Anyone seen any good movies lately?
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Myrddin
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Seven Psychopaths - good. Hilarious in a sick way.
Looper - it's fine if you can ignore all the would be paradoxes, and a rather disapponting ending. Good action flick, but too many... holes. I guess it's only to be expected for a movie involving time travel.
Sinister - scary as hell! Amazing! Best Oren Peli movie I've seen so far.
E. M.
Looper - it's fine if you can ignore all the would be paradoxes, and a rather disapponting ending. Good action flick, but too many... holes. I guess it's only to be expected for a movie involving time travel.
Sinister - scary as hell! Amazing! Best Oren Peli movie I've seen so far.
E. M.
Rhonda Tharp
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I've got five movies lined up to see: Flight, The Hobbit, Les Mis, Cloud Atlas and Argo. Anyone seen the last two? I just saw Skyfall last weekend. Great story line and action.
Myrddin
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I saw Skyfall again this weekend. Just as good as the first time. Love Javier Bardem as the villain. He does a great job.
Movies I have lined up to see are: The Hobbit, Les Miserables, Gangster Squad, Carrie, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Man of Steel, and Iron Man 3. Saw Taken 2 last week - it was pretty good, certainly for a sequel.
E. M.
Movies I have lined up to see are: The Hobbit, Les Miserables, Gangster Squad, Carrie, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Man of Steel, and Iron Man 3. Saw Taken 2 last week - it was pretty good, certainly for a sequel.
E. M.
Nadai
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Rise of the Guardians came out yesterday. It was a pretty great movie. Jennifer's Body isn't a new movie, but I'd heard about it and wanted to check it out. I don't really like horror movies, but it was cool. I think Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried are pretty great actresses and both pretty beautiful so I liked it. Next on my list is Flight with Denzel Washington. It's not really my kind of movie, but Washington is pretty amazing, I have yet to dislike a movie he was in.
Myrddin
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Have you seen The Pelican Brief then?
I like Amanda Seyfried, she is good, though I have yet to see Megan Fox in anything; she is beautiful, though. I shall have to check out one or two of the Transformers movies.
E. M.
Nadai
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I remember The Pelican Brief, though not very well. That was a long time ago. I can't remember what I thought of it.
I can't believe you haven't seen Fox on screen! I guess you didn't watch shows like What I Like About You or Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, but Transformers! I don't know anyone who hasn't seen at least the first one.
Rhonda Tharp
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OMG, how did I forget Lincoln? That's also on my list.
RLynn
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The Golem was so good that I decided to try another German expressionist film from the same era: Faust. (The monster in this one is Mephisto, aka Satan, aka the Devil.) So far it is even better than Golem. Mephisto was so persuasive that he might have gotten even me to sign over my soul. (Maybe he already has done that 
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There are other great silent horror films, such as Nosferatu, which sometimes chills me to the bone.
.)There are other great silent horror films, such as Nosferatu, which sometimes chills me to the bone.
Argus
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Not forgetting A christmas Carol with Alastair Sim , the best in my opinion. And the muppets version of course.
RLynn
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While we're on the subject of Xmas movies (X as in Χριστός = Christ = מָשִׁיחַ = Messiah), am I the only person in the universe who doesn't like It's a Wonderful Life? For me it is too manipulative or invasive or something. Bah, humbug!
BTW, the silent German expressionist Faust film was outstanding but extremely disturbing. Mephisto/Devil is a total @$$hole (as are the self-righteous citizens who seem to get some sort of sadistic jollies out of Gretchen's public humiliation and ultimate incineration).
BTW, the silent German expressionist Faust film was outstanding but extremely disturbing. Mephisto/Devil is a total @$$hole (as are the self-righteous citizens who seem to get some sort of sadistic jollies out of Gretchen's public humiliation and ultimate incineration).
Myrddin
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Now you do!
I have seen Fox in an episode of Two and a Half Men, but I figured that doesn't really count. I do really need to get on the Transformers wagon, and will at least check out the first one.
E. M.
Myrddin
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When I read Faust in school, the character who made the deal with the title character was Mephistopheles, who I am pretty sure was the Devil's right hand man, and not the Devil himself. Did they not translate that into the movie, or do I just remember it wrong?The Golem was so good that I decided to try another German expressionist film from the same era: Faust. (The monster in this one is Mephisto, aka Satan, aka the Devil.) So far it is even better than Golem. Mephisto was so persuasive that he might have gotten even me to sign over my soul. (Maybe he already has done that
There are other great silent horror films, such as Nosferatu, which sometimes chills me to the bone.
I have not seen Nosferatu, though I really would like to.
E. M.
RLynn
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Mephisto is short for Mephistopheles. Goethe used the longer spelling, Marlowe the shorter. There are several other versions of the story. In any case, M. is either the Devil or the Devil's right hand man, and he has the power to barter for your soul. I like the Goethe version best, but it would be hard to make a movie of it because the second part is very wild and surrealistic and looooong.
Myrddin
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Okay. I gathered that Mephisto and Mephistopheles were the same name. It was more the diffrence between him as the Devil himself and playing the part of the Devil's right hand man. Is there any mythology about Mephistopheles?
E. M.
RLynn
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I don't know if there is any mythology regarding Mephistopheles.
I recently watched Photographing Fairies, which is interesting in a strange sort of way, and The Penitent Man, which was extremely thought provoking, in a good way. This was mostly a dialog, somewhat like My Dinner with Andre, but in a doctor-patient setting.
I recently watched Photographing Fairies, which is interesting in a strange sort of way, and The Penitent Man, which was extremely thought provoking, in a good way. This was mostly a dialog, somewhat like My Dinner with Andre, but in a doctor-patient setting.