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| Rod |
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mo_flixx wrote: (just kidding, Rod)
Hey I haven't punched anything in days. I've been too sick. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:27 am |
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| Gommorah is excellent, but hard to follow if you haven't read the book. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:43 am |
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Marc wrote: Gommorah is excellent, but hard to follow if you haven't read the book.
After the first 15 minutes or so you get the drift of what is going on and the salient features are not obscure.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:11 pm |
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Ghulam wrote: Marc wrote: Gommorah is excellent, but hard to follow if you haven't read the book.
After the first 15 minutes or so you get the drift of what is going on and the salient features are not obscure.
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Disagree. I bailed after half an hour, being completely lost. The last time I felt that way was the television show The Wire, which the rest of the world seemed to like much more than I did. Impenetrable without CliffsNotes. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:00 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Ghulam wrote: Marc wrote: Gommorah is excellent, but hard to follow if you haven't read the book.
After the first 15 minutes or so you get the drift of what is going on and the salient features are not obscure.
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Disagree. I bailed after half an hour, being completely lost. The last time I felt that way was the television show The Wire, which the rest of the world seemed to like much more than I did. Impenetrable without CliffsNotes.
You missed out on one of the best directed movies with life-like realism. BTW I also loved Wire, although I did not understand each and every detail in it.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:07 pm |
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| Ghulam--Maybe I'll try it again. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:05 pm |
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billy,
you should try again. GOMORRAH has a lot to offer. And it does start to come together as the film progresses.
Now go see ADVENTURELAND! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:32 pm |
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Marc wrote: billy,
you should try again. GOMORRAH has a lot to offer. And it does start to come together as the film progresses.
Now go see ADVENTURELAND!
I am going to see Adventureland as soon as I can get a minute. It's difficult at the moment. Maybe this weekend.
Have you seen Anvil! The Story of Anvil? |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:02 pm |
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Rod wrote: Finally saw Milk. With a crowd composed of at least 50% Blue Mountains hippie-lesbian couples who gave a hoot of delight at the line, "I've been saying what we need around here is some tough dykes!" I loved the film, by far my favorite of last year's Oscar bait, apart from that cheesy foreshadowing with the opera villain who looks like Josh Brolin: a real clanger from the otherwise astute Van Sant. But the film captures that '70s late-era-hippie atmosphere perfectly - though of course my family wasn't of quite this social subset, so much of the energy and the DIY idealism was rawly familiar from my knee-high days.
Saw Adventureland. Enjoyed Adventureland, though it hardly seemed a cinematic breakthrough, it certainly merits attendance. As part of that infinitesimal percentage around here who did NOT hate Little Miss Sunshine, which only grows in personal resonance and off-kilter significance with each subsequent re-viewing; yet who actively and regretfully disliked Juno, which apart from Mlle. Page and Mssr. Cera, and one glorious moment from Mrs. Ben Affleck, felt as artificially skewed and calculated of "wit" as they come; the new film falls roughly between those two poles -- whose comparison has never made sense to me in the first place -- Christopher Guest by way of Amy Heckerling in John Hughes drag. Both leads are quite effective -- nice to see Mr. Eisenberg in something less downbeat than Squid and the Whale, although, seriously, for all her currently unmatched intensity, can there be a paler ingenue in Townsiltin than La Belle Kristen? I kid because I love; she's going places -- and the supporting cast is nothing if not avid, though Hader and Wiig come the closest to caricature (they are, however, very funny doing so). It's an appealing populist flick, with more than a few pertly frank observations about its bracketed age group, and, despite the various frisson-making moments of horrified recall of one's own summer-camp/amusement-park experiences, oh, so long ago, it seemed very sweet-natured at its core. Never eat the corn dogs.
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| Befade |
| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:08 pm |
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| Hi Inla.........and did you see Two Lovers (liked alot) or Wendy and Lucy (hated)? And are you psyched for The Soloist or State of Play or something called Sugar? |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:27 pm |
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Befade wrote: Hi Inla.........and did you see Two Lovers (liked alot) or Wendy and Lucy (hated)? And are you psyched for The Soloist or State of Play or something called Sugar? |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:30 am |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:53 am |
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For some reason, I thought this movie had already come out. People must have been seeing an early cut.
I'd like to see what happens to The Yiddish Policemen's Union. It's a very complex novel, but it would probably make an intriguing movie to the people who'd read the novel and figured out what the hell was going on. I think you have to spend fifteen minutes explaining the background, at which point your audience is fast asleep.
I still don't see how to make a movie out of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (although I'd like to see the attempt). What do you do with a novel that has a ten year gap in the middle of it? |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:01 am |
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| On the other hand, I never thought Hollywood could pull off a film version of Watchmen and they did it anyway. |
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| Marc |
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| I'm here to report that I observed OBSERVE AND REPORT today and enjoyed it's demented humor. Tasteless and at times hilarious, this movie re-imagines Travis Bickle as an overweight security guy working in a shopping mall. The movie has a few genuinely shocking moments. I admire it's go for broke attitude. For connoisseurs of politically incorrect cinema. |
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