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Major Academy Nominees watched so far: American Gangster The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Atonement Eastern Promises Michael Clayton No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood
Still to See: Away from Her Charlie Wilson’s War The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Elizabeth: The Golden Age Gone Baby Gone I’m Not There In the Valley of Elah Into the Wild Juno La Vie en Rose The Savages Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Looking Most Forward to: La Vie en Rose and a the Hoffman flicks: The Savages and Charlie Wilson's War.
However: Favorite films so far have been Kite Runner and Across the Universe.
From: East Toledo | Registered: Jul 2003
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Just watched the last three episodes of Battlestar Galactica season 3 last night. Dragging my sleepy butt to work now. The season didn't end as strongly as it started, but still the best show in recent memory, imho.
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I watched Atonement last night. I have to say--I was a bit dissapointed. Very slow film with not too much actually happening. Neither Knightly nor MacAvoy get to flex their acting chops until the last half hour of the film either. Not sure what all the hullaboo was about. The premise is interesting but we've seen it before and seen it done better.
Also watched Casino Royale. I'm not the biggest Bond fan in the world, but I like the character and franchise. I thought this was very well done and liked it a lot. It definitely gave a sense of danger moreso than 'fun', which was refreshing for Bond. I especially liked Vesper, perhaps my new favorite Bond girl (as I said, I'm not a huge fan and have only watched 20% of the films). Is that supposed to be Money-Penny, or somewhat similar?
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Before going online, I watched Lucio Fulci's Zombie, a great, ground-breaking 1979 B-movie.
Not only gorier and with scarier-looking zombies than earlier zombie films, it's also refreshing in its refusal to draw heroes-and-villains lines. In Fulci's (and writers/spouses Elisa Brigati and Dardano Sachetti's) misanthropic view, dead or undead/opressors or opressed alike, all humanity is equally revolting, and even seemingly decent people are forced into killing to survive.
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Blockade Boy, I saw Eastern Promises. Loved it. Haven't had the alertness for Michael Clayton yet. Though I do have American Gangster sitting around the house (as Michael Clayton).
Cobie, I know Atonement was based on a book and I had the feeling it was going to be slow like a book.
Casino Royale was pretty good. I liked them getting grittier than before. There was one scene I didn't like. After he was poisoned and went through hell...he showed up at the card table all squeaky clean. I would've preferred him to let the villain know...yes you poisoned me and I'm back. Besides that I really liked it. Not sure which girl you speak but the spanish girl at the beggining...alavao que buena!
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A movie I found suprisingly enjoyable was 'Deja Vu' with Denzil Washingston. Denzel is one of my favorite actors and he was as excellent as he usually is (and the supporting cast as well). The movie involved aspects of time travel, alternate universes, etc. As a longtime DC comics fan, I'm basically an expert on that stuff and saw some of the endings coming before hand, but that didn't take away from my enjoyment of the film. All of that science-fiction stuff never took away from the basic character drama of the film. More than anything, this reminded me of Preminger's Laura, which I consider to be a great film.
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Just watched Elizabeth, parts I and II. Blanchett and Rush were enthralling but I couldn't really get into the screenplay or maybe it was the directing/editing. Liz's speech to the Lords and in part II to the troops were great but that montage in part I where she was practicing,
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It took me two years, but I've finally gotten over the offensively bad final season of the TV show Alias, and I watched the first episode of Season Two (because that's the season with the most Irina in it) and the first few minutes of the second episode.
It holds up pretty well, and it was nice, as a comic book fan, to note how much Irina is like Natasha Romanova gone bad, down to having the long red hair of Natasha's "classic" look.
On the other hand, the scene I used to love where Sydney pretends to be a rich Italian socialite demanding a hotel room was cheezier than I remembered, with Sydney dropping grade-school Italian phrases into her English like...well, the way foreigners used to talk (and sometimes still do) in comic books.
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I just watched Juno after fighting Lady Cobalt off for weeks.
Guess what? All that hype? Totally worth it. The movie was excellent, phenominal, even deserving of the word "Masterpiece".
The acting was so good that it almost ripped my throat out. Never has Jennifer Garner been this good. Never has Jason Bateman been so honest. Ellen Page? Consider me a fan for life. Plus at least another four or five actors that had lesser roles and just knocked it out of the park.
It had moments deadly serious and tense and yet it maintained a light-hearted feel continually. Humorous, off-beat, engrossing...I'm shocked at how much I liked it. I thought I wouldn't.
By far the best movie I've seen this year.
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Checked out "Teeth" last night. Veeery unusual horror/satire/dark comedy.
It's about a teenage girl who preaches abstinence and knows very little about sex. Well, it turns out she has a mutation which invloves having teeth in...well, use your imagination! And those teeth bite off...certain things of males.
Got it?
Okay, well it's played pretty straight and the lead actress is really talented and really helps sell the outrageous-sounding premise. By the end we're really rooting for her, and she's kind of a dark avenger...with a twist!
It's a little like Carrie in a way but more tongue-in-cheek, I guess.
Anyhow, it's not a perfect film but very enjoyable and certainly with a novel premise. I definitely recommend it!
-------------------- "Suck it, depressos!"--M. Lash
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quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: I just watched Juno after fighting Lady Cobalt off for weeks.
Another teacher and I combined classes to show Juno as the "end of the school year kid's are not going to study anymore math" film. It passed my watch six times without getting board criteria and actually had our usually bored with life students interested. One class, it was the first time I've heard "quiet" all year!
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We just watched the first disc from season three of Dante's Cove. Three back-to-back episodes. I'm tired and I'm cranky but still thought it was pretty entertaining.
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