie I've seen in a long time. Add to that the loooooovely Zooey Deschanel standing singing in the karaoke bar..I like! Man, if someone like that stood and sang to me....

iamnotafraid · #**243** 01-20-2010, 05:49 AM

Is Anybody There? starring Michael Caine. A retired
magician moves in to a nursing home makes for a depressing
movie.

jannieC · #**244** 01-20-2010, 06:55 AM

Saw The Lovely Bones last week-end and sobbed through the whole thing.

GODDESS6 · #**245** 01-20-2010, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

Saw The Lovely Bones last week-end and sobbed through the whole thing.

i really want to see this, i sobbed reading the book~

i watched 'clockwatchers' twice

~

iamnotafraid · #**246** 01-21-2010, 08:11 PM

Gamer
Horrible, horrible, horrible movie. I can't imagine anyone
liking this movie unless you're so totally into gaming that
you've lost sense of reality.

**mylittledemon** · #**247** 01-21-2010, 08:15 PM

I finally saw Up ... I wanted to like it more than I actually did.

Zombie · #**248** 01-21-2010, 08:29 PM

The Road

I was afraid to watch this movie, because Cormac McCarthy is one of my all-time favorite authors & I wasn't sure how they were going to pull this off.

I guess they did okay, considering that The Road is a rather special book, but they had to cut out a scene from the book that I think is rather pivotal and sums up what McCarthy was trying to say. Unfortunate, but understandable considering the nature of the scene. Also, they expanded the role of the Woman into a whole character almost, with the bones of a backstory, which I thought was unnecessary, but I guess Charlize Theron was bored that week or something.

I was pleased to see, however, that some of McCarthy's most beautiful lines were preserved in the film, particularly when the Man says of the Boy, "If he is not the word of god, then god never spoke."

FMlex · #**249** 01-21-2010, 08:39 PM

I'm taking a cinema class this semester, and yesterday (our first class) we watched Vertigo.

I forgot how much I love Alfred Hitchcock (and his MacGuffins) movies!

Although, being the mature audience that we were, in the scene where Jimmy Stewart pours a frazzled Kim Novak (who just had a terrible nightmare) a shot of brandy and says, "Here, take this. It's just like medicine." -- the entire 400+ audience busted out laughing.

daniellaaarisen · #**250** 01-21-2010, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by FMlex

I'm taking a cinema class this semester, and yesterday (our first class) we watched Vertigo.

I forgot how much I love Alfred Hitchcock (and his MacGuffins) movies!

Although, being the mature audience that we were, in the scene where Jimmy Stewart pours a frazzled Kim Novak (who just had a terrible nightmare) a shot of brandy and says, "Here, take this. It's just like medicine." -- the entire 400+ audience busted out laughing.

I. LOVE. VERTIGO. I think its my favorite Hitchcock film and quite possibly one of my favorite movies ever.

Dodfather · #**251** 01-22-2010, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by FMlex

I'm taking a cinema class this semester, and yesterday (our first class) we watched Vertigo.

I forgot how much I love Alfred Hitchcock (and his MacGuffins) movies!

Although, being the mature audience that we were, in the scene where Jimmy Stewart pours a frazzled Kim Novak (who just had a terrible nightmare) a shot of brandy and says, "Here, take this. It's just like medicine." -- the entire 400+ audience busted out laughing.

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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

I. LOVE. VERTIGO. I think its my favorite Hitchcock film and quite possibly one of my favorite movies ever.

I do love Vertigo. I taught on a Hitchcock course before and this was one of films that really grabbed students attention. I have to say that I prefer Rear Window though, but it's a tough choice!

FMlex · #**252** 01-22-2010, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Dodfather

I do love Vertigo. I taught on a Hitchcock course before and this was one of films that really grabbed students attention. I have to say that I prefer Rear Window though, but it's a tough choice!

Omgosh. I wanna take a Hitchcock course! That sounds awesome.
Yes, Rear Window is another great one.

I saw that North By Northwest was just released on Blu-ray in November, so I need to pick that up. I read in a technology magazine that the transfer is brilliant and one of the best!

TrueFaith77 · #**253** 01-22-2010, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

I. LOVE. VERTIGO. I think its my favorite Hitchcock film and quite possibly one of my favorite movies ever.

I put it on the middle-to-lower end of Hitchcock movies . . . but all that pathology has made it very very popular with contemporary critics, thus its reputation. Compared to The Birds, Psycho, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Marnie, somebodystopme, it's just kinda ... dull. Compared to most movies, it's a masterpiece, though.

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Gamer
Horrible, horrible, horrible movie. I can't imagine anyone
liking this movie unless you're so totally into gaming that
you've lost sense of reality.

Gamer was terrific. I love love love what Neveldine-Taylor are doing. Their "video game" aesthetic (see the first Crank's post-credits revelation) is actually a rather avantgarde form of satire. They are investigating what Flannery O'Connor would call our "gnostic" culture (a spirit-flesh binary/hiearchy) by emphasizing/subverting the desecration of the flesh in our violent and pornographic pop culture (which includes video games). My personal favorite moment in Gamer is when the film's young gamer returns to his virtual reality gaming room (in the future, the computer screen is displayed on all walls of the room). The room is full of im's and webcams saying: "F--- You!" I thought to myself: THAT is the internet--encapsulated in one image!!! i.e. that's vital filmmaking

GypsySorcerer · #**254** 01-22-2010, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Zombie

The Road

I was afraid to watch this movie, because Cormac McCarthy is one of my all-time favorite authors & I wasn't sure how they were going to pull this off.

I guess they did okay, considering that The Road is a rather special book, but they had to cut out a scene from the book that I think is rather pivotal and sums up what McCarthy was trying to say. Unfortunate, but understandable considering the nature of the scene. Also, they expanded the role of the Woman into a whole character almost, with the bones of a backstory, which I thought was unnecessary, but I guess Charlize Theron was bored that week or something.

I was pleased to see, however, that some of McCarthy's most beautiful lines were preserved in the film, particularly when the Man says of the Boy, "If he is not the word of god, then god never spoke."

I wanted to see this, but it's not showing in my area anymore. It was here a week. I wondered how it would transfer to film.... What scene did they cut? I think my favorite scene of the book is the one with "Ely," the old man.

Oh, and Vertigo is awesome... in my top 10 films of all time. Love Rear Window, too.

TrueFaith77 · #**255** 01-22-2010, 10:51 AM

I know I've posted this like a gazillion times but Senses of Cinema finally posted by ten best of 2009 list, so I put up my lists of the 10 best movies of 2009, 10 best movies of the 2000s, ten best albums of 2009, ten best singles of 2009, ten best albums of the 2000s at MY BLOG.

Also you will find (preferred version at my blog) an introduction to the lists focusing on the best movie NOT released in the US this decade: Raging Sun, Raging Sky.