* Did you watch a film last night (on Blu or DVD), and what was it? *
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I agree, Bob - I have absolutely no problems with the man, and this movie had me in its grip all the way through - story telling at its best ...
Re-watching the same movie thrice in its full entirety, and within a month.
Who would do that?
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Jaws is one of the best films of all times. ...It is superbly constructed with the perfect tension. ...The acting is also superb.
Thx Ron for the inspiration...coming up soon.
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It was a quiet night, in the darkness you could hear few frogs @ a distance.
Packed with my suitcase I unwrapped the transparent plastic covering, open the full metal jacket case, and slip "Sly" into my machine.
Rocky Balboa is 40-years old ... the original Rockie I saw it in 1976 @ a theater in Vancouver, on Granville street, with my girlfriend @ that time, Roxane.
Sylvester is 69...will be 70 on July 6.
Creed is Rocky number se7en. ...That number is a good number.
Stallone's performance is deserving of wisdom excellence.
• Recommended, very. And overall rating score (film value and technical merits): 84.5
I was going to write an essay on boxing, but decided to skip the idea. :b
Thx Ron for the inspiration...coming up soon.
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It was a quiet night, in the darkness you could hear few frogs @ a distance.
Packed with my suitcase I unwrapped the transparent plastic covering, open the full metal jacket case, and slip "Sly" into my machine.
Rocky Balboa is 40-years old ... the original Rockie I saw it in 1976 @ a theater in Vancouver, on Granville street, with my girlfriend @ that time, Roxane.
Sylvester is 69...will be 70 on July 6.
Creed is Rocky number se7en. ...That number is a good number.
Stallone's performance is deserving of wisdom excellence.
• Recommended, very. And overall rating score (film value and technical merits): 84.5
I was going to write an essay on boxing, but decided to skip the idea. :b
Late last night, Saturday night, after a Blues listening session, the night was still crisp in the nocturnal dark sky.
I took the initiative with one of my favorite filmmakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fincher ... and revisited his 1999's Brad Pitt and Edward Norton flick:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club
The overall mood is dark for sure, even darker because it is the underground world.
It has some moments of extreme impact, mixed with others of tenderness. Those are my own words to describe, without attempting to derive.
Instead of writing a long and elaborate description of the film's complexities and various philosophical themes, I will simply relieve myself of that task and leave it to you the readers...who most likely have already saw it anyway.
I like that film, and was "efficient" to re-experienced it again.
? Overal (film and technical visuals and audio merits): 84
Last word: It's not for everyone, and for the rest it has more than what you see onscreen.
I took the initiative with one of my favorite filmmakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fincher ... and revisited his 1999's Brad Pitt and Edward Norton flick:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club
The overall mood is dark for sure, even darker because it is the underground world.
It has some moments of extreme impact, mixed with others of tenderness. Those are my own words to describe, without attempting to derive.
Instead of writing a long and elaborate description of the film's complexities and various philosophical themes, I will simply relieve myself of that task and leave it to you the readers...who most likely have already saw it anyway.
I like that film, and was "efficient" to re-experienced it again.
? Overal (film and technical visuals and audio merits): 84
Last word: It's not for everyone, and for the rest it has more than what you see onscreen.
Ron, I revisited the big bad shark:
Quint (Robert Shaw) is the one who makes it all "suspense" work.
Overall: 92
Quint (Robert Shaw) is the one who makes it all "suspense" work.
Overall: 92
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Yes Bob, Robert Shaw has made so many movies work me for at a strong emotional level, there's a certain intensity to his being that strikes a deep chord with me ...
Life is a zoo. ...We lock ourselves between our own barriers and we can't 'excape'.
We are waiting for a phone call that will tell us the purpose of our existence, in vain.
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The Zero Theorem
Terry Gilliam is a visionary, a 'luminist', a mind of profound imagination. He composes landscapes that are fun and attractively playgrounds, and put synchronized people interacting with them luminous landscapes inside and outside...be it dark daytime, or bright nighttime. It's always colorful, even @ the edge of the apotheosis, in the darkest areas of the universe. The dreams are svelte.
To be entertained is to dream...
? Overall (all): 89
Last word: Don't answer the phone.
