sideshowbob
Champagne fascia aficionado
Couldn't watch it all the way through without falling asleep. Scorsese-lite I thought, Mockney shite when I was being less polite.
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The unofficial "purposeless" film thread
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sideshowbob
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Waiting for Guffman is excellent, especially the alien abduction guy. For some reason, I don't think it ever got a UK release. (For those that don't know, it's the same cast as Spinal Tap/Best In Show/A Mighty Wind, about an amateur theatre company.)
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i watched the japanese film fest here.
josee the tiger and the fish(josee to tora to sakana tachi). japanese about a popular university student falling for a crippled, hermit savant girl.
"tony takutani". based on book by haruki murakami. tony is a graphics designer succesful in his own business, his father is a jazzman(trombone), so tony ends up being quirky... in life and in love.
laughing frog(warau kaeru). a woman's husband disappears after embezzling money. years later he reappears as she, and her dysfunctional family are in the process of completing the rebuilding of new lives(and loves)
amida dayori(diary) 'letter from a mountain'. a one-hit wonder writer and his research specialist doctor quit the city and return to his village. like chestnuts in winter.
l'amant(dir. ryuichi hiroki of 'vibrator'). based on a manga series. three guys pay a school girl for a year and have control over her. a bit senseless, but that's how the manga probably is.
on video: 'supersize me'. quite a hilarious docudrama on the evils of real life!
josee the tiger and the fish(josee to tora to sakana tachi). japanese about a popular university student falling for a crippled, hermit savant girl.
"tony takutani". based on book by haruki murakami. tony is a graphics designer succesful in his own business, his father is a jazzman(trombone), so tony ends up being quirky... in life and in love.
laughing frog(warau kaeru). a woman's husband disappears after embezzling money. years later he reappears as she, and her dysfunctional family are in the process of completing the rebuilding of new lives(and loves)
amida dayori(diary) 'letter from a mountain'. a one-hit wonder writer and his research specialist doctor quit the city and return to his village. like chestnuts in winter.
l'amant(dir. ryuichi hiroki of 'vibrator'). based on a manga series. three guys pay a school girl for a year and have control over her. a bit senseless, but that's how the manga probably is.
on video: 'supersize me'. quite a hilarious docudrama on the evils of real life!
I watched "Erin Brokovich" (there was absolutely nothing on TV other than that), then I watched "Das Boot", but not the movie. I have the original TV series in 6 Episodes and then I watched "Throw Mama from the Train" and then also "Secretary".
Das Boot ist just plain superb! Tension all the way through!
Erin Brokovich was OK, but nothing to get excited about...and I don't like Julia Roberts, so really NOTHING to get excited about
Throw Mama from the Train is simply a classic. Like City Slickers it's a movie you can watch a couple of times (but only on TV...it's not a movie you would buy....you know that kind?)
Secretary...well, I missed the beginning, but the movie is really funny. I think it's something for those of you who can take strong sexual humour combined with softsex and weirdos....you might like it. I thought it was quite funny. Not something to watch with your family, maybe your mistress if you want her to try something new
Das Boot ist just plain superb! Tension all the way through!
Erin Brokovich was OK, but nothing to get excited about...and I don't like Julia Roberts, so really NOTHING to get excited about
Throw Mama from the Train is simply a classic. Like City Slickers it's a movie you can watch a couple of times (but only on TV...it's not a movie you would buy....you know that kind?)
Secretary...well, I missed the beginning, but the movie is really funny. I think it's something for those of you who can take strong sexual humour combined with softsex and weirdos....you might like it. I thought it was quite funny. Not something to watch with your family, maybe your mistress if you want her to try something new
The real Erin B was interviewed on Swedish TV some time ago. It seems more or less everything in the film did happen in the real world, including stuff like the nice motor cycle guy.
What wasn't revieled in the movie is that she is dyslectic and therefore doesn't actually read papers, just scan the content in some kind of a graphical way and stores the content in the brain. She can then recall that 'Yeah I saw something about that...(leafing through some papers)... Here it is!". Of course very helpful when you are in the 'let's drown the oponent in papers' world of American lawyers!
She's still working for that small time lawyer firm. Except it's not small anymore.
No, I don't like Julia Roberts much either.
JohanR
Are you sure you mean dyslexia? That would mean she couldn't read properly or had problems with it. Your comment sounds more like a photographic memory. One is a gift the other a burdon.
Anyhow, in the end, in the movie, she gets $2.8m for the great work she did. My girlfirend and I immediatly thought that wasn't much at all!
After all, the case was worth $333m, the lawyers get 40%=$132m. Even if both law firms split it 50/50, Erin and her boss would have gotten $66m. I would say a paycheck of $10m would be the least she should have gotten. After all, she did all of the work.
That's the one thing that really bothered me about the movie...plus of course the appearance of Julia Roberts in it....although she did 'push' hard to look good, if you know what I mean
Anyhow, in the end, in the movie, she gets $2.8m for the great work she did. My girlfirend and I immediatly thought that wasn't much at all!
After all, the case was worth $333m, the lawyers get 40%=$132m. Even if both law firms split it 50/50, Erin and her boss would have gotten $66m. I would say a paycheck of $10m would be the least she should have gotten. After all, she did all of the work.
That's the one thing that really bothered me about the movie...plus of course the appearance of Julia Roberts in it
....although she did 'push' hard to look good, if you know what I mean 
Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
We wento see 'Howl's Moving Castle' last night (everyone else had packed into Screen 1 to see 'Wallace & Gromit' so plenty of room for us!)
Howl's Moving Castle is a very good animated fillum, Japanese-nimated, voiced by Hollywood actors (Lauren Bacall, Jean Simmons, Christian Bale) but perhaps 20 minutes or so too long at around 2 hours running time. Mrs H nodded off twice, despite the fillum being her recommendation!
Howl's Moving Castle is a very good animated fillum, Japanese-nimated, voiced by Hollywood actors (Lauren Bacall, Jean Simmons, Christian Bale) but perhaps 20 minutes or so too long at around 2 hours running time. Mrs H nodded off twice, despite the fillum being her recommendation!