What movie are you viewing at the moment?

[blondifan]

Originally Posted by MaxJoker

You saying you actually liked it ?, you the Tasmanian Devil !!! ... glad you enjoyed it

"Enjoyed it" is probably a little strong.
I will admit to liking a lot of his films, although I was in and out of the room for "the Pursuit of Happyness", (their spelling) when it aired on television and found that to be a "little" bleak by comparison.

Ironically I just wandered here from viewing your comments on actor Eddie Murphy on another thread, with which I largely agree.
After seeing other comments on this forum today about recent Will Smith movies.. well I'm still going to stick with my original opinion, even though I haven't and won't be adding it to my personal collection.

Hey, if you knew this islands genocidal history concerning aboriginals you'd feel somewhat compelled to write something like that too.

[Wendigo]

Trog, recorded last night..............grrrrrrrr



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEswYNdBR1Y

[Clouddancer]

I can really reccomend this film. Starring... Richard Gere & Alfred Molina based on a true story


Early in 1971, Publishers McGraw-Hill reject Clifford Irving's new novel.
He's desperate for money, so, against the backdrop of Nixon's reelection Irving claims he has Howard Hughes's cooperation to write Hughes's autobiography.
With the help of friend Dick Suskind, Irving does research, lucks into a manuscript written by a long-time Hughes associate, and plays on corporate greed.
He's quick-thinking and outrageously bold. Plus, he banks on Hughes's reluctance to enter the public eye.
At the same time, he's trying to rebuild his marriage and deflect the allure of his one-time mistress, Nina Van Pallandt.
Can he write a good book, take the money, and pull off the hoax?

[Wendigo]

The Ups and Downs of a Handyman, 70's British smut.

[Leprechaun]

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oO6pCRe3pM

I'm curious about Ridley Scott's Robin Hood version in 2010.

[rotobott]

Originally Posted by Leprechaun

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oO6pCRe3pM

Not a bad film.and that King Baldwin had such a lovely speaking voice,considering.

[tamsmith]

Just finished watching "The Taking of Pelham 123". Very watchable and maybe close to the original.
What I could not believe is that this was the very first time I have enjoyed John Travolta in a film.

Always hated him as much as Kirk Douglas. And that is saying alot.

[scoundrel]

Once again I'm bending the rules because its over 4 hours since this film finished on Channel 5, but its a delightful film and I wanted to give it a write up: this is the closest thread I can find to the essence of my intended post.

In another thread I commented that this film is marred by some indifferent acting: I take it back. The only poor acting was in a couple of cameo roles. The actors who portrayed the commander of the USAF base at Niagara and the wicked property developer trying to destroy the North Carolina bird sanctuary were cardboard cutouts but in fairness their parts were totally under-written in what is otherwise a very decent screenplay.

The story is really about the repproachment of 13 year old Amy Alden (Anna Paquin, absolutely terrific in this part) with the father she hasnt seen or heard from since she was three years old and moved to New Zealand with her mother after the divorce. Mother dies in a car crash and so Amy, herself recovering from the injuries and in deep shock, must go back to Canada and live with her father again: Jeff Daniels as Tom Alden is also first class. There is strong support from Terry Kinney as Tom's brother, Uncle David, from Holter Graham as Tom's friend and fellow inventor Barry Stickland and most of all from the attractive and very capable actress Dana Delaney as Tom's significant other, Susan Barnes. Amy is strongly inclined to resent her enforced contact with all these people, especially Susan, who has the audacity to stand in what should have been her mothers' shoes: never mind that her mother left her father, not the other way round, who says kids are logical...

Things start to change when a local developer bulldozes a tree adjacent to Tom's property where geese are nesting and Amy brings home over a dozen eggs they were forced to abandon. The scene where she opens the drawer and the goslings eyeball her as they are emerging from the eggs is intensely moving. She doesnt go to bed and her assorted guardians after a frantic search by torchlight find her asleep in the barn surrounded by tiny hyperactive goslings.

Tom appeals to the local office of the Nature Reserve Department for advice: big mistake. The DNR Game Warden (Jeremy Ratchford, a good performance) seems like a ''right on'', caring, environmentally aware and liberal chap, but is actually a total shit, drunk on his own power. He has been trained to ''pinion'' orphaned baby wild geese to stop them flying away by crippling their wings. When he tries this one on, Amy clocks him big time with a heavy pan, and Tom explains that he needs to leave and never return, unless he wants Tom to really really hurt him...

Thrown on their own resources against hostile government authority the family begins to unite and bond. Amy has accidentally become the surrogate parent of the geese, so if they are to migrate they must follow her. Tom is a microlight pilot who built his own aircraft, but the geese wont follow him into the air. Amy impetuously commandeers her fathers plane and flies it into a perimeter fence, but the geese follow her into the sky instantly, so the point is proven. Her father blows his savings to buy her a two-man microlight, then teaches her to fly, so they can take the geese south. Uncle David uses his contacts to find a derelict and abandonned bird sanctuary in North Carolina where the birds can go: but they must get there before November 1 or the land will be developed.

The actual migration sequences are visually stunning and very moving: excellent photography. The spectacle of the birds formation flying against Amy's plane as they would formate on their own mother is absolutely beautiful. There are several misadventures along the way: a forced landing at USAF Niagara nearly ruins everything, the US Airforce are initially extremely cross, but lighten up once they are fully in the picture, especially because one of the two miscreants is a 14 year old girl and because they see a media opportunity to show American taxpayers how cuddly their airforce is. Later the little flock is hopelessly lost in fog and ends up in downtown Baltimore, flying between skyscrapers: in the light of subsequent history, how poignant this sequence is. Office workers watch in total enchantment as the little flock sails quite slowly past their desks.

This film is that rare thing, a certificate U ''family'' entertainment which is fit for grown ups to watch and enjoy. Except for the two microlights there isnt anything in it which can have cost more than a tin of baked beans, yet it is a minor gem. The environmentalist theme is clear but not stridently so and it interesting that the outspokenly ''green'' game warden is the real villain, a tinpot fascist scumbag who very nearly gets the kicking he richly deserves, but instead is publicly shown up for the hypocrite he is. The true environmentalists are the ordinary citizens of several states in the US who follow Amy and Tom's flight in the news and rally round with hospitality wherever they land and who flock to the sanctuary to protest and thwart the developer when the news crews show him illegally starting to bulldoze the land because he knows the geese are coming.

Good film.

[bawjaws]

watching Thunderball on the box ATM.. whatever Largo pays his henchmen, it isn't enough

[Clouddancer]

Starring Daniel Craig who was excellent in this film. Would recommend to everyone.


Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavour to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.