So.... Seen Any Good Movies Lately?

[Animavore]

Saw Alice in Wonderland yesterday. A travesty.

I knewz it.

[klr]

Watched The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada late last night.:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419294/

[Bella Fortuna]

Saw Alice in Wonderland yesterday. A travesty.

I knewz it.

Yeah, I should have too, seeing the Disney name on it. Somehow I hoped the Tim Burton aspect would be enough to carry it through, but it was woefully puny. Except for the interesting look of the film he must've been sleepwalking through it (or too busy cashing his cheque at the bank). Nary a shred of the original and far superior story...

[leo-rcc]

Saw Alice in Wonderland yesterday. A travesty.

I knewz it.

Yeah, I should have too, seeing the Disney name on it. Somehow I hoped the Tim Burton aspect would be enough to carry it through, but it was woefully puny. Except for the interesting look of the film he must've been sleepwalking through it (or too busy cashing his cheque at the bank). Nary a shred of the original and far superior story...

I saw the TV miniseries "Alice" last week, about a girl called Alice going back to Wonderland 150 years after the first Alice in Wonderland. That was quite an amusing series actually.

[ScholasticSpastic]

ScholasticSpastic Recommends:

Dante01
Franklyn
Sleep Dealer
Let the Right One In

Dante01 is French and kinda churchy, but weird enough to be worth-while. Same director that did Amelie and The City of the Lost Children- two other films that I also highly recommend.

Franklyn looks English and is, in my opinion, very good- though it doesn't seem very popular with anyone who watches it because the DVD cover makes it look like an adventure movie.

Sleep Dealer is Mexican Sci-Fi and, in my opinion, excellent. The visual metaphors seem to have passed over most critics' heads. They've made it more about the people than the technology- the way good sci-fi should be.

Let the Right One In is a Swedish vampire film that deviates delightfully from the norm. Kinda a juvenile love story, but I was left with questions about whether it's really about love. That only makes it better.

I do not watch foreign films to be snooty, I watch them because American film-makers seem to have run out of ideas or ambition or both.

[rachelbean]

I LOVED 'Let the Right One In'

[JenTirydail]

Somebody very lovely ( ) sent me a film called Amelie which I watched last night and it did, as predicted, leave me with a big stupid grin all over my face. Totally feelgood and just what I needed








Edit: Crappy grammar!

[Animavore]

Somebody very lovely ( ) sent me a film called Amelie which I watched last night and it did, as predicted, leave me with a big stupid grin all over myself. Totally feelgood and just what I needed

Check out that guy's new film.

[JenTirydail]

Check out that guy's new film.

Looks good!

[rachelbean]

Somebody very lovely ( ) sent me a film called Amelie which I watched last night and it did, as predicted, leave me with a big stupid grin all over myself. Totally feelgood and just what I needed

Check out that guy's new film.

Amelie is my top 10 of all time (kind of out of place among Taxi Driver and Godfather, haha) but Jean-Pierre Jeunet is amazing. Delicatessen and City of the Lost Children are some of my favorite movies as well. I can forgive him for Alien: Resurrection because he just directed

[ScholasticSpastic]

I LOVED 'Let the Right One In'

Well, that tears it, then. The only thing wrong with you is that you're married.

[Animavore]

Amelie is my top 10 of all time (kind of out of place among Taxi Driver and Godfather, haha) but Jean-Pierre Jeunet is amazing. Delicatessen and City of the Lost Children are some of my favorite movies as well. I can forgive him for Alien: Resurrection because he just directed

I've never seen any of his films

[JenTirydail]

Amelie is my top 10 of all time (kind of out of place among Taxi Driver and Godfather, haha) but Jean-Pierre Jeunet is amazing. Delicatessen and City of the Lost Children are some of my favorite movies as well. I can forgive him for Alien: Resurrection because he just directed

I think Delicatessen is next on my 'must watch at some point' list.

[leo-rcc]

Kings of the Sun. An atheistic Mayan king, didn't see that one coming.

[tattuchu]

Just got Fantastic Mr Fox on DVD and watched it again (having seen it at the theater). Amazing film. The look and feel of it was really something. At the risk of sounding trite, it was...quirky and charming. The voice acting was great. The story took unexpected turns. I never knew what was going to happen next. It was full of wonderful idiosyncratic touches. It was very funny and yet at the same time very poignant. But it was all done in a very subtle, gentle, and understated way. I really, really liked this film