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For Rules or anyone else... which is better:
The Zookeeper's Wife,
We Bought a Zoo,
Zootopia,
or
Zoolander?
The Zookeeper's Wife,
We Bought a Zoo,
Zootopia,
or
Zoolander?
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For Rules or anyone else... which is better:
The Zookeeper's Wife,
We Bought a Zoo,
Zootopia,
or
Zoolander?
The Zookeeper's Wife,
We Bought a Zoo,
Zootopia,
or
Zoolander?
Never seen "We bought a zoo" and "Zootopia" was cute.. and with "Zoolander" being a Ben Stiller movie.. I will never watch it!
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The Zookeeper's Wife
Never seen "We bought a zoo" and "Zootopia" was cute.. and with "Zoolander" being a Ben Stiller movie.. I will never watch it!
Never seen "We bought a zoo" and "Zootopia" was cute.. and with "Zoolander" being a Ben Stiller movie.. I will never watch it!
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Dont make me sick please.. he's a terrible actor and not even funny
But Zoolander is so stupidly stupid and intentionally stupid that parts of it are kinda funny.
I also liked Mystery Men and the sequels to Night At the Museum were fun - not so much for Stiller, but for the ensemble casts.
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I know, I'm not a fan.
But Zoolander is so stupidly stupid and intentionally stupid that parts of it are kinda funny.
I also liked Mystery Men and the sequels to Night At the Museum were fun - not so much for Stiller, but for the ensemble casts.
But Zoolander is so stupidly stupid and intentionally stupid that parts of it are kinda funny.
I also liked Mystery Men and the sequels to Night At the Museum were fun - not so much for Stiller, but for the ensemble casts.
there are several actors I feel this way about. .
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If its Ben Stiller, I stay away from it.. if I have to look at Bradley Cooper's face.. I stay away from it.. only can handle Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon...
there are several actors I feel this way about. .
there are several actors I feel this way about. .
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Stiller is like a rich man's Adam Sandler!
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No... Adam is more entertaining than Ben Stiller... end of discussion on my part and CR wouldnt want us blowing up his thread...
(and not even for something good like 30's pre-code films, 40's war movies or 50's noir... but for a Stiller vs. Sandler discussion!)
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CR's thread: OFFICIALLY HI-JACKED!
(and not even for something good like 30's pre-code films, 40's war movies or 50's noir... but for a Stiller vs. Sandler discussion!)
(and not even for something good like 30's pre-code films, 40's war movies or 50's noir... but for a Stiller vs. Sandler discussion!)
Ciao!
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The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
The Zookeeper's Wife is based on a true story as written by Diane Ackerman in her non-fiction book. Her book in turn was based on the unpublished diary of Antonina Zabinska and Jan Zabinski, who were the husband and wife directors of the Warsaw Zoo in Poland. The movies then is about them...
So yes this really did happen, and they really did use their zoo as cover to hide Jewish people that they rescued from the Warsaw ghetto. To find out how they saved these people from the Nazis, you'll have to watch this beautifully made film.
Director Niki Caro said that her first cut of the film ran 3.5 hours long and covered everything that was in the book. However the producers required the film to be shorter so it was edited down to 2 hours long.
One can only wonder what the 3.5 hour movie would have been like? As I haven't read the book. I thought the movie told the story effectively. Never did I feel the movie was choppy or missing parts of the story.
The period piece sets and the wardrobe all look so richly detailed and authentic that one feels you're back in the late 1930s. I read that all the animals used in the zoo were real and not CG, which is impressive in this day an age.
I really only have positive things to say about this movie. It's an easy watch, and even though there are Nazi's and the Warsaw ghetto, it's not violent or overly dark, instead the focus is on hope. Which I found refreshing. Though there's enough tension to keep the movie's pace flowing.
All three of the principal actors: Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, did a wonderful job at creating an air of believability. What more could you ask for?
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The Zookeeper's Wife is based on a true story as written by Diane Ackerman in her non-fiction book. Her book in turn was based on the unpublished diary of Antonina Zabinska and Jan Zabinski, who were the husband and wife directors of the Warsaw Zoo in Poland. The movies then is about them...
So yes this really did happen, and they really did use their zoo as cover to hide Jewish people that they rescued from the Warsaw ghetto. To find out how they saved these people from the Nazis, you'll have to watch this beautifully made film.
Director Niki Caro said that her first cut of the film ran 3.5 hours long and covered everything that was in the book. However the producers required the film to be shorter so it was edited down to 2 hours long.
One can only wonder what the 3.5 hour movie would have been like? As I haven't read the book. I thought the movie told the story effectively. Never did I feel the movie was choppy or missing parts of the story.
The period piece sets and the wardrobe all look so richly detailed and authentic that one feels you're back in the late 1930s. I read that all the animals used in the zoo were real and not CG, which is impressive in this day an age.
I really only have positive things to say about this movie. It's an easy watch, and even though there are Nazi's and the Warsaw ghetto, it's not violent or overly dark, instead the focus is on hope. Which I found refreshing. Though there's enough tension to keep the movie's pace flowing.
All three of the principal actors: Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, did a wonderful job at creating an air of believability. What more could you ask for?
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The 3 principals all did fine work, with I think Johan Heldenbergh's zoo keeper as the most convincing. He's a good actor, and his native Belgian accent didn't hurt, in contrast to Chastain's uneven Polish accent.
The film labors under the fact that there have been dozens of previous films telling true stories of the humanitarian hiding and saving of Jews from The Holocaust in general, and the Warsaw Ghetto in specific; from The Diary of Anne Frank to Schlinder's List. This film was saved, if you will, by the added story focus of the Warsaw Zoo, and the plight of its animals.
