Just watched Takeshi Kitano's Outrage. Franky, I was expecting more. There were some scenes of extreme Yakuza violence but the story line was flaky and highly improbable in the real Yakuza world ( for instance the inclusion of a foreign Embassy co-partnering with the Yakuza in a gamling casino and using Embassy grounds as a cover - higly comical, as was the character associated with it ). So I was surprisingly dissapointed with the whole thing and especially the ending, which I'll leave for you to see. I can't belive that this is the latest movie from the same director that gave us gems like Sonatine and Hanabi. I could see Takeshi Miike doing this movie that way, as he has been more inconsistent and quircky ( although his latest - 13 Assassins, was great ). Makes me wonder, if the two directors are going in opposite directions or if this latest was just a Kitano fluke.
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Just finished watching the Texas Killing Fields. Two lawmen go after a serial killer.
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Was watching Contaigon. Despite it's good cast, I fell asleep.
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I watched The Mummy (original) with Brendan Fraser. I still watch it on VHS. I think it's time for me to get the DVD. I bet this would be a good Blu-Ray film also.
Going to watch this tonight on blu-ray:
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I watched The Mummy (original) with Brendan Fraser. I still watch it on VHS. I think it's time for me to get the DVD. I bet this would be a good Blu-Ray film also.
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Just watched Water For Elephants. Reminded me of the time I wanted to run away with the cIrcus.
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I'm rewatching a movie that didn't get the acclaim it should have ( possibly because it was over three hours long and really wasn't suited for theater distribution at the time ). I loved this movie - Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, where a young DeNero and a young, swelte Gerard Deperdieu ( can you imagine that? ) get caught up in the cataclysmatic events of Fashist Italy and the rise to power of Benito Mussolini. The childhood friends, one, a landowner's son, the other- the son of a worker on that plantion, are destined to arrive at oppsite ends of the spectrum. Bertolucci deftly takes us back to that time and gives us an aromatic whiff of the era.
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Perhaps I'm dreaming, but I would have sworn I saw the five-hour version at the theatre in 1977. I need to rewatch it since I found it lousy back then, but my tastes have changed since.
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Perhaps I'm dreaming, but I would have sworn I saw the five-hour version at the theatre in 1977. I need to rewatch it since I found it lousy back then, but my tastes have changed since.
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Amores Perros, the movie that opened many eyes to Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, three stories coming together as one.
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Cool. I'd be interested to hear what you think of it.
Gael's career took of like a torpedo and he went on to work with a bunch of different but good directors like Carlos Carrera ( The Crime Of Padre Amaro ) and Pedro Almadovar ( Bad Education ) and Inarritu went on to make 21 Grams, Babel and Biutiful, all movies which I reccomend for your viewing pleasure.
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