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How to Train your Dragon(2010)
If you have kids this is a brilliant film, actually even if you don’t its great :oops:
It’s an animated film set in Viking Times and a young viking wants to be a dragon hunter as is expected of the brave men. The young boy inadvertently comes across a dragon and learns there is more to a dragon than he was given to believe and befriends him instead.
A simple story, but with a few lump in your throat moments despite the fact its animated … ok i’m soft shhh anyway …. Brill :oops: =D> =D> =D> =D>I loved both movies – Melancholia and Tree of Life.
And they are both very different ways of looking at the same thing – the end of life. Both are stunning visually.
I think you have to be very open to Christianity to appreciaate Tree of Life (the reason for poli not liking it???), but will wait for Pepperpot’s review. He seems to have a very good taste in literature and fil – though that’s another way of saying he ahs a taste similar to moi lol
anyway, as I like having the last word (geddit? geddit??) I will wrie my view of them both together after Pepperpot’s – maybe lol
@sceptical guy wrote:
I loved both movies – Melancholia and Tree of Life.
And they are both very different ways of looking at the same thing – the end of life. Both are stunning visually.
I think you have to be very open to Christianity to appreciaate Tree of Life (the reason for poli not liking it???), but will wait for Pepperpot’s review. He seems to have a very good taste in literature and fil – though that’s another way of saying he ahs a taste similar to moi lol
anyway, as I like having the last word (geddit? geddit??) I will wrie my view of them both together after Pepperpot’s – maybe lol
*Sniffs about
Did someone say the last word?
@sceptical guy wrote:
I loved both movies – Melancholia and Tree of Life.
And they are both very different ways of looking at the same thing – the end of life. Both are stunning visually.
I think you have to be very open to Christianity to appreciaate Tree of Life (the reason for poli not liking it???), but will wait for Pepperpot’s review. He seems to have a very good taste in literature and fil – though that’s another way of saying he ahs a taste similar to moi lol
anyway, as I like having the last word (geddit? geddit??) I will wrie my view of them both together after Pepperpot’s – maybe lol
On this point you are miles off scept, no, that wasn’t the reason for not liking it, but i do know where you are coming from with that, it just didn’t work for me, unlike Melancholia.
it didn’t work for a lot of people, pol.
my son and his daughter watched it on blu-ray..after about 15 mins, they were speechless..with boredom. Literally stunned.
There is no story, no character development, and the Christian themes running through the film are really heavy – the resurrection of the dead, especially.
But Terrence Malik is magic, and to me he was able to create magic in this film. People I know who have had to deal with the loss of someone close in the family were hypnotised by the movie. The presentation of how boys grew in the 50s was very accurate – and it brought many memories of my own childhood back. The bullying dad who was just wanting the ebst for his sons, and the ever-suffering mother, also had a ring to it.
Melancholia is just such a different film. The reaction to the end of the world by the 4 main characters is very interesting, especially as the nervous elder sister goes out of control, while the unsuccessful younger sister shows her mettle.
Visually spectacular – and scary at the end.
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@panda12 wrote:
Haven’t seen any films lately. Would like to see The Woman in Black – I suspect it will be a disapointment compared to the stage show, though.
I saw it Panda and I wasn’t impressed… having said that my son in law thought it was amazing… maybe I just dont scare as easily as him :D
Watched The Woman in Black tonight on Sky Box Office. Wish I’d put the surround system on now!
It is has rather a different plot than the stage play. Not sure how it differs from the book, though.
I thought it was good. It probably would have been more scary in the cinema.
Having said that though, I still think the stage play is much better for atmosphere, suspense and tension, even if it does only have two actors!
A well balanced but not too taxing affair that gives us a brief, but knowing snapshot of the deeply troubled yet magnetic Marilyn Monroe on the set of THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL and the lasting impression she made on a young assistant director.
A study of her heavy insecurities played out against the backdrop of the classic clash between two schools of cinema acting… Laurence Olivier’s theatrics facing off to her modern method approach.
Fantastic on set fireworks.
Some comedy.
Some tragedy.
A touch of romance.
All very competently applied.Excellent central performances from the intoxicating Michelle Williams as Marilyn and a splendidly sharp Kenneth Brannagh as Larry Olivier truly elevate proceedings.
Recommended.
=D> =D> =D>
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN is currently showing on SkyMovies and On Demand TV and is available on DVD / Blu Ray
Taken 2
Went to see Taken2 the other day… I loved it even though its a fairly predictable formula. Liam Neeson was his usual quiet strong man…. fighting to save his family. I would say its not quite as good as the original film…. but its still well worth seeing… good escapism.. some excellent footage in Istanbul…really good.
Went to Bella pasta afterwards… that was good too :D
@(f)politics? wrote:
How to Train your Dragon(2010)
If you have kids this is a brilliant film, actually even if you don’t its great :oops:
It’s an animated film set in Viking Times and a young viking wants to be a dragon hunter as is expected of the brave men. The young boy inadvertently comes across a dragon and learns there is more to a dragon than he was given to believe and befriends him instead.
A simple story, but with a few lump in your throat moments despite the fact its animated … ok i’m soft shhh anyway …. Brill :oops: =D> =D> =D> =D>And David is in it :D so …
=D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>@Sgt Pepper wrote:
A well balanced but not too taxing affair that gives us a brief, but knowing snapshot of the deeply troubled yet magnetic Marilyn Monroe on the set of THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL and the lasting impression she made on a young assistant director.
A study of her heavy insecurities played out against the backdrop of the classic clash between two schools of cinema acting… Laurence Olivier’s theatrics facing off to her modern method approach.
Fantastic on set fireworks.
Some comedy.
Some tragedy.
A touch of romance.
All very competently applied.Excellent central performances from the intoxicating Michelle Williams as Marilyn and a splendidly sharp Kenneth Brannagh as Larry Olivier truly elevate proceedings.
Recommended.
=D> =D> =D>
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN is currently showing on SkyMovies and On Demand TV and is available on DVD / Blu Ray
Thanks, Pepperpot. I saw this yesterday evening on dvd after a very long day, and it was very entertaining, a nice break. Michelle Williams is one of my fave actresses at the moment – she’s excellent in Meek’s Cutoff.
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