[Santa's NaughtiNess]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I find a lot of these Oscar nominated classics really boring, like The English Patient for example, that was thee most boring film I've ever sat through, did people really like that?

I loved that.
It is way too long, but great movie.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I find a lot of these Oscar nominated classics really boring, like The English Patient for example, that was thee most boring film I've ever sat through, did people really like that?

Never seen it, and never wanted too. Looks a bit boring to me.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Alf

Never seen it, and never wanted too. Looks a bit boring to me.

It is, good choice

[Santa's NaughtiNess]

Originally Posted by Alf

Never seen it, and never wanted too. Looks a bit boring to me.

Love Ralph Fiennes, but Shindlers List is a much better movie.
He's brilliant in it.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Love Ralph Finnes, but Shindlers List is a much better movie.
He's brilliant in it.

She ain't lying!

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Love Ralph Fiennes, but Shindlers List is a much better movie.
He's brilliant in it.

Yeah I need to watch that actually, shameful really that i haven't already

[Santa's NaughtiNess]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah I need to watch that actually, shameful really that i haven't already

It's honestly one of the best movies you'll ever see.
And I'm always crying at the end. So moving.

[ChristmasNeeve]

I don't love war films in general but those stories involving WW2 and escapes/survival of the Jewish people are always very moving I think, like the one we just watched as well Defiance

[Santa's NaughtiNess]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I don't love war films in general but those stories involving WW2 and escapes/survival of the Jewish people are always very moving I think, like the one we just watched as well Defiance

That was very good, I loved it.

[Ammi]

...I don’t know if anyone has watched Beasts of No Nation...it’s an incredibly powerful movie...

Youtube video

[Santa's NaughtiNess]

The soundtrack onThe Deer Hunter is so beautiful

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

The music score of The Deer Hunter is so beautiful

... love:...yeah, another beautiful score is Last of the Mohicans, Vanessa...

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I don’t know if anyone has watched Beasts of No Nation...it’s an incredibly powerful movie...

Youtube video

I've seen that yeah

[Bollo]

So i watched Defiance...

Spoiler:

I'm sure it's a good movie if you like that genre...but I've never really been able to get into war movies. It's a very relevant story about a part of history which i never knew about... However I'm a bit of a phillistine when it comes to history and i just couldn't get into it, i didn't find any of the characters resonated... but thats just me I'm not always the most empathetic person.... sorry

I'm looking forward to watching Eternal sunshine later

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Bollo

So i watched Defiance...

Spoiler:

I'm sure it's a good movie if you like that genre...but I've never really been able to get into war movies. It's a very relevant story about a part of history which i never knew about... However I'm a bit of a phillistine when it comes to history and i just couldn't get into it, i didn't find any of the characters resonated... but thats just me I'm not always the most empathetic person.... sorry

I'm looking forward to watching Eternal sunshine later

Spoiler:

..that’s totally cool and the good thing with the club...it’s easy to dip in and out only with the ones that appeal to us as well and there will be so much variation... I love true stories and people/human stories ...

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Bollo

So i watched Defiance...

Spoiler:

I'm sure it's a good movie if you like that genre...but I've never really been able to get into war movies. It's a very relevant story about a part of history which i never knew about... However I'm a bit of a phillistine when it comes to history and i just couldn't get into it, i didn't find any of the characters resonated... but thats just me I'm not always the most empathetic person.... sorry

I'm looking forward to watching Eternal sunshine later

Spoiler:

I'm not usually a fan of war movies either but I do like these type ones of human survival and what people can do when they have to

[In the Drunk Tank]

I watched Eternal Sunshine today based off this thread and enjoyed it, think I actually made it more confusing than it was because for a lot of the film I was thinking they must have had their memories erased more than once lol

It was a sweet, clever film though which was well acted, probably give it a 7/10

[Bollo]

So I watched Eternal Sunshine....

Spoiler:

It was much more surreal than I remember but also quite realistic in terms of relationships in that most finish on bad terms and we would love to forget them but then later on we remember the good times. The interesting question though is would we do them the same as strangers armed with the information of what went wrong in the first place? Very thought provoking...
I also had forgotten the relationships between the people that worked for Lacuna which were good subplots..especially the guy trying to seduce Clementine with Joels words...

I would love to have seen a bit more of the start of the relationship and how Joel finished it with Naomi as its sounds like there was an overlap

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Bollo

So I watched Eternal Sunshine....

Spoiler:

It was much more surreal than I remember but also quite realistic in terms of relationships in that most finish on bad terms and we would love to forget them but then later on we remember the good times. The interesting question though is would we do them the same as strangers armed with the information of what went wrong in the first place? Very thought provoking...
I also had forgotten the relationships between the people that worked for Lacuna which were good subplots..especially the guy trying to seduce Clementine with Joels words...

I would love to have seen a bit more of the start of the relationship and how Joel finished it with Naomi as its sounds like there was an overlap

Spoiler:

...apparently there were some scenes which were deleted that gave more insight into Joel’s relationship with Naomi because it would have changed how we saw him ...in that there could have been an overlap, as you say, Bollo...when he and Clementine first met and he appeared awkward/shy, the suggestion is that it could equally have been guilt, rather than shyness...I hadn’t actually picked up on that...(...I googled whether there was an overlap......so that was very perceptive of you...the unedited scene(s) might be viewable online, I’m not sure...

