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I just saw 'The Mist'. i thought it was awesome.

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HOW'S THE ENDING?!?! My god I've never cried so much at the end of a movie. You could totally feel the guys anguish at shooting his son and then seeing the trucks straightaway, I hugged my daughter until she pushed me away after that! And how evil was Mrs Carmody, I really liked that army guy then that bitch incited the masses, I was so stoked to see her cop that one in the forehead!!

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I would recommend it to anyone, Stephen King movies are always fab, but this one had it all!
 
emmalover said:
Women talking about their miserable marriages and relationships. :rolleyes: Didn't feel any emotion through it apart from boredom. And to top it off it had one of the most cheesy and unrealistic 'that would never effing happen in real life' endings. After it had finished I honestly wanted the last 90 minutes of my life back.
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How does that rule work where if you walk out of a movie you can ask for your money back? Just wondering if you could have done that when you went to see this? Mind you has anyone aver really felt that badly about a movie?
 
greedygreedygURL said:
I just saw 'The Mist'. i thought it was awesome.


I would recommend it to anyone, Stephen King movies are always fab, but this one had it all!
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I'm really looking forward to seeing it! Hopefully this week.



CLE, pls fix the spoiler quote there :) You can read it
 
Ravenau1 said:
I'm really looking forward to seeing it! Hopefully this week.



CLE, pls fix the spoiler quote there :) You can read it
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I don't think you can.. That's just how it comes out when you do a quote with a spoiler in it.... However I shall fiddle with this a bit. BTW are you on need to talk to you can you msn?
 
ChocolateLovingEntity said:
I don't think you can.. That's just how it comes out when you do a quote with a spoiler in it.... However I shall fiddle with this a bit. BTW are you on need to talk to you can you msn?
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Just edit and delete that part out of your post :)

Sure, I'll just finish making my coffee and I'll jump on msn.
 
I just viewed the Edith Piaf dramatized biography film 'La Vie en Rose'. What can I say? I can certainly see why Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress in the role of Edith. Her performance really was something sensational, and though the Oscars are slowly becoming something of a non-event over the year, she was more than deserving of the award. Marion is just captivating, and this performance is one of the best to ever grace film - I'd say it was worth watching for her alone.
I initially decided to watch the film because I've been a fan of Ms. Piaf's music for the last few years, but boy did I get something else altogether. Just beautiful.
 
ChocolateLovingEntity said:
How does that rule work where if you walk out of a movie you can ask for your money back? Just wondering if you could have done that when you went to see this? Mind you has anyone aver really felt that badly about a movie?
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I've never heard that rule before. It's news to me cos my friends and I have walked out of movies heaps of times and never got our money back.
I got it out on DVD actually. It was at the cinemas ages ago. There are some terrible movies out there and yes many people I'd say have felt that bad about a movie at some point.
 
emmalover said:
I've never heard that rule before. It's news to me cos my friends and I have walked out of movies heaps of times and never got our money back.
I got it out on DVD actually. It was at the cinemas ages ago. There are some terrible movies out there and yes many people I'd say have felt that bad about a movie at some point.
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I think the thing is you need to do that in the first 30 minutes or so....

And possibly not all cinemas will honour that.
 
I've received a refund before. There were five or six teenagers along the back row, loudly talking through the start of the film. I can't stand such behaviour, so I left and got my money back. Had there been more general patrons to back me up, I might have challenged them for fun. Who am I kidding? I'm a coward.
 
I watched 'dan in real life.'

It's a deceptively funny and emotional story. I would recommend it to anyone who needs a smile or some tears. Or both at the same time
 
emmalover said:
Women talking about their miserable marriages and relationships. :rolleyes: Didn't feel any emotion through it apart from boredom. And to top it off it had one of the most cheesy and unrealistic 'that would never effing happen in real life' endings. After it had finished I honestly wanted the last 90 minutes of my life back.
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YEEEAAAHHH found someone who also lost 90 minute of their life!

I have never watched such a dreadful movie in my life! (that I can remember at the moment any way). they took a section of these peoples lives and told us about them but it had no starting point and absolutely no finishing point for half the stories either! It was truly truly horrible. And I also wanted to reach thru the telly and poke Jennifer A's character in the eyes to see if she had brain function! I just couldn't relate to her. :mad:
 
greedygreedygURL said:
I just saw 'The Mist'. i thought it was awesome. I would recommend it to anyone, Stephen King movies are always fab, but this one had it all!
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I saw it yesterday and thought it had a good 1st half, ok second half with a completely ridiculous out of character ending.

