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 |
Dec 17 2010, 06:22 AM
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Shutter Island (2010)
As usual, I am embarrassingly behind times as far as new releases are concerned. Just saw Shutter Island. It is about two federal agents who come to a remote island that hosts insane criminals to investigate the disappearance of a woman who is charged with drowning her three children. Leonardo is a war veteran, now a federal agent, who had witnessed the release of the prisoners of Dachau, and is traumatized by that experience and seems to be battling with the private tragedy of his wife’s death. He is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery of the woman’s disappearance and is struggling alongside to exorcise his private ghosts. Gloomy and atmospheric, the film, set in the 50s is redolent with the miasma of fear and distrust of the red scare, the post war trauma of the war veterans and transposes it effectively into the genres of the noir and horror. Scorsese is as capable of playing with a genre as the Coen brothers and Tarantino, but there is an intensity in his use of the genre that is different from the self-consciousness with which Tarantino or the Coens use it. (My apologies for lumping them so summarily together …for the purpose of this review only!) The film is campy at times, the surprise ending is sort of hinted throughout the movie, but Scorsese gets into the mood of the film…into this tale of horror, guilt, confusion and terror are woven his usual themes of guilt and confession/revelation. It is a haunting film and it leaves some questions unanswered, the power of the film does not lie in the final revelation but in the sense of nightmarish reality that the film creates… that the film compels the audience participate in. This post has been edited by mmuk2004: Dec 17 2010, 06:24 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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