[GOTFIVEONIT]

Rush Hour 3 ok your link here is theater print crap. i just cant stand watching it. ill try and find the dvd quality, otherwise i would rather pay money to rent it on dvd than watch theater print crap.

[Skinwalker]

One film I watched recently was the Joy Luck Club. I think that Moonstar would really enjoy this one. My wife made me watch it as 'revenge' for making her watch one of my horror movies for Halloween. But I was pleasantly surprised by its wonderful storyline. You can get it on DVD.




The film is based upon the book by Amy Tan of the same name. It tells the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share that vision with her daughter. The daughters try to understand and appreciate their mothers' pasts, adapt to the American way of life, and win their mothers' acceptance.

Roger Eberts wrote a great review about the Film.

"The Joy Luck Club" comes rushing off the screen in a torrent of memories, as if its characters have been saving their stories for years, waiting for the right moment to share them. That moment comes after a death and a reunion that bring the past back in all of its power, and show how the present, too, is affected - how children who think they are so very different are deeply affected by the experiences of their parents.

The movie, based on Amy Tan's 1989 best-selling novel, tells the story of four women who were born in China and eventually came to America, and of their daughters. Around these eight women circle innumerable friends and relatives, both there and here, Chinese and not, in widening circles of experience. What is about to be forgotten are the origins of the women, the stories of how they were born and grew up in a time and culture so very different from the one they now inhabit.

The "Joy Luck Club" of the title is a group of four older Chinese ladies who meet once a week to play mah jong, and compare stories of their families and grandchildren. All have made harrowing journeys from pre-revolutionary China to the comfortable homes in San Francisco where they meet. But those old days are not often spoken about, and sometimes the whole truth of them is not known.

June (Ming-Na Wen), the narrator, is the daughter of one of the women, Suyuan (Kieu Chinh). After her mother's death, she decides to take a trip to China, to meet for the first time two half-sisters who still live there. The movie opens at a farewell party, and then, in a series of flashbacks, tells the secrets and stories of all four of the "aunties." In a screenplay remarkable for its complexity and force, "The Joy Luck Club" moves effortlessly between past and present, between what was, and how it became what is. Many different actresses are used to play the daughters and mothers at different ages, and there are many stories, but the movie proceeds with perfect clarity.

We see that the China of the 1930s and 1940s, before the Revolution, was an unimaginably different place than it is today.

Women were not valued very highly. Those with independent minds and spirits were valued even less than the docile, obedient ones. Life was cheap, especially in wartime. A mother's ability to care for her children was precarious. In many cases, issues from those hard days still affect later generations: The ability of the mothers to relate to their daughters depends on things that have never been said out loud.

How, for example, could June's mother have told of abandoning her first-born twin girls by the roadside? Suyuan, starving and sick, was sure she should die, and felt her girls would have a better chance of survival if they were not linked to the "bad luck" of a dead mother.

Other stories fall equally hard on Americanized ears. There is the auntie who became the fourth wife of a rich man, and when she bore him the son he desired so much, the boy child was taken from her by the second wife. There are humorous stories, too, including the auntie who prayed before her arranged marriage for a husband "not too old," and got a 10-year-old boy ("Maybe I prayed too hard!").

In America, the mothers find it hard to understand the directions their daughters are taking. Some marry whites, who have bad table manners. They move out of the old neighborhood into houses that seem too modern and cold. One daughter despairs of ever satisfying her mother, who criticizes everything she does.

These stories are about Chinese and Chinese-American characters, but they are universal stories. Anyone with parents or children, which is to say, everyone, will identify with the way that the hopes of one generation can become both the restraints and the inspirations of the next.

The movie is a celebration, too, of the richness of Asian-American acting talent; all of the performers here have appeared in many other films and plays, and I could list their credits, from the old days of "South Pacific" and "The World of Susie Wong" to recent films like "A Thousand Pieces of Gold" and "Come See the Paradise." But often they were marginalized, or used in "exotic" roles, or placed in stories that were based on what made them different from the dominant culture, instead of what makes them human and universal. "The Joy Luck Club" is like a flowering of talent that has been waiting so long to be celebrated. It is also one of the most touching and moving of the year's films.

[GOTFIVEONIT]

Originally Posted by Skinwalker

One film I watched recently was the Joy Luck Club. I think that Moonstar would really enjoy this one. My wife made me watch it as 'revenge' for making her watch one of my horror movies for Halloween. But I was pleasantly surprised by its wonderful storyline. You can get it on DVD.




