I've never seen Casablanca either except for bits caught here and there while flipping channels, an addmitedly serious gap in my film education. Have to agree to disagree on Thor. It wasn't anywhere near Captain America's quality but I thought it was fun fluff.
As for Wing Commander, I have to admit to hating it with a virulent passion, just because I was a fan of the original game it was based on and I didn't appreciate the mysticism (which was never in the game) or the horrible Power Rangers quality of the Kilrathi when they were shown.
What little I remeber about Rob Roy agrees with the points you made.
It's based on a game? I didn't know that. We had a good time watching it, anyway, despite mysticism and cartoon aliens. As for Thor, you seem to be in good company, since it was pretty popular when it came out. But I nearly fell asleep twice. And Rob Roy really surprised me, since we'd just watched Braveheart, which was DIRE, and I was fearing more of the same, but instead there was quality swordplay and more feeling of history. I mean, it's not my period so I'm not in the least qualified to say, but it felt like they were trying to get it more right than usual.
I do enjoy your film reviews, because there's a lot I haven't seen either, and I may be coming back to browse for recommendations (or anti-recs, heh).
The Chinese Mulan you describe sounds really interesting.
And ooh, Casablanca. That's one of my favorites, "quotations" or not. The first time I watched it, circa 1985, I had videotaped it from a PBS (public/nonprofit television) movie marathon -- but had programmed in the time wrong, so it cut off when Rick was telling Ilsa goodbye on the tarmac. I was scarred for life. ;)
Not to mention he's now my mental image of Illyan (that austere, arctic control, that assessing and unemotional gaze that sees everything and reacts to nothing, the stern and faithful watcher...)
This! Yes! ...And this reminds me that I promised you Stasi Museum picspam and haven't managed that yet. Now that I'm digging out from under the avalanche of work, maybe soon? (Plus the Illvin drabble I owe, which I haven't forgotten!)
I think you would enjoy the Chinese Mulan; everything about it is beautiful. And I did like Casablanca a lot! It was just that they kept saying these lines and I would go 'oh! that's where it comes from!' and it was distracting. But getting cut off before the end - ouch!
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As for Wing Commander, I have to admit to hating it with a virulent passion, just because I was a fan of the original game it was based on and I didn't appreciate the mysticism (which was never in the game) or the horrible Power Rangers quality of the Kilrathi when they were shown.
What little I remeber about Rob Roy agrees with the points you made.
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The Chinese Mulan you describe sounds really interesting.
And ooh, Casablanca. That's one of my favorites, "quotations" or not. The first time I watched it, circa 1985, I had videotaped it from a PBS (public/nonprofit television) movie marathon -- but had programmed in the time wrong, so it cut off when Rick was telling Ilsa goodbye on the tarmac. I was scarred for life. ;)
Not to mention he's now my mental image of Illyan (that austere, arctic control, that assessing and unemotional gaze that sees everything and reacts to nothing, the stern and faithful watcher...)
This! Yes! ...And this reminds me that I promised you Stasi Museum picspam and haven't managed that yet. Now that I'm digging out from under the avalanche of work, maybe soon? (Plus the Illvin drabble I owe, which I haven't forgotten!)
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