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Sir Kevin
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Likely he is! He was the star of the first Annie I worked on as a musical. Unfortunately I never met him, though I did meet Joanne Worley, his co-star (and later, on another production, MacKenzie Phillips.)
I miss him - I really enjoyed his old Andy Hardy films with Judy Garland as his girlfriend!
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Timothy the Obscure
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I just watched Cloud Atlas on DVD (missed it in the theaters) and it's made it into my all-time Top Ten, possibly booting Annie Hall to number 11, though I haven't really worked out the exact rankings yet...
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Palimpsest
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I saw "The Hotel Grand Budapest" today and enjoyed it immensely. It continues in Wes Anderson's mannered style with a much darker tone prior to World War 2.
I enjoyed it a great deal including the extensive end credits.
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Originally posted by Palimpsest:
I saw "The Hotel Grand Budapest" today and enjoyed it immensely. It continues in Wes Anderson's mannered style with a much darker tone prior to World War 2.
I enjoyed it a great deal including the extensive end credits.
Ditto! A wonderful film!
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Sir Kevin
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We finally saw NOAH yesterday, nearly two months after Mr. Crowe sent me a trailer for the film. It was really quite a tour-de-force for the actors (and the SFX were not bad either!)
Were I to be an Academy voter, I would have to think long and hard about putting Emma Watson up for best supporting actress: she's come a long way since playing Hermione Granger!
It's not quite the same story as in my grandmother's bible, but it was nonetheless well done. Even though we knew how it was going to come out, there was a bit of suspense anyway.
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I watched Don Jon, about a guy who's addicted to p0rn and the effect that has on his romantic relationships. Interesting to see a romantic drama with pornogrpahy as a central plot point, though I'd imagine that probably is an issue for many couples these days.
Both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and(especially) Scarlett Johannson seemed to be playing against type, fairly successfully. Though there was perhaps something a little over-the-top about the portrayal of a blue-collar New Jersey Italian family(even to the point of having uber-greaser Tony Danza playing the dad).
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Eutychus
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Another vote for Noah. Emma Watson deserves an Oscar for her performance. It's a shame Peter Jackson seems to have meddled with the script - I preferred the book - and thrown in a few Ents, but worth seeing. Not for the faint-hearted or inerrantists though.
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Doc Tor
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I've been asked to take part in the Time Out 100 Best SF films poll. I have to give them my top 10, and why - I was wondering what you folk would pick, before I reveal mine?
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Palimpsest
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I don't take Top Ten or Best of very seriously. My choices are unstable. Off the top of my head, in no particular order and allowing Fantasy;
2001
Star Wars Episode 4
Nosferatu
Thief of Baghdad
Forbidden Planet
Lord of the Rings
Dark Star
Solaris
Paprika
Frankenstein
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Eutychus
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Pure Sci-Fi might begin something like (in no order)
2001
Star Wars Episode 4
The Fifth Element
Moon
The Matrix
Apollo 13 (not sure if that qualifies)
a couple that I haven't seen but that by all accounts should be in there:
Blade Runner
Metropolis
And since I'm running out of nominees in pure SF, maybe I can add a couple of series to make 10:
Äkta människor (Real Humans) - I've just done some interpreting for the scriptwriter and am now hooked
The 4400 (series 1)
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Starship Troopers (despite the fascism!)
The Matrix
The Day of the Triffids
Forbidden Planet
Terminator
Star Wars (Ep IV i.e the first)
Total Recall
2001
The Day the Earth Stood Still (orginal, with Michael Rennie)
Bicentennial Man
(again not in any particular order.)
Not sure if all of them count as pure SF
I've been hoping for a full length movie of any Ursula le Guin classic (Left hand of Darkness, Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed, any would do. Probably hard to pull off and be faithful to the subtleties of the books. I think LHOD may be in production.
Also, apparently, "Foundation" is being turned into a movie.
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Sir Kevin
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Clockwork Orange would be number one, followed by Godzilla vs. Mothra and Nosferatu.
