Loving (2016)
Good movie.
Good movie.
Fun The Last Movie That You Watched?
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The only scene I liked in that films was the school reunion, with the outing and the youtube video with the granny snickers. All the rest was boring, bored, boredom.
ant-mac
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I'm not quite sure how to interpret this comment.
Are you referring to your emotional state, your opinions on certain subjects or perhaps a gender reassignment?
Hux
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Arrival.
Gotta say... massively disappointed by this. My expectations were rather high and frankly, I was actually quite angry by the end because it was just utter gash. Someone needs to explain the excessive praise for this movie. Just can't express how awful it was.
She's the first linguist on the planet who thought to write something down. Seriously. They take a canary because... um... the technology to measure if an environment has breathable air apparently doesn't exist. Are you kidding me?
Endless navel gazing atmospheric shots and dread heavy music (to remind you how profound everything is).
Abysmal.
Gotta say... massively disappointed by this. My expectations were rather high and frankly, I was actually quite angry by the end because it was just utter gash. Someone needs to explain the excessive praise for this movie. Just can't express how awful it was.
She's the first linguist on the planet who thought to write something down. Seriously. They take a canary because... um... the technology to measure if an environment has breathable air apparently doesn't exist. Are you kidding me?
Endless navel gazing atmospheric shots and dread heavy music (to remind you how profound everything is).
Abysmal.
Doctor Omega
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Featuring the most popular cinematic droids - until C3P0 and R2D2 turned up..
This film's had a soundtrack by Joan Baez and starred Bruce Dern.
It had an important message at the time...
But how does that message translate for a modern audience now? Is the telling of the tale dated?
Certainly, fairly or unfairly, the soundtrack has been accused of dating the film.
Remake time?
Or a still relevant classic that does not need "re-imagining"?
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alpha128
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I love this movie. It's my favorite sci-fi film of 1970s. No remakes please.
Doctor Omega
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A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.
Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the main character, is a charismatic, antisocial delinquent whose interests include classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and what is termed "ultra-violence". He leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian word друг, "friend", "buddy"). The film chronicles the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via controversial psychological conditioning. Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.
The soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange features mostly classical music selections and Moog synthesizer compositions by Wendy Carlos (then known as Walter Carlos). The artwork for the now-iconic poster of A Clockwork Orange was created by Philip Castle with the layout by designer Bill Gold.
Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the main character, is a charismatic, antisocial delinquent whose interests include classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and what is termed "ultra-violence". He leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian word друг, "friend", "buddy"). The film chronicles the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via controversial psychological conditioning. Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.
The soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange features mostly classical music selections and Moog synthesizer compositions by Wendy Carlos (then known as Walter Carlos). The artwork for the now-iconic poster of A Clockwork Orange was created by Philip Castle with the layout by designer Bill Gold.
sleepyjack
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Spring (2014)
Guy meets girl girl turns into monster, sort of what happened in my last relationship.
Guy meets girl girl turns into monster, sort of what happened in my last relationship.
Carol
Member: Rank 5
Yes, my knowledge of crustacean-based cinema is also sadly lacking - (remind me never to tell you about my first experience of an actual lobster... but I could make a bizarre slapstick comedy about it - based on which bits you actually EAT - maybe someone already did?)
The excellent Ms Fries has started an intriguing thread here - sorry I never caught her thread on IMDb (love the way it's now in the past tense for conversational purposes). Maybe it would be fun to figure out what we all mean by avant-garde and experimental? I'm getting this: not primarily commercial, possibly even foreign language, bonkers art-house a definite possibility - but for me that could be 3 different categories - all equally fascinating in their ways.
I'm half way through Two Towers right now - in a way Peter Jackson was conducting the mother of experiments - the experiment being - can Lord of the Rings be successfully filmed in live action? (So glad the answer was yes.)
ant-mac
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MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007) 5/5.
An excellent American film that is part drama and part thriller. It was written and directed by Tony Gilroy and produced by Sydney Pollack, Steven Samuels, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent. The film stars George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Michael O'Keefe, Merritt Wever and Sydney Pollack. It follows the attempts by attorney Michael Clayton to cope with a colleague's apparent mental breakdown and the corruption and intrigue surrounding a major client of his law firm. It is positively engrossing and well worth the effort to see.
An excellent American film that is part drama and part thriller. It was written and directed by Tony Gilroy and produced by Sydney Pollack, Steven Samuels, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent. The film stars George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Michael O'Keefe, Merritt Wever and Sydney Pollack. It follows the attempts by attorney Michael Clayton to cope with a colleague's apparent mental breakdown and the corruption and intrigue surrounding a major client of his law firm. It is positively engrossing and well worth the effort to see.
duzit
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I will put this on my To Watch list as I like this kind of story line. Also, I try to watch anything with
Tilda Swinton since first seeing her in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(2005).
Lately Tom Wilkinson has been on my radar of people to watch also.
@ant-mac Thanks for the good review...
Tilda Swinton since first seeing her in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(2005).
Lately Tom Wilkinson has been on my radar of people to watch also.
@ant-mac Thanks for the good review...
Carol
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Good evening to you, petal! Very happy to hear you're also a Tilda fan - you could check out Orlando or her work with Derek Jarman for the art-housier work, but she also seems to be in demand for more bonkers sci-fi stuff line Constantine and Doctor Strange. ( We were at college together, and she still owes me a gigantic apology for the Unpleasantness with Rosalind.)
ant-mac
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You're quite welcome, duzit.
I must admit that although I'm aware of Tilda Swinton, I don't necessarily follow her career very closely. However, I found her to be very impressive and almost perfectly cast in THE BEACH, with Leonardo DiCaprio. An excellent film that was fairly accurate to its source material, the brilliant novel by Alex Garland.
Hux
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That's the film I pretend to like when I want women to think I'm sensitive.