Adam's Rib: This is a funny movie, but more than that it's a movie about laws and equality, specificly equality between women and men. Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy play a married couple of lawyers who find themselves testing their relationship when they go against each other in court. I think this must have been quite a monumental movie, such issues were not common place then as they are today. I still don't know how to take this movie, there are many blows forged for women's equality, but it almost feels bitter sweet, I could just not be seeing, but it feels like the dominant male sentiment of the day, has the last laugh in the end.
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: This was a movie that I'd wanted to see at international cinema but missed, I wasn't quite sure what to expect but the preview I saw must have looked cool or something. This movie is French and half chick flick, half horror movie, I felt a lot safer in the world before watching this movie. The way the story is portrayed is not done in the traditional sense but from two different sides, first we see the story from the girl's point of view, then from the guys and the difference in their point of views is quite a shock. This isn't a movie that I ever want to see again, in fact I'm wishing that I hadn't seen it because it really creeped me out.
The Bourne Ultimatum: I am a fan of the whole trilogy and I think this might be the coolest of them all. These movies are flawless and each one ups the ante. In this movie Bourne finally makes it back to his beginning and seems to have gotten away from the CIA once and for all...unless there's another movie that I haven't heard about.
Sabrina: There are two versions of this movie, the original with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart and the newer one with Harrison Ford and Juila O.... I forget, at any rate, I am talking about the original. I love this movie, it's a charming Cinderella story with very witty humor. This is the movie where Hepburn and Givinchy got together. I like both versions of this movie but this version is my favorite, I find Bogie more believable as Linus Larabee, William Holden more charming and of course how could anyone out do Audrey Hepburn?
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Indiscreet: I'm unsure about this movie, parts of it were really awesome, parts were blah and parts were not cool. Carey Grant and Ingrid Bergman are in love but lies are discovered and problems come up. One thing that comes from this movie is a message that you shouldn't lie about things, and I'm behind that 100% but there's a sort of battle of the sexes and the ending of the movie did not sit well with me. The movie was made in 1958 and that probably accounts for it's chuvanism but it doesn't make it any more plesant.
Australia: Wow, I've been wanting to watch this movie since I saw the previews about a year ago...obviously these things take me a while; it didn't disappoint though, it was a pretty awesome movie, even after they hype has faded down. I must say I was a bit disappointed that I could tell that computer animation was used in some parts but I suppose that can be dealt with. I wish that there weren't a few things in there that are, however I believe it's rated pg 13 and so I was warned. This movie was really awesome, really sad and the stars of the movie are both really pretty (Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman). The plot of this movie is very similar to that of Out of Africa but the issue of race and discrimination is dealt with much more. I am not very familiar with Australia at all but in Australia around the time of WWII the main ethnical groups in Australia were white and Aboriginies and as was usual for the time period, there was discrimination agains the Aboriginies but what really struck me was that below the Aboriginies on the social ladder were childeren who were half white and half Aboriginy, "creamies" was one of the derogatory terms. These poor childeren would be shipped off to an island, to an asylum away from their parents...or mothers really, since most of their fathers wouldn't claim them. It may have occured, but I'm not aware of anything like that happening with the racial discrimination between white and black people and this really struck me, that these poor children were just stuck between worlds, and not really able to join either. This movie really touched me and made me think.
Damn Yankees: This was an interesting movie, not the best plot, not the greatest music, but the dancing was great. This movie was choreographed by Bob Fossse and his wife, Gwen Verden was one of the stars, they even have a dance number together. This movie also made me think, the plot is that a man sells his soul to help his favorite team beat the Yankees, and so he makes a deal with the devil. The way the devil was portrayed in the movie made me wonder about how things would be if one made a deal witht the devil.