Dunno what the next ten would be, but 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea should be also near the top of the list!
Watch this space, I may think of some more...
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Doc Tor
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I rattled through a list last night. Got up to 22 titles, which needs whittling down today...
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Do superhero films count?
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Ariel
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If you'd like to start a Top Ten, or Top 100 of your own favourite films, the Circus would probably be a good place for that.
Also, Doc Tor might get more answers to his question on a thread that specifically asked for sci-fi films. I think there'd be a fair amount of interest in it, and we could keep this one for what people have seen lately.
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Welease Woderwick
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I watched The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug tonight - it is a bit not to my taste - all very swashbuckling but no real content. Neither was it much like the book.
1 or 2 stars out of 5.
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Ariel
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Thank you for saying that. I'm halfway through it, and keep hoping it will improve. I bought it because I really enjoyed the first DVD of "The Hobbit", but don't think the second part is as good.
I don't remember Legolas in the book version, let alone his having an unrequited crush on a female elf.
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Ariel
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Finished watching "The Desolation of Smaug" now and felt disappointed. It's almost entirely fighting, and I agree it's short on plot. I just hope Part 3 is an improvement. The scenes with Smaug went on long enough to become boring, and I ended up fast-forwarding some of them. "I am a wonderful dragon, you cannot escape Me" being the gist of the next half hour. Or at least, it felt like a long time.
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Alex Cockell
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Hmm - so an idea would be to wait till The hobbit in its entirety is on Netflix or Channel 4?
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lilBuddha
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I just hope Part 3 is an improvement.
Yeah, cause that will happen. Jackson will have completely revised his style and, instead of adding non-existant content, pulling material from other Tolkien sources, rewriting Middle-Earth history and extending the time structure, he will keep the film true to the book. So part 3* will be about 1/2 hour long, including titles, credits, trailers and time to go to the ladies and by popcorn.
I am keeping hope low in hopes that hope will not be dashed.
*There are ~50 pages left at the point of the movie's end.
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Originally posted by Alex Cockell:
Hmm - so an idea would be to wait till The hobbit in its entirety is on Netflix or Channel 4?
Gods no! The bad would be overwhelming in such a concentrated dose. The year between releases gives time to forget and just remember the good.
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*There are ~50 pages left at the point of the movie's end.
Ah, right. Well, there'll be time for a few more fights then. The newly recovered Kili will have to fight Legolas for Tauriel. He'll lose, and the annoyed Tauriel will fight Legolas. At this point, Azog the Destroyer will appear with a bunch of Orcs. Thranduil will arrive, and join in the punch-up. Thorin will fight Bilbo for the Arkenstone. Bilbo will go over to the Lakemen (who capture him in a fight) and they fight Thorin for the Arkenstone. Smaug fights everybody while Bard is fighting Orcs and Thranduil. Gandalf appears, and slays the dragon, defeats the Orcs with the aid of the Eagles, recovers the Arkenstone, frees Bilbo, and is guest of honour at Tauriel and Thranduil's wedding.
(All goes well until some of Gandalf's fireworks are let off halfway through the ceremony by two very youthful hobbits, and a few more fights break out.)
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Sir Kevin
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We might give it a miss, then, though the Mrs. has a passing interest in it....
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The Hobbit is three overwrought movies that really should have been one movie, and that's why it's so disappointing. Like others, I have found large sections of it to be nothing more than tedious filler. Pity really, as the source material is gold.
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lilBuddha
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I really hate to think what would have happened to LOTR if The Hobbit had been made first.
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Originally posted by fletcher christian:
the source material is gold.
Mithril, surely?
So glad I stopped watching after Hobbit 1.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Finished watching "The Desolation of Smaug" now and felt disappointed. It's almost entirely fighting, and I agree it's short on plot. I just hope Part 3 is an improvement. The scenes with Smaug went on long enough to become boring, and I ended up fast-forwarding some of them. "I am a wonderful dragon, you cannot escape Me" being the gist of the next half hour. Or at least, it felt like a long time.
