LIFE wrote:

Wiðercora wrote:Tangled.

Magic tears? Are you fucking shitting me?! Magic fucking tears!?

Oh come on, Tangled was friggin' good

I liked the horse, and my kid really liked the chameleon.

Motorcycle Diaries. Again. Beautiful film.

And as a tonic to this hagiography, I watched a documentary on Che as a grown up ideological puritan. Like Saint-Juste, the man new how to execute for the revolutionary ideals...

ChasM wrote:Motorcycle Diaries. Again. Beautiful film.

And as a tonic to this hagiography, I watched a documentary on Che as a grown up ideological puritan. Like Saint-Juste, the man new how to execute for the revolutionary ideals...

For the sake of completeness, I guess you could also watch Steven Soderbergh's epic biopic. Not that I have. Or likely will.

I do like the Motorcycle Diaries, though. It's another one of those films where, if i just forget about any underlying political agenda, I can enjoy purely as a piece of film making. I suppose you could also see it as a paen an idealistic young man before he became corrupted.

I have the Soderbergh, but ain't watched it yet. /useless information.

A poor start to page 500 there, ChasM. Have you no sense of occasion?

I'm still waiting for the sequel...



Yes, I know it's just a repost from last year. Too lazy to do a new one....

So even the post is a resurrection? How very post-modern.

Make it a trin... er... trilogy and it'll be divine!

LIFE wrote:

Wiðercora wrote:Tangled.

Magic tears? Are you fucking shitting me?! Magic fucking tears!?

Oh come on, Tangled was friggin' good

Well, no, I didn't think it was bad. On the whole I enjoyed it that'swhatshesaid, but magic goddamn cunting motherfucking shitting twatting bastard tears!?

Dedication (2007)



IMDb summarises it thus...
The romantic comedy follows a misogynistic children's book author who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend.

Mandy Moore was pretty good in this one. Quirky characters and some sharp dialogue... (the mother -- whose idea of "tough love" is to evict her daughter and then dissolve into tears of self-pity -- is especially memorable). And Billy Crudup does well as the neurotic-turned-romantic.
Predictable "romcom" destination, but the journey is quite fun.
6.5/10

Stop the presses! We just watched what we believe will be one of the best films of 2012 - in January 2013 we will go ... "oh that one was great, you know, the one, the one ... Jodie Foster was in it ... " and it is called Carnage.

It, in fact, in no way implicates Spider Man. It is a story about a meeting of conciliation between two boys, the one of whom ahs hit the other one with a stick, causing non-lethal but disfiguring injuries.
It is a chamber-play, and, it is Foster and Winslet turning into REAL actors - this is, Mrs C and meself both thought, a sort of, "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf" for the 2010s. Great acting, great script. If you loved Transformers, you're gonna hate this one.
8/10.

And if you hated Transformers?

Not so long ago I saw her first screen appearance, as a kid in an episode of Kung Fu. She was already stealing the show.

I watched The Prestige a couple of night ago.

What. A. Movie. Intriguing and exciting from the off. Stunning twists and turns and a brilliant ending. Best movie i've seen in quite a while.

Yer man Nolan, y'see.

j.mills wrote: [Re: Jodie Foster]
Not so long ago I saw her first screen appearance, as a kid in an episode of Kung Fu. She was already stealing the show.

No, this was her first screen appearance...!

Paul G wrote:And if you hated Transformers?

Could be you'd like this one?

Onyx8 wrote:Since when wasn't Jodie Foster a real actor?

Since before she made this movie. No sorry, was a bit pissed when wrote that reflection, I tend to like Jodie Foster (Silence of tthe Lambs come to mind) but, rather, this was the first time I saw her in a movie doing a ... ah, dear, what did I mean? Look. Comparison. When I saw Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid ..." I had previously seen her as Cleopatra, in Lassie, in Giant, and some other things ... it was then I was really shown that she could act like a theater actor? Is that it? Not a lot of frippery and loud music to point out that This Is A Dramatic Moment? To be sure, this movie (as was "Who's afraid ...") was filmed theater, very contained, everthing happening in one room (well, two) and consecutively, very much built on the acting proficiency of the cast - and they were good! Particularly the first part when they try to keep up the masks ... I found that close to unbearable.

Crocodile Gandhi wrote:I watched The Prestige a couple of night ago.

What. A. Movie. Intriguing and exciting from the off. Stunning twists and turns and a brilliant ending. Best movie i've seen in quite a while.

Didn't the main plot twist strike you as a bit contrived? It bothered me because the rest of the movie involved things that could plausibly happen in real life, and then all of a sudden it asks you to suspend your disbelief in a big way. It was as if you had a Sherlock Holmes story in which the solution to the mystery involved space aliens.

A got a kick out of David Bowie as Tesla, though.