Once Upon a Time in America: A bit of an epic, this. At 220 minutes long, it felt like an epic too. A film following the lives of a bunch of childhood friends. Mostly concentrating on two – the characters played by Robert De Niro and James Woods. It was another relatively complicated story line, […]
Month: May 2009
Movie: High Noon (1952)
High Noon: A western, though that’s probably obvious from the title. I thought this film was a bit slow in places – I really do seem to want things to happen now, in films. I think this list is getting to me. I am getting to the bottom of the top 250 though, but, that […]
Movie: The Big Sleep (1946)
The Big Sleep: A private detective is hired to clear up some blackmail being thrown towards a rich family. That’s the start of the job for the detective in this story.Obviously, things aren’t quite so simple, and it gets more complicated. Especially as the private detective doesn’t seem to want to give up in finding […]
Movie: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate: I had no idea about this film apart from that it was a ‘political thriller’ before I watched it.First things first, I had to watch this film with subtitles – every time I turned them off, something was said that I couldn’t quite catch, even when replaying the scene. The dialogue was […]
Movie: The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wild Bunch: In this wild west movie, we follow a bunch of crooks who mostly spend time in the border areas of Mexico and the US. Again, I’m not really sure how to describe this film. I enjoyed it, mostly – though, I did fall asleep in the first 40 minutes of it, and […]
Movie: How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog (2000)
How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog: First off, I apologise for the spelling, but, it appears that there may not be spelling change for the UK version – or, if it is, it’s not listed on IMDB. This was, to me, a unique type of comedy – but, I can’t quite place why. It was very […]
Movie: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine: A fun movie, but, I don’t think it went in depth enough. I also don’t know the history of Wolverine enough to know how accurate the movie was to the comics. For example, I had no idea that he was as old as he was. I think the film has left me […]
Movie: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: I mostly liked this film – I’ll point out what I didn’t like – that someone as naive as the Mr. Smith wouldn’t realistically ever get to be a senator. I could be wrong, and, I know this is a film! But, ignoring that, this film was excellent. The little […]
Movie: Brief Encounter (1945)
Brief Encounter: I didn’t realise this was a British film until after the first bit of speech in the film. A train station was the central point of the story – it was where the two main characters in the story met. What was interesting was that the carriages were the same as the ones […]
Movie: Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: Well, what can I say. This movie has had everyone I know raving about it, but, I just can’t seem to get excited about it. And, I like Star Trek. Perhaps my love for the show and movies has gone away? I will say that I thought the movie was good, yet it […]