A few movies I've seen lately:
Kung Fu Hustle - Okay, this one is down right silly, but it made me laugh. Stephen Chow from The Green Hornet fame attempts to be a 1940s gangster on the streets of Hong Kong in this flic, but he's far from a martial arts expert, so he fakes it instead. Think of Jackie Chan, only with no real fighting skills, amongst the Crazy 88 gang from Kill Bill. If that's your cup of tea, then you'll like it.
The Fall doesn't have any big-name Hollywood actors, but that is just fine with me because the two leads in this movie are excellent. Lee Pace plays an injured stuntman who meets up with an imaginative five-year-old girl in the hospital back when movies were just starting out. It's an interesting story of what they want from each other, and what they eventually get. The special effects of story-telling versus real life is done very uniquely and creatively.
Switching from no big-names to lots of them,
my sister recommended that I watch
Angels in America mini-series and I finally got around to it. The dialogue in this series is unbelievable. It's the kind of script that makes me pause and think about almost every sentence that is spoken. Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary Louise-Parker, Justin Kirk and Al Pacino, among others. It's a must see, but be aware - it comes on two 3-hour long disks and I found it too hard to watch more than an hour at a time and fully absorb it.
Bread and Tulips is just one of those sweet little foreign movies that you can watch when you want something dangerously close to a romantic comedy but, not. It's about a woman's chosen independence after her bus tour leaves her at a gift shop stop and I won't tell you any more than that, other than it takes a few twists and turns along the way.
Kung Fu Hustle - Okay, this one is down right silly, but it made me laugh. Stephen Chow from The Green Hornet fame attempts to be a 1940s gangster on the streets of Hong Kong in this flic, but he's far from a martial arts expert, so he fakes it instead. Think of Jackie Chan, only with no real fighting skills, amongst the Crazy 88 gang from Kill Bill. If that's your cup of tea, then you'll like it.
The Fall doesn't have any big-name Hollywood actors, but that is just fine with me because the two leads in this movie are excellent. Lee Pace plays an injured stuntman who meets up with an imaginative five-year-old girl in the hospital back when movies were just starting out. It's an interesting story of what they want from each other, and what they eventually get. The special effects of story-telling versus real life is done very uniquely and creatively.
Switching from no big-names to lots of them, my sister recommended that I watch Angels in America mini-series and I finally got around to it. The dialogue in this series is unbelievable. It's the kind of script that makes me pause and think about almost every sentence that is spoken. Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary Louise-Parker, Justin Kirk and Al Pacino, among others. It's a must see, but be aware - it comes on two 3-hour long disks and I found it too hard to watch more than an hour at a time and fully absorb it.
Bread and Tulips is just one of those sweet little foreign movies that you can watch when you want something dangerously close to a romantic comedy but, not. It's about a woman's chosen independence after her bus tour leaves her at a gift shop stop and I won't tell you any more than that, other than it takes a few twists and turns along the way.
7 players in the box:
Loved the last two.
I heard there was quite a bit of Kung Fu in Bread and Tulips. Was I wrong?
The Fall sounds like it could be really good. I'll check it out.
I'm always looking for cute foreign films--thanks for the quickie review!
I own Kung Fu Hustle on BluRay. I love that movie so much, I want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant. Tried to make Red watch it, she didn't make it 20 minutes in.
It's true. I couldn't handle KFH. Never seen _Kill Bill_ either, or most of Tarantino. I'm just not that kinda gal.
_Angels..._ was based on two different plays by Tony Kushner. Haven't seen it yet, but there's one monologue ("I burned dinner.") that's so popular I could recite most of it for you. Thanks for reminding me to get around to it.
Kung Fu Hustle is one of the finest films ever made. :o)
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