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I went and saw Enchanted with my daughter tonight and I must agree with rabymon a page back. I loved it. So did my daughter. It was very enjoyable, so much so we want to see it again :)
 
Oh yay! I went and saw it again last night, still as fun and *magical* as the first time. Sorry, my whole life is on a whimsy, and Enchanted just makes it even more so. Aaannd, those songs are just so darn catchy and rediculous, it's hard to resist going again just for them, plus hearing everyone laugh so much at them makes 'em even better. Got the soundtrack now. Glad you enjoyed it so much Molloch!
 
I saw 'I am Legend'.

I love these post apocalyptic type stories and this started off very promising but ended so disappointingly predictable. This could have been so much better if they didn’t rely on movie clichés and audience polling to tell the story.

And the meaning of the book it's based on was totally lost! It looked great though! The scenes of empty streets overgrown with plants were amazing!

6/10
 
rowee said:
I saw 'I am Legend'.

I love these post apocalyptic type stories and this started off very promising but ended so disappointingly predictable. This could have been so much better if they didn’t rely on movie clichés and audience polling to tell the story.

And the meaning of the book it's based on was totally lost! It looked great though! The scenes of empty streets overgrown with plants were amazing!

6/10
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Is this a remake of the Vincent Price film "The last man on Earth?"
 
ChocolateLovingEntity said:
Is this a remake of the Vincent Price film "The last man on Earth?"
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That's right,CLE, it was also made into a film called "The Omega Man' but both are quite different from Richard Matheson's book. This film is also quite different, having taken out the *vampires* completely apparently ~ugh~ not sure I'll bother seeing it now. Especially if they've changed the ending which was the whole point...
 
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All Of The Following Were Adaptations Of Richard Matheson's I am Legend

Last Man On Earth
Night Of The Living Dead ( 1968 ) ( As Stated By George A. Romero )
Omega Man
I am Omega
I am Legend

The Following Were Adaptations Loosely Based On Those Films and I Am Legend

Dawn Of The Dead 1978 ( As Stated By George A. Romero )
Day Of The Dead 1985

So... Yes :)
 
Ravenau1 said:
That's right,CLE, it was also made into a film called "The Omega Man' but both are quite different from Richard Matheson's book. This film is also quite different, having taken out the ****** completely apparently ~ugh~ not sure I'll bother seeing it now.
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No I can't say I'd recommend it. Which is a shame as it starts off so well and then goes down from there. By the end I really didn't care for the characters.

It's the type of film that you come out feeling you've wasted 2 hours of your life!
 
The Omega Man had a silly ending as well, but at least it had Charlton Heston. My tolerance for Will Smith films is well and truly at an end.

As with Enchanted, New York City is the setting for I Am Legend. Along with maximising cliches and having terrible endings, writing 101 courses must have some kind of rule to set all stories if at all possible in New York. Let us hope the American Writers' strike goes on indefinitely.
 
Anyone going to see No Country for Old Men? It is a tense Coen brothers' film similar to Fargo than their more recent work. It is supposed to be very good.
 
Not at the moment Bkeela, I have an 8 year old daughter so the movies that I apparently need to go and see are more for children ;)

THough we do have Alien VS Predator playing at the drive in so I shall go see that.
 
ATONEMENT - Great, sometimes intense and romantic film predominantly starring James McAvoy and Kiera Knightley. Initially set in England, 1935, it tells the cruel story of what happens to the hidden relationship of a well to do country girl named Cecelia and her servant's son Robbie when 13 year old Briony (Cecelia's younger sister) misinterprets, and lies about Robbie's part in a scandal that tears the family apart.

It's definitely a film for the more mature folk (absolutely lovely film when everyone in the cinema is lightly scented with perfumes), and is bombasted with beautiful cinematography and production design, an amazing accompanying score that intensifies the emotional and intellectual connection with the characters on screen, and a heartfelt story that you can only wish finds a happy resolution. At times, it feels as if it might drag out a bit, and infact, it does; but with that said, just about every minute of the film is essential in conveying so much of the times that the story takes place. It practically takes that of a three act structure, and the finale is quite haunting. This film isn't so much about being entertained. See it if you want an experience, one in which your mind is stimulated in turn with your heart.
 
^ Was about to come in here to post about seeing that today as my most recent film.

Am I a horrible person for initially being on Briony's side when she started to manipulate things? ;) I just thought 'that girl is gutsy'. Then I started to hate her.

Agree wholeheartedly. The score's wonderful and already purchased it. I think it's a film for the more mature-minded person but I love the film to bits :) That Dunkirk beach scene is one of the best continous takes I've seen in recent times... very moving particularly due to the finale...

