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| Syd |
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| Nancy really died too soon. Robert Rodriguez is supposedly going to actually do the Machete movie. She was hoping he would. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 5:20 pm |
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| Something I was hoping for too. Nancy and I usually had similar taste in movies. When I see Machete I'll be thinking of her. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 7:44 am |
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I liked State of Play. There are some scenes that strain credulity, but it keeps you interested and absorbed. Don't know why Mark walked out. I thought it was good movie entertainment.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 8:18 am |
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Ghulam wrote: I liked State of Play. There are some scenes that strain credulity, but it keeps you interested and absorbed. Don't know why Mark walked out. I thought it was good movie entertainment.
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I felt like walking out myself. It was worthwhile only because of Russell Crowe's performance. All else was cheeseball--including Helen Mirren (!). |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 12:20 pm |
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I almost saw it last Sunday. When my friend read what it was about, he was gung ho. But I knew he'd end up being disappointed so I brought Michael Clayton out there and once we got into that, State of Play was all but forgotten.
I probably will end up seeing it but as a rental. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:33 pm |
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| Well, Ghulam........you've tipped my scales. Maybe others don't think it's worth seeing.......but there's only one theatre in town and it's the last day for State of Play........I'm going. In these rural small towns a movie costs $5. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 5:03 pm |
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| I must admit, Betsy, that with so few interesting movies out right now, I would like to have seen it. But for us it would have been 24 dollars and change. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 6:05 am |
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| Got my tickets for Star Trek and will see it tomorrow night. Selling out fast. This is going to be huge in a whole new sense. It will dwarf Wolverine and Watchmen at the box office and will win awards. The early reviews are rapturous, and I expect to love it even though I was never even momentarily enchanted with the TV series and liked only one of the movies. I am not a Trekkie by the slightest stretch of the imagination, and yet I have my tickets in advance. This says something. |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 7:00 am |
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| Look for the late Randy Pausch in a cameo, billy - it was his dream come true. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 11:18 am |
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| On my flights to and from Heathrow, I saw "Happy Go Lucky" and "Last Chance Harvey." Enjoyed both. "Happy Go Lucky" seemed spotty to me--some of it was fascinating, some I wanted to fast-forward through--and Poppy's chipperness did get a bit wearing. "Last Chance Harvey" was exactly as expected (my mother had seen it and loved it), and made me want to see a lot more of Emma Thompson in movies. |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 1:23 pm |
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| I have to rent both, actually, but am leaning toward Last Chance Harvey first. HBO has been showing Sense and Sensibility this week, and Emma Thompson shines in that film. I, too, find her highly watchable and very talented. From Miss Elinor Dashwood, to Karen Eiffel (Stranger than Fