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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2012 20:47:00 GMT 10
I went and saw “Quartet” this afternoon.
The movie has had a couple of mediocre reviews, but I really enjoyed it.
It was good old British drama & comedy, although you'd have to be a bit knowlegable about music (no, not the head-banging variety) to really get some of the gags.
Billy Connelly was really brilliant playing the role of a retired opera star being a bit of a larakin in a retirement home for musicians. Sometimes it can be rather hard to determine whether he is actually acting, or simply being Billy Connelly.
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Post by jody on Dec 29, 2012 21:01:40 GMT 10
Going to les Mis , The Hobbit and The Life Of Pi very soon
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Post by jody on Dec 29, 2012 22:53:22 GMT 10
Loved Skyfall and The Bourne legacy.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2012 6:52:28 GMT 10
Les Mis, definately...the preview of 'the Hobbit' has left me feeling I won't waste my time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2013 19:43:49 GMT 10
I went and saw “Mt Zion” late this afternoon.Another great Kiwi movie....a bit rough around the edges in places but in an authentic way.
A huge proportion of the dialogue was in Maori, although with English subtitles, but that merely added to the authenticity.
Highly recommended.Or CLICK HERE to view the video-clip in a larger-sized format.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2013 6:46:13 GMT 10
We don't see enough movies from NZ here (aside from the obvious LOTR, Hobbit). Many certainly don't get the profile and promotion they probably deserve. I shamefully admit I have never seen 'Once Were Warriors' but that is more from lack of opportunity than desire.
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Post by garfield on Feb 9, 2013 6:56:27 GMT 10
Once were warriors is brilliant, as good as any other movie I've seen, saw Django last week, that was pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2013 7:03:49 GMT 10
The soundtrack accompanying Mt Zion is awesome.
And all of the music is actually being performed by the actors (who play in a band in real life) and even the part where the old man (played by Temuera Morrison) plays the electric guitar and sings is real. Temuera is in reality a very talented musician as well as an actor. Mind you, his uncle was Howard Morrison, a very famous musician and entertainer (from the Maori show bands era), so I guess it isn't surprising that music is in his genes.
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Post by pim on Feb 12, 2013 16:21:11 GMT 10
Yeah I wanna see Django in the next week or so. I went to see Anna Karenina at the Nova in Rundle St last Sunday. Sumptuous costuming and choreography. But Keira Knightly just didn't do it for me as Anna, I'm afraid! As for the choreography, I liked individual bits - the ballroom sequences were pretty cool with their surreal dance movements. But I got the feeling that the director couldn't make up his mind whether the movie was going to be a straight tragic drama or a ballet. I actually think they should have gone the whole hog and made it a ballet. It might have worked.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2013 16:35:29 GMT 10
Anyway, talking of movie people, look who was wandering around the downtown shopping centre where I live on Sunday afternoon, with her new hubby and indulging a bit of retail therapy. I was downtown (which is just down the end of my single-block residential street) and walked right past them but didn't even recognise her, although she did look vaguely familiar. I did however recognise Peter Jackson (in bare feet) and his daughter. I guess the newlyweds were spending a bit of time at Peter Jackson's mansion on the outskirts of Masterton.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2013 10:43:01 GMT 10
Saw Lincoln on Friday. Found it very enjoyable and not at all flag-waving self indulgent stuff we have been thrown in the past when dealing with this subject Great direction from Spielberg and solid performances all 'round' (except for Sally Fields character which I found irritating) Daniel Day Lewis was marvellous, but the film belonged to Tommy Lee Jones.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2013 10:44:35 GMT 10
Keen to see the new Cirque du Solei film in 3D - looks visually stunning!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2013 20:41:22 GMT 10
Looper is already on sale at JB's
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Post by pim on Feb 23, 2013 16:05:56 GMT 10
Ah the hell with it. I tried to cut & paste a poster for the movie but either it wouldn't c & p or it would blow the thread right out of proportion. I give up!
I saw Zero Dark Thirty this afternoon. Better than putting up with Adelaide's heatwave conditions.
Still processing it. Great movie.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2013 16:13:49 GMT 10
Errrrr....couldn't you have downsized that first?
Did you have to post it so bloody big?
Jeeeeeezus, Wayne!
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Post by pim on Feb 23, 2013 16:52:07 GMT 10
I agree that if it sparks an interest in the Tolstoy novel and motivates young (or old!) people to read it, then that's good.
Have to confess I was disappointed in the movie. It seemed like a movie in which the director couldn't decide whether it was drama or ballet. It might have worked as ballet. Personally I was spoiled by the superb BBC TV series what was shown back in the late 1970s.
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Post by jody on Feb 23, 2013 17:13:19 GMT 10
I can't stand Keira Knightly acting so I won't be seeing it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2013 9:54:37 GMT 10
Ah the hell with it. I tried to cut & paste a poster for the movie but either it wouldn't c & p or it would blow the thread right out of proportion. I give up! There's two ways to do it.