Australia: Wow, I've been wanting to watch this movie since I saw the previews about a year ago...obviously these things take me a while; it didn't disappoint though, it was a pretty awesome movie, even after they hype has faded down. I must say I was a bit disappointed that I could tell that computer animation was used in some parts but I suppose that can be dealt with. I wish that there weren't a few things in there that are, however I believe it's rated pg 13 and so I was warned. This movie was really awesome, really sad and the stars of the movie are both really pretty (Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman). The plot of this movie is very similar to that of Out of Africa but the issue of race and discrimination is dealt with much more. I am not very familiar with Australia at all but in Australia around the time of WWII the main ethnical groups in Australia were white and Aboriginies and as was usual for the time period, there was discrimination agains the Aboriginies but what really struck me was that below the Aboriginies on the social ladder were childeren who were half white and half Aboriginy, "creamies" was one of the derogatory terms. These poor childeren would be shipped off to an island, to an asylum away from their parents...or mothers really, since most of their fathers wouldn't claim them. It may have occured, but I'm not aware of anything like that happening with the racial discrimination between white and black people and this really struck me, that these poor children were just stuck between worlds, and not really able to join either. This movie really touched me and made me think.
Damn Yankees: This was an interesting movie, not the best plot, not the greatest music, but the dancing was great. This movie was choreographed by Bob Fossse and his wife, Gwen Verden was one of the stars, they even have a dance number together. This movie also made me think, the plot is that a man sells his soul to help his favorite team beat the Yankees, and so he makes a deal with the devil. The way the devil was portrayed in the movie made me wonder about how things would be if one made a deal witht the devil.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Shall We Dansu?: This is a Japanese movie, if you've ever seen the movie Shall We Dance? it's a remake of this one. This movie is about a Japanese man who takes up ballroom dancing (I don't know if this still holds true but when this movie was made, ballroom dancing was a social taboo.) It's a sweet and funny movie. I absolutly love it.
Good Night and Good Luck: This movie is about events that took place during the dark time of McCarthyism and communist witch hunts. Edward R. Murrow was a well known journalist and he had a tv news show called See It Now. For those who don't know about this period, it was the cold war and an insane period in history, the US was deathly afraid of communism and Senator Joseph McCarthy was in charge of a committee on un-American activity, basically accusing people of being communists. Most of the people that were accused were not communists and were accused and convicted with insubstantial evidence. People were terrified of the chance that they could be called up before the committee, carrears were ended or damaged at the suggestion that a person was "red". Anyway Edward R. Murrow and his team had the guts to stand up to Senator McCarthy and the injustice of what was going on, this movie tells that story. I think this is a very inspiring story.
Some Like It Hot: I love this movie, love it! To musicians witness a fictionalization of the St. Valentines Day massacre and to make it out of town alive they go into disguise and join a girls band headed for Florida. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are hilarious in this movie as they see what life is like for the other half. Marylin Monroe makes it hard for the guys to remember that they're supposed to be girls with humorous results.
Good Night and Good Luck: This movie is about events that took place during the dark time of McCarthyism and communist witch hunts. Edward R. Murrow was a well known journalist and he had a tv news show called See It Now. For those who don't know about this period, it was the cold war and an insane period in history, the US was deathly afraid of communism and Senator Joseph McCarthy was in charge of a committee on un-American activity, basically accusing people of being communists. Most of the people that were accused were not communists and were accused and convicted with insubstantial evidence. People were terrified of the chance that they could be called up before the committee, carrears were ended or damaged at the suggestion that a person was "red". Anyway Edward R. Murrow and his team had the guts to stand up to Senator McCarthy and the injustice of what was going on, this movie tells that story. I think this is a very inspiring story.
Some Like It Hot: I love this movie, love it! To musicians witness a fictionalization of the St. Valentines Day massacre and to make it out of town alive they go into disguise and join a girls band headed for Florida. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are hilarious in this movie as they see what life is like for the other half. Marylin Monroe makes it hard for the guys to remember that they're supposed to be girls with humorous results.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Il Postino (The Postman): This is an Italian movie that I love, my second favorite Italian movie after Life is Beautiful (Vita e Bella). This movie is about an island postman who becomes friends with the famous poet Pablo Neruda and from him learns about poetry, love and the beauty that surrounds him in his island home. I highly recomend it, it's very heart warming.
