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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 25, 2009, 09:06:46 pm ---Yee-haw!! Paul, as a prize, would you take a T-shirt, size small, that says "Woof"??
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Aw, that's so thoughtful. But, I haven't been a small since, well, never.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Ellemenopox on December 29, 2008, 05:16:52 am ---Well this was a fun project. I looked through several lists of what were called 2008 movies (though I notice that IMDb, which I consider the arbiter, didn't always agree, and called some of them 2007, but if they were on a 2008 list, and I felt like including them, here they are).
My Top Movies of 2008:
Walk Hard (Great and respectful parody of Ray, Walk the Line, The Doors, and others. I really enjoy John C. Reilly.)
Synecdoche, New York (Oh man, someone see it!)
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This will be out on Blu-Ray March 10!!
http://www.sonyclassics.com/synecdocheny/
Front-Ranger:
Thank heavens for DVVDs, Blu-Ray and otherwise. I just looked at the list of upcoming movies and it looks like a long spring for me... beginning with X-Men (yawn), yet another Star Trek, Angels and Demons (it won't be what it could have been, I fear), Terminator (pleaz!) and Up (looks like the best, but it won't be here till nearly June!).
oilgun:
Well, for what it's worth, the upcoming STAR TREK won't have William Shatner in it! That's a good thing.
At least three good movies are opening this weekend in my city:
1- NIGHTWATCHING - A new Peter Greenaway film featuring Rembrandt and the story behind his famous painting.
2- WATCHMEN - I want to read the graphic novel first so I'll probably wait a couple of weeks. The novel is by he same guy who did V FOR VENDETTA which I really enjoyed, but the film's director is the guy who did 300 which I hated.
3- PONTYPOOL - This is probably only opening in Canada but it's getting good reviews. Canadian actor Stephen McHattie plays a radio shock jock in a small town where a strange infection, spread by the English language, is turning the inhabitants into killer zombies. From director Buce MacDonald.
Next week:
GOMORRAH - The mafia film from Italy that has been generating a lot of buzz.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: oilgun on March 06, 2009, 08:53:44 pm ---Well, for what it's worth, the upcoming STAR TREK won't have William Shatner in it! That's a good thing.
At least three good movies are opening this weekend in my city:
1- NIGHTWATCHING - A new Peter Greenaway film featuring Rembrandt and the story behind his famous painting.
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Greenaway? Whatever else it will be, the movie will be beautiful to watch.
--- Quote ---2- THE WATCHMEN - I want to read the graphic novel first so I'll probably wait a couple of weeks. The novel is by he same guy who did V FOR VENDETTA which I really enjoyed, but the film's director is the guy who did 300 which I hated.
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I'm not a graphics novel fan, so these sort of movies are wasted on me. I wasn't impressed with V for Vendetta, and the only saving grace for 300 was the cast of hunky men in next to nothing - and sometimes nothing - and the beautiful graphics.
The Ghost by Roman Polanski is currently filming, but for me, Roman is hit or miss.
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