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| Syd |
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| There was also a trailer for Jonathan Demme's documentary on Jimmy Carter. The trailer reminded me of several things (1) Jimmy Carter was the worst president of my lifetime prior to the current one. (2) He was the most incompetent, including the current one. (3) He should have won the Nobel Peace Prize when Sadat and Begin did. The one he did win was a nose-thumb at Bush, who deserves it, but I don't think that's a criterion the Nobel Peace Prize committee should use. (4) I still don't like the man. He's done some good, but he rubs me the wrong way. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:01 am |
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Though I admire Carter, I accept everything you said except for...
He was the most incompetent, including the current one.
This would be impossible. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:43 am |
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Syd wrote: Mr. Magorium's Magical Emporium looks like this year's Night at the Museum. Unforunately, I didn't like Night at the Museum. On the bright side, this one has Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman instead of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.
It also reminds me of William Wu's short story "Wong's Lost-and-Found Emporium" which was made into a New Twilight Zone episode. It's not mentioned on his Wikipedia page although it was nominated for a Hugo. I'll have to correct that. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:00 am |
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Glad to see I'm not the only one semi-predicting an Oscar for Lumet. This from Lou Lumenick of the New York Post.
As usual, no detail is overlooked by the dean of New York filmmakers (Dog Day Afternoon, Network, Serpico) who may finally win a Best Director Oscar for the beautifully realized and haunting Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
After the movie last night, my wife and I were on a bus with another couple (strangers to us) who had seen the movie and found it "too depressing." Interesting. Grim it certainly was, but moviemaking this energetic and exciting is nothing but exhilarating to me, no matter how tough the subject matter or unrelenting the narrative arc. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:15 pm |
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Quote: Befade, "Into the Wild" looks to have a formidable ensemble and is directed by Sean Penn -- in theory, I want to see it, but I don't find the motivation there somehow. I'll await your review.
I don't know about a review, Bart........It's one film that has left me speechless. I've never seen anything like it. It's a spiritual quest movie. The question being "When you've grown up in an unhappy family how do you release that past and find your joy in life and your belief in yourself?"
Sean Penn is my pick for best director. Hal Holbrook.....best supporting. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:02 pm |
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Rendition
This movie's only problem might be bad timing. If it had appeared in theaters a few years ago, it likely would have been considered shocking. But here in late 2007, after all the news stories of terrorism suspects being taken out of the country, and subjected to torture and interrogated over there so we don't have to torture 'em over here ("extraordinary rendition" is the fancy legal term for it), a story like this has lost some of its power to shock. As competently made as Rendition is from top to bottom, at the end it doesn't tell us anything that we haven't known or suspected for a long time now. It doesn't ask questions that haven't been the subject of an ongoing public debate for the last six years.
Viewed on its own terms, however, rather than through the prism of current events, it is a tightly constructed legal and political thriller. The ensemble cast, including Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Alan Arkin, Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, among many others, does an excellent job.
P.S. If anyone is thinking of seeing Rendition to find out if Jake and Reese have any onscreen chemistry, forget it. Their characters never meet during the story. They have no scenes together. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:37 pm |
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ANother from the 'that's kinda wrong' dept: Tony Scott is filming a remake of The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 with Denzel Washington and John Travolta:
http://www.variety.com/VR1117974767.html
Washington = Walter Matthau (good guy)
Travolta = Robert Shaw (bad guy)
I'd say 'go Ridley' instead, except Ridley wouldn't get himself into that situation. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:20 am |
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lshap wrote: Wade,
Control is playing here, but my wife didn't give a rat's ass about Joy Division and consequently doesn't care to see the film. The big question is how much of the film stands on its own as a dramatic period piece, verses being a biopic of a specific guy in a specific band.
I enjoyed biopics like Ray and The Doors, but I'd never recommend them to people who didn't know Ray Charles or Jim Morrison.
Anyway, we're probably seeing We Own the Night tonight. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:36 am |
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Ah, the tragic results of misquoting.
Has anyone seen or heard about The Good Night?
Some sort of dream fantasy piece, which sounds like a cross between The Science of Sleep and The Woman in Red. Or on the fringes of Eternal Sunshine of the ....
Directed by Jake Paltrow -- directly related to those other Paltrows -- and with a cast of names: Danny DeVito, Penélope Cruz, Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman,Gwyneth.
Looks like it just got a limited US release on Oct. 5 ... though it's already dvding around these parts. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:41 am |
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| Wade--Did you have a comment to make about Lorne's quote? |
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| bart |
| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:49 am |
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I thought it was sort of weird that a film called "Things We Lost in the Fire" opened about the time that the Santa Anas started toasting homes in S. Cal.
I can't remember anything much about the original Taking of Pelham 1-2-3. I suspect I'm not alone in this, and this probably goes some way towards explaining the remake. A variant of this title is the basis for my avatar caption over at EscapefromElba. (the cat's name was Pelham, so the resulting caption was inevitable...) |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:10 am |
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| Re. TOP123, the book was very good and the movie was pretty good. Do we need a remake? No. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:13 am |
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bart wrote: I can't remember anything much about the original Taking of Pelham 1-2-3. I suspect I'm not alone in this, and this probably goes some way towards explaining the remake. A variant of this title is the basis for my avatar caption over at EscapefromElba. (the cat's name was Pelham, so the resulting caption was inevitable...)
I remember seeing it on tv in high school or so. It was a pretty well-paced thriller and pretty realistic. (It also doesn't hurt to have personal experience with the #6 subway line.)
I won't share my story about the woman in my photography class who'd lost almost everything in the Oakland fire. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:02 pm |
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The Draping of Pelham 123
-- a duplicate of our former cat, Pelham... |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:18 pm |
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My sister's old cat, Porter, used to lie on the staircase railing and take swipes at people a la puma-in-a-tree (which he did look like).
...That cat's waaaay too comfortable. |
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