Bathsheba is 20 at the beginning of the novel, and I don't believe they knew each other before the very beginning. Where did you pick up on that in the film? She had just moved into that home when he proposes, basically based on her looks and some brief interactions.
My bad on the age thing then. I had no idea she was that young, might have missed when they said her age.
But if Gabe's only mistake was proposing too early, something probably common in the early 1900s, then I don't really think I can hate him. Everdeen instead marries the first guy who asked to meet her in the middle of the woods. A bit hypocritical. She only married him because he was more exciting. I think that kind of hypocrisy warrents Gabe getting a bit mad.
Bathsheba is 20 at the beginning of the novel, and I don't believe they knew each other before the very beginning. Where did you pick up on that in the film? She had just moved into that home when he proposes, basically based on her looks and some brief interactions.
My bad on the age thing then. I had no idea she was that young, might have missed when they said her age.
But if Gabe's only mistake was proposing too early, something probably common in the early 1900s, then I don't really think I can hate him. Everdeen instead marries the first guy who asked to meet her in the middle of the woods. A bit hypocritical. She only married him because he was more exciting. I think that kind of hypocrisy warrents Gabe getting a bit mad.
It's like a character study. Gabe is a great guy, if naive/presumptuous at the start and a little bit boring, which is why they become very good friends. She's young and vain, and she makes a mistake falling for the flashy tool (who basically practices kung fu moves on her, like Mac in Always Sunny.) She's also kind of a thoughtless dick to the old guy but tries to make up for it. Eventually she figures it out, after having been significantly damaged by Sir Tool, and goes with her BFF/the good guy. It's honestly a pretty decent example of most dating in your 20's, today.
I can see thinking the movie is boring or overwrought, but I don't get criticizing their actions as a criticism of the movie. You're supposed to criticize their actions/mistakes, otherwise there wouldn't be a story to tell. It's about Bathesba and Gabe's growth/loss of innocence.
Maybe I was too harsh at first in replying, but it sounded like you were criticizing the movie because she's a vain/immature young woman, which is what she is supposed to be. But she's also a much stronger/3 dimensional character than most other women being written at the time, and most today too.
I recently saw Mad Max Fury Road. Having not seen any of the previous series I didn't know what to expect, but I got an amazing action movie. Fast-paced, well-made, with some surprisingly good world development and character design(in particular, the swamp men amazed me), it was good on every level.
Loving it that much, I decided to check out the rest of the series. So far I've seen Mad Max and Road Warrior. While neither of these films are as good as the newest, they are both good action movies and probably worth a watch. However, they are rated some of the best of all time and I don't understand that - they're good, but nothing new in terms of worlds, design, etc. I don't understand why they were that highly rated. They also seem to have a lot of homosexuality or homosexual tinted items/actions/etc. in there which I don't understand the purpose of.
Likely has to do with when they were made. For example, a lot of people look at Citizen Kane and say "why is this so special? I've seen all of this camera work (for example) before?" When you realize that it was the first movie to really ever do it, let alone well, then you begin to understand its importance.
True, I guess we've been spoiled by the crazy amount of stunts made available by CGI. And looking back those movies were made close in time to things like Star Wars or even 2001 A Space Oddysey so I could see that those practical effects were very impressive for the time.
Saw gone baby gone this week. Went in not knowing anything about it and it turned out great. Its a detective kind of movie but not in the standard sense. The whole bleak atmosphere really drew me in, and the performances were just great. It raises a nice moral question too, and made me think for some time afterwards. Really recommend it!
Straight Outta Compton 9/10!!! Brilliant film. If you like Rap/Hip Hop and just want to check out a story you were too young to remember or just straight up didn't know about i suggest you watch this film 100%. If you just like a good film about adversity and triumph, this is for you as well.
Story is so well done, had all 4 of the surviving characters on set throughout the movie making sure it is 100% accurate in its story telling. F. Gary Gray is the director who himself is friends with Ice Cube and Dre since growing up as he is from Compton also. The story itself also told me stuff i didn't fully understand/remember when reading back on this during the early 00s when i discovered rap music as a 10-12 year old. Also Cube was such a lyrical genius i didn't respect that enough, not that i didn't know he wrote everything for NWA (pretty much everything) but that he did it in such a short space of time, that is crazy.
