District 9 and Lolita. The first was fun, the second just ok and if my memory doesn't deceive me, vastly inferior to the Adrian Lyne version in tone and execution. That's right, I said it!

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2012.

It was utter ****e, by the way. DO NOT SEE IT.

I remember watching Lyne's Lolita when I was 9 and knowing it was my first "favorite movie", but after reading the book, Adrian Lyne didn't even seem to have adapted that same book to the screen. As for the older version, I don't think anyone can do better when Kubrick is the director and Nabokov himself is writing the screenplay.

Anyway, our next project, for our weekly Ciné-Club, will be to watch both versions and kind of compare them. I'll be getting to you in a week or two, with a perfectly refreshed memory of both movies.

Changeling. Did not have very high expectations but Jolie did a great job.

Yeah, I've put it on queue so I'll watch it soon too.

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Without being too spoilery, overall it was an enjoyable experience, very funny at times, really nice music (seems to be a bit of a trend to put indie music in films). Unfortunately, it sort of gets off track in the last 20 minutes or so and delves into serious, over the top drama and clichés. I'm not an expert in relationships but I don't think any real, sane person would act that way. Kinda disappointing coz it started out as a pretty intelligent and unusual take on relationships. Plus, I'm not really sure they pulled off Deschanel's character (or at least I don't know what to make of her). Still, it shits all over Mendes' Away we go...

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My piano teacher highly dislikes this film.
I'm sorry, but this is brilliance. Pure. ****ing. Brilliance.

I just saw this movie last night on a recommendation.
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It just went up there in favorites. It stars Guy Pearce, who, sure has been in a few mediocre movies, but on the whole I'd call a fairly talented actor, as an insurance investigator with short term memory loss. He's trying to solve his wife's murder, but every couple of hours he forgets everything that's happened to him since the accident that caused his memory condition. He has a very interesting system of reminding himself once this happens. And the movie is set up so that it starts at the end and works backwards in a series of clips, so you have to figure out the movie in that same sort of fragmented way that he has to figure out his life. It's just so goddamn good. I don't know why it didn't get more acclaim when it was released. Reminded me of the Usual Suspects in that everything is completely unpredictable.

It didn't get enough acclaim? Hasn't everyone seen Memento?

I found Memento to be a bit of an average film honestly. The sequencing idea was cool but that's about all I could bank on.