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I saw "The Hobbit" part 3 yesterday. I found it better than the first two, but agree that it would be better with much shorter action sequences and if it had been 1 and a 1/2 hours long or even shorter.

I was also annoyed by an added storyline about a dodgy townsman, Alfrid. He was dishonest, greedy, selfish, untrustworthy, cowardly, incompetent and hated by all the townspeople- pretty much a sociopath. But for some reason the hero, Bard kept giving him really important jobs like getting the women and children to safety. Surely someone else in town was better qualified.

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I watched Detachment, a Blackboard Jungle type story, but done up with the trappings of American independent cinema(brooding atmosphere, discordant music, etc). These indy pretensions were somewhat belied by the top-drawer casting choices(eg. Adrian Brody, Lucy Liu, James Caan for old-times sake).

If you've ever spent a tiresome evening listening to teachers talk about how underappreciated their profession is, this movie is kind of the cinematization of that. Despite the aspirations to gritty realism, the complaining parents(threatening to sue the school and whatnot) come across like stock comedy characters.

Speaking of stock, Caan plays a lovably roguish pedagogue who reads porn magazine between classes, offers tranqilizers to his colleagues, and shows female students photos of diseased genitalia to discourage them from bad life-choices. Hard to imagine that a guy like this would manage to stay out of jail, let alone hold down a teaching job. (And he's meant to be understood as a good guy, not symptomatic of bad teachers).

All that said, there are a few well-executed scenes, and if you can stomach the self-congratulatory accolades heaped upon the teaching profession, it's probably worth a look.

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I've been settling down with a party hat and a glass of port to rewatch Hamlet - the version with David Tennant. It's the first version I've seen where I actually understand what's going on! And that's mostly down to Patrick Stewart as Claudius - not just the guy who married Hamlet's mum before her first husband's body was cold, but trying to run a country with this untouchable lunatic running around, who knows more than he should about the murder.

And then something completely different - I'd seen Iron Man 1 and 3, but I'd never got round to watching 2 before. It was better than I'd expected (I'd seen some reviews that were disappointed with it). I loved the vintage film of Howard Stark coming over just like Walt Disney - and Black Widow was great, but I now have this alternate version in my head where the other Avengers get involved, and Emma Peel does everything Natasha does, while Steed takes Nick Fury's part.

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Yesterday we went up to London to see Walt Disney's Fatasia (1940) at the British Film Institute on the South Bank.

I last saw it when I was 8.

A number of (popular) claissical music bits are illustrated with cartoons.

The camp bits worked best and are the ones I remembered: Mickey Mouse in Dukas ' The Sorceror's Apprentice and the dancing hippos in tutus for Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours.

Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony with twee centaurs and "centaurettes" was toe curlingly embarrassing.

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I saw a movie today, the third installment of a trilogy, called The Battle of the Five Armies.
After it ended, I turned to my friend and said 'I liked this movie. I shall be happy when they make a screen adaptation of The Hobbit, but I liked this movie'.

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Double post to add it had the most hilarious credit I have ever encountered.

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Went to see Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings which has had mixed reviews.

Not bad, beautiful to look at and Christian Bale does his best as Moses. The plagues are very well done, especially the frogs.

My main complaint is that, as usual, the sound was way too loud: even with earplugs in I still found some scenes painful on the ears.

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Curiosity killed ...

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lilBuddha - apparently the Tolkien scholar had to read all the unreadable Tolkien works to find additional ideas for padding. I suspect reading The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth and the epic poetry took longer than 5 minutes.

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quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
My main complaint is that, as usual, the sound was way too loud: even with earplugs in I still found some scenes painful on the ears.

Thanks for that - the almost deafening volume is one of the reasons why I stopped going to the cinema a while ago. If that's still general practice, I'll carry on waiting for the DVDs.

I don't know why it's like that, it never used to be. We live in a noisy age I suppose.