We are waiting for a phone call that will tell us the purpose of our existence, in vain.
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The Zero Theorem
Terry Gilliam is a visionary, a 'luminist', a mind of profound imagination. He composes landscapes that are fun and attractively playgrounds, and put synchronized people interacting with them luminous landscapes inside and outside...be it dark daytime, or bright nighttime. It's always colorful, even @ the edge of the apotheosis, in the darkest areas of the universe. The dreams are svelte.
To be entertained is to dream...
? Overall (all): 89
Last word: Don't answer the phone.
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The film's critics (the majority of them) totally missed the ? essence.
? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zero_Theorem
? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zero_Theorem
Those two above are great examples of film replay value.
* Sam Mendes (Skyfall and Spectre) is one of my favorite movie directors ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mendes
...Along with Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan.
Their films deserved to be reviewed, inspected, analysed, contemplated, ...more than once, twice and thrice...
It's the same with the music composers. And the music scores we love in films have all the rights to be listened again.
? Spectre starts in Mexico City, during the celebrations of the Dead, and with that particular color tone palette that Mexico City is during very hot days.
I appreciate that, as I've been there in real life.
Also, all the various locales in Spectre are masterfully photographed. They transport us in ways that is classic to Bond's films, from Sam Mendes's vision, with his cinematographer collaborators. The music score is also another essential element. All of this contributes to the film's structure sowed around its storyline and with the actors and the "Bond girls". ...The villains too, the cars, the gadgets, the watches, the cool and rich factors. ...The decor sets, the chic elegance in the wardrobe and shoes they wear (British and Italian high-end).
There is much more in some films than a one-time viewing only; particularly from the masters of cinema, the movie maestros.
I love deciphering some films like I do with some music recordings from the artist musicians/opera singers I love listening to.
I love using both my eyes and ears as a full pleasure of the senses. ...It vibrates my artistic internal chords in harmony with the creators...artist musicians and filmmakers of high caliber, like the famous paintings from the best painters...Dali, Picasso & the gang...from France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, USA, Canada, ...
Films are like wines; each bottle is unique. ...The taste in time and in space where the degustation is taking place.
And when opening a second bottle from the same vintage, the time is different, and our palate reacts differently, with slight variation.
That's the real dimension in things we love in life; music, films, food, wines, paintings, sculptures, ...the arts. ...The art of wine making, food preparation...
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Sam Mendes
1999 American Beauty
2002 Road to Perdition
2005 Jarhead
2007 The Kite Runner
2008 Revolutionary Road
2009 Away We Go
2013 Skyfall
2015 Spectre
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^^ Big fan of 'Road to Perdition'
Love how the music is used in that film. It's 20's-30's depiction is spot on throughout. IMHO of course!
Love how the music is used in that film. It's 20's-30's depiction is spot on throughout. IMHO of course!
And who's starring in Road to Perdition ? Yes, James Bond 007 - Daniel Craig, the same James Bond guy who was in Skyfall and in Spectre ... all directed by the same director, Sam Mendes.
Road to Perdition is a great film, with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, plus 007
The atmosphere is tangible, and the music score by Tom Newman, adding to that "rainy" tension between rain droplets and bullets.
Road to Perdition is a great film, with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, plus 007
The atmosphere is tangible, and the music score by Tom Newman, adding to that "rainy" tension between rain droplets and bullets.
That was David still being cast as a heavy.
Not nany actors get the chance to turn that around.
You can literally watch Eyes Wide Shut 3 or 4 times and still detect new layers of meaning.
Sam Mendes' artistic choice...with a very specific goal...photography/cinematography
? http://nofilmschool.com/2015/11/director-sam-mendes-35mm-film-james-bond-spectre
• http://www.digitaltrends.com/photog...look-spectres-filmmakers-return-to-35mm-film/
* http://www.indiewire.com/article/why-sam-mendes-wanted-to-shoot-spectre-in-35mm-20151103
? http://nofilmschool.com/2015/11/director-sam-mendes-35mm-film-james-bond-spectre
• http://www.digitaltrends.com/photog...look-spectres-filmmakers-return-to-35mm-film/
* http://www.indiewire.com/article/why-sam-mendes-wanted-to-shoot-spectre-in-35mm-20151103
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