...Elijah Wood’s character, Patrick..?...was such a creep, taking her underwear when the erasing was being done and basically ‘stealing’ Joel’s memories..it was obviously all about Joel and Clementine but how many females had he done that with...?...and obviously Howard was such a creep as well, to feel that something like that and how vulnerable someone would be etc in that situation...would be abused in such a way...it’s just shuddering....

...yeah, I guess it would be interesting to think, would we go back to a relationship because of the good times...?...and I guess that would always vary, depending on the reasons for it ending and whether a different outcome could ever be possible...I need to think about that more.....

[Bollo]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Spoiler:

...apparently there were some scenes which were deleted that gave more insight into Joel’s relationship with Naomi because it would have changed how we saw him ...in that there could have been an overlap, as you say, Bollo...when he and Clementine first met and he appeared awkward/shy, the suggestion is that it could equally have been guilt, rather than shyness...I hadn’t actually picked up on that...(...I googled whether there was an overlap......so that was very perceptive of you...the unedited scene(s) might be viewable online, I’m not sure...

...Elijah Wood’s character, Patrick..?...was such a creep, taking her underwear when the erasing was being done and basically ‘stealing’ Joel’s memories..it was obviously all about Joel and Clementine but how many females had he done that with...?...and obviously Howard was such a creep as well, to feel that something like that and how vulnerable someone would be etc in that situation...would be abused in such a way...it’s just shuddering....

...yeah, I guess it would be interesting to think, would we go back to a relationship because of the good times...?...and I guess that would always vary, depending on the reasons for it ending and whether a different outcome could ever be possible...I need to think about that more.....

Spoiler:

Oh really thats interesting, i did wonder because right at the beginning he is pondering wether to go back Naomi because he says 'she's nice and she loved me'...and then near the end a couple of times him and Clementine have a conversation about wether he's married and I think he says he lives with someone ...so it would have been interesting to see how he got out of that because he seems so awkward/ shy and lonely like he hasn't had a partner for ages otherwise...but like you say maybe it's guilt..

Yes Howard was really creepy, i did not see that coming when Mary came on to him, that they had already been together, seems like both him and Patrick were taking advantage of the system, which i think is probably why Mary did what she did with the tapes... Mary needs to be with the Mark Gruffalo character...

[ChristmasNeeve]

I watched half of American Psycho over the weekend, I'll finish it today

[ChristmasNeeve]

American Psycho

Spoiler:

This one confused me more than Memento and Eternal Sunshine wtf? Did he actually kill anyone or is he just completely insane and imagined it all? Anyway, hhhmmm I didn't like it very much. It was a very cold kind of a film, none of the characters were likable in anyway especially Patrick (I know you're not supposed to like him) but yeah, not a fan of this one at all

[Ammi]

Spoiler:

...oh thank the Lord, I thought it was just me because of how violent it was and because I’d avoided eye contact with the screen for so much of it...I felt that it had taken so much more out of the movie and story for me as well so I’d lost the storyline and point that other viewers wouldn’t lose...I mean, I presumed it wasn’t all real and some was imagined because his lawyer had confirmed that he hadn’t killed that guy...but had he killed anyone or no one at all and everything was imagined...had he killed some homeless people but not killed them in his own home...I mean he was obviously very disturbed, whether it be real or not ...but so much of the movie was given over to the actual killings themselves and the brutality of them...to have left it hanging like that....and I also had no place of being able to get inside his head either, to see any emotion...and even with extremely disturbed emotion, we’re still often able to see it in characters and we need to, I think...that for me is an essential because it does give me the ‘watchable’ bits to counter the violence I can’t watch...but there was nothing...neither love or contempt for humans, they just weren’t human to him...is what it felt...he felt nothing, they were nothing...what was the point and it took very little to trigger him and sometimes nothing at all because it was all preplanned...other than to say this ‘perfectly ordered person in nice expensive suits is actually a monster...but we didn’t even know that for sure ....I wanted to see if anyone else felt the same or if I just wasn’t getting it...

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Spoiler:

...oh thank the Lord, I thought it was just me because of how violent it was and because I’d avoided eye contact with the screen for so much of it...I felt that it had taken so much more out of the movie and story for me as well so I’d lost the storyline and point that other viewers wouldn’t lose...I mean, I presumed it wasn’t all real and some was imagined because his lawyer had confirmed that he hadn’t killed that guy...but had he killed anyone or no one at all and everything was imagined...had he killed some homeless people but not killed them in his own home...I mean he was obviously very disturbed, whether it be real or not ...but so much of the movie was given over to the actual killings themselves and the brutality of them...to have left it hanging like that....and I also had no place of being able to get inside his head either, to see any emotion...and even with extremely disturbed emotion, we’re still often able to see it in characters and we need to, I think...that for me is an essential because it does give me the ‘watchable’ bits to counter the violence I can’t watch...but there was nothing...neither love or contempt for humans, they just weren’t human to him...is what it felt...he felt nothing, they were nothing...what was the point and it took very little to trigger him and sometimes nothing at all because it was all preplanned...other than to say this ‘perfectly ordered person in nice expensive suits is actually a monster...but we didn’t even know that for sure ....I wanted to see if anyone else felt the same or if I just wasn’t getting it...

Spoiler:

I think you have to have some characters in there that make you want to route for them. The whole film just felt soul less to me

[ChristmasNeeve]

I actually only re-watched The Green Mile and The Truman Show recently, I was wanting to show my daughter some 90's classics