The Magnificent Seven: This movie was inspired by the Japanese movie The Seven Samurai, which I haven't seen but hope to see. I may have said this before but I'm not a huge fan of westerns, this however felt more like an action movie and I know that westerns technically fall into that category, I mean an action movie today. The movie has a star studded cast Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, other famous people who's names I don't remember but who's faces you'd recognize... America is a funny place and kind of awesome too, in America a Mongolian can be a cowboy and a German can be a Mexican.
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb: Yes that really is the whole title of the movie. This is a black satire about the cold war. Peter Sellers stars in not one but three roles, it was originally going to be four but I think that'd probably be too much for anyone. An unauthorized air strike against the Russians has been set into action and seems impossible to stop, worse than that the Russians have a doomsday machine that will destroy everything on the earth if the Russians attack. A darkly comedic look at a infamous era in history with such memorable lines as "Gentlemen please, no fighting in the war room!" and a creepy German, Dr. Strangelove himself.
Into The Woods: Technically this is a play, however I've only ever seen this version which they recorded for video. Bernadette Peters is in this cast and Chip Zeins (that could be wrong). I quite enjoy this play, it's a bit of a satire on a bunch of fairy tales: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc. This show is incredibly funny, fairly sad, and makes you stop and think about moral issues. It's quite a show.
Up: I loved this movie, it was the best Pixar movie that I've seen to date, it's sweet and laugh out loud funny. If you haven't seen it, you totally should!
The Magnificent Seven: This movie was inspired by the Japanese movie The Seven Samurai, which I haven't seen but hope to see. I may have said this before but I'm not a huge fan of westerns, this however felt more like an action movie and I know that westerns technically fall into that category, I mean an action movie today. The movie has a star studded cast Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, other famous people who's names I don't remember but who's faces you'd recognize... America is a funny place and kind of awesome too, in America a Mongolian can be a cowboy and a German can be a Mexican.
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb: Yes that really is the whole title of the movie. This is a black satire about the cold war. Peter Sellers stars in not one but three roles, it was originally going to be four but I think that'd probably be too much for anyone. An unauthorized air strike against the Russians has been set into action and seems impossible to stop, worse than that the Russians have a doomsday machine that will destroy everything on the earth if the Russians attack. A darkly comedic look at a infamous era in history with such memorable lines as "Gentlemen please, no fighting in the war room!" and a creepy German, Dr. Strangelove himself.
Into The Woods: Technically this is a play, however I've only ever seen this version which they recorded for video. Bernadette Peters is in this cast and Chip Zeins (that could be wrong). I quite enjoy this play, it's a bit of a satire on a bunch of fairy tales: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc. This show is incredibly funny, fairly sad, and makes you stop and think about moral issues. It's quite a show.
Up: I loved this movie, it was the best Pixar movie that I've seen to date, it's sweet and laugh out loud funny. If you haven't seen it, you totally should!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Mostly Martha: This is a German movie about food, family and love. I really liked this movie, especially the fact that one of the characters was Italian and thus spoke in Italian some of the time...I doubt that will be an attraction for most people so I will just say that it's a nice romantic movie.
No Reservations: Okay so this is the American version of Mostly Martha so in contrasting and comparing these movies, I think on the whole No Reservations stayed fairly true to Mostly Martha, however it was Americanized, it's happier, and a bit more cheesy, it feels like Catherine Zeta-Jones is going through the motions of the character but she's also still playing Catherine Zeta-Jones, if that makes sense at all. I think I slightly lean towards Mostly Martha as my favorite of the two, it seemed a lot more sincere and real, not so contrived. I did appreciate things that seemed to be explained a little bit better in No Reservations. Both movies are pretty good but like I said, I lean towards Mostly Martha.
The Bourne Supremacy: The Bourne saga goes on, with more treachery, more amazing fights, more outwitting the bad guys and more insane car chases. This is the last of the books that I actually read, the books are rather hard to read and the movies really more make up their own plot and just use the character and title. I'm a fan of Bourne, this isn't my favorite of the movies but they're all well done and quite impressive.