The film is based upon the book by Amy Tan of the same name. It tells the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share that vision with her daughter. The daughters try to understand and appreciate their mothers' pasts, adapt to the American way of life, and win their mothers' acceptance.

Roger Eberts wrote a great review about the Film.

its a chic flick that does nothing but bash us 'evil' men.

[GOTFIVEONIT]

Spiderman 3 DVD Watch it Free Online



i understand that alot of kids watch this movie, but the moralistic brady bunch world that stan lee tried to paint in his comics and now through the movies is just plain annoying. the 'evil' spiderman was more in tuned to the real world, than the self-rightous, dream world fantasy that these people created. plus i cannot stand tobey mcguire. he is a dork, and the character that they made out of peter parker is that of a dork. i find it annoying and completly stupid. no wonder spiderman is such a huge hit in india, fobs pride themselves on being dorky geeks and actually hate people who are not dorky geeks like them. kinda like the way most of you are who write on this website!

[jaani]

@Got5: you forget that Spiderman was born in U.S. and Americans love him as well......so theres nothing wrong if anyone else likes Spiderman, too......Everyone loves their heros.

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Spidy 3 was kinda boring for me because it was predictable and I knew what the ending would be........the only part I enjoyed the most out of the whole movie was when Spidy turned to the 'dark' side!

~j

[Aryan_]

I made my own spiderman movie this week. It's called spiderman 4: the sexy nurse. It was originally going spiderman meets catwoman, but J couldn't get the costume.

[Blue_Phoenix]

Monty Python's Life of Brian

[Deel]

you haven't watched Bourne Ultimatum yet !
i loved that movie
and i'd totally watch it again if i wasn't too lazy to click that link and wait for it to load.

Originally Posted by GOTFIVEONIT

Rush Hour 3 ok your link here is theater print crap. i just cant stand watching it. ill try and find the dvd quality, otherwise i would rather pay money to rent it on dvd than watch theater print crap.

i've gotten used to it

[TrentReznor858]

Hollywood Land: Interesting but slow movie. Great performances from Ben Affleck and and Adrien Brody.

The Illusionist: As this was Edward Norton's first movie in years I was excited to see it, but I have to say I was a bit disappointed. It was a waste of everyone's talent involved, and Jessica Biel's faux-rrussian accent was embarrassingly obvious. On the other hand it was entertaining enough for me to watch it all the way through.

The Proposition: By far the best western I have seen in years. Incredible performances from the stellar cast, homage to the old school westerns from a time when Hollywood knew how to make great movies, and shockingly brutal and violent. I recommend it.

All The Kings Men: What a disappointment. With an all star cast and a great story, I was expecting something great. BUt I was so bored I stopped watching the movie after 20 minutes! Sean Penn is great as usual but the story was so uninteresting I couldnt bare to watch it anymore.

[Sabz]

SEVEN - its old but AMAZING. it stars Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman and Gywneth Paltrow!!!

Police drama about two cops, one new and one about to retire, after a serial killer using the seven deadly sins as his motive!

its soo freaky yet cool.

Wactched Stardust-load of poop!

tc
Sabz

[Skinwalker]

Originally Posted by GOTFIVEONIT

its a chic flick that does nothing but bash us 'evil' men.

You obviously haven't seen it or read about it at all.

[MoonStar]

Originally Posted by Skinwalker

One film I watched recently was the Joy Luck Club. I think that Moonstar would really enjoy this one. My wife made me watch it as 'revenge' for making her watch one of my horror movies for Halloween. But I was pleasantly surprised by its wonderful storyline. You can get it on DVD.

I've seen it it's a great film. One of the few times where the movie was just as good as the book.

[MossadConspiracy]

Hollywoodland- piece of garbage. Ben Affleck is the worst actor ever.

Phat Girlz- entertaining but retarded movie

Untergang- second time i've seen it but its a pretty great movie. I love biographical stuff and also WWII stuff when it isnt melodramatic and dumb

[AyEshAa]

Con Air.
Live Free or Die Hard.

*thumbs up*

[WarriorAndWiseman]

Originally Posted by TrentReznor858

The Proposition: By far the best western I have seen in years. Incredible performances from the stellar cast, homage to the old school westerns from a time when Hollywood knew how to make great movies, and shockingly brutal and violent. I recommend it.

Excellent Australian outback drama!!! *thumbsup*

A good movie I've seen recently: -

Fracture - Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling. The best crime/court drama to have come out in quite a few years.