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Taking Woodstock (2009)
Disappointed for lack of music
I was really looking forward to this movie, I am a 60s freak, I know everything about that great decade, I read the electric kool aid acid test when I was 14, have watched the great movies of that decade and listened to the all important music of that decade, I had a 60s phase.
Spoilers? I got bored, 22 minutes in, nothing, not even music,just dialogue, boring dialogue. when u do a 60s film, it's supposed to have the great music in it, all around you but nothing, sometimes it was so boring the dialogue, it was like listening to one half of a conversation,like we were supposed to know who the people they talked about, which never are shown in the movie were, and the film never talked about Elliot's issues with his homosexuality and what his family's feelings were about it.
The only great scene was the acid trip scene which used great music and great visuals. And even then they used only eight 60s songs in a 2 hour movie.not good.
But again, if you are to do a movie on the 60s, the music is everything whether it be Love, Manfredd Mann, or Bobby Goldsboro or Paul Mauriat.
Really sad I didn't like it, but it was a good effort.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
A Nice Love Story....A Perverted Love Story.
I saw this film Yesterday, wondering what this was about, From the title I thought it would be a porn film acting as an art film. I saw it an actually liked it. It seemed to me like a play with four main characters who just talk. I also saw it as a perverted love story. From the gist of it it is about a husband and wife John (Peter gallagher) and Ann (Andie Mcdowal?) who unsatisfied with their marriage, John is having an affair with Ann's Sister and Ann has never been sexually satisfied. Graham, John's old school chum comes to stay with them and Ann becomes interested in him and learns that he too has a sexual problem, he is impotent. She and the audience later learns that the only way he....gets on is by watching tapes of him asking women questions of their sexual history. After that everything unravels.For you to go see. SPOILER: But I liked that under all these weird circumstances they (ann and graham) find each other and eventually end up together and overcome those problems they had. I again, am very surprised on how good this film is. check plus for steven soderbergh.
Two for the Road (1967)
Sixties Gem
In 1967, Audrey Hepburn had gotten into the "swing" of things by being with Peter O'Toole in "How to steal a million" and did not want to go back to being in flops like "paris when it sizzles" or wearing the same old Givenchy clothes. In this film you see a change in her, a new haircut, clothes from the grooviest designers of Mod London and elsewhere like Mary Quant and Paco Rabanne, you see her eat! eating casually bread, grapes;making funny noises,etc. you actually see her having fun in this picture.She plays Joanna Wallace who with her husband played beautifully by Albert Finney reflect on the good times and the bad times of their twelve-year marriage.This film is must see because it goes beyond the happy ending and into actually imitating life where marriage is not always perfect. where marriage has fights and arguments and sometimes infidelity and hurt but love usually conquers all.must see.