Hollywood Movie Reviews......... |
Hollywood Movie Reviews......... |
Reeth |
Jul 18 2007, 02:54 AM
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Dedicated Member Group: Members Posts: 2154 Joined: 22-May 06 Member No.: 6151 |
Please review and express your feelings about the Hollywood movies old and new ,that you have watched,liked & would recommend to the other members ......
I start off with an all time favourite film of my entire family....i have lost count of the number of times i have watched this since the time..... The Ten Commandments (1956) It is one of the Greatest movies ever made in the history of World Cinema... The film covers the life of Moses from his discovery in a basket floating on the Nile as a baby by Bithiah, a childless young widow and daughter of the then-Pharaoh, Rameses I, to his eventual departure from Israel in the wake of God's judgment that he not be allowed to enter the Promised Land. In between, the film depicts the early adulthood of Moses as a beloved foster son of Pharaoh Seti I (successor of Rameses I and brother of Bithiah) and general of his armies, his romance with Throne Princess Nefertari and rivalry with the Pharaoh's own son, Prince RamesesII. Critics have argued that considerable liberties were taken with the Biblical story, affecting the film's claim to authenticity, but this has had little effect on its popularity..... Aside from winning the Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects, it was also nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color, Best Cinematography, Color, Best Costume Design, Color (Edith Head, Ralph Jester, John Jensen, Dorothy Jeakins and Arnold Friberg), Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Sound, Recording Cecil B DeMille’s swan song is a movie for the ages. At 75 the legendary director was at the peak of his fame, his name a house-hold word and his voice recognized by millions. He probably knew The Ten Commandments would be his last film it almost killed him. He certainly knew it would be his most important. Shot in widescreen Technicolor, The Ten Commandments remains the standard by which Biblical epics -- and many epics in general -- are measured When Moses turns his staff into a snake and back again, the effect is seamless. His turning of the Nile into blood is an impressive camera trick, but his parting of the Red Sea is one of Hollywood's most famous stunts. It's worth sitting through the 220 minutes of movie for this alone.... MAIN CAST #Charlton Heston as Moses # Yul Brynner as Pharaoh Rameses II # Anne Baxter as Nefertari # Edward G. Robinson as Dathan # Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora # Debra Paget as Lilia # John Derek as Joshua # Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Pharaoh Seti I But the Ten Commandments isn’t about God alone.... It’s about a woman, Neferteri the beauty of Egypt, and whom she marries will become Pharoe and rule the Earth...she prefers Moses who races chariots and saves old women from being crushed under the monumental obilisk he is raising in honor of Neferteri’s father — and helped by the fact he’s played by manly-man Charlton Heston who looks great,She does not want Ramses, the delicious Yul Brenner who wants Neferteri because of the wealth and power that comes with her. Moses is banished and Neferteri is forced to marry Ramses instead. History might know about Moses and Ramses, but DeMille knew about scorned women..... It remains one of the five most successful films of all time.It is Cecil B. DeMille’s last and arguably greatest film.....Definitely worth watching.... The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind -William James |
Reeth |
Jun 17 2008, 05:35 PM
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Dedicated Member Group: Members Posts: 2154 Joined: 22-May 06 Member No.: 6151 |
I have been seeing a lot of movies in ungodly hours , the whole week. Came across this gem of a film....forgotten film of Stanley Kubrick.. " The Killing ". It is a through and through director's film. No stars and big names. Just a story that winds you up like a clock...an edge of the seat thriller...83 minutes of pure bliss. A simple race course heist...involving a man Johnny clay who always had raw deal in life who decides to have one last fling with his fate and settle down with his beautiful fiance....a race course bar tender with an ailing wife...a race course teller with a greedy wayward wife..a cop who sidles with the gang...a bouncer who had long association with Johnny...a sharp shooter who is running a shooting range...A meticulously planned robbery goes haywire, when unexpected things do happen.. a la stanley kubrick's way.. Who said Crime is despicable...? Our heart goes out for Johnny..and his lady, till the last second .. It is guaranteed that the viewer will be glued to the chair..and his eyes on the tube..for sure. And to think that Stanley kubrick was only 27 years when he did this..and the film is so entertaining even after fifty two years ...is something unbelievable. Thanks sf, am sure to look out for this movie... seems like an exciting flik.... adding a little more info that i found on the net.... Stars: Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr., Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards Director: Stanley Kubrick Fast Facts: * The Killing was the first of Kubrick’s three collaborations with producer James B. Harris. * The film is based on the novel Clean Break, which had been the first novel by veteran pulp crime writer Lionel White. Harris and Kubrick bought the rights to the book for $10,000. * Kubrick had long been an admirer of the work of hard-boiled crime novelist Jim Thompson (The Grifters,), and persuaded Thompson to collaborate with him on the screenplay, working primarily on the dialogue. * Sterling Hayden, who played a similar role in John Huston’s classic The Asphalt Jungle, was always Kubrick’s first choice for the role of Johnny, although Jack Palance was also considered. * The film was budgeted at around $330,000, and was shot on schedule in only 24 days. * United Artists released the film in 1956, but it was not a success upon its initial release, despite some good reviews, although it eventually made a profit. Storyline When ex-con Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) says he has a plan to make a killing, everybody wants to be in on the action. Especially when the plan is to steal $2 million in a racetrack robbery scheme in which "no one will get hurt." But despite all their careful plotting, Clay and his men have overlooked one thing: Sherry Peatty (Marie Windsor), a money-hungry, double-crossing dame who’s planning to make a financial killing of her own…even if she has to wipe out Clay’s entire gang to do it! As the narrative jumps backward and forward in time, we watch as he leaves no detail to chance. Johnny contracts the best men for the job, revealing as little as possible to them, in the event any are captured. The characters he assembles include sniper Nikki Arcane (Timothy Carey), a chess playing wrestler (Kola Kwariani), and mousy cashier George Peatty (Elisha Cook Jr.). Peatty, however, is at the beck and call of his floozy wife Sherry, played by Marie Windsor. She works her husband over for information on the score. Johnny catches her eavesdropping in on their plans and prepares to kill her, but she convinces the gang that she was just suspicious her husband was cheating on her. Instead, she plots to rob the take with her boyfriend...... Directed in a revolutionary story-telling technique by the legendary Stanley Kubrick, The Killing is tough, taut, tense, and one of the greatest crime thrillers ever made! The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind -William James |
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