At the flicks

RGM is not here yet, but the comments on IMDB are certainly divided. Most seem to hate it, but those who did like it, loved it. Maybe those with a luke-warm response couldn't be bothered to post? DW was considered brilliant. Terry, as our resident chick-flick expert, should certainly investigate on our behalf... ...we would be vewwy gwateful

Same with A Christmas Tale.....

Mary, A Christmas Tale is definitely not a chick flick. I watched it relative sober and the metaphysical French bs still managed to fly over my head. I didn't think it was as important as it thought itself to be.

Make that relatively sober. It is all relative, after all.

and here I was thinking that seeing French movies blotto was my original idea

Must stay in some focus, Mary. It's subtitled.

OMG.... subtitles???????

Saw Twilight tonight at...wait for it...Gold Class! It's amazing how good a movie is when reclining to a near horizontal position, although difficult to sip at one's G&T, and now I have to Napisan my white top due to the chocolate stains from my hot choccie...and i do wish the the staff would crawl to deliver the said food and drinks as they obstructed my view...but on the whole the audience chewed and drank quietly throughout.

oh yes, Twilight...as I have read the book(s) of the series, the film did it justice. Edward was astoundingly beautiful as any vampire worth his weight in blood should be. I still think they shoud have fangs though. Not sure what a non-Twilight reader would make of this movie. The 'running' scenes were a bit dodgy...reminiscent of the 6 million dollar man (he seems cheap in today's money). soundtrack was good as was the tandoori chicken wraps. oh yes...not a crucifx to be seen...or garlic...there were mirrors, but you could see their reflection...no black capes or widow's peak hair line...Bela Lugosi would be turning in his coffin...but I liked it so there.

Welcoome back, Billy. Mary, watched Green Fingers and loved it. Hard to say who was more adorable -- CO or HM. Loved The Helen's costumes, particularly the hats. The one at the great flower show was so over the top it was a scream.

Glad you enjoyed it Terry, it's a great little movie....and yes, the Hats are wonderful.
G&T, hot choccie, tandoori chicken wraps....did Billy have time to actually see the movie???? at least she has her priorities right...alcohol, chocolate and then food....

Alcohol, chocolate, and food, oh my. Wish I had a theater like that here.

Finally saw the new Batman movie and I'll add my unnecessary vote for HL for a posthumous Oscar. He's already nominated for a Golden Globe award.

This is about tv not the flix, but the Extras Christmas Special cameos the great CO amongst others. I doubt he'll be flexing his fab abs...but one can hope

The CO ... now there's a special Christmas! Just saw Mama Mia. A bit frenetically paced but I LOVED the 70s costumes. Poor PB. He said he was an awful singer and it is true, but god love the man for tryin'.

I don't know Terry, but for a few million quid I'd leap around a beautiful Greek Island in the company of the delectable CF belting out Abba hits....

PLEEEEAASSEEEEE

BTW, could we possibly declare the MM movie a no-go zone? Everytime I hear the words the microchip in my brain activates and for the rest of the day I am bouncing around the place singing and gyrating. It is not a pretty sight.....perhaps we could refer to it as 'the Greek Movie'?... though that may malign a lot of worthy Greek cinema. How about 'The movie that dare not speak it's name'????

"TMTDNSION"? Too much for me to remember, Mary. Must come up with something shorter. May not be necessary. I am probably the last person on earth to finally see it, so it's doubtful there will be future posts. Sorry for the gyrations. I would have bought tix to see them had I but known.

took 2 inches of the hips Terry, raiding the chocolate cupboard as I write to replace them....

off

Hey ho hum...santa's got a big red bum...
Christmas greetings fellow moviebuffettes...

I have a few offerings:
Orstraya was bonza... actually i thort it was crap ..4/10 (purely for Nullah played by Brandon Walters)
NK wasn't as nauseating as I thort she would be. (but still pretty awful). Way too long, not sure what Baz was trying to pull off - seemed a smorgasbord of everything and anything, some good and some not so good. Seemed to me (and only in my opinion)that most of the characters were caricatures of what is percieved as Australianism? I do agree with film critic Roderick Heath..."a film which tries far, far too hard, and proves that rather than having an ironic glint in its eye and a magician’s touch to its spectacle, it’s pure, unadorned, interminable, elephantine kitsch. Good moments peer occasionally through a morass of the insensible."

