lol. The strangest title for a movie I've ever come across. And no, it doesnt make any more sense after you watch the movie. The movie is apparently a parody of other 'life in the hood' movies, and the name of the movie is a mashup of the names of those.
was decent fun watching the movie :-)
One wouldnt have too much about John Huston. You would have heard of him for this movie though. Touted as the greatest detective movie ever made, this was quite a good watch and a good change from the hitchock style of movie making. Quite refreshing except that I found the dialouge quite convoluted at times and the story line hard to follow because of it. But its a very well executed movie. An unsual main character, and interestingly put up. Worth watching.
Btw, John Huston has directed movie names you might remember from recent past: Casino Royale (1967) and Moulin Rouge (1952), and has also acted in a tv version of The Hobbit (1977). Still looking forward to catch The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Most war movies would tend to talk about World War II. They'll talk about Hitler's Germany and the likes of what happened then. I'd agree that the second world war was more 'spectacular'.
But there was no World War II in 1930. And this was when the original movie was made, and this is why it can talk about the War effort without any hint of what's coming up.
The explosions and effects and real. Bone chilling real. These were not special effects. And it makes this movie so great to watch just for it being so ahead of its times.
Thats movie making for you. This movie is a great education! Waiting to catch Paths of Glory though..
After seeing too many serious and profound and arbit and deep and technical and well-known movies, with 2046 being the breaking point, I decided to ease my troubled mind with something fun. Gladiatress sounded like one such movie, and it lived up to what i wanted. I was smiling because it was fun and felt a little light in the head. It may not be the best made movie, but it sure was a welcome break. Maybe i'll watch a few more of these :-)
Had to catch this one because I stumbled upon it, and more so because it was Hitchcock's earlier (british land) works. This movie is apparently better than the remake of 1956, but I dont think I'm gonna try to watch that.
I do miss characters of the likes of both Peter Lorre and Bob Lawrence in present day movies; they make movie watching fun :-)
I've been looking forward to seeing this movie. I've always heard how Marlon Brando is considered to be 'the greatest actor of all time', and was quite interested to see him do Tennessee's good old play. Its true, he does take over the screen when he's in the scene. Its kind hard to miss this fella when he's performing. And theres this certain ease about him, that makes it look so natural and makes it look like the role was made with just him in him mind. A good movie to watch for its acting Vivien Leigh and Brando make it worth the watch. A good rendition of the play too I'd say.
1984 (sometimes Nineteen Eighty-Four, which is how the title appears on screen) is a British film based upon the 1949 novel of the same name by George Orwell; the film was made in the year imagined by the author. Its based of the dystopian novel which we all know well. And it actually is a pretty good rendition of it. Two other books worth reading on similar concepts: Brave New World and Darkness at Noon: Both really really good books! (Thanks Dash for introducing both :-))
The movie of choice to get over 2046. Maybe its me, but i'm getting interpretations in this movie too :-)
An American Werewolf in London is a comedy/horror film released in 1981, written and directed by John Landis. The movie won the 1981 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. Although there are several straightforward horror elements to the plot, it is also knowingly funny and ironic, an example of a tongue-in-cheek humour.
Kar Wai Wong's best, was also my breaking point to watching abstract movies :-)
After all these abstract movies, I found this really hard to keep up with :-)
Ah the big movie. I've read the book, and wanted to see how HAL would look. A totally abstract movie, interpretation left to the user :-)
Its an influential 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, deals with themes of human evolution and technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life. The film is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering use of special effects, and reliance upon ambiguous yet provocative imagery and sound in place of traditional techniques of narrative cinema.
Btw, do check out Deodato version of "Also Sprach Zarathustra", the soundtrack rendition.
Four Hundred Blows. After Spiderman III, this was a welcome relief to movie making. Of course, no one in their right mind would compare Sam Raimi and François Truffaut.
The story is autobiographical, reflecting many of the events of Truffaut's own life. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement. The story revolves around Antoine Doinel, an ordinary adolescent in Paris, who is thought by his parents and teachers to be a trouble maker.
I wont be commenting on this movie. But yes, I will tell you that rating on IMDB as of now (7.7) is _not_ worthy of the movie. Allright, the effects are good. They are really good. And maybe its the best of the three Spiederman movies. But i have to tell you I wanted to get out of that theater the minute it started. Its hard to believe such a turn off bad acting can be.
