Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: Movies
I post a lot of "your favorite" topics lately, so here is another one; your 10 most favorite movies.
Kingdom of Heaven, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Pulp Fiction, The Goonies, Schindler's List, Der Untergang (The Downfall), Joan of Arc, The Matrix Trilogy, The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far.
I of course have a lot of other favorites, I really love movies! _________________ My site:http://www.AntonKemmeren.com
I really, really wanted to like Kingdom of Heaven. I mean, how could you go wrong? Ridley Scott for a director, Orlando Bloom for eye candy, Liam Neeson and Marton Csokas and Edward Norton for great support, an interesting era in history, exotic locales ... and it was just boring and pointless to me. I was soooo bummed!
The Matrix -- great movie. The other two -- WTF? They should have quit while they were ahead!
Pulp Fiction -- sooooo good. Tarantino has never equaled it. (Okay, I never saw Kill Bill. Just didn't interest me.) Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels couldn't hold a candle to it (hell, I never could figure out who all the characters were supposed to be).
Having heard so much about Pulp Fiction, I finally watched it during Christmas and was shocked by how boring it was. Actually, I only watched a third of it, I was so dissapointed.
Some favourite movies:
The Shining
Life of Brian
Tři oříšky pro Popelku (DDR-ČSSR version of Cinderella)
Mrs. Doubtfire
The Blair Witch Project
La vita è bella
Fried Green Tomatoes
Flåklypa Grand Prix (Norwegian animation movie)
Halloween
Schultze gets the blues (German Cajun movie)
I guess my choices are a bit light-hearted, either horror, comedy or teardrippingly sentimental. I just don't get deeply moved by movies the way I get by books. _________________ Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen. = Those who don't know foreign languages, know nothing of their own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Last edited by Fredrik on Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:58 am; edited 1 time in total
I can report that "The Queen" is nice, with some overdone metaphors (Diana = dead deer), but with many very sensual big telephones!
Deborah wrote about Diabolique:
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Maybe I didn't find the scary scene scary because my mother had already told me what happens in it, and I was watching it on TV, not in a dark theater
Or maybe because it was just too old to be scary? As a horror movie lover I've been disappointed several times by how little scary famous old horror movies, like "Psycho", are. _________________ Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen. = Those who don't know foreign languages, know nothing of their own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Location: San Francisco, Noord-Kalifornië, Noord-Amerika
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:43 am Post subject:
Fredrik wrote:
Deborah wrote about Diabolique:
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Maybe I didn't find the scary scene scary because my mother had already told me what happens in it, and I was watching it on TV, not in a dark theater
Or maybe because it was just too old to be scary? As a horror movie lover I've been disappointed several times by how little scary famous old horror movies, like "Psycho", are.
You're right, I was already inured to watching more modern slasher movies.
Now, I have a hard time picturing a Norwegian watching Fried Green Tomatoes, Fredrik!
I saw it, but I don't remember much about the movie. The book, however, was very entertaining -- way better (as books usually are)!
By the way, the book had some excellent recipes at the end, and I actually made fried green tomatoes -- dredged the slices in flour, salt, and pepper and sauteed them in butter (I didn't have real cornmeal) -- and they were mighty tasty, after all! Because they really don't sound that appetizing.... _________________ An apple a day....
Location: San Francisco, Noord-Kalifornië, Noord-Amerika
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:01 am Post subject:
Uriel wrote:
By the way, the book had some excellent recipes at the end, and I actually made fried green tomatoes -- dredged the slices in flour, salt, and pepper and sauteed them in butter (I didn't have real cornmeal) -- and they were mighty tasty, after all! Because they really don't sound that appetizing....
OK, just what do cooked green tomatoes taste like?
Now, I have a hard time picturing a Norwegian watching Fried Green Tomatoes, Fredrik!
But it has happened! I was taken by my dad and my grandmother and it was one of my first visits to the cinema, my Cinema Paradiso, so to say. You know, when you get really sucked into a whole other world via that screen. _________________ Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen. = Those who don't know foreign languages, know nothing of their own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
By the way, the book had some excellent recipes at the end, and I actually made fried green tomatoes -- dredged the slices in flour, salt, and pepper and sauteed them in butter (I didn't have real cornmeal) -- and they were mighty tasty, after all! Because they really don't sound that appetizing....