Complete contrast was Hunger. OMG....very confronting film about Bobby Sands/IRA/hunger strike. I remember so well when all this was happening in the UK and not giving a stuff what happened to the IRA prisoners at the time - I came out of the movie feeling numb. Brilliantly made film, great acting and one scene went on for at least 20 mins without a cut - just straight dialogue. Don't go if you can't stomach violence - it's graphic.

And lastly...Slumdog Millionaire...based on the book Q&A. Really enjoyed this movie - great concept - charwallah gets on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and his life story comes to be known through the answers he gives. here's a smorgasbord of comedy, tragedy, sadness etc that works - unlike a film that I mentioned previously.

seen some good previews...

Frost Nixon
Doubt
The Curious Life of Benjamin Button
The Class
The Day The Earth Stood Still

I thought about Hunger, as I remembered the case quite well, but I can't stomache violence (gettit?). It was a terrible thing, but I don't want to actually see it.
SM? Going to see it next week.
Saw Crossed Tracks at the Sommerville. Fairly ordinary French commercial movie...not Festival Quality...note to Festival Organiser..just because it's subtitled doesn't mean it's Art

Here here, Mary. Something the American critics could learn.

That said ...there was a delectable piece of eye-candy by the name of Gilles Lemaire in the role Le Capitaine du Bateau.....yummm....he could captain my boat anyday

Merry Christmas Billy, Terry, Mary, Angie and others who visit this page. As a relative newcomer, I thank you for the enjoyable reviews and find that I tend to agree often with the critiques posted on this page. If I'm going to see a movie, I'll check here first. Have a good Christmas all and a happy and safe 2009. Happy viewing!
One last thing - took 4 grandies to see, & I can barely type it - 'High School Musical 3'.
I give it half a star for the singing and dancing - but not to those nauseating tunes! Enough said.

Hey CynB, the things one does for the grandies....

Hi CynB. Did the kids at least like it?

Saw The Women. The New York Times hated it but not the stars in it. Since it's packed with fave actresses, I proclaim it a Chick Flick Extraordinaire. Fabulous birth scene (One friend to another: "Get over here before her head spins off!"). Men figure prominantly but only off-screen. The other woman is a bit too two-dimensional, but Eva makes it look so good, I don't care. Two thumbs up.

Maybe I oversold The Women. It's not a Chick Flick on the par with In Her Shoes or Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her.

How very rude of me. Merry Christmas, Aussies, and others a day ahead of us in the world.

Absolutely LOVED Slumdog Millionaire...great movie...has everything...even the obligatory mass dance during the credits...lovely

Happy New Year, all. Mary, SM got an amazing 8.7 out of 10 on imdb.com and 3 Golden Globe noms. Thanks for the heads up. I never would have looked for it, but I'll definitely put it on my Netflix queue now.

Something to talk about to keep the thread alive. Has anyone else seen Spanglish? For those die-hard anti-Adam-Sandlerites such as myself, there may have been a temptation to deliberately miss it but he's very surprising. It's a lovely little movie.

Could someone please help me? I am trying to remember a film I watched quite some time ago. It was a long film, over three hours. Split into four separate mini-films. Each showing the life of four individuals, unrelated at this point. Towards the latter end of the fim the four sections married into one final scene and the whole film finally came together and made the film a joy to watch. I remember one particular scene - raining frogs onto the bonnet of a car. Terribly sorry I can't remember anymore at this stage.

Sorry AE..new to me....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_(film)

I haven't seen it AE but it has intrigued me.

Saw Nixon/Frost - not sure if it would interest those who didn't grow up with Frost way back when, but I do remember watching this interview in 'real' time. The movie does a pretty good job of it but the guy who plays Frost irritated the hell out of me - can't remember who the actor is but he played Blair in The Queen. Incidently it was the same director for both films so he must like the guy...
Happy 2009! it's going to be a good 'un - I can feel it in my waters!