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| Befade |
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Lady wrote: "That sounds like 3-Iron (Bin-Jip). "
That's it. I loved it. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:35 pm |
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| Was out with flu since Tuesday, so Netflix was handier than I'd anticipated. Finally saw "Thanks For Smoking" -- excellent, superbly written script, and it's kind of clever that no one is ever seen actually smoking in the film. Eckhart seems to nail those fast-talker roles and brings an amazingly sympathetic performance to a character that you expect to be loathesome. One of the best films of the year (though maybe this is technically a 2005 release). LOL the conclusion, where he's found a sinecure with the cellular industry, putting a damper on the whole cellphone/brain tumor thing. At least he's found a niche where he doesn't have to bend the logic into funny balloon animal shapes. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:39 am |
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| Songcatcher is distilled mountain hokum. Jealous lovers, secretive lesbians, a predator lumber company, wild-eyed men of God, an arch academic intruding on mountain ways, musical virtuosos in the rough, and lots, lots more. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. Some great music, though. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 6:17 am |
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| It sounds like a candidate for the so-bad-it's-good movie pantheon. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:46 pm |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:47 pm |
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"Finally saw "Thanks For Smoking" -- excellent, superbly written script"
Word. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:56 pm |
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yambu wrote: It doesn't rise to that.
Shucks. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:45 am |
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lady_w's on the sofa (couch) now watching the tailend of Flightplan. I blew the outcome at the beginning for her, but she didn't seem to mind. The party was lovely and a lot of you were thought of and mentioned.
Off to beddy by, now. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:13 am |
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| I watch another riveting flick 12 and Holding last night - wow! a heartbreaker. The story is about how 3 12 year olds react/cope with the death of a close friend. Very well acted, compelling (and not a kid's film, by the way - older teens only) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:48 am |
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Trish wrote: I watch another riveting flick 12 and Holding last night - wow! a heartbreaker. The story is about how 3 12 year olds react/cope with the death of a close friend. Very well acted, compelling (and not a kid's film, by the way - older teens only)
I was a little disappointed in 12 and Holding. Its heart was in the right place, but the filmmaking was awkward and amateurish, I thought. |
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| unohoo |
| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:36 am |
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Been running through some movies lately:
Saw a Lee Marvin flick a few weeks ago, based on a scene a co-worker showed to me on his portable DVD player. The movie was [/i]Point Blank, and the scene he showed me was where there's a montage of scenes where Marvin, fresh out of the joint tracking down his (ex)wife bumrushes his wife's pad and fills the mattres full of bullet holes. All of this is set to the rhythmic click-clacking of his stride which starts off the scene. I immediately thought of The Limey, which has a lot in common in terms of the main characters and style. So when I finally see the whole flick, theres Soderbergh on the commentary saying that he stole a particular scene from Point Blank. Cool movie, and it has Carrol O'Connor in it. I rented The Limey too, will be watching that later on today depending on how good the football is.
Also watched [i]Miami Vice last night. I liked it for what it was. It was cool and detached and to me was good at communicating a certain kind of paranoia that comes along with running on the wrong side of the law. There's a great shootout at the end that reminded me of Way of the Gun in terms of loudness and goodness. I was expecting a lot less than what I got. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:46 am |
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| POINT BLANK and MIAMI VICE. Cool double bill. I liked both alot. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:42 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Trish wrote: I watch another riveting flick 12 and Holding last night - wow! a heartbreaker. The story is about how 3 12 year olds react/cope with the death of a close friend. Very well acted, compelling (and not a kid's film, by the way - older teens only)
I was a little disappointed in 12 and Holding. Its heart was in the right place, but the filmmaking was awkward and amateurish, I thought.
how so? |
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| bart |
| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:22 am |
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Ghulam, thanks for "word" ing me. My viewing habits are often a day late and a dollar short, so any response is quite a thrill.
Tomorrow I'm seeing Syriana!
What relation does this have to the death of George Clooney's potbellied pig? Stay tuned. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:50 am |
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Trish wrote: billyweeds wrote: Trish wrote: I watch another riveting flick 12 and Holding last night - wow! a heartbreaker. The story is about how 3 12 year olds react/cope with the death of a close friend. Very well acted, compelling (and not a kid's film, by the way - older teens only)
I was a little disappointed in 12 and Holding. Its heart was in the right place, but the filmmaking was awkward and amateurish, I thought.
how so?
It's been a while so it's hard to be specific; there was just something so quintessentially "indie film" about the whole enterprise, from the unstudied acting to the shaky camera work to the somewhat self-satisfied "we're really gritty" vibe. It was a nice try, but for me it didn't gel. |
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