What Was The Last Movie You Saw? Welcome Cinephiles.

Talon · 04-13-2012, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Cowboi

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

The American version was okay...preferred the original Swedish version, though...more raw and realistic..better acting.

foxyshaman · 04-13-2012, 10:36 AM

Hunger Games - although it was good I was left feeling "meh". I am grateful I had listened to the book before I saw the movie.

Book 2 is coming on audio very soon... Now I just need to find a Sunday to lay on the couch and listen to someone tell me a story. (Contented sigh)

puddin' · 04-20-2012, 01:18 AM

"the girl who kicked the hornet's nest" thumbs up

"pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides" meh

"dilemma" fun

NorCalStud · 04-20-2012, 02:35 AM

Shame..total sleeper but I like flannery oconner type stories and these people were beautiful on the outside and fucked up on the inside..I watched Elizabeth again tonight on hbo. I watched Iron Lady and that was worthy.

pinkgeek · 04-20-2012, 02:42 AM

Mirror Mirror - I neaaaarly walked out.

pinkgeek · 04-20-2012, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Talon

The American version was okay...preferred the original Swedish version, though...more raw and realistic..better acting.

Has anyone seen the 10 hour long (total) extended edition of all 3 movies? While 3 hours per movie seems excessive it actually made the films better and I didn't mind the length. Good movie went from good to great!

SugarFemme · 04-20-2012, 03:24 AM

puddin' · 04-20-2012, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by pinkgeek

Has anyone seen the 10 hour long (total) extended edition of all 3 movies? While 3 hours per movie seems excessive it actually made the films better and I didn't mind the length. Good movie went from good to great!

are you referrin' to da stieg larrson trilogy?
i won't watch da hollywood version. da swedish ones are right on in me book. yah...

Talon · 04-20-2012, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by pinkgeek

Has anyone seen the 10 hour long (total) extended edition of all 3 movies? While 3 hours per movie seems excessive it actually made the films better and I didn't mind the length. Good movie went from good to great!

Yes...I have them. Yes, I agree. I think when a film is really good, you don't notice the length, really.

Just watched "Vera Drake" (good) and "The Skin I Live In"...(whoa)..

Sparkle · 04-20-2012, 08:25 PM

I finally broke down and watched the Fincher version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I was dreading it, and simultaneously morbidly curious. I LOVED the Swedish versions as well, they were spot on.

The Fincher film was not as bad as I anticipated. It looks great. It is slick and atmospheric. But it felt empty. The characters were not developed, the key relationships were not developed, if you had not read the books I think you'd be perplexed by some of the twists and turns of the story. They made some odd choices and changed the story in small ways that allowed them to cut what they felt were extraneous parts of the story.

Regarding the casting....Daniel Craig is a little bit rough and a little bit craggy, but I think he's got too much of that James Bond-action hero quality about his physicality to make a good Bloomkvist, I didn't find him cheeky or charming or sharp. And Rooney Mara. Ugh, I've hated this casting decision from the beginning (Noomi Rapace knocked it out of the park as Lisbeth - who can compete with her?). After watching the film I must concede that Rooney Mara is a very good actress. I enjoyed her performance BUT I really hated the way they styled her Lisbeth, I found it distracting and just wrong.

All in all, its not a bad film - its aesthetically beautiful, fast paced and well made - very high gloss. But it can't compete with the Swedish versions, and it doesn't do the book justice. I have not watched the 10-hour extended version of the trilogy yet, but I intend to.

I also saw "Sarah's Key" with Kristin Scott Thomas. It was a good film, very evocative, terribly sad - about the persecution of the Jews (by the French) in France during WWII. Definitely worth a watch.

And I watched "Melancholia" the other night. I wanted to like it. It has an interesting premise...but my god it was reaaaaalllllyyyy loooooong. It was pretty self-indulgent, arty for the sake of being arty. And yet I was compelled to sit through all 2hours and 15minutes of it. I was kind of sorry I did.

SoulShineFemme · 04-22-2012, 06:54 PM

ONLY and I had some time together this weekend so we watched The Descendants and District 9. Whew. Both were intense in different ways.

puddin' · 04-22-2012, 11:11 PM

liked "district 9". yup.

enjoyed "the book of eli". a lot.

"racing stripes". what a great, fun & fantastic film! (a total feel good movie!)

puddin' · 04-22-2012, 11:51 PM

gettin' ready to watch one o' me late momma's fave films... "the misfits"...

Semantics · 09-29-2012, 06:31 PM

Melancholia.

and while it was beautiful to watch I didn't love it.

04-13-2012, 10:36 AM	#2
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04-22-2012, 06:54 PM	#11
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