Thought it was also brilliant how they showed a few scenes from different perspectives, in particular the fountain one.

That ending haunted me too.

Definitely one of my all-time favourite films. Wish I'd read the novel beforehand though but will definitely be seeking it out.
 
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Tempo said:
^ Was about to come in here to post about seeing that today as my most recent film.

Am I a horrible person for initially being on Briony's side when she started to manipulate things? ;) I just thought 'that girl is gutsy'. Then I started to hate her.

Agree wholeheartedly. The score's wonderful and already purchased it. I think it's a film for the more mature-minded person but I love the film to bits :) That Dunkirk beach scene is one of the best continous takes I've seen in recent times... very moving particularly due to the finale...

Thought it was also brilliant how they showed a few scenes from different perspectives, in particular the fountain one.

That ending haunted me too.

Definitely one of my all-time favourite films. Wish I'd read the novel beforehand though but will definitely be seeking it out.
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No, you're not horrible for being on Briony's side initially, I don't think. See I saw her as such a smart, ambitious, naive and lively girl, that it was hard not to like her, and I was quite expecting her -despite her eleviated claims about Robbie to Lola - to see the truth for what it was much sooner, and make haste with fixing things; but then of coarse there would be no story.

I only wish right now that I could purchase the film score, but just before I saw the movie, I had already purchased the soundtracks to 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Notes on a Scandal', leaving me completely broke once I saw the movie, but then again, it had to happen some time soon, I've been shopping all week. I just LOVE it in the context of the film, and I know I'd love it outside of it too. I'm one of those people who find a film completely transformed when they have brilliant music like that, even if the film is rubbish. It just makes it so much more engaging to me. I now regret buying Sweeney Todd, I wish I could buy the Atonement soundtrach in its place.

It's funny, because I didn't even realise that the scene in Dunkirk was one gorgeous, continuous shot until it trailed the railings up at the cinema. Something clicked in my head, and I was just like 'oh, isn't that beautiful the way it's moving along with the sunset in the background behind the bandstand and ferris wheel? Oh, I think it may have been doing that for the last 5 minutes!' I like to think that when done right, the one continuous shot is pretty much unnoticable as one shot, that it's done for reason beside showing off; and I think this one one of those. It just contained a great subtle beauty.

The whole perspective motif was quite effective too I think. It was probably one of the most well done things about the film. The time it happened down by the fountain, I didn't know what in hell was happening. Again, something clicked, and it worked to great effect from there.

I did love the film very much. It's not an OMG tiz iz AWeZOme!! type film -that's not it's point, though I'm quite sure it will clean up at the Oscars - but a well thought out film with many elegant touches that make it wonderful thing to watch. I think it'll either catch you, or it won't; and when it does, it just keeps on pulling you to a very strong, but abrupt ending that may make you think about your own grave mistakes upon others.
 
Saw Donnie Darko tonite on SBS
Good movie. Good messege but sad. Here is the soundtrack-Mad world.


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No Country for Old Men. Great film - but perhaps should be rated R as it has graphic killings - not for the easy queasy.
 
No Country for Old Men
Well, as you probably have seen already, the professional reveiwers are all giving it five stars, and no wonder. It is good. The story is your standard western/shoot-'em-up: a stone killer has escaped custody, a drug deal has gone wrong, a local yokel happens by, passes go, collects two million greenbacks.
If they were worried about the budget, they could have left it at that happy point. Half the cast, half the fake blood - but it would be a pretty short movie. I think it is better the way it is, though. In spite of the graphic gore, and the standard plot (bad guys follow the money, sheriff follows the corpses) the suspense is killing, right to the end - which is totally unexpected.
Without giving too much away, and purely so you don't waste valuable grey matter trying to work these things out, in a movie which requires it all for what is on the screen right now, I'll give you a few tips:

1/ It is set in Terrell county, Texas. You only think it is Minnesota, because the deputy sheriff (Garrett Dillahunt) was Ed in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson were in "Prairie Home Companion", Josh Brolin was in "Milwaukee, Minnesota". Carla Jean you will recognise as Evangeline (from "Nanny McPhee", of course).

2/ The date is 1980, which is why the cars are so old, and Vietnam vets are not grandpappys and folks have granpappys that died before WW1.

3/Watch out for that nun in the hospital. She(?) is up to something.

Javier Bardem looks creepy and so sleekly continental with his mod bob, that I keep expecting him to appear in a YSL skintight beatnik black skivvy in the next scene. He is superb, as are the rest of the cast, the cinematography.

It gets more and more outrageously bloody as it goes on.
Gosh it's good.
 
I'm looking forward to No Country for Old Men, haven't seen so many positive reviews for a movie in years.

Even moreso now that tarn has given it a tic. :)
 
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