Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread,—behind, lurk Fear
And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave
Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear.
I knew one who had lifted it—he sought,
For his lost heart was tender, things to love,
But found them not, alas! nor was there aught
The world contains, the which he could approve.
Through the unheeding many he did move,
A splendour among shadows, a bright blot
Upon this gloomy scene, a Spirit that strove
For truth, and like the Preacher found it not. --Shelley

Thought I'd throw a poem in here.

Watched Oblivion today.

It starts kind of slow and is a bit on-and-off. Sometimes you're very captivated, then other times you're almost bored. There's quite a few inconsistencies throughout the movie, and you will go more and more WTF in regards to the story as the movie goes on. It opens up too many questions imo, which are only really answered towards the end. It's one of those movies where the enjoyment comes more at the end than constantly throughout the movie.

Having that said, I still found it cool although I was a little dissapointed.

Watching the newest BD of Lawrence of Arabia from the 4k restoration. I'm enjoying this so much, I'm not even fast forwarding past the Intermission, just enjoying the music. Such a great movie.

Makes me wish I appreciated poetry more, or that it appreciated me. But I do like Shelley!

I never noticed it before, but it seems the subtext of the poem is, "Yes, yes that WAS a great movie"

Fireproof

I'm fine that the trailer left no question this would likely be preachy (it was made by Affirm Films, a studio dedicated to making films for evangelical Christians), but the trailer conveyed enough drama and romance that I hoped it might be an entertaining if deliberately obvious genre film.

Nope, nope, nope. The direction is poor. Whenever a character enters the scene, it looks like they were waiting off camera for their cue, and in they come, ready to speak lines that, while they match what people say in real life, misses the point that film dialogue does not mimic real life, but what we all think of when we imagine it. The film feels scripted, with scenes like one firefighter asking another if he's afraid of dying, and the other saying, "Nope! 'Cause I know where I'm going."

It is obvious in the worst ways, and I found myself skipping ahead but only finding more of the same. The film isn't simply peppered with preachy dictums. It's told entirely through them, such that it would be entertaining only to the most zealous followers of the film's ideology. It takes a certain kind of passion to like a film because it has characters repeating your favorite catch-phrases. As I said above, I have no problem with the film preaching religion. The problem is that it's simply not a good movie.

For the sake of transparency, I only averaged about twenty minutes of this movie before switching to a documentary about Carrie Underwood.

For the sake of further transparency, I shut the Carrie Underwood documentary off after about five minutes. The sound quality was terrible, and I saw Amazon had a Sara Bareilles concert up.

Some first-year film student did this sci-fi short. Nothing special about the dialogue/story but doesn't look bad considering.

I enjoyed this movie a lot. Basic plot for Trance = inside job on a stolen painting. During the heist, the main auctioneer (who was in on the heist) gets knocked out and cannot remember where he put the painting. In order to try to attain that memory, the thieves hire a hypnotherapist to find it.

Pretty fun movie all around. As Jeedz said, a few plot holes and weird moments, but everyone is pretty solid acting wise and the visuals/music are cool.

Principle shooting has officially begun on "Godzilla"



Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Bryan Cranston
Elizabeth Olsen
David Strathairn
Juliette Binoche
Ken Watanabe

That's one hell of a cast. I'd see it for Elizabeth Olsen alone. Okay, I might actually be excited. A little.

I might watch it a few years from now on Netflix for Juliette Binoche alone.

My administrative assistant took a day off last week to watch the filming of an indie movie with Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana. Her husband owns the restaurant in which the scenes were shot, and it took all day to film four scenes. She said she liked it but would never do it again--too much standing around waiting.

Oblivion was good. Plot twists were visible a mile off and story was thin in places but the film was visually stunning and I loved the 80s sci-fi musical score. Also, say what you like about him but Cruise is a decent actor and has been for many years.

Cruise is more than decent.

Absolutely. I am so tired of people judging his talent based on his cult religion and couch jumping and latent homosexuality.

He is actually an excellent actor.

42 is a safe, sentimental biopic that I quite enjoyed. No standout performances to speak of, and Harrison Ford is an old man pretending to be an old man, but the whole thing works.

Django Unchained

I liked it but do think it's not as good as other QT movies as others have mentioned. I thought DiCaprio and Samuel L gave great performances. I think this one could have worked well as a trilogy with Part 1 being Django's tenure as a slave and getting free, Part 2 being him training to become a bounty hunter, and Part 3 being the finale. Although, it might make it look like a Kill Bill retread in a new setting.

Has anyone else seen Stoker?

The new Hangover movie looks like an absolute abomination.

Saw Stoker and loved it.

amazing that she's 49

Watched The Wedding Party because Isabel Lucas is in it. Bad decision, terribly dull movie.

Also watched Sightseers that was mentioned a little while back, it was a very good dark comedy.



Also thought The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg's latest starring Mads Mikkelsen, was excellent. It's about a kindergarten teacher .

Looks a bit Annie Dukesque in that picture IMO.

Haha thats a insult if I ever heard one

Danny Boyles "Trance"

review later.

the roommates and I are on a Spy/CIA/Action thriller kick lately. We'd thought we'd exhausted most of our options (The Bourne's being our template). Last night we took a gamble on Spy Game, which we had all only heard of.

Rotten Tomatoes has it at 66%/70%, so we weren't expecting that much. Completely blown away. everything I look for in a fun popcorn flick. executed perfectly. Robert Redford is the ****ing man. Going to watch Enemy of the State and Crimson Tide next.

If you dig espionage flicks give Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy a go. One of the best spy flicks in the last few years.

Certainly not of the Bourne action template, though.