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| mo_flixx |
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Rod --
I've bookmarked your blog, but you should let us know when you post reviews so that we can follow them. Thanks.
No man is an island...except Rod.
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| Rod |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:29 am |
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lady wakasa wrote: But will you have space for people to discuss / refute your interpretation of No Country for Old Men? %^}
It's called the Comments button, Dani. You can say what you like, but I don't promise to pay attention. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:32 am |
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I hope a redback bites him on the arse.
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:03 pm |
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jeremy wrote: Did I misread it, or was the main role of men in Mamma Mia to provide sex, make-up the numbers at a wedding (one must make certain concessions to tradition) and perhaps provide a comforting bolster (part hot-water bottle, part vibrator)for a woman in her twilight years. They’re also pretty good for putting up shelves.
But can they cook? |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:33 pm |
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No.
Ask a harder one next time. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:47 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: I forgot the dullest of them all, The Hours. That wasn't Streep's fault, however. Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for putting on a putty nose.
This is such a piece-of-nonsense comment and frankly I'm tired of hearing it. My BF is fascinated with Woolf and thought Kidman did a wonderful job. It's almost like the feeling you must get when you hear someone comment on O's ears. Tiresome! |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:22 pm |
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O has putty ears?
Mama Mia looks like such a silly piece of crap that I don't anyone will be bothered by the 'immorality' of it all.
I realize from reading what the plot was that I'd seen BSMC a few months ago. Mo, I don't know where you were in '68, but I don't recall any serious outcry about movies that were not morally what the right-wingers thought it should be. Geeze, what about The Graduate? |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:14 pm |
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Mongol is a biopic of Temujin, the future Genghis Khan, from the age of 9 into his mid-thirties, by which time he had started to unite the Mongols into hordes. It is also about his relationship with his wife Börte. Don't expect The Conqueror type shenanigans. The leads underplay their parts rather than chewing the scenery, and are quite effective. This is a well-made epic, with huge (and interesting) battles, lots of small raids, and plenty of the chaos Temujin would free his own people from while inflicting a lot of it on other people. Temujin was enslaved several times and came close to being killed a number of times. He has a mortal enemy from childhood who is just waiting for Temujin to grow up so he can kill Temujin or vice versa. Temujin also has a blood brother and rival, Jamukha (well-played by Honglei Sun) who you just know he's going to have to fight to unite the tribes.
Directed by Sergei Bodrov, who co-directed Nomad, this one is a far better film with a truly fascinating subject without the feeling you're watching a biblical epic I had during the earlier film. The history's reasonably accurate for a historical epic, but not dry. The cast includes Mongols, Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Kazakhs, and probably Turks and Manchus for good measure. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:25 pm |
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Here are some controversial movies that came out just a few years before BS MC:
"The Pawnbroker" ('64) - first female topless nudity;
Godard's "The Married Woman" ('64) whose title was changed in French from "The Married Woman" to "_A_ Married Woman" ("Une Femme Mariee");
"Blow-Up" ('66) - first full frontal female nudity;
"I Am Curious, Yellow" ('67).
But you're right, Gary. I guess by 1968 all the traditional taboos had been lifted. 1970's "There Was a Crooked Man" included lots of gratuitous nudity of both males (lots of saggy rear ends) and middle-aged females. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:58 pm |
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Went back and checked the other comments on Mongol. Looks like everyone who's seen it liked it.
It should bear a warning for gratuitous throat singing.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the trilogy.
The son of Temujin in the movie, Jochi, was a fine general in his own right (all of Temujin and Börte's sons were). Jochi's son was Batu Khan, who ravaged eastern Europe in 1239-41. However, Genghis's successor as Great Khan, Ögedei, doesn't seem to be in the movie. He was Genghis's third son. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:59 pm |
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| I also liked MONGOL a lot. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:35 pm |
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jeremy wrote: I hope a redback bites him on the arse.
How did you get a picture of my house? |
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| Nancy |
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| Had to go clear to hell and gone the other side of Oklahoma City to see Mongol, but it was worth it. Gorgeous scenery, good performances, great fight and battle scenes, and the most throat-singing I've ever heard in a movie. It's much better than the same director's Nomad. Syd suggested that I compare it with The Conqueror, where John Wayne played Temujin. There really is no comparison. Though Wayne's character had to carry around a bigger wooden stock around his neck, Tadanobu Asano looks better in a mustache. Khulan Chuluun's Borte is spunky, but it's a quiet, enduring kind of spunk, not the '50's Hollywood isn't-she-cute-when-she's-angry spunkiness of Susan Hayward's Bortai. The scenery is prettier in this new version, and less likely to make you glow in the dark. Also, Mongol has cool furry hats, which I don't remember being in The Conqueror. |
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| tirebiter |
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| If you liked Mongol, you might want to check out Conn Iggulden's books about him, "Genghis" 1 & 2. Your library will have them. They're biographical fiction, but try to hew to the facts. He's in the middle of the series, with lots of blood and thunder. I'm looking forward to the 3rd and 4th volumes... |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:33 pm |
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tirebiter wrote: If you liked Mongol, you might want to check out Conn Iggulden's books about him, "Genghis" 1 & 2. Your library will have them. They're biographical fiction, but try to hew to the facts. He's in the middle of the series, with lots of blood and thunder. I'm looking forward to the 3rd and 4th volumes...
Thanks, tire. I'll have to look for them. |
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