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Watched Something Borrowed. Not the worst entry into the chick flick genre. Completely out of touch with reality (as are most chick flicks) - quiet girl steals gorgeous guy from blonde attention whore. The book did a much better job portraying Darcy as a villain, though.
 
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The only Best Picture nominee that I've seen was Budapest Hotel, and that was the worst movie I've seen in years. All the rest are on the Netflix Queue, but most aren't available yet. Really looking forward to Birdman, Whiplash, Theory of Everything and the computer/code one with Cumberbatch that I'm blanking on the name right now. It sounds like, from what I've seen and read, that Birdman was deserving.
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I hadn't seen any of them. I watched Whiplash this past weekend. Cliche plot and characterizations, but the music and the cinematography are gorgeous. Simmons chews up scenery nom nom nom and had a really fun genre character, but it was essentially giving an Oscar to a Bond villain.

Anyway, C story and A music equals solid B. But did I mention the music? Stellar.

Oh, the code movie is The Imitation Game. Haven't seen that either, yet, but it's in the queue somewhere.
 
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Movies watched in February (* Criterion Collection):

The Scarlet Empress, Josef von Sternberg (1934) *
A Story of Floating Weeds, Yasujiro Ozu (1934) *
Floating Weeds, Yasujiro Ozu (1959) *
The 39 Steps, Alfred Hitchcock (1935) *
My Man Godfrey, Gregory La Cava (1936) *
The Only Son, Yasujiro Ozu (1936) *
There Was A Father, Yasujiro Ozu (1942) *
Pépé le Moko, Julien Duvivier (1937) *
M, Fritz Lang (1931) *
The Man Who Knew Too Much, Alfred Hitchcock (1934) *
It Happened One Night, Frank Capra (1934) *
The Lower Depths or Les Bas-fonds, Jean Renoir (1936) *
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin (1936) *
Make Way For Tomorrow, Leo McCarey (1937) *
Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir (1937) *
Things To Come, William Cameron Menzies (1936) *
The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock (1938) *
Pygmalion, Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard (1938) *
Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Eisenstein (1938) *
Port of Shadows, Marcel Carné (1938) *
The Human Beast or Le Bête Humaine, Jean Renior (1938) *
The Rules of the Game or La Règle du jeu, Jean Renior (1939) *
The King of Kings, Cecil B. DeMille (1927) * 155 minute version
Mayerling, Anatole Litvak (1936) *
The Mikado, Victor Schertzinger (1939) *
Ruggles of Red Gap, Leo McCarey (1935)
Boyhood, Richard Linklater (2014) - it was OK, not great.
Stagecoach, John Ford (1939) *
Young Mr. Lincoln, John Ford (1939) *
Le Jour Se Lève or Daybreak, Marcel Carné (1939) *
The Four Feathers, Zoltán Korda (1939) *
Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock (1939) *
Birdman, Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2014) - intense!
 
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Law Abiding Citizen:

Started off as almost a snuff film, then went into a I don't know what movie, but evolved into a great cat-and-mouse game, until it devolved into a cliched ending. Identity be darned, it was a decent movie, but if it concentrated on what it wanted to be...coulda been great. As it was...it was good, worth watching, but hard to say "You GOTTA see this" to someone.
 
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The Brothers Bloom:

Interesting and quirky movie about a couple of con-men. A little smug in the presentation, like the movie was talking down to the general audience, but I liked it, and a con/scam movie is a tough sell for me. It better be really really good for me to like it.

Metro Manila:

Basically a Filipino "Training Day" with a few twists. The twists do differentiate enough to make it a solid movie that I would definitely recommend.
 
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Chef:

First off, this is the type of movie that people like Armadillo jerk off to, like Roadhouse for bouncers. :D

Enjoyable movie, I don't think it deserves the 5/5 stars it gets on Netflix (I rated it a 4, I'd say a vast majority of my movies are rated a 3). John Leguizamo absolutely shines as a supporting actor. I haven't been this pleased with him since "Carlito's Way" which was a lifetime ago. Definitely worth a watch.
 
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Septimo:

Two children disappear while going down a set of stairs in their apt building, coming down from the 7th floor. Meh. The ending is almost obvious, a little double twist at the end somewhat saves it. But not by much. Meh at best.
 
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aygwm2 said:
Movies watched in February (* Criterion Collection):

My Man Godfrey, director Gregory LaCava, (1936) *
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Wonderful movie, one of my all-time favorites, very highly recommended! You might also want to check out To Be or Not to Be (if you can find it!) from 1942 (Ernst Lubitsch), which also has Carole Lombard.

Both films combine a comedy frame wrapped around a serious issue, very well done that way.
 
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Favorable review of Disney's live-action Cinderella being released this weekend.

any “Cinderella” with Cate Blanchett as the wicked stepmother couldn’t be bad. In fact, Disney’s new live-action version is for the most part beguilingly good, even though it’s no replacement for the studio’s 1950 animated classic. So where did this film go right?

The multiple answers to that question begin with the director, Kenneth Branagh. He has set a tone of lushly sustainable fantasy that’s often affecting, frequently witty, seldom cloying, nearly free of self-comment and entirely free of irony.

What couldn’t be righter is the presence of Lily James in the title role....

This “Cinderella” may be a bit bland for some tastes. Far from advancing a feminist manifesto, the film settles for its heroine following the advice of her dying mother to “have courage and be kind.” Still, that’s not the worst thing in the world for a girl to do, and I was grateful for Disney’s dispensing with its usual sermon of self-empowerment.
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Sounds like a good daddy-daughter movie choice....



I thought that Kenneth Branagh did an extraordinary good job in directing Much Ado about Nothing, which is a great movie well worth seeing. The cast is top-notch and they all play it straight.
 
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FreshFish said:
Favorable review of Disney's live-action Cinderella being released this weekend.



Sounds like a good daddy-daughter movie choice....



I thought that Kenneth Branagh did an extraordinary good job in directing Much Ado about Nothing, which is a great movie well worth seeing. The cast is top-notch and they all play it straight.
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LOL Self-empowerment? Disney? Has he watched their animated films?? Through Ariel the mermaid little girls learn that what they say isn't important, it's only looks that matter. Most of their female characters rely on a strong male (usually a Prince Charming) to come save them, summed up perfectly in Sleeping Beauty. Self-empowerment. That's a good one.
 
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FreshFish said:
I thought that Kenneth Branagh did an extraordinary good job in directing Much Ado about Nothing, which is a great movie well worth seeing. The cast is top-notch and they all play it straight.
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I agree with this wholeheartedly. Even Keanu Reeves in all his clueless woodenness is perfect as Don John, one of literature's great clueless and wooden characters.

Also, that Beatrice is Emma Thompson's masterpiece. Like Helen Mirren's Rosalind in the 1978 As You Like It, it is the definitive movie performance of that role.
 
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Priceless said:
LOL Self-empowerment? Disney? Has he watched their animated films?? Through Ariel the mermaid little girls learn that what they say isn't important, it's only looks that matter. Most of their female characters rely on a strong male (usually a Prince Charming) to come save them, summed up perfectly in Sleeping Beauty. Self-empowerment. That's a good one.
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There are lots of different ways to read Disney Princesses. I think the Jezebel armpit hair second wave angry reaction is by now just as dated and irrelevant as the Betty Draper rescue me agentless 60s reaction. Suffice that the lessons today's little girls are taking from Disney Princesses are things to which we are oblivious. Pop culture continually evolves a symbolist code with its audience, and yesterday's audience members are on the other side of an unbridgeable abyss from tomorrow's.
 
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