johnart said:

johnart said:

Don't be Afraid of the Dark: 2 of 5

Wow, that is NOT an attractive little girl.

oh my gawd....no WAIT....

"Alien Opponent" and it was just as awesome the 10th time as it is the 1st time.

And now the uncut, uncensored DVD is out!

Best movie of 2011. Why it didn't sweep the Academy Awards, I'll never figure out.

SUPRMAN said:

Battle Royale (2001) - Japanese flick about kids on an island who have three days to kill each other.

Looking for just one winner here.

Better than 'Hunger Games" as it mostly avoids the lapses in logic and reason mainly by keeping it simple.

Here the students are all member of the same class, they've known each other for years, not weeks.

4/5

Fanny och Alexander (1982) - A pair of siblings in a large wealthy family have their lives upended after their father dies and their mother gets remarried to a local bishop. The five-hour version is a sprawling, rich epic. 1/2

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La Jetée (1962) - Told in still images, a man is sent back in time before the start of world war III to find a solution to the world's fate.

sextonseven said:

La Jetée (1962) - Told in still images, a man is sent back in time before the start of world war III to find a solution to the world's fate.

sorry, but I gotta go with 12 Monkeys here. The whole "spoken photographies" subgenre SUCKS, lol

We have comic books/graphic novels to begin with...who needs spoken pictures??

5 out of 5 stars

I bought this blu-ray for only 8 bucks. Execellent old Hitchcock film. The women who plays the creepy head Housekeeper, Mrs.Danvers, steals the picture, IMO.

Moonstruck (1987) - A book keeper falls for the brother of the man she agreed to marry. Cute, but not my type of movie.

sextonseven said:

2.5/5 Sabina Spielrein arrives at the Burghölzli, the preeminent psychiatric hospital in Zurich, with a typical case of hysteria and begins a new course of treatment with the young Swiss doctor, Carl Jung.

Another one of those, there is so much more to the story til it's hard to fit it all in things.

3/5 When two grade-school boys get into a confrontation in the park that results in one boy hitting the other in the mouth with a stick, their parents meet in a Brooklyn apartment to discuss the matter. The parents of the boy wielding the stick, Alan and Nancy Cowan (Waltz and Winslet), visit the home of Michael and Penelope Longstreet (Reilly and Foster), who are the parents of the boy who was struck. Their meeting is initially intended to be a short visit but various circumstances, such as Nancy vomiting in the Longstreet's living room and Alan's numerous cell phone conversations, continue to draw it out.

First half slow, second half I had a few lol moments, the ending credit scene tied it up perfectly.

Sommarnattens leende / Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) - Ingmar Bergman's sexy frolic about the sport of love.

We Need To Talk About Kevin (4/5 stars)

This film was terrific and chilling. Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller both were perfect in their roles and I left the theater wanting to see this again immediately.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (5/5 Stars)

Brilliant film. Makes being institutionalized seem fun.

Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

Hershe said:

johnart said:

But Marilyn turned on "Marilyn" for the press. She was known to speak about her in the third person, even, in private. Michelle's fragility was spot on.

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I don't know what that means.

thekidsgirl said:

We Need To Talk About Kevin (4/5 stars)

This film was terrific and chilling. Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller both were perfect in their roles and I left the theater wanting to see this again immediately.

Been dyyyyyyyyyyyying to see this!!!

johnart said:

thekidsgirl said:

We Need To Talk About Kevin (4/5 stars)

This film was terrific and chilling. Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller both were perfect in their roles and I left the theater wanting to see this again immediately.

Been dyyyyyyyyyyyying to see this!!!

You will love it! I was expecting a typical dysfunctional mother-son film , but it was sooo much better.

I'm at my parent's and this is on right now. By far the worst horse shit ever. How this became the most successful movie ever is beyond me. We are doomed to burn in hell, I guess.

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3/5 followed by the new 11,12 &13

4/

this descrip from blastbydigiwax.com (too lazy to do anything but copy & paste)

Winner of The Best Editing prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Black Power Mixtape, is an irresistible audiovisual collage, the film combines a treasure trove of recently rediscovered footage of the 1967–75 Black Power Movement with penetrating commentary by leading contemporary African-American voices, all set to an evocative soundtrack by Questlove of the Roots and Om’Mas. Directed by Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson’s revelatory , co-produced by longtime activist and actor Danny Glover.

At the end of the 1960s, numerous Swedish journalists came to the US, drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Filming for close to a decade, they gained the trust of many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement—Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them—capturing them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection of 16mm film, peppered with footage of Black Panther activities and B-roll images of black America, was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television.

Director Olsson brings this mesmerizing footage to light and, integrating audio interviews with prominent African-American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle.

“Vital. Assembled from extraordinary footage… and augmented by contemporary audio interviews, the film presents a powerful reminder of the black power movement, often neglected, misrepresented or forgotten in this country.” – James Greenberg, Hollywood Reporter

Io sono l'amore / I Am Love (2009) - A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love. My third time seeing this one.

johnart said:

Hershe said:

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I don't know what that means.

LoL...I meant 'Ok'.

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Wrath Of The Titans. 3/5.

snooze fest! unless you're some freakish baseball fan...this movie was LAME! even looking at brad pit didn't help

sextonseven said:

Io sono l'amore / I Am Love (2009) - A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love. My third time seeing this one.

Want to see this!

Phishanga said:

By far the worst horse shit ever. How this became the most successful movie ever is beyond me.

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my opinion:

a) the mainstream society FINALLY jumping on the 3-D bandwagon, even if it was already popular since the 90s (Imax, anyone?)

b) people who don't care about movies (usually) getting excited due to the "the movie looks so gorgeous you will go insane" thing (lol). I saw A LOT of grandparents in the theater, enjoying a sci-fi movie, and that was just because of those damn pretty plants and the general exuberance,

c) romantic love story, that always helps, Jimmy is soft...

d) once the movie broke the PiratesOfTheCaribean/HarryPotter/DarkKnight box-office records, the media started this crazy campaing about Avatar having options to break the record of Titanic as well. Then, Avatar became as famous as Facebook, lol, everyone wanted to "contribute" to make this "gorgeous family friendly 3-D love story with some sici-fi action" the most succesful movie ever. Ahh, the masses...And of course, nobody wanted to be the bitter anti-everything who hadn't watched the film...

e) I'd also add that the "green/leftist/peace-not-war" message struck a chord with audiences, specially in these years of reckless capitalism, wars and Earth slowly (but steadily) dying... It IS a noble film, I'll give Jimmy that...

I think the movie was ok, 100 old ideas mixed-up in a single film. If the sequel is good, I guess I'll respect this film more...My problem is that I've seen and I've played like 25 better sci-fi movies/videogames than Avatar

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Black Sheep. It was pish.

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I fell asleep halfway through and it barely held my kids interest. The first 20 minutes were good though. 3/10