February 2007 Archives

I haven't seen such a scene before

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I was surfing on telly after finishing a show, a scene made me stop changing channels. It was some buffaloes were chasing cubs and mother lion, they were trying to let them go away.

Films which I'd like to watch

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"The Queen (2006)"
    Main actor is Helen Mirren from Prime Suspect, UK TV detective series.
    I'd love to see this film but actually I don't like to go to the cinema, so probably I won't.   I'll rent it someday, though.

"Being Julia (2004)"
    They say it's a sort of love comedy, but for adults.
    I don't know most of actors, but I probably can enjoy this film.

    I have a contract "Movie plus" on CATV, so a lot of the films I can watch, but they air mainly American films, so I don't have enough opportunity to watch British ones.

    Because of being fond of British accents, I'd rather watch English films.
    When I hear their sound, they make me feel good!

Prepositions

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    Sometimes I don't know which preposition is right.
    I was writing a comment to a certain film, and I wanted to write my feeling sympathy.
    I realized I didn't know which preposition was suited to that situation.
    I wrote I felt sympathy for him, but one second later, I thought it might be right to write "to" instead of "for", and then, I'm completely confused it would be better to use "with".
    I should ask someone whom speak English as their mother tongue.

The Blue Butterfly

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  • Cast:
    William Hurt .... Alan Osborne
    Pascale Bussières .... Teresa Carlton
    Marc Donato .... Pete Carlton
    Raoul Trujillo .... Alejo
    Marianella Jimenez .... Alejo's daughter
    Gerardo Hernandez .... Manolo
  • Director:
    Léa Pool
  • Genre:
    Drama / Romance
  • Plot Outline
    A dramatic adventure about courage, redemption and love being filmed in the rain forests of Costa Rica, and in Montreal.
  • Comment
    The butterfly was obviously fake. But we could see some creatures in the jungle.

Sliding Doors

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  • Cast:
    Gwyneth Paltrow .... Helen Quilley
    John Hannah .... James Hammerton
    John Lynch .... Gerry
    Jeanne Tripplehorn .... Lydia
    Zara Turner .... Anna
    Douglas McFerran .... Russell
  • Director:
    Peter Howitt
  • Genre:
    Drama / Romance
  • Tagline
    There are two sides to every story. Helen is about to live both of them ...at the same time. Romance was never this much fun.
  • Plot Outline
    A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel.
  • Comment
    John Hannah & Zara Turner are in this film.   Both of them are from "McCallum".   I actually was disappointed with one of the last scene a little.   The last setting of the woman who could get on the tube at first didn't satisfy me. It was unfair. The woman who tried a lot of things after her traumatic breaking up died in a car accident. I don't get it.

She's So Lovely

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  • Cast:
    Robin Wright Penn .... Maureen Murphy Quinn
    Sean Penn .... Eddie Quinn
    James Gandolfini .... Kiefer
    Harry Dean Stanton .... Tony 'Shorty' Russo
    Debi Mazar .... Georgie
    John Travolta .... Joey Germoni
  • Director:
    Nick Cassavetes
  • Genre:
    Comedy / Drama / Romance
  • Tagline
    The story of one outrageous woman. Caught between two men. Both of them certain of one thing...
  • Plot Outline
    Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer...
  • Comment
    I felt something unjustness. I've never seen John Travolta's acting, but I felt sympathy for him.

Lieutenant?

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    American ranks of police officers are different from British ones.
    Detective Chief Inspector is Japanese "Keibu", I think, but I heard the word "Lieutenant" on an American police drama which is called Columbo.
    I checked it on the web dictionary (http://www.reference.com/) and it says "Lieutenant is a military, naval, paramilitary, fire service or police officer rank."
    I haven't heard the word before in British police drama as far as I know, so it might be specialized for American police force.

Stuart Little 2

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  • Cast:
    Michael J. Fox .... Stuart Little (voice)
    Geena Davis .... Mrs. Eleanor Little
    Hugh Laurie .... Mr. Frederick Little
    Jonathan Lipnicki .... George Little
    Nathan Lane .... Snowbell (voice)
    Melanie Griffith .... Margalo the Bird (voice)
    James Woods .... The Evil Falcon (voice)
  • Director:
    Rob Minkoff
  • Genre:
    Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Adventure
  • Tagline
    A Little Goes A Long Way
  • Plot Outline
    Stuart and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend.
  • Comment
    Actually it was aired on Disney Channel TV in Japan after they aired Stuart Little first one.   I didn't mean to watch this as I wrote in Stuart Little, but I had a fun with it, so I decided to watch this.

Stuart Little

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  • Cast:
    Michael J. Fox .... Stuart Little (voice)
    Geena Davis .... Mrs. Eleanor Little
    Hugh Laurie .... Mr. Frederick Little
    Jonathan Lipnicki .... George Little
    Nathan Lane .... Snowbell 'Snow', the Little's house-cat (voice)
    Chazz Palminteri .... Smokey, the Chief Alley-Cat (voice)
    Steve Zahn .... Monty the Mouth (voice)
  • Director:
    Rob Minkoff
  • Genre:
    Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
  • Tagline
    The Little Family Just Got Bigger
  • Plot Outline
    The Little family adopt a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants rid of him.
  • Comment
    Perhaps I wouldn't have seen this film, if Hugh Laurie wasn't one of the main character.
    But it wasn't bad, it was enjoyable.
    Recently the technique of CG has developed quite a lot.   It's almost ten years ago, but it looks nice.