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 |
mmuk2004 |
Apr 13 2009, 11:59 PM
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Dedicated Member Group: Members Posts: 3415 Joined: 25-September 04 Member No.: 907 |
In my opinion, Truffaut and Godard are like Tarantino. They've paid homage to other movies all their lives instead of going out and doing their own thing. That's probably why Tarantino admires them so much. They're all the greatest movie buffs and have produced some films of interest, but nothing original. Will comment more in a couple of days when I get a little more time, besides it has been quite a while since I watched a great deal of the French New Wave in a manic marathon. Not the right way to see it, I know, but I was on a schedule... Truffaut: I have to think about Godard some more, though I instinctively liked Breathless, but I have always had a soft spot for Truffaut. Yes, their movies are self-concious and often have these in-house jokes/references(Tarantino tends to overdo it as do the Coen brothers sometimes) but for me that is also an intrinsic part of their lived experience that they express in their films. They(Truffaut and G) were directors at a time when Cinema had already taken off and wrought its magic on them, and they needed to record that in their films. The wonder of the initial years of cinema is there is their works, the thrill of this medium that they love comes across. But there is much more than that in their works. (Especially in their early works) Love the comment Ebert made about Jules e Jim: QUOTE It's about three people who could not concede that their moment of perfect happiness was over, and pursued it into dark and sad places Truffaut films don't have characters and stories in the traditional sense (even the Antoine D ones) they are not psycological understudies, they are wonderful expressions of pure moments of cinema where you watch and feel the exhilaration of the moment and yet cannot quite capture it . And Truffaut sometimes makes stories and tragedies out of that! And it is not cerebral, he is talking of human moments of desire, happiness, mediocrity,moments of epiphany, and tragedy in his own way and in his own time. You can hold me up for details on these gradiose statements later... This post has been edited by mmuk2004: Apr 14 2009, 12:06 AM "This isn't right, this isn't even wrong." Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) "There are no facts, only interpretations." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
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