Well, the ending is kind of confusing. Like, it isn't 100% clear the Sebastien is supposed to give the Princess her new name. The movie doesn't do a great job of setting that up. And even then, it's just weird that the Princess, knowing this, didn't tell the guy with the taco on his head.

 

But that guy was full of crap anyway.

:lol: :lol:

 

The guy with the taco on his head?

There's a black guy with a taco on his hear that tells all the representative of Fantasia that a.) the Nothing is coming, b.) the Princess is deathly ill, and c.) a warrior of the Plains People fo the Purple Buffalo (Atrieu) will help them ...

 

... but then, inexplicably, Taco dude tells Atrieu a bunch of crap and sends him on his way ...

 

... so clearly, the Taco dude was in cahoots with the Nothing and the Princess knew this. That's why the Princess couldn't tell Taco dude nothin about all this name b/s.

 

Ugh! So many levels!

The movie's over :(

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

I think I may be remembering some of this.

 

:confused:

The movie's over :(

 

So sad. Press rewind and watch it again.

 

:)

yeah it's not like it's on tv

The movie's over :(

 

So sad. Press rewind and watch it again.

 

:)

 

I might ... and then I can just copy and paste all my previous posts :)

 

Actually, right now I'm watching some boxing, but I can never watch more than about 10 minutes of boxing before changing. I was SO into boxing as a kid, but now ... not so much.

yeah it's not like it's on tv

 

Right ... but any weekend I can find 3-4 Meg Ryan movies on one of TNT, TBA, USA, etc.

Ewww.. boxing is boring. Sorry. Very violent too.

 

:stunned:

That's why I can only watch for 10 minutes.

Too barbaric.

yeah it's not like it's on tv

 

Right ... but any weekend I can find 3-4 Meg Ryan movies on one of TNT, TBA, USA, etc.

 

I like Meg Ryan

 

:)

yeah it's not like it's on tv

 

Right ... but any weekend I can find 3-4 Meg Ryan movies on one of TNT, TBA, USA, etc.

 

I like Meg Ryan

 

:)

 

I don't mean to disparage Meg Ryan, she's good ...

... if you're not keen on acting in movies. :P

Ahh! How dare you say that?

And you think the Neverending Story has good acting in it?

 

:lol: :lol:

 

I'm not too picky when choosing movies. Although I must say that in general the quality of movies has been going down.

:(

 

Foreign films are usually good, but sometimes depressing.

1) I think the acting in the Neverending Story is probably both bad and not the point.

2) I think the quality of movies is as high as ever. I feel strongly about this.

Why 2? Explain please?

If you're looking at the mean, considering all the movies being made in the world, then no, I don't think the overall quality of movies has gotten better.

 

But movies, like music, like any other art, is such that we try to limit our experiences to that which is good - that which we feel is the best for our preference set. As such, with so mnay studios making movies, so many projects working outside the studio system, so many different ways for films to get made and sen now as compared to 10 years ago, we're seeing a lot of great stuff make it to big screens that would not otherwise hit our eyes. The overall effect is that somebody like me gets to see more great movies than they would have in the past.

 

To take some of the better movies I saw this year as examples, In America, 21 Days and The Barbarian Invasions probably would not have been accessable to me 5 years ago. In American may have never been made.

 

But because we've been able to develop so many sources for movies, because we've gotten away from the "big studio" model, there is just better film making now.

 

I think we tend to take it for granted, though. A movie like Cold Mountain ... I think that movie stands up well against a Gone With the Wind, a Casablanca, any classic of yester-year. It's much more mature in it's story telling, it's presentation ... and it's probably not the best movie of the year. In fact, it might no be one of the five best movies I saw this year.

 

Anyways, I'm rambling. I wish I could have make this a more cohesive argument ...

 

... but the wine is talking.

So I'm not going to go as in depth as you did.

Just because I'm lazy. But ... first of all, I haven't seen any of the movies you mentioned so I can't comment on those. But what I will say is that I feel like the movie industry has been more focused on things like special effects and in doing this, the overall script seems to be not as in depth as it could be. I'm not sure how to explain it, but it's just that when I walk out of movie theaters nowadays, I don't really feel like the m ovie has moved me or made me think about it. They are more obvious than I would care for it to be. But that's just my opinion.

There are definitely movies that do go deep into special effects.

 

Likewise, there are movies that shun special effects entirely and use their budgets on other production elements (think Shakespeare in Love).

 

With the growing industry that is cinema, you're going to get specialization. You're going to have those movies with the huge SE budgets ... but then you're also going to have more "actors" movies like Mystic River and 21 Grams.

 

Overall, I think that there is more out there for everybody.

I don't know if it's just me, but I though Sean Penn was a little overdramatic in some of the scenes of this movie. Especially when he first finds out that his daughter is dead. I liked Tim Robbins though. Can't tell if this movie will win any awards or not.

It's already won a bunch of lesser awards, and I imagine it will win a few Oscars. I can see your criticism re: Penn choice at that point, but I thought it was fine and I thought that was the best lead performance I saw all year. I thought Robbins gave the best male supporting performance and I thought Marcis Gay Harden gave the best female supporting performance (though I don't see her getting any attention for it).

Eeeep, talking about Mystic River... I saw it last weekend and I like it a lot!!

Sean Penn is fantastic in it, and also Tim Robbins. In fact, everything they do is great. I specially like the parallel editing of the parts when Sean is gonna kill Tim and also when the policemen find out the truth. You can see a scene of every history and the tension is growing in you. I bit my nails!!

And yeah, Marcia G.Harden is great too. It's curious how her life change just because she mistrusts his husband and talk with Sean Penn...

Yeah. She went cookoo, but then again, he husband wasn't exactly the picture of mental health. That was a really good movie.

I have a doubt about this movie: the end. How Kevin Bacon leaves free Sean Penn after finding out what he did? It's non-sense for me...

That is a little weird, but here's my take:

 

In the movie, a lot is made about how Kevin Bacon had left the neighbourhood and moved on to another life. While his two best friends stayed there, he got out, leaving the haunting memories and old customs behind.

 

But he never left the mentality behind, which is why at the end he understood and respected with Sean Penn's character did, even though he knew it was a mistake. He knew that, given when Penn's character knew at the time, that it had to be done ...

 

... and he also knew the Tim Robbins's character was never really the same after what had happened to him as a child. So in the end, when you see Kevin Bacon's character in the neighborhood, looking across the street at Sean Penn, he's acknowledging that he will always be a part of that life, he'll always adhere to those customs ...

 

... and he respects that.

 

Wow. I need to organize my thoughts better.