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| mo_flixx |
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marantzo wrote: ...Which brings me to something else entirely; If being gay is not a choice but an innate condition like heterosexuality, how can you be proud to be gay? Can I be proud to be heterosexual? They should change the name from Gay Pride Day to Gay Happiness Day. It might sound redundant but you can be happy that you are gay, you can't be proud that you are gay if you had nothing to do with it.
Yes Gary, you can be proud to be heterosexual.
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:57 am |
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marantzo wrote: Gimme someone like that Brunette from Mulholland Drive or Gina Gershon.
That was Laura Harring. She's pretty alluring. So is Gina Gershon, especially in Bound. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:18 am |
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Halle Berry, unquestionably beautiful tends to have problems in the acting department. I thought she was very good in Monster's Ball, but awful lot of people didn't even like her in that.
Where's Ava Gardner when you need her? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:23 am |
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Or to go down the Halle Berry lane, Lena Horne or Dorothy Dandridge?
They never seem to portray Helen as being some sort of temptress. She is mostly portrayed as some innocent blank character. Rather than the slutty vixen that she was.  |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:26 am |
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| I'm straight, I'm loud, and I'm proud. Get used to it. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:28 pm |
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Watched The Break Up last night. It was better than I expected, but some parts of it dragged. Fortuneately, those parts didn't last more than a few minutes.
Vince Vaughn was pretty good in his role (he was also a producer and helped write the story) and I enjoyed a lot of the lines of dialouge he had. Clever and well written.
Jennifer Aniston.... probably her best role to date, even topping hers in Friends With Money. The jury is still out as far as I am concered, with her film career. But I think if she can continue to get roles like this, she may eventually win me over. Her outfits she wore in this movie helped... hard not to stay glued to the screen.
As for the supporting cast, Jon Favreau was funny and entertaining. I expected more from Joey Lauren Adams, but she wasn't all that for me here. I keep thinking she'll do something better than Chasing Amy or Big Daddy, but so far, I'm still looking. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:34 pm |
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I expected more from Joey Lauren Adams, but she wasn't all that for me here. I keep thinking she'll do something better than Chasing Amy or Big Daddy, but so far, I'm still looking.
She is now a very promising director, with a Sundance success in Come Early Morning starring Ashley Judd in what is being called her (Judd's) best performance since her debut. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:13 pm |
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Chill - Agree completely about The Break Up. Anniston and Vaughn were both terrific, and the overall dialogue was much, much better than the previews would have you believe. I found it soulful.
Friends With Money was a good story with entertaining characters, but it lacked the genuine sensitivity of The Break Up. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:09 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: [b]I expected more from Joey Lauren Adams, /b]
She is now a very promising director, with a Sundance success in Come Early Morning starring Ashley Judd in what is being called her (Judd's) best performance since her debut.
Thanks. Wasn't aware of that. Interesting. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:40 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: I expected more from Joey Lauren Adams, but she wasn't all that for me here. I keep thinking she'll do something better than Chasing Amy or Big Daddy, but so far, I'm still looking.
She is now a very promising director, with a Sundance success in Come Early Morning starring Ashley Judd in what is being called her (Judd's) best performance since her debut.
A few years ago I saw Joey Lauren Adams on Leno. She admitted that her baby voice had been a problem in getting roles. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:46 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: She is now a very promising director, with a Sundance success in Come Early Morning starring Ashley Judd in what is being called her (Judd's) best performance since her debut.
Good to hear. I'll look forward to seeing that movie. Ashley was on THE TODAY SHOW this last week talking up that film, but the director wasn't mentioned. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:49 pm |
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jeremy wrote: I watched Troy again last night. Why? Because it was on.
It was worse than I remember. Perhaps I was too taken with the scale and sweep of it first time round. Brad Pitt and Eric Bana looked the part in the action scenes, which were generally well crafted, but they struggled under the weight of the portentous and leaden dialogue. They suffered for want of a better director and script.
