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I'm a massive Riddick fan. Pitch Black is still the best of the three movies IMO as it was original and was shot with a tiny budget plus it introduced Vin Diesel to the world, but I really enjoyed the new Riddick movie. They did a great job with a smallish budget and even at 45 odd, Vin Diesel is still a badass mofo!Quote:
Originally Posted by kapparomeo
Just saw the movie about Terri Hooley called Good Vibrations.
A really good movie if you are a music fan and particular if you like punk.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1920945/
La vie d'Adele/Blue is the warmest color by Abdellatif Kechiche, this year's Palme d'or at Cannes film festival. Wonderful movie about life, love, sexuality with a fantastic actress (Adele Exarchopoulos). This movie is worth watching if only for following her face expression. She acts so natural that the movie looks like a slice of life.
Fair to say the sex scenes (between two girls!!!!!) are too explicit and kinda embarrassing (at least for an old moralist like me :p).
A movie I strongly recommend.
Never been a huge fan of Lars von Trier's movies ( except for Melancholia - I use to say it's a feast for the eyes). Always depressive and involving unhappy women.
But the old cinephile in me won and sent me to watch his latest release Nymphomaniac - Volume I. More for the controversy's sake. From the beginning we were warned that Mr von Trier hasn't agreed with this version which was censored for the large audience. Only the luckiest who get to see the movie in festivals ( like Golden Bear - Berlin ) will see the so called director's cut.
It's not a porn movie ( as it was suggested even by the author ) and it's not boring at all. An erotic saga of a 50 y.o. woman who sees herself as nymphomaniac and is confessing to an old guy who sees sense in every of her actions and tries to make her understand she's not the bad person she thinks she is (where in real life have I seen a similar situation? :hmph: ).
Anyway I'm determined to go also to Nymphomaniac - Volume II to see the rest of the story and one of my fav actors ( Willem Dafoe).
And it's fair to say I was shocked (again???!!!??). Never thought the "cinematography language" will go so far.
As promised, watched Nymphomaniac part II. With a bit of luck as it was almost banned from the screens by our vigilent National Council of Audiovisual. Joe's sexual crusade is continuing, marked by a hard psychic tension. Whether you like it or not Lars con Trier is an artist.
Willem Dafoe appeared for about 5 min. He still has interesting features but oh my God, his face has become so dusky.......:mad:
P.S. Looks like I'm the only one who's still going to the movies. :confused:
I don't really go to the cinema that often anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
The cinema in the city where I live have a very poor standard both in general and
when it comes to picture quality/size and audio quality.
I know what you mean. My fav cinema is closed these days so I had to go to another. I was supposed to watch an art movie but I couldn't concentrate as they were doing repairs on the hall and made a terrible noise + workers were shouting all the time. It was freezing cold and I trembled for 2 hours even if I stayed with my coat on and a thick scarf around my neck. It's a shame because It's the biggest cinema in the country and the place for official premiers. Last but not least I was charged 10 lei although I've read on their website that the ticket for the first show is 8 lei.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleAivano
Also in Sweden the cinemas almost always only shows "Hollywood" and big budget British movies.
hardly any independent movies or anything. And usually in my city you're lucky if the show any big movies at all.
The problem is the SF Bio and their sub company Svenska Bio have a monopoly in Sweden so they don't
have to do anything to improve themselves.
Then I'm lucky to have in the neighbourhood a cinema that never shows Hollywood big budget movies. Most movies are European, distributed by Independenta Film, many of them were presented at the biggest European film festivals. Sometimes it hosts festivals or a week dedicated to a certain director or national cinematography. The most important thing is that there I may watch great Romanian movies. Unfortunately it's closed for a month.
Well, after 10 months of (unwanted! ) abstinence I managed to go again to the movies. ( Fair to say that I was invited to go and for nothing in the world I would have turned off the offer). Wanted to see a Romanian set of 4 short movies called Short/4-Stories of black heart. In good Romanian tradition we went to the cinema just to find out that the schedule was modyfied and instead of that movie it was Woody Allen's Magic in the moonlight. Decided to stay, we were only 4 people in the cinema - at less than 3 it couldn't be broadcasted. :p. Anyway, it was like a private thing just for us. :p. The movie was good - a romantic comedy. Nice to see again that love is unpredictable and that even a knowledgeable man can be touched by ( what he thought it could be ) real magic.