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Continuing to binge on films, I finally got round to Snow White and the Huntsman.
It was a bit of a mess, really. The special effects were wonderful, but it seemed odd to get all those wonderful British actors like Ian McShane and Ray Winstone and Bob Hoskins (and Nick Frost) in to play dwarfs and then they weren't even in half the movie.
I don't see why the beautiful white horse had to founder in the swamp either - shouldn't he have been taking Snow White to the fairy glade seen later, rather than straight into the nastiest bit of the Dark Forest?
But it was good that, in the final battle, Snow White was useless with a sword. Of course she would have been - she'd been locked up in a tower for years with no opportunity to practice.

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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Double post to add it had the most hilarious credit I have ever encountered.

Tolkien Scholar

Best paid 5 minutes of work ever, I should think.

Stranger things...

(Actually, I kinda like that guy. But he is held up as the go-to example for "cheezy inspirational hack".)

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quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
lilBuddha - apparently the Tolkien scholar had to read all the unreadable Tolkien works to find additional ideas for padding. I suspect reading The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth and the epic poetry took longer than 5 minutes.

If you remove all Tolkien reference from the three very long movies, you'd still be left with two long movies. So an exageration, yes, but not a fabrication.
Still, my comment was not targeting the researcher as much as Jackson.

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As before, today I called our environmental health people and complained about the loudness in our local cinema. If you do this they will make a spot-check visit...

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Saw Penguins of Madagascar on Tuesday (last year, in fact).

Very, very funny. Although I couldn't help wondering how the villain knew in advance where the penguins were going to be...

Also re-watched Van Helsing , a 2004 film starring Hugh Jackman which was a lot of fun despite being outrageously silly.

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At the behest of my b-i-l the pastor we went to see Exodus. A failure, but not without interest. I am going to post a review of it on the blog.

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quote:
Originally posted by Mili:
I saw "The Hobbit" part 3 yesterday. I found it better than the first two, but agree that it would be better with much shorter action sequences and if it had been 1 and a 1/2 hours long or even shorter.

I was also annoyed by an added storyline about a dodgy townsman, Alfrid. He was dishonest, greedy, selfish, untrustworthy, cowardly, incompetent and hated by all the townspeople- pretty much a sociopath. But for some reason the hero, Bard kept giving him really important jobs like getting the women and children to safety. Surely someone else in town was better qualified.

Because everyone else remotely qualified - i.e. all the Real Men, had joined up to fight in the battle.

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what annoyed me about Hobbit was that, for such a way long movie, how many plot coupons were not redeemed. what about Bilbo's acorn? We never see him plant it. Shouldn't Alfred have gotten a better come-uppance than just being laughed at?

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And or course no woman could have been in charge in Tolkien's world - though the movie did show Bard was wrong in this opinion and the women didn't exactly listen to Alfrid, instead taking charge themselves.
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Both Exodus and Hobbit were far, far too long. Minutes devoted to CGI combat that made the pace as logey as a constipated elephant.

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The other day I stumbled across a copy of Death Of A President, a British-made mockumentary about the obviously fictional assassination of George W. Bush. Some of you may have seen it referenced in relation to the controversy over The Interview last month.

Speaking as someone who generally dislikes mockumentaries, this one was pretty good. For the most part, the "interviewees" seemed like real people, not actors. In my experience, getting that realistic interview feel down is one of the biggest problems in that genre.

Politically, the point is fairly obvious I guess, anti-war, anti-Patriot Act, warnings about blowback etc. But I have to agree with the critic who wrote back in 2006 that the characterizations end up being de facto conservative, in that the pro-Bush characters are mostly portrayed as well-dressed and articulate, whereas the left-wing anti-Bush people(seen mostly in what purports to be news footage of a protest) mostly come off as long-haired, unwashed losers.

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We went to see Paddington last night - sheer escapism, feel good, light - just the thing for a Saturday evening. (In other words, we enjoyed it! [Yipee] )

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I'm sure Skyfall has been mentioned already on this thread - my Other Half and I watched it when it first came out on DVD and we weren't really impressed at all. We've just watched it again and we enjoyed it much more the second time around.

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I went and saw "Selma" today. It has some fine acting and catches a lot of the time. There's some disagreement about how historical the movie portrayed Lyndon Johnson. It's interesting to compare the movie to play "The Great Society". for the roles of Johnson and King.

It marked a high point of the civil rights movement, so there's a lot to admire. The film is good about the cost of the struggle.

