What did you watch today? v 22.0

Tell everyone what you watched, what you thought, and what's up next.

The first post in this thread is # 6460

And as ever, link your films please.

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Permalink Reply by NewfMom on July 1, 2009 at 7:22pm: 5 stars

It's slow paced, poignant and has a strong message for peace.

Permalink Reply by Hitch on July 2, 2009 at 2:53am: Finally finished all 6 seasons of The Soprano's, 5 stars all the way, in about a month and a half. What a great TV show. I didn't have HBO when it came out but I kept hearing how good this show was. I have to admit the show was addicting. I remember all the hype when the show ended, some said the ending was terrible and made no sense. While some said the show ended perfectly. I made the mistake and read how it ended before even seeing any of the show itself so I knew what was going to happen. But the ending isn't the best part of this series, it's everything in between that made this TV show great. Now that I watched all 6 seasons I kinda wish it didn't end because I enjoyed the series so much. If you never watched any of this show I highly recommend it, if you like mob related shows/movies. I liked the way they intertwined everything together as well. The seriousness of the job at hand with a little comic relief thrown in and the importance of the family. The music through out the whole series is awesome. My hats off to the cast and crew for making such a great TV show. I think it would be a great thing if they would make a movie about The Soprano's, imo.

Permalink Reply by The Continental on July 2, 2009 at 6:19am: I kinda liked how he did the ending, like No Country for old Men , I like the anti -payoff at the end.
This and Deadwood were my favorite series and the best HBO's done .
I'm enjoying TrueBlood though!

Permalink Reply by Guy on July 2, 2009 at 1:59pm: My take on the end of last episode was that previously several characters had talked about how you never hear the one that gets you.

Permalink Reply by DLM on July 2, 2009 at 4:26am: I just watched A Very Long Engagement a wonderful French film on World War 1 and one woman's refusal to except the army's story of her missing fiance. Beautifully filmed.

Permalink Reply by The Continental on July 2, 2009 at 11:01am: The first movie Night Watch was a "tad" slow, and rough around the edges, but still enjoyable. Whereas the second movie had a great deal more polish
I agree and I liked the first a bit better.
His style is evident in wanted , I don't care for the Americanization /the dumbing down ,of talented foreign directors., These two movies are great fun and don't get mentioned enough

Permalink Reply by Guy on July 2, 2009 at 10:40am: The Friends of Eddie Coyle: I remember when this movie rapidly came and went through theaters in 1973. Probably a little too downbeat for the grim times. The laconic dialog spoken by inarticulate characters occasionally fractures into startling poetry. The crooks approach their jobs as regular joes and the cops treat their snitches as suckers on the bottom rung of some multi-level marketing scam. Worth seeing.

Permalink Reply by The Continental on July 2, 2009 at 11:01am: The laconic dialog spoken by inarticulate characters occasionally fractures into startling poetry.
Worth seeing.

Permalink Reply by oedipussy on July 2, 2009 at 3:02pm: Troll 2: Oh My God U Guyz - Nilbog is "GOBLIN" spelled backwards!

Alyas Batman en Robin: Gorsh, what a fun movie. This is BY FAR the best musical about Batman that I've ever seen...

Permalink Reply by Guy on July 2, 2009 at 5:52pm: I just saw Public Enemies and have mixed feelings. Digital video looks OK in movies with contemporary settings because it gives the image a post modern bleariness, with smeary yellow highlights and flattened depth of field. I saw it in a theater with a digital projector so that may have exacerbated the problem. In any case, the shadows were murky and the images sometimes were hard to make out, obscuring some absolutely gorgeous shots that looked like they were composed by Edward Hopper.
Mann may have been going for a modern feel, as there are themes of Dillinger being pushed on one side by a federal security state that uses wire taps and torture, and on the other side with increasingly corporate Chicago gangsters who are using telecommunications to go nationwide. Depp was OK but the stand out for me was Marion Cotillard.
I couldn't help comparing the movie to John Milius' Dillinger. I'm afraid in that movie Warren Oates took control of the Dillinger character and made it his own for the foreseeable future.