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Lucille and Irja are 95 and 81 years old respectively and Laura Gabberts documentary Sunset Story (2003) is a charming, amusing, entertaining and bittersweet look at their lives and the spirit to still be individual thinkers and highly political at that. They know what they like, what they think, and no one is going to change their minds. The feature has had a good reputation since its debut and for the most part, it is well deserved.
Sunset Story (Documentary)
I liked this documentary it was about a retirement home for political activists & radicals and it was charming.
Sunset Story (Documentary)
I liked this documentary it was about a retirement home for political activists & radicals and it was charming.
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The Dark knight
Twisted tale of social misfits Batman and Joker, and how their interaction eventually ruins and kills honest reformer Harvey Dent (Arron Eckhart, who is excellent in this picture)
heath ledger is good (not great) as a much more deranged and vicious joker compared to the Jack Nicholson version, Christian Bale is the best Batman on film, bar none.
Fine supporting cast including Gary oldman, Micheal caine and Morgan freeman make this a can't miss picture.
Twisted tale of social misfits Batman and Joker, and how their interaction eventually ruins and kills honest reformer Harvey Dent (Arron Eckhart, who is excellent in this picture)
heath ledger is good (not great) as a much more deranged and vicious joker compared to the Jack Nicholson version, Christian Bale is the best Batman on film, bar none.
Fine supporting cast including Gary oldman, Micheal caine and Morgan freeman make this a can't miss picture.
strollingbones
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i just dont get it...i watched dark knight twice just in case i was missing something...i wasnt....
ledger was okay but i still think jack was better....the movie is dark...with no real heros and lots of villians..
strollingbones
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anyone seen "doubt" ...
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Imitation of Life (1959) 9 out of 10.
Imitation of Life (1959)
I had been meaning to watch this classic and I'm glad I did.
It was a real tear jerker, and I was mesmerized by the glamorous Lana Turner. Without giving the plot away, half of the movie had to do with a black mother and her white daughter. She was her daughter, but was able to pass as completely white. This leads to identity and racial issues that tear the mother-daughter relationship apart.
Warning: Will need a full box of Kleenex for this one.
Imitation of Life (1959)
I had been meaning to watch this classic and I'm glad I did.
It was a real tear jerker, and I was mesmerized by the glamorous Lana Turner. Without giving the plot away, half of the movie had to do with a black mother and her white daughter. She was her daughter, but was able to pass as completely white. This leads to identity and racial issues that tear the mother-daughter relationship apart.
Warning: Will need a full box of Kleenex for this one.
Jon
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How was Jack better? Jack played himself as the Joker. He plays himself in every role, except One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Shining. He adds nothing to his roles, and it seems as though he does little to prepare for them. It's like he wakes up and says, "Oh shit, I have to be on the set in 2 minutes." Ledger was a well-trained performer, and his type is rare in today's movies. I applaud the amount of effort he put into his roles, especially his later roles.
Jack's version of The Joker worked well in Burton's Batman. He played an okay gangster Joker, but that's not the way the role was intended. Heath's performance was based on the original comic books that defined the Joker as more demented and psychotic (The Killing Joke, mostly). Jack's version would have been entirely out of place in Nolan's Batman series, and Heath's version would have been entirely out of place in Burton/Schumacher versions. Burton and Schumacher made Batman into a laughfest, campy comical story and practically embarrassed the series. Nolan seems to be the only director to ever have followed the Batman comics, and it shows in his films.
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I thought Heath Ledger made that movie. His character was wonderfully crazy and bizarre.
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"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
Starring Brad Pitt, Kate Blanchette and many others.
Brief Synopsis: Man is born old and grows young and we follow his life as it goes in reverse. I didn't know it was an adaptation of a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel until I saw it in the credits at the end. Always watch the credits people, you may actually learn something interesting about the film you're watching.
Anyway, the film starts out interestingly enough as Ben Button is born old (baby size) and is given up to an orphanage by his father who comes back later in the film.
