bollemanneke 3,349 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 The Invisible Woman. Fairly good. Really liked Joanna Scanlan's performance and finally got interested in Charles Dickens. Score was functional, but just a piano and a string quartet isn't really my thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 You can't have seen the invisible woman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Sure. Every 28 days, her bleeding gives her away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 I never said I saw her Doesl istening to Felicity Jones's voice qualify? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 8 minutes ago, bollemanneke said: I never said I saw her Doesl istening to Felicity Jones's voice qualify? Does she have ASMR qualities? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Not entirely sure. Watch for yourself tonight on BBC2 and share your verdict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 I don't currently receive the BBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 On 16/10/2016 at 7:50 AM, Alexcremers said: TV gave me Rome. Dont talk the 13th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 The Thing Called Love (1993) Director's Cut I've loved this movie for years. I saw it on TV when I was a kid and it instantly became one of my best movie buddies for life. Director Peter Bogdanovich describes it as an arthouse film. It was a complete and total disaster at the box office when it was released. Roger Ebert absolutely slammed the film and wrote that its top-billed star (who would be dead just a few months after the film's release) looked ill. When I introduce this flick to people, they usually enjoy it. It tells the story of 20-somethings in Nashville trying to make it as country musicians. If that immediately turns you off, don't let it. Our dearly departed Mr. Phoenix gives one hell of a performance. It's very weird. There are times when he looks...off. He looks older than his age. The final shot of the movie has the characters driving off in his truck and Bogdanovich wouldn't allow him to drive because he suspected he was on something. Still, you can't keep your eyes off him. You can't tell if his weirdness is just performance or possibly the result of being on some kind of narcotic. There's a brilliant scene, a long take (which the movie is full of), where he and Samantha Mathis (the real star of the film) argue in the kitchen and he's no longer brooding and pouting his lips, his faux Texan accent is gone, and he seems to be the same guy who turned in those magnificent performances in Running on Empty, My Own Private Idaho and, yes, the opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The rest of the cast are exceptional. Samantha Mathis is so lovely and she and Phoenix have amazing chemistry. They became a couple during filming. Dermot Mulroney, well he's always good. And Sandra Bullock shows up in an early role. You can tell she was destined for stardom. The songs are terrific, all performed by the cast and never released, making it one of my most-wanted soundtracks. The DVD is extremely well-produced, which is surprising given the poor reception and box office. There's an informative and entertaining commentary by Bogdanovich and several excellent behind-the-scenes features. There are even a couple of brief clips of Phoenix being interviewed on the set. He was known for being a method actor and he seems to still be in character during the interviews. He doesn't make much eye contact, although that could just be a fear of cameras, or being in character. It's very strange, but you can tell from the interviews in the special features that all involved had a great time making the film and I always have a great time watching it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Live and let die. Possibly the stupidest song and score so far. Good story, I liked Solitaire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Great song, something of a classic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 The only Bond song that is still played on the radio! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 A View To A Kill gets airtime too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 That Mc Cartney dude is soooo stupid. He had nothing on A-ha! Nothing! Right, Bollemanneke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 A-ha did The Living Daylights, Alex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Which is a lesson in songwriting for that Mc Cartney dude. Right?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Did anyone claim that? Lyrics aren't really important in a Bond song anyway. It's about the style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Sigh ... I was merely being sarcastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 It is not your strong point, Alex. You should work to improve that. To avoid further embarrassment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 7 minutes ago, Stefancos said: It is not your strong point, Alex. Either that or I'm surrounded by nitwits. With Bollemanneke declaring Live And Let Die the stupidest song ever and you not getting my sarcastic reaction to his post, I 'm inclined to believe it's the latter option. Richard would have got it immediately! