THE LIST


9.2 - The Shawsank Redemption , The Godfather

9.0 - The Godfather II

8.9 - Pulp Fiction, The Good, the bad and the ugly, 12 Angry Men, Schindler's List,

8.8 - The Dark Knight, LOTR: Return of the King, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Wars: Ep.V -The Empire Strikes Back, Fight Club, Seven Samurai, Inception, LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring,


Monday, June 25, 2012

Snow White and The Huntsman

Originally Written by the BROTHERS GRIMM.

A long time ago, a child was born to a queen and king and she was called Snow White.  When the queen died, the king married again.  This new queen was wicked and hated Snow white.  The queen gave orders that Snow White was to be treated as a servant.

Snow White grew very beautiful and one day a Prince riding by, saw her at work and fell in love with her.
The queen was beautiful too, and every day she asked her Magic Mirror, "Who is the fairest in the land?" and the mirror always answered, "You are the fairest one of all".
But one day the mirror answered Snow White was the fairest in the land, and in a rage the queen gave orders to one of her Huntsmen to take Snow White into the woods and kill her.
The Huntsman had a kind heart and couldn't do the deed so told her to run away.  She fled into the woods where Seven little dwarfs lived.  Their house was small and strange.
Snow White entered the little house and finding it very untidy, started to clean up.  Upstairs she found seven little beds.  She was very tired and stretching out on one of the beds, was soon asleep.
When the Dwarfs came home they were surprised to find Snow White and after some argument, decided to let her stay.  She promised to cook and look after them.
The Queen discovered where Snow White was living and disguising herself as a witch, took a poisoned apple and set out for the Dwarfs cottage.  She gave Snow White the poisoned apple to eat and as soon as she bit the apple, she sank into unconsciousness.
Thinking she was dead, the Dwarfs built a glass coffin and put her in it. For days she lay in the forest in her glass coffin.  One day, the Prince was riding through the forest looking for Snow White and found her.  He leaned over and kissed her.  She opened her eyes and sat up with a smile. Everyone was happy.  The Prince took Snow White to his palace where they were married and lived happily ever after.



This NEW and IMPROVED Movie stars Kristen Stuart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron Directed by Rupert Sanders.

It's quite a dark twist on the tale but looks super epic. For me, I've never like Smiley, Happy, drown-myself-with-love endings so this should be right up my (dark) alley.

First, there were times when the characters portrayed were too (...lets say) Disney; too over done. Charlize had a rough time. For most of her scenes she had to be 'Mentally Unstable' so props to her but there were many where I forgot she was a character and saw her as an actor.
Secondly, Did anyone notice the seriously long drawn out last frame of the film? awkward...

BUT (and this is a Kim K one) what made me enjoy it so, was the twist that the Huntsman was her 'Dashing Prince' and the actual Prince was a dork... I liked that they were confident enough to change the most 'Disney' thing about this type of movie.

I can't firgure out if it helped of hindered the watching experience, but I watched the making/behind the scenes of Snow White & the Huntsman a week before.
I was watching out for certain costumes worn by 'Raveena' (Charlize). A full cape made of feathers, a metal disc-linked coat, hooked nail rings, a wedding dress made of bones; I am pretty sure I missed most of what was going on in those scenes.... Ooops.

I really did enjoy it though; Top marks for entertaining, But I won't be buying the DVD any time soon...

Sunday, June 24, 2012

WHAT LIST ?

First I need to have a list of movies considered the 'Best Ever' to go by. In search, I began Google-ing and came up with a website which ranks movies between 0.1 <10.0.
   http://www.imdb.com/

With Survival of the fittest in mind, any movie which does't make it to 8.1 or higher can't be worth my time, Right?

The equation to work out its rating on the website is:

      weighted rating (WR) = (V /  V+M) x R + (V /  V+M) x C

      R = rating      average for the movie (mean)
      V = votes       number of votes for the movie
      M = minium votes to be listed in the top 250 (currently 3000)
      C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.9)

      for the top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.

As a bonus, the top 150 are all above 8.1 and if the filter is correct, me thinks, this is a good place to start :).

X = Haven't seen
X = Have seen -can't remember
       X = Seen (watch again ??)

    The Shawsank Redemption                                           9.2
The Godfather The Godfather II                               9.0    
    Pulp Fiction                                                                  8.9
The Good, the bad and the ugly
12 Angry Men
    Schindler's List    
    The Dark Knight                                                           8.8
    LOTR: Return of the King
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Star Wars: Ep.V -The Empire Strikes Back
    Fight Club
Seven Samurai
    Inception
    LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
Goodfellas                                                                8.7
    Star Wars: Ep. IV –A New Hope
City of God
Casablanca
    The Matrix
Once upon a Time in the West
    LORT: The Two Towers
Rear Window
The Silence of the Lambs
Raiders of the Lost Ark                                                  8.6 
    Forrest Gump
    Se7en
The Usual Suspects
Psycho
It’s a wonderful life
Leon: The Professional
Sunset Blvd
Memento                                                                8.5
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb                                         
Apocalypse Now
American History X
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
North by Northwest
Saving Private Ryan
Citizen Kane
Alien
City Lights
    The Avengers
Spirited Away
    American Beauty
Toy Story 3
Taxi Driver
The Shining
M
Vertigo
Paths of Glory
Modern Times
The Pianist
The Departed                                                          8.4
Amelie
Double Indemnity
    Wall-E
The Lives of Others
Aliens
A Clockwork Orange
    Back to the future
Life is Beautiful
Lawrence of Arabia
To Kill a Mockingbird
Das Boot
Reservoir Dogs
Requiem for a Dream
The Third Man
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    The Prestige
    The Green Mile
A Separation
The Great Dictator
Cinema Paradiso
    Gladiator
Chinatown
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
L.A. Confidential
The intouchables
Once upon a time in America                                       8.3
Rashomon
    Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Full Metal Jacket
Singin’ in the Rain
Some like it hot
Bicycle Thieves
Amadeus
All about Eve
Metropolis
Raging Bull
    Braveheart
Oldboy
2001: A Space Odyssey
    Star Wars: Ep. VI –Return of the Jedi
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Apartment
Unforgiven
Princess Mononoke
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Sting
    The Lion King
    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Downfall
Grave of the Fireflies
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Die Hard
    Inglorious Bastards
Up
The Seventh Seal
On the Waterfront
The Elephant Man
Yojimbo
The Great Escape
The Maltese Falcon
    Batman Begins                                                           8.2
Gran Torino
Witness for the Prosecution
Rebecca
Snatch
For a Few Dollars More
The General
Heat
Blade Runner
Fargo
Ran
Wild Strawberries
    Toy Story
    Sin City
Touch of Evil
The Big Lebowski
Ikiru
The Deer hunter
Jaws
    No Country for Old Men
Hotel Rwanda
Cool Hand Luke
Scarface
It happened one night
The Wages of Fear
Strangers on a Train
    The Wizard of Oz
    The Sixth Sense
The Kid
    The King’s Speech
    Kill Bill: Vol.1                                                                 8.1
Annie Hall
The Gold Rush
    Black Swan
Platoon
High Noon

In the begining.....

Sooo...
I can very easily watch shit movies and thoroughly enjoy myself.
However, in an attempt to recover some movie IQ, I intend on working my way through the '150 Best Movies Ever Made List'

And here is where I being.....