A young violinist from Beijing is confronted with the struggle between art and commerce.

Lovely film from the director of "Farewell My Concubine".

4 /5

sexton said:

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) - The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.

What a fun, crazy movie. Byung-hun Lee as bad guy Park Chang-yi was way hot.

Co-sign. I've started to like Chinese and Korean 'Westerns.'

Bernie 4/5 Very funny, kinda sad. This is how I see southern people. I almost thought I'd probably have done the same thing but no I'd of left so I really can't feel sorry for him. Gets a little slow but it's the interview with the real towns people so I get why they had to flesh it out,

The film is based on a 1998 Texas Monthly magazine article by Hollandsworth, "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas," that chronicles the 1996 murder of 81-year-old millionaire Marjorie Nugent in Carthage, Texas by her 39-year-old, employed close companion, Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede.

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3/10. Big bunch of crap, basically. Neither exciting, nor intelligent, mysterious or great images. It's just dumb.

Phishanga said:

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3/10. Big bunch of crap, basically. Neither exciting, nor intelligent, mysterious or great images. It's just dumb.

I agree with all of that (I think I rated it 1/5 when I posted about that movie here) except that I thought there were a few great images in this movie. I think the opening sequence (where the planet is seeded) and the ship crash towards the end were visually great, and, along with Michael Fassbender's performance, were the only redeeming qualities of an otherwise absolutely atrocious, hopelessly stupid film.

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luv4u said:

Stymie said:

Today was Carey mulligan day: Shame and Drive. Michael Fassbender has a beautiful penis. Ryan Gosling is a beautiful man but both these films bored me.

You're impossible.

Coffy (1973) - Coffy, an African American nurse, takes vigilante justice against inner city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.

I will give this movie three stars for the plentiful number of breasts exposed for absolutely no reason at all. As for the story, I found the semi-sequel, Foxy Brown, to be more well-rounded and entertaining.

TCM showed My Brilliant Career last night. One of my favorites of all time - 5 stars.

sexton said:

Stymie said:

sexton said:

You're impossible.

What?

sexton said:

Stymie said:

I like tons of movies. I just saw ParaNorman a few weeks ago. I dug that.

Why is it you only post about movies you don't like?

That's My Boy: 3.5/5

It was funnier than I thought it would be. Adam Sandler is very hit and miss for me, but I did laugh alot throughout this film.

Jumper (2008) - A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them.

Not much depth here. And Hayden Christensen plays the same character in all his films.

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School 4/5 - It made me feel like "Love Actually" but without all the happy endings, kind of a 1/2 happy ending with the 1/2 very sad. Reviewers hated it. Oh well, it worked for me. And I like Robert Carlyle anyway, even if I don't understand what he says sometimes.

Mirror Mirror 3/5 I enjoyed it. The dwarfs were funny. Modern language without using a lot of slang. Snow White was adorable. Loved the dresses, I have no idea how they moved around in all that fabric. And the dance at the end was cute with that East Indian flavor.

god bless america

two different people told me to check it out. so i did. i liked it. it didn't rock my world,

but it was a nice little movie.

anonymous

good film. great images. a bit chewed out, the whole 'who was shakespeare really?"

but it made for a beautiful and entertaining movie.

the tunnel

crap.

Stymie said:

Today was Carey mulligan day: Shame and Drive. Michael Fassbender has a beautiful penis. Ryan Gosling is a beautiful man but both these films bored me.

i agree. my expectations for both of these were very high. and although i liked both of them,

a bit, they were excruciatingly boring in parts. and i like boring, slow moving artsy films that

drive most other people insane.

i guess because these weren't really promoted as being art house boring slow films, they did

bore me since i was expecting something more.

but also the reviews ruined it for me. they were so incredibly good that the films themselves

just ended up disappointing, a bit.

one critic wrote almost half a page in a newspaper just about the subway scene in "shame",

about the way fassbender looks at the girl. he wrote about that so incredibly vividly and so

very detailed that i though "holy shit, now i want to see this movie even more, it must be a

work of art if so much is conveyed in a single scene".

then i watched it and i was like "oh, ok, is that it?"

fassbender is one of my fav actors tho.

sexton said:

Antichrist (2009) - A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

I liked this a little more the second time around. Beautifully grotesque.

i'll have to give this one another go soon. it was the first von trier movie where i had to just

twist my mouth a bit at certain scenes. you know which ones i'm talking about

but then there were others that were so beautiful or just completely weird (the fox) that i'm

constantly thinking "i have to watch it again". i just don't know if i can stomach those scenes

a second time. or perhaps they're less in your face the second time around?

