Subj : Re: James Bond
To   : Asylem Kat
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Tue Oct 18 2005 00:15:00

  Re: Re: James Bond
  By: Asylem Kat to Angus McLeod on Mon Oct 17 2005 04:42:00

 > I totally agree about Miss Congeniality - it just didn't have much substance
 > it. A Beautiful Mind was good.. I like Sahara better than National Treasure.
 > LOVED LOTR and Kill Bill.. I found Lost in Translation kinda annoying.. I ha
 > always wanted to visit Japan until I saw this movie.. Cold Mountain was grea
 > too.. Have you seen The Last Samurai?? I LOVED this movie!! Tom Cruise did a
 > excellent job with that one..

I regrettably missed Sahara (grrrr!).  Sick relative that needed caring.  
National Treasure had a sort of Indiana Jones/Temple of Doom thing going 
which I really enjoyed.  Maybe I'll catch Sahara on disk.....

Lost in Translation was a strange movie.  It expressed the weirdness of a 
really foreign culture, and it also made the point that a middle-aged man 
and a young girl can have a relationship in which sex plays no part.  As a 
middle-aged man with a number of young female friends, you'd be amazed how 
many assholes think there *must* be something "going on"!

Cold Mountain was good, but it's weakness was also the weakness of The 
Last Samurai.  It's the same thing that made me ultimately down-mark Out 
Of Africa:  They both depended too heavily upon sweeping vistas and 
idyllic scenery to fill the minutes.  I don't like a movie to look like a 
travellogue.  While Cold Mountain and The Last Samurai were reasonable 
movies, with plot, storyline, character development, etc, they ran very 
close to that travellogue line.  The Last Samurai also lost points for 
trying to convince me that in one winter, Tom Cruise could become a 
Samurai warrior!










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