Don't really know much about it, and honestly it doesn't even look that interesting to me, but it's Scorsese and it's getting great reviews, so I might look into seeing it eventually..
He certainly seems to be borrowing from Guillermo Del Toro and Peter Jackson in terms of his cinematography recently doesn't he? The dream sequences in Shutter Island reeked of it and this does too.
Definitely looks worth a watch though. I think Chloe Moretz is going to be a top actress in the future...I haven't seen her do a bad roll yet and all of them have been challenging in their own way.
I just came back from seeing it. If you're a fan of the history of cinema and it's pioneers, you cannot miss this. It's Scorsese's love letter to them and to film preservation.
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I would if I could afford it but I just finish christmas shopping so that is something I won't be able to do. Acouse if my husband or someone else gets me a gift card for the theatre then I can.
just saw this movie yesterday.awesome.one of the best flicks of the year.The special effects are one of a kind,just amazing.great story as well.the young girl reminds me of Emma Watson in her early days in the harry potter films.This is MUST SEE FILM!!!!! Matter of fact,I think I am going to add this to my favorites list.
I loved this film so much in fact Im going to go back and see it again tomorrow as well.
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This was a great cast,could not have been any better.you feel like the time clock has been turned back to the early 2000's because like i said,this girl looks and sounds exactly like emme watson from her early days in the harry potter movies.she is an amazing dead ringer.Jude Law,i hardly recognized him plus he diddnt sound like he normally does either.He really created quite a character.Ben Kingsley was great in his role as well.
Finally Christopher Lee is even in it with a small part.The guy must be desperate for money to take such a small role.Cant believe this guy is still around.You can tell just by looking at him his health is not good at all.You can visibly see him shaking when he talks.Great to see him at least one more time around before the day comes when he keels over.He was in another movie recently as well I remember hearing.This was martin Scorsese's best movie effort EVER!!!! He topped himself.If this movie had been in the hands of an unproven director,I seriously doubt it would have been the excellent film it turned out to be.
Ha, that's good to hear. I actually don't' really like him too much, so if he's different, then that'll probably be a plus.. lol. Mighty high praise you have for this movie. "Scorsese's best movie effort"... damn. He has a lot of greats.
yeah I know.I never thought I would love it as much as I do.Easily the best movie of the year,although i still havent seen war horse which looks really great as well.
I saw this with my sweetheart. We really enjoyed it. Scorsese is a master of the craft. I'll be honest though: it was a little too tame and slow moving for me, but I guess that is part of the charm.. and it is extremely charming. I see why 3D is important, it does indeed relate to the movie... makes it striking how far cinema has come. Probably not something i'd want to see again, but it is definitely a must-see for any cinema fan.
Sacha Baron Cohen sure was hilarious in this.. haha and the kids played the parts so well.
I was moderately disappointed by this movie, but that has more to do with my expectations being really high rather than it being in anyway a bad movie. on the contrary I thought it was pretty good. It has a great look and production design and the world of the paris train station is wonderfully realized. The film gives much more time for the station inspector who wasn't in the book really at all, but i think adding him was a good instinct. I was also impressed that Scorcese did not seem out of his element and seemed pretty comfortable with the whimsical material.
However this is a preposterously sentimental story and Scorcese is not a sentimental film-maker and i think it suffers a little because of it. He is too concerned with the film-preservation element of the story which isn't as big an element of the book. Scorcese just doesn't seem to care very much about the characters or drama as he does about the art of film-making. the acting is fair, ben kingsly underwhelms. the two child leads are good enough. they make do with some truly dull characters, but again, scorcese doesn't really care about the characters in this movie.
Ultimately i admired this film more than i liked it. it is very impressive as a piece of filmmaking and it's nice to see a serious film-maker taking a family-film seriously. And it's nice to see Scorcese stretch himself and do something new. However, for all of the film's visual urgency, it has little thematic urgency. It is more an example of intellectual curiosity rather than emotional honesty.
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Well said, Rapscallion. I tend to agree with most everything you said. The plot wasn't really all that compelling to me; it felt more like a history lesson, which is why I wouldn't really want to see it again.
Oh, and the whole movie I kept wondering why everyone in Paris was speaking English. I mean, the kid was from London, so that make sense, but what about everybody else in the movie? Why weren't they speaking French? That kind of bothered me.
yeah I pretty much agree with everything he said as well also.good post.Yeah I agree that he doesnt seem to care as much about the characters as he does the film making.He could have gone into more detail about the girls parents and why in the hell did he not even bother to talk about what happened to Hugo's mom????? I kept wondering throughout the movie if there was ever going to be any kind of explanation for that.
How can you forget that little detail never mentioning ONE WORD about his mom? would it have really killed him to have her in the movie and then just explain that she went with his father and they both died in the fire? sheesh.
I didnt have high expectations for this film so i think that might have played a lot into some of his dissapointment of it.I can relate to that in the fact I just saw warhorse and that movie I DID have high expectations and expected a lot from it and I was dissapointed.Hugo is still my favorite movie of the year.I liked warhorse and everything but it was too depressing and sad seeing those horses get killed especially his friend..
Getting back to Hugo,the other thing I thought was kinda corny is Hugo should have known he was pressing his luck trying to go back to the station to retrive the mechanical man abd get past the station master.He should have asked that girl to come along with him so they could explain that they were there looking for a gift to give to her grandfather or something like that. I could overlook that part though,i mean kids can be not so smart at times.But since they didnt even bother to explain what happend to his mother,because of that,thats the only reason i give it 9 out of 10 stars instead of 10.
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and the kids played the parts so well.
