Jory
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| Kraichgauer wrote: | | Jory wrote: | 
The American Friend is one of my three favorite films, but up until now, it was the only Wim Wenders movie I had seen. I decided to finally correct that mistake and rented Wings of Desire. I had seen the remake, City of Angels, but this was much better. |
I saw that back in my college days. I actually have an appreciation for both versions.
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I remember enjoying the remake, but it's been over a decade, which was a lifetime ago for me. I was born in 1983, and the remake came out in 1998, which was 14 years ago. Yeow! I feel old.
Have you seen The American Friend? Just curious. I love it. It's based on one of the novels in the Talented Mr. Ripley series, but it's much better than the Matt Damon movie. |
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Kraichgauer
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| Jory wrote: | | Kraichgauer wrote: | | Jory wrote: |
The American Friend is one of my three favorite films, but up until now, it was the only Wim Wenders movie I had seen. I decided to finally correct that mistake and rented Wings of Desire. I had seen the remake, City of Angels, but this was much better. |
I saw that back in my college days. I actually have an appreciation for both versions.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer |
I remember enjoying the remake, but it's been over a decade, which was a lifetime ago for me. I was born in 1983, and the remake came out in 1998, which was 14 years ago. Yeow! I feel old.
Have you seen The American Friend? Just curious. I love it. It's based on one of the novels in the Talented Mr. Ripley series, but it's much better than the Matt Damon movie. |
I'm afraid I haven't seen The American Friend, or The Talented Mr Ripley, but I ahould like to.
And you think you feel old? Try being forty five, like me!
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer |
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Jory
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| Kraichgauer wrote: | I'm afraid I haven't seen The American Friend, or The Talented Mr Ripley, but I ahould like to.
And you think you feel old? Try being forty five, like me!
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer |
Heh. I'm only 28, and I already feel old. I suppose I'll feel the same way when I'm 38, and 48, if I'm unlucky enough to live that old.
The Talented Mr Ripley is a decent movie. So is Ripley's Game. But my personal favorite adaptation of Pat Highsmith's books is The American Friend. I also like The Cry of the Owl, which was turned into a 2009 film with Paddy Considine, a real-life Aspie. |
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| LiberalJustice, Thanks for your sincere reply as, I thought the film was very well done and all.. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: What movies have you seen recently? |
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| ProfessorX wrote: | | LiberalJustice, Thanks for your sincere reply as, I thought the film was very well done and all.. |
You're very welcome.
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| Jory wrote: |
The American Friend is one of my three favorite films, but up until now, it was the only Wim Wenders movie I had seen. I decided to finally correct that mistake and rented Wings of Desire. I had seen the remake, City of Angels, but this was much better. |
You might also want to watch "Paris, Texas" While it is quite different from either "The American Friend" or "Wings of Desire" I think it is Wender's best film.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:01 pm Post subject: Recent Movie |
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This past weekend I watched "A Dangerous Method."
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| jagatai wrote: | | Jory wrote: |
The American Friend is one of my three favorite films, but up until now, it was the only Wim Wenders movie I had seen. I decided to finally correct that mistake and rented Wings of Desire. I had seen the remake, City of Angels, but this was much better. |
You might also want to watch "Paris, Texas" While it is quite different from either "The American Friend" or "Wings of Desire" I think it is Wender's best film. |
Paris, Texas is a great movie! Goes to show you how a character actor like Harry Dean Stanton can carry a film as a leading man. I've said it before, I'll say it again; the scene where Stanton is in the peep show, telling his now stripper ex why he had left her years before, is golden.
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Mayel
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| 32 short films about Glenn Gould - I really liked it. It had many little nice ideas in some of those shortfilms. The acting was good, too. Overall not bad but probably not a movie for people who are not familiar with this artist. |
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| I watched Little Miss Sunshine on the weekend. |
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"Contagion" I liked that this film tried to be fairly accurate as to what that kind of outbreak might be like. Certainly it was a lot better than "Outbreak" which I thought was one of the more ridiculous and grossly unscientific treatments of the concept.
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Jory
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| jagatai wrote: | | "Contagion" I liked that this film tried to be fairly accurate as to what that kind of outbreak might be like. Certainly it was a lot better than "Outbreak" which I thought was one of the more ridiculous and grossly unscientific treatments of the concept. |
Oh, come on. Outbreak is fun as hell.
"General, with all due respect, f**k you, sir."
Contagion doesn't look bad, but I've got a serious bias against Steven Soderbergh movies. Even when I find myself somewhat enjoying one of them (like Traffic or Solaris), I find him so overbearingly pretentious that I'm never in any hurry to watch another. |
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| Detachment - What a wonderful movie. For some people it may seem a little over the top,..maybe even pretentious. For me,...it's a depressing movie with wonderful shots and it's very fast-paced. It's melodramatic and bleak....metaphoric, almost too pictorial. It touches on many subjects related to the mind, but also generally, decay and of course, detachment. |
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Jory
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Haven't watched this in awhile. I saw that someone uploaded it to YouTube and couldn't resist.
It's pretty terrific, even though the ending is a cop-out.
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I just got back from seeing the 21 Jump Street movie.
I haven't laughed this hard and this much in quite a while; awesome movie.
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