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03-03-2011, 06:02 AM | #9551 (permalink) |
Live by the Sword
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Swan Lake (1968)
Got it because of Black Swan fever. It's a Russian production. Pretty good although I disagree with the choice of the guy playing Siegfried, they shoulda used the Court Jester guy, instead, as he dances more supple and agile. Was the guy chosen as Siegfried because of his chiselled features? He still looks gay-ish to me, though and he doesn't really dance that well. The costumes are outrageously daring, the White Swan's pubes are visible, the Black Swan has half-exposed breasts. The performances are fab, the White Swan is tender, soft and supple, the Black Swan aggro, terse and passionate. My main gripe with this is trying to make it into a movie, with split screens, dissolves, special effects, superimposition. And the film production is horrible, some out of focus shots, inconsistent lighting, choppy editing and use of different film stock giving different hues and saturation within one movement. They should have shot it as it appeared on stage. My ratings - as a movie - 5/10. as a performance - 10/10. highly emotional and sexually invigorating. as Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood once said - "ballet is a just a highly stylised form of sex". |
03-03-2011, 11:30 AM | #9552 (permalink) |
Groupie
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The Party-Peter Sellers...a classic
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03-04-2011, 02:53 AM | #9556 (permalink) | ||
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I'm going around fixing so many things around here. I should name myself The Fixer. I wanted to see Bring it On 4 and 5. Meh this one is okay. Definitely not as good as the original but it was okay for a one time viewing. next I'm going to watch the 5th one.
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03-04-2011, 03:47 AM | #9558 (permalink) | ||
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I did like Pi but still geez. Come on now!
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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes. Quote:
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03-04-2011, 06:25 PM | #9559 (permalink) |
Killed Laura Palmer
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I went to see Rango with my family. It was all right. Not great. I'd expected it to be better than it was.
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03-04-2011, 06:34 PM | #9560 (permalink) |
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No offense dude, but... you have pretty poor tastes.
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