Epic love story/tragedy. The cinematography at times is breathtaking. The tension is masterfully woven into scenes (at least in the beginning. but then something happens and the tension is gone all together). Great movie though. I recommend it to anybody.
Definitely not a child's story. The opening 15 minutes made me openly weep. A feat that no other movie in recent memory has done except for maybe the orphanage. If you pay attention, this movie is actually about the grieving process as much as it is about seizing the day and cultivating adventures/relationships with people. + Show Spoiler +
What an astoundingly rewarding film. God, I think I might have liked this one better than UP. If UP is "hyung joon becomes a progamer", light and endearing then mary and max is like Nal Ra's Oldboy, grounded, painfully honest, and achingly poignant. Except that I actually had more laughs watching Mary and Max. In fact I had some deep, cathartic belly laughs. A gloriously detailed background will provide an extra chuckle or irony for those with an astute eye. So what's it about anyway? Well, it's about friendship, our flaws, what makes us us. Just watch it. + Show Spoiler +
saw presecreening of this yesterday. Kinda cheap standard recycled plot CGI hollywood stuff. Only funny part was when the guy has a magic card of himself on a cardboard display. ending/final battle was extremely poor.
Okuribito(Departures)-This movie won this years Academy Award for best foreign language film. It was an 'upset' over another highly rated film, Israeli documentary 'Waltz with Bashir'.
Anyway, Departures is a FANTASTIC movie. It's about a guy who takes on a job as an encoffiner, someone who prepares the dead to be put in a coffin. Despite the subject matter, it's so warm and tender. I ended up crying because I was thinking about my aging parents throughout the movie.
I can't recommend this enough. You'll probably cry, but not really out of sadness. More out of appreciatively love for your family and other loved ones. I'm trying to find other movies from this director, but it's tough looking for Japanese movies.
this movie was amazing, nothing like i expected. The basically two person cast is really tough to pull off, but here it was done quite well. Great ending. id reccommand it to anyone, Some scenes had me really feeling the pain being experianced, very well done. 9/10
Man, Ellen Page scared the SHIT out of me in that movie. I will blindly watch anything of hers (yes, even Whip It! some day, I'm sure) because I love her work so much. And her.
On April 11 2010 23:04 buickskylark wrote: Okuribito(Departures)-This movie won this years Academy Award for best foreign language film. It was an 'upset' over another highly rated film, Israeli documentary 'Waltz with Bashir'.
Anyway, Departures is a FANTASTIC movie. It's about a guy who takes on a job as an encoffiner, someone who prepares the dead to be put in a coffin. Despite the subject matter, it's so warm and tender. I ended up crying because I was thinking about my aging parents throughout the movie.
I can't recommend this enough. You'll probably cry, but not really out of sadness. More out of appreciatively love for your family and other loved ones. I'm trying to find other movies from this director, but it's tough looking for Japanese movies.
Just followed your advise and watched it. It was quite a movie. Everyone should definitely go see it.
In 1965, while bombing Laos in a classified mission, the plane of the German-American pilot Dieter Dengler is hit and crashes in the jungle. Dieter is arrested by the peasants, tortured and sent to a prisoner camp, where he meets five other mentally ill prisoners. He becomes close to Duane and organizes an escape plan; however, the unstable Gene opposes to Dieter's plan. When they discover that there is no more food due to the constant American bombings in the area and their guards intend to kill them, Dieter sets his plan in motion. However, an unexpected betrayal split the group and Dieter and Duane find that the jungle is their actual prison.
This movie was very captivating. There is lots of real footage from the actual war and the cinematography is very very good. (For once someone actually gets the realistic style of shooting a movie right [unlike blair witch, cloverfield, etc] ) It totally submerses you into the story and film. You really feel these guys' pain, hardship, and starvation. Their mild insanity is a little overboard but it gets the point across. Some of the parts are predictable and probably exaggerated to make the movie more entertaining, but it's mostly ignorable.
Movies don't usually affect me in an emotional or moving way but this film came pretty fucking close:
When he is finally rescued. The black soldier just casually pulls out a butterfinger and hands it to Deiter, while bracing him in the helicopter, I nearly choked up.[
The only thing that I didn't really understand (mostly because they whisper sooo much and can't hear them), is why the other prisoners disappeared, or ran off on their own. I didn't really understand why Gene wasn't helping the other 2 guys (other than the fact that he was the most mentally unstable of the bunch).
I know I remarked in the book thread last year that I wasn't really impressed by it so I said I would bypass the movie. Well, there wasn't much to watch lately so I decided to see it. Was pretty impressed, have definantly changed my opinion on it overall. Only downside is the length of it, the Directors Cut version is about 3 hours long.
Pretty badass, and god damn at Demi Moores body in this, eye candy to the max.
Didn't expect much but was pleasantly suprised. Everyone should definantly check this out.
Haven't seen the original so I can't comment on how it holds up, but did not really care for it. Most of what you are watching takes place in a subway which gets incredibly boring. Denzel is great as usual though.
On April 11 2010 23:04 buickskylark wrote: Okuribito(Departures)-This movie won this years Academy Award for best foreign language film. It was an 'upset' over another highly rated film, Israeli documentary 'Waltz with Bashir'.
Anyway, Departures is a FANTASTIC movie. It's about a guy who takes on a job as an encoffiner, someone who prepares the dead to be put in a coffin. Despite the subject matter, it's so warm and tender. I ended up crying because I was thinking about my aging parents throughout the movie.
I can't recommend this enough. You'll probably cry, but not really out of sadness. More out of appreciatively love for your family and other loved ones. I'm trying to find other movies from this director, but it's tough looking for Japanese movies.
I second this, awesome movie. Another foreign language oscar winner I recommend is Das Leben Der Anderen. One of my favourite movies of all time.
I just watched ghandi, and found myself consisntely blown away at how great a human being he was. Definetly greatest person of the 20th century (well maybe aswell as Che Guerra)
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