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What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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After films like "Haute Tension", "Ils" ("Them"), "A L'Intérieur" ("Inside") and "Frontier(s)", here comes "Martyrs", the latest in what has been called the New Wave of french horror films. And it's arguably the best of the bunch. Here's my mini-review:
Martyrs is one visceral, vile, violent, vicious, vengeful piece of work. It's less a horror film than a film about horror, the one that lays waiting under the familiarity of daily life or the one related to all forms of oppression. It's also a film about unrequited love, suffering and redemption and the script is wickedly intelligent, always one step ahead of the viewer who will get his emotional limits tested. It's beautiful and horryfing, both in terms of the story it tells and what it shows. Relentless, savage, sublime, fragile, courageous, Martyrs will repeatedly punch you in the gut, until the final scene which will put you on your knees for good, breathless, unable to cope with or comment on what you have just seen.
Not for the faint of heart.
Trailer:
http://www.allocine.fr/video/player_gen_cmedia=18825019&cfilm=127913.html
In HD:
http://www.allocine.fr/video/player_gen_cmedia=18825019&cfilm=127913&hd=1.html
Martyrs is one visceral, vile, violent, vicious, vengeful piece of work. It's less a horror film than a film about horror, the one that lays waiting under the familiarity of daily life or the one related to all forms of oppression. It's also a film about unrequited love, suffering and redemption and the script is wickedly intelligent, always one step ahead of the viewer who will get his emotional limits tested. It's beautiful and horryfing, both in terms of the story it tells and what it shows. Relentless, savage, sublime, fragile, courageous, Martyrs will repeatedly punch you in the gut, until the final scene which will put you on your knees for good, breathless, unable to cope with or comment on what you have just seen.
Not for the faint of heart.
Trailer:
http://www.allocine.fr/video/player_gen_cmedia=18825019&cfilm=127913.html
In HD:
http://www.allocine.fr/video/player_gen_cmedia=18825019&cfilm=127913&hd=1.html
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I saw Quantum of Solace in montreal in my hotel this weekend, and I really enjoyed it, though I had no interest in seeing it from the previews, but I liked it a lot.
.gamelessdork said:
Hello Gamelessdork,
I saw "Quantum of Solace". I thought it was okay, but I barely see it as a James Bond movie at all. Nearly, all the Bond signatures are missing. It's a good adventure, but not a "Bond movie". Too bad, Daniel Craig would make a great Bond...if he ever gets the chance.
I did just see "Taken". I thought it was a better Quantum of Solace type of movie. Liam Neeson was great and the action kept me at a much higher pitch than Quantum. Also, I thought the underlying theme of sex slavery was far more compelling than monopolizing water rights. However, I like Liam Neeson, but it's hard to buy as a de facto superman and I am tired of that type. A couple of the scenes are too illogical for their own good. Someone should have Taken more time on the script. Overall though, it's an intense pulse-racing film.
Cheers,
Merlot
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Coraline... this big kid loved it!
A Neil Gaiman fan since forever, i'm always thrilled to see his work come to live on the screen. Though the past incarnations didn't quite live up to my expectations...
Mirrormask was good... in a artisanal way.
Stardust was a fun fantasy/romantic comedy flic... but so much liberties were taken with the script that it turned out into something that had little to do with the book.
And i'm still bummed out about the droped project of Terry Gillian directing Good Omens... how great would that be!
This time, Genius stop motion animation director Henry Selik,( he's the guy behind a nightmare before christmas, HE AND NOT TIM BURTON DIRECTED IT...)s bring Gaiman's abillity to mix comedy, horror, fairy tales, fantasy, nursery rymes, mythology, etc. to create truely original, and yet strangely familiar stories to life in a style that is at the same time naively sweet and creepy. I wasn't too sure about the 3D gimmick, but it realy enhenced the visual aspect, and i can't say if this was the main factor, but i have to admit that i was engrossed in this movie like i rarely have been in any movies before.
A kid movie that is not realy for kids?;
A grim fairy tale (without the fairies...) ?
a clasic cautionary tale?
as any Gaiman story... gender defying, and it works perfectly in the 3D stop-motion format... i was already sold, but it was far better than i expected!
