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Muskrat121:
--- Quote from: OrigNES on 14 Jan 2008, 05:25 ---Nightwatch and Daywatch - Russian fantasy action films
They are based on a series of fantasy novels by Sergei Lukyanenko, both the books and the films have the balance of light and dark, and what happens when one becomes a bit greater than the other. The stories definately build up the characters and draw you in. Only downside to the films are they don't contain as much as the novels.
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I'm just finishing reading Day Watch now. I HIGHLY recomend that whether or not you see the movies to read the books. Each book is actually broken into three stories, the movies are based on the first and second stories of Night Watch (the book).
There are two others, Twilight Watch and Final Watch. It's a great series and I recomend it to anyone that likes a more modern type of fantasy.
Uber Ritter:
Movies: "Ran"--Akira Kurosawa does Lear, with the inevitable Samurai. Slow, emotionally draining but masterful.
"The Seventh Seal"--terrifying, emotionally gripping, quite funny and playful as well, this is a masterpiece.
pinkpiche:
I'd like to recommend
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
An absolutely excellent book about a boy that's stranded on a raft with a tiger, zebra and an orangutang, that lands on a small island filled with voracious killer trees that swallow people and make fruit out of their teeth.. Well.. You have to read it to understand.
Emily:
Apparently Budge Wilson wrote a prequel to Anne of Green Gables that's been OK'd by Montgomery's heirs. I heard about this months back and was horrified and afraid. My mother mailed me a clipping from a Canadian newspaper with excerpts, and it looks alright, but it's definitely not LMM's style of writing, which might make it hard for me to accept. Plus the idea in general doesn't appeal to me--I've never cared to find anything lovable in Anne's life before she came to Green Gables and Avonlea. Wasn't the idea supposed to be that it was all harsh life/unwanted/unloved child etc.. to kind of set up her fragile mental and emotional state so that she can truly blossom in the Cuthbert's care?
Anyhow.
The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox. I bought it in the airport the other day and haven't been able to look at another book since.
On the topic of Casablanca--a friend of mine once pointed out that if you made that movie today with the same script, cast, and director, it probably wouldn't be received very well by critics. I'm not a fan of the dialogue, myself. It's...awkward.
taphos:
--- Quote from: Emily on 28 Feb 2008, 01:40 ---Apparently Budge Wilson wrote a prequel to Anne of Green Gables that's been OK'd by Montgomery's heirs. I heard about this months back and was horrified
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I didn't want to know about this. Horrified is right.
I recommend Bug. Yes, the movie that came out last year and was almost universally hated.
I loved it. I thought Ashley Judd was brilliant. I thought the movie did an excellent job in blurring the lines between insanity and paranoia and truth(?) Bug was marketed as horror and it is the best kind of horror movie. It explores obsession, need, guilt, paranoia. We are never sure what is real and what is delusion.
I know I'm in the minority, but this film is something to see. Even if you end up hating it.
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