Well worth that watch and the actors who play the characters are definitely ones to watch in the future too. Ice Cube was played by his son too Oshea Jackson.
John Wick - great action movie, light on the plot but some good gun-fu.
Fargo - one of the best movies I've seen. Amazing acting and a great script make this an impactful movie.
A Single Man - seemed pretty good, but I kept getting bored or awkward and alt-tabing. If I had seen this in the theaters or somewhere I couldn't alt-tab and my attention was forced on it I probably would have enjoyed it more.
On August 24 2015 03:21 FFGenerations wrote: btw Tomorrowland was Awesome if i didnt say so already. if you've been to oldschool disneyland you'll see Lots of references (tomorrowland is/was a place in disneyland) .also raffey cassidy = waifu material
mission impossible Rogue nation , i had some weed so i coulnt follow it at all, but i do Remember them doing some really COol subtle arty things with many of the scenes Which makes this a must-watch. stuff like putting a FighT scene alongside orchestra music but not going so far as to choreograph it to make it seeM obvious. and loads of other stuff that i cant Remember but im sure was really Awesome and that i wasnt just high as shit. its felt like a bond Movie to me and also that they put in a load of smart subtle stuff just to make everything unique and interesting
i turned age of ultron, the New Terminator and kingsman off after 30 mins or Less
I googled Raffey Cassidy and it says she's 12, so I googled waifu to make sure... Wtf dude? Did you, perhaps, mean to say Britt Robertson?
I googled her as well, having in mind what waifu ment, and I was like, ok maybe she does look like she is 20.. She does look really mature if she is really only 12. But then again I'm pretty used to asian girls by now, and they're all about being cute and 12yearish.
On September 17 2015 04:07 farvacola wrote: I never want to see that movie again.
I feel like Christopher Guest and Mel Brooks are really great the first time you see one of their movies, with diminishing returns on each subsequent one.
Very meh movie, could tell the entire plot before they even admitted what was happening. Really only see this movie if you enjoyed the first movie (which was a much better film than this one). Don't see this movie if you haven't seen the first one. Expected ending that leads up to a 3rd installment, hopefully it's the last so I can see the end to the story I've alrdy started on.
A lot of those YA Mary Sue movies seem to have absolutely no pretensions about their 2nd movie. They normally don't even try to make them passable. It seems like they are all there for a vehicle to get $14 from their audience, and facilitate that you must watch the 3rd of the series, and shell out another $14.
I Origins A decent movie that tries to reconcile science with faith or something. A bit slow at times, but you're really drawn in by the (re)search they're doing. Only one bit really jarred hard, which was + Show Spoiler +
when he was depressed and then that woman comes along and she just hugs him and then he goes in emotional overdrive and kisses her... to fast forwarding 7 years later, she's his wife and pregnant.
I gues they needed to do it for the plot advancement, but it seems kind of out of place.
Spy Next to American Ultra and Kingsman, another secret service parody-ish film. Good stuff. Jason Statham is absolutely brilliant in this one. Good scenes and good dialogue.
Birdman, or: the unexpected virtue of ignorance Brilliant movie. Absurdity to the bone. Great camera work, with the drummer put in at various parts to add some of that rushed sense. Great dialogue holy shit. And the acting is just sexy in this one. Also, my theory on the last scene: + Show Spoiler +
he's dead, actually did kill himself and this is their way of representing his heaven.
Straight Outta Compton: www.imdb.com NWA the movie. For those that don't know: NWA was a hiphop group from LA that got famous for their controversial performances and explicit lyrics. I'm a big hiphop fan so this movie was right up my alley. I actually watched it with a friend that had never heard of NWA and she seemed to really enjoy it as well.
For those that want to watch it: I think it would serve you well to know about the setting this movie takes place in. I have always found that the majority of NWA songs have a strong undertone of frustration and anger. Reading up on some stuff like the Watts riots and the Rodney King incident will help you understand why the police are depicted as such massive cunts in this movie and how those apparently weren't isolated incidents. Definitely recommended!
Very much like The Fault in Our Stars, but given that the two books were published roughly around the same time I think the similarities are just a coincidence.
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