A Neil Gaiman fan since forever, i'm always thrilled to see his work come to live on the screen. Though the past incarnations didn't quite live up to my expectations...
Mirrormask was good... in a artisanal way.
Stardust was a fun fantasy/romantic comedy flic... but so much liberties were taken with the script that it turned out into something that had little to do with the book.
And i'm still bummed out about the droped project of Terry Gillian directing Good Omens... how great would that be!
This time, Genius stop motion animation director Henry Selik,( he's the guy behind a nightmare before christmas, HE AND NOT TIM BURTON DIRECTED IT...)s bring Gaiman's abillity to mix comedy, horror, fairy tales, fantasy, nursery rymes, mythology, etc. to create truely original, and yet strangely familiar stories to life in a style that is at the same time naively sweet and creepy. I wasn't too sure about the 3D gimmick, but it realy enhenced the visual aspect, and i can't say if this was the main factor, but i have to admit that i was engrossed in this movie like i rarely have been in any movies before.
A kid movie that is not realy for kids?;
A grim fairy tale (without the fairies...) ?
a clasic cautionary tale?
as any Gaiman story... gender defying, and it works perfectly in the 3D stop-motion format... i was already sold, but it was far better than i expected!
"Quantum of Solace" was good, but it was more a "Bourne"
film than a "Bond" film.
"Taken" isn't bad and the action scenes are terrific but it never fully commits to action, crime or drama, the script is corny and predictable and the acting is mediocre. With films like "Transporter" and "Shoot Em Up" you know within minutes what you're going to get: brainless fun popcorn entertainment. "Taken" suggests otherwise, and simply doesn't deliver.
film than a "Bond" film.
"Taken" isn't bad and the action scenes are terrific but it never fully commits to action, crime or drama, the script is corny and predictable and the acting is mediocre. With films like "Transporter" and "Shoot Em Up" you know within minutes what you're going to get: brainless fun popcorn entertainment. "Taken" suggests otherwise, and simply doesn't deliver.
Nobel son
http://www.watch-movies-links.net/movies/nobel_son/?1
I really enjoyed this movie tonight!
http://www.watch-movies-links.net/movies/nobel_son/?1
I really enjoyed this movie tonight!
Techman said:
I'm glad to see that someone else liked this movie. It had just the right mix of hilarity, pathos and dead-endedness.
Another one I enjoyed was Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla, an off-the-wall gangster spoof with brilliant editing and pace. Hopefully, Ritchie won't start taking himself seriously if he get's a chance to make a sequel (apparently he wants to turn it into a trilogy!).
johnmbot said:
Hello Johnmbot,
Titanic: acting was fine, cinematography and special effects were great, the story was poor in my opinion. Turning what was a tragedy because of the arrogance of "Man", and the sacrifice of the poor to favor the rich into a love story cheapened this singular historic event. "Gangs of New York" was a far better story and so much more interesting.
I did see Slumdog Millionaire the same afternoon as the Academy Awards. I thought it was a very good film though I had to warm up to it a bit at first. But for the life of me I can't understand why they would add that needless dance scene at the end. That made it seem like they get you involved feeling for the characters just to say...ha ha...only joking...got you good. It was a very absorbing film otherwise.
Cheers,
Merlot
Australia
Watched 'Australia' last night. This is a throwback epic style of film that is rarely made today. Amazing scenery, the story holds up well and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a very long film at 2h45 and may be too long for some viewers, and some may have problems with some of the Aussie accents, but I found it to be well worth the time spent watching it.
Watched 'Australia' last night. This is a throwback epic style of film that is rarely made today. Amazing scenery, the story holds up well and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a very long film at 2h45 and may be too long for some viewers, and some may have problems with some of the Aussie accents, but I found it to be well worth the time spent watching it.
I'll have to play Ebert to your Roeper on Australia.
3 hours of 1960's style western with a bizarre aboriginal medicine man named King George thrown in for, well actually I don't now what he was doing there. I think the screen play writer must have been smoking some bad weed.
About an hour too long, with a meandering, occasionally boring, plot. Some action but no sex. Your standard driving cattle to market to save the ranch from bankruptcy story. Throw in some world war 2 Jap air raid war scenes at the end because it had been a tad too slow.
