Well, if you liked “Life is Beautiful”, I suggest you try and watch “Central Station”, a Brazilian film which competed with Roberto Benigni’s film as best foreign language film in 1999. I personally think it’s better than “Life is Beautiful”. The original title of “Central Station” is “Central do Brasil”, it was directed by Walter Salles (Dark Water, Motorcycle Diaries).
I like scifi b movies. But I think Titanic II was supposed to be a drama. The story is actually interesting, but I really hated this film.Unless of course, your not the scifi b movie type?
Was Central Station the one about the woman who writes letters for people?
The moving looks intersting, however outside of competeing for a particular award in a particular time and place as finished films based upon what I read of the film I feel like there is probably not much comparison.
Actually, there were three plots, all happening at the same time, and in random order, just like in a pulp novel - each chapter follows a different plot, until finally by the end of it you have seen the beginning, middle, and end of each plot, in some order. (I think it ends with the ending of the plot about the man and woman holding up the restaurant, which is also the beginning of the plot about the two thugs who discuss philosophy while committing paid thuggery - we see the ending of their story in a previous section.)
Yes - which makes his stuff very difficult to watch on any normal channels, because they always “blank out” the swear words, so with his movies, you just feel like there is something seriously the matter with the audio, since it keeps cutting out.
I couldn’t get into Jackie Brown, and I don’t know the Grindhouse flicks - but yeah, Kill Bill was awesome.
I feel like he is also, in some way, trying to highlight a moral point, there - first, he makes you laugh at a murder (and if you are thoughtful at all, that makes you pause - what kind of people are we?!) and then, what are we laughing at? The character says, in an off-hand way, “What? I said I was sorry! What do you want me to do?!”
Yes - which makes his stuff very difficult to watch on any normal channels, because they always “blank out” the swear words, so with his movies, you just feel like there is something seriously the matter with the audio, since it keeps cutting out.
I couldn’t get into Jackie Brown, and I don’t know the Grindhouse flicks - but yeah, Kill Bill was awesome.
I feel like he is also, in some way, trying to highlight a moral point, there - first, he makes you laugh at a murder (and if you are thoughtful at all, that makes you pause - what kind of people are we?!) and then, what are we laughing at? The character says, in an off-hand way, “What? I said I was sorry! What do you want me to do?!”
Clearly, not only is he not sorry, he has no idea what it means, to be sorry.
The only thing he was really sorry about was that his shirt got messed up, and he had to wear the Hawaiian shirt, instead, which he didn’t like. But he didn’t care at all about the boy - the boy’s death affected him exactly the same way as if he had accidentally closed a door in someone’s face, or broken a flower pot by mistake. “It was an accident. Get over it.”
The boy’s uncle was just as bad. “The kid was an idiot. But what do I say to my sister? She was fond of him. She will be upset.” Again, exactly as if they had broken her favourite flower pot, instead of killed her son.
In a way, it is an insight into the thought processes of psychopaths - but then, at the same time, since we find ourselves laughing instead of horrified, he is also pointing out to us that we, too, are potentially psychopaths - we have it in us to be just as bad as they are.
Maybe there was a “Plan 8” that never made it to the big screen.You mean Plan NINE right?