As an old man he becomes smitten with a young red-head girl. And why wouldn't he, he's a youngster too remember? I won't give away the story but it's basically how BB and the girl grow old and young together from about 1917 to 2005.
The special effects are great and the makeup is pretty good. Artificial aging can be a distraction with a film like this but it works out good. This is the first time I've seen Kate Blanchette actually look attractive. She is one pasty ass white girl, damn!
I thought this would be a good idea for a movie but someone screwed it up either in editing or adaptation to the big screen. The flick is two hours and forty eight minutes long and more than once I thought to myself: "When is this gonna end"? And I love long movies. Kate is a great actress but Brad just kinda poses his way through this one. Like he does in most of his movies right? Well, except maybe "Kalifornia" and "Seven". I'll give him props for those.
My favorite part of this movie? The sountrack and musical score. In particular the use of Scott Joplins' wonderful ragtime waltz "Bethena". I love ragtime music and Scott Joplin is credited with inventing that genre. His music really sets the tone for movies based in that time frame of 1900 through the 1930s.
Overall, on a scale of 1-10 I'd give it a 6.
Starring Brad Pitt, Kate Blanchette and many others.
Brief Synopsis: Man is born old and grows young and we follow his life as it goes in reverse. I didn't know it was an adaptation of a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel until I saw it in the credits at the end. Always watch the credits people, you may actually learn something interesting about the film you're watching.
Anyway, the film starts out interestingly enough as Ben Button is born old (baby size) and is given up to an orphanage by his father who comes back later in the film.
As an old man he becomes smitten with a young red-head girl. And why wouldn't he, he's a youngster too remember? I won't give away the story but it's basically how BB and the girl grow old and young together from about 1917 to 2005.
The special effects are great and the makeup is pretty good. Artificial aging can be a distraction with a film like this but it works out good. This is the first time I've seen Kate Blanchette actually look attractive. She is one pasty ass white girl, damn!
I thought this would be a good idea for a movie but someone screwed it up either in editing or adaptation to the big screen. The flick is two hours and forty eight minutes long and more than once I thought to myself: "When is this gonna end"? And I love long movies. Kate is a great actress but Brad just kinda poses his way through this one. Like he does in most of his movies right? Well, except maybe "Kalifornia" and "Seven". I'll give him props for those.
My favorite part of this movie? The sountrack and musical score. In particular the use of Scott Joplins' wonderful ragtime waltz "Bethena". I love ragtime music and Scott Joplin is credited with inventing that genre. His music really sets the tone for movies based in that time frame of 1900 through the 1930s.
Overall, on a scale of 1-10 I'd give it a 6.
My absolute favorite movie of all time.
And my favorite scene, which precedes the one you posted.
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Quantum of Solace. The new James Bond movie.
9 out of 10. I loved it.
I'm a huge Bond fan, and this is very different from all the other movies, but I loved it.
9 out of 10. I loved it.
I'm a huge Bond fan, and this is very different from all the other movies, but I loved it.
I didn't like Clerks II much. I liked Clerks though.
Disagree, especially if we're talking about WALL-E. I don't have kids, and I loved it. And, I just don't see how kids can enjoy that movie. There's very little "Disney comedy", as I call it. It was cute, in some ways, but I loved the philosophical aspects of it more than anything.
Also, my friends and I go to the movies to watch all the Disney movies, and none of us have kids.
My son, who was 9 at the time, loved Wall-E. So did I.
One of my all-time favorites is Finding Nemo.
Missourian
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It doesn't get much funnier than Spinal Tap!
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Ive seen it great movie !
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A classic midnight cult movie about an elderly lady and a young lad's love affair. She was a cougar before the word "cougar" became a media catch-phrase.
8 out of 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_Maude
8 out of 10http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_Maude
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A classic midnight cult movie about an elderly lady and a young lad's love affair. She was a cougar before the word "cougar" became a media catch-phrase.
Harold and Maude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GREAT movie.
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