I think I just passed 5000 @ my local video store. I, personally, think they owe me a complimentary 50 4 being such a good customer--but greed w/no thanks, unfortunately, seems 2 b the American way. I also go 2 the movies alot and can babble on 4 hours about films. I know folks around here have been chatting about such visuals as LOTR/Fellowship of the Rings, Mists of Avalon and various renderings of Dune--so here is ur forum 2 discuss all ur fav movies or TV movies! Tamara and I just watched Donnie Darko 2nite and it was the one of the best (albiet very weird) movies I've ever seen--I think Sci-fi and Fantasy fans alike will be discussing it 4 a long time 2 come--If, by chance, u've seen it I'd love 2 hear what u think, if not: go rent it!
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All Time favorite movie is Ladyhawke. Theme, music, images, nothing comes close (IMHO). FavoriteTV? I don't watch much of the current programming, but I really enjoy Boston Public. Other than that, it's oldies (I am an oldie myself).
"Do you have a wife?"
"At one time."
"What happened to her?"
"She has been dead."
"How long ago did she die?"
"Two thousand years."
I 2 love Ladyhawke w/Rutger Howard, Michelle Phieffer and Matthew Broderick--That is 1 cool movie--saw it way back then when I was reading The Sword of Shanara so Ladyhawke kinda complimented that--also @ the same time I saw Starman w/Jeff Bridges: and that still remains 1 of my favs! Can't reccomend, enuf, Willowand The Princess Bride! If we're talking about the type of Fantasy movie Ladyhawke is--Tamara and I particularly like Ever After w/Drew Barrymore as well!
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Sounds like you and I have a lot of the same interests. Not only do I really admire Ever After, I bought the hard-to-find soundtrack which I feel is the equal of the movie. Starman has my favorite definition of "love" (When you care more for someone than yourself). Willow and The Princess Bride have great musical soundtracks as well: I particularly like The Princess Bride's in which Mark Knopler (Dire Straits' singer/guitarist) composes and plays. You gotta love Andre the Giant in Princess Bride as well as the Spaniard! Now, if you put Legend in there, you've got quite a quality group of films!
"Do you have a wife?"
"At one time."
"What happened to her?"
"She has been dead."
"How long ago did she die?"
"Two thousand years."
Watching in General???? Television: as little as possible!!
Movies:
LOTR:FOTR - will definitely buy the "not-a-director's-cut Director's Cut" when it comes out this fall. (Plan to own all three movies before its all over.)
Cyrano De Bergerac - with Gerard Depardieu (This is absolutely my favorite drama. GD brought Cyrano to life for me!)
Last of the Mohicans - with Daniel Day Lewis (The Uncas/Alice/Magwa relationship has me mesmerized.)
Glory - with Cary Elwes (Princess Bride) and Matthew Broderick (Lady Hawk)
Glory and Last of the Mohicans are both excellent movies, and the soundtracks are exceptional (can you tell I'm a musician). There are some really excellent tastes around here! (not that you need to agree with me to have great taste: I'm just amazed that I have a greed with almost everything I've found at this site.
"Do you have a wife?"
"At one time."
"What happened to her?"
"She has been dead."
"How long ago did she die?"
"Two thousand years."
I'm pissed! I just finished watching the Academy Awards. I'm not pissed @ the show which I feel was the best produced I've ever seen. I'm pissed @ the Academy: I thought The Fellowship of the Rings should have won Best Picture but giving Best Picture 2 A Beautiful Mind I can live with--it was a great movie as well. What I'm really pissed about is this: If u give A Beautiful Mind Best Picture and Russell Crowe's brilliant acting made it so why not give Russell Crowe Best Actor???!!! Something is wrong here! Let me get ur reaction 2 this question in the poll above...thanks!
So why don't movies that get Best Director or Best Actor always get Best Picture? It's a mystery. Sorta.
It has a lot to do with how the system is set up. Each member of the Academy gets to vote any way he or she chooses. I wonder how many members there are? Seems like I heard a figure of over 5,000, but don't quote me on that.
It might be nice to see the picture with the most awards get Best Picture. Presumably a movie gets Best Picture because of the whole package, not just the performance of a single actor. That might explain why Training Day was not nominated for Best Picture.
I would think that the Director is more responsible for the caliber of a film and therefore a Best Director award should mean a Best Picture award. The same movie may have won both this year, but that is certainly not true every year.
I have not seen Training Day--so it's probably not fair that I should jump so quickly 2 Russell's side. However, compared 2 his other 2 great movies: Gladiator (I bet he was!) and The Insider, I feel that Russell did the best job of acting in his life in A Beautiful Mind. Denzel is undoubtedly 1 of the best (general) screen actors out there (and w/o seeing the movie--I will rent it asap---again, I'm not being fair) but 2 b awarded the Oscar 4 Gladiator and not A Beautiful Mind kinda boggles my mind! His perfomance in that movie was 5 times better than Gladiator! Apparently Russell threw some kinda of hissyfit @ the Academy and rumors say that's y he didn't get it. Yes the Academy is mainstream and yes it sometimes gives the wrong people the Award--4 instance when Kevin Bacon was not even nominated 4 Murder in the First (1 of the greatest acting jobs I've ever seen) I vowed I would never pay attention 2 the Awards again--but what r u gonna do? @ least Momento (cool ass movie, kinda runs backwards, Guy Pierce gave a wild per4mance) and Monster's Ball got some nods and Halley Berry derseved her Oscar..but Denzel?? I just don't know...
