Are there any movies out worth seeing?
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We were just asking that very question. It doesn’t look like it.
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It was released on DVD this month. Here are two positive reviews:
New York Times
Salon
But it’s not to everyone’s taste.
IMDB
I wouldn’t know, I only see kid’s movies these days.
Been there and done that. Actually some of the kids movies I enjoy more than the adult movies.
Anyone out there still wondering if Obama is worth voting for since evidently when he walks on water he gets his feet wet?
Read the summary of the year’s SCOTUS decisions in USA Today. Then for the decisions that weren’t disasters, change the numbers of votes by one…or two (although one is all you need to find out it would be a foreign country…)
For about the same money as one ticket or a rental, you can probably buy some really great little gems you’ve missed.
My favorites? Going South (Nicholson), Brassed Off, The Uncle and Waking Ned Devine (all British gems), The Quiet Man (only Wayne I can stomach, again and again and again), It Happened One Night, Notorious…goes on and on.
It’s going to be a long hot summer and an exhausting fall. Get your stock of little comedy gems.
No.
Except MAYBE this “Incredible Hulk” movie might be worth seeing. Normally I wouldn’t be interested in that type of movie, but my FAVORITE actor of my generation – Edward Norton – is the star. So it’s probably gonna be good. But I’ll wait for it to make it to HBO or Showtime in a year or two to see it.
Anybody see Get Smart?
Rolling Stone is giving Get Smart 2-1/2 stars, call Steve Carell great. RS is giving 3-1/2 stars to GONZO, the life and work of Dr Hunter S Thompson…me I’m up for the Bucket List, rented.
As a politically , ‘of course’ moment we have the McCain’s failure to pay their taxes
is GONZO out in theaters? I missed a chance to see it a couple months ago at the SF Film Festival.
IIRC, it includes plenty of Jann reminiscing about working with HST, so the RS reviewer may have felt obligated to give it love.
July 4th coming to a theatre near you…
I’m lucky to work next door to the county library, where there are hundreds of movies to borrow free. They buy at least 10 new ones every month and get them around the same time as the video rentals. We’re just finishing up on the Inspector Morse series, a must for the British mystery fan.
Hey ID, Inspector Morse was one of my favorite PBS series. I didn’t get to see it last week, but his assistant Lewis has a series now. It’s called Inspector Lewis. Go figure.
The poor guy apparently got a promotion after all these years taking abuse from Morse.
From all that abuse he needed a promotion long before that. 🙂
Yeah, I think Morse only bought the beer twice in about 33 episodes. Lewis seemed to get stuck with the tab in most of ’em.
I would love to have that car that Morse drove.
Saw Savages on DVD last night. Surprisingly sly and subtle take on a what-to-do-about-senile-parent theme, which I would normally avoid. But it avoids sentimentality, has great acting, gets you involved in some pretty complex family interaction, and is not the grim experience you might expect (nor the “uplifting” one). Not for all tastes, but if you like indie movies, its worth a try.
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French romantic comedy inside a Japanimation setting. (I’m using the word Japanimation deliberately, since I saw Nausicaa back in ’92, translated on the fly by my art director, who’d lived in Japan, and war-robots named Eva are a staple of the genre.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind
The animation is quite good, but the sappy love story almost ruins it. My recommendation is to rent the real stuff by Miyazaki. His love stories are more complex and better integrated.
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Prince Caspian
Better than the first Narnia movie. It was interesting to see Warwick Davis again, and compare this role to that in Willow. The White Witch returns briefly, but is imprisoned in a portal. Pity, because the actress moves and fights exceedingly well. The Spanish-Italian villains have reasonable motivations (securing power for their heirs), but that damnable lion is just too preachy and patronizing to make it worth choosing “good”. Little Lucy may love him unthinkingly, but adults with brains as well as hearts can disbelieve. Besides, he is heartless. Not wanting to grant a boon to a mouse warrior, who had sacrificed bravely on the battlefield, because the loss of a tail would be a good lesson in avoiding pride? Well, that lion is too proud!
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Forbidden City
Yes, this is a kung-fu movie, but Chan and the rest are excellent actors, too. The fight scenes are incredible, the women are competent, the settings and costumes all combine to make a watchable movie… and the interweaving of a classic Monkey-King myth with modern street gang survival tactics makes an engrossing story out of a coming-of-age tale.
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Labyrinth with David Bowie is showing at an art house tomorrow night. I might go see it. Lovely tale with wonderful art, and the achingly direct way the Goblin King tries to win her heart by doing whatever she asks hurts to watch. She is too young for him. (But I’m not!) ;^)
I ought to mention that I had a long career in the entertainment industry before burning out. My preferences are for fantasy, but it has to be WELL-DONE and believable fantasy.
I’m looking forward to seeing Igor because the trailers indicate a possible story under all that art.