No Reservations: Okay so this is the American version of Mostly Martha so in contrasting and comparing these movies, I think on the whole No Reservations stayed fairly true to Mostly Martha, however it was Americanized, it's happier, and a bit more cheesy, it feels like Catherine Zeta-Jones is going through the motions of the character but she's also still playing Catherine Zeta-Jones, if that makes sense at all. I think I slightly lean towards Mostly Martha as my favorite of the two, it seemed a lot more sincere and real, not so contrived. I did appreciate things that seemed to be explained a little bit better in No Reservations. Both movies are pretty good but like I said, I lean towards Mostly Martha.
The Bourne Supremacy: The Bourne saga goes on, with more treachery, more amazing fights, more outwitting the bad guys and more insane car chases. This is the last of the books that I actually read, the books are rather hard to read and the movies really more make up their own plot and just use the character and title. I'm a fan of Bourne, this isn't my favorite of the movies but they're all well done and quite impressive.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Charlie's Angels: This movie has absolutly no redeaming value
Strictly Ballroom: This movie tells a story that has been told many times before, rebel guy, homely girl who come together to do something amazing and in the process the girl becomes beautiful and the two fall in love. It's been done many times before, but I still quite enjoyed this movie and I love dancing movies.
Marilyn Hodgkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School: This was an interesting movie, I'm still not quite sure what to think about it. It's very different from most movies I've seen, I'm pretty sure the essential story isn't one that's all that original but the movie itself is quite unique I think. I like it and I don't. I don't believe I'll be going back to this movie over and over again.
Dark Passage: Bogie and Bacall in a film noir type romance. This movie is interesting, I think it was sort of experimental. For most of the movie you don't see Bogie's face, the camera angle is as if you're seeing what his character is, kinda cool, kinda weird. This movie is noir, but it's not really dark on the whole, at least I didn't think so, but I guess I also haven't seen much noir lately either. Anyway, I like this movie and recommend it.
Strictly Ballroom: This movie tells a story that has been told many times before, rebel guy, homely girl who come together to do something amazing and in the process the girl becomes beautiful and the two fall in love. It's been done many times before, but I still quite enjoyed this movie and I love dancing movies.
Marilyn Hodgkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School: This was an interesting movie, I'm still not quite sure what to think about it. It's very different from most movies I've seen, I'm pretty sure the essential story isn't one that's all that original but the movie itself is quite unique I think. I like it and I don't. I don't believe I'll be going back to this movie over and over again.
Dark Passage: Bogie and Bacall in a film noir type romance. This movie is interesting, I think it was sort of experimental. For most of the movie you don't see Bogie's face, the camera angle is as if you're seeing what his character is, kinda cool, kinda weird. This movie is noir, but it's not really dark on the whole, at least I didn't think so, but I guess I also haven't seen much noir lately either. Anyway, I like this movie and recommend it.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The Great Race: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, in a crazy, melodramatic, suffragette, race around the world. This movie is silly, and funny and quite frankly it's over the top. I liked it but I don't know that it's one I'd go back too. Jack Lemmon was quite amazing though, I think his performance was probably the best. This movie made me want to watch Some Like It Hot, I liked that movie better.
Bride and Prejudice: Jane Austin meets Bollywood. I think that pretty much sums this movie up because once you've said that what else is there to say? However, just to let you know I was pretty skeptical about this movie before I saw it but I fell in love with it, it's utterly wonderful, you really should see it.
The Nightmare Before Christmas: So Tim Burton is really weird, I think that could be universally agreed on, however sometimes his weirdness is also pretty cool. Of his movies I think that Nightmare's my favorite, I love the music and Jack Skellington.
Bride and Prejudice: Jane Austin meets Bollywood. I think that pretty much sums this movie up because once you've said that what else is there to say? However, just to let you know I was pretty skeptical about this movie before I saw it but I fell in love with it, it's utterly wonderful, you really should see it.
The Nightmare Before Christmas: So Tim Burton is really weird, I think that could be universally agreed on, however sometimes his weirdness is also pretty cool. Of his movies I think that Nightmare's my favorite, I love the music and Jack Skellington.
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