"The Thin Red Line" by Terrence Malick

I'm not a big fan of war movies - I can't handle gory scenes and inhumanity of it, too much for me. Whenever I'm watching this sort of films my eyes are covered most of the time.

However, there is this movie that Mikey-Ike highly recommended I see, called The Thin Red Line by Terrence Malick.

I've come to conclusion that Terrence Malick is one of all time favorite movie director. He also directed The New World, my other favorite film.

The movie The Thin Red Line is a must see.
It's a war movie and there are bloodshed scenes. But this movie is none other like war movies out there.

***a 1998 war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II with the focus on the men in C Company, most notably Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) and his conflicted feelings about fighting in the war, Colonel Tall (Nick Nolte) and his desire to win the battle at any cost in order to get a promotion, and Private Bell (Ben Chaplin) and the dissolution of his marriage back home while he fights in the war. - Wiki

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Poetic. Poignant. Heart wrenching.

There is this thing I need to talk to you about...

I mean you know I am reasonably bright and sensible in real life,
right? (Please say right.) But something has happened to me.
And I'll tell you what it is.
Twilight.
Yeah that's what has happened to me.
A bloody teenage movie!
And I can't stop.
I. Just. Have. To. Keep. On. Watching. Again. And. Again.





Have you seen it?
Am I alone in this?

Ok.
I just have to return to my
source of intelligence whatever that
was and just close the computer.
Delete the movie file and move on.

Until New Moon in November at least!

- E

Went to see...

Up, the latest movie by Pixar.



I'm not going to tell you much b/c I might ruin the movie for you.
All I can say is that it's about an elderly man who created his own airship using his house and heliums of balloons, which uplifted the house from its foundation. And together with a young boyscout, they set off on a big adventure.

Check it out! I think you're going to like it =).

Cheers, A

Would you like to see a film with me?

Let us see Inkheart!

A little film about girls,
boys, fathers, mothers,
stories, villains, love
and mostly..BOOOKS.


Quirky characters like an author who would like nothing
more than to live in the story world he has created in his books.

Library rooms full of books just like I have always dreamed
would be in my own house when the time is right.

So beautiful!!!!

And my favourite character:
Helen Mirren as the crazy book collecting auntie with wild silver
curls, a large black bow on her head and a bright red scarf around
her neck.

You should see this movie I think.

- E

Gran Torino by Clint Eastwood

You've gotta see this movie!

I see a movie for its either eccentricity, coolness, and the storyline. This movie made me laugh and realized a things or two about life - like most movies I'm usually drawn into.

The Taste of Tea

"Meet the Harunos, a rather unconventional but happy family and loving family. They live in a small town in the mountains just outside of Tokyo where life is good and quiet -- but that doesn't mean they don't have their own little problems.

Eight-year old Sachiko is bothered at inopportune moments by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her, while her older brother Hajime privately wrestles with raging hormones and love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate.

The grown-ups havetheir difficulties too: the mother struggles to come out of retirement as an animator, and the father is a professional hypnotist who occasionally plies his treade on his own family with often-funny results. An uncle drops in for a visit, but he also has a hidden agenda as he comesto terms iwth a romace that ended years ago. Another uncle who is a successful manga artist also stops in for his birthday, wanting to give himself something special. And finally there's Grandpa, the most eccentric and perhaps the most perceptive of all, who continues to search for a better way to live life to the fullest.

Written, directed and edited by Katsuhito Ishii, The Taste of Tea is a unique and gentle family portrait tackling the universal themes of time, family and life."

"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"

i wanted to check out the CA Academy of Science, but when i got there and saw the line, I chickened out and drove away. this is one those days, i can't deal with long lines and be in throngs of people. so... i went to get lunch and i decided to watch...


This movie made me cry the entire time.

Heartbreaking and horrid.

If you can, watch this.

Also, it got me thinking, I think I'm going to devote myself to humanity. I know I can't do everything, but at least I did something.

"'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' tells its simple story with directness, concision and insightful detail. A family finds itself living with blackest evil, and yet this evil manifests in a strangely insidious and quotidian way: the officer's promotion; the wife's household help, consisting of Jewish prisoners; a teenage girl's crush, taking the form of a handsome young Nazi butcher. The little boy watches and takes it all in. - Mick Lasalle (SF Chronicle)

Also, the cast did a fabulous job that they take you in. They evoke feelings.

What would you say if I gave you these, what would you think.

And the follow-upper.




Found on one of the blogs from Nathalie's list.

- E

Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Sometimes,
with my friends we play
this funny game.
It is called
'what ice cream taste are thou'.

If Woody is some perverted little
American hyper taste of cherry-something-yuck
and Scarlett (obviously) is vanilla,
then what is that lovely creature
called Penelope
of sort?

Rhum raisin?
Chili chocolate?
Ginger?

- E

Tonight my screen shall be filled with women, beautiful women.

The film is set in the 1950s in a large country residence, as a family and its servants are preparing for Christmas, when the master of the house is discovered dead in his bed, with a dagger stuck into his back. The murderer must be one of the eight women in the house at the time, and in the course of the investigations each has a tale to tell and secrets to hide.

Bliss
Bliss
Bliss

- E

Dark Knight & American Teen

I highly recommend this movie - American Teen. It's a documentary about American high school kids in Warsaw, Indiana. It'll give you a sense of I suppose what most high school kids are like here. I didn't go to a high school, where kids were brutal. This movie was just heartbreaking and full of hope. Its got a lot of substance and a look in to their world, very interesting and it was a bit harrowing for me to watch.

Check it out and let me know what you think of it =)

Saw the Dark Knight last weekend. What else can I say... I'm sure you've read good things about it and heard amazing things about Heath's role, etc...

As for me, I thought it was fantastic. Not just the acting - thank gosh, they replaced Katie Holmes. Replacing Holmes was a fantastic move on their end, or else it would not be numero uno for three weeks in the box office. It touched on a lot of subject in psychology (even though it was all stage).

I was just reading an article about one thing that bothered most people... it sort of annoyed me a bit while I was watching the movie. Christian Bale's voice when he's in his Batman costume, his voice was darker, raspier and deeper - a bit weird, it seemed forced.