...and pudding...


(sorry but it does deal with the loss of pudding and the role of pudding in relationships and the fragility of pudding and how if we all just ate pudding we'd be so much more content with ourselves and could love pudding freely without discrimition by pie)

I saw a news report on Brokeback Mountain a couple of days ago. Apparently some cowboys in Wyoming have the hump because the film makes them look less macho. They showed some interviews, and it was really funny, each man labelled "gay cowboy" or "straight cowboy". Anyway, I don't get to see the film yet, as it wasn't on less than 20 miles from me.

And I really, really, really want to see Walk The Line, but that's even further away! What is it with this town and not showing decent films?? Not fair! :cry:

I saw Lucky number Slevin yesterday.

It's quite a good movie - a little predictable but fast paced with some excellent acting by Ben Kingsley (bloke who played ghandi many years ago) Although I wouldn't emphatically recommend it ie 'you must see it if it's the last thing you ever do'-It's a good enough show to go to.

I saw Terry Gilliam's "Brothers Grimm" and Tim Burtons "Corpse Bride" yesterday.

I'd say Terry Gilliam's [i:4758989c52]"Brothers Grimm"[/i:4758989c52] wasn't bad at all, contrary to all the people who told me it was a dissapointment... Maybe not expecting too much was a benefit.

If you see it as a piece of fantasy with no connection to historical people or events at all, it's just that: an entertaining fantasy movie.
There were lots of scenes which reminded me of "Sleepy Hollow", and trying to put in all kinds of fairy tale references was a bit overdone.
Some moments were really nice... The gingerbread child was optically well done, really creepy, even though the "Gingerbread man" isn't usually assorted with the Grimm brothers. There was also no explanation that made it coherent, within the story's logic, why every child had to dissapear "fairy tale style", other than to make it more interesting and give the authorities a reason to suspect there were "colleagues" of the Grimm brothers at work.
I had the impression that Gilliam cut out on a lot of bizarre ideas which might actually have improved the film, just to make it look smoother. (Maybe it wasn't his decision, I've red somewhere that there was a lot of quarrel about the final version.). A lot of the characters were a bit stereotypical - the amazon woman as the love interest, for example.

For me, it was also interesting to see how, in a film where, for a change, the French were the bad guys, there was still that picture of irrational, dark Germany. Of course, there wasn't anything close o history either. The French didn't occupy Germany until 1806, even though they had gained a lot of political control over it by then (the film plays 1796 or something, but at the end of the 18th century anyway), and even after 1806, only West of the Rhine was really "French" territory. But that only as a side note...


[i:4758989c52]"Corpse Bride"[/i:4758989c52] was really nice to watch. It was a film for the eyes mostly, without a too complex story- though a touching one, very romantic stuff- but on that visual level, I thougth it was brilliant! The interaction of the animated figures was high above any of the computer animated film I've seen so far.
I particularly liked the scenes where the living lost fear of the dead and started to recognized their loved ones in them... The grandfather-scene, the old couple etc.

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And I really, really, really want to see Walk The Line, but that's even further away! What is it with this town and not showing decent films?? Not fair! :cry:[/quote:7012a9f748]

Walk the Line is a cool film, I didn't know much about Johnny Cash before, and I hadn't realised who some of his contemporaries were. Came as quite a shock...

Well watchable, quite touching and with some good music!

I recently saw Slither, which, though slightly predictable, was still very entertaining.

I saw "Mixed Doubles", a rather entertaining movie about swinging in India .. rather, a chap who is trying to get his wife to agree with him about the idea.

It's o a new breed of Hinglish movies that are offstream, low budget, and usually rather good. No songs and dancing around trees, yeah!

Well, I'm a bit behind the times I think (what's new?) but I just saw V for Vendetta the other day. I really liked it. Hugo Weaving was great as always. I don't think many people could have done that good of a job with a character that wears a fully concealing mask. And of course one of the best parts was seeing Natalie Portman with a shaved head and having my friend nudge me and say "I still would."