Append: the rating on IMDB has come down to 6.7. Thats more like it. I think it should be lower.
Its a Spielberg movie that people sometimes miss. But a critically well known movie, gave manj and me a lot of good vibrations while watching the movie. An epic tale thats really well done.
"The Color Purple is actually an epistolary novel. The film follows the life of a poor African American girl, Celie (Goldberg), whose abuse begins when she is young.
The film was nominated for 11 oscars (including Best Picture, Best Actress for Goldberg and Best Supporting Actress for both Avery and Winfrey) but saw none of them awarded.
Without a doubt, one of the best movies that I've seen over the last so many months. I've never before been smiling at how deftly and beautifully the movie reflects life and its crazy truths. An absurd concept, with surrealism at its best. No one but Luis Buñuel could have done this better :-) The symbolisms are laden in every other scene, and if you are patient to decifer it, you'll be touched in so many different ways by this movie. There was no DVD of this. But luckily Stanford Library has Video cassettes which they rent too. It was a black and white.
The plot is weird if anything: During a formal dinner party at the home of Señor Nobile and his wife, Lucia, the servants unaccountably leave their posts until only the major-domo is left. After dinner the guests adjourn to the music room, where one of the women plays a piano sonata. Later, instead of leaving, the guests remove their jackets, loosen their gowns, and settle down for the night. By morning it is apparent that for some inexplicable reason, they are trapped in the room....
Better known as Midaq Alley, i remember having seen a lot of parts of this movie back in india on TV.
"Don Ru (Ernesto Gómez Cruz) owns a local cantina where his son Chava spends most of its time. Güicho's son, Abel (Bruno Bichir), dreams of working in the United States to make enough money to date the beautiful Alma (Salma Hayek), his neighbor. Alma does not wait for Abel when she meets José Luis (Daniel Giménez Cacho).
Alma's mother Doña Cata (María Rojo) reads tarot and tells one of her clients, Susanita (Margarita Sanz), that she will meet the man of her dreams. This man turns out to be Güicho (Luis Felipe Tovar), the bartender at Don Ru's bar. Suffering from mid-life crisis, Don Ru cheats on his wife Eusebia with Jimy Ernesto Soberanes. When Chava finds out he beats and almost kills Jimy."
A split tale movie by 
Julio Medem.
"The story is that of a waitress named Lucía (Vega) and her relationship with an author, Lorenzo Álvarez (Ulloa), as well as a host of other characters whose lives converge on a mysterious island. The main focus of the story is on the different aspects of sex. Julio Medem shows the complexity of sex by showing its relations with love, hate, friendship, joy, happiness, sadness, depression, excitement and loneliness"
"A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams". This one written and directed by Luis Buñuel
is a definite watch if you enjoy surrealism. Its not about the acting, its about the story (or the lack of it) and the direction and the weaving together to bring about an idea that is complex and inexplainable.
Enjoyed the movie nonetheless.
Another François Truffaut that was recommended, and was a good watch! I've always liked to know about how things are made, and a movie about how a movie might be made and all its problems was quite nice :-)
I went to this movie with three other friends. Two of who are not very frequent movie goers. And it was great to see them actually leave the theater half way though the movie because they thought the first part was so Gross.
I've never before enjoyed watching someone leave the theater :-)
These two back to back movies with the amazing trailers in the middle and the beginning have it all: lots and lots of gore and blood and pus and boils and body parts flying all over and heated car chases, people dying, being shot, pourpuseful missing reels, cheap romance, lots of action, guns, hot women, wit, corny dialogues, some amazing cars, no acting, absolutely no moral of the story, and nothing to take back when the three hours are complete. lol. And thats the fun in it all :-)
Frankly though, I was not too excited about Tarantino's movie. I did expect more from his capabilities. Rodriguez on the other hand, gave quite a stunning movie. A total nonsensical, humorous all fun and violence and gore movie.
I thought I should watch a little bit of François Truffaut. I'd started reading Ray Bradbury's book a few years back but had stopped reading it in the middle of my moving to Stanford. Though its never been the case that i've been happy with a movie after reading the book, I thought I'd anyway see this Truffaut movie. I'm sure the book would have made more effective the thoughts that Ray wanted to put across, but Truffaut didnt make a bad job of it at all.
