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(Oct 2005 Director: Noah Baumbach) Where was the aqua cutture? Perhaps I became sooo bored I missed the title reason?? I expected something marine from the title, I do not fault the actors/acting It won Sundance awards! I enjoyed watching even the painfully realizstic anguish both husband & wife felt...but (AS CRAIG S. SO APTLY PUT IT IN HIS MOVIE REVIEW BELOW, " shockingly real performances, but I couldn't grip onto the film because of these self-absorbed characters..") SELF ABSORBED! says it!! HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS ON THE SUBJECT OF DIVORCE: I hope some of you WILL read this review...and that others of you (who do know me) will STILL continue to share your moviecomments with me?? My THOUGHTS? DIVORCE? Why? Does no 1 appreciate each other? respect family? Dad sleeps with son's girlfriend? Again why? OK I DO NOT ADVOCATE ABUSE OR STD TRANSMISSION thoughtlessly to your partner? Can you still love someone who gives you HIV? Syphillis? warts? 50% divorce rate..could 20 percent occur becuz we are delusional?Even allowing 3% for gays/bis & 2% for celebrities in the public eye, personally I have adopted the extreme policy of never date (let alone sleeping with) friends' ex-husbands, co-workers,etc I remain solo (separated from an ex-junkie & cheat for YEARS!!) YET I RESPECT MARRIAGE!! LOL I respect friendsships. Friendships remain even when relationships wane! Why can't we share our lives together? Is the our differences in values? The 60's & 70's had some GREAT LESSONS TO OFFER!!

Enough dry humor I suppose...almost a satire (bad one) on Jacques Cousteau., but no offense to Jacques cousteau or the Cousteau family!! Better than Broken Flowers (Murray's next flick!)

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Hmmm Do you think Bill Murray was ever a navy man???? Hmmmmmm

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I saw this movie because I follow Bill Muray (& I refuse to watch Saw etc)!! Funny crook scenes!!

(1964 Director: David Lynch) How I lLoved reading thiis Frank Herbert SCIENCE FICTION BOOK. 1964 C.A.M.P.Y. low budget B movie is the bomb! I'm loving it! More than half way thru (& trying to complete a semsester of Spanish, Student Intershipsips & endless essays & research & & &...) FUN with a capital F! Whew! Incredibly erotic written by Frank Herbert. There are 5 sequels (books) to the original "Dune" Patrick Stewart is one of his trainers--his comparable martial arts/military weapons coach! You won't recognize him but Kyle MacLachlan plays the young Paul Atriedes (Sex in the City's Charlotte's 1st hubby)!! {"quoting"This Hugo and Nebula Award winner [author Frank Herbert] tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. . . The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.

Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [ALSO SEE A FRIEND'S REVIEW OF THIS MOVIE (UNDER PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO!) he FORGOT MAX VON SYDOW PHOTO BELOW...see him at his more recent best in Snow Falling on Cedars]

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P.S. HALF OF THE FUN OF THIS MOVIES IS PRECISELY THAT THE SPECIAL EFFECTS SHOW THEIR AGE, GRASSHOPPER!!

(2004 Co-Directors: Glazer, Sadamitzu) This left quite an impression on me. Just stumbled into my local Blockbuster & decided to see Nicole Kidman's latest (about 1 year ago)! WOW!! It was not just Nicole's very very short locks but this amazing child star (that somehow was possessed by the memory of her lost first husband?) Chilling in parts...Lauren Bacall plays an elegant older family member....Nicole's character is engaged

This is still lots of belly laughs! ALMOST as funny as thie first one.........

Haven't you seen this yet?? MUST SEE!

(MAY 1997 DIRECTOR LUC BESSON)
COULD HARDLY BE FUNNIER!! CRAZY, WILD, FUTURISTIC LOOK @ LIFESTYLE IN THE FUTURE.......COMMERCIALISM STILL IN FULL FORCE!