Other than that I haven't seen too many lately. I used to have to drive an hour to the theater and I went every week. Now I live a block away and I've seen one. Ahh...irony.

edit- forgot to mention that after the movie came out, the Graphic Novel of V for Vendetta is the only Graphic Novel to hit the bestseller list in Barnes & Noble history. We seriously ran out of the thing the first two weeks the movie was out.

I just finnished watching the DVD of [i:bdf19cbaeb]Hanibal[/i:bdf19cbaeb]. It was okay, but I think it was largely an attempt to capitallize on the previous movies in The series (which includes [i:bdf19cbaeb]The Silence of the Lambs[/i:bdf19cbaeb] which is one of my all-time favorite movies).

Ice Age 2. Great movie, but I worry for the mental health of those who came up with Scrat's sequences.

V for Vendetta. My personal favorite was Stephen Rea as Inspector Finch. He gave me lots of Vimes vibes.

[quote:f1edbd872a="QuothTheRaven"]I just finnished watching the DVD of [i:f1edbd872a]Hanibal[/i:f1edbd872a]. It was okay, but I think it was largely an attempt to capitallize on the previous movies in The series (which includes [i:f1edbd872a]The Silence of the Lambs[/i:f1edbd872a] which is one of my all-time favorite movies).[/quote:f1edbd872a]

We just discussed that film a few nights ago. (over several bottles of wine, mind you.) We pretty much agreed that
a)Lecter is one of those sinister figures that should never have been put in the [i:f1edbd872a]center [/i:f1edbd872a]of the film - the overuse somehow damaged the figure.
b)The Florence setting is beutiful, but not as mysterious as it was seemingly thought to be. We knew it as a center of European culture and history, and one of the most beutiful cities I've ever seen, but also as a tourist paradise, and a place to drink and eat more than usual, and so on. It's certainly not a "dark" setting, no more at least than any other city.
c) While Hopkins [i:f1edbd872a]invented [/i:f1edbd872a]the figure in [i:f1edbd872a]Silence of the Lambs[/i:f1edbd872a], and it was really creepy and alive, in Hannibal he seemd to... I don't know... copy his own performance, you know?
d) The cultivated-and-intelligent thing was a little overdon. History of Arts... okay. Having been hired in such a high position out of nowhere - hm. No. Not even with false referencies and papers. Not even when he's brilliant. Because the first thing any European university guy would do before voting for you to get a well payd job is talking to the people who have worked with you, check what you've published, and if he doesn't know any of your old mentors, your chances are slim. A private teacher, maybe.
Then, the piano, the wine got more and more expensive from scene to scene, only hand-made paper, and so on... It was overdone. A guy like that in real life wouldn't impress, but get on your nerve.

The Silence of the Lambs: one of those films I doubt I'll EVER be able to watch, at least by myself. I get far too emotionally involved in films, which can be positive, but is often just ridiculous. :roll:

I watched Into The West last night on video......beautiful, if very much a 'family' film. The two little Irish lads were astonishingly good actors, they would have had awards aplenty if they'd been adults.

Well I saw Alien Autopsy a few days ago, it was pretty funny.

I went to see The Dark on Saturday night, It was good to go and see but not one that i would like to add to my DVD collection.

Its a horror story set in Wales about sheep amongst other things (and no Doors that does NOT make it porn)

Sean Bean is the lead male and looks as rugged and handsome as ever.

Needless to say, it's a good watch but not worth keeping.

Saw Rent yesterday... the film's ok, but it's long as hell and kindof weird... The logical end of the story is about half way through the film, and then things get messy. And not a single song got stuck in my head, that's what a musical SHOULD do, leave you humming for hours until you've had enough and either go buy the soundtrack or start banging your head against the wall... But I'll aggree with Gawain on one thing, Angel sure rocks...