I wish I had recorded this film in HD. The scenery was amazing. Beautiful shots of his travel, amazing views of the garden, long flowing looks at the village he visits in Japan.
The scenery was the best part of this film. It wasn’t bad, it was just slow. Really, really slow. And I guess the fact that it is a period piece and about the slow journey from France to Japan in the 19th century, the pacing may have been appropriate, but we aren’t in 19th century Europe. I got the point, it took a long time. But three journeys with the same pacing for the travel to the same place?
So, pretty film, that felt pretty damn long. And Michael Pitt wasn’t even as pretty as usual, especially during the Grizzly Adams phases of his travel.
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The story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town’s supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.
When you know it is bad, why do you watch it? Do you really need to see EVERY film Brendan Fraser has been in no matter how much you like him? These are questions the Davis’ need to ask themselves before they decide to record George of the Jungle if this film was any indication.
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Inept Canadian mountie Dudley Do-Right chases after villian Snidely Whiplash and woos girlfriend Nell Fenwick.
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A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
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In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving (Gere) sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
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Woman plays dead after she falls for the mortician.
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A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years — which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
Few people can wear a unibrow like Frida Kahlo or Salma Hayek. Great film, but I didn’t know whether to feel bad for her for being so talented and being treated like a doormat or to be angry at her for being so talented and putting up with being treated like a doormat. I believe she would have been just as great a painter without the pain (or would that make her just a ter…lol).
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A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stowaway on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has sworn to kill them for belittling his talents. Of course, the lead actor end up on the ship as well. Also, a madman (Tony Shalhoub) plots the destruction of the ship and Steve Buscemi is a depressed, suicidal lounge singer named Happy Frank.
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