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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/15/2009 12:59:52 PM
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angie4God
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which one? the original or the remake?
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Last House on the Left.
Why oh why did I watch this?? There were scenes I had to fast forward through - one scene in particular in the woods. Why was that even necessary? If there was ever a movie I could unwatch this would be it!
The new one - the remake
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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/15/2009 3:27:28 PM
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"The Baader Meiinhof Complex"
A fascinating lesson on the birth of modern terrorism.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/17/2009 2:20:43 AM
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L'amour Douce
It's an old, 1985 French rom-com starring Daniel Autueil as a lawyer and interestingly enough, his future ex-wife Emmanuelle Beart. It's interesting because prior to the roles Beart have been starring in, she wasn't typecast as some sex-charged, hooker-like, but still damaged caricature we in the Anglo cineaste world are all too expectant of her now!
Election 2 (a.k.a, Triad Election 2)
As a sequel to Johnnie To's prior Election film, this story now centers on a young, MBA industrialist/Triad member, trying his luck running for the most prime seat in Hong Kong's underworld--but not for nefarious reasons: he wants to use that criminal chairperson role as the means of going legit--especially with mainland China's burgeoning economic superpower status, in an otherwise, corruption-prone culture, so it's no cynical surprise to find the Beijing-linked players are in on their Hong Kong compatriot's, blood money enterprise--given how many stories of Communist corruption seems to be ever-rampant in the PRC! I suppose that's why the film's tagline cynically states that even criminals can serve their country!
Word of caution: there's a particular torture scene involving German Shepards and some nasty-looking butcher cleavers, SO BE FOREWARNED! 
Whether or not the film will be looked favorably outside of Hong Kong, i.e, Shanghai or even Beijing, remains to be seen... literally!   
TRAILER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8baJa-VMUdM
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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/17/2009 7:20:18 PM
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X-Men Origins:Wolverine- absolutely AWESOME!!!
Beverly Hills Chihuahua - cute
The International- depressing!
Hotel For Dogs- better than I thought...
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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/19/2009 4:19:14 PM
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which one? the original or the remake?
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Last House on the Left.
Why oh why did I watch this?? There were scenes I had to fast forward through - one scene in particular in the woods. Why was that even necessary? If there was ever a movie I could unwatch this would be it!
The new one - the remake
awesome movie. the scene in the woods set up the story so could understand why a parent would snap on scum.
i watched an old fave of mine Wanted Dead or Alive with rutger hauer, a young mel harris, and robert guilleame{sp} of bensen fame
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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/19/2009 8:23:39 PM
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"The Baader Meiinhof Complex"
A fascinating lesson on the birth of modern terrorism.
I've been curious about this movie.....is it worth watching?
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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/21/2009 12:01:07 AM
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Observe And Report: A lot like Mall Cop but more racier but still good
Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past: Verry Good.
Watching Watchmen right now
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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/21/2009 1:28:21 PM
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"The Baader Meinhof Complex"
A fascinating lesson on the birth of modern terrorism.
I've been curious about this movie.....is it worth watching?
It's very good and timely movie about political ideology contorted into psycopathic aggression
...If you are into that sort of thing.
Another excellent fact-based thriller:
"Fifty Dead Men Walking"
A low-ranking IRA soldier is recruited as a British spy. Staying alive is the least of his worries.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/22/2009 4:47:14 AM
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That's definitely on my must-see list, given my historical interests of The Red Army Faction, German Autumn, and all things 1970's terrorism.
BTW: do you think Moritz Bleibtreu (sp?) looks like a dead ringer for Andreas Baader?
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"The Baader Meiinhof Complex"
A fascinating lesson on the birth of modern terrorism.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/22/2009 4:54:37 AM
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I saw this over the weekend (on USA Channel), and all I can say is that it's almost intentionally laughable to see how much creative liberties went into the fabled Siege of Thermopylae, but I figured if your original source text is a Frank Miller graphic novel, then I can't imagine a better comic book artist out there, to best bring this legendary battle back into the modern imagination--er, I mean psyche!
Bloody Ties
Semi-darkly comic/nihilistic, Korean police procedural involving a cynical narcotics officer joining forces with his longtime nemesis, a successful, but smarmy meth dealer, with the common aim of taking on Pusan's biggest drug baron. Apart from the generic storytelling, plotting, I think it's more about the common character-driven stories between the two anti-heroes, one losing his partner in some prior drug bust, the other losing his mom from a meth lab explosion, hence explaining why both these loose cannons seemed to be so compatible with each other in an otherwise, untraditional buddy-cop genre!
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RE: I Just Saw... - 9/25/2009 5:53:49 PM
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Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past: Verry Good.
Verry.Bad.
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" has been re-made many times, but never so loathsome as the grotesque "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past." It is a Rom/Com with no redeeming value--never romantic, too frantic and desperate to be comedic.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 10/2/2009 3:13:43 AM
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The Garden - a documentary about something like a 40 acre community garden in South Central LA and the politics that ruined it.
The Reader - a mature drama. I liked the complexity of the story line and the questions it made me think about.
Sin Nombre - it was somewhat about gangs in Mexico. I don't know why but I always think about the movie "The City of God" when I think about this movie, even though they're really not alike.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 10/2/2009 4:28:42 PM
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Monsters vs. Aliens - funnier than I thought, but not quite for kids.
Labor Pains- Despite her personal problems, I like Lindsay Lohan movies...
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RE: I Just Saw... - 10/3/2009 3:24:47 PM
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At the New York Film Festival:
"Antichrist"
Reminiscent style of Ingmar Bergman bathed in acid.
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Defoe were astonishing.
Not a movie for the squeamish.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 10/5/2009 12:05:13 AM
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On a lighter note:
"Wallace and Gromit: The Complete Collection"
Nick Park's wonderful stop-motion shorts. Hilarious fun!
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RE: I Just Saw... - 10/5/2009 6:41:08 PM
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Inkheart- much better than I thought. Very imaginative!!!
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RE: I Just Saw... - 10/9/2009 10:30:39 AM
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Horror double feature:
"I Sell the Dead"--low-budget with great dialogue and characters. Very entertaining.
"Dead Snow"--Norwegian Nazi Zombie Brain-Eaters: With that many cliches, what could go wrong?
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RE: I Just Saw... - 10/9/2009 8:22:03 PM
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Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman's (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) directorial debut. He wrote it as well. Nihilistic. Depressing. Complex. Thoughtful. After a head injury, a theater director experiences a lot of disconnect in his life. His wife leaves him and takes their daughter. His lover finds another man. He wins a grant and creates a smaller world focused on his own life. Eventually he becomes a character in his play living out an incredibly different (he plays his wife's elderly housekeeper) but extremely similar life and comes to terms with feelings of loss and guilt.
Completely depressed my husband, fascinated me.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 10/9/2009 8:30:31 PM
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From what I've read from The First Post UK, Defoe's supposedly representing the father figure of humanity and technology, whereas Gainsbourg is more maternal and nature-oriented, and with the much ballyhooed controversy over the film's content--even by European high brow film standards, I guess the questions of misanthropy and misogyny isn't far off! 
