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Re: Track Your Film Viewing, 2007
American Psycho - Funny as Duck at parts but Christian Bales monotonal voice didn't suit it. Acting wasn't as good as I expected.
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Ameican Psycho is a great film, and I thought Bale was good, although at times, especially in the scenes with the cop (Defo), he did give the character a childish element that jarred against the rest of the movie.
Read the book, it's much more demanding than the film, not to mention much more neauseating and much more tragic, because what you don't get in the film as much as the book is that Patrick Bateman is a victim, and what happens to him is a tragedy. See look, you've got me going...
Honestly, read the book, it's astounding 
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PAN'S LABYRINTH put me in mind of MOUCHETTE.
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SECRETARY
I enjoyed it but I wasn't keen on the wishy-washy ending. Still a good film, though.
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PAN'S LABYRINTH put me in mind of MOUCHETTE.
I've not seen MOUCHETTE, but I had a quick gaze at the synopsis on IMDB and it does sound very similar. Maybe it gave del Toro inspiration and he used it for a jumping-off point... who knows?
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PAN'S LABYRINTH put me in mind of MOUCHETTE.
I've not seen MOUCHETTE, but I had a quick gaze at the synopsis on IMDB and it does sound very similar. Maybe it gave del Toro inspiration and he used it for a jumping-off point... who knows?
MOUCHETTE is the starting point for most films of this type (see, for example, Dennis Hopper's OUT OF THE BLUE).
Bresson was one of the world's greatest filmmakers; it's sad that his work is neglected in English-speaking circles and that, aside from a few rare television screenings of his films, very few people in the UK or the US seem to have seen them.
However, considering del Toro's work and his referencing of motifs from the cinema of the late-Surrealists (Bunuel's Mexican-era movies, for example), I would be surprised if the development of PAN'S LABYRINTH hadn't been shaped in some way by the Bresson picture.
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13 GOING ON 30
SAW III
THE SKELETON KEY
...going to polar extremes this week 
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Apocalypto.
Well, whether or not you like Mel Gibson you have to admit this film is absolutely amazing. The acting is superb (especially Tortoise Runs), cinematography is spectacular, and the script is excellent. Not for those who don't enjoy gore though... there's a hell of a lot of it from the beginning, but this is well worth going to see.
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Nosferatu (1922) - I found it really interesting and i'm watching the documentaries that came with it now. but I also now wanna watch SHadow of the vampire, which is a film based on the filming of Nosferatu.
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Re: Track Your Film Viewing, 2007
SERENITY - 5th viewing for me and it was even better.
THE BLACH DAHLiIA - Take away the fabulous looks and homage to every black and white detective film of the 40's & 50's, and all that remains is an overcomplecated plot that is not the truth because nobody knows what really happened. Great acting, though.
THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE - the eerie realism of Emily's affliction, played excellently by Jennifer Carpenter, had me on the edge of my seat. Her performance is truly frightening. One of the best film's I've seen for a while.
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