I didn't mind it actually, and I liked the first Hobbit film. I know nothing about the story, and was bored silly by the LotR films (apart from Sean Bean and other nice elements, oh and Andy Serkis). Martin Freeman is good, but I am shallow enough to mainly watch for the sake of Richard Armitage and Aidan Turner ![[Biased]](wink.gif) ... oh, be still, my beating heart, and please don't die, Kili...!
My son, however, thought it fairly crap.
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It is notoriously difficult to make the middle volume or movie good. The first one out the gate has all the thrill of discovery and conflict, and the third always has the pleasures of catharsis and winding-up of loose ends. The middle's job is mainly to connect the beginning and the end, and so is very difficult to make free-standing.
In other words, we won't be able to judge the second movie until the third is out.
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Just been to see 'Henry V' (Laurence Olivier), a perfect film for St. George's Day. And also the 450th Anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
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[pedant alert]
Actually we don't know the exact day Shakespeare was born, but he was baptised on 26th April 1564, and he most definitely died on 23rd April 1616, so it's near enough
...and it's a fine film with which to celebrate!
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After recently going through a MOOC on Scandinavian cinema [did no assignments/quizzes...merely enjoyed the lectures] I watched Carl Th Dreyer's 1928 silent movie The Passion of Joan of Arc which I was thought was wonderfully directed and had amazing performances, particularly Maria Falconetti's Joan.
I followed it up with A Hijacking [Kapringen -- with 3 actors from Borgen!] which was a very interesting look at the hijacking of a ship from the alternate perspectives of the cook on the ship and the CEO of the shipping company who handled negotiations. I found it an emotional ride which I suppose is the sign of a good film.
I also saw The Grand Budapest Hotel recently and loved it: and, yes, the few who stayed behind through credits were rewarded.
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Oh, I've just ordered a copy of The Passion of Joan of Arc! I'm looking forward to seeing it at last.
Tomorrow we're off to our local Odeon to see Pompeii - yes, I know, but I'm in the mood for an enjoyable and trashy disaster movie, as the reviews put it ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) !
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Last night I finally watched Hobbit 2 and have to agree with all that's been said so far. In 1 I didn't mind the extra material, but here it really felt like padding. All the stuff in Laketown (especially Stephen Fry in a ginger wig) needed cutting, as did Smaug's never ending chasing of the dwarves. In addition, I've always pronounced the dragon's name Sm-org, rather then Sm-owg; I have absolutely no authority for this at all, but it's another reason for feeling fed up with the film.
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Ariel
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Yes, I'm regretting having bought the DVD now because I don't think I'll watch it again. The first was fun, and promising, and the extra material fitted well; the second was just too drawn out.
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Well, I enjoyed Pompeii, it was very entertaining without me having to think about any deep meaningful messages. The fight scenes were quite shamelessly lifted from Gladiator, but it was all done with a lot of spirit and Kit Harington (what a fabulously Elizabethan name ![[Smile]](smile.gif) ) is fetchingly eye-candy and has impressive abs.
There was a trailer for the next X-Men film, so I reckon that's our next outing to the Odeon .
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The Seattle International Film Festival starts this month and I have indulged in a pass this year despite not working.
This week started press Previews; films start tomorrow.
The Congress; a SF Film based on loosely on Stanislas Lem about an actress who negotiates a contract to be scanned and only appear as a digital persona. It's half live and half animated.
Ida is a Polish film about an orphan novice who is told to visit her distant aunt before taking vows. She finds out she is from a Jewish family. It's a depressing but moving film. Shot in Black and White with a lot of academy format shooting.
Hellion, a story about a 15 year old going wrong in a family with alcoholic father widower. The boy was very well acted. Directed by and staring Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame.
Belle and Sebastian. A French family film about a cute small boy and a cute large dog in the Alps during WWII who help Jewish refugees to escape.
The Sunfish, about a Danish fisherman who is struggling to deal with quotas, financial failure and a romance with a marine biologist.
Beyond the Brick, A documentary about Lego which is amusing but corporate.
