gotchi

Aug 13 2011, 02:21:49 AM

Just watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes, pretty suspenseful

NrXIII

Jan 14 2012, 10:06:22 PM

If this counts as one film it would be Chance! with Horikita Maki.
If not it's Pan's Labyrinth. Somehow a very sad ending and a tragic storyline. When the girl dies in the end it's not sure if she imagined all the events as an escape from the bitter reality to protect her mind or if everything happened was real.

Cybergeron89

Jan 18 2012, 10:48:19 PM

War Horse...hollywood effect ruined it for me..

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Where everyone magically speaks English perfectly..

waratte

Feb 12 2012, 04:21:14 AM

star wars episode 1 the phantom menace 3D

br4d137

Mar 1 2012, 04:45:03 PM

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I really suggest watching this movie. Its based off of a Murakami Novel. Its some what of a depressing movie. But it is amazing and beautiful to watch. Heres my review of it last year when i watched it.

Norwegian Wood, a move directed by Tran Anh Hung based on a novel with the same title by Haruki Murakami based on a song by The Beatles also with the same title.

A story set in the 1960s during a time of student protest of the established order (sadly i got that part off of wiki, i’ll read up on japan history later) a young boy, Toru Watanabe, is a quiet and serious young man whose personal life is in tumult. Toru loses his best friend Kizuki after he inexplicably commits suicide. Toru, uncertain as to how he should view life and as he looks for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, during a walk in a park Toru meets Kizuki’s ex-girlfriend Naoko, and they grow close since they both share the same loss but as they grow even closer, Naoko’s sense of loss also grows. (again enough of wiki)

Everything about this movie is beautiful. The stylish 1960s setting with props and clothes are very accurate, down to the cash registers to the new looking Woodstock concert posters. And I have to express new because im tired of watch movies set in the 60’s with music posters that look ragged up and vintage, that just doesn’t make any sense.

But back to the beauty of this movie, everything is beautiful and seriously I mean everything. The actors and actresses; beautiful. The cinematography; beautiful. The editing; beautiful. The music; beautiful. The acting; beautiful. The 60’s style chairs and lamps; beautiful. The vintage now hipster looking clothing; beautiful. The bags and rucksacks the main character carries; beautiful. Every single curve and angle that the lighting hits; perfectly beautiful. The buildings and architecture; beautiful. The landscape; beautiful. The way the wind blows; beautiful. The way the snow falls; beautiful. (and im not kidding about these 2 parts, they are seriously amazing, i really want to visit where this place was filmed at) The completely sexual and sensual connection of the characters; seductively beautiful. The balance of noise and the noiseless between scenes; beautiful. The way the movie transitions between scenes with music but dramatically breaks after the transition; completely and utterly beautiful.

This movie truly must be watched. And must be watched in HD. I’ve seen plenty of Japanese movies before and how they try to work in this kitsch cliche beauty in their surroundings and it just gets boring. Like, why does this room have 45 vintage robot figurines sitting on the fire place mantel? Why does it look like an urban outfitters? And why the hell does the main character have to wear 7 difference colors, a beanie and commando boots? This movie is different, very different. Everything is precisely placed and perfectly natural and in no way it ever pushes the beauty at you, you just notice it and embrace it.

All in all, this movie is wonderful. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqiYXmpb41I
trailer

http://youtu.be/cl7OaD7cw4w
best scene

sakuraMai

Mar 9 2012, 02:14:07 PM

USAGI DROP LIVE ACTION