"Curse of the Golden Flower" - 8/10
period kung-fu movie with a plot++ breathtaking sets and costumes, good action, has a very "dynasty warriors" feel to the big battle.
makes me want to see Yimou Zhang's other recent films (hero and house of flying daggers).
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"A Scanner Darkly" - 6/10
(should be a 7, but it looses a point because the animation gets really anoying)
not much to say... its a dark comedy, i enjoyed it, makes me want to read the book.
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"Blood Diamond" - 7/10
Above average movie; but nothing spectacular.
It's a good thriller, acting is solid, story is good and contemporary... the character drama gets a bit slow and overdone.
Dr_Watson wrote:
makes me want to see Yimou Zhang's other recent films (hero and house of flying daggers).
Winners.
Lock Stock... 9/10 - Watched it again. What a great flick.
GF had only seen bits of it long ago, so this was pretty much her first time seeing it. She did really well keeping the plot in order since she has a hard time following Brit dialog. So gg her. :icon14:
what a fucking rush, felt like a nightmare you couldn't wake up from.
hard to believe it wasn't far from the truth
When I saw that in the theater my GF said at the end (with the boat) "Well I'm glad it had a happy ending." To which I said, "Honey, that is not a happy ending."
Dr_Watson wrote:"Curse of the Golden Flower" - 8/10
period kung-fu movie with a plot++ breathtaking sets and costumes, good action, has a very "dynasty warriors" feel to the big battle.
makes me want to see Yimou Zhang's other recent films (hero and house of flying daggers).
I loved Hero and House of Flying Daggers enough to buy them both on DVD, but I absolutely hated Curse of the Golden Flower -- so let me know how that works out for ya.
Seemed to me it was all just ridiculous antics by a bunch of great actors who nonetheless didn't manage to make me give a shit about their family dynamics (slight curiosity about why he would poison his own wife was about all it aroused in me), capped off by completely underwhelming "fight" scenes (just barely worthy of the name) which leave everybody dead and thus equally useless to the way they were from the film's beginning.
what a fucking rush, felt like a nightmare you couldn't wake up from.
hard to believe it wasn't far from the truth
When I saw that in the theater my GF said at the end (with the boat) "Well I'm glad it had a happy ending." To which I said, "Honey, that is not a happy ending."
i was less than entertained by this movie. filmic convention dictates that transparent plans should fail, while opaque plans succeed, otherwise mild disappointment ensues
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Anyway, the gf loves Audrey Hepburn movies, and I came home to see the end of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Not anything worth mentioning here, except that it had Mickey Rooney cast as a cartoonishly stereotypical Japanese man. It was almost worth it for that.
Who thought it was a good idea to choose Mickey Rooney over...say... a real Japanese man?
Ghostrider: 5/10 I wasn't expecting much....some decent action set pieces, cool premise, weak characterizations, dull plot, and Wes whathisface was a decent baddie. Better than Fantastic Four but that's isn't saying much.