Then the stubborn Taurus I am, decided we should also go to that Romanian film. It was interesting but not a masterpiece, just 4 stories produced by 4 different directors and producers having in common death. Death is seen in different ways: with a dose of tragedy, with humour, with indifference.....
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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
I used to love going to the movies. But where I live now (much like BleAivano) only big budget, mind-numbing, formulaic, politically correct, predictable Hollyweird crap is shown. When I lived in another part of the state, we actually had two independent theaters that showed old movies as well as foreign language films, small/medium budget films and art-house films. That was so cool. I miss that. Now I just watch old movies or current shows on Turner Classic Movies, American Movie Classics or PBS Masterpiece Theater.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleAivano
By the way, scientists have proven that if you watch a big budget Hollyweird movie, your IQ will drop by 10% for every hour that you sit there. Ever wonder why Americans appear to be getting dumber by the day? Well, there ya go. What's that... what's my excuse? Well, we don't know. The scientists are still looking into that! :mad:
Then the whole world gets dumber because those productions are spread everywhere and are an important tool in brainwashing our heads.
What I also regret is the lack of the real cinema magazines like we had in the past and of TV programms of cinema culture. I mean my cinematographic taste was formed by reading monthly, since I was just a kid, a very serious magazine where important film critics wrote reviews, analyzed different trends or talked about a certain topic with many references to the old movies. Some of these critics had also TV shows where we could also learn about the best of world's cinema.
But what really worries me is that today even those who study the cinematographic art don't have such culture. I have a niece whose husband is a cameraman at an important TV station and he never heard of Italian neorealism and Bycicle Thieves....
movies upon movies made for Marvel comics and that sort :rolleyes: :angryfire
I haven't seen a movie for more than a year (in the hall), good you managed to go gadjo!
Movies used to be my hobby. I tried to see the most I could from the beginning of cinema. Even from the likes of Griffith, Fritz Lang or Sergey Eisenstein. Even when I couldn't see a movie I read about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Storm
I lost this pleasure in the last 10 years. The one for theatre too. But from time to time I like to go again and feel the magic of a cinema hall. As I've said above I'm lucky with this cinema hall close to my home. It's attended only by cinephiles like me and at least I'm sure nobody will eat popcorn near me.Unfortunately we're but a few.
I can watch loads of movies online but it's not the same thing. I love the movies of Milos Foreman from his Czech period. Then I wanted to watch his One flew over the cucoo's nest but never could. Not even on TV. Now I can watch it online but it's not the same. I tried a few times but quitted after half an hour. It would be different if I saw it at Cinemateca....
OK, I know I'm weird. Don't wanna bother you with such stupid ideas....
Been again at the movies.
This time it was a Belgian movie - Deux jours, une nuit, directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
It's the story of a woman who during a weekend has to convince her coworkers to give up their bonus just to help her keep her job. Marion Cotillard plays the leading role and is excellent as a depressive, emotionally unstable, who lacks self esteem - wonder why I'm always impressed by such characters......:devil:
The movie lacks action, I can't see american people watching such thing but for me it was touching. I watched the heroine walking down the street with wet eyes and I saw a familiar image. :s
Then it's the raw reality of relationships at the working place. For a moment I thought at the hostile environment at my own working place. What if I were in her situation?
BTW guys, is 1000 euros a big amount of money in the western world? :confused:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JSlJPjEvzM
And I watched Le passé, a recent French relationship drama this morning. I woke up at 5 am and couldn't sleep any longer. I decided to make use of these early hours by watching something decent. It's pretty long, so couldn't complete it before going to office, but it has impressed me quite a bit. I'm going to finish watching it tonight.
