The movie thread

[b etor]

oh i just saw that too! at like 3am on a saturday at a friend's house.
lohan is so good at being a *****. i liked it.

then i watched running with scissors. the book was 573945834 times better, but the movie was good.

[Tuberski]

I watched Reign Over Me last night.

Adam Sandler was actually pretty good in the movie.

Don Cheadle was Don Cheadle.

ACK!

[LordShiva]

I watched Pathfinder.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by LordShiva
I watched Pathfinder.

What was that about?

In WWII a pathfinder lit the ground for airborne assaults..just curious

[LordShiva]

About Vikings coming to North America and making trouble for teh native Americans.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by LordShiva
About Vikings coming to North America and making trouble for teh native Americans.

New movie?

Is it an overseas movie or available to North Americams?

thanks in advance

[LordShiva]

It's a few months old. Pretty entertaining, it was definitely worth watching in HD with teh volume turned up, but nothing special.

[Grandpa Troll]

Thanks

The Indian Chief early in that video was in the movie Last of The Mohicans along with Wes Studi, madeline Stowe and Daniel Day lewis

[Nikolai]

9th Legion.

Russian film about the Afghan war during the end of the SU. Much slower than a Hollywood film, but I liked it.

[Nostromo]

Just saw 3:10 to Yuma. Pretty good!

[Nostromo]

Just saw Lust Caution, an excellent movie by Ang Lee.

[Richelieu]

Dead men don't wear plaid.

Saw it again last week for the first time in years. Rachel Ward was a babe.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Nostromo
Just saw Lust Caution, an excellent movie by Ang Lee.

I saw that. It left me in two minds. I really liked the period setting - during the collaborationist Shanghai Wang Jingwei government which colluded with the Japanese army. It had a good wistful portrayal of "swinging Shanghai" and the sort of cosmopolitan place that coastline China was, briefly, between Imperial and Communist rule.

The storyline left me cold though. I guess it's a welcome change from the usual story where "good guys take all", but at the same time the character development between the female assassin and the government collaborator didn't strike me as particularly insightful. They meet, they make love graphically, they leave. The scene at the jeweler's shop could have worked if there had been more emotional investment between them, but as it was the character development felt a little half-baked.

It also was never entirely convincing to me how they were able to expertly "fake" their Hong Kong personalities to try to get him there either.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia


I saw that. It left me in two minds. I really liked the period setting - during the collaborationist Shanghai Wang Jingwei government which colluded with the Japanese army. It had a good wistful portrayal of "swinging Shanghai" and the sort of cosmopolitan place that coastline China was, briefly, between Imperial and Communist rule.

I totally agree.

The storyline left me cold though. I guess it's a welcome change from the usual story where "good guys take all", but at the same time the character development between the female assassin and the government collaborator didn't strike me as particularly insightful. They meet, they make love graphically, they leave. The scene at the jeweler's shop could have worked if there had been more emotional investment between them, but as it was the character development felt a little half-baked.

Maybe I'll change my mind later, but I can't see a major flaw in the movie. I liked the the storyline, it wasn't boring. Now as for character development, I think that it was well done and well acted. Their relation is very ambiguous, at least from her perspective. She describes it very well in that scene with her older boss in the Resistance. She hates him, but she also loves (?) or at least is very attracted to him. And she feels that she's traitor for doing so. What complicates matters is that its really hard to say what she really feels or think, since she's supposedly a very talented actress. She claims to hate what he does to her, but she seems to love it secretly, but feels ashamed of herself. That said, I saw it in Chinese with French subtitles, so maybe I missed a thing or two.

[Zoid]

Just saw the last episode of HBO's epic 7 part mini series "John Adams". Excellent historical dramatization of the life of the second president of the US.