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Chris' Movie Questions: My MYSTIC RIVER Review
littleguitar:
--- Quote from: cHrIs_sLaYeRs on June 29, 2006, 11:23:11 pm ---Its supposed to be really good Mandy...really good! And Meryl Streeps performance is said to be Oscar worthy...as usual really..
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I bet, it looks so good! I'm going to see it tomorrow, I shouldn't, i have to work and I'll be cutting it really close, but I can't wait! If I don't go see it tomorrow it'll be a good month before I get the chance to go to the movies again :-\
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: henrypie on June 29, 2006, 02:37:57 pm ---P.S. I thought this thread was going to be about Brangelina.
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LMAO!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Me too, that's why I paused to read it. Heh.
Love 'Out of Africa'. I have the movie, the book, Karen Blixen and Denys Finch Hatten's biographies and the soundtrack.
I'm a sucker for turn of the century colonial Africa and I really like the feminist take of Streep's portrayal of Blixen. Klaus Maria Brandauer leaves Redford in the dust as far as charisma is concerned. HE's the stud of this movie.
Favorite lines from the movie:
SPOILERS!!!! SPOILERS!!!! SPOILERS!!!! SPOILERS!!!! SPOILERS!!!
Karen, suggesting her friend Bror marry her so they both can benefit.
Bror: No, I have to marry a virgin. I can't stand criticism.
Karen, upon hearing her husband wants a divorce: How do you manage it? To keep us friends?
Bror, her husband: We started that way.
HIGHLY recommend.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on June 30, 2006, 09:19:51 pm ---Klaus Maria Brandauer leaves Redford in the dust as far as charisma is concerned. HE's the stud of this movie.
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THANK you. Exactly how I feel. I recommend it too, for the music and cinematography and everyone in it except Robert Redford. If you want to be swept up into an epic love story, that'll still happen - but it's between Karen Blixen and Africa, not between her and Denys.
Strangely enough, my favorite lines have to do with Denys:
Denys: You've ruined it for me.
Karen: What?
Denys: Being alone.
Karen at Denys' grave site: So now, take back Denys Finch Hatten. He was not ours. He was not mine.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on July 01, 2006, 07:43:51 am ---If you want to be swept up into an epic love story, that'll still happen - but it's between Karen Blixen and Africa, not between her and Denys.
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Exactly. The movie is brilliant in this aspect. Both the audience and Karen the character - and if you read her biography, the real Karen - think that it's a love story between her and Denys, when in fact, if you pull back and see the bigger picture and as the real Karen later realizes in hindsight, the love story was about her and Africa.
Love love love this movie.
Favorite romantic part: Hair washing scene. Not because of that intimacy, but because Denys is reciting to her the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' during it. And SHE knows it well enough herself to know when he's skipping verses!!!! ZOW!!!
Other favorite line:
Farah, Karen's Somalia manservant: God is happy, sabou. He plays with us.
slayers_creek_oth:
Ok I merged all my threads asking about movies into one....so I'm just gonna change the subject everytime I have a question and bump it to the top...
Here I am wanting more information on another film....and the worst part about it is I think I've asked about this one before...
Gandhi....1982....Best Picture...is it any good?
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