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chillywilly |
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:07 am |
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Watched The Notorious Bettie Page last night. The film wasn't bad. I wasn't expecting the side story (the government's involvement with banning smut), but Gretchen Mol was very convincing as Bettie.
Some parts of the film seemed almost like this project started out as a multi-part series, but once the film started to gain ground, it felt more like a movie.
Liked the time consistency and how it made the transition from b&w to color. |
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billyweeds |
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:22 am |
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chillywilly wrote: Watched The Notorious Bettie Page last night. The film wasn't bad. I wasn't expecting the side story (the government's involvement with banning smut), but Gretchen Mol was very convincing as Bettie.
Some parts of the film seemed almost like this project started out as a multi-part series, but once the film started to gain ground, it felt more like a movie.
Liked the time consistency and how it made the transition from b&w to color.
Glad you liked it, Chills. I think it was very seriously underrated and that time will prove us right. |
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Jynx |
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:21 pm |
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Quote: IMO even better than Connery.
Um ... no, no and NO!
You cannot take Bond away from Connery, that's like saying Eddie Murphy was a better professor than Jerry Lewis, or Johnny Knoxville was a better Duke brother, or George Clooney was a better Danny Ocean -- oops, I might have to give you that one.
Connery always was and always will be the best Bond, James Bond. Daniel Craig was superb and I desperately loved this movie, but it's a totally different Bond. After the turds made by Brosnon et al, could it really get any worse? Yea, I guess it could, John Travolta could have taken the part.
Rod - I was waiting for someone to post that about JFK, but Pesci was such a bigger character, so over the top, as good as Bacon was I don't think JFK could have floated on his performance b/c it was so short.
Bacon is, as usual, overlooked by everyone (not in an unnoticed way, but in a 'look how terrible Costner's accent is' and 'wasn't Pesci outstanding in this film' kinda way) and it is laughable how he just seems to keep garnering wonderful parts, played to the hilt, without a gold boy in hand. I wonder when he will be given his overdue justice? |
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Marj |
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:32 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: chillywilly wrote: Watched The Notorious Bettie Page last night. The film wasn't bad. I wasn't expecting the side story (the government's involvement with banning smut), but Gretchen Mol was very convincing as Bettie.
Some parts of the film seemed almost like this project started out as a multi-part series, but once the film started to gain ground, it felt more like a movie.
Liked the time consistency and how it made the transition from b&w to color.
Glad you liked it, Chills. I think it was very seriously underrated and that time will prove us right.
I seriously hope you're right, Billy. At least some critics have, in so far as Gretchen Mol is concerned. |
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Nancy |
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:01 pm |
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I think Daniel Craig is the best Bond since Connery, who is still the definitive 007 for me. I've though Craig was really good since I saw him in Layer Cake. |
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Jynx |
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:23 pm |
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thank you nancy. |
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Marc |
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:22 am |
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BABEL is unquestionably the best film of 2006 and one the most extraordinary
films I've ever seen. Stunning. I wish I had been able to vote for it in the Blanches. |
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jeremy |
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:38 am |
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Jeremy’s Top Ten for 2006 as of this moment, but likely to change inexplicably:
Children of Men
Pan’s Labyrinth
Apocalypto
Stranger Than Fiction
Little Children
The Departed
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
United 93
Inside Man
The Descent
For the first time in as long as I can remember and despite the plethora of computer generated imagery on offer no cartoons or children’s films feature in my top ten for the year. |
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jeremy |
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:46 am |
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The Road To Guantanamo should have been nominated for a best documentary Oscar, except perhaps for the fact that it is a docudrama and so, arguably, does not qualify. Also it is damaged, perhaps critically, in that it did not get or just try hard enough to get the three prisoners at the heart of the film to properly expalin what they were doing in Afghanistan. I think the film would still have worked even if they had admitted that they had gone there on some sort of ill-defined jihad. Appreciating their naivette and ill-intent would not necessarily have justified their subsequent treatment and I beleive it would have resulted in a more difficult, complex and nuanced film. |
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Rod |
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:55 am |
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Marc wrote: BABEL is unquestionably the best film of 2006 and one the most extraordinary
films I've ever seen. Stunning. I wish I had been able to vote for it in the Blanches.
Wow. We agree. |
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ehle64 |
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:59 am |
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Rod wrote: Marc wrote: BABEL is unquestionably the best film of 2006 and one the most extraordinary
films I've ever seen. Stunning. I wish I had been able to vote for it in the Blanches.
Wow. We agree.
So cool. It's a shame that most of the voting Blanche-rs didn't see it. Anyways. . .
Rod -- you remind me of a cinéphile-iac version of Jack Black in High Fidelity. You're really right most of the times, but when you're wrong, boy, you're wrong and there's no way you could ever see it. Which is admirable. What's the Top 5 Films to see after a Break-up? |
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ehle64 |
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:10 pm |
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Attention Target Shoppers:
Picked up 3 DVDs today while there getting essentials -- love that DVDs are one of MY essentials -- the 2-Disc The Departed (the S-Man hasn't seen it yet and I want to see it again, will be watching post-Blanche-steria); Marie Antoinette (Kirsten, Versailles, Shoes, WallPaper, FAITHFULL!, Great Music); and For Your Consideration (which is definitely going to be the first film we watch -- again -- post-Award season) |
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Melody |
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:10 am |
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Wade, I can't get out of Target without spending a hundred bucks, minimum. Their DVD section is astonishing and I am drawn to it like a cat to a dancing moth.
Last time I was in there, I spent like an hour in the home theater section, mesmerized by the huge display of high-def TVs showing some gorgeous cobalt-blue underwater scene. I'm telling you, if they would only set up recliners in there, they'd sell the shit outta those TVs. |
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ehle64 |
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:56 am |
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If any film had to win over Babel, and I guess they do, The Departed is a mighty fine contender. Rats on the Balcony Railing. POW! |
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billyweeds |
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:59 am |
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ehle64 wrote: If any film had to win over Babel, and I guess they do, The Departed is a mighty fine contender. Rats on the Balcony Railing. POW!
What's on the second disc? I have the one-disc version. |
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