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A good movie weekend, in which we saw INTO THE WOODS in the theater, and TOPSY-TURVY on the TV at home.

ITW is the perfect movie for the Sondheim fan -- it's extremely true to the stage production and lovely to look at. (But, if you had to pick between one and the other, see it on stage.)

TOPSY-TURVY is a valentine to all Gilbert & Sullivan fans everywhere. A great backstage film!

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The Muppetts were on TV over Xmas.

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quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
We went to see Paddington last night - sheer escapism, feel good, light - just the thing for a Saturday evening. (In other words, we enjoyed it! [Yipee] )

We saw Paddington this afternoon - I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it was beautifully filmed too. Absolute escapism, and Hugh Bonneville was just lovely! And I particularly sniggered a lot at Peter Capaldi & Nicole Kidman... [Smile]

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Bridget Jones Diary was light-hearted and amusing.

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The Muppetts were on TV over Xmas.

Yes - the Muppet Christmas Carol, saw part of this for the first time. Some good lines, but I did feel the whole thing would have been a lot better without the Muppets.
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There was also a film about the return of the Muppetts whewn their museum was threatened by a corporate takeover.
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Has anyone else been to see "The Theory of Everthing"? Saw it a couple of weeks ago and I thought it fantastic. Eddie Redmayne in particular was brilliant.

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Just back from Into The Woods. Stunning. We were the only two in the cinema, so it was a private screening!

Still prefer the stage show but this really was superb.

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I loved it, but agree the stage show is the way to go if you can.

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Stage show trumps the movie of Into the Woods.
I have been fighting an earworm after seeing the movie that mashes together "Children will Listen" with "Anyone can Whistle".

A friend tipped me off to a pilot on Amazon. It's only one pilot episode of a series based on Philip K. Dick's "The Man in The High Castle". They spent a lot of money on visual CGI of an alternate history Nazi/Japanese invaded America. I loved the texture and didn't see any violence to the book as I remember it. I suspect follow up episodes might not be quite so fancy.

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quote:
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Has anyone else been to see "The Theory of Everthing"? Saw it a couple of weeks ago and I thought it fantastic. Eddie Redmayne in particular was brilliant.

Yes, we saw that awhile back, and the whole family (ages 14-78) found it excellent and enjoyable. I then read Jane Hawking's memoir, Travelling to Infinity, which not as good a book as the movie was a movie, but still worth a read.

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I went to see Exodus: Gods and Kings, and wrote a review: Exodus Review

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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by leo:
The Muppetts were on TV over Xmas.

Yes - the Muppet Christmas Carol, saw part of this for the first time. Some good lines, but I did feel the whole thing would have been a lot better without the Muppets.
I love the Muppet Christmas Carol, largely because Michael Caine is so good as Scrooge and plays it entirely straight. But also because of the Muppets.

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I saw a new 3-D film "Goodbye to Language" by Goddard. Some interesting camera shots, some painfully aggressive 3-D and some pompous French chit chat.
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I just saw "The Imitation Game" for the second time. Like the first, it was free tickets so I went with a friend. It's good even if fuzzes the facts a bit and leaves out interesting stuff. I liked the review which complained "for a biography about a homosexual mathematician" there wasn't much homosexuality or math. You don't often get complaints that film didn't have enough math in it.
It did make me go back and reread the Andrew Hodges Biography which I haven't read in many years. He's a fascinating person.

I saw The Imitation Game yesterday. Didn't know much at all about Turing and have read a bit since then. It's no surprise that the filmmakers fictionalized things. Some of the changes are questionable, and I can see why one writer thought a particular plot point essentially slandered Turing. Nevertheless it made clear what a tragedy it is that this brilliant person, who possibly saved millions of lives, was persecuted for his homosexuality when he should have been knighted. And I see that my local library system has long queues of hold requests on pretty much every book on Turing. So if it makes people want to learn more about the real person and his contributions, that's a good thing.

Also, last weekend (MLK Day in the U.S.) I saw Selma, which is excellent. David Oyelowo is amazing as Dr. King. Aaand I saw an older film about race in America, The Thing with Two Heads (1972). Ray Milland plays a bigot whose head is grafted onto the body of a black death row inmate played by Rosie Grier. It's really stupid but fun if you like Grade-Z schlock.

