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| billyweeds |
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inla--Thanks for your most-valued-of-all Oscar opinion. Okay, I see where you're coming from. I much prefer The Departed to Babel myself, so I wouldn't be at all upset to see my prediction fall. However, if Dreamgirls is the winner, I'll be back in puke city. Not a terrible movie--in fact, a good one--but Oscarwinner? Not in my book.
However--be it Babel or Dreamgirls or Departed--it better be Marty. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:44 am |
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| I have to toot my own horn Oscar-prediction-wise 25 years after the fact and tell you that I was the only person I remotely knew who correctly predicted the Oscar win for Chariots of Fire, a movie I didn't care for at all but had the feeling Hollywood thought was really IMPORTANT. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:00 am |
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| The Last Kiss is a minor but extraordinarily charming movie with nice performances by Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Blythe Danner, and Tom Wilkinson really well directed by Tony Goldwyn. Its major asset, however, is the delightful dialogue by Paul Haggis of Million Dollar Baby and Crash fame. Haggis writes beautifully, and in an extra on the DVD proves to be very self-effacing. He based the screenplay on a hit Italian movie of the same name from 2002, and he says he basically just translated the excellent dialogue from the Italian script. Not bloody likely, but a nice way of putting it. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:23 am |
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billyweeds wrote: inla--Thanks for your most-valued-of-all Oscar opinion. Okay, I see where you're coming from. I much prefer The Departed to Babel myself, so I wouldn't be at all upset to see my prediction fall. However, if Dreamgirls is the winner, I'll be back in puke city. Not a terrible movie--in fact, a good one--but Oscarwinner? Not in my book.
However--be it Babel or Dreamgirls or Departed--it better be Marty.
Billy, that's so dear. I didn't mean to slam your prediction -- you may well be spot-on about Babel. Heaven knows I gave up on the Aclademy crew long before last year, somewhere between Braveheart and The Great Big Boat Movie, in fact, and am forever humilatified that I let my guard down over Ennis and Jack. I just worry about you betting the farm on it, for farms are far more useful, seems to me.
And I totally agree: If it isn't Scorsese!, may lightning strike the Kodak. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:25 am |
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billyweeds wrote: I have to toot my own horn Oscar-prediction-wise 25 years after the fact and tell you that I was the only person I remotely knew who correctly predicted the Oscar win for Chariots of Fire, a movie I didn't care for at all but had the feeling Hollywood thought was really IMPORTANT. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:23 am |
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Home Viewing Report;
What film-lover can resist a film called She-Wolf of London? (Resist! Resist!)
Ditto a film called Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man. Despite the franchise absurdity (who thought that was a new thing?), Larry Talbot seriously rocks.
The Blue Max; Unlike Flags Of Our Fathers, this cynical study of heroism usurped for political ends manages to do two things; be entertaining, and showcase Ursula Andress' ass.
Samurai Assassin: This astonishingly well-directed, edited, and acted film (remember this name - Kihachi Okamoto. Kihachi Okamoto. Repeat it to yourself before going to sleep) is shaped around a character study of striking depth studied well by Toshiro Mifune. The last scene's one of those that burns itself in your brain. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:59 am |
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mo_flixx wrote: Trish wrote: Just saw Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Joan Plowright) - really a wonderfully tender film. About an elderly Scottish woman who takes up residence at the Claremont Hotel (in London) hoping to see more of her grandsom and take in the interesting cultural activities she expects this big city offers. Things do not live up to expectation - but by fate she meets and befriends a young man. I really enjoyed this film - one of my favs that came out in 2006. Plowright is great. See it
I wrote about this film loooong ago - probably spring 2006 at which time I was roundly trounced by a number of people, none of whom had seen the film. I liked the film too.
BTW, the kindly young man in the film is Keira Knightley's current honey.
STILL no comments. Guess no one else has seen it.
I may nominate Plowright for a Blanche that's how highly I think of it.
on the whole however I am woefully behind in seeing most of the revered films of 2006. Some opened small and I missed the window to see them and some still haven't opened wide - I don't have the free time I once had - so its been a struggle - I don't feel prepared to nominate in many of the Blanche categories.
