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| ehle64 |
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| I'd rather have my fingernails ripped off than sit through the remake of 3:10 to Yuma again. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:26 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Interesting exchange in yesterday's Roger Ebert Answer Man column, about the horses in Michael Clayton. Ebert in his review of the movie called Clayton's viewing a happy accident or something. This was the response (in WHITE because of SPOILERS).
Q: In response to the Answer Man item about the significance of the horses in the field of "Michael Clayton," the reason Clayton stopped at the horses and the tree was because this was a significant image in the red book his son had given him to read -- the book he couldn't find time for. The image of the tree and the horses gave Clayton reason to pause and ponder his son and his life, which ultimately saved him, since it removed him from the vehicle.
L. Brookes, Kamloops, British Columbia
A. Your answer was one of 38 I received! Dondi DeMarco of New York City wrote: "That book was about a post-apocalyptic world in which every man is not merely on his own, but is in fact unable to tell who are his allies and who are his enemies. At the same time, it's a fantasy world that is far more colorful and life-filled than the world of gray pragmatism in which Michael has found himself for so long."
I love the answer. Of course I already knew the question. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:27 pm |
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ehle64 wrote: I'd rather have my fingernails ripped off than sit through the remake of 3:10 to Yuma again.
LOLOL!!!!! |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:50 am |
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Article about all the new films to come later this Fall.
Hollywood's Quality Glut
Actually I only skimmed it so far, but it looked full of titles and info. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:12 am |
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gromit wrote: Article about all the new films to come later this Fall.
Hollywood's Quality Glut
Actually I only skimmed it so far, but it looked full of titles and info.
The only review I've seen for Bee Movie found it average.
The only review I've seen for American Gangster was very positive.
And it sounds like The Kite Runner has completely upended its young stars' lives. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:58 am |
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| The "Bee Movie" reviews I've seen mostly rave about the animation art, though they tend to give a nod to the humor in general. It sort of makes me want to see the film on a big screen. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:03 pm |
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I don't like the bee animation in the trailers for Bee Movie, but rest of the animation looks fine.
Most of the reviews for American Gangster rate it very good to excellent. It looks like I'll see it at a Wednesday matinee. It looks like a very good movie. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 2:12 pm |
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| I thought Rendition was worth seeing. Good actors, solid story. Continues the question: Why can't anyone do anything about Bush? |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:32 pm |
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Rendition; not as extraordinary as it should be.
The film would have been better without the standard, Hollywood, bolt-on melodrama.
Damn, that was two lines. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 6:51 pm |
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Quote: "NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS" The lesbian daughter of a Scottish-Indian family comes home to Glasgow to help put the family restaurant back on its feet while romancing an old schoolmate and practicing her Bollywood moves.
Welcome to the modern world. It may be crap, but I just love the idea that this film exists, that somewhere, someone thought that this film would give a good return on a million dollars or so of their money. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:15 pm |
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jeremy wrote: Quote: "NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS" The lesbian daughter of a Scottish-Indian family comes home to Glasgow to help put the family restaurant back on its feet while romancing an old schoolmate and practicing her Bollywood moves.
Welcome to the modern world. It may be crap, but I just love the idea that this film exists, that somewhere, someone thought that this film would give a good return on a million dollars or so of their money.
Sounds like a film that will appeal to Nancy, bdswagger, lady wakasa, jeremy and me alike! I see a future stuffing stocker for a bunch of my friends.
I'll have to see it just to find out what on earth they serve in a Scottish-Indian restaurant. Curried haggis? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:56 am |
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American Gangster is not so hot. It's great on the evocation of time and place (late 60s to mid-70s NYC) but lazy on the storytelling. The story arc is too random--episode follows episode with no particular rhyme or reason--and the attention wanders to the art direction.
Washington and Crowe play two semi-interesting characters in highly professional but ultimately unexciting manner. They both appear slightly somnolent.
It's really kind of boring. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:24 am |
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Into The Wild is as powerful as a personal journey tale can be. It's based on a true story of Christopher McCandless, a 22-year-old young man from a well-to-do family who graduates from college, mails his life savings to Oxfam, changes his name and escapes everything, and everyone, he knows, bumming his way from Georgia to Mexico to California, and then up the coast to Alaska.
If this sounds like a carefree story of youthful exuberance and cool adventures, it's not. The emotional power of this film comes from the haunting lack of happiness within this guy. The farther he travels, the more beautiful the scenery, the nicer the people he meets, the less he seems to have. Into The Wild is a beautifully told arc of anger, sadness and, finally, acceptance. Ironically, the only person unaware of this trajectory is Christopher himself. He sees himself as a discoverer of some kind of truth; others see a sweet, scraggly, educated mess, running from himself as fast as he can.
It's through the people he meets along the way that the story is told, and the cast is great. Notable among them is the reappearance of Hal Holbrook, whose character becomes a surrogate grandfather to Chris, and whose performance is perhaps the most touching I've seen all year. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:05 am |
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| The lead is Emile Hirsch, who not only resembles Christopher McCandless, but who also channels the mannerisms of a younger Leonardo DiCaprio. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:30 am |
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| My wife and I enjoyed "American Gangster"-- it's a 3-starrer with a good narrative arc. It's long but doesn't really lag much. Very evocative of "The Godfather" and "French Connection" and "Serpico"-- the whole film reads like an homage to early 70s film. But I guess if you're gonna make a film about gangsters and drug smuggling and police corruption in the early 70s, you can't really avoid the parallels.. |
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