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« Reply #1150 on: December 16, 2007, 11:08:52 AM »

overly sentimental my ass.  that's the only movie that i still cry through the last 15 minutes.
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« Reply #1151 on: December 16, 2007, 11:15:07 AM »

overly sentimental my ass.  that's the only movie that i still cry through the last 15 minutes.

Good for you. Just giving my opinion.
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« Reply #1152 on: December 16, 2007, 02:03:26 PM »
« Edited: December 16, 2007, 02:05:28 PM by thefactor »

The Namesake, better than I thought.
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« Reply #1153 on: December 17, 2007, 02:00:57 AM »

The Mist.  I am a sucker for horror movies. 

But if you count rental or on-demand movies, I just watched Princess Diaries with my seven year old for the eighty-fourth time.

It was a lot more fun when she was three and called it "Princess Diarrhea".
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« Reply #1154 on: December 17, 2007, 02:13:38 AM »

The Incredibles again. I'm convinced this is the pinnacle of what Pixar can do. Amazing.
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« Reply #1155 on: December 18, 2007, 10:06:46 AM »

Amélie

Original, innovative, quirky, funny and clever. The opening, in particular, I really liked. A charming piece of work which works really well. Excellent.
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« Reply #1156 on: December 18, 2007, 10:55:56 AM »

21 Up America

Possibly the best i've seen in any 'episode' of any of the Up!s. There's an incredibly diverse range of genuinely interesting young people.
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« Reply #1157 on: December 22, 2007, 06:44:28 PM »

Charlie Wilson's War

Excellent acting and story.
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« Reply #1158 on: December 22, 2007, 07:23:39 PM »

Was it basically a comedy?
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« Reply #1159 on: December 22, 2007, 10:31:57 PM »

Shrek 3
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« Reply #1160 on: December 23, 2007, 01:02:48 AM »

National Treasure 2

No Nicholas Cage running scenes which was disappointing.
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« Reply #1161 on: December 23, 2007, 01:07:03 AM »

Just got back from Sweeney Todd.

Classic Tim Burton movie.  Great show, if a bit gruesome.
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« Reply #1162 on: December 23, 2007, 03:22:10 AM »

Atonement- great movie.
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« Reply #1163 on: December 23, 2007, 07:04:10 AM »

Casablanca
Outstanding. Rick and Louis are great characters with a wonderful interplay. Great story, very well done.

The Seven Year Itch
Monroe is excellent. A charming film with some good comedic moments.

Full Metal Jacket
Some powerful dark comedy, especially in the first half. Felt it drifted a bit in the second half - but still a very good and interesting piece of work.
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« Reply #1164 on: December 23, 2007, 03:42:18 PM »

It's a Wonderful Life

I never realised how raunchy that film must have been for it's times. Despite it's 'raunchiness' it's still a classic film, gotta love Jimmy Stewart in it. The money's in Bill's house and it's in Fred's house. I can actually do a good impersonation of Stewart saying that.

National Treasure

I'm gearing up for the second one. I hope that's good, eventhough it was only rated about 2 and a half stars in the Sunday Herald Sun.
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« Reply #1165 on: December 23, 2007, 03:44:48 PM »

The War Room
A really good documentary about Bill's 1992 campaign.
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« Reply #1166 on: December 23, 2007, 08:23:18 PM »

The Mist. Good movie based on a Stephen King short story.

They made the middle/end of the movie a lot more depressing than it actually was in the book.

Yeah, it was different than the book. I'm not sure I would say it was more or less depressing than the book. Definitely more depressing for the main character, but less depressing for the human race.
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« Reply #1167 on: December 23, 2007, 09:14:22 PM »

Dewey Cox Story, which was good, duh.
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« Reply #1168 on: December 24, 2007, 08:02:32 PM »

Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd


A beautifully tragic tale of a man who becomes consumed by seeking revenge, Sweeney Todd has become my favorite musical-to-film adaption. Tim Burton and company all excel in their respective parts and put together a film that should be remembered for years to come and looked to when other filmmakers adapt musicals.