IstenSzek said:

sexton said:

Antichrist (2009) - A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

I liked this a little more the second time around. Beautifully grotesque.

i'll have to give this one another go soon. it was the first von trier movie where i had to just

twist my mouth a bit at certain scenes. you know which ones i'm talking about

but then there were others that were so beautiful or just completely weird (the fox) that i'm

constantly thinking "i have to watch it again". i just don't know if i can stomach those scenes

a second time. or perhaps they're less in your face the second time around?

I can't tell you if it's less graphic because I close my eyes each time for one scene in particular. Maybe in a few years, I'll have the courage to keep my eyes open for that part.

sexton said:

IstenSzek said:

i'll have to give this one another go soon. it was the first von trier movie where i had to just

twist my mouth a bit at certain scenes. you know which ones i'm talking about

but then there were others that were so beautiful or just completely weird (the fox) that i'm

constantly thinking "i have to watch it again". i just don't know if i can stomach those scenes

a second time. or perhaps they're less in your face the second time around?

I can't tell you if it's less graphic because I close my eyes each time for one scene in particular. Maybe in a few years, I'll have the courage to keep my eyes open for that part.

i watched it. well, i think i blinked very slowly a few times

IstenSzek said:

IstenSzek said:

Stymie said:

Today was Carey mulligan day: Shame and Drive. Michael Fassbender has a beautiful penis. Ryan Gosling is a beautiful man but both these films bored me.

i agree. my expectations for both of these were very high. and although i liked both of them,

a bit, they were excruciatingly boring in parts. and i like boring, slow moving artsy films that

drive most other people insane.

i guess because these weren't really promoted as being art house boring slow films, they did

bore me since i was expecting something more.

but also the reviews ruined it for me. they were so incredibly good that the films themselves

just ended up disappointing, a bit.

one critic wrote almost half a page in a newspaper just about the subway scene in "shame",

about the way fassbender looks at the girl. he wrote about that so incredibly vividly and so

very detailed that i though "holy shit, now i want to see this movie even more, it must be a

work of art if so much is conveyed in a single scene".

then i watched it and i was like "oh, ok, is that it?"

fassbender is one of my fav actors tho.

I try to stay away from reading reviews before I watch movies because often too much is given away.

For Drive I knew the general critical concensus was favorable and I like both Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan so that was why I saw it. I was surprised at how tense and violent it was and didn't think it was boring at all.

I will admit that a big part of the appeal of Shame for me was the NYC setting and Michael Fassbender's character going to the same haunts I do (like the Standard Hotel bar).

I give both films four stars.

sexton said:

IstenSzek said:

i agree. my expectations for both of these were very high. and although i liked both of them,

a bit, they were excruciatingly boring in parts. and i like boring, slow moving artsy films that

drive most other people insane.

i guess because these weren't really promoted as being art house boring slow films, they did

bore me since i was expecting something more.

but also the reviews ruined it for me. they were so incredibly good that the films themselves

just ended up disappointing, a bit.

one critic wrote almost half a page in a newspaper just about the subway scene in "shame",

about the way fassbender looks at the girl. he wrote about that so incredibly vividly and so

very detailed that i though "holy shit, now i want to see this movie even more, it must be a

work of art if so much is conveyed in a single scene".

then i watched it and i was like "oh, ok, is that it?"

fassbender is one of my fav actors tho.

I try to stay away from reading reviews before I watch movies because often too much is given away.

For Drive I knew the general critical concensus was favorable and I like both Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan so that was why I saw it. I was surprised at how tense and violent it was and didn't think it was boring at all.

I will admit that a big part of the appeal of Shame for me was the NYC setting and Michael Fassbender's character going to the same haunts I do (like the Standard Hotel bar).

I give both films four stars.

When I saw it after hearing about it, i was disappointed. I couldn't see what generated the hype.