A friend insisted to watch Birdman together but I preferred to go to a Turkish drama called Winter Sleep. The movie is directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan and won Palme d'or at Cannes in 2014. The film is very good but it lasts 197 min. I had a very tiresome week, with but a few hours of sleep so for the first time in my life I felt like falling asleep in a cinema theater. It was a considerable effort to keep my head straight and to be honest I wouldn't mind if I had a little nap but I was afraid I might snore.
That is roughly the amount it would cost for one months rent of a very economical studio apartment in S.D.Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tazio
OMG.....
The costs here are pretty obscene, and higher than in most of the rest of the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
Pretty obscene costs for people with pretty obscene thoughts.....:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Tazio
:angel: I think I may be the most misunderstood man in show business. I am actually a minimalist, especially when it comes to clothing, and driving on the interstate ;)
Gadjo, your painting 320 million people with a narrow brush is intellectually lazy. Please don't pretend to know Americans and / or American film, because you don't. You are way too impressed with yourself.
And from the looks of it, it seems as if your movie tastes tend toward soft porn.
Well, I'm sorry if you understood that cos I really admit I don't . But I think it would be very nice if you'll share your opinions on why European or Asian movies aren't popular on american market, why a lot of american movies with an impressive budget are so bad or why the movies with a high rank in box office aren't appreciated by the critics. A few examples to prove me wrong would be appreciated.Quote:
Originally Posted by keysersoze
The few forumers who knows me a bit would know it's not true at all. On the contrary.....Quote:
You are way too impressed with yourself.
But if you really think I'm a sort of arrogant I'll quote a famous reply:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAqxWa9Rbe0
Let's clarify a thing: I don't have time to go to the movies as often as I wish. When I decide to go I don't do it for entertainment and I try to pick one that might say somerhing. I do it from curiosity, I don't go knowing from the start I'd like it. Some of them talk about things that I dislike but it's not an impediment, all I want from a movies is to feel some emotion. I think only 2 of the movies I mentioned on this thread had some sexually explicit scenes and I can't understand your assumption on my movie tastes. I think I even said that it was kinda embarrassing to watch.Quote:
And from the looks of it, it seems as if your movie tastes tend toward soft porn.
I find your post quite offensive, in the past it would have made me sad. Now I started to cope quite well with such things. But I repeat, it would be fair to express your own views on movies, what movies you had seen lately, which one have you liked and why, etc.
But it's a dry heat...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tazio
And think of what you get for all that rent!
(what do you get for the crazy property values? You keep the riff-raff out?)
I pop into this thread from time to time mainly to read what gadjo has been watching recently and her opinions of it. To classify what she watches as soft porn simply indicates your ignorance of cinema outside the mainstream. If you'd actually looked at the films she refers to you'd see that they are anything but. Nor do I see her making particularly offensive comments about Americans or American films.Quote:
Originally Posted by keysersoze
Mainstream blockbusters are not for everyone but to deride those that are into alternative films reflects more on your view of the world than hers.
Who said I derided anyone for preferring indie / "alternative" (never heard of that genre) films? I called someone out for criticizing American films and the American film-going public. You don't see the offensive comments? Is that supposed to be some sort of joke? Try reading posts #3, #49, #52, and #55.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malbec
I never mentioned any films I've seen, so how you can comment on my worldview is absurd.
Frankly, I haven't the time or the inclination to watch every film on gadjo's list, but the fact remains that regardless of the plot / themes of those films, SHE mentioned the sexual element, so she clearly privileged that aspect of those films. I'd say that qualifies as having a penchant for "soft porn."
And for all that anathema directed at American films, Woody Allen is an American and the film gadjo mentioned is set in America, unless Woody fooled us and set it in San Francisco, Romania.
You make a couple of assumptions. Why do the films have to be Asian or European for them to be considered worthy? Why does anyone need the approval of a given critic, or any critic?Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
A lot of movies with big budgets are bad? In who's opinion? What films? Again, you are dealing in generalities--painting with a broad stroke.
Why am I the one who has to prove you wrong? You're the one who served up the opening salvo.
Go back to your armchair after the fact F1 wank-fest where you live and stop ruining a simple thread insulting people.Quote:
Originally Posted by keysersoze
We can comment your world view is absurd by reading a few representative posts and from the giant chip on your shoulder---Red, White and Blue of course...