It was surprising to see that a few public critics panned the film for not being horrific or brutal enough in showing the terrors of The Holocaust. But in my view it was nice for a change to see a PG-13 treatment of the subject. A little rape, torture, execution and destruction go a long way.
~Doc
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hey CR if you need more recommendations on WWII German films.. let me know.. I got a whole letterboxd full of them :P
I have a recommendation for you! You've probably already seen it, Day of Wrath (1943) It's a dark, extremely memorable Danish film. You'd like it! I thought it was excellent myself.
@Captain Steel I liked Zoolander, at least when I seen it the one time, which was years ago. I like silly-stupid comedies, but don't watch many of them.
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I just seen a good German film last night about a Jewish kid who ends up being mistaken for a German solider, Europa Europa, did you see that one?
I have a recommendation for you! You've probably already seen it, Day of Wrath (1943) It's a dark, extremely memorable Danish film. You'd like it! I thought it was excellent myself.
@Captain Steel I liked Zoolander, at least when I seen it the one time, which was years ago. I like silly-stupid comedies, but don't watch many of them.
I have a recommendation for you! You've probably already seen it, Day of Wrath (1943) It's a dark, extremely memorable Danish film. You'd like it! I thought it was excellent myself.
@Captain Steel I liked Zoolander, at least when I seen it the one time, which was years ago. I like silly-stupid comedies, but don't watch many of them.
You should see his Medea.
I haven't seen Day of the Wraith..Like everyone, I have a long watchlist.
I need more time to do more things.
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For Rules or anyone else... which is better:
The Zookeeper's Wife,
We Bought a Zoo,
Zootopia,
or
Zoolander?
The Zookeeper's Wife,
We Bought a Zoo,
Zootopia,
or
Zoolander?
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Isn't Europa Europa a Lars Von Trier film?
Europa Europa, the film referenced before, is Agnieszka Holland's film.
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Europa is von Trier's film.
Europa Europa, the film referenced before, is Agnieszka Holland's film.
Europa Europa, the film referenced before, is Agnieszka Holland's film.
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Loverboy (1989)
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
Writers: Robin Schiff (story), Robin Schiff (screenplay)
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, Robert Ginty, Nancy Vallen
Genre: Comedy
Loverboy a forgotten 1980s teen angst comedy movie. I'd never even heard of this movie, which is odd as it's a fun watch...and has lots of big name stars in it. Patrick Dempsey is a college kid who's partying too hard and so dad stops paying his tuition...forcing him to get a job at this Mexican themed pizza place, Senor Pizza.
Somehow he meets a beautiful rich woman who wants a one night stand and she pays him $200.00 which he saves so he can get back to college and his girlfriend...
So then the funny thing is all these hot babes are calling the pizza place asking for him to special deliver a pizza with extra anchovies, which is the code word...Sounds fishy
but he end's up become a gigaloo, which reminded me of Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) another funny flick.
So back to the babes, there's lots of them! A young Kirstie Alley, and Barbara Carrera and Kate Jackson is his mom. I was keen on seeing this for Carrie Fischer, who has a smaller part but it was great to see her, and she's funny in this too. A fun watch, sort of like a time machine back to 1989.
Writers: Robin Schiff (story), Robin Schiff (screenplay)
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, Robert Ginty, Nancy Vallen
Genre: Comedy
Loverboy a forgotten 1980s teen angst comedy movie. I'd never even heard of this movie, which is odd as it's a fun watch...and has lots of big name stars in it. Patrick Dempsey is a college kid who's partying too hard and so dad stops paying his tuition...forcing him to get a job at this Mexican themed pizza place, Senor Pizza.
Somehow he meets a beautiful rich woman who wants a one night stand and she pays him $200.00 which he saves so he can get back to college and his girlfriend...
So then the funny thing is all these hot babes are calling the pizza place asking for him to special deliver a pizza with extra anchovies
, which is the code word...Sounds fishy but he end's up become a gigaloo, which reminded me of Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) another funny flick. So back to the babes, there's lots of them! A young Kirstie Alley, and Barbara Carrera and Kate Jackson is his mom. I was keen on seeing this for Carrie Fischer, who has a smaller part but it was great to see her, and she's funny in this too. A fun watch, sort of like a time machine back to 1989.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Writers: Charles Bennett & D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre
Genre: Thriller
"A man and his wife receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet."
Peter Lorre who plays the bad guy, was just great in this, so much so that I found myself rooting for him and not for the father of the abducted girl. Peter Lorre was very memorable and even funny in an unintentional, but good way.
But the actors who played the mother and father didn't do much for me. They were OK, but they didn't really elevate the movie with their acting.
I kind of found the film to be static and not too involving. I thought the shoot out scene with the assassins and the cops in the Temple of the Sun was kind of weak. I never knew Hitch did a shoot em up movie, I was surprised by that as it was quite a shoot out.
Not a bad film, but not even close to a great Hitchcock film. I much prefer the more heart felt remake that Hitch did in 1956 with James Stewart and Doris Day.
Last edited by Citizen Rules; 01-20-18 at 05:27 PM.
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Loverboy (1989)
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
Writers: Robin Schiff (story), Robin Schiff (screenplay)
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, Robert Ginty, Nancy Vallen
Genre: Comedy
Writers: Robin Schiff (story), Robin Schiff (screenplay)
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, Robert Ginty, Nancy Vallen
Genre: Comedy
I watched Loverboy a few days ago because it was recommended by @cricket for the Directed by Women Countdown.
I thought it was a pretty good movie. I liked that it wasn't so much about him being a gigolo, but it was more about how he was helping these women with what was missing from their marriages. I especially liked the ending because it ended on a more romantic note.
I thought it was kind of funny that his friend at the pizzeria called Patrick Dempsey the "Love Doctor of Beverly Hills", and he grew up to become Dr. McDreamy on "Grey's Anatomy".
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