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I watched "Rodeo Girl" beause I thought it would be a cool movie with horses which, if I haven't said it before, I love... It was about a girel who starts out doing Jumping competition over low fences but moves out to live with her Dad and she changes from an English Saddle rider and jumping to a Western Saddle rider in rodeo's and does Barrel racing...
I loved the horse action parts but the whole rest of the movie was pure corn and stilted dialogue IMO. Even the racing wasn't that well. About twenty years ago I knew a local family who took care of horses and their daughters actually DID Barrel racing and they were fast!!! They all moved away years ago, about 40 miles away, and the mother and dad raise champion Arabians... I might just go out for a visit. I can't ride wo well anymore, but I love being around horses...
In fact, where I live now, a neighbor has three horses and a goat that he turns loose in a field next door to me and I've help catch two other horses that got out of their corrals and were moving around in the neighborhood. They were getting spooked by so many people running up to them... I just walked up, talking to them and while they moved away from me, they didn't run, so I was kinda able to steer them into open gated yards and then close the gate. . We eventually caught them up...
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Watched "Miss Hokusai" this evening. DVD jammed up towards the end, but I was able to fix it and finish it.
How did I like it? Very much, different from most anime I watch and there was one character I didn't care for, but I won't say who...
I enjoyed the interaction between O-Ei and O-Nao, the two sisters...
I do recommend it, especially to anyone interested in early japanese culture, around early 1800's.. I know that it probably wasn't totally accurate, but, as i said, I enjoyed it. I'm keeping the DVD and plan to watch it a couple of more times at least before I return it... I may get my own copy...
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Woke up this morning and watched it again...
learned more about it and understood more, from the ending, almost got the idea that it was based on real people of that era... I would love to describe it better, but I don't want to give away any spoilers... This one you have to see for yourself, and if possible, view it more than once... I will watch it at least once more...
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Miss Hokusai is very much based on real people and events. I am sure the story is dramatised and some of the bio material is compressed or exaggerated but the father and daughter were real people and both very famous.
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I went to see Dunkirk tonight with a couple of friends. I came out of the experience drenched with sweat. It really is an incredibly intense film. I can only equate it to the first ten minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" but extended for 120 minutes. It's not bloody and violent - just... so intense.
Nolan does some very, very clever things with the timeline as well. Its not told in a linear fashion but at least three stories are being narrated at different paces that cover different periods of time. It really makes your brain sore.
Visually superb, intellectually challenging, morally questionable and visually beautiful.
I highly recommand it.
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I watched Miss Hokusei following your recommendation Husky and really enjoyed it I found her a pretty fully realised female character.
I finally watched Your Name! Oh my god.....I definitely think it was worth the hype. From the Shinkai movies I've watched so far, I've always found them really beautiful but perhaps missing a bit of warmth/heart (which Studio Ghibli has in abundance) but I thought this film was both beautiful and heart-wrenching. The plot was full of light and dark moments and went in some unexpected directions.
So good! I'll definitely re-watch it again soon.
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... but ... but I recommended Miss Hokusei to Husky!
Some people on the interwebz seem to think Your Name is not so well rounded out as some other Shinkai films but I'm like you and disagree. Its certainly a film that rewards a rewatch - or three - to get the full sense from it.
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quote: Originally posted by Saddletank
... but ... but I recommended Miss Hokusei to Husky!
Some people on the interwebz seem to think Your Name is not so well rounded out as some other Shinkai films but I'm like you and disagree. Its certainly a film that rewards a rewatch - or three - to get the full sense from it.
Ahaha sorry Saddle! I bestow all the kudos on you
Yeah I'm keen to give it a re-watch! I really liked Garden of Words and 5 cm per second, but as I said I always found the characters in them a little less endearing - I feel like Your Name is just as beautiful and complex as his other films, and a little more endearing
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The Big Lebowski - via a hint from Arren.
Thank you Arren, I enjoyed the film a lot. Very funny, very trippy, very... American.
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Watched 3 movies today, two were average, but Jodaeiye Nader az Simin was damn good. Unexpected from Iran. Now I want more of their stuff.
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