list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

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and yes I imagine you'd like it much though you probably know much of the little details

Lang is really extraordinary and though many modern players of his ilk are very good, he brings something really dynamic to the pieces.. he interprets them in a way that is free-willed without being too radical.

^ speak of the devil


Hugo

Solid family story that follows a gifted young tinker and the fantasy train station he secretly inhabits, though I suspect Hugo's charms were more effective in a theater (and perhaps in full 3D), and the film is a touch too long.   But the wonderful visuals, mechanical works, relationship between Hugo & Ben Kingsley, and Sacha Baron Cohen who steals every scene he's in delivering the funniest thing in the movie, makes up for much of the over-telling.  Remnants of Oliver Twist, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, and a little Harry Potter, there is not much to complain about in Martin Scorsese's spirited adaption.





Edited by Atavachron - March 07 2012 at 04:09

Limitless

TheGazzardian wrote: I've been checking out Netflix's "Visually Striking Psychological Thriller" section recently, saw a couple of neat ones, Moon and The Game. Neither had the lasting impact on me I hoped but both kept my brain engaged from the beginning which is why I like that kind of movie.

A couple of films I watched over the weekend on Sky Movies

Annie Hall 

Classic Woody. Fantastic stuff, great humor, great dialogues, originality, you've got it.

Satyricon (1969)

40footwolf wrote: Satyricon (1969) It's the rare movie that is truly impossible to put into words. It is film as purified art-film as color, motion, sound, feeling-and as such it also manages to transcend film by placing one as the voyeur into a world that seems to be a dream, and a dream that watches back to boot. I may very well come to consider this the greatest movie ever made.  10/10

Five flicks I got to see going by train to and fro the past two days. Could have been six, but given it would have been either Kurosawa's High and Low or Melville's Le Samourai, it's probably better I kept them for a more serious time.

TUE
Chico & Rita, the acclaimed, Oscar-shoulda-but-didn't(-because-the-Academy-old-hags-hate-foreign-stuff-and-real-art-bla-bla-bla), going through the bop and blues of Cuba and NY in the 40s-50s, while channeling it all through a love story, the soulmates kind. I was really underwhelmed by this. Probably most by the animation itself. It's old style and nice, but also ... elastic; frownless, without anything brusque.

Primer, thanks Gazz. I didn't get much of it the first time (although I didn't have major trouble with following the techy-stricken dialogue per se). Watching again some sequences, the basics stick to me now, I suppose, but I still don't understand the second half (from the "f-ups" / "messy permutations" onwards). This has been interesting. Nothing else I can say right now.

Scenes from the Suburbs, the short by Spike Jones based on Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, very likely with vocalist Win Butler as a big "co-"something in it (he has a cameo I didn't recognize him in, anyway). Same accents as on the album: paranoia, pessimism, twisted fable, dysfunctional coming-of-age, street terror, teen angst, friendships broken. A few good scenes, some genre cliques too, but overall not much during the 25 minutes.

WED
High Fidelity. First time or I really don't remember seeing it in the past all the way through. Mess. I hate most of today's highbrow romantic comedies enough as it is, I guess I hardly need investing in the forerunners. And I wanted more on the music side - although things like the "top 5" already drived me mad. i remembered Cusack having a radio show, not owning a store, don't know why. But, with acceptable comic relief from his sidekicks and the fact that I watched it during the journey precisely for time to fly by, passing grade.

Let the Right One In - Having already seen the remake (Let Me In), it makes for a weird backwards rant. Yes, it is annoyingly more and more modish these days to adapt in English a foreign hard-boiled success (this, Fincher with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Yes, the remake is strict and verbatim. Yes, the Americans wouldn't have made the movie as sound and good, had they come up with the original idea. But what I loved about Let Me In hasn't diminished and I can't discount now its source either. I liked the Swedish children's acting less, but at the same time the characters are slightly more disturbing. Let the Right One In or Let Me In, I find the whole thing great on so many levels.