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Film nerds-- just made this observation on Facebook, thought I would share it with you all:
I recently saw Oh Brother Where Art Thou (2000) and am now watching Kill Bill Vol 2.(2004)
Now watching True Grit (2010) and last night saw Django Unchained.(2012)
I think Tarantino really wishes he was a Coen, because Seeing the movies in that order-- man, he ripped off a lot.
and later:
"Ill never be a Coen so I 'll vent my frustration by turning half my characters to hamburger!!"
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I don't think I'd accuse Tarantino of ripping off only one film director.
Saw Polanski's new film Venus with Furs today. It suffered a bit by being a stage play opened up by shooting it in a theater, but had some good moments.
Saw the premiere of the new John Ridley film about Jimi Hendrix; Jimi: all is by my side.
It is about his early days before the Monterey Pop Festival, focusing on the women he was involved with. The acting was phenomenal. It did not do a huge number of his hits, although the replica of has performance of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band was pretty amazing.
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I don't think I'd accuse Tarantino of ripping off only one film director.
Yeah, there's his spaghetti western homages, and his Brian de Palma rip off shots, but when I saw Django I just got this mental image of Tarantino watching True Grit while downing Jack Daniels and slurring "Pfeh, Maddie Ross is a [female pejorative used to describe weakness.]" And turning her into a very angry Jamie Foxx.
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Sir Kevin
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
....watching True Grit (2010)
Who would have bothered to remake it?! It was my favorite John Wayne film after The Shootist!
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The coen Brother remade it.
IMO it was very, very, very good. I watched it three times in one weekend.
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Sir Kevin
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Gotta see that film of Hendrix: my little brother claims to have seen him in person, but that story is likely apocryphal: he would have had to be about 12!
I did actually meet Janis Joplin in 1069 when I was 15 at the Rose Bowl where the late Frank Zappa had one of her opening acts....
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Welease Woderwick
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Good grief, you must be older than PeteC!!
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
The coen Brother remade it.
IMO it was very, very, very good. I watched it three times in one weekend.
It was awesome. Only complaint is Jeff Bridges should have waited until his jaws were unwired before beginning shooting.
Palimpsest,
This is no indictment against you, but I will watch no film by Polanski.
Ever.
Typically I do not give a toss, re personal lives, but in his case I make the exception.
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
The coen Brother remade it.
IMO it was very, very, very good. I watched it three times in one weekend.
The remake was awesome. The actors were good but the cinematography was stunning.
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Well today I saw "The Fault is in our stars" based on a novel about a teenage girl with cancer who falls in love with a boy at a cancer survivers group. With Shallene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Laura Dern as the mother. A three hankerchief movie. The audience had a gaggle of young teenage girls who loved it.
The Skeleton Twins was the second movie about a gay man who goes home to New York after a failed suicide attempt to stay with his sister and visit the teacher he had an affair with while in high school. A weird, dark and funny film.
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Today I saw Monsoon Shoutout, an Indian Police Bullet Ballet with a large dose of art film technique attached.
I also saw "Trust Me", a film starring, written and directed by Clark Gregg. It is about a struggling Hollywood agent who is representing a child star. It was very funny and quite good.
Finally, I saw Tracks, a chronicle of a woman who walked from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean with Camels. Some stunning scenery in a harsh place.
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I'm not going to clutter this thread with a lot more movies I'm seeing at the film festival ( 3 today), but I will mention one that I didn't go to.
The director of the Lego Brickumentary has another documentary at the festival called "Fight Church". Apparently it's about underground fight clubs in churches where church members fight each other. And you thought that your parish had rough meetings.
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I did actually meet Janis Joplin in 1069 when I was 15 .
It is not certain whether Origen believed in metempsychosis, but it sounds as if you do.
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Saw Belle the other night - a few old familiar faces amongst the actors, but generally worthy and dull.
Also, the crowd and street scenes failed to convey the filth, disease, poverty, malnutrition, violence and deformity which would have characterised eighteenth century England.
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