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Check out Gary Oldham's explanation of the lastest intergallactic weapon (he is selling)

GREAT PERFORMANCES BY BRUCE WILLIS AND "THE 5TH ELEMENT" AKA MILLA JOVOVICH....CHRIS TUCKER MAKES THE FUTURE "ROCK"!!

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MUST SEE!!

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Werd!

Great cult fun~ LMAO! a leesson in the NOID!

David Guterson's bestselling novel came to the screen in 1999 through Austrailian Director Scott Hicks. Beautiful, artful and sensitive portrayal of love...and what time and war cannot do to stop true love...I would not call this a war movie (WW II in the U.S. American/Japanese during war & post-war era) Rather this touching Australian- madeto order love story is told in flash backs and involves all our senses. Pure, childhood love propels Ishmail Chambers (Ethan Hawke) son of a local independent newspaper/ publisher to unselfishly devotes his aide to the legal criminal defense of the Japanese husband of his Japanese childhood love, Hatsue Imada Miyamoto (Akira Takayama) This innocent defendant (SEE PHOTO BELOW) is beautifully defended by Max Von Sydow who plays an aging but valient defense attorney.

That might be where this story begins but it certainly captures more than sentimental appeal and a vivid courtroom drama. The heart of this story reveals a town very much prejudiced against the Japanese...during the beginning of World War II when yes some of the characters are rounded up and interred into prison camps here in the U.S.A.

Note: Some famous co-stars such as James Cromwell, Celia Weston, James Rebhorn (Prosecuting attorney).

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Heartwarming! Jake G. is remarkable...almost a bit like (it just strickes me) Edgar Scissorhands!

Possibly my favorite "pop" film by The Beatles!

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"This isn't the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Brad." Susan Sarandon's character. Tim Curry's character, "Why don't you stay for the night...and maybe a bite...." WATCH THE "TIME WARP" VIDEO...IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER IT?? THEN CHECK 1 OF THE ONES THAT ARE "RELATED" THE BOXES BELOW THE VIDEO CLIP...NOT TO MISS THE "SPACE" "TREKKIE" VERSION OF THE TIME WARP!! lol

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(1975 Director: Jim Sharman) I am perhaps older than you? Why I went on dates to this movie!! WOW! Perhaps the younger of you would NOT BELIEVE the cult following this movie developed!!!:":" I fell IN LOVE with Tim Curry in this movie and I am a straight female...

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Played on TV tonight....Flood catastrophe wipes out nearly a whole town! Craig T Nelson can act! Bedelia is wonderful too...as well as has a great body. Very Southern . The Amish way of life plays a significant part in restoration.

xmlns:font-size="font-size" xmlns:text-align="text-align">(1991 Director: John Avnet) Going tonight to see this...ahhh. Elvira's favorite!! KEEP THE KLEENEX HANDY! Well with a good friend saw this one at a twice per year womens Christian group DINNER & A MOVIE NITE! GRAND IDEA. wonderful movie depicts the peaceful country life...with of course its rotten apples!! it is the heartwarming story of friendships & fates! Amen, Sister!! T - I - W - A - N - D -A

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Though I am a Buddhist and not on a personal vendetta, I think BOTH of the storylines of this movie (the original release and this one!) warranted the "justice" exercised supernaturally in this incredible artsy violence film!!! "It can't rain all the time!" is an (is the word alleghory??)...sort of reflects how life in this drug & crime-filled dark, dark city always feels murky perhaps??? (more to follow in order todojustice to this incredible work!)

