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Recently watched the movie Branded and yeah, it was an....interesting film. It's somewhere between bad Russian film and mind bending Russian film. I found it more interesting than your average weird film just because it was so f'd up. From the trailers I saw in the past I thought it was going to be some heavy CGI sci-fi action flick, but it was certainly not that. I wouldn't watch it again unless others were watching it with me as their first time viewing, just so I could see how they reacted to it. But I don't regret watching it, it was a unique viewing experience.

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Seven Psychopaths. I laughed myself into a coughing fit. Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, and Colin Farrell are hilarious, but Sam Rockwell steals the film. The parallels and piss-takes between the movie and the movie-within-the-movie are very clever. Deserves to have won far more awards than it has.

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Oliver Stone's quiet but cutting depiction of George Bush Jr.'s political career and presidency with Josh Brolin doing a nice job as the frustrated, bumbling and God-fearing W. The film is no Nixon but then neither was Bush.

Hitchcock

Very traditional Hollywood biopic about the director during the making of Psycho with few surprises but a sturdy script and performances from Hopkins and Mirren.

Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Wow. Amour was not overhyped. A seriously good film.

Ah, I've been wondering about that one; somehow I haven't found the motivation to watch a film that a) is about old people and b) may well drain me emotionally.

Cloud Atlas

I've seen mixed reviews for this film but I absolutely adored it. I tend to love things where you get several courses in one (ie. all you can eat buffet, Nine Feet Underground, boss fight on Donkey Kong Country...), and this film gives you six stories in one and skips between them, often at speed, but without seeming jumpy or distorted (and that's in spite of the three directors!). Each part is gripping enough in itself that you don't feel let down when you move to another, and the narrative(s) is simple enough that you don't get lost. For me, the craftsmanship involved in the film's structure and rhythm made it quite a feat already, but when combined with the balance of emotion, suspense and comedy it really becomes something special. Oh, and I'd also give it the modest accolade of the most beautiful ode to love that I've seen (heard/read, whatever) in a long time. Clap

Stop me from dreaming?
Okay :-(

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Cloud Atlas

I've seen mixed reviews for this film but I absolutely adored it. I tend to love things where you get several courses in one (ie. all you can eat buffet, Nine Feet Underground, boss fight on Donkey Kong Country...), and this film gives you six stories in one and skips between them, often at speed, but without seeming jumpy or distorted (and that's in spite of the three directors!). Each part is gripping enough in itself that you don't feel let down when you move to another, and the narrative(s) is simple enough that you don't get lost. For me, the craftsmanship involved in the film's structure and rhythm made it quite a feat already, but when combined with the balance of emotion, suspense and comedy it really becomes something special. Oh, and I'd also give it the modest accolade of the most beautiful ode to love that I've seen (heard/read, whatever) in a long time. Clap

I watched Cloud Atlas this afternoon and will carry a rare claim from me - it is a film that I want to see again. Normally I see a film once and that's it, I never buy DVDs (or VHSs back in the day) of films I've already seen and I seldom play any DVD twice, if they get repeated on TV I may sit through it again, but often I don't. Only two other films have ever gained an immediate "will see again" reaction from me, and they were Solaris (Tarkovsky's version) and 2001 a Space Odyssey, whether Cloud Atlas will endure with me as long as those remains to be seen, but I'm ever hopeful.

David Mitchell's novel is sitting in my pile of books to read, it has just been moved to the top if the pile.

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Xavier Dolan is one of my new favourite directors.

I Killed My Mother and Heartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires) are two extremely well thought movies in terms of esthetic and style, the colours, the scenes, it's just fabulous. And the screenplay and acting fit perfectly, originality without being way too artsy.

Edited by The Quiet One - April 02 2013 at 17:23

^ A very difficult film to understand ... in some places.

^ visually stunning and incredibly dull

you don't need gunfights or car races to be entertaining Wink