Bradbury has said that Truffaut "captured the soul and essence of the book," although he disliked the double omission of Faber and the Mechanical Hound.
I had a decent time finishing the book through this movie :-)
When tarrentino procaims a movie as a must watch, you know what youre gonna get to watch. A recent set of allegations of the mass murder in Virgina Tech point to the resemblence of some of the stances and scenes to this movie. Startling indeed, but the VT killer was a paraniod, delinquent foolish idiot comments on whom are not worthy.
The movie is shocking in the end moments as the viewer gets to unravel the mysteries of Dae-su Oh along with Dae-su Oh. A great movie to watch especially if you can watch someone eat a live octopus. (it actually is shown clenching to his cheeks while he's eating it. not something for the weak hearted)
The ending is deliberately ambiguous, and the audience is left with several questions. Try the movie.
Yeah, I watch family guy. I also watch southpark. I know what the two think about each other :-) I also used to watch beavis and butthead. I liked 'beavis and butt-head do america' a lot. But I also believe that its very hard to make a good movie from an episode driven series. Familiy guy presents... was one such attempt. But its almost as good as the episodes anyways. I had a good time watching the movie nonetheless. A good break of monotony in the night. You'll live if you dont watch this one.
I'll be in vegas from 18th to 22nd. So I guess there'll be no movie watching for these days.
hey, vegas is one real life movie anyways ;-)
Its true. I've hear a lot of people tell me this. Dutch movies are not always the best. French mabye, american maybe. But dutch movies have not always been on the top for most people. But I had absolutely no problems with Simon. It was a very refreshing movie to watch. Its got your grass/weed, homosexuality and gay marriages and is a nicely told story looking a little more into euthanasia. A strange concept, that I personally do think is OK is shown in a way to show the distress and mental make up necessary to deal with it. I do believe the topic of mercy killing was a little more like suicide in this movie, it still shows some of the issues with it : without trying too much and without too very dramatic acting. I did enjoy this movie
Up on tv-links.co.uk, I found a title that I couldnt resist watching. This movie was classic jackie chan style. The fight sequences with Jackie could not have been better. Enjoyed watching this one quite a bit :-)
Somehow, this movie was a better indication of the style and capabilities of jackie when compared to his new era movies.
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My labmate Nicolas was astonished to hear that I hadnt seen this movie. Ashamed as I was, I had to watch this one. The movie is set to bring out the age of those who are in their twenties now. It was supposed to show me how I was feeling and that its a feeling that is felt by the entire race of twenty year olds.
To quote a review: "It is a film that speaks to an entire generation. 1947's "The Best Years of Our Lives" spoke to our grandparents. "The Graduate" spoke to our parents. "Fight Club" spoke to our older brothers working dead-end jobs in the 90's. But it is with the arrival of "Garden State" that our generation is spoken to, those of us born in the early-mid 80's who are in our late teens and early twenties trying to make it by in a environment that seems all at once to strange and yet so familiar"
I did indeed enjoy the movie, though I wouldn't go as far as the reviewer in my accolades to the movie. Maybe because I dont share the same feelings as young americans do. But what I did enjoy was the choice of music for the movie. They were just so right for the movie. I had to go and get the OST for this movie. A little more investigation into Zach's movie told me that this movie won the Grammy for choice of music in a movie. An apt choice I would say.
Hitler is a character that will fascinate any of us even though we werent around the same era as him. To be set in a war that shaped so much of history, and to see up close the cruelest man that used to be and to see the mind of a man drowned in his greatness and contorted vision, was an awesome treat. The last four to five days of his life, and the near japanese style of suicidal men around him was indeed interesting to watch. In the meanwhile, wikipedia helped me get to know a few more names of the era and their atrocities and lives. A great movie well made - a touchy topic where the director does not hesitate to take an opinion of what he thought about Adolf Hitler
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If it weren't for Steve Martin, I would have called it a goner. But Steve manages to get this movie a little bit of respect. Akin to light in a dark room from a key hole in the door. OK, maybe a little more than that: maybe the crack from an unclosed window.