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Enjoyed Mr. Turner, and admired the way in which it attempted to reproduce early nineteenth century speech (how successfully, is for linguistically knowledgeable others to say) instead of settling for having the characters speak English as we do.
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ITW is the perfect movie for the Sondheim fan

Sondheim's tunes are like modern praise and worship songs - they all sound the same.

After I left the cinema, i would not have been able to reproduce a few bars of any of them.

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Originally posted by Sparrow:
Has anyone else been to see "The Theory of Everthing"? Saw it a couple of weeks ago and I thought it fantastic.

We too, missed a showing of it one day and went back to see it on the next. Were it already released to video, we could ship it off to my niece for her birthday on the 29th. SHE wants to be a physicist too! I hope she gets into Cal Tech: her grandfather, my dad got his masters' degree there......

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Bridget Jones - the Edge of Reason. Sequel to the diary and equally amusing.

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I'm still seeing films with a teenager - who turned 15 last weekend. Recent list has been:

  • Taken 3 - yes, they found more people in his family for him to avenge and set up the premise for Taken 4. Liam Neeson in action hero mode, lots of messy car chases and violence to entertain teenage boys while still being rated for 12 and over here.
  • Night at the Museum 3 featuring the British Museum. We followed that one up with a visit to the British Museum to find that all the fun stuff in the Great Hall that came to life in the film had been moved and replaced by information desks. The frogs and statues were there last time I visited, I swear. And yes, I know the dinosaurs are at the Natural History Museum.
  • American Sniper the biopic / hagiography of Chris Kyle, Navy Seal who was credited with the most kills in the Iraq war. Uncritical of the army turning men into killing machines, the American presence in Iraq or giving any real context to any Middle Eastern conflicts, it is otherwise well acted and produced, and shows PTSD and dehumanisation of army life, subtly (sailed over the teenager's head). A lot of action in Iraq is shown, which is very atmospheric. A lot of the controversy seems to be revulsion that men are turned into killing machines in the army. Which may be an issue with the next film too:
  • Kingsman, a British spy film, sort of tongue-in-cheek updated James Bond with a great cast and effects, lots of blood, gore, a great arsenal and lots of action to satisfy teenage boys. Pygmalion was mentioned as a reference and the spy film genre was winked at several times. Colin Firth enjoying being an action hero and Samuel L Jackson playin villain were fun, but there are a lot of other faces to spot. But again, sanctity of life isn't something that's considered.

He got two films this week as a birthday treat, which is why two 15 films.

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Curiosity killed ...

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And I forgot the remake of Annie with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, both of whom gave memorable performances.

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We're going to see Shaun the Sheep tomorrow!

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Paul.
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I keep hearing conflicting reports as to whether Kingsman is gory or not. One colleague said it was - which put me off going last weekend. Another said it was violent but most of that was lots of gunfire of the "bang! fall down" variety rather than showing exit wounds etc.

What do you consider gory Ck?

Last week I went to see Ex Machina instead which the BBFC advice said contained "bloody violence". This consisted of a scene where someone slices their own arm with a razor blade - disturbing but brief enough for me to watch through my fingers - and a stabbing where the stabbee was wearing a white T-Shirt which slowly grew red. Any more of the former and I might have been in trouble.

Ex Machina was good btw. Most of what was troubling about it was psychological. Owes a lot to Bladerunner but then so do a lot of movies. Given I've just talked about my tolerance for violence might be worth noting there is significant female nudity in it, though it's mostly not eroticised.

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Curiosity killed ...

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Not much actual blood - in the fights, yes, but not so much in the deaths; one bloodless death really should have been a bloodbath. There's a huge body count, and like James Bond, some "interesting" ways of killing people.

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Got it. Thanks!
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I just saw Still Alice, a film about a woman dealing with early onset Alsheimer's. Great acting by Julianne Moore as Alice and Kristen Stewart as her daughter. (Alec Baldwin as husband- eh.) Sad and very beautiful. Both women may deserve Oscars just for the last scene alone. [Tear]

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I went to see the new Hobbit movie. I reviewed it here: Brenda reviews the HOBBIT

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