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(1996 Director: Jan Be Dont) I'm adding it to m favoritess now!~ Possiblly the best down home movie of the Century...after Wizard of Oz Bill Paxton (Evil Bill) & Helen Hunt's characters have separated & Bill Paxton (now a weatherman) returns to get her signature on the final divorce settlement only to learn that she & the boys have finally created tornado satellite detection alert (named DOT for Dorothy)

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Wonderful supporting roles of Aunt (Lois Smith), Biff (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) & (Alan Ruck)

(2004 Director: Peter Weir) Excellent seafaring tale.....touches on the story of a young lad who joins Russell Crowe's character on a voyage...almost as crusty as Moby Dick but with a bit more heart & dash,

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(Director: Mike Newell) (To be releasted Summer 2010) REVIEWS...Sir Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina co-star...New Bond Girl Proud of Her 'Little Oddity'
Posted by SexiVixxEN 3 hours ago
Full Story: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/gemmaarterton_blog...
Bond girls have long been exceptional women. From Ursula Andress to Halle Berry, they have each embodied the feminine ideal of their particular time. Gemma Arterton, the statuesque stunner who plays Agent Fields in next month's Quantum of Solace, has proven herself to be exceptional not only for her English Rose beauty, but also because she was born with six fingers on each hand.
"It's my little oddity that I'm really proud of," she said to Esquire magazine. "It makes me different." Different indeed. The condition, called Polydactyly, occurs in 1 of every 500 births.
Don't bother looking for additional digits in the film, though. As a child, the surplus digits were "tied," which causes the boneless protrusions to fall off with time. She still bares bumpy scars where her extra appendages once were.
Earlier this year, she revealed that she was also born with a crumpled ear, which was surgically corrected in childhood. "I was born with lots of deformities," the 22-year-old actress told the British press.
Arterton, a graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who was best known for a BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," beat out 1,500 contenders to become the latest Bond girl. She admitted to InStyle magazine that having to kiss Daniel Craig on her first day working on the film had her "giggling left, right, and center and being really immature."
Next up for Arterton is the movie adaptation of the videogame Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, coming the summer of 2010. To see more of the genetically unusual but undeniably extraordinary future star, watch the behind-the-scenes video from "Quantum of Solace"

(2007 Directors: Eithan & Joel Coen**8 Won the Oscar tonight for BEST DIRECTORS FOR THIS FILM!!)

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This cast is amazing..including Tommy Lee JOnes!

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Here is a web link posted by "Jenny" Possom? http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/nocountryforoldmen/trailer/ Academy Award nominee

Hmmm...watched it late last Friday night and thought it entirely too dark..with the exception of Woody Harrelson as the hired "cleaner" to hit the psychopathic killer gone awry. D A R K

If you COULD get beyond the horridly bleak and inevitable deathwish of an unsuspecting "good guy" stumbling upon a terribly peculiar drug deal gone back body count (far far out in the desert) then okay. But the pace was sooo slow and the psychopath so abberhent that I fail to see any redeeming reason to have endured the slow-paced inevitable. I am hoping Tommy Lee Jones will be given a GOOD part soon!! He has much more talent that this film or Tres Mujeres he made not long ago...Scarey thought? I think I have known a couple of Bardems. That's what drugs is doing to this country....so I suppose there might be some kind of message...in an extremely dreary film.

I liked this movie. The unlikelyhood of lives crossing paths...then what happened? Okay some really liked this movie..At some point I stopped watching it. Still I support Tommy Lee Jones in it. Hmmmmm....

I would see it again!

(2008 Director: John Avnet) After reading Daniele's review, NOW I want to see this!! I loved the movie "Heat" WHICH co-starred these same 2 legends...but on opposite sides of the law. Overdue to see them both together on the same screen

(2007 Director: Alan Ball)

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Controversial not only politically, but sexually, racially. Seems quite a few people in this film set during President George H. Bush's administration during the Gulf War are a bit prejudiced. Touches on the tough realitiy faced by 13-year-old Jasira. ...

To try to get inside the head of a 13-yr-old girl tossed from irrational mother in denial of her molesting boyfriend across the country to Houston, Texas, to her ultra- ultraconservative status conscious father, a wealthy NASA employee, Jasira's Lebanese immigrant-turned-U.S. citizen father from beatings to repeated molestation--all searching for love or acceptance in a surreal world!!