It is unfair on any actress to have to embody Helen of Troy, to live up to the requirement to be such a prize as to warrant the launch of a fleet of a thousand ships. I can’t remember the name of the actress who played Helen, but I think her charms barely justified an afternoon punt on the Cam. Which, being the Engineer I am, compels me to rank her at a paltry one milliHelen (mH) on the Trojan Beauty Scale.
I think those in charge of the casting made a mistake of favouring looks over vivaciousness, and then compounded that mistake by going for an actress who conformed with the somewhat bland, Western standard of beauty, the blonde Swedish model. Helen needed to be enchanting, exotic and exciting, not someone we could compare, perhaps unfavourably, with the girl next door. Because we did not feel why Helen would provoke such unrivalled passions, it left a huge hole at the centre of the movie.
Minor disagreement --- Bana and O"Toole were both quite good in this, but overall it was a disappointment |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 1:58 am |
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jeremy -
Quote: Do any of you really, honestly, cross-your-heart-and-hope-to-die wanna watch Citizen Caine?
Citizen Kane is one of those movies I watch every time I run across it, even if only for a few minutes. Can't get enough of it. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:39 pm |
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Gary wrote "Betsy, you seem to have a weakness for disturbing films."
WAIT A MINUTE!!! I didn't go to The Departed because I thought it would be too disturbing. The Shining could never be my favorite because beautiful as it was it was too disturbing. I never watch war movies. I just watched Taxi Driver and although I can agree that it has brilliance, it was too disturbing, too.
Like you........there are types of films I don't want to see. But, I do like watching films with psychiatrists, or women as the central characters, or women's problems as a theme.
I picked my 10 quickly and am about to revise. I would think, like Shannon said about Citizen Kane, that a top 10 should be a film you want to see over and over. Not just a film you liked or admired and forgot about later.
Thus: (and Mo, lol about The Staircase, but I've seen enough of that creep for a lifetime.)
Spellbound (Hitchcock)
Besieged
The Swimming Pool
Klute
Vertigo
Boogie Nights (Foxy Brown as opening act)
Mildred Pierce
North by Northwest
In the Cut
The Crying Game
I'm not sure if this is final. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:04 pm |
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Since this is my catch-up day on the forum.........here's what I've seen lately:
Amin, The Rise and Fall. This is a British film made in Kenya......similar to The Last King of Scotland without the Scottish doctor. The actor playing Amin comes across like a fat Albert.......dancing, singing, amusing. His killer side is more evident here. One wife had her hands cut off while his children watched.
The Devil and Daniel Johnston. I expected this to be unpleasant because Daniel Johnston is mentally disturbed. It's a really well done documentary about a very unique, sweet, funny, talented man who happens to have a bad case of bipolar disease. He lives at home with his parents (dad is his manager) who are supportive, even though they don't grasp his view of the world. They are Baptists living near Austin. His music is quite inviting. I'd recommend this to anyone who likes musician bio-pics.
Taxi Driver. This had been a forgotten film for me, but with all the buzz about The Departed, I thought I should take another look. Definitely an important film. Jodie Foster was just right. I'd forgotten what a young DeNiro was like. Paul Schrader wrote it. (I guess I'll watch his Forever Mine again....with Gretchen Mol, Joseph Fiennes, and Ray Liotta.)
So much of the film focused on the grimy, gritty atmosphere of NYC. And I guess "the "Taxi Driver" type alienated young white guy is certainly for real. (Think Timothy McVeigh, etc.) I was jolted by the gun buying scene and then the appearance of DeNiro in a mohawk. I'm not sure I get the contrast with the Cybill Sheppard character's white purity clean thing.........as part of the film that is. I thought it was a false note for Travis to take Betsy to a porn film, as if he didn't know it would be offensive to her. I didn't think that was a good indicator of his off-centeredness. If he had invited her to his apartment and offered her bread with whiskey and sugar that might have worked. Or if he had taken her to a really goofy teen-boy movie like Pee Wee Herman and laughed his head off........maybe then she'd have gotten the idea that this decent looking guy had some weird stuff going on inside.
Also noticed that Jodie at breakfast with DeNiro starts off with green sunglasses.....ends with blue. |
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