Posted by FlareNetworkC on 04.14.2017, 10:28 PM: Continuing my AFI Top 100 journey, I just finished Bonnie and Clyde a few minutes ago.
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 04.14.2017, 10:57 PM: I watched Chungking Express at random. Dear lord... I love this film so much but I'm laughing because I knew so many quotes from it before watching it. It has such a lovely feel to it, completely reminds me of a Murakami novel (I love Murakami but often it's not the stories but the feeling they contain and imagery they create). |
Posted by Kazegami on 04.16.2017, 11:49 PM: We had a trip at university the other day and on the bus journey we watched the live-action film of Gegege no Kitaro. It was pretty bad, if kind of funny in bits. I know by now not to expect much from live-action adaptations of anime.
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Posted by Saddletank on 04.17.2017, 09:11 AM: Yes, I've wondered about that too. Its clearly a thing in Japan and I was presuming they do it to reach a wider audience on the assumption the anime will appeal mostly to children, teens and young adults.
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Posted by husky51 on 04.17.2017, 09:17 PM: When the live action "Ghost in the Shell" opens locally, I plan to check it out... We'll see.... |
Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 04.17.2017, 10:56 PM: I just finished Happy Together. Was a bit nervous going in if I could handle it but wound up loving it too. Wong's films have been very cathartic.
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Posted by Saddletank on 04.18.2017, 08:46 AM: Ghost will be a different thing entirely Husky. I am talking about TV shows or made for TV films produced locally, not stuff Hollywood have got hold of.
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Posted by husky51 on 04.21.2017, 03:06 AM: Watched the movie "John Carter" yesterday... based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs... |
Posted by makc on 04.21.2017, 07:27 AM: hidden figures does a good job depicting what kind of crap you had to put up with if you were black female born in usa. I mean, it was nice, but nothing too special.
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 04.24.2017, 05:31 PM: I watched Ocean Waves for the first time last night. I don't think I've ever been left so frustrated and upset at a film in a long while.
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Posted by makc on 04.24.2017, 05:50 PM:
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 04.24.2017, 08:31 PM:
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Posted by husky51 on 04.25.2017, 02:04 AM: I don't know if I can say this right, but in the beginning she was a snobby so-and-so. When she ... well, thinking about it, I don't want to give any thing away for people who haven't seen it yet, You understand, I know, FFF..
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 04.25.2017, 07:31 AM: Maybe I need to re-watch it. lol I think that Rikako was understandable for the most part where she was coming from but it didn't feel like there was much to her character besides being the love interest. I'm not sure how to explain. My sister was more upset with the ending than I was. |
Posted by makc on 04.25.2017, 09:14 AM: troubled teen pretty face, also the only girl he interacts with in a meaningful way, what did you expect. of course he falls for her
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Posted by Saddletank on 04.25.2017, 01:12 PM: Argh... If its a Ghibli movie you watched today, you should discuss it in the Ghibli forum.
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Posted by foreignfilmfreak on 04.25.2017, 01:52 PM: Haha, sorry Saddles. I didn't want to go and necromance an old thread. |
Posted by Kazegami on 04.28.2017, 06:44 AM: So I forgot to mention, I watched Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue the other day.
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Posted by Saddletank on 04.28.2017, 01:03 PM: It is very good and also quite shocking. However I think there's a couple of strangely left-open bits and maybe some logic loopholes that makes the ending unsatisfying. It has elements that resurface in Paprika I think as well as Millenium Actress. The blurry of reality with a false world that takes over reality is a recurring theme of his - whether that world is in the mind of a character you act on a stage or screen, or one you play in your dreams or mind.
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Posted by arren18 on 04.28.2017, 01:10 PM: I think I prefer Perfect Blue over Paprika as well. The intensity makes it more thrilling to watch. Either way it's a great film, if not the easiest to watch.
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