Burton is not afraid to make cuts and changes to make Stephen Sondheim's original stage show (which already is available on DVD for those who are curious)  a more cinematic experience. Sondheim's stage show is somewhat of a dark comedy while Burton's film is just dark. Burton is also no afraid to show gore, as he's shown before, and doesn't just show massive amounts of blood but also shows corpses falling on their heads and a character being burned alive. One of my favorite parts of the film is the contrast between the beautiful music and the somewhat disturbing gore on screen.

Johnny Depp is nothing but awesome in his portrayal of Todd and shows why he's known as the "demon barber of Fleet Street" as he portrays a man who has completely lost his soul in search of revenge against those who have wronged him (which he discovers is the whole world). Depp downplays the role (compared to those on stage at least), which really adds to the element of a man who is haunted by his past, emotionally hollow and poisoned by revenge. He truly shines in the "Epiphany", "Johanna" reprise, and final sequences. While he isn't a professional singer, his voice isn't anything to complain about and he handles the material competently; his vocals actually remind me somewhat of David Bowie.

The rest of the cast is phenomenal as well, especially Sacha Baron Cohen who is quite frightening and shows that he isn't just Ali G or Borat and Alan Rickman is fantastic as always.

I definitely recommend this one and can't wait to see it again. Even though I know the story by heart, I couldn't help but find myself on the edge of my seat at certain scenes.
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« Reply #1169 on: December 24, 2007, 08:05:04 PM »

Burton is not afraid to make cuts and changes to make Stephen Sondheim's original stage show (which already is available on DVD for those who are curious)  a more cinematic experience.

Be that as it may, I had actually seen the musical prior to seeing the movie and I was actually surprised how faithful it was.  I was expecting some form of artistic license to be taken and have bits and pieces of the story altered slightly, but surprisingly it was all essentially intact, from the beginning right up to the conclusion.
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« Reply #1170 on: December 24, 2007, 08:19:16 PM »

Burton is not afraid to make cuts and changes to make Stephen Sondheim's original stage show (which already is available on DVD for those who are curious)  a more cinematic experience.

Be that as it may, I had actually seen the musical prior to seeing the movie and I was actually surprised how faithful it was.  I was expecting some form of artistic license to be taken and have bits and pieces of the story altered slightly, but surprisingly it was all essentially intact, from the beginning right up to the conclusion.

Oh, it's incredibly faithful but a good amount of material has been cut out, mainly the "Ballad of Sweeney Todd" scenes that serve somewhat as the Greek chorus and bookends of the show and a few scenes between Anthony and Johanna. They also cut a few bits out of the remaining songs for pacing reasons I suppose. Other minor sequences have been cut as well, mostly in the second half, but the story still remains intact and is stronger from these cuts. Still though, it is incredibly faithful and essentially intact, as you said.

The one thing I also find interesting about the story is that it's apparently supposed to be a allegory for the Industrial Revolution (which can be seen more in the original stage production which features a factory whistle every time Sweeney takes a victim). I suppose I can see where that allegory comes from; the class warfare element and the idea of humans being sacrificed for commercial purposes. There's even a line in one of the ballads from the original stage show that refers to Sweeney becoming more machine than man, dedicated to the job at hand (which just so happens to be killing people). This site discussing this element (and many others) here...
http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Sondheim/sweeneytodd.htm

I definitely recommend picking up the original stage production on DVD, if you don't own it...
http://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Todd-Demon-Barber-Street/dp/B00005JL6V/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1198544878&sr=1-1
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« Reply #1171 on: December 25, 2007, 06:44:18 AM »

This is England

What can I say, It was brilliant.
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« Reply #1172 on: December 25, 2007, 11:55:32 AM »

I saw Sweeney Todd Sunday and Charlie Wilson's War Monday.  Both excellent.
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« Reply #1173 on: December 25, 2007, 02:26:56 PM »

Mulholland Dr.

A very aesthetic and artsy thriller/horror, abeit one without a clear plot. What remains of the plot moves slowly at times and it is too long. I would say overrated, but the originality aspect was certainly intruiging.
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« Reply #1174 on: December 25, 2007, 02:37:16 PM »

Ratatouille

A very funny movie with a good plot twist at the end. I liked it.
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