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Kasu ([personal profile] kasuchans) wrote2010-09-01 01:35 am
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30 Day Movie Meme - Day 02

Day 01- The best movie you saw during the last year

Day 02 - The most underrated movie

I'm not sure if this movie is underrated, per se, but it's certainly under-known. Once, the 2007 movie about two musicians, captures romance in such a beautiful, heartbreakingly real way, and the music is gorgeous. I really wish more people knew about it and watched it. (Also, it may be one of the few movies in which I'm glad Cillian Murphy wasn't cast.)

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[identity profile] kaeilaspn.livejournal.com 2010-09-01 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Once! This is such a great movie. And I was kinda shocked he was supposed to be the lead, but in a way, I'm glad they stuck with Glen.

[identity profile] kasuchans-v2.livejournal.com 2010-09-01 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly! (It was also the first irish film I'd seen.)

And yeah. For two reasons. One, and I mean this in a totally objective way, he's too beautiful (icon totally appropriate <3). Part of why I love this movie is because at the end, I always have to remind myself "that was a movie. That never happened." because they seem like such real people, as if they could be anyone. Their characters don't even have NAMES, which adds to that. If CIllian was cast, I feel like it would have seemed too perfect, too Hollywood. Two, I feel like NO ONE can do those songs justice except for the composers. And this movie is where Glen and Marketa fell in love, so the chemistry seems so authentic (see previous point).

Agh, this movie is one of the few that makes me cry.

[identity profile] kaeilaspn.livejournal.com 2010-09-01 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's a good point. Adding Cillian would have... Hollywoodized it, I guess? But yes, Glen and Marketa were perfect :)

[identity profile] kasuchans-v2.livejournal.com 2010-09-01 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
They were. Seriously, my favorite part of that movie is the believablilty of it all. <3

[identity profile] kaeilaspn.livejournal.com 2010-09-01 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, I believe a lot of movies, but this was just really... raw, I guess is the word? I felt like these two characters let me into their lives and it was just lovely.

[identity profile] kasuchans-v2.livejournal.com 2010-09-01 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly. It felt more like watching people's lives than watching a movie. So beautiful.
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