The Hustler: Paul Newman has an almost permanent cheeky smile for a large portion of this film, and exudes a kind of childish glee when he’s playing pool. Kind of like he has a high from playing pool. And the arrogance… oh, the arrogance! I didn’t quite follow the point of parts of the film, […]
Month: September 2009
Book: The Sandman
The Sandman: I finished this series a few weeks ago, but, kept forgetting to log what I’ve read. As I can’t figure out what I have already logged on Live Journal, I’m just using this entry as a general entry for all the ones that I’ve read. Basically, fantastic story, really engaging. Bit of a […]
Movie: The Gold Rush (1925)
The Gold Rush: A Charlie Chaplin silent film, but, with added narration on this version of the film (added by Charlie Chaplin himself). The film was silly, as can be expected, and, even though it was only 68 minutes long, it felt longer, and rather slow. The narration actually detracted from the film, I think. […]
Movie: The Conversation (1974)
The Conversation: This film was not quite what IÂ had expected. I had vaguely expected some kind of ‘Fugitive’ storyline. Which now amuses me, because that has Harrison Ford in it, who is also in this film, but, I really couldn’t put a name to the face while the movie was on. It is a […]
Movie: Stalag 17 (1953)
Stalag 17: A world war 2 POW film, with the main story being one of trying to find a spy in the barracks who is feeding the Germans all the information in the barracks that would be useful to them. It seems fairly obvious to the people in the barrack that the informer is the […]
Movie: Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Grave of the Fireflies: IÂ watched this last week, a day or two after I watched ‘My Neighbour Totoro’. That film, and this one, were released at the same time in the cinemas apparently. This film really is a very depressing film. It starts off as such, and although it has some happy bits in it, […]
Movie: My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
My Neighbour Totoro: An incredibly ‘cute’ film. Yes, it’s probably for kids, but, I still enjoyed it. I was told this film had little plot, so I was prepared for that. The characters in it were just so much fun to watch. Especially the youngest girl, May. I watched it with English dubbing. I give […]
Movie: Hancock (2008)
Hancock: I had heard that this film was bad, and it has a relatively low score on IMDB (6.6 at time of writing), which, for a superhero film, seems kind of low to me. Anyway, I thought it was interesting – it wasn’t a superhero film in the normal sense. Apart from perhaps the superhero […]
Movie: Duck Soup (1933)
Duck Soup: A Marx brothers film. I am sure when I was younger, I used to love Marx brothers films, perhaps because some of the humour really was extremely childish, and you didn’t need to understand what was going on in the story to understand the childish humour. Anyway, I found this very dull, unfortunately. […]
Movie: Harvey (1950)
Harvey: A fairly light hearted comedy at first glance. My memory is already fading, having only watched this film about 4-5 days ago. It was about a character, Elwood P. Dowd, who has an imaginary character. Who you later learn is a 6’3 1/2″ rabbit. And only Elwood can see it. The film is a […]