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In Reply to: Re: What foreign films did you see? posted by patrickU on January 15, 2004 at 01:15:48:
1. Mystic River
2. The Human Stain
3. Cold Mountain
4. Elf
5. Finding Nemo
6. Master and Comander
7. Monster
8. Lost in Translation
9. 21 Grams
10.Something's Gotta give
Follow Ups:
Worth....of course in the sense of beeing unique, measuring to the work of the best....
In your sense most of them may be worth to look at, and with the exception of Nemo & Elf I will check them...But is one of them a masterpiece?
I doubt it.
I consider Eastwood's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's "Mystic River" a masterpiece, yes.
One out of ten....But it would be worth. I can not comment as I have not see it, but I know that Clint is getting better and better since his film on J. Huston...I will have a look at it when on DVD!
And comment.
Another Clint effort I highly admire is his adaptation of "The Bridges of Madison County" from 1995. He acts as well in this and his character and that of Meryl Streep have wonderful, believable chemistry. I have a laserdisc of it with Dolby Digital sound and prefer it to the DVD since the DVD is not letterboxed and laserdisc DD is better than DVD DD. "Bridges.." has a wonderful sound track and must be the quietest sound film ever made. I use it as a demo to show friends and visitors that we're all not into explosions and car chases (at least not all the time).
I can not say that for this one! I found it very lame...The score won´t help me...As i did not like his " Unforgivable " or what was it...much too violent!
While I can appreciate that you didn't care for "Mystic River" I hardly think it fair to refer to it as "very lame". Not with its acting, writing, and directorial restraint (Eastwood never once gives us a Hollywood type view of the Boston skyline even during a scene on the Mystic River Bridge; he just lets the bridge loom over the neighborhood).
I too consider the Bridges just a mediocre movie. To me it bordered on irritating... that given two actors I like... so I really don't know what made it that way - perhaps the distinction between a simple story and a shallow one - I don't know. But I honestly haven't spent much time thinking about that movie after watching it - this is usually an inportant sign, and I never even put my thought on it in any order, so I am going by just an emotion.
I could have not feel it better.
It was just shallow.
Sometimes I think those guys should try to see the " original* " the master band...instead of generation XXXX.* The original** is of course as old as the earth..No copywright...
** just someone was a better catalyst as others..
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