[Closed] Recent Viewing Part III

First time for both films as I wanted to check out some 'classics':


Chinatown

Bloody good film! My kinda movie.

Goldsmith's score is great of course, though I'm not sure I'll change my views on it as an album.


The Lion In The Winter

Pretty much agree with Martijn on this one (although I haven't seen the Patrick Stewart version). It's a beautiful and engaging film. I've always liked Barry's score, but like Martijn I do find some aspects of it more suited for horror films and does feel a little at odds with what's on screen at times. But that's only a minor complaint. Brilliant film! A refreshing change from my usual viewings.

"more suited for horror films?"

The music conjures the period perfectly though I do agree that the score is at odds in some scenes, still, Barry deserved that Oscar if only for the scoring of Eleanor arriving on the boat, simply genius.

It doesn't sound like a "horror" score to me, and I guess we're mostly talking about the main title, right? This huge, striding theme conjures for me, darker times past and conspiratorial politics that suits the film perfectly.

No argument there.

Me too! I thought it was perfect for the film - maybe Barry's best score. Must watch the film again some time, haven't seen it for several years. I think I only have it on VHS - remember that!? (Don't have anything to play those any more.)

Not sure. Any suggestions? I like the gritty, darker and more realistic films with realistic portrayals so on and so forth.

Already seen it. It deals with morality, lust and desire not nearly as well as I was lead to believe.

I didn't even know Chinatown had a sequel!? The film is perfect on its own, so I certainly don't want to ruin it with a crappy sequel.

I've seen LA Confidential, loved it. 10 Rillington Place? Never heard of it, but I'll put it in my to-watch list.

I'll only watch it if he says "Welcome to Jurassic Park." Otherwise, I shan't bother.

to Steven's post



Reminds me of someone who thought he knew me at a pub one time, he was talking about some film he'd seen and slipped in this comment, 'You wouldn't like it, there's no guns or explosions'

Virutal Cock Rammer?

I recently saw the Fantastic Mr. Fox.

What a thoroughly weird and delightful film! The stop motion animation was so hard to watch at first, but really grew on me. Even though the medium of stop-motion animation is limiting, I thought that they did some things with it in this film that were very impressive (let's be real here, it still looks like stop-motion, but there are several times when I thought "wow, I wonder how they did that..."). Then there's the look of the actual characters, which is visually unappealing at first. All these animals have human body shapes, with fur and animal heads. Their arms and legs seem very long. Again, after a short while, the look of the film didn't bother me at all. I was very turned off by the previews of this film because it was such an ugly-looking film, but that's easy to get over, and well worth it. The characters are so quirky and likeable. The voice actors are obviously having a lot of fun (and what a cast!). The story moves very quickly. There are a bunch of laugh-out-loud moments. For those of you familiar with the score, zany nature of Desplat's music should clue you in on the kind of film you are going to watch.

As I was watching it I was thoroughly bemused by the strangeness of it all, and very entertained. I think it's a very well-made film and I will happily see it again. I recommend it to anyone with an open mind.

Edit: Also amusing is the substitution of every cuss word with the actual word "cuss." It took me a second to catch on to that, but I thought that was almost always at least chuckle-worthy.

Too much music.

Too much, I say, too much. Such a shame.

Yup!

-Erik-