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Crescent Started conversation Jul 22, 2004
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Mindf*ck extrodanaire
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Paully Posted Jul 22, 2004
Now I believe you've just stumbled across one of Jimster's all-time favourite movies...
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Crescent Posted Jul 22, 2004
It did rock 
About the only time I have come out of a cinema shellshocked Gonna have to watch it again this weekend now Until later...
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Smij - Formerly Jimster Posted Jul 22, 2004
'He never drank Vater - only Visky'.
I'm curently running the soundtrack through my head. Who'd have thought that the little kid who played Aidan Quinn's son would grow up to be Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings?
As Paul mentioned, one of my all-time absolute faves.
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Crescent Posted Jul 22, 2004
Eeeeep! Think we might be talking about different films. The one I am talking about is by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) - and though having similar themes to the Matrix, totally blows the W brothers clean out of the water. This is the man who should have done Matrix 2 and 3. Gonna have to go and watch your one too now Until later....
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Smij - Formerly Jimster Posted Jul 23, 2004
Oh 
My one's better 
Who'd have thunk - two films with the same name, both being nominated as 'forgotten'.
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Crescent Posted Jul 23, 2004
Hee I cannot contest that point until I have seen 'your' Avalon 
I am sure it is (you liking it is a fairly strong recommendation), but it would have to be bloody good to top 'my' Avalon - a film I have never seen the likes of before Until later....
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Smij - Formerly Jimster Posted Jul 23, 2004
Ah well, maybe my one wouldn't be to your tastes - it's about a group of brothers who leave Poland for America and settle in altimore. The story's told in a series of flashbacks that revolve around thanksgiving and they often repeat or revisit the same stories. Elijah Wood plays the son of Aidan Quinn and the grandson of Armin Mueller Stahl, while Joan Plowright plays his grandmother.
I'm an old sentimentalist at heart.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 23, 2004
The one about the Polish immigrants *has* to be the better one, as it has so many Joan Plowright moments. Joan can take a mediocre movie ("Dennis the Menace," for instance) and raise them to sublime levels whenever she is onscreen. Doesn't matter what the movie is about--a vacation in Italy ("Enchanted April"), a group of English exptariates during WWII ("Tea with Mussolini"), culture clashes ("Bringing Down the House")--if she's in it, you're guaranteed some memorable scenes. 
Aidan Quinn is great, too. And I loved the scene where the brother who has to drive the farthest arrives late for Thanksgiving dinner, only to find that the others have started eating without him. The recriminations are palpable! (I can relate to that--I have to drive the farthest to get to my own family gatherings >
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