Last Movie You Watched

[Solitary Wanderer]

Peru - Between the Hammer & the Anvil

Documentary by the husband and wife team that comprise Freewill Productions. Grim situation in Peru between Communist group 'the Shining Path' and Goverment forces. Lots of killing of innocents and problems leading to mass poverty and hardship. This is from the late 80s/early-mid 90s and has apparantly improved since then. Sobering viewing

[Kullervo]

Intolerance (1916) is the grandfather of all historical-social epics. It's famous for its daring use of montage parallèle, editing to mesh together different stories that take place at various times in History (from Antiquity - the babylonian scene on that picture - to modern (1916) times, with stops around A.D. 33 and the St-Barthlemy Massacre). The acceleration of pace in the editing gave the picture its own internal rythm, regardless of the actual time in those stories. As it proceeds it becomes ever more frenzied. Which is good, because it's 3 hours long and even in the best of restorations, it's still almost 100 years old.

Thanks for that, Lilas. I was going to write a little blurb, but I figured most people here had already seen it. Go figure!

[Lilas Pastia]

I didn't want to steal your thunder 

I don't know about you, but for oldtimers like me it's such a landmark movie. Modern editing and camera techniques are all there. Even innovators like Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Welles have shamelessly borrowed from it (Battleship Potemkin owes a big lot to Intolerance).

That being said, I prefer Broken Blossoms (1919), where Griffith's mastery is at its absolute peak and put at the service of a more involving story. Intolerance is so colossal that it dwarfs its storyline.

[Kullervo]

I didn't want to steal your thunder 

I don't know about you, but for oldtimers like me it's such a landmark movie. Modern editing and camera techniques are all there. Even innovators like Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Welles have shamelessly borrowed from it (Battleship Potemkin owes a big lot to Intolerance).

That being said, I prefer Broken Blossoms (1919), where Griffith's mastery is at its absolute peak and put at the service of a more involving story. Intolerance is so colossal that it dwarfs its storyline.

Hey, it's not just for oldtimers! I notice that most intelligent males my age prefer the artsy-fartsy stuff, and while plenty of stuff that falls into that category is good, I tend to be more conservative in my tastes.

I will be adding Broken Blossoms to my video queue.

[Tancata]

Cherry Falls (2000)



A light diversion. It was mildly funny from time to time, but they chickened out of all the gory bits  .

[Solitary Wanderer]

Currently watching this outstanding art series. Eight portraits are presented of various artists in an informed and educational manner. Some of them are quite moving; we have one more to go.

Highly recommended

[Harry]

Bandidas, Selma Hayek & Penelope Cruz, in a very dumb movie.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Finally saw this last night. It was well done if a little alarming. Food for thought...

[jurajjak]

I just watched Monte Hellman's "Two Lane Blacktop" (1971), which I hadn't seen in many years.  The quintessence of the existential road movie--there's still no "road movie" that even comes close.  Many will undoubtedly find it tedious and/or pretentious, but it has an authenticity of which Hollywood today is incapable.  Well, I shouldn't say "authenticity," because that word inevitably leads to controversy...but it does have "something" which simply doesn't exist anymore.


andrew

[orbital]

Started watching this:

The animation is not the best but the storylines are very faithful to the books.

[MishaK]

Started watching this:

The animation is not the best but the storylines are very faithful to the books.

Man, I grew up on those comic books.

[Bogey]

Started watching this:

The animation is not the best but the storylines are very faithful to the books.

Animation has reached a point for me where unless it is just awful, I could care less.  In short, the Pixar-Wow-Factor is no longer relevant.  If it "ain't" a good story, it is not worth watching in my book.  Glad they held to the books for you Orbital....rare these days indeed.

[Bogey]

About to sit down with my wife and son (daughters already asleep) and start this set:

Star Trek The Next Generation - The Complete Third Season

[orbital]

Man, I grew up on those comic books.

Me too. Still enjoy reading them once in a while. Somehow their appeal never wandered off

Animation has reached a point for me where unless it is just awful, I could care less.  In short, the Pixar-Wow-Factor is no longer relevant.  If it "ain't" a good story, it is not worth watching in my book.  Glad they held to the books for you Orbital....rare these days indeed.

The only thing that I could not figure out is the series do not follow the same episodes. There are 10 DVD's in all, total of 20 adventures. But in order to follow the books' timeline you have to switch DVD's 

Reportedly Spielberg is on to make a feature movie version. Original storyline, borrowing themes and characters  from some of the original books apprently 

[Drasko]

Reportedly Spielberg is on to make a feature movie version. Original storyline, borrowing themes and characters  from some of the original books apprently 

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Solitary Wanderer]

Started watching this:

The animation is not the best but the storylines are very faithful to the books.

Oh yes, I was a Tintin fan when I was about 11. Had most of the books

Reportedly Spielberg is on to make a feature movie version. Original storyline, borrowing themes and characters  from some of the original books apprently 

Yes, Spielberg and Peter Jackson. They're combining three of the mid-period stories.

It was be mass marketed to kingdom come and all the original charm will be lost to mass consumerism

[Kullervo]

Started watching this:

The animation is not the best but the storylines are very faithful to the books.

Never read the comics but I loved the show as a kid. Need to get my hands on that.

[val]

"BABEL"

A good movie, with remarkable actors - the young japanase girl is amazing - dealing with normal people.

[sound67]

Music and Lyrics, 2006. Lovely rom-com.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758766/

Thomas

[Bogey]

Music and Lyrics, 2006. Lovely rom-com.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758766/

Thomas

My wife and I enjoyed enough to purchase it.  A lot of fun here.