Hellsangel wrote:Probably one of the best movies of 2014. It should win a few nominations for the Academy awards.

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:i watched django unchained over the weekend. my first tarantino movie. over the top gratuitous violence and unlikely story.  any other tarantino recos?

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:i watched django unchained over the weekend. my first tarantino movie. over the top gratuitous violence and unlikely story.  any other tarantino recos?

the only tarantino movie i've enjoyed is 'pulp fiction'.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:i watched django unchained over the weekend. my first tarantino movie. over the top gratuitous violence and unlikely story.  any other tarantino recos?

the only tarantino movie i've enjoyed is 'pulp fiction'.

what about the more recent inglorious basterds and the older reservoir dogs?

bw wrote:
i watched about 10 minutes of 'inglorious basterds' and switched it off. the language was a bit too jarring.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:
i watched about 10 minutes of 'inglorious basterds' and switched it off. the language was a bit too jarring.

do you mean brad pitt's highly exaggerated east tennessee accent?

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:
i watched about 10 minutes of 'inglorious basterds' and switched it off. the language was a bit too jarring.

do you mean brad pitt's highly exaggerated east tennessee accent?

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:after HA's and your posts of desplat's music, i went looking for other clips and found the painted veil. then i ended up watching the movie. it's another married brits having an affair in a foreign land movie, but well worth it. it's an adaptation of a somerset maugham novel. a love story, not overly sentimental and weepy, and everyone did a good job.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:after HA's and your posts of desplat's music, i went looking for other clips and found the painted veil. then i ended up watching the movie. it's another married brits having an affair in a foreign land movie, but well worth it. it's an adaptation of a somerset maugham novel. a love story, not overly sentimental and weepy, and everyone did a good job.

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:after HA's and your posts of desplat's music, i went looking for other clips and found the painted veil. then i ended up watching the movie. it's another married brits having an affair in a foreign land movie, but well worth it. it's an adaptation of a somerset maugham novel. a love story, not overly sentimental and weepy, and everyone did a good job.

i have watched this one - china, cholera etc.  there is an older version too.

wonder if the young people of today read maugham.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:after HA's and your posts of desplat's music, i went looking for other clips and found the painted veil. then i ended up watching the movie. it's another married brits having an affair in a foreign land movie, but well worth it. it's an adaptation of a somerset maugham novel. a love story, not overly sentimental and weepy, and everyone did a good job.

i have watched this one - china, cholera etc.  there is an older version too.

wonder if the young people of today read maugham.

i've only read of human bondage. let me ask my daughter. i don't think american kids read maugham.

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:after HA's and your posts of desplat's music, i went looking for other clips and found the painted veil. then i ended up watching the movie. it's another married brits having an affair in a foreign land movie, but well worth it. it's an adaptation of a somerset maugham novel. a love story, not overly sentimental and weepy, and everyone did a good job.

i have watched this one - china, cholera etc.  there is an older version too.

wonder if the young people of today read maugham.

i've only read of human bondage. let me ask my daughter. i don't think american kids read maugham.

my mother and women of her generation treasured maugham and i read most of his books coz of that.

"the razor's edge" is another movie adaptation of his work that i have watched.  

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:after HA's and your posts of desplat's music, i went looking for other clips and found the painted veil. then i ended up watching the movie. it's another married brits having an affair in a foreign land movie, but well worth it. it's an adaptation of a somerset maugham novel. a love story, not overly sentimental and weepy, and everyone did a good job.

Hellsangel wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:after HA's and your posts of desplat's music, i went looking for other clips and found the painted veil. then i ended up watching the movie. it's another married brits having an affair in a foreign land movie, but well worth it. it's an adaptation of a somerset maugham novel. a love story, not overly sentimental and weepy, and everyone did a good job.

Have you watched Lust, Caution?

bw wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:Probably one of the best movies of 2014. It should win a few nominations for the Academy awards.

winning academy awards has no bearing on how good a movie is - 'titanic' won a zillion awards.

i enjoyed this movie - quirky, funny, bawdy. ralph fiennes was very good!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/15/entertainment/feat-oscar-nominations/index.html wrote:The nominees for best picture are "American Sniper," "Boyhood," "Birdman," "The Imitation Game," "The Theory of Everything," "Selma," "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Whiplash."

Hellsangel wrote:

bw wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:Probably one of the best movies of 2014. It should win a few nominations for the Academy awards.

winning academy awards has no bearing on how good a movie is - 'titanic' won a zillion awards.

i enjoyed this movie - quirky, funny, bawdy. ralph fiennes was very good!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/15/entertainment/feat-oscar-nominations/index.html wrote:The nominees for best picture are "American Sniper," "Boyhood," "Birdman," "The Imitation Game," "The Theory of Everything," "Selma," "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Whiplash."

bw wrote:
haha, american sniper for "patriotic" reasons and may even win some awards.

"boyhood" is the movie i want to watch next.

While “American Sniper” is told from the viewpoint of the American military, it’s clear-eyed about the wreckage our presence leaves in its wake. An Iraqi patriarch (Navid Negahban) offers to lead US personnel (for cash) to an Al Qaeda enforcer called the Butcher (Mido Hamada), and Kyle assures the safety of the man and his children. It does not end well; in a later Stateside scene in which Kyle flips out over his newborn daughter’s cries, it’s a good bet whose wails he’s hearing. The film’s sympathies are with the grunts, but as a portrait of bureaucratic mismanagement and tactical overkill, the movie stings more than it soothes. Every so often, we seem to see the US troops, encased in high-tech hardware and adorned with death’s-head insignias, the way Iraqis may have seen them: as the stormtroopers from “Star Wars.”

bw wrote:has won two so far - should have been nominated for more, imo. a pity ralph fiennes wasn't nominated.

Hellsangel wrote:And the music wins another.