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    Scarface (1932) directed by Howard Hawks is an excellent crime film from the early 1930's that has finally been released on DVD. It was actually filmed in 1930 but its release delayed because of film board disapproval. Howard Hughes, the producer, eventually went ahead and released it in States that didn't have film review boards. This film along with The Public Enemy (1931) and Little Caesar (1931) s
    Three of the greatest movies ever made. I love Cagney, Robinson and Bogart, their my favorite actors. They dont make movies like that anymore. Who cares if they were in B&W they are true works of art. Key Largo is another. And was Lauren Bacall smoking hot with Bogey in The Big Sleep?

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    Well finally saw 300. Not what I expected. Had a good time but was hoping for a testosteronfilled campfest, the kind of movie that makes you laugh.

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    I liked Metropolis when i saw it about 10 years ago. silent movie. boy meet girl, different worlds, haves vs haves not. classic. and i could see the cinematic influence it spawned as a lot of stuff that was used in that movie for the first time has become commonplace now.
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    They dont make movies like that anymore. Who cares if they were in B&W they are true works of art.
    I wouldn't say Little Caesar is as good as Scarface or The Public Enemy. Apparently, Louise Brooks turned down the female lead in The Public Enemy which is most unfortunate. Edward G. Robinson did a couple of very good films noir, The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlett Street (1945) with Joan Bennet. She won an Academy Award for the film Sunrise (1927) which is a highly regarded silent film, but hard to get on DVD. Both films were directed by Fritz Lang who also did Metropolis (1927). Double Indemnity (1944), The Big Sleep (1946) and Out of the Past (1947) would be my favorite films noir, but I might be forgettng a couple of others.

    I think B&W is actually preferable for the expressionistic, film noir and gothic horror film gendres. The characters tend to blend in with the surroundings and can easily disappear into or come out of the shadows. Some of these early crime films had film noir characteristics. For instance in Scarface, the opening shot is highly expressionistic in style, and later in the film the light coming through venitian blinds casting a shadow on the wall is clearly a metaphor for prision bars. This is 14 years before Billy Wilder used it in Double Indemnity (1944), which is considered to be the first and posibly the best film noir, as a metaphor for a character becoming trapped in a situation, and of course you see it all the time in later films noir.

    Technically, B&W film has finer grain and more dynamic range than color film, and B&W cinematography was brought to a high level of artistic expression by the best of these cinematographers. These gendres can also be done well in color, but the art director has to do a lot of work in the color coordination of the sets to get the same effect.


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    The Painted Veil (2006) is a romantic drama, well directed by John Curran, that is set in China in 1925. It's based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, and is the 3rd time this story has been made into a movie. The film stars Naomi Watts and Edward Norton who together co-produced the film, and they turn in excellent performances in this character study of two people. The supporting actors are all very good, and the screen play, cinematography and music are all excellent as well.

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    Shaun of the Dead: the middle segment with the appearance of the zombies was one of the funniest things I have seen for a long time. For example, Shaun walking distractedly to the supermarket; throwing small objects at the zombies; sitting on the sofa and realising they had forgot to lock the front door; the various scenarios about rescuing the mother etc. It fizzled out a bit towards the end, when it seemed to be more like a real zombie movie than a comedy, but was pretty inspired up until then. The funniest bit for me was the step father switching the car music off.

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    V For Vendetta. Enjoyed it, but Natalie Portman was average at best. Good action scenes, and the plot was solid.

    I really liked how in the credits, it played extracts from Malcolm X's and Glora Steinem's speeches.
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    The messengers A not so good horror movie, about a 3 year old that can see dead people. The plot was weak and it seemed like it was trying to hard to scare you from the begaining.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rythmic
    V For Vendetta. Enjoyed it, but Natalie Portman was average at best. Good action scenes, and the plot was solid.

    I really liked how in the credits, it played extracts from Malcolm X's and Glora Steinem's speeches.
    I second this. When my dad dragged me to the theater with him, I confess I was pretty much expecting little more than a plain old "rebel without a clue"-type flick. I was pleasantly surprised, however, by both its depth and intelligence.

