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MOVIES: What are you watching?

indybobindybobMember
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Frida.

Are you an appreciator of her work?


Immensely.

No surprise.
Me too.
She was truly amazing (both her art and her character).


I probably didn't like it (the movie) as well as both of you. I felt it was a sanitized version of what her real life would have been like. Sure there was despair, but that despair had feather-dusted counters and perfect golden light. Just my opinion of course, Wink. Besides, Selma, even with faux uni-brow, was WAY too hot to play Kahlo (right tlily? Wink)

For the record, I LOVE her work, and have seen it in multiple locations, including Mexico City.
irwinirwinMember
Saw "The Secrets of the Grains" tonight. 2.5 hrs long (too long), but a good story about a Tunisian family living in SW France. The father loses his job in the boat repair industry, and uses his severance pay to open a restaurant on a ship at the dock. The restaurant specializes in mullet couscous.
The film is in French with subtitles.
It's won some awards and has a really cute young actress in it, who does a swelteringly sexy belly dance.
Kind of the Tunisian version of The Big Night.
I don't rate it as high as the critics.
bmanbmanMember
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Nice G-man!

Hey, anybody seen Watchmen yet?

See page 37.



I picked up the graphic novel the other day, and am close to finishing. I want to know what the heck is going on before I see the thing. I'm optimistically doubtful.

-IB


Saw Watchmen yesterday and while the first hour dragged, by the end I was really enjoying it. the first hour of context was necessary or the rest of it would have been hopelessly complex, if not just hopeless. Even then, there were many loose ends, and of course one must suspend disbelief as with all fantasy (thoug the superhero-ness was almost incidental to the story), but we spent over a hour talking about it afterwards, and returned to the subject a couple of times after that, so if the mark of a good film is one that makes you think, and leaves you feeling that your $10 was well spent, then Watchmen is a good film.

Malin Ackerman is a feast for the eyes as well, and not just because she's Canadian! Dr. Manhattan's blue penis was a bit off-putting though.... Eek
D dunderMember
Finally saw the Watchmen (admitted big fan of the novel). I thought it was very well done, some parts were brilliant, but overall I don't think the novel translated particularly well to the big screen. Rorschach was pitch perfect. FWIW my wife who had not read the novel did however quite enjoy it, possibly in part to Dr. Manhattan's on screen presence.
indybobindybobMember
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Finally saw the Watchmen (admitted big fan of the novel). I thought it was very well done, some parts were brilliant, but overall I don't think the novel translated particularly well to the big screen. Rorschach was pitch perfect. FWIW my wife who had not read the novel did however quite enjoy it, possibly in part to Dr. Manhattan's on screen presence.


I don't know your wife, but curious what she thought of the violence level (or you for that matter)? My wife is squeamish about this movie, based on reviews. But, she did enjoy "Grindhouse," the Kill Bill Movies, and Sin City, all violent flix.
D dunderMember
indybob - I didn't find the Watchmen to be excessively violent, at least nowhere near Kill Bill or Sin City in terms of volume. To give you some reference, the movie is roughly 2h45 and there are only two or three scenes in the movie that I would consider violent to the point of potentially inducing squeamishness. Of these I think one scene is essential to the story line (Rorschach telling the story of how he became Rorschach) and the others perhaps not.

If your wife was fine with the others you'd listed I really can't see it being an issue, it is not a movie that is violent for the sake of being violent, and as others have also noted it is a very good story.
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