KumarsTouch Wrote:All the Real Girls. I still hear all kinds of praise for David Gordon Green. I still haven't seen George Washington, which I hear is his best. I saw Undertow last year and didn't like it. This one was okay, but only because I liked the performances of the lead actors.

See George Washington! I feel the same way about his movies; George Washington is his best, and he kinda goes downhill from there.

Au revoir les enfants Brilliant, brilliant Malle. Very powerful, especially the ending, great performances from the children, just a great great movie.

That was me, I somehow got logged out.

Being infected by the Anime-Virus right now, I watched every episode of Azumanga Daioh. Damn funny...and it got a kinda sad ending.

And in a "I wonder what's going to happen next"-weekend marathon, I saw the entire Neon Genesis Evangelion + the "End of Evangelion". Loved the original ending of the series as much as the movie. My eyes rotated in their sockets and my brain was burning in joy.

A Prarie Home Companion Such a lovely, good film. It's really lighter Altman, still slightly ambiguous and fluid, but just wonderfully alive. It's so different from anything else out there, every single actor (Lohan included) is fantastic, the songs are good, the jokes are funny, and the camera is a floating. Great, great film.


I just looked up in the thread and it's the second time i've said Great, great film, but they both are, and it's the best I can do.

i want to see that too. :( a prarie home companion i mean... i LOVE meryl streep...

last movie i saw was the big sleep. fantastic. i love bogart. just aquired about 16 of his movies and been slowly working my way through them. i love bogart, and, frankly, you can't really find anything hotter than bogart and bacall together.

and i found out lauren bacall was half romanian. neat... maybe we're like very distant relatives. :):)

going to see ocean's 12 now on hbo. my mother loved it, so i figured i'd watch it again with her. then i have bringing up baby waiting for me.

saturdays RULE! :)

The Purple Rose of Cairo. wow. what a great, funny movie! Jeff Daniels rules. Mia Farrow is beautiful. I feel like watching it again already!

oh, that was my favourite film for years. sigh.. now I want to see it again, too!

The Proposition

Written by Nick Cave.

Starring Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Danny Huston and John Hurt.

Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Adored by Bert Fischer.

Magnificent film. Cave is one of my favorite songwriters, and he wrote a very good novel about 15 years ago, so I knew this flick had the potential to be as awesome as it ended up being. It was masterfully directed by John Hillcoat, building to a conclusion that is both inevitable and gut-wrenching. The final scene is so tense, it was all I could do to keep myself from yelling at the screen.

The premise is pretty standard Western fare, even though it's set in the Australian outback rather than the American West. A reluctant outlaw is put in a position where he must choose to either let his younger brother be hanged or kill his older brother, a man responsible for a terrible crime.

Guy Pearce plays the outlaw caught in the middle. He basically plays "Blondie" from Leone's Man With No Name trilogy, but with a touch more humanity. His character is the glue that holds the story together, and he does a fine job delivering on that, but he's outshined by most of the other principals. Especially:

Ray Winstone, who plays the lawman who threatens to hang the simple-minded young kid. When the movie begins, it's easy to assume that he's going to be your archetypal rotten bastard. Through his relationship with his wife and his prisoner, his true character is revealed. Winstone gives a fantastic performance.

Danny Huston also impressed me as the older brother. He's an intelligent, well-read psychopath. A man who loves his family, and who would not raise a hand against any of them, but also a man who has no qualms about raping and murdering a pregnant woman. He runs hot and cold, light-hearted one minute, and heartless the next. In short, he's sort of terrifying.

This film really knocked me on my ass. I'm sorry that I've wasted so much time rambling on about it, but I'm not very good at describing what I think makes a movie great. I'll just sum up by saying, "Go see it."

http://www.thepropositionfilm.com

Sounds great, Bert.

Apparently I just accidentally deleted the X-Men 3 thread. Sorry. So here are my thoughts, with spoilers:
I really didn't enjoy it, at all. There were too many moments in which I questioned the filmmakers' choices. There were just too many damn mutants, and most of them did nothing. Angel did nothing, except save his father at the end, but the only reason he was able to do that was because the 3 evil mutants decided to kill his father the only way in which he could save him. I hated how Magneto just picked up additional mutants when he went to rescue Mystique. How handy that they were all traveling together. And why wasn't Mystique in one of the tiny enclosed cells like they were? The showdown between Iceman and Pyro was lame. Yeah, it's been built up, but it sucked. And that's because it felt obvious to me, not just because most of the good guys will end up on top, but because Iceman's power is better at being a problem for Pyro than Pyro's power would be against Iceman. And yeah, Jean Grey just standing there....my brother asked me after the movie why they didn't just try to give her the cure, and the only thing I could think of was that she would know what Wolverine was going to do, and she wouldn't want the cure, so she'd just prevent him from trying. She'd rather be dead than cured.

But I loved Kelsey Grammar.

I didn't like X-Men 3, either, but the good thing about it sucking is that it's convinced me that Singer and his writing team were responsible for how good the first two were, which is hope that Superman will end up being as great as it looks.

One convincing argument for why they didn't cure Jean instead of killing her was that she was vaporizing everything that came close to her. The only reason Wolverine got so close was because he heals fast enough that she couldn't kill him, and his adamantium skeleton was too strong to be destroyed so easily, but the vials would have disintegrated along with his clothes.

I just watched Munich. I loved it.

Bert Fischer Wrote:I didn't like X-Men 3, either, but the good thing about it sucking is that it's convinced me that Singer and his writing team were responsible for how good the first two were, which is hope that Superman will end up being as great as it looks.

That was exactly what I thought too. It just gave me huge hope for Superman Returns, and I really want that to be good. Once Brett Ratner's name was mentioned for X-Men 3 my expectations were immediately lower and he didn't prove me wrong.

I loved The Proposition too btw Bert. It opened here at the beginning of the year and it's still definitely one of my favourites of 2006. The soundtrack is pretty cool too.

I also second Bert's thoughts on The Proposition. I'm really going to have to see it again though because for some reason people decided to bring their 8 and 10 year old kids to a 10:30 showing of an Australian Western on a Friday night and I got stuck sitting next to them. Hearing how John Hurt is "a cracked out dude" and how Emily Watson is a "boring ass bitch" throughout the first hour (as long as I gave their parents time to say something before I did) I think took me out of the movie too often to fully get into it. Luckily it'll probably be on DVD soon.

I took a girl to the King yesterday, without reading or hearing anything about it (I worked at this theater before so everything was free). don't think I coulda seen a darker movie this year even if I tried.