Stars Peter Macdissi as Jasira's father & Maria Bello (as Jasira's out-of-touch, selfish mother) & Aaron Eckhart (as U.A. Army Reservist;/ sexual predator).& lovely big-eyed Summer Bishil as Jasira. Jasira says more with her eyes and facial expression than most people ever say..

Hard to watch!! Shocking? Definitely...but the character study. Does anyone remm\ember what it FEELS like to be l3??? (that was how old Anne Frank was...when she wrote her "Diary of Anne Frank") I was SO SHELTERED at 13 & that was probably a good thing!

A very pregant Toni Collette co-stars as an astute concerned neighbor who has Jasira's best interests at heart...and reaches out a neighborly hand just in the nick of time!

Adapted from "Towelhead," a novel by Alicia Erian, who is famous for her "The Brutal Language of Love: Stories) An excerpt from Alicia Erian's book "Towelhead": ""I began to think that my body was the most special thing in the world. Better than other bodies, even. Not because of the way it looked, but because of all the things it could do. All the different buttons there were to push. I wanted to find out what every single one of them was. I wanted to feel as good as possible."
? Alicia Erian (Towelhead: A Novel)

IF you like this one, you might enjoy reading the novels, "Kite Runner" or "A Thousand Splendid Suns," both written by Khaled Hosseini.

A link to the "www.zoom-in.." article on Director Ball's making of "Nothing is Private (Towelhead) http://www.zoom-in.com/film-tv/on-the-circuit/on-the-circuit-alan-ball-summer-bishil-and-peter-macdissi-towelhead?#

Director Aaron Ball when he bought the rights to the book, inevitably faced obtaining independent financing in order to produce this controversial movie. (There is community discussion included on the DVD) Director Ball debuted this film at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.

A toast! To my friends who DO NOT use the "V" word in describing this movie, P L E A S E

(2008 Director: David Fincher) Won 2 Academy awards tonight (makeup & best art direction) I want to see it to see the chemistry between Cate Blanchett & Brad Pitt (former girl/boy friends). An "adaptation" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story....and beautifully written I might add.

2009 ACADEMY AWARDS (my observations as relates to lead character Brad Pitt). Brad Pitt received an introduction of sorts (along with the 4 other Best Actor nominees) with Anthony Hopkins acknowledging his noteworthy acting performance in this unusual film, despite the fact that he did NOT win the nomination for best actor for his performance. Anthony Hopkins is truly one of my personal role models...

Does this imply no I mean infer that Brad Pitt is among the 10 best actors currently starring in film? yes I think so!

Cat Blanchett's performance was noteworthy as well. The storyline of a child born aging in reverse poses some sticky wickets...but the tale is spun with folksy warmth and generous amounts of humour.

wonderful...Great dynamics between Richard Gere and his leading lady....

(2001 Director: Cameron Crowe) I liked this movie better than Porky's and less Minority Report. This is not a science fiction story...and not a true Butterfly Effect...best to watch this one and make your own conclusions. Note: Timeline of Cruise-Cruz affair. Paul McCartney saves this otherwise painful flim. Better yet, watch the Ray Bradbury short story brought to the screen instead!!

(1994 Director: Simon Wincer) For the times thiere were only 2 or 3 better films made, Which? The Crow, Ed Wood Alien 2 and would it have been THE Lord of the Rings (Two Towers)?? Hmmm..interestinly filmed also in New Zealand..akin to Austrailia....F U N Fun down under! See it!! Why? Still asking why? Well there is the wonderfl Cuba Gooding, Jr & talented Pat Hingle not to mention the lovely, talented Beverly D'Angelo.READ, LISTEN, & PLEASE PRAY FOR PEACE! [We must end this fighting & preserve our planet!] PLEASE PRAY DAILY FOR CHILDREN ORPHANED (thru wars, disasters & disease) & STARVING ALL AROUND THE WORLD!! Ore por favor para el orphaned y niños hambrientos por todas partes el mundo! S'il vous plaît prier pour enfants rendus orphelin et mourir de faim tout autour le monde!