Acting was way overblown and sometimes you almost thought they were going to start singing a la Oklahoma at any moment.
6 on 10. Just another opinion.
3 hours of 1960's style western with a bizarre aboriginal medicine man named King George thrown in for, well actually I don't now what he was doing there. I think the screen play writer must have been smoking some bad weed.
About an hour too long, with a meandering, occasionally boring, plot. Some action but no sex. Your standard driving cattle to market to save the ranch from bankruptcy story. Throw in some world war 2 Jap air raid war scenes at the end because it had been a tad too slow.
Acting was way overblown and sometimes you almost thought they were going to start singing a la Oklahoma at any moment.
6 on 10. Just another opinion.
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Hey, PT! I want to be Ebert!
I can't really disagree with anything you say in your post but I still enjoyed it! I guess I just found it to be a refreshing change from the usual braindead Hollywood actioner like Eagle Eye. Besides, I've been laying around on painkillers for the last week and a half so that may have had something to do with it.
I can't really disagree with anything you say in your post but I still enjoyed it! I guess I just found it to be a refreshing change from the usual braindead Hollywood actioner like Eagle Eye. Besides, I've been laying around on painkillers for the last week and a half so that may have had something to do with it.
Techman said:Besides, I've been laying around on painkillers for the last week and a half so that may have had something to do with it.
a ha you were chanelling/identifying with King George then
Star Trek
I went to see Star Trek a couple of days ago at the AMC & found it absolutely fantastic!!
I hadn't seen a Star Trek movie or tv episode since Star Trek V came out about 10 years ago. I was a huge fan of the original tv series back in the late 60's until the 90's. I purchased the collection when it first came out on VHS and watched my favorite episodes over & over. I list among my favorite episodes "The City on the Edge of Forever" & "Patterns of Force".
Looking for something to do this past friday, i checked online what was playing at the movie theatres. A movie that caught my eye was Star Trek, mostly because i had just learned it was based on the characters from the original series. I read a few movie reviews & to my great surprise, all of them were glowing. Listening to Howard Stern, i was even more shocked to learn he absolutely loved it & rated it as possibly the best science fiction movie ever made! He went along further & stated it was one of the best movie he had ever seen, period. So, with time to kill, i figured why not & decided to go and see it. I wasn't disappointed & the cost of admission was worth every penny. It was the first time in a long time that i had heard people clapping when the movie ended. I watched the movie in IMAX, which i consider much superior to watching it on a regular movie screen.
JJ Abrams, who produced what i consider to be the best tv series ever...LOST...really created a masterpiece with this movie version of STAR TREK. I rate it a 5 out of 5 stars. It's that good!
http://www.startrekmovie.com/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/08/review.star.trek/index.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/
I went to see Star Trek a couple of days ago at the AMC & found it absolutely fantastic!!
I hadn't seen a Star Trek movie or tv episode since Star Trek V came out about 10 years ago. I was a huge fan of the original tv series back in the late 60's until the 90's. I purchased the collection when it first came out on VHS and watched my favorite episodes over & over. I list among my favorite episodes "The City on the Edge of Forever" & "Patterns of Force".
Looking for something to do this past friday, i checked online what was playing at the movie theatres. A movie that caught my eye was Star Trek, mostly because i had just learned it was based on the characters from the original series. I read a few movie reviews & to my great surprise, all of them were glowing. Listening to Howard Stern, i was even more shocked to learn he absolutely loved it & rated it as possibly the best science fiction movie ever made! He went along further & stated it was one of the best movie he had ever seen, period. So, with time to kill, i figured why not & decided to go and see it. I wasn't disappointed & the cost of admission was worth every penny. It was the first time in a long time that i had heard people clapping when the movie ended. I watched the movie in IMAX, which i consider much superior to watching it on a regular movie screen.
JJ Abrams, who produced what i consider to be the best tv series ever...LOST...really created a masterpiece with this movie version of STAR TREK. I rate it a 5 out of 5 stars. It's that good!
http://www.startrekmovie.com/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/08/review.star.trek/index.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/
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