I Need a Quick Review

Owned.

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I have the opputunity to buy one of these on DVD: The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail (1945), One Wonderful Sunday (1947) and Scandal (1950).

I've not seen any of them, so can anyone please tell which one would be the better buy? I'd love to buy all three, but I've already ordered a few other DVDs so I can only afford one. Any help will be appreciated.

Bad Education, anyone? I haven't seen anything by Almodovar and this one's playing at the local cinema.

Scandal is the only one I've seen and to my mind it is lesser Kurosawa. It's about a contemporary (then) attourney who has to decide between making a dirty living defending scoundrels or risking his career on the ethical choice. A bit heavy on the sentimental side as I recall; worth seeing but I don't recommend buying it unless you really must own everything Kurosawa made.

a disclaimer: my memory is a bit hazy on the cinematic value of the film or I'd comment there too. It's been about 8 years.

I've already ordered Scandal. I ended up having to choose the film off IMDb's user ratings.

Should I see Birth, A Very Long Engagement, or Sideways? Bare in mind that I didn't think Election or About Schmidt were anything special.

A Very Long Engagement. No contest.

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That's what I'm leaning toward.
Have you seen Birth?

Should I watch Hero (Jet Li)? I've had it lingering in my Netflix queue for quite a while now, and just can't build up the excitement to get it shipped.
-Irwin Fletcher

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Yeah Birth is good and interesting, with another very fine performance from Nicole Kidman, but it's not a great movie. A Very Long Engagement is a great movie. Sideways would be disappointing even without all the hype.

See A Very Long Engagement. Really.


As I said in another thread, if you liked Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon a lot, you'll like Hero too. If you couldn't get into Crouching Tiger, don't even bother with Hero (or The House of Flying Daggers) as it's more of the same.

Okay, you got me. I'll see A Very Long Engagement, and see Birth and Sideways at the next opportunity.

You can put Birth and Sideways further down the list if you haven't seen Hotel Rwanda yet.

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)

Any Good?

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Looks like I won't be seeing most of these until they're out on DVD. On the very day I was going to see A Very Long Engagement, they took it out of the theater I was going to. I tried to find it somewhere else with no luck. (I might be able to catch Birth and Hotel Rwanda, I'm getting ready to check)

I've only seen a piece of it on TV. It was OK from what I saw, but it ignited no burning desire to track it down any time soon.

Going to see Aviator in a few. Any good?

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Yeah, The Aviator is good and definitely worth seeing on the big screen.

Has anyone seen Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep?

Which film should I watch tonight, The Quiet American (2002) or The Killers (1964)?

The Quiet American, but both are good. The first version of The Killers starring Burt Lancaster is a better flick than Don Siegel's pass at the material, but it is fun to see Ronnie Regan in his last role playing a bad guy.

But The Quiet American, of those two.

Anyone seen Hitchcock's Number Seventeen and/or The Human Stain?