I love Stephen King movies and this had all the markings of a creepy and tense thriller but as soon as you start seeing what's in the mist it looses its charm.

The film goes to the trouble of establishing several characters without resolving anything. We know very little about the characters by the end of the film and so it made it hard to care about any of them.

The ending came out of left field felt tacked on and unbelievable. Interestingly enough it was different to the book. 6.5/10
 
I was lent a DVD of a video called Othello. It is based on Shakespeare's play but is set in modern times with modern dialogue and the characters have different occupations and slightly different names. It was stunning. It starred Keeley Hawes (Spooks, Tipping the Velvet), Eamonn Walker (Oz, ER), Christopher Eccleston (Dr Who).

I don't know if you can get it in Australia as it was a UK copy, but if you get a chance WATCH IT. It doesn't matter if you don't like Shakespeare. This version is more believable than the original (which I hated at school). I can't praise it enough.

Here is a review.

Amazon.com

Set amid the racially charged politics of London's Metropolitan Police Force, Andrew Davies's deft and gripping adaptation of Othello achieves an ideal balance of realism, contemporary relevance, and respect for the rhythms of Shakespeare's play.

John Othello is a black police officer who is named commissioner after he defuses a race riot. His friend and colleague Ben Jago (Shakespeare's Iago) is furious at being passed over for the top job, and he secretly begins a plan to destroy Othello by making him believe that his new wife is having an affair.

Eamonn Walker makes Othello's tragic fall believable and moving, but the story belongs, as it often does on stage, to the villain. Christopher Eccleston's Jago is a wonderfully complex creation, defined by his wickedness but as much a victim of it as any other character. Funny, tragic, and crackling with energy, this is an unmissable performance.

Credit should also go to Davies for his script--which echoes Shakespeare's without ever quoting it directly--to a strong supporting cast, and to director Geoffrey Sax, who balances the film's realism with slightly stylized touches that give more dramatic punch to key scenes.

Othello offers a daring new version of a familiar story, and it succeeds both as a powerful modern drama and as a testament to Shakespeare's insight into human weaknesses. --Simon Leake
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emmalover said:
Women talking about their miserable marriages and relationships. :rolleyes: Didn't feel any emotion through it apart from boredom. And to top it off it had one of the most cheesy and unrealistic 'that would never effing happen in real life' endings. After it had finished I honestly wanted the last 90 minutes of my life back.
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That bad huh?
 
Calpurnia, the shakespeare play you saw is one of several modern day versions that the BBC did last year. They also did the taming of the shrew with Rufus Sewell,, a midsummer night's dream, with Kev from Shameless as Bottom, and Macbeth, with Keeley Hawes and James McAvoy (not sure of name spellings). Each one is better than the last!
I think that they also did a modern day version of Much Ado about nothing as well.

I also hated being force-fed Shakespeare at school, and LOVED these versions!
 
Brilliant Lies

Brilliant Lies


This is a production from 1996 based on a David Williamson stage play of the same name. It stars Gia Carides and sister Zoe as a pair of sisters who get involved in a sexual harrassment case when the older sister Suzy takes her boss to task for 7 months of harrassment.

It's a good story if at times it descends into soap opera with the family issues subplot which involves father having to need an operation to save his life, and another plot about him grabbing his daughters boobs when they both became teenagers.

Anthony LaPaglia husband of Gia Carides plays her boss and is quite scary in this role. He plays the man about to explode quite well. It's not clear whether or not he really did anything to Suzy played by Gia but the film leaves you questiioning both parties.

Overall though it's a good movie for the most part and left me wondering if she really did lie or not.
 
Death Proof & Planet Terror

Wow so it didn't quite live up to the hype, I found Death Proof a tad boring with all the Tarantino dialogue his is famous for. But he made up for it in the 2nd part of the movie, loved it!

Planet Terror was awesome! Rose Mcgowan with a machine gun for a leg! You can't go wrong! Marley Shelton was also excellent in it! A lot of funny scenes and lots of blood and gore!:D
 
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