Movie reviews and recommendations

[Jen]

Oh Sophy, I think you're right about Howards End not being a very easy film in a way. I too like Anthony Hopkins (and Vanessa Redgrave!) a lot, so it was great seeing them in the same film. Now I can't wait to watch "The Remains of the Day"...I've got to find that at the library at some point. Have you seen it? Emma Thompson was so great in her role because she didn't over play it at all, it was just the right tone and you could really identify with her character's inner doubts behind all that cheerfulness she tried to maintain outside. And Anthony Hopkins is just amazing at anything he does really. I actually got the urge to watch it again soon. Interesting about Dead Again. I just somehow didn't get into it at all and the corniness (is that a word? lol) bothered me so much that I couldn't enjoy much of it.

Ella, that was exactly the same thing I laughed at hysterically too. I went to see it at the cinema in England and the whole audience just howled with laughter at that point. I guess it really hit the nerve.

[Stina]

I saw Howards End recently too. I liked it but I agree that it was not an easy film.

Have you seen the Bostonians? It's in the same style with the same director and Vanessa Redgrave is in it too. I think it's interesting cause it deals with women's rights.

[Sophy]

Nope, haven't seen the Bostonians Stina, but it sounds interesting! I will put it at my rent list at lovefilm.se

Yes Jen I feel the same way about Emma's acting in Howards End, she sure does alot of acting, but it's no way near over acting. I think she really deserves the Oscar she got for it.

I have seen "The Remains of the Day". It's good! However, to me it is alittle bit "empty", can't explain it better. I imagine both Emma and Hopkins do their roles very well according to what the movie is based on, but as a story I think it's kind of boring at times. There could have been even more tension and complications.

[Ella]

Oh my .... I always mix up Howards End and The Remains of The Day. I saw both movies, but ages ago. I liked them both but somehow I always mix them up.

[Sophy]

Could it be that they both have Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, and that they are a "couple" with complications?

[Ella]

Yes, maybe that's the problem.

[Jen]

Thank you for the recommendation, Stina! It sounds good. Well, anything with Vanessa Redgrave does sound good to me.

[Evy]

I just watch "Closing the Ring" with Shirley McClaine (on German TV). I like that film!

[Jen]

Oh I like Shirley MacLaine a lot, but I haven't seen that film. Thanks for the recommendation, Evy!

I saw Adam's Rib with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Amazingness. Those two were so great together. Sigh.

I also watched The Prince of Tides for the second time (first time was when I was a lot younger). I didn't remember anything about the plot, just a few moments from here and there, so it surprised me a little. I'm not a big fan of Nick Nolte, somehow I can never quite connect with his characters. But Barbra won me over (again). I don't need yet another obsession.

[Bubbsophie]

Has anybody seen Ice Age 3 yet? I saw it the other day and thought it was hilarious! At a certain scene I couldn't stop laughing! OMG it was so funny!! And it is amazing how good computer animated movies have become! The animals' furr looked so real, I wanted to touch it! hahaha

[Sophy]

Haven't seen it yet but I've heard it's great. Did you have those glasses on that made it look like 3-D?

[Mervi]

I would like to see Ice Age 3 too!

[Sylvie]

At the age of almost 52 (within two weeks or so), am I too old to fully appreciate animated movies? But I guess age is not the real reason why I usually "just don't give a d.mn" for any kind of modern Hollywood animation, from Roger Rabbit in the 80s to Toy Story in the 90s, up to Ratatouille a couple of years ago.

In my mind, all these animated movies are much more oriented towards, and heavily promote, the "Hey public, come to the theater and pay to see how us very talented professionals are using the newest (animatronic, digital, 3D, whatever) technology!" approach.
Notable exceptions in this field are Tim Burton's animated - because I love all of his work, and the first two Ice Age movies. I haven't paid a single euro-cent to see them, I catched both on TV and was surprised to discover these were very, very, very funny, pretty different from most other animated flicks I also may have caught on TV. This still doesn't mean I would pay to see the 3rd volume, but still...

[Gemma]

I can tell you the third one is better than the second. In fact, I didn't like the second. And I enjoyed the third a lot.
Don't you like Cars? I think it's quite a Frank Capra story. And all the different townies remind me so much of Dr. Quinn townfolk.
My other favourite animated ones are Madagascar I and II, I see it as a parody of Lion King and quite sarcastic.
It's weird because I tend to watch all Disney and Dreamworks movies but I've never seen Ratatouille, I'll buy this movie.
I like Tim Burton too quite a lot, but I am tremendously annoyed by Elena Bonham Carter and she is in all of his movies lately.

Lizzie, I loved Nick Nolte in Prince of the Tides and Barbra too.
My favourite Shirley Maclaine's movie is Around The World in Eighty Days. Of course. Well I also like 3 Mules and One Nun or something like that, it's that western in which she is a nun and her costar is Clint Eastwood.

[Bubbsophie]

Originally Posted by Sophy

Did you have those glasses on that made it look like 3-D?

No we didn't. The movie theater we went to didn't show the movie in 3D, it's just a rather small "next door" theater. But when we went to the mall I saw that the movie theather there had Ice Age 3 3D shows.