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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
oilgun:
Last night I watched a pretty decent Spanish horror movie called [REC]. Apparently, QUARANTINE is close to being a shot-for-shot remake of it.
serious crayons:
I finally got around to seeing Frost/Nixon and Pan's Labyrinth yesterday. Both were excellent. In different ways, of course.
F/N did such a great job of humanizing Nixon without making him any less evil. As Neil Young sang, "Even Richard Nixon has got soul." (George W. Bush I'm not so sure about.) Michael Sheen and Frank Langella were both really good. I kept trying to remember what the real Frost and Nixon were like. Now I'd be interested in renting the original interviews.
Meryl:
I agree about "Frost/Nixon", Katherine. They all did a great job making those interviews into an interesting, even suspenseful, movie. 8)
Last night I saw "The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke. I enjoyed it and thought it was a very well-done character study of this aging guy who was no longer able to make a living at wrestling and really had no game plan for the future. Mickey Rourke was terrific, and fearless about showing the wear and tear on his beat-up, over-drugged, battle-scarred body, as well as very sensitive to the inner workings of the man. There's not much story here except to watch him slowly drowning and reaching out for whatever human contact he can manage along the way. The look of the film is really great; the locations, the people around him, all make you feel you've lived in that seamy world for a short time. Just be prepared for some harrowing stuff in the wrestling ring--I didn't know the crowds demanded such brutality from their heroes. Afterwards I felt like going home and swallowing a handful of ibuprofen! :P
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 24, 2009, 02:05:50 am ---I'm totally elated tonight after seeing Slumdog Millionaire!! Some of the images are bursting in my brain, filling me with a primitive urge to paw the white out of the moon!!
--- End quote ---
Told you! Yes!
;D
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Meryl on February 01, 2009, 12:51:27 pm ---Last night I saw "The Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke.
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You DID?? Meryl, you never told me you know Mr. Rourke! Did you have dinner afterwards? Tell us more! ::)
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