movies

[The Third Man]

Anybody else here seen The Sweet Hereafter? I watched it this morning. Great, great movie. I was really impressed. So sad and beautiful without ever being sentimental. The way Holm's feelings about his own daughter are paralleled/contrasted with the grief of the community was really powerful (and Holm is fantastic, gotta be one of my favorite actors). Can't think of a single thing to complain about.

[SHOW]

Excellent movie, but I was a little annoyed by the incest angle. It ends up playing a significant role in the movie, but everything could have gone exactly the same way without it and it felt like Egoyan crammed it in there because he isn't comfortable making a movie that doesn't explore some form of abnormal sexual behavior.

I thought it fit well, because the thing I got most out of the movie was that most of these people had nothing outside of their kids, and their lives become unbearable without them. All of the ugliness and emptiness of some of their personal lives comes to the forefront when their primary source of joy is taken. The situation with Nicole ends up putting a living face on all of that.

[ghostrunner]

Sweet Hereafter is one of my favorites.

[SHOW]

Do we need to spoiler this one?

FWIW, the incest bit isn't Egoyan's as far as I know. My understanding is that it's in the book. I guess you could argue he should have addressed it more directly, but I was fine with it.

[The Third Man]

Wiki validates you. The author, Russell Banks, has admitted that he thinks the movie is better than his book.

[TimeForGuinness]

I liked much of it, but it didn't bowl me over.

I'm going to be seeing it again with my mom because she really wants to see it. We'll see if it settles better the 2nd time.

I liked it too...I like Guy Ritchie movies (except one of them).

I think I had a low bar set, which may be why I liked it...Robert Downey Jr. is cool as always.

7/10 if you're looking for a fun movie.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Watched Zombieland again. That movie is so much fun.

[cards2468]

Watched Zombieland again. That movie is so much fun.

Is it out on DVD/Bluray? I could go for some Zombieland now. I've been playing Borderlands with the new Zombie Island add-on and all I can think about is killing zombies.

[The Third Man]

Caught my first Bunuel this morning (hi, JL!) - Belle de Jour. Really good movie, if a bit dry at times, but with a pretty solid sense of humor to balance things out (the "Duchess" sequence and the funeral sequence were ridiculous, in a good way). Catherine Deneuve is unreal gorgeous - doubtful that movie would work as well with anybody less beautiful, and she's a good actress to boot. Lots of juicy themes to examine here - sexual perversity, escapism, misogyny, et al. Seemed like it was going to get arbitrary towards the end but it wrapped up everything nicely with the ending - I wasn't expecting that at all. I'll have to make a point of seeing more Bunuel in the near future.

[omaha_red]

Caught my first Bunuel this morning (hi, JL!) - Belle de Jour. Really good movie, if a bit dry at times, but with a pretty solid sense of humor to balance things out (the "Duchess" sequence and the funeral sequence were ridiculous, in a good way). Catherine Deneuve is unreal gorgeous - doubtful that movie would work as well with anybody less beautiful, and she's a good actress to boot. Lots of juicy themes to examine here - sexual perversity, escapism, misogyny, et al. Seemed like it was going to get arbitrary towards the end but it wrapped up everything nicely with the ending - I wasn't expecting that at all. I'll have to make a point of seeing more Bunuel in the near future.

you're about to embark on a wonderful journey.. i've seen all but a few of Bunuel's movies..
his super early stuff is extremely surreal (and silent) .. the middle chunk varies
from very foriegn, to very 40's and 50's hollywood.. and he finishes out his days going
back to some ubsurdly entertaining surreal/political/upper class satire.. Belle De Jour is
somewhere in the middle of the latter 2.. i know JL is big on his later works such as
"Phantom of the Liberty" and "Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" where i loved the early
and middle movies a lot better. Go snag "Un Chien Andalou".. as big a movie fan as you
needs to be able to say he's seen that movie.. (oh.. and it's only 16 minutes long)

[Jocephus]

i just watched "jason goes to hell"....awful

[Freed Roger]

Watched this tonight because I like this song in it.

turned out to be a good flick. sort of warped IMO but probably not to the jaded.