Resurrecting the Movies thread...

[Kd5000]

Another list showing Brokeback Mountain as being a great Valentine's Day movie to watch. Most of the lists I've seen BBM appearing on say "You don't have to be gay to..." well something to that effect. I guess more ppl might watch BBM if it keep appearing on so many lists. 

Check this one out. Some of the other movies mentioned are among my favorites; Annie Hall, Eternal Sunshine and Roman Holiday.

11. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
For all the talk about Brokeback Mountain as a groundbreaking film about gay lovers, what really makes the story work is its depiction of love as a kind of lucky escape: how fortunate Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are to find each other in the middle of nowhere, and how eagerly they look forward to the few times a year they get to reunite. Gay or not, anyone who’s ever been in a long-distance relationship can identify with the feeling that the time spent with a beloved partner is portioned off from everyday life—so sacred and rare that it’s almost unreal.
"Romance minus the schmaltz: 29 falling-in-love movies we actually believe in"
http://www.avclub.com/articles/romance-minus-the-schmaltz-29-fallinginlove-movies,23565/

[MaineWriter]

Thanks, Gil.  The messenger and flying backwards characteristics really resonate with the movie's themes, I think.  Maybe the hummingbird was never mentioned in the script by any character, but just appeared.  I wonder, was it in the original short story?

No. I just read the short story a few weeks ago. It is not much of a stretch to say that the only thing the short story and the movie have in common is the title and the notion of someone aging backwards. Everything else is different.

The short story is free at feedbooks.com. You can probably download it and read it on your computer. I read it on my Kindle.

L

[Front-Ranger]

I thought the makeup in that dance-school scene, where Benjamin was maybe 18 or so (physically), was a bit startling. Completely convincing, on the one hand, though his eyes looked slightly alien, like they were pasted on.

Wasn't that an outtake from Thelma and Louise??

[Front-Ranger]

I still have not seen THE READER, SLUMDOG, or THE WRESTLER.  SLUMDOG comes out in mid-March on DVD so maybe I will just wait.  It will probably win best picture. PPl want a "happy movie" (I gather that it is not serious social commentary) for BP given the dreary historic times the world finds itself in.

A movie can be serious social commentary AND have funny/happy moments too. Where is it decreed that a movie about real life has to have a sad ending? (Maybe Sartre declared that?) I'm thinking about Arthur Penn's Little Big Man and the British film O Lucky Man. SM is in that genre.

[serious crayons]

No. I just read the short story a few weeks ago. It is not much of a stretch to say that the only thing the short story and the movie have in common is the title and the notion of someone aging backwards. Everything else is different.

The short story is free at feedbooks.com. You can probably download it and read it on your computer. I read it on my Kindle.

I read it online. Or I should say, skimmed it. Your description is right on, Leslie, not a stretch at all.

[MaineWriter]

Wasn't that an outtake from Thelma and Louise??

It sure looked like it. Or they photoshopped the T&L Brad Pitt into the scene.

L

[southendmd]

On a whim, I saw Coraline on Monday.  Well, actually not a whim, but rather I had heard the filmmaker on NPR and was inspired to go.

I don't think it has been advertised very well, but the show was sold out! 

Honestly, it must have been my first 3-D film ever.  Go for the animation alone.  It's that very labor-intensive stop-animation stuff, so imaginative.  The story, well, it's less Alice in Wonderland, and more cliché-evil-engulfing-mother-be-careful-what-you-wish-for. 

[serious crayons]

It's that very labor-intensive stop-animation stuff, so imaginative. 

So do they actually shoot one frame, stop, move the character's hand a quarter millimeter, shoot another frame, stop, move a foot and an eyebrow a quarter millimeter, etc.?

[southendmd]

So do they actually shoot one frame, stop, move the character's hand a quarter millimeter, shoot another frame, stop, move a foot and an eyebrow a quarter millimeter, etc.?

You bet!

Same in Nightmare Before Christmas and the Wallace and Gromit films.

[BelAir]

in case anyone didn't know...  'he's just not that into you' - sh*t movie.