1. Save the image file to your hard-drive, then use software such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, or other similar image processing program to downsize the poster, then upload it to a hosting service such as Photobucket, then embed it from there into a message posted to the group.
2. Post it as an Attachment to a message. It will then display as a thumbnail which people can click on to download the full-sized image file.
There is an option 3. but it doesn't work with these ProBoards-hosted groups, but can be used at groups hosted by SMF or Yuku or most other messageboard forum hosting services. And that is to insert sizing code into the BB code (or HTML if that is allowed). After the establishment image display code, you type a space, followed by width=800 or width=1000 or however many pixels width you wish the image to display at within the message. However, as already mentioned, ProBoards are a bit backward compared with other hosting services and their system cannot cope with such basic sizing code as that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2013 21:21:37 GMT 10
From the Los Angeles Times....Tired of blockbusters: Moviegoers want Adam Sandler, not ‘Pacific Rim’HORSEY on HOLLYWOODBy DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM - Thursday, July 25, 2013PITY the poor studio executives. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars giving moviegoers what they think they want — summer blockbusters with big stars, big explosions and out-of-this-world themes — and who makes all the money? Adam Sandler with another flick filled with childish behavior and flatulence jokes.
Los Angeles Times reporters Steven Zeitchik and Amy Kaufman dissected the phenomenon in a recent story. They found that box-office receipts this summer are 14% higher than last year, but the numbers are being driven to a great degree by small-scale movies, such as “The Conjuring”, “Despicable Me 2” and Sandler’s “Grown Ups 2”, not by the cinematic behemoths, such as “Pacific Rim”, “The Lone Ranger”, “After Earth” and “White House Down”.
Since May, there has practically been a blockbuster a week. “Man of Steel” has done well; apparently film fans never tire of a new iteration of the grand old Superman story, just as they never seem to tire of Batman. “Iron Man 3” has been a big hit too; maybe because the character is reaching the legendary level of the caped crusaders, maybe because Robert Downey, Jr. brings such a quirky, hip sensibility to the role or maybe because it was pretty much the first blockbuster out of the blocks in 2013.
Most of the others are still a long, long way from making their budget back, though “World War Z” may get there, thanks to star Brad Pitt’s tireless promotional efforts. All these movies aren’t terrible — “Pacific Rim”, in particular, has unexpected depth for an Earth-in-peril epic, thanks to the skill of director Guillermo del Toro — but a blockbuster used to be a singular event. Now, ticket buyers may be getting too much of a good thing.
When a blockbuster hits the theaters weekend after weekend — and, especially, when several of them have such similar themes — it just may be that a fatigue sets in and folks going to the movies lose interest in seeing another special-effects extravaganza. Apparently, there are times all they really want to watch is a familiar group of comedians acting gloriously immature.
Let’s hope that doesn’t give the studio execs any brilliant ideas about filling the screens next summer with comedies aimed at 14-year-old boys. Oh, wait, that’s already been done.www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-horsey-comic-20130725,0,3559646.story
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2013 20:30:39 GMT 10
I went to two movies, one after the other and both 3D versions, this afternoon and evening, both at The Embassy in Wellington.
The first movie was Man of Steel. Awesome special effects, it was all about the origin of Superman.
The second movie was The Great Gatsby. In my opinion, not quite as good as the first movie The Great Gatsby from several years ago, but still worth watching. The special effects were really good.
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Post by pim on Jul 30, 2013 11:23:57 GMT 10
I went to see the latest movie starring Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his toy boy, Behind the Candelabra. All the gay stuff is a bit confronting and in-your-face so don't go to see it if you're of a homophobic persuasion. Michael Douglas puts on an amazing performance as the over-the-top camp sexual predator Liberace. When you think of all the "straight" tough guy male roles that Michael Douglas has taken in the past, his performance as Liberace would not have been out of place in Priscilla Queen of the Desert. In all the reviews of the movie it's Michael Douglas who gets all the honourable mentions but I think Matt Damon's performance is equally stunning - but in a different way. Michael Douglas, as Liberace, portrays the famous pianist as a confected über camp dolly-type figure who uses his wealth to attract, seduce and exploit young males on the cusp of adulthood. A couple of times during the movie you get to see the ageing and rather seedy and sad elderly man behind the painted doll and that just goes to highlight the confection that is Liberace. I don't want to give too much away in case anyone here wants to see it. The reason Matt Damon's performance is so good is the way he portrays the young guy who falls progressively into Liberace's clutches, and the effect it has not just on his personality but on his body. I'll say no more beyond saying that I can envisage a swag of Academy Awards for this movie and a special award should go to whoever does the makeup.
See it by all means. Except if you're into poofter bashing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2013 15:43:20 GMT 10
Geez, talk about a blast from the past. What ever happened to young Jamie Redfern ?
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Post by slartibartfast on Jul 30, 2013 20:44:08 GMT 10
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Post by jody on Aug 1, 2013 18:20:12 GMT 10
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Post by jody on Aug 1, 2013 18:21:23 GMT 10
My parents bought me this for my 5th birthday. A 45 record.
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