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31. T4xi
Daniel and Emilien are such an old married couple. But I think the French should start seriously considering quitting while they are ahead.
32. Moulin Rouge
Why is it that no painters were apparently mentally healthy? At least as far as the movies show it? I mean, if they are not drunkards or maniodepressive, then they are cutting off parts of their own body. Something isn't quite right when the movie with the painter who has kinky gay s/m sex with a random burglar (played by Daniel Craig, so that part I get) seems to be in the healthy part of the spectrum - well, if you don't count his paintings. Am I the only one who thinks Francis Bacon's paintings are creepy?
33. The Singing Detective
I rather liked how this movie mixed memories and fiction, hallucinations and reality. Mind you, it's probably not a movie for those who like Robert Downey Jr. looking his best.
34. Sharpe's Regiment
Ambushed - euphemism or not euphemism?
35. Sharpe's Siege
I'm curious - does Sharpe ever have an immediate superior who is not either incompetent or simply a traitor?
36. Sharpe's Mission
Is it strange that one of my favourite characters in these movies is Hagman?
37. The Last of the Mohicans
It's okay, but my favourite Daniel Day-Lewis movie must remain My Beautiful Laundrette (punk youth with cute Pakistani boyfriend - what's not to like?). Also, is there some rule saying that British officers who are competing with the hero for the girl has to have horrible, redemptive deaths?
38. The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian
I almost didn't go to see this, having been so disappointed by Disney's first attempt. I'm glad I did go. I liked the rivalry between Caspian and Peter, I liked that they had made Caspian older. Also: Reepicheep! It was a bit long in places and the Susan/Caspian romance felt forced, but overall I liked it (even if the battle scenes were the same we've seen in every fantasy movie for the last few years).
Am I the only one who thought Aslan's expression was kind of - suspicious ?- during the real reunion between him and Lucy??? Or have I just read Gaiman's The Problem of Susan too many times and have begun seeing things?
Random thought: has anybody written a crossover between Narnia and PotC, based on the fact that the Telmarines are descendants of shipwrecked pirates? It would explain a few things if Jack Sparrow and Barbossa were among the ancestors of the royal family and the nobles. Of course it doesn't fit, since Narnia was supposedly created sometime late in the 19th century, but still - besides, where would you have found a ship full of what I suppose must have been Mediterranean pirates (who must have either had women captives or an unusual number of cross-dressing cabin boys aboard) at what must have been sometime early in the 20th century, if they were to have a big enough force to invade Narnia at some point during WWII?
I'm overthinking this, aren't I?
Daniel and Emilien are such an old married couple. But I think the French should start seriously considering quitting while they are ahead.
32. Moulin Rouge
Why is it that no painters were apparently mentally healthy? At least as far as the movies show it? I mean, if they are not drunkards or maniodepressive, then they are cutting off parts of their own body. Something isn't quite right when the movie with the painter who has kinky gay s/m sex with a random burglar (played by Daniel Craig, so that part I get) seems to be in the healthy part of the spectrum - well, if you don't count his paintings. Am I the only one who thinks Francis Bacon's paintings are creepy?
33. The Singing Detective
I rather liked how this movie mixed memories and fiction, hallucinations and reality. Mind you, it's probably not a movie for those who like Robert Downey Jr. looking his best.
34. Sharpe's Regiment
Ambushed - euphemism or not euphemism?
35. Sharpe's Siege
I'm curious - does Sharpe ever have an immediate superior who is not either incompetent or simply a traitor?
36. Sharpe's Mission
Is it strange that one of my favourite characters in these movies is Hagman?
37. The Last of the Mohicans
It's okay, but my favourite Daniel Day-Lewis movie must remain My Beautiful Laundrette (punk youth with cute Pakistani boyfriend - what's not to like?). Also, is there some rule saying that British officers who are competing with the hero for the girl has to have horrible, redemptive deaths?
38. The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian
I almost didn't go to see this, having been so disappointed by Disney's first attempt. I'm glad I did go. I liked the rivalry between Caspian and Peter, I liked that they had made Caspian older. Also: Reepicheep! It was a bit long in places and the Susan/Caspian romance felt forced, but overall I liked it (even if the battle scenes were the same we've seen in every fantasy movie for the last few years).
Am I the only one who thought Aslan's expression was kind of - suspicious ?- during the real reunion between him and Lucy??? Or have I just read Gaiman's The Problem of Susan too many times and have begun seeing things?
Random thought: has anybody written a crossover between Narnia and PotC, based on the fact that the Telmarines are descendants of shipwrecked pirates? It would explain a few things if Jack Sparrow and Barbossa were among the ancestors of the royal family and the nobles. Of course it doesn't fit, since Narnia was supposedly created sometime late in the 19th century, but still - besides, where would you have found a ship full of what I suppose must have been Mediterranean pirates (who must have either had women captives or an unusual number of cross-dressing cabin boys aboard) at what must have been sometime early in the 20th century, if they were to have a big enough force to invade Narnia at some point during WWII?
I'm overthinking this, aren't I?