I’m so frickin’ excited.
Have you seen it? Was it spectacular?
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May 9, 2012
April 20, 2012
I’m going to go watch “Cabin in the Woods”
I can’t wait. I really hope it scares the crap out of me. It’s been a long time since I’ve really been scared by a film - if ever. I love the idea of being scared but it’s so rare for it to actually happen.
Also, this is the first time I’m going to the cinema in 9 months! Isn’t that crazy?!
March 6, 2012
February 19, 2012
I really can’t wait to go to the cinema when I get home.
I have no idea what films are out or what’s good or what I’ll see first but I know I want to go as soon as possible.
Maybe I’ll watch The Artist because I’ve heard some amazing things about it.
February 6, 2012
I’ve watched a whole bunch of Ryan Gosling films recently
and I’m actually pretty impressed with him as an actor.
I have to admit, I never ever gave him a chance when I first came across him. I watched ‘The Notebook’ a long time ago and wasn’t very impressed. Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood when I watched it.
Anyway, I recently watched “Crazy, Stupid, Love”, “Drive”, and “The Ides of March”. The first was a pretty terrible film (it was too cheesy) but Ryan Gosling was actually really good in it. I got a whole bunch of fashion tips that I’m going to incorporate in to my wardrobe when I go back home. I’m going to buy a whole bunch of suits.
The second film was really excellent. There were so many wonderful things about “Drive”. He is about as different as a character can get from anything he’s done before. The character was brutal and really intense. The film was tight and sharp. The music was incredible. You really can’t beat it.
Then I watched “The Ides of March” and I realised why I loved George Clooney as an actor and director. It’s a tale of political idealism and how dreams and illusions can be shattered. The writing is tight and the acting is fantastic all around. Ryan Gosling really carries the movie.
I’ve been really impressed with him as an actor these last few weeks. It’s pretty good going.
(I’m not a teenage girl, I promise!)
January 25, 2012
A new video blog where I talk about a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
January 21, 2012
I watched the movie Drive and have this song stuck in my head
It’s a total GPOY.
Also.. Ryan Gosling… :O
January 5, 2012
I watched ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’…
with my house mate tonight and I can’t believe how that film can blow my mind over and over again. I’ve seen it so many times now but it never fails to move me.
It’s about a guy, played by Jim Carrey, who decides to erase memories of his ex-girlfriend, played by Kate Winslet, from his mind.
I feel the film brings up so many interesting philosophical questions.
Would you erase someone you once loved from your mind if you went through a horrible break-up?
December 8, 2011
So I watched this movie called “Like Crazy” today
I saw the trailer for it a few months ago and it stood out to me so I kept reminding myself that I’d have to watch it once a decent quality torrent was available. Anyway, I found a torrent for a screener version last night and I watched the movie this afternoon and…
I want to punch both the lead characters over and over again for making one stupid decision after another. I really got so pissed off at point that I turned the film off and walked away and bitched about it to my house mate. I finally watched the rest about half an hour later.
The movie was really good. I loved the cinematography. It was shot on a Canon 7D camera which is astounding because it’s so incredibly inexpensive and the results so impressive. The lighting is extremely minimalistic which adds so much depth to the film. The direction is what I like to call ‘MTV hip’ with little jumps and cuts. It’s really well directed and edited.
It’s a bit of a shame the beginning wasn’t a bit slower. Everything happens too quickly and I don’t know if you really care as much about the characters as you should by the time things start going wrong. Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think.
I totally forgot to say what the film was about. It’s a romantic drama about an American guy and a British girl who fall in love but can’t be together for this reason and that.
October 15, 2011
I showed my house mate ‘Before Sunrise’ a couple of nights ago…
and we’re going to watch ‘Before Sunset’ tonight.
Not a single person I’ve shown these films to hasn’t loved them.
You can watch them here:
Before Sunrise (part 1)
Before Sunset (part 2)
October 9, 2011
October 6, 2011
Day 04 – A movie that makes you sad
This one was really difficult but once I realised I wondered why it didn’t jump out at me far sooner than it did.
The Pianist is one of the saddest movies I have ever seen. It’s the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, and his struggle through World War 2. It tells of his survival in the face of extreme odds and the horrors he faced. Adrian Brody won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the hardships Szpilman faced at the hands of the Nazis.
The direction of the film is truly masterful in the hands of Roman Polanski. The cinematagraphy is breathtaking. The scenes of Warsaw after the destruction at the hands of the Nazis is shocking and deeply saddening.
Although the film finishes on a high, what saddens me most about this movie is that humans are capable of such horrors towards each other. There’s so much hate in the world and we’ve inflicted the worst of it on each other for as long as we have been on this planet. An added sadness comes from the fact that this film was released at a time the world was getting ready to go to war again. The Iraq war had just started and once again the world would see the ugliness in man. It’s hard to not feel depressed at the vulgarity of actions of man but hope remains. The human spirit endures. We fight. We resist. We survive.
There’s beauty in that. As bitter-sweet as it may be that we have to see the worst in man in order to see the best there’s an unequivocal beauty that stems from enduring the worst.
Hope springs eternal.
October 1, 2011
Day 03 – A movie that makes you really happy
There are a few films that I’ve seen more than once that make me really happy and this is certainly one of them. It’s the first one that came to my mind when I saw the title of today’s post. I really love this movie and it never fails to give me goosebumps in a couple of scenes. The interview at the end being one of them, of course.
The story tells the tale of a sports agent who has bad pizza one night and has an epiphany about the sport he represents. When he shares his inspirational new direction he finds himself out of a job. He rescues one single client and the film is a kind of buddy movie set against that with a significant romantic plot attached.
We all know Tom Cruise is a little bit crazy but I really like him in a lot of films, this being one of them. He’s a fairly decent actor and Renee Zellweger broke out as an actress because of this film. The kid who plays her son is way too adorable.
Anyway, the film makes me smile and I’m happy whenever I’ve seen it. I don’t care if it’s a chick flick (it’s not, it’s a romantic drama!), it’s still good!
October 1, 2011
Anonymous asked: I don't think Into The Wild is underrated. Since you also got your info from IMDB, you should have noticed it's 8.2/10 rating amongst 140,000+ raters, and the fact that it's in the top 150 of IMDB's top 250 films.
Hmmm… okay, so you might have a point in that sense but maybe IMDB included it on the list because not all that many people have actually seen it? The rating is fantastic but maybe it could have been even higher!
If a couple of people sought out the film because of my post about it then I’ll be more than happy. I really wish more people watch it because then I can talk to them about it!
September 29, 2011
Day 02 – The Most Underrated Movie
The most underrated movie ever has to be…
This is really hard. I have to think of a movie that I like, that should be loved by everyone, but not that many people care for. I’m finding it hard to think of something.
Okay, I cheated and went looking for help…
IMDB gave me a list of 20 films, some of which I think are very, very good but I have to pick… Into The Wild.
It’s such a beautiful, but heartbreaking, story of a young man who gives up everything and goes out in to the world to live life. It’s inspiring and haunting and poetic and moving in equal measures. It’s the kind of movie that will liberate you if you let it but will make you think about everything you have. It’s a movie that will elate you but will also make you angry.
Emile Hirsch is fantastic in the lead role and really carries the movie. His performance is engrossing from start to end. Sean Penn wrote and directed the story based on the true story of the life of Christopher McCandless. The fact that it’s based on a true story (even though some parts are assumed) adds that much more of a punch to the tale.
Please watch it. You won’t go wrong with it.
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