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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
[Re: SC]
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04/18/08 06:50 PM
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Interestingly, this wasn't even Shaw's greatest film role, his best was as the hardened shark hunter Quint in JAWS. Shaw also played a Bond villain in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE As great as he was in "Jaws", my vote for his best role was as Grant in "From Russia With Love". He was Bond's best villian, and their fight on the train was Bond's best fight. Shaw played the role PERFECTLY. An even better performance was Shaw as Colonel Hessler in The Battle of the Bulge in '65.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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04/18/08 09:55 PM
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LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER (1963)**** This was my Mom's favorite movie of all-time. Hands down. So it has a special place in my heart (what, you didn't think Pizzaboy had a heart? ). It was one of the first big studio films to concentate on Italian-Americans, and it did so without any cliches or a single reference to a gangster. Considering that it was made well before Italian-Americans started to really protest such stereotypes, I think that makes this film way ahead of it's time, even if the moral stance on abortion might seem little bit antiquated to some people. Steve McQueen and Natalie Wood are outstanding as a musician and a sales clerk respectively in New York City. Even in a city of millions you still get involved with the lives of two families. While McQueen and Wood are standouts, the supporting cast help make this a solid and memorable film. The movie begins with an empty hall and quickly it turns in to a musicians hiring hall. Here is where we first meet McQueen and Wood. Wood is coming to see McQueen about the after effects of a one night stand a few months earlier. Naturally, the woman remembers the man, but the man doesn't have a clue. What makes it tougher for McQueen is that he already has a girl friend when he meets Wood again. Eddie Adams is great here as McQueen's suffering girlfriend. When McQueen asks about maybe getting her help for a friend who needs a doctor for his pregnant girlfriend, the result is predictable but Adams is superb as she makes her opinion known. The families of these two people are a great contrast. The family of Wood, all brothers and a mother, are suffocating her with their concerns about her. Her brother picks her up from work in the family truck. Her mother is of the old world. McQueen's on the other hand have accepted that he is out on his own and seem to be used to his occassional appearances. The scenes dealing with the solution to Wood's "problem" are chilling. Waiting on a windblown street for a contact. Both trying to be inconspicuous and worry that they have enough money for the "doctor". When the contact shows, he tells them that they have enough for the "doctor" but not for his fee. They are given a deadline and then they set off to dig up the money. McQueen knows his folks will give him some money so he heads with Wood, to see them at a local playground. Here it turns into a race as Wood's brothers show up looking for her and they are also racing the clock to see the "doctor". The actual back alley setting is sobering and a real shock of reality as it was in the years leading up to Rowe v. Wade. This is a good reminder about what an abortion involved. No sterile technique, more a process to keep the people from getting too blood stained. This is not a lived happily ever after story. You don't know what happens to them other than that they both have a change of heart about each other. The black and white photography is excellent and adds a great deal to the visual impact. New York, as always, provides it's own unique component to this excellent film. Wow, that sounds like a good movie. I gotta check it out sometime then.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
[Re: ronnierocketAGO]
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04/18/08 10:03 PM
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The reason why Robert Shaw was awesome in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE isn't that his character was really anything remarkable....in terms of gimmicks, which Bond villains usually are, his character isn't much....but damn, he made it awesome with his presence, his charisma, and was up there in the testosterone with Connery.
Really, maybe thats a reason why I dug the hell out of CASINO ROYALE from 2006, because Craig/Mekkelson practically are given room and allowed to use their remarkable screen chemistry, as seen in the torture scene and the spectacular poker showdown.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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04/19/08 06:52 PM
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PAN'S LABYRINTH : Star: (Second Viewing) Definitely better a second time around. I still don't think it was a "classic" or anything like that, but I don't hate it anymore. Some great costumes and set designs. Guillermo del Toro is what I like to think of as a Spanish Tim Burton. I look forward to his interpretation of THE HOBBIT! I dare you to check out DEVIL'S BACKBONE sometime...
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
[Re: Irishman12]
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04/20/08 05:09 AM
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GOODFELLAS (1990) - (insert highest rate) - SPOILERS
how good is that? I know this is one of the cornerstones of these boards and that everyone has already claimed it "one of my favorite movies" already, but since I watched it again (it must be my 4th or 5th viewing) a few days ago I just feel compelled to tell the world how I love Martin Scorsese's masterpiece.
in my most humble opinion, Goodfellas is definitely better than Scorsese's early classics (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), and slightly better than some of his underrated flicks that I absolutely adore (After Hours, The King of Comedy), as well as the Oscar stud The Departed and Goodfellas' young brother Casino. Just like Henry Hill knows he's done and he'll never have "the good old life" again, after watching Goodfellas I feel melancholyc, thinking "they'll never make such a cool film again". I don't expect it.
The technical execution of the golden years as well as of the downfall is just amazing, and the fast paced, scene-after-scene attack of cursing, hustling, guns and drugs and deaths makes you leave wanting more even though the movie lasts almost 3 hours.