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I think the Academy tends to vote out of guilt. "Oh - we would give you the Oscar, but we really need to give it to Ron because we should have given it to him a few years ago but we gave it to..."
And this year I think they were feeling a little guilty about the whole African-American Actor question. Feast or famine.
I do agree though, when comparing Russell Crowe's performance in ABM to Gladiator, his performance in ABM is superlative.
Well, as usual, this year I saw a total of one of the movies nominated for Best Picture -- so of course I was pulling for LOTR to win, and of course it didn't. Had every intention of going to see A Beautiful Mind and just never got there. Now maybe I will actually do it....
I watch next-to-no TV, although sometimes the kids will drag me downstairs to watch Dark Angel or Smallville or Enterprise. My 15-year-old also likes a show called Alias, which I've now seen once, and that was plenty for me, thanks.
Favorite movies/videos: Yes and yes to Ever After and The Princess Bride! Both are such fun! We've only been to two movies since last fall -- LOTR and Harry Potter, and we're eagerly awaiting the second installment of each series. If it's just me, I tend to pick stuff to see that nobody's ever heard of; one of my favorites from earlier last year is The Songcatcher. Let's see, and this past Christmas I broke down and bought a DVD player, and as of Easter we will be the proud owners of 4 movies on DVD: Remember the Titans (my 15-year-old will go to T.C. Williams next fall!), The Dark Crystal, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Young Frankenstein. ("Igor, take care of the bags!" "Okay, you take the blonde, and I'll take the one in the turban!") The only other movies that I've been willing to pay money to actually own (other than some that I've bought for the kids, and a slew of Disney cartoons from when the girls were teeny) are Gigi and the most recent remake of Little Women, with Winona Ryder.
I will watch cartoons til the cows come home! When I was born the Dr. labeled me Looney Tunes! haha! As u can probably tell I also love basketball and His Airness is my idol! So I was in absolute heaven when Space Jam came out--Bill Murray was in it 2 and he's my favorite comedian so that made it even better! Buggs is my fav--Daffy and Marvin the Martian close behind--hey I think I'll start a cartoon page!--I love Dexter's Laboratory! (I just love the way he talks) And, I must admit, Tamara and I r closet Ed, Edd & Eddie fans! We just lose it during those cartoons, I don't kno y! I was a big Miami Vice fan and once Nash Bridges went off the air I really haven't watched any TV since! Tho I will admit 2 watching Friends (cause the girls r SO foxy) and Crossing Jordan occasionally: Jill Hennessy has the most beautiful eyes! And the theme music stirs my Celtic blood! Tamara, being a nurse, makes me watch ER and, I think, Oprah is her idol. But aside from movies and cartoons (and Fawlty Towers and MPFC) I'd rather curl up w/a good book anyday! Hey Ally! R u talking about Songcatcher w/Adian Quinn? That was execellent was't it--the music was fantastic!
Yes, that's the one, Danlo! The music was soooo great! Country music I actually like, as opposed to the junk they play on the radio these days. (My kids say, "Mom, why don't you like country music?" Because THAT STUFF ISN'T COUNTRY MUSIC!!) I lived in West Virginia for several years, so of course I had to see this movie when it came out....
I watch a lot of dvd's and videos, but this thread made me just realize that I haven't seen a movie in the theater since The Two Towers...and I live just a few miles from one of those huge places with twenty screens and stadium seating and digital sound...
And I've been wanting to go see Seabiscuit, I keep hearing about how good it is, not to mention that pirate movie.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.John Stuart Mill
Recently saw Down With Love and want to go see it again. We even went and hired out one of the inspiration points - Pillow Talk with Doris Day. Gleeps its funny stuff!
Kill Bill - Quentin Tarantino's new film...a violent but comical homage to wire-fu and Hong Kong grindhouse cinema!
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.John Stuart Mill
I don't get to the movies much, I usually wait until the video comes out and can rent them. The one movie I did see lately at the theaters was Pirates of the Carribean with Orlando Bloom and ............ shoot, I can't remember the other guy's name.......... ? ...... oh well. It was a great movie and I'll be buying it as soon as it comes becomes available. Orland was great as was ..... what's his face!
The only other movie I've seen at the theater in the year is LoTR: TTT. (already got the DVD and will get the extended version as soon as it comes out).
I'm very particular about the movies I watch, and most of them don't fit my criteria - no sex, no nudity, clean language, not gory.
I also go 2 the movies alot and can babble on 4 hours about films. I know folks around here have been chatting about such visuals as LOTR/Fellowship of the Rings, Mists of Avalon and various renderings of Dune--so here is ur forum 2 discuss all ur fav movies or TV movies! 
Tamara and I just watched Donnie Darko 2nite and it was the one of the best (albiet very weird) movies I've ever seen--I think Sci-fi and Fantasy fans alike will be discussing it 4 a long time 2 come--If, by chance, u've seen it I'd love 2 hear what u think, if not: go rent it! 
