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Film Discussion: Bones and Times (may be some spoilers)
13 years ago
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I'll try to make this in depth. I usually don't write long movie revies, so here it goes.
Audience's Choice: Stephen King's Bag of Bones
At first I didn't know if this movie would be good anyway. The trailer doesn't really help it either. But, then I thought, wait it's based on a Stephen King thing, so it's gotta be good. Even though it was originally a 2 part made for tv movie. It was still great for a tv movie. Everything in this movie was just very believible.
The movie is based on his novel of the same name, written in 1998. I haven't read the book, but all of the Stephen King movies makes me just wanna read all of them. Click here to learn more about the novel
At first the story just seems normal about some dude and his wife and the dude is a famous writer. Then his wife dies and he's very depressed about it and has nightmares with her in it. Then it gets even more complicated and a shit ton of stuff happens. I was saying "what the fuck" through this whole movie. There is a rape scene, but it isn't as graphic as I've seen in other movies.
Overall this movie is more like a mystery rather than an action movie and that's ok. You get so pulled into the story that it's still entertaining. At least I did.
Admin's Choice: Modern Times
Now this is actually one of my favourite movies. It was released in 1936 and it cracks me up every time I watch it. Charlie Chaplin Directed, Produced, Wrote, and is in this movie as well. This is mostly a silent movie, the people don't really talk much, but there are sound effects of machines, cars, sirens, large crowds, and whistles. Even though the Silent Movie Era in America ended in the late 1920's, this movie came out when talking movies,"talkies", were more popular. Charlie Chaplin didn't want his Tramp character to talk much or at all, since he never really talks anyway. There is one scene in the movie where he has to sing to keep his job, so he actually sings in some random mess of languages and it's pretty funny.
Anyway the story is basically, the Tramp just got out of prison to start his new working life again. He tries to find work, but there are no jobs, since this movie is during the Great Depression in America. There's alot in this movie and I don't want to give it all away, becuase I really want people to watch it. It reffers very strongly to how hard it is for regular working people of the time to find jobs. And also how easy life is in prison. And also how to not give up on anything even when things look hopeless.
I love really old movies and this one is one of my favourites. It's very important to American culture at the time. Anyways, you should go watch it lol. Click here to read more about the movie
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And please suggest some more movies or shows so I can put up polls later today. Pleeeese!!!
Thanks for Reading
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Kitten D'Vodka
That's a lot like all of Stephen King's other stories.
Pros: it was clean as far as fluidity, the actors were great, the music was terrific
cons: I didn't much care for the stretch of the story-plot, in all honesty. I held in because it was a stephen king movie and I was wondering where he was going with it. I didn't get the point of his wife screaming and clawing under the bed in the beginning. I didn't quite get how the author pissed off the rich family, I didn't quite get why that rich man thought by killing the girls off the curse would end, and the whole haunting scenes were rather confusing.
That's about it. It was "okay"
So basically the rich people were good for tryin to end the curse, but bad for the way they were tryin to do it.