26 Mar 10
Originally posted by StarrmanTMD is a cringing embarrassment of a movie, made before Hollywood figured out what a Brit flick was really supposed to be like e.g. Four Weddings (except of course for the revolting Andie MacDowell who no British guy would go for anyway and totally spoils the whole film).
Truly Madly Deeply?
26 Mar 10
Originally posted by FMFThe Hunt for Red October - pure tabloid hokum but I love it every time.
Do RHPers have cherished movies that didn't rock the box office or they feel the movies are not known widely enough?
"Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary, the American Navy. For forty years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage (e4). We will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock and roll... while we conduct missile drills. It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Now they will tremble again - at the sound of our silence. The order is: engage the silent drive."
27 Mar 10
Then there was 'Silent Running', Bruce Dern. It foresaw R2D2, had one of the most beautiful soundtracks I ever heard (Joan Baez) And I think was the inspiration for the Joni Mitchell song 'Big Yellow Taxi' ( Took all the trees, put em in a tree museum, charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em, don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got till it's gone, paved paradise, put up a parking lot).
29 Mar 10
Originally posted by FreakyKBHThe Deep End is indeed a very decent film. Also worth mentioning that it's a remake of another very underrated film, Max Ophuls' 1949 film noir The Reckless Moment, a small masterpiece which has a reputation among film critics and buffs but not among the general public. Ophuls' version lacks the gay angle, as you'd expect from its date, but it's gripping, very well-acted, beautifully directed, and a truly extraordinary study of the restrictiveness of the conventional nuclear family.
In terms of being atypical, I found The Deep End (Scott McGehee David Siegel) just a really well done film that received too little attention.
30 Mar 10
Originally posted by TeinosukeThanks for the tip. I'll look for it this week.
The Deep End is indeed a very decent film. Also worth mentioning that it's a remake of another very underrated film, Max Ophuls' 1949 film noir The Reckless Moment, a small masterpiece which has a reputation among film critics and buffs but not among the general public. Ophuls' version lacks the gay angle, as you'd expect from its date, but it's gripping, ...[text shortened]... and a truly extraordinary study of the restrictiveness of the conventional nuclear family.