OK, just what do cooked green tomatoes taste like?
Not bad at all. They're a little more tart and crisp than ripe tomatoes and they have less of that sweet, meaty fullness, but the cooking mellows out the flavor a little and the breading complements it nicely. I would recommend them. _________________ An apple a day....
Not yet, but according to reviews here his accent "comes and goes", good in some scenes, bad in others.
This is what SA Movie and DVD Magazine had to say about the movie.
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Usually Hollywood movies about Africa and South Africa are a source of hilarity to local audiences as Hollywood tends to get so many details about this country wrong. Who can forget Joss Ackland's atrocious “Afrikaans” accent as the villainous apartheid-era ambassador in Lethal Weapon II, for instance? Or that ornamental Nazi eagle in his office (come on, which Department of Foreign Affairs official's office ever looked like that?) Or how about the Nazi-like paraphernalia adorning the podium as the celluloid Jimmy Kruger made his notorious “Biko died after a hunger strike” speech in Cry Freedom?
But what South African audiences usually find the most entertaining (or insulting, depending on your sense of humour) is when Hollywood actors attempt a Seth Effrikan accent. (One can only imagine how they have mangled other “ethnic” accents in the movies throughout the years then, particularly in all those movies featuring the poor Russians as villains!)
However, in Blood Diamond we're happy to say that while DiCaprio doesn't always get the accent right, he at least gets the character spot on. Or maybe the role was just well-written, as the screenplay at least seems decently researched with an eye for detail and an ear for the local tongue.
“Doos,” DiCaprio's character murmurs when faced by an officious soldier, which had the audience I was with laugh appreciatively. DiCaprio has aged well enough to fit this role; no longer the fresh-faced boy star of Titanic, he is more credible as a tough action man than, let's say, the soft-faced Colin Farrell in Miami Vice. Cynical and opportunistic, DiCaprio comes off like an boer seun Han Solo, spouting the sort of political incorrect dialogue one imagine a character like him would in real life.
Blood Diamonds gets other things right too, mostly by casting local actors such as Arnold Vosloo and Marius Weyers as Afrikaner diamond smuggling heavies. One detail that is straight out of the Hollywood cliché rule book though is when DiCaprio's character visits the Stellenbosch vineyards of his employers and there are machinegun-wielding heavies all over the place guarding it like one always sees with Columbian drug lords in the movies. Very unlikely.
That Stellenbosch farm scene was mentioned with amusement in every review I read.
Incidently, according to a magazine articles on South African/Afrikaans accents in Hollywood movies, the worst one ever was Val Kilmer in The Saint, and the best one Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon 2. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
BTW, the "blood diamonds" are from other African countries. Diamonds from South Africa, Namibia and Botswana are fine to buy, totally legit. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
A friend who has seen the movie, says DiCaprio's accent is fairly good, but a bit over the top at times. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
My man Arnold is in a movie again? I guess I'll have to see it!
He does a pretty good SA accent, I think.
Hounsou isn't hard to look at, either, and whatever accent it is that he has is pretty cool as well.
This week I rented 24 Hour Party People, about the rise and fall of Factory Records (you know -- Joy Division, New Order, the Happy Mondays .... well, okay, you older people will know them). Never heard of Steve Coogan before. He was pretty damn funny, in that deadpan English way. It was more or less a documentary, but he kept making little funny asides to the camera about which parts were true, which parts fiction, and where the two met that were just hilarious -- and a pretty interesting approach. _________________ An apple a day....
I thought Leo was playing an Anglo-South African????
English (speaking) South African, Porthos, we say English (speaking) South African, not Anglo....
Leo's character is a ex-Rhodie (Rhodesian) actually, from what I've read. I don't know if he's accent is supposed to be Afrikaans or English South African, but since Arnold Vosloo helped him with it, I would guess it was supposed to be Afrikaans. The producers probably didn't care, as long as it was South African! As an ex-Rhodie, especially an Afrikaans one, his accent would be similar to the South African accent.
_________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
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