Tonight’s movie was a 2005 film called, you guessed it, Rumor Has It.
This was a pretty good watch and if I had to describe it, I’d say it was like watching a sequel to The Graduate. 30 years after. Some pretty funny moments to be sure, like when Anniston’s character believes she has slept with her father. No worries, it wasn’t really sick or twisted, just some bizarre circumstances. I can’t really say more without giving away spoilers (er, can you spoil a film that’s four years old?).
Jennifer Anniston stars with strong support from Shirley MacLaine and Kevin Costner. 4 out of 5 for me.
Thanks John.
The Sunday midnight, (USA) Sundance channel Asia Extreme movie was titled: 6ixtynin9.
No foolin.
But it had nothing to do with the obvious implication of the title – (more to do with apartment numbers).
It was a Thai movie, the third or fourth they’ve shown in the past couple of months. Fairly well done too.
It was about a woman of average looks etc, who lost her job in a finance company due to the downturn in the Asian financial markets that occurred a few years ago. She returned home nearly suicidal in dejection to find a box of money in front of her apartment door. It was a misdirected pay-off for a sports fix by the Thai mafia but it was delivered to her place in error due to her apartment number being upside down. The movie traces her struggle with whether to return the money, call the cops or to hide the potential windfall and try to somehow keep it. Of course, she tries to hide it and keep it but goes through one horrible situation after another as she dodges this and that surly character bent on recovering the money, and in the process, totally screws up her life and potentially her future too. Some pretty bad things happen, which leads her to make some choices that lead to a surprise ending. I’d give it a 4 star rating. English subtitles over spoken Thai.
Points of interest for me:
1. I was able to understand alot of the movie dialogue having learned alot of the Thai language during my tour of duty at Korat RTAFB in Central Thailand during the war; this pleased and surprised me but it wouldn’t be something anyone else found any where near as much fun, even so.
2. One of the more humorous scenes was when a bunch of Thai girls discussed the various ways they planned to get even with their cheating husbands and boyfriends. The most interesting technique was to cut it off, blend it and make a spicy Thai meat salad, then, acting all innocent, call the offending girlfriend of the offending dude and invite her to lunch. You get the picture. Euuuuuu! Would definitely make a man think twice, huh? ((That cut-off technique, BTW, is famous in Thailand. Guys were encouraged to learn to sleep on their stomach’s, particularly when in a disagreement with their wives or girlfriends or after having imbibed a little too much.))
3. The movie provided a really great picture of the infrastructure of Thailand as it exists today – business districts, living conditions in apartments and homes and etc……. – a pretty modernized country all in all. And of course there were the occasional glimpses of the famous Thai beauty which I found in my experience, many years ago, to be like none other in the world.
All in all, a movie worth watching particularly if you’ve ever visited or done duty in Thailand. I was fortunate enough to have done so and I have to admit I left a little piece of my heart there, and not attached to any woman, though there were good memories there too.
I absolutely did not mean to hi-jack your thread if I have done so – so if I did, just shout me down and I won’t mention anything about movies again. – and/or edit or delete, as appropriate, and I won’t be offended.
Regards to all,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM
I think you and Dennis will like this.
Thanks Frank, and great contribution.
Fi’da been there I’da thrown a buck in his guitar case too.
Hell of a compiliation and great great find.
Regards,