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Dec 25, 2013 - 4:44 PM
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DeputyRiley
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(revisit)
Before Sunset (2004) -- 10/10
See my above post for Before Sunrise to understand my appreciation for Before Sunset. The feelings and reactions are the same yet different...similar emotional and intellectual response to the two films, only different in their approach to different points in different people's lives and relationships, with more complex yet equally important and vital truths. Often when talking about these films it can be hard to tell whether I'm talking about myself and personal experiences with certain meaningful individuals, or the characters Jesse and Celine -- they often blend together because I identify so much with the story and exchanges onscreen. So rarely do films speak so directly, so personally, so devastatingly honestly when I watch them, but the films in this series do so repeatedly and with great depth. Getting ready to watch the third in the series (for the first time) and am enormously excited and hungry to step back into the lovingly, intricately, and candidly created world Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, and Richard Linklater have shared with us.
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Yesterday, Christmas Day, I broke down and finally watched some of the James Bond movies in "BOND50," watching both "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love." And was reminded that Monty Norman wrote the familiar Bond theme that so many think was written by John Barry, although Barry arranged and played it in the first film and then did some wonderful things with it in later movies in the series. On the "Dr. No" Blu-ray is a very good program on the restoration process -- those movies from the mid 60s look wonderful, and it helped that they were able to work from the original camera negatives.
I don't know if this counts, but I next watched 7 episodes of season 7 of "Dexter," and, as usual, the Blu-rays look crystal clear and Showtime makes very good use of the surround channels, although the discs have very few (if any!) extras.
Incidentally, I mentioned earlier that I had finally watched my Blu-ray of "The Sound of Music" on the same night that ABC broadcast it, but forgot to mention that I had added Oprah Winfrey's great program with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and the 7 child actors now grown up. I had put it onto DVDs for friends, but neglected to do so for myself, and when my friend Barbara returned some discs I had loaned her, she included the DVD I had made for her with the Winfrey program, since she's not a collector like me. So now it's safely in the big box with the movie and all its extras. I think it makes a wonderful extra for ANY "Sound of Music" collection!
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As others have stated the most memorable line in the film was, "I got to pee". There's substance for you. I could go on and on. And this guy is doing Godzilla?
What? Godzilla's a monster, isn't he?
Think of it -- if Godzilla decides he has to pee, we could all be in a lot of trouble.
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