Metal Mummy's Movie Meme - Week 4

Hooray time for another Metal Mummy's Moveie Meme.

I was skipped last week as I didn't have a clue about directors. This week's topic however is a great theme as its an actor from one of my favourite films. 


Leonardo DiCaprio


I have always loved him in The Beach. It's not everyone cup of tea, most people tell me they think its an awful film. However I really liked it. 

The plot (via IMDB) Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.





My favourite part of the film is when they find "the beach" paradise. Its beautiful. With Moby's song Porcelain (the song in the trailer above) playing as they see it for the first time, its amazing. I love the romance between Richard and Françoise too

The soundtrack on the film is really good too


Leonardo in the film is great, I think he portrays the role really well. Ok its likely this inst his best performance,  but overall I like the character he plays. Plus I was a teenager back when it came out. I had it on VHS and watched it over and over. It helps that Leo is pretty too :)

The film goes off in a weird direction after a while and sometimes I just like the it while everything is perfect, but perfect doesn't last and everything goes tits up, the film takes a dark turn and I think that's what makes it interesting. 


The other film I love of his is Titanic (another I watched to death) I also enjoyed Inception and Shutter Island


I have Revolutionary Road (with Leo and Kate Winslet) recorded on my V+ box to watch too, this has prompted me to get round to watching it!


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Metal Mummy's Movie Meme - Week 2 Black and White

This week the theme is Black and White. Now I could think of some modern films that have a black and white twist, but I couldnt think of many films that I had watched and really really enjoyed. Then I kept thinking of some old 1930's musicals and tried my hardest to remember which one I watched! After going through many clips on Youtube I narrowed it down to this

Shall we Dance

The plot via Wikipedia Peter P Peters (Astaire), an American ballet dancer billed as 'Petrov' dances for a ballet company in Paris owned by the bumbling Jeffrey Baird (Horton). Peters secretly wants to blend classical ballet with modern jazz dancing, and when he sees a photo of tapdancer Linda Keene (Rogers), he falls in love with her. He contrives to meet her, but she's less than impressed. They meet again on a liner travelling back to New York. Unknown to them, a plot is launched as a publicity stunt, 'proving' that they're actually married. Peters and Keene, unable to scotch the rumour, decide to actually marry and immediately divorce. But they discover that they prefer being married.

I love Fred Astaire and I love old musicals. I love the glamour and the comedy of these films. I cant say a lot about this film as I watched it once on tv and my memory is shocking these days. But I do enjoy a musical, especially the old classic hollywood black and whites. However now we have Sky movies and HD I don't see much of the TCM channel anymore!

It was really hard to find clips of the actual full songs, I guess from copyright, only parts of dancing and peoples own made clips with music not from the film over the top.

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Lord of the Rings

Just thought Id join in with this Meme from the lovely Metal Mummy

This weeks theme is 21st Century films.

I wasn't sure if that meant films set in the 21st Century or released? I'm going with came out in the in 21st Century

As a kid I used to watch a cartoon version of Lord of the Rings to death, it was first released in 1978 and It was a video both me and my mum enjoyed, she had read the books and was a great lover of Tolkiens work

When I first saw the Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Rings I was amazed how close it followed the cartoon, Peter Jackson has said on record that he followed the same line that the cartoon original film did too. I love the whole Trilogy of Lord of the Rings so much I could watch it over and over.

I wish I had read the books before the film, I am some of the way through the books now and really enjoying it.

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