    It's one of the very few movies where I've purchased the DVD the same week in which it was released. In fact, I would actually go so far as to rank this as being somewhere in my top 10. I'm sure most people -- even those that liked it -- didn't think it was *that* great, but there's something about the movie that just grips me. It probably has something to do with Hugo Weaving's performance, which I found absolutely mesmerizing. Not to mention which, the movie had a pretty strong cast all around, including (and especially) the villians.
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    a movie i liked recently was the host. from the same clique that brought us the 3 vengeance movies including one of my all time favorite movies oldboy. remember that three eyed radioactive fish that used to pop up during the opening sequence of the simpsons? well in the host, the fish is all grown up and it means business. there is a sense in all these movies by this clique that reminds me of that line from that song. 'it's only funny until someone get hurt and then it just hilarious.'
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    Night At The Museum quite funny, but very little replay ability. It sometimes seems the director made up things along the way.

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    The Prestige (2006) is a fictional drama/thriller that will keep you guessing. It's about an intense rivalry between two turn-of-the-century London magicians. There is a single element of science fiction that you have to accept to make the story work. All aspects of the film are very well done, and the acting is very good, although I thought Scarlett Johansson's performance didn't fit the time and place.

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    Thank You for smoking a satire on spin doctors and lobbyists, pretty funny black comedy though isn't quite as good in the middle section. They really did nail the lobbyist persona though (we once had a pretty infamous lobbyist explain the proces in an American politics class, he used virtually the same words). Recommended
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    Deja Vu (2006) is a crime/sci-fi/action movie directed by Tony Scott. The crime investigation in the beginning and action in the end are well done. The camera work and production values are very good. However, the science fiction element is improperly handled, and the resultant flow of events doesn't stand up to logical analysis. Also, some of the decisions made by the characters in the last half of the movie are questionable and seem to be there simply to create a particular climactic situation.

    I wonder if Deja Vu, The Prestige and The Forgotten herald a trend where a sci-fi element is introduced into an otherwise different gendre of movie. None of these films were advertised as sci-fi films.

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    I thought the car chase scene from deja vu was particularly clever.

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    Devil wears prada, great fun. After the Hours and this one I am slowly refinding my respect for Meryll Streep, she's quite the character here.

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    Owwww hilarity.

    Dark Habits, spanish comedy. Just too absurd. A whatsitcalled these things with nuns where everything is far from holy. The chief nun is a lesbian heroinaddict, another nun has LSD trips where she meets jezus, a nun is writing erotic novels and they even have a pet tiger you get the idea



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    Ok this rocks. The Queen. Helen Mirren has to be one of the best actresses ever and continues to stand firmly on my women that could be my mother list. She really is the queen. The guy that does Blair is just scary, seperated at birth? Awesome movie of a institution that was completily out of touch with the population at the time of Diana's death. Have to add one thing, refusing to meet the queen after playing her so passionatly isn't just rude, it's cruel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony
    Ok this rocks. The Queen. Helen Mirren has to be one of the best actresses ever and continues to stand firmly on my women that could be my mother list. She really is the queen. The guy that does Blair is just scary, seperated at birth? Awesome movie of a institution that was completily out of touch with the population at the time of Diana's death. Have to add one thing, refusing to meet the queen after playing her so passionatly isn't just rude, it's cruel.
    I get scared sometimes, Fragony, that our tastes in film and books coincide so closely. I agree, this is an excellent film (if one is interested in the subject) and extremely well acted - most impressively, understanding of Her Majesty's perspective in the hysteria, whilst not glossing over the colossal faultline in the monarchy that the Diana foolishness exposed.