(2008 Director: Fernando Meirelles--The Constant Gardener& City of God, a personal favorite) AGAINST leanings to the contrary, I DO wish to watch this film....this is on a friend's "favorite books" list (on www.goodreads.com)...Adapted from the novel by Nobel prize winning author Jose Saramago..This is at least a R rating...warning: NOT for the little ones overall rating R but in parts certain violence + sex mixed with survival themes. NOT recommending it for under say 11 yr old ('nuff said?)

This is a wonderful study of how people react in a crisis & a statement perhaps on the depravity of some peoples. Contagion of blindness...tho there is nothing visibly wrong with the eye according to medical tests. A physician (Mark Ruffalo) and his wife (Julianne Moore) are among the early ones to be infected something the doctor contracted from a patient at his hospital. However, his wife refuses to stay behind when he is forcibly carted away by the military to a quarantine holding center. She (Juliane Moore) does NOT lose her eyesight but keeps it a secret. "Man With Eye Patch" (Danny Glover) wears an eye patch and joins the group as the only one in Block One who has a radio! This is their first glimpse into what is occurring in the outside world.

Chaos and power struggles happen. There is not enough food provided to start out with. More and more people are added to the Quarantine Compound but without provisions being supplied. No one is allowed to leave; military police surround the Compound and shoot anyone out of line. I had not read the book but will. The Doc and his wife have a pretty deep connection which rather moved me in this dark study.

At one point a Minister;s voice can be heard preaching about the Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus) and relaying the story of him being blinded along the road to Damascus, on his way to persecute the early Christians. It is the famous story of Saull being blinded & being led to meet up with someone whom an Angel told him he would see once he arrived in Damascus. This priest restored (healed) Saul's eyesight and he changed his name to Paul and wrote much of the New Testament--a 180 degree turn around. Paul perhaps held the knowledge necessary for the Gospel itself to be propitiated.

"I know that part inside of you with no name, and that's who we are, right?"

CAST...Taxi Driver-Joe Pingue Receptionist-Susan Coyne Boy: Mitchell Nye "Mother of the Boy" -Fabiana Gugli The Accountant--Maury Chaykin Policeman-Joe Cobdon Maid-Amanda Hiebert Woman in Sunglasses(Prostitute)-Maria Inger Other Woman of Ward One-Toni Ellwand & Nadia LItz Minister of Health-Sandra Oh Sergeant-Michael Wandner Hoodulm-Billy Otis (led a gang of terrorists interned within the Quarantine Ctr)

(1969 Director: Luis Buffuel) I rented this one from Netflix in search of some interesting French films, Clearly I had not understood the subject mtter of this film. It is at times somewhat surrealistic vision of the path of pilgriumage to the ancient St. James journey in C.* del Apostele in Spain's shrine. This is an age-old pilgrimage.

The 2 lead characters are street people, down on their luck men, one younger and one older, who for the most part walk along the road their path of pilgrimage and encounter along the way some moving and many times unexplainable events....

Without much use at all of special effects there are in this 1969 film very mystical spiritual "conversation" throughout with many metaphors and occurrences beyond explanation. This pilgrimage is one that has been traveled from France (Paris in the case of the 2 homeless men as lead characters in this film). The Virgin Mary appears at one time; however, often the apparitions are rathr dark, though usually well-intentioned toward this deparate duo.

I am a student of French & as such mesmerized by the vastly unique and ultra conservative views of the French. Perhaps that is one reason why the French language itself does not change, morph unlike practically EVERYTHING about our American English language.


The movie at the end credits the many Catholic cathedrals and dogma which are debated throughout this "journey."