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Both the song and George Martin's score are something of a classic. Bollemanneke was just being silly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 8 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Both the song and George Martin's score are something of a classic. Bollemanneke was just being silly Just because something is a classic doesn't prevent people from thinking it's stupid, Steef. We've just been a witness to that. Wanna bet that Bollemanneke prefers the A-ha song? Heck, you probably prefer it too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 The A-ha song was co-written by John Barry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon McBride 113 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Vertigo This was a first time for me. I had thought about watching it for a while, but hadn't gotten around to it. I didn't know what to expect, but I like Jimmy Stewart, so I had high hopes. This movie is great. It dragged at some parts, but the dragging made it so that when stuff happened, it was even better. The score was pretty good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Classic or not, that song doesn't reflect the tone of the story at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 It doesnt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Jack Reacher - an distinctly average start for Lee Child's hero on the big screen. Ploddingly paced, this only jerks sporadically to life in the all-too-brief and all-too-rare action sequences. And Werner Herzog's villain seems to have stumbled in from a Bond film ... not in a good way, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 @Stefancos and @Alexcremers, that Empire of the Sun thread is very interesting. Sounds like I missed a lot of interesting things. Of course, it's like the SW ring theory -- perhaps it was all intentional and it's a masterpiece (the ring composition part, I'm not talking about the film itself, I'm trying not to get into any arguments), or perhaps we're reading too much into it. Either way, there's something to be said for the director leaving such a degree of ambiguity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 The "child's fantasy" angle of EOTS is certainly not by accident. The author of the book the film was based (J.G. Ballard) has stated as much in interviews,. How the book was based on his own childhood experiences during the war. And how those memories are far for adventurous and positive as the actual events themselves probably were. This is probably the very aspect which drew Spielberg to the project in the first place. Taking it over from David Lean. And I actually think the Spielberg of those years was better suited to the material. Still having something of the "childlike wonder" of Close Encounters and E.T. in him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 So...when did this child-like wonder leave him? When did SS grow up? HOOK? SCHINDLER'S LIST? SAVING PRIVATE RYAN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 I think he slowly lost it when he had children himself. Empire Of The Sun is the last time where Spielberg succesfully filmed a story from a childs perspective. A few years later with Hook and Jurassic Park, it was already different. More like a father than someone who still vividly recalls his own childhood. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Actually, it's the only one of his movies where we see the subjective viewpoint of a child. In his other movies, Spielberg was always the narrator. In Empire Of The Sun the narrator is Jamie. We are seeing HIS innocent, rose-tinted reality, and that's why the narration is, in fact, unreliable. People didn't expect this approach from Spielberg. That's why Empire Of The Sun has been severely misunderstood at the time it played in theatres. Alex Naïve Old Fart and Will 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 True, well said. This helpful for you, Will? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 On 10/23/2016 at 0:05 PM, Stefancos said: True, well said. This helpful for you, Will? Yes, this has been a very interesting discussion. As a side note one of the scenes I totally misunderstood was the one that some believe implies rape. I was so confused when watching it and had no idea why the boy was looking so horrified at the foot prints. I figured someone had been in the room, obviously, to ransack the place, but I didn't catch the struggle aspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Well the rape is implied, but I dont think Jamie really understood that aspect. Being a sheltered young boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon McBride 113 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 The Shawshank Redemption. Watched an edited version with my roommates, and can't say I fancied it too much. It was a well made film, but not one I really liked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Edited? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 It's very unusual for a JWfanner not to like The Shawshank Redemption. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to watch this movie while sitting in a room filled with testosterone. If you and your roommates get back together again, watch Mad Max: Fury Road or something. Alex - Movie adviser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 He watched an edited version, so maybe they cut out the good bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 The whole movie is fantastic so there'd be nothing left. That's literally the first I've heard of anyone not liking Shawshank. Ever. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Shawshank Redemption is a great movie, but not a "watch with a bunch of buddies" movie. That's what action flicks are for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Depends on the buddies. I used to bingewatch Star Trek Voyager like 5 episodes at a time with my college roommate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 7 minutes ago, Jay said: Shawshank Redemption is a great movie, but not a "watch with a bunch of buddies" movie. That's what action flicks are for That's a simplified version of what I said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 This is JWFAN. Please dumb down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Depends on one's personal group. Shawshank would have gone down well if I'd have watched it with my own particular friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Ah yes, your "special" friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 They live at the bottom of the garden! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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