Before you go, I do want to thank you for one thing you cleared up fopr me, though...
See all these long years I was traveling the world and chasing cutie pies and sweeties and when I was lucky, playing some bouncy bouncy----I never though of that as Soft Porn interest.
Now you've cleared up that in any and all contexts any mention of sex equals an interest in soft porn...
And they said Americans were superficial and shallow.. Guess you showed them, eh Champ!
Just to reduce the tension here, over the last weeks I have seen a string of very good movies, all of them American: The Star Map, Whiplash and Inside Llewyn Davis.
:eek: I thought nobody cares about that. I should be more careful with my posts from now on. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Malbec
I've never said that all these foreign movies are good. But some of them are really pieces of art, however they don't have success in USA. I don't think that I ever said that americans are too lazy to read subtitles or something as rude. So why are you so angry? I also admit that not all europeans love what I consider good movies. My coworkers ( who BTW never go to a cinema ) consider all these movies stupid and boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by keysersoze
There's a saying, on politics and football any of us is an expert. But with cinema it's different. It's an art and not all of us have the required competence to judge the quality of a production. I admit I haven't this skill so I have to see a few recommandations before going. I also admit I don't follow any critic but only a few that I admire.Quote:
Why does anyone need the approval of a given critic, or any critic?
I don't see why I should bother to answer this. I also asked for your opinions and examples but it seems that you don't want a debate, you're only accusing me. In this case all I can do is to ask you to read my signature.Quote:
A lot of movies with big budgets are bad? In who's opinion? What films? Again, you are dealing in generalities--painting with a broad stroke.
Maybe because we're on a fórum, and forums are made for debates? :confused:Quote:
Why am I the one who has to prove you wrong? You're the one who served up the opening salvo.
You're certainly wrong. I'm more into the hardcore thing but i was ashamed to say it on the forum. Unfortunately these kind of movies aren't broadcasted on regular theatres. But whenever I decide to go to movies I 'm making sure that there will be a few spicy ( to say the least ) scenes otherwise the money would be spent in vain. :devil: :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by keysersoze
Now seriously, you're crazy, man.......
Where do you see a sex referrence in my last four reviews?
It's a fact that nudity and sex are present in most of today's productions and I confess that sometimes I'm not comfortable with what I see on the screen. That was the context I said those things. I'm a boring laid back person and of course I'm shocked to see a group of half naked drunk women în their 50's trying to seduce a young black guy who definitely doesn't want it, or women looking like housewives staying at a queue to a guy who whipps them, or a little girl having an orgasm while her father is dieing.
So what? I used to like Woody Allen and I still follow his movies. And yeah, I mentioned San Francisco ( I love this city that I would like to visit knowing it will never happen ) în the context that Blue Jasmin reminds me of Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire but is set in nowadays San Francisco. I certainly forgot to mention that the second movie (Magic in the moonlight) is set on the french rivieraQuote:
And for all that anathema directed at American films, Woody Allen is an American and the film gadjo mentioned is set in America, unless Woody fooled us and set it in San Francisco, Romania.
I can't remember the last movie I watched, let alone enjoyed. Lately I've been watching old episodes of Top Gear on Netflix :p: .
I'm also a Netflix subscriber, and it is the most worthwhile $8.00 a month I spend. Watching old Twilight Zone episodes is my latest kick. The woman in this episode reminds me of Gadji :love: ;)
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight...-chaser-12615/
Can't see it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tazio
Can only be streamed within the USA. :s
But I bet that woman is a sort of old horrible witch.:s
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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Zone_1960.JPG
Yep! :angel:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734635/...f_=ttpl_pl_syn
:eek:
Found the episode on YouTube. The Professor reminds me of Dr. Rappaccini.....:devil:
:angel: I never really thought of that comparison, but I can see the similarity. Dr. R. practiced his poisonous art for the sake of science. Professor A Daemon (although he states that his work is science), is pretty clear that his real motivation is commercial. :kiss: :devil:
And may I ask you what do I have in common with the woman with the annoying voice? :confused: