TheRaven
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Post by TheRaven on Jul 16, 2017 13:12:37 GMT
Romeo and Juliet So boring, I fell asleep. Never did like that movie, I thought my opinion of it might have changed but yesterday proved I still think it's boring 😂 Happened to me with Titanic I think it was like the 5th try watching it that I actually made it to the end 😅
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Post by TamyXD on Jul 23, 2017 21:13:09 GMT
Inside Out
It was kinda weird but still sweet and nice/fun to watch.
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Post by TamyXD on Jul 25, 2017 0:43:46 GMT
Coraline I think I watched it for the 4th time. The first 3 times I watched it I could never really remember what had happened during the last half of the movie. But not because it's a bad movie, but because it's just so weird, very dream-like. Pretty creepy, actually. And that's exactly what I love about it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 19:17:55 GMT
Spider-Man: Homecoming
I don't usually like superhero movies apart from Batman (purely because I like the villains) but my brother invited me to go see it and I didn't have any other plans so I went. It was decent. The humour was the best part. I think the Andrew Garfield films were better though.
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Post by Falling Into History on Jul 27, 2017 2:10:24 GMT
Suffragette and Iron Jawed Angels
I watched them for a history paper. I personally liked Suffragette better because the writers and actors stayed true to the story and times of women's suffrage. Iron Jawed Angels was good at staying true to the story but the movie felt a little too modern, it didn't feel like the story was set in the 1910's.
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Post by thyarchery on Jul 28, 2017 21:45:40 GMT
My Fair Lady I really liked it; good story, good songs, great actors. I'd definitely watch it again It's so close to being a perfect movie to me. I specially cherish the Ascot race scene, it's like a black and white scene in a technicolour movie. Today I watched Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Loved it. And this is a lot to say, from someone who loves history. This movie is as far from being historically accurate as something called "Marie Antoinette" can possibly be, but its charm, beauty and intelligence overly compensate that flaw. I take it as an excuse to show a marvelous, dazzlingly beautiful and decadent world rather than a true historical narration; same as I see the lead character's history as a metaphor of the life of a well-off American girl rather than a true portrayal of the authentic Marie Antoinette- probably something Coppola knows very well from her own experience. Kirsten Dunst is absolutely unbelievable as a French queen, but totally convincing-as always- as an adorably innocent teen upper class girl whose only care in the world- and it's a great care in her world- is to succeed in her imposed duty as the lead of the cool kids gang. The whole thing has a teen movie thing about it, and Versailles' shown almost as a 18th century version of Beverly Hills or some other Californian upper-echelon resort-actually it is shot under an everlasting sun that would have made the Versailles gardens impossible to maintain if Northern France's weather was really like that- and that's what makes characters as "dull" as king Louis XVI or the Princess of Lamballe-likely the only two to have some accuracy to their original ones- so relatable because they are shown as respectively the socially awkward, extremely shy and sexually inexpert nerd boy and the squeaky clean and good willed girl-next-door. The same goes for the Duchess of Polignac and the very own Marie Antoinette, shown as a couple of frivolous and popular besties on their ridiculous quest to rule their little pastel-coloured world, who are adorable in their naiveté and carelessness. The whole movie is largely succession of balls, parties, friends hangouts and social acts that are much equiparable to our own world's teenage social life-with the same stiff structure. That's what eventually convinced me that's really a movie about being a teenager. The whole movie is filled with bittersweetness, angst, sorrow, but what stays with you after watching it is a fresh joie de vivre. The music and the titles are the icing in the cake. Charmingly anachronic, they are the clue to "see" the movie the way the director wants us to see it. Another thing I love about the movie is that, as it's typical in Coppola's films, colour and pacing are treated in a very particular way that almost no other director can afford; most movies with that palette look bland, and the pace is certainly slow, but the visual appeal is such that you just don't notice. I also love the fact that most French period movies are full of infinite shots showing the sets that most of the times are more an interruption of the movie than anything else. Coppola does nothing of it and still is very accurate-for once- in representing how spaces were lived in the 18th century. My favourite scene, that sums up all the things I like about the movie, is a one of a ball in the Paris Opera- built well after Marie Antoinette's death-in which a flock of noblemen lavishly dressed in over-the top costumes and masks dance in a circular, psychodelic motion to Siouxsie and the Banshees' Hong Kong Garden. It really captures the spirit of something beautiful but doomed, the irony of something as brilliant, unfair and decadent as teenage years and the Pre-revolutionary France. And all that without the slightest trace of faux artistry and "looking down on your unread criteria" that most directors would have pulled up in Coppola's case. Sorry for the long post but I really loved the movie. Please watch it if you haven't done it yet.
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Post by BlackAndWhite on Jul 29, 2017 7:24:30 GMT
My Fair Lady I really liked it; good story, good songs, great actors. I'd definitely watch it again It's so close to being a perfect movie to me. I specially cherish the Ascot race scene, it's like a black and white scene in a technicolour movie. Today I watched Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Loved it. And this is a lot to say, from someone who loves history. This movie is as far from being historically accurate as something called "Marie Antoinette" can possibly be, but its charm, beauty and intelligence overly compensate that flaw. I take it as an excuse to show a marvelous, dazzlingly beautiful and decadent world rather than a true historical narration; same as I see the lead character's history as a metaphor of the life of a well-off American girl rather than a true portrayal of the authentic Marie Antoinette- probably something Coppola knows very well from her own experience. Kirsten Dunst is absolutely unbelievable as a French queen, but totally convincing-as always- as an adorably innocent teen upper class girl whose only care in the world- and it's a great care in her world- is to succeed in her imposed duty as the lead of the cool kids gang. The whole thing has a teen movie thing about it, and Versailles' shown almost as a 18th century version of Beverly Hills or some other Californian upper-echelon resort-actually it is shot under an everlasting sun that would have made the Versailles gardens impossible to maintain if Northern France's weather was really like that- and that's what makes characters as "dull" as king Louis XV or the Princess of Lamballe-likely the only two to have some accuracy to their original ones- so relatable because they are shown as respectively the socially awkward, extremely shy and sexually inexpert nerd boy and the squeaky clean and good willed girl-next-door. The same goes for the Duchess of Polignac and the very own Marie Antoinette, shown as a couple of frivolous and popular besties on their ridiculous quest to rule their little pastel-coloured world, who are adorable in their naiveté and carelessness. The whole movie is largely succession of balls, parties, friends hangouts and social acts that are much equiparable to our own world's teenage social life-with the same stiff structure. That's what eventually convinced me that's really a movie about being a teenager. The whole movie is filled with bittersweetness, angst, sorrow, but what stays with you after watching it is a fresh joie de vivre. The music and the titles are the icing in the cake. Charmingly anachronic, they are the clue to "see" the movie the way the director wants us to see it. Another thing I love about the movie is that, as it's typical in Coppola's films, colour and pacing are treated in a very particular way that almost no other director can afford; most movies with that palette look bland, and the pace is certainly slow, but the visual appeal is such that you just don't notice. I also love the fact that most French period movies are full of infinite shots showing the sets that most of the times are more an interruption of the movie than anything else. Coppola does nothing of it and still is very accurate-for once- in representing how spaces were lived in the 18th century. My favourite scene, that sums up all the things I like about the movie, is a one of a ball in the Paris Opera- built well after Marie Antoinette's death-in which a flock of noblemen lavishly dressed in over-the top costumes and masks dance in a circular, psychodelic motion to Siouxsie and the Banshees' Hong Kong Garden. It really captures the spirit of something beautiful but doomed, the irony of something as brilliant, unfair and decadent as teenage years and the Pre-revolutionary France. And all that without the slightest trace of faux artistry and "looking down on your unread criteria" that most directors would have pulled up in Coppola's case. Sorry for the long post but I really loved the movie. Please watch it if you haven't done it yet. I couldn't have said it better myself! I completely agree with every single word you said.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2017 16:17:24 GMT
I saw Dunkirk at the cinema today. It was brilliant. Easily one of the best films I've seen this year. If you enjoy war films I would definitely recommend it.
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Post by Neil on Jul 29, 2017 20:41:28 GMT
I saw Dunkirk at the cinema today. It was brilliant. Easily one of the best films I've seen this year. If you enjoy war films I would definitely recommend it. Was thinking of seeing this and will probably do so this or next weekend
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2017 23:32:46 GMT
I saw Dunkirk at the cinema today. It was brilliant. Easily one of the best films I've seen this year. If you enjoy war films I would definitely recommend it. Was thinking of seeing this and will probably do so this or next weekend Brilliant, hope you enjoy it's pretty intense viewing but it's really good.
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Post by Uncle Bob on Jul 30, 2017 0:50:59 GMT
"West Side Story" The last time I watched it was in school, grade 7. We watched it on VHS, I think, on this really really old TV that was inside a little movable cupboard. All I ever saw of the movie back then was... well, nothing. Just the door of that stupid TV cupboard. And I didn't hear anything either because all my class mates kept talking and the teacher didn't give a shit. So for a long time I connected "West Side Story" with bad memories and therefore didn't like it much. But I'm glad I finally re-watched it now, some 7 or 8 years later. Because it's actually quite good. I wrote a really long post, in reply to yours, the day you first posted. Apparently, I forgot to click "Create Post". My first experience seeing this movie was vastly different than yours. I loved this movie. My mom took me "downtown" to see it when I was nine years old. It was the first time I remember riding a city bus. It was the first time I remember riding the "rapid transit". That was the local name for the electric rail car system. It was the first time I remember seeing a movie "in color". I had done all these things before, I'm told, I just don't remember it. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen or heard, at that point in my life. I was so thrilled about the whole experience, almost missed the racial overtones of this movie. It took a while to sink in. I'm afraid to watch it now. I fear it will not live up to my memories.
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Post by BlackAndWhite on Aug 2, 2017 17:16:05 GMT
I just watched "Me Before You". I thoroughly enjoyed this movie: a deeply emotional and insightful story. It's impossible to hold back the tears! Furthermore, I love Emilia Clarke. I recommend it to everyone!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 7:06:21 GMT
IT 9/10 because it's Stephen King haha
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Post by Avengium on Aug 15, 2017 10:05:43 GMT
Is really that good?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2017 0:02:20 GMT
Pawn Sacrifice
I enjoyed it. I knew who Bobby Fischer was before watching the film but didn't know anything about his background or personality so it was pretty interesting.
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