I did see House of Sand last night - which was okay - I mean Fernanda Montegrano (sp) is a wonderful actress (as evidenced by her oscar nominated performance in Central Station) - she has a great expressive face - that says so much in a mere glance - I was intrigued by this desolate land of dunes (off coast of Brazil) its so odd - part beach part desert. The story was fair - dialogue being spare-ish the place being a main character-- about this mother and daughter abandoned in this place - going mad, then surviving - for a couple of generations - with the help (* more to that though) of a few native inhabitants (whose anscestors fled there as slaves) |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:28 am |
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This is what I posted back in October. BTW, UNDER THE SAND is the Ozon movie with Charlotte Rampling.
mo_flixx wrote: I saw the HOUSE OF SAND yesterday. This is a Brazilian film which is stunningly photographed in a bleak sandy landscape. Although it's in color, the only real colors we see are black, white, and brown plus the blue sky and water. Very striking visually. 2 of Brazil's best actresses star: Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres (think I've got their names right).
The story follows the saga of a matriarchy throughout 60 years dating from 1912 in this desolate beach area.
I wish the movie had been a little shorter and hadn't tried so hard to tie up all the loose ends before concluding. We are told A LOT in this film...and maybe a lot that we don't really need to know.
I found it satisfying as a purely abstract work, more of a kinetic painting than as an actual narrative.
Still strongly recommended, however. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:17 pm |
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I rented TALLADEGA NIGHTS mainly to see Sacha Baron Cohen's performance.
I'm about 1/2-way thru, but this movie is hysterical. Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, Jr. play NASCAR teammates (sorry BEFADE). Anyone who is a car nut will get the in-jokes (sorry, JEREMY) of which there are many.
Sacha, himself, is a scream playing a very French, very gay driver who breaks (this is really not a spoiler) Ferrell's arm. Sacha reminds me a bit of Serge Gainsbourg in his prime if he were an over 6'4" Formula One driver.
The junk food dinner scene at the Ferrell household surpasses that of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. Grandpa is funnier than Alan Arkin in LMS.
The only BETTER FILM about NASCAR IMO is the very great, very dark, underrated Hawks' RED LINE 7000, which is NOT a comedy by any means. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:27 am |
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| Added BETTIE PAGE (love Gretchen Mol) and TALEDEGA NIGHTS to my Netflix list. |
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| movielover14 |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:36 am |
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chillywilly wrote: Added BETTIE PAGE (love Gretchen Mol) and TALEDEGA NIGHTS to my Netflix list.
TALEDEGA NIGHTS looks like a really stupid movie. I'm not seeing that. My friend saw it and said it was one of the stupidest movies she had ever seen! I don't really know what BETTIE PAGE is about. I've heard of it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:42 am |
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| Mo, many, many years ago on The Dating Game or The Newlyweds Show or one of those, they asked one of the contestants what his favourite movie was (I think it was the show where the spouse had to guess the answer to the questions they asked the other spouse), he said, Red Line 7000. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:23 am |
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movielover14 wrote: chillywilly wrote: Added BETTIE PAGE (love Gretchen Mol) and TALEDEGA NIGHTS to my Netflix list.
TALEDEGA NIGHTS looks like a really stupid movie. I'm not seeing that. My friend saw it and said it was one of the stupidest movies she had ever seen! I don't really know what BETTIE PAGE is about. I've heard of it.
moviegoer -
It IS a really stupid movie...but some of us here like REALLY STUPID MOVIES. That plus a gut-splitting appearance by Sacha Baron Cohen as the French Formula One driver make this (with a little fast forwarding) a MUST SEE.
If you don't know much about mid-century icon Bettie Page, you should find out. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:28 am |
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movielover14 wrote: chillywilly wrote: Added BETTIE PAGE (love Gretchen Mol) and TALEDEGA NIGHTS to my Netflix list.
TALEDEGA NIGHTS looks like a really stupid movie. I'm not seeing that. My friend saw it and said it was one of the stupidest movies she had ever seen! I don't really know what BETTIE PAGE is about. I've heard of it.
Yeah, like Mo says, I'm sure it's a stupid movie and you know there are some stupid movies that I end up seeing and liking. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:32 am |
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chilly --
Be warned -- this isn't the STUPIDEST or FUNNIEST of that genre.
Marc and I were talking about JACKASS 2 the other day. It's supposed to be REALLY STUPID, but he says it's always rented out.
I think my favorite stupid movie is WAYNE'S WORLD. |
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