Joe Pesci played the best role of his career, the one he has been labeled ever since. Robert De Niro was obviously perfectly casted, and obviously delievered it. and Ray Liotta, if I met him one day I'll say "hey, there's Henry Hill!" before I remember he just played him, but he's not him. and the film runs so naturally, it looks so beautiful, you really enjoy the nights at the restaurant with all the wiseguys, and you sense Henry's state of mind as his life becomes a chaos after he comes back from jail and keeps his Pittsburgh connection, under Paulie's disapproval. In the end, Henry is done and he has to make a simple choice; he can become a rat and die inside, but keep living with his wife and daughters under FBI's witness protection program or really die, by the hands of his lifetime friend Jimmy (De Niro). simple, and just like that you can really understand how a person could turn against everything he believed when pressed against the wall, even if it the guilt for doing it hurts more than any gun could do. maybe the secret is that the ending is so cool and fittingly, leaving you begging for more...
"regrets, I had a few..."
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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04/20/08 10:03 AM
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I watched the movie Number 23 with Jim Carrey. It happened to be on HBO. It started out kind of interesting but then lost me. I admit I was also playing on the computer, but even still I lost interest midway through. It seemed too complicated. Today however, I am going to see "Shine A Light", te Scorsese Rolling Stones Doc. Look forward to that. If nothing else the music will be good. TIS
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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04/20/08 01:54 PM
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I finally saw SWEENEY TODD last night -- not bad, a bit weird seeing JD singing but he did a GREAT job! It seemed to go on forever, though. *shrug* But good overall...
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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04/20/08 08:34 PM
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I watched the movie Number 23 with Jim Carrey. It happened to be on HBO. It started out kind of interesting but then lost me. I admit I was also playing on the computer, but even still I lost interest midway through. It seemed too complicated. Today however, I am going to see "Shine A Light", te Scorsese Rolling Stones Doc. Look forward to that. If nothing else the music will be good. TIS Let me know how that is please. I'm interested in it
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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04/20/08 08:42 PM
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I went to see Shine a Light last night, out of obligation to Marty (I'm not too familiar with the Stones); Jagger's a bit of a one-trick pony, and as a foursome they're all walking relics. It got old after about an hour, though I guess you ought to admire his sheer energy. Still, I was in one of those moods last night where I have an intolerably low tolerance for bullshit, and had decided thirty seconds in I wasn't really going to like it: what was with all that Marty-Mick phone-call set-up? Made black and white in post, too; yucky.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
[Re: Capo de La Cosa Nostra]
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04/21/08 02:00 AM
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Sweeney Todd was the worst film I saw last year, I wouldn't go THAT far!! It crawled slowly to me, but, it wasn't horrible by any means! I actually thought (much of) the music was rather good -- just too much of it maybe. Or too long. I don't know. I'd never seen/heard the actual story before, so maybe that's part of it. I thought it was good, but it didn't blow me away either. But the worst of '07?? I highly doubt that.
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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04/21/08 03:30 AM
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Sweeney Todd was the worst film I saw last year, I wouldn't go THAT far!! It crawled slowly to me, but, it wasn't horrible by any means! I actually thought (much of) the music was rather good -- just too much of it maybe. Or too long. I don't know. I'd never seen/heard the actual story before, so maybe that's part of it. I thought it was good, but it didn't blow me away either. But the worst of '07?? I highly doubt that. Capo has some interesting opinions that I greatly disagree* with him on, but you know what? I rather have someone unique like him who offers interesting points in his observations, who stirs the pot...instead of a Chris Gore, who NEVER EVER offers anything worth a damn, and is too busy trying to become the new MoviePhone. As for SWEENEY TODD, its not the worst movie of 2007. Trust me, Capo knows nothing until he gets raped by SOUTHLAND TALES or DELTA FARCE. *=He called BLADE RUNNER "rubbish" and thought RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was meh. What The Fuck?
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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04/21/08 08:32 AM
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I went to see Shine a Light last night, out of obligation to Marty (I'm not too familiar with the Stones); Jagger's a bit of a one-trick pony, and as a foursome they're all walking relics. It got old after about an hour, though I guess you ought to admire his sheer energy. Still, I was in one of those moods last night where I have an intolerably low tolerance for bullshit, and had decided thirty seconds in I wasn't really going to like it: what was with all that Marty-Mick phone-call set-up? Made black and white in post, too; yucky. Hi Capo, For me, I went simply to hear some great music and to see a group that I wish I would have been able to see in their prime. However awful they looked (and believe me they did), they sounded great. Mick still moves like a kid and gets the audience worked up. I wanted to get up and dance. Which......is really funny because would you believe that my daughter, Angie (boy were were hoping they'd play that song) and I were the "ONLY" ones in the theater??? We kept screaming out "woo woo" and singing, clapping. Had a good time. We laughed every time we saw Keith Richards and all the "stuff" in his hair (I think it was a button hanging there somewhere) and when he said to the audience, "nice to see you, but then it's nice to see anyone." Anyway, I'm prejudice because to me, they are definitely one of the (next to the Beatles) best Rock groups ever. Love them. TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
[Re: Irishman12]
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04/21/08 01:07 PM
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I watched the movie Number 23 with Jim Carrey. It happened to be on HBO. It started out kind of interesting but then lost me. I admit I was also playing on the computer, but even still I lost interest midway through. It seemed too complicated. Today however, I am going to see "Shine A Light", te Scorsese Rolling Stones Doc. Look forward to that. If nothing else the music will be good. TIS Let me know how that is please. I'm interested in it you mean theres a film you havn't seen
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