Hollywood Movie Reviews......... |
Hollywood Movie Reviews......... |
Reeth |
Jul 18 2007, 02:54 AM
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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 |
Jul 26 2007, 12:50 PM
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Yet another favourite of mine...........The best Spaghetti Western to date..... Italian master Sergio Leone's "The Good, The Bad & the Ugly" is an epic Western of mythic proportions. Most directors never come close to making a film this good. The amazing thing about Leone is that he actually eclipsed this accomplishment two years later with "Once Upon a Time in the West." "The Good, The Bad & the Ugly" was Leone's final film with Clint Eastwood. The three Eastwood/Leone films have erroneously been called the "Dollars Trilogy" or "The Man With No Name Trilogy." The fact is, Eastwood played three different characters in the films and each one had a different name. Leone's trilogy of spaghetti westerns (the first two were A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few DollarMore). In this sweeping film, the characters form treacherous alliances in a ruthless quest for Confederate gold. Leone's reinvention of the western reaches its epic apotheosis in a movie about the pursuit of gold lost by the Confederates during the Civil War in the Texas theater. Clint Eastwood is the "good" (slow to anger, but quick on the trigger), Lee Van Cleef is the bad (an elegant exemplar of absolute evil) and Eli Wallach is the "ugly" (a menacingly funny, totally amoral bandido whose relationship with the Eastwood character consists largely of betrayals). Leone's magnificent style is all contrasts (huge panoramic shots alternating with tight close-ups, very slow build-ups to lightning-fast action) This perfectly matches a narrative that encompasses sadistic brutality, wild humor and, yes, a tragic vision of war and its consequences...... THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY is one of the most enjoyable and fascinating films to ever come out of the western genre- spaghetti or otherwise......... Absolutely recommended. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind -William James |
Faraaj73 |
Apr 13 2009, 06:17 PM
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Dedicated Member Group: Members Posts: 2198 Joined: 1-July 08 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 58864 |
Italian master Sergio Leone's "The Good, The Bad & the Ugly" is an epic Western of mythic proportions. Most directors never come close to making a film this good. The amazing thing about Leone is that he actually eclipsed this accomplishment two years later with "Once Upon a Time in the West." "The Good, The Bad & the Ugly" was Leone's final film with Clint Eastwood. Leone's trilogy of spaghetti westerns (the first two were A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few DollarMore). In this sweeping film, the characters form treacherous alliances in a ruthless quest for Confederate gold. After his series of Spaghetti western's, Leone made an epic gangster film - Once Upon a Time in America with DeNiro and James Woods. The first cut was over six hours long. It was finally trimmed to about 4 hours but it was so expensive and advanced for its time that it lost money at the box-office. Leone's next venture was meant to be an epic about Stalingrad, but unfortunately he died of heart-disease....arguably, Once Upon a Time in America is even better than the spaghetti series. Fistful of Dollars is based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest. The novel has been filmed several times, but never under its real title. Some of the versions include Sergio Leone's spaghetti western, the Coen Brothers Miller's Crossing and Bruce Willis's Last Man Standing. However, the best version hands-down, is the japanese Yojimbo directed by Akira Kurosawa, and starring Toshiro Mifune as the epitome of cool..... Kind Regards Faraaj Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo There is only one better thing than music - live music. - Jacek Bukowski I hate music, especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. - W. H. Auden |
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