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Oh I think William Dafoe is terrific.

Women's genital mutilation... I don't think I'll make any more jokes about that topic.
 
up_all_night said:
Invictus

Yeah it was a mixed bag. I personally thought it was pretty boring in parts, especially towards the beginning and it relied on the historical weight of who mandela was, and the situations at hand instead of actually trying to attempt to create that sense. I did go from finding it kind of interesting and dull to getting quite entertained towards the end. one thing though eastwood doesn't know how to shoot sports. You got no sense of what was really going on. He seemed to be focused primarily just on the huddles.
Personally I just expected more, the script was no where near as sharp as it needed to be. It has instinces of things included which didn't need to be. It's as if they knew it was a powerful story, then just let that fact prevail instead of trying to properly convey that in the film.

So yeah it's a mixed bag. I couldn't really recommend it, but I quite enjoyed the last half of the film. It just all wasn't that good. You expect a lot better from those involved.
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Generally I enjoyed it...but I know rugby well. However, they should get an award for editing, because they edited out the bit about Suzie and the food poisoning of the All Blacks the night before the match. :D
 
Honeymoon In Vegas.

There's 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back... but I'm trying to watch everything I have on DVD that I've never seen. WHY do I have it? Some vague liking for Nicolas Cage movies, which I'm seriously starting to reconsider. Sarah Jessica Horsey was in it too, which didn't help, as didn't the Elvises.
 
Goldenberry said:
Generally I enjoyed it...but I know rugby well. However, they should get an award for editing, because they edited out the bit about Suzie and the food poisoning of the All Blacks the night before the match. :D
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don't give me that crap about you went to see it for the story and acting, you went to see sweaty men grab each others asses in scrums, admit it.
 
Bright Star

Well what a movie, I loved it. I honestly don't know how in the hell a director can take what seems like a pretty mundane, run of the mill, simple tale into something as brilliant and engaging as this movie. On one hand I'm thinking, "get on with it" but on the other I am so drawn in and compelled I can't explain it. It's like Jane Campion (the director) has played tricks with my mind, lol. Yes again I found myself shedding tears unexpectedly, a really heartfelt period movie.

Stars: Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish. I saw Ben in a UK mini series called Criminal Justice the other year and he was excellent. Funny looking and not at all sexy, but intense and a wonderful actor. Paul Schneider was really good too as Mr Brown. I liked him in Lars and the Real Girl.
 
Meglos said:
Honeymoon In Vegas.

There's 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back... but I'm trying to watch everything I have on DVD that I've never seen. WHY do I have it? Some vague liking for Nicolas Cage movies, which I'm seriously starting to reconsider. Sarah Jessica Horsey was in it too, which didn't help, as didn't the Elvises.
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Have you ever seen Next?

Nic Cage has the wierdest hair all through that movie. He almost looks like a Centauri off Babylon 5.


Oh and SJP is a horse. She's been ridden many times :D :D
 
A Perfect Getaway - It wasn't bad, ending was over the top, but it kept you in. Timothy Olyphant and Chris Hemsworth are sex on legs!
 
I watched the Back To The Future trilogy for the first time yesterday. The first one was easily the best. I wouldn't have minded if it was just a stand alone film actually.

Part 1 > Part 2 > Part 3

They're all good though.
 
pawlini said:
don't give me that crap about you went to see it for the story and acting, you went to see sweaty men grab each others asses in scrums, admit it.
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It's arses. No, I'm interested in the political landscape in South Africa and that bit about reconciliation as opposed to revenge, and forgiveness as empowerment, was quite powerful.

To be honest the rugby action on the field didn't look that realistic to me. And unless it's DC, rugby players generally don't do it for me. It's been 15 years, so it was nice that the ABs were such good sports as to allow this symbolic reconciliation to take place on a South African sportsfield.
 
re-watched District 9 last night.

Good film!

I still find it interesting the way some people just couldn't get into the film and it's the same with avatar, because they couldn't connect have sympathy for the alien characters.
 
An Education

Set in the 1960s 16 yr old school girl named Jenny studies hard so she can get accepted into Oxford, her father is obsessed about it. Along the way she meets David a 25 year old educated and wordly man. They start up a relationship and it ends in tears.

I ejoyed this movie, it was quite inspiring and I wished I had of seen it when I was 16, it's the sort of message that is timeless for young girls at the cusp of their adult life. Really well told, really enjoyable.
 
Yeah, I also saw An Education a while ago when it first came out, it was really good but I felt that it needed more "spice". I was hoping it would become more of a thriller. It just felt that it was lacking something. The acting was very well done though.
 
up_all_night said:
re-watched District 9 last night.

Good film!

I still find it interesting the way some people just couldn't get into the film and it's the same with avatar, because they couldn't connect have sympathy for the alien characters.
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I really, really liked that movie, husband watched about 5 minutes and turned it off.
 
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