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Just watched 'Spirited away' and its blimin GREAT. Highly recommended for out and out weirdness but just enough grasp on reality to make it great.

I often find that japanese anim often strays into such abstractness, Dali seems quite rational in comparison.
 
I've just watched Lost In Translation

Saw it first at the cinema, but was bored tonight so watched it on DVD.....which meant i didnt have to leave my seat!! :D

Anyway, twas alright, love the last scene where they say goodbye in the busy street. Its emotive without being cheesy or sickening and I think Scarlett Johansson played that scene well.

Music's good too :cool:
 
SubZeroCat said:
I've just watched Lost In Translation

Saw it first at the cinema, but was bored tonight so watched it on DVD.....which meant i didnt have to leave my seat!! :D

Anyway, twas alright, love the last scene where they say goodbye in the busy street. Its emotive without being cheesy or sickening and I think Scarlett Johansson played that scene well.

Music's good too :cool:
Really enjoyed LOT, beautiful, well observed film. But that scene at the end, finishing with Just Like Honey clinched it. Must watch it again.

I was planning an early night tonight, but I ended up watching Boyz N Tha Hood on Sky One and I'm not sure I remember it being quite that good? Hmmm.
 
djbombscare said:
well I watched van helsing, which I thought was shite !!

And shawn of the dead which just cracked me up :D

Oh I want to watch that!! When it came out all my friends (even my sister!) went to see it with dates/boyfriends..... :rolleyes:

And seeing as i'm a LONER i didnt go see it.....not even alone :(


Hahahahaha! Loner! :D
 
I'll bring the crisps then !! :D

I've laid my hands on walking tall ( that one with the rock and a plank of wood) Shrek 2, and Godsend is apparentelly on its way too.

Looks like Im staying in this weekend
 
Meh thought so, I'm not really interested in "movies" (hate that word)

Wouldnt mind seeing Shrek 2 :cool:

If I have those sensation crisps, you can have ....... :D
 
I've a top TV, DVD and Dolby system, I wait for the DVD's to do them justice.

Not into these filmed from the back of the cinema bollox. THats just impatience.
 
I have some Sensations crisps - the popadom ones.

But I'm not trading them for anything :p

Carry on.
 
Watched "Hollowman", Paul Verhoeven's offering from 2000. Pretty poor, exploitative, predictable and completely lacking in Verhoeven's usual cynicism. Maybe he needed the money.
 
Shawshank last night - been ages since I watched it and I still blubbed watching the scene with the La Nozze Di Figaro piece and at the end...a combination of Morgan Freeman's v/o and the films theme of hope I guess...
 
I hated Shawshank and the other one with Tom Hanks in it - I thought it was the worst kind of Hollywood sentimentalism
 
The Green Mile?

Horses for courses mate - there are probably films you've seen that are emotionally affecting that I'd think are bollox too.
 
That's the one - I don't like films that are so blatant in their emotional manipulation of the audience - I think it's almost insulting to the viewer.
The last film that I found 'emotionally affecting' was Lost In Translation which I saw last night. Elephant was another recent one, but Watership Down gets me everytime. :)
 
Watership Down gets me everytime.

Now y'see, that didn't even get me when I was 5 years old and saw it in the cinema (altho the bit where the field turns blood red scared the bejesus out of me!)...
 
"Something's Gotta Give". A contrived, steaming pile of hokey, twee shit. What on earth is Frances McDormand doing in there?
 
Finding Nemo

Not their best, but I liked it, some great bits. The coral reef looks amazing and the choice of a clown fish is inspired.
 
I watched Chopper last night.

I liked the movie but couldn't help but feel it was holding him up as some sort of hero. When in truth, the guy was/is a total wanker.
 
Orang Utan said:
I hated Shawshank and the other one with Tom Hanks in it - I thought it was the worst kind of Hollywood sentimentalism
The Shawshank redemption is an utterly fantastic movie.
 
The Sons Room - Absorbing drama of a family coping with bereavement, don't watch this if you're feeling sad, I got something in my eye at one point ;)

Runaway Jury - why oh why do I keep giving these hollywood formulaic movie by numbers a chance. I suppose I thought with Hofmann, Hackman and Cusack this stood a chance but they were well and truly wasted on this pile of crap.
 
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