    I can't agree however, that Helen Mirren should be on the mother list. Apart from her stuff in "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" and "Caligula" (the latter only worth watching for La Mirren) I saw her on stage as Lady MacBeth, and believe me, the desires she provoked were in no way maternal.
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    She was a proper hottie in The Long Good Friday. A bit older than me but hey what the hell, Mrs. Apache is a bit older than me as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
    I get scared sometimes, Fragony, that our tastes in film and books coincide so closely.
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    I just had to go to Transformers and I quite liked it. Although you should better accept a "few" flaws in the plot. It didn't bother me that much as all I wanted to get out of the movie where a some good views of big bots fighting it out and the longs shots during the battles definitely made it worth it! The fights between the robots were sometimes a bit messy and the shaking camera is a bit cheap.
    And there are quite a few good laughs too, which I didn't really expect. My girlfriend hesitated to go see it, but afterwards she found it quite a good movie.

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    Oceans Thirteen is alright. Don't go in expecting a great film, and you won't be overly disappointed.

    Not sure about transformers, to be honest, even with Duke John's recommendation - it just seems a bit clichéd Still, I'll probably end up seeing it, and will just have to suspend disbelief over the fact that we didn't just nuke the bloody things
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    Well, the whole 'reason' why we didn't nuke 'em all is because the big fight scene where they all were gathered together took place in NYC. I guess they didn't want to annihialate NYC as well. Personally, I thought it was rather good, with a few exceptions, such as Anthony Anderson as a computer whiz. He fit the rest of the role nicely, basically acting like he usually does, but the computer part I just didn't buy from him. And as Duke John said, there were actually quite a few good laughs, which I, as with he, didn't expect. But again, a lot of the latter part of the movie is just a lot of rock 'em sock 'em robot action, with some jet fighters thrown in the mix as well. Lastly, I disliked how they end up defeating Megatron, I thought they were kinda cheap with that.
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    Apocalypse Now: a superb film criticizing the Vietnam war and showing much more. One of the few war movies I joyously heed that has noteworthy philosophical background even if slim.

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    Over the last two weeks I've seen many movies, but I'll only rate the last two.

    L.A. Confidential: a very good movie with a decent plot that was unfortunately predictable because I saw James Cromwell play an equal part in another movie The acting of Crowe, DeVito, Spacey and Basinger really added to this film.
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    I instantly liked this movie but I can't really say why. Scarlet is cute and adorable, the acting is great and the situation recognizable. Apparently that's enough.

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    Loved Lost in Translation, men's romantic movie. Also watch Leaving las Vegas. It biggest plus is a distinct lack of Meg Ryan.

    gah Meg Ryan.

    No money this weekend, and every reason to rewatch KAOS is a good one. Incredible movie from Sicily, especially the epilogue 'conversation with my mother' is a work of art. Watch this one if only for the soundtrack, majestic and tragic, like the island itselve.

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    Watched 28 weeks back in May;

    Not quite as harsh as Puzz3D's review; but there are certainly some glaring flaws in the story line, and character development is fairly little. Altogether not as good as the first, and the Story gets a little over the top in some places. Seems more like a filler that will connect the 1st to the movie after 28 weeks. If you allow yourself to actually get sucked into the movie and keep an open mind about it, there really is little need for Character Development, the situation itself is utterly despairing, more depressing than scary (or maybe depressing in a scary way). And it does make you think what would happen in a situation like that. Can't wait for 28 months later (god willing it comes out in the next 5 or so years).

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    Quote Originally Posted by greaterkhaan
    Well, the whole 'reason' why we didn't nuke 'em all is because the big fight scene where they all were gathered together took place in NYC. I guess they didn't want to annihialate NYC as well. Personally, I thought it was rather good, with a few exceptions, such as Anthony Anderson as a computer whiz. He fit the rest of the role nicely, basically acting like he usually does, but the computer part I just didn't buy from him. And as Duke John said, there were actually quite a few good laughs, which I, as with he, didn't expect. But again, a lot of the latter part of the movie is just a lot of rock 'em sock 'em robot action, with some jet fighters thrown in the mix as well. Lastly, I disliked how they end up defeating Megatron, I thought they were kinda cheap with that.
    I agree with pretty much all that was said here. I thought it was definately a film worth watching, but I too thought Megatron's defeat was lame. I also didn't like how much of a pansy Optimus Prime was in the movie. He was getting beat pretty good in the fights with Megatron.

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