[Closed] Recent Viewing Part III

Ah, films I could (and have) watch over and over again:

Apocalypse Now
The Godfather 1 & 2
Patton
The Conversation
The Man Who Would Be King
Lawrence of Arabia
The Searchers
Dr Strangelove
The Shining
North by Northwest
Goodfellas
Charade
To Kill a Mockingbird
Alien
Chinatown
Goldfinger
From Russia With Love
Dances With Wolves
Die Hard
Airplane
Once Upon a Time in the West
Avalon
(dare I say...)Avatar

Mine aren't!

I find it just as brilliant as the other two. Not a dull moment.

Peter

Films I can see again and again and again and again and ...

- ALIENS, favourite film ever, will never change
- The other Alien films, whenever I want to watch Aliens I watch the others too
- All of James Cameron's films, except Piranha II
- Most of Steven Spielberg's films
- Most of the Star Trek films
- Star Wars original trilogy
- Lethal Weapon 3 & 4
- Back to the Future trilogy
- Fearless (Jeff Bridges)
- Carlito's Way
- Contact
- Braveheart
- Legends of the Fall
- Heat
- The Big Lebowski

There are more but those are some of my favourites.

America can't do fine television?

-Erik-

I'm not even going to get into this with you.

-Erik-

Just saw The king's speech.

Colin Firth deserves the Oscar and I'm confident he'll get it. I felt sympathy with him the entire movie, what a performance. I thought Helena Bonham Carter was perfect in this movie as well. Geoffrey Rush was great as well, but he's basically just doing his usual thing so wouldn't think he deserves the statuette.

My rating: 8

And Flatliners

Great movie. Newton Howard occasionally soars (especially the end piece). It was also nice in this movie that there was a reasonable skeptic and atheist (played by Kevin Bacon) who was openminded and caring, and a true skeptic who was open to contrary evidence, instead of the usual Hollywood portrayal of atheists as closeminded and heartless a-holes.

Btw, I really dislike Oliver Platt. I don't think I've ever seen a movie with him where I actually liked him.

My rating: 7

Peter

One of Schumacher's better pictures and one I've immediately liked way back when it came out. The at times wonderful score still hasn't been released, and it really needs to be. Its existence on bootleg doesn't do it justice.

Where do you think it failed Peter? I'm more of putting this in a 10 category. This was a film that got an 'r' rating that perhaps kept some people away from it. The one rough language part was an important part of the film.
Thomas

Some statements on how being more strict can lead to more rebellious children:

http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-t … -parenting

But I can probably find lots of evidence against this argument as well as more for the argument as well.

And there's American television that Britain couldn't do. Can't we just celebrate the best that comes from both?!

Bingo! Each child is different and each child needs different styles of parenting. You CANNOT generalize this.

-Erik-

There are some parameters that you can generalize.

1....The parents need a certain level of involvement. None of this 70+hours a week working for both of them. Better to have less and be able to offer yourself. Far more important than giving them things. Your love and understanding is priceless.
2....Certain rules have to be followed with consequences if they don't. Children appreciate boundaries.

Thomas

Bodyguards and Assassins (2009)

Rather good movie about a group of people who defend a powerful man in order to create a revolution, thereby destroying the corrupt Qing dynasty. But they will not let this happen so easily and send a bunch of Assassins to stop this man. The focus of this movie is not put on the man who changes the fate of China, but on the men who swore to protect him. The first part is slow but delivers us the chance to fall in love with the characters who will ultimately defend him. The second part is the whole assassination sequence and here is where the movie delivers us good solid action but above all very good drama.

I was expecting a Kung fu movie, especially because Donnie Yen is in it, but I discovered that he was but a small player in what is a good dramatic (action) movie. Even though the begin doesn't show it, after a while it's pretty clear how the storyline goes (something that's not always the case with these Eastern movies) and you'll fall in love with some of these characters rather easily.

Again, don't watch this for the kung fu, but expect something deeper. Once I did, i quite liked it.

7 out of 10

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The Last Starfighter (1984)

It's pretty unbelievable that I never saw this movie before. It's one of those cult classics of the early 80's and looks incredibly dated now, but the charm surely survived after all this time. The plot's pretty simple, a boy breaks the record of a video game called "The Last Starfighter" and discovers that the game is in fact very real. The people who designed the game now call upon his help to stop an imminent threat.

As said, the effects look incredibly cheap and the plot somewhat sounds the same like the first Tron, but it does have a couple of nice things, not the least the typical 80's charm and the wonderful score by Craig Safan (I always knew the theme). The last 15 minutes deliver me the typical 80's charm you just don't find anymore today in movies.

pleasant movie, I can't decide whether I give it 6 or 7

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