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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:57 pm Post subject:
Watched Monster University today. Not as good as I expected from reviews, but I haven't seen any of the previous Monster movies before. Took awhile to get going, there was a lot of energy and action, but it wasn't until the end of the scare games that it delved deeper. The part after the scare game, when they moved onto dealing with fear, was the best part for me. The friendship part of the story was nice, but not deep enough for me.
Saw Still Mine last month. Very good performance. Engaging story telling about an elderly couple growing old together, and the challenges the husband faced in caring for his wife and building a new home. Not especially moved though. The battle with bureaucracy for the new house was more like a sub-plot, I thought it was more than that from reading the synopsis for the film.
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Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:34 pm Post subject:
Geezer wrote:
And James Shigeta. A Japanese American from Hawaii. A big time romantic lead through the late 50s and early 60s... and still going strong. (I still think he has the second best voice in American movies. -- Gotta give James Earl Jones the nod as #1 -- )
I did find this YouTube clip that starts out over at Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights and ends up in Little Tokyo (which is barely recognizable from today's Little Tokyo): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDnRrHKHInc
I used to follow F1 more closely back in the 1970's and remember Niki Lauda's horrific accident. He was well on his way to a second consecutive world championship when he crashed. And to think, he came back six weeks later from near death (he was given last rites in the hospital) to race was pretty amazing.
The actors in the film look a lot like Lauda and James Hunt.
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I did find this YouTube clip that starts out over at Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights and ends up in Little Tokyo (which is barely recognizable from today's Little Tokyo): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDnRrHKHInc
I first saw this movie many years ago and then again about a year ago. Sam Fuller was a very underappreciated filmmaker who made interesting movies. Another of his films, The Steel Helmet, also touched on nisei history through one of its characters (the film focused on a squad of American soldiers in the Korean War).
A lot of The Crimson Kimono was shot in J-town; not surprising because the story takes place there. Some of the scenes took place in the back alleyways where the warehouses and factories were--it reminded me of when my family (and many others I'm sure) would skip the stores and go directly to one warehouse to get arare, to another to buy saimin, and to a factory for mochi. This was back in the 60's when it was still a thriving place.
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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:01 pm Post subject:
Just watched Gravity. Very simple story and it failed to deliver much emotional impact, but the space scenes in 3D were enthralling and amazingly real. That alone made it worth watching.
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