[Closed] Recent Viewing Part III

I know he knows you know he knows.
And so does he.
Probably.

LOST started good and then got crapper and crapper until it was a mushy shite!

I thought your name was Timmy!

I really can't be arsed to explain this.

And 'Timmy' eh? Just when I thought we were civil to one another Unless you want me to return to your name of Sun-il Jim then just keep it to Tim or Timmer....got it!?

Aurore
Saw this Canadian movie entirely on Youtube where someone had uploaded it in 11 parts. I like the Michel Cusson score and that's the only reason for my watching this. It's based on the true story of Aurore Gagnon who was tortured to death by her father and stepmother. A sad story but some good performances especially by the kid who plays Aurore.

Food Inc.
At first I tried watching On The Beach but the low production values and dragging nature of the first 30 minutes made me ditch it and watch this documentary instead. It's a disturbing look into the food processing industry and its all pervading influences. Watching this made me glad to be a vegetarian. The extent of dirty business by the meat industry is sickening. Alas, vegetables aren't entirely safe either but atleast they're better off compared to meat. The single most important take away from this is to eat healthy food from locally grown, organic farms and to read the labels carefully.

This also got me thinking about the situation in India where thanks to
1) Primitive farming methods & lack of modernization in agriculture
2) The minuscule market for beef (cow is sacred) and pork (pigs are considered unclean)
those aforementioned problems are largely obviated. Yay!

The story is about torture? I would never have guessed from the music. I thought it might be a sweet Catholic romance or something.

La môme (aka. La vie en rose)

About Edith Piaf, a person who I knew practically nothing about. It's the kinda movie that gets lots of awards, being very well made, well casted, excellent costumes and makeup, beautiful and carefully planned scenes and lotsa dramatic moments. The scene where [spoiler]we learn that Marcel had died in a plane crash[/spoiler] was amazingly well done, all in one shot, and amazing acting by Marion Cotillard. It's the kinda stuff that the Academy Awards have wet dreams about, so no wonder she won the Oscar. All those compliments said, I didn't really enjoy the movie. It didn't engage me for most of its running time, and there were so many characters and so much stuff happening that I ended up being confused by who was who and what happened. I got the feeling that this was the kind of movie only fans of Edith Piaf would enjoy, but considering her very eventful and short life, I think the movie should have been more.

Rated it 4/10 on imdb.

Peter

I'm sure you wouldn't like it Demetris. It's the kind of movie where you, throughout the movie, sit and think "Wow, this is very well made, beautiful scenes, dramatic events, the acting is wonderful... and I'm bored out of my mind!!"

Edited to add: I did enjoy Christopher Gunning's music though. It's rather subtle, but the theme is repeated often enough during the movie to be enjoyable to film score fans.

Peter

You're kidding!

I loved that film, and found it brilliantly clever: a Godzilla film filmed from ground zero!
I enjoyed it immensely!

I've not seen Cloverfield yet, but I'd imagine that the style of the filming would probably ruin the rest of the film.

From the style I've seen of The Blair Witch Project I think that I'd hate that as well.

I am not into the BLAIR WITCH PROJECT / PARANORMAL ACTIVITY shaky cam crap films either where they shaky cam is actually the sole meaning of the movie. I haven't seen Cloverfield though.

To be fair: I'm only able to watch these films on TV.
In a cinema I'd be barfing my head off.

Oh I saw this on the huge screen, and I was fully immersed the whole time. But I understand it can make one feel sick after a while.

Is this set computer-coloured?
And does it include the extremely elusive Fra Diavolo?