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Colordeagua
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10-25-2003
| Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 3:25 pm
I knew nothing more about it than the one clip used as a promo: After her son is missing, Angelina Jolie is at a train station saying the boy returned to her is not her son. Starts with that, but there is so much more. OMG! True story! I'm not all the way through it yet (DVD).
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Tess
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04-13-2001
| Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 3:08 pm
Color, I got this movie from Netflix a few days ago and watched it. It was extremely well done from beginning to end. I was surprised to see that Clint Eastwood wrote the score for this film. The ending credits were especially haunting I thought, so I downloaded them from iTunes.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 7:16 pm
I noticed and liked the score too. Another score I liked a lot was that to Brokeback Mountain by Gustavo Santaolalla. Fit perfectly. Then I noticed he also did (some of?) Babel. As I was watching one of my most favorite movies, The Insider, I noticed something had a familiar sound...Gustavo again. So I downloaded his CD Ronroco.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 2:52 am
What did you think of Changeling now that you've seen the whole thing. It absolutely broke my heart. I cried like a baby at the one part you can probably guess -- at the farm. I also cried during many of the scenes during the section 12. Those poor women!! It would be bad enough as fiction but to know it's a true story puts such a knot in my gut. I agree with Gustavo. I like his scores also. Another one I like a lot is Ennio Morricone. He did The Mission and many other films. Oh, and Hans Zimmer who did The Holiday, Tears of the Sun and others. Patrick Doyle (Sense & Sensibility) and Rachel Portman (Emma). There are so many others I could name. Can you tell I watch movies almost as much for the music as I do for the actual film? Love the soundtracks of The Pianist, Sunshine, and Pride and Prejudice, too. I have all of those named on my iTunes & iPod. In fact, I am listening to the score of Emma right now. Unfortunately it's not quite drowning out the SNORING going on right next to me!!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 5:48 am
Tess, it was the section 12 that got me first. Those women were stuck. Everything they said was turned around back at them. Despair. Yes, then of course everything at the farm. So much more to the movie than that one little clip would lead you to believe. I would loved to have worked at those switchboards! And on rollerskates! I was lucky...at one of my first jobs (mid '60s) I did get to work on a plug board (single person). Fun. I think I could still sit down and go at it today.
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Tess
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04-13-2001
| Friday, March 06, 2009 - 5:28 pm
I worked one of those single person switchboards, too, a decade later. The thing was ancient and was located in Livingston's Clothing Store for ladies and children at 100 Grant Avenue in San Francisco. It was right out in the open up on the mezzanine which overlooked the back end of the first floor. Livingston's was a family owned store and this was the main branch with everything looking much as it had when they first opened eons ago. The branch stores were all much more modern. We also had the fun of being right at the gateway to Chinatown. Everything felt so alive and bustling with activity but not overwhelming. We lived out just 1/4 mile from Ocean Beach so I took the streetcar home, too. Seems like 100 years ago.
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Scout
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01-20-2005
| Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 7:50 am
I saw this yesterday and thought it was really good. I, also, love movies as much for the scores as the movie itself. I'd read one review where it said that usually Clint does a really good job, but they thought the score on this one was just "intrusive". I don't agree with that at all. I feel like it set the mood exactly right. For some reason, the whole movie had the same feel for me as an old Robert DeNiro - Robert Duvall movie, "True Confessions". I don't know if it was the movie, or just the whole tone. I thought Angelina Jolie was amazing, but her voice seemed different. In fact, it was a little disconcerting because she sounded like Nadya Suleman. That odd cadence that she has. I don't know if Nadya always spoke like that, or really was copying Angelina in this movie, or it was just a coincidence, but it was strange. I felt so sorry for the young boys. The one boy in particular seemed to be treated more like a criminal than a victim. My only pet peeve was they did the whole -"a true story", not even the "based on". One reviewer said that because they followed the true story, it bogged down. But when I read up on the real story, they did change the order of some important events, and left out some things that were equally important to the story. But, on the whole, he changed less than most directors do when they base it on a real story. Some of them like, "A Beautiful Mind", barely resemble the truth.
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Rslover
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11-19-2002
| Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 11:01 am
I really liked this movie too. Reese Witherspoon and Hillary Swank wanted this role but I think Angelina did a fantastic job. A lot of interesting background stuff is explained HERE
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Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002
| Friday, March 20, 2009 - 12:54 pm
Though I'm not a big fan of Angelina Jolie, she was amazing in this movie. I couldn't stop staring at her big, red lips! And she does remind me of Nadya Suleman (or Nadya reminds me of AJ). This was really a hard movie to watch. We have an 8 year old, so my DH kept wanting to pause the movie and check on DS. So heartbreaking! I didn't know this was a true story until we started watching the DVD. Now I'd kind of like to read the book, but don't know if I could get through it. Tough stuff!
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Sunday, March 22, 2009 - 11:13 pm
Very good movie. Hated the scenes in the mental institute, they made me cringe. I tried looking up the killer on the true crime website, but evidently they changed his name. I hope the real Christine Collins found some peace in her life.
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Pamy
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01-02-2002
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 9:22 am
creeps me out that Winevill aka Mira loma is only about 20 min from me, esp knowing that he buried bodies all over dessert so they could be anywhere out here in riverside. If you read about the story at wiki, it is even more interesting, lots of interesting and creepy facts that we didnt see Angelina was stunning in this movie
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Brenda1966
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07-03-2002
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 9:32 am
This was a hard movie to watch. Very good performance and story telling. I'm kind of glad I saw it at home and not in a theater where it would have really depressed me. So, so horrible.
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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001
| Monday, June 29, 2009 - 3:46 pm
Just watched it and I'll 'ditto' what Brenda said.
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 6:51 am
I'm watching it now. Why didn't they just ask the other children and adults in the neighborhood if that was her son?
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