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And you'd thought I'd forsaken cinema, haha

posted by [personal profile] nekare at 08:39pm on 03/05/2008 under ,
It's kinda funny what long weekends do to me, 'cause I've been dressing steadily lamer as the days go by. Like, I looked all ~hawt~ on wednesday (still a school day), I looked unkept but still okay on Thursday, looked awful yesterday and I didn't even bother changing out of my PJs today. Hee. I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at it, huh.

Now all there's left to see is what kind of fashion travesty I'll be wearing tomorrow, lol.

I forgot to say the other day. I went to see Lust, Caution on Thursday. Well. It was really well done, and really well acted, but I think I was expecting a bit more. The pacing was too slow, and I have a lot of problems with the ending - it's like it all amounted to nothing, all of that. So. Also, the sex scenes were so explicit that it honestly cheapened what could've been such a fantastic movie - made worse by the fact that I went to see it with my parents. Yikes. Talk about embarassing. Just tone it down a bit, Mr. Lee - the sex was completely necesary, but in a less extreme measure. But it was a good movie, quite intriguing.

I'm still a bit weirded out at seeing Tony Leung in such an antagonist role, though (as much as seeing him without Maggie Cheung, haha) - it's such a testament to his incredible acting skills that he can provoke such disgust, when I usually find him so very attractive.

I really do have to get off my ass and go watch Iron Man, but at the same time... ever since Civil War I've hated Tony Stark with PASSION, so. Dunno.
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posted by [identity profile] mon-starling.livejournal.com at 02:32am on 04/05/2008
See, I thought the last hour, unnecessarily graphic sex scenes or not, was the best thing about the movie, though it was very difficult to watch (and I wasn't with my parents!) - the beginning was far too long, all caution and no lust. And Tony Leung's just fantastic, as usual. Have you watched him in Wong Kar-Wai's movies? There's one that was filmed here in Buenos Aires...
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posted by [identity profile] nekare.livejournal.com at 04:37am on 04/05/2008
Yeah, the first twenty minutes, especially, were almost boring - and, especially, quite confusing. It got better, but I don't know, I still have issues with the ending - all that pain, and suffering, and so much on the line and she let herself be bought by a pretty ring? Only for him having her killed anyway? Just. I don't know.

I've only seen him in In The Mood for Love (I've had 2046 in a cd for aaaages and I still haven't seen it, woe), and he was so fantastic in there - and I've also been aching to see that one you mentioned; Happy Together, right? (he looks best in Hero, though...)
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posted by [identity profile] mon-starling.livejournal.com at 02:27pm on 04/05/2008
2046 is so gorgeous and so heartbreaking and he's kind of oddly attractive in that one despite being a total bastard and not really all that handsome. The man's just insanely charismatic, and does brooding romantic hero very well, I guess!

Happy Together's a lovely movie - and you should watch Chunging Express too! It's so cute and darling!
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posted by [identity profile] mellafe.livejournal.com at 03:12am on 04/05/2008
Maybe you'll be a Yeti tomorrow, eh? LOL.
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posted by [identity profile] nekare.livejournal.com at 03:56am on 04/05/2008
Well maybe I WILL, and it'll be AWESOME. XD
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posted by [identity profile] onadancefloor.livejournal.com at 05:43pm on 04/05/2008
I didn't like Lust, Caution, I was incredibly disappointed with it. And although the film was beautiful in terms of the cinematography, I still thought it was an awful film. I mean Tony Leung is one of the best actors out there and I was not impressed by his acting in this film. Also, I thought the way everyone treated Maggie Cheung's character was disgusting. I have to agree with the sex scenes, I saw the R-Rated version and the sex was so intense in that one, I can't even imagine what the NC-17 version was like. It didn't help the plot, it just made things weird.

You know what movie you should see, in case you haven't already seen it, Black Book. I found myself comparing those two films after I saw Black Book and they are similar in a way, but Black Book is done so much better.

I'm a little disappointed in Ang Lee, I mean from Brokeback to this? Have you ever seen Eat Drink, Man Woman??? I LOVE that movie, and that is the kind of Ang Lee film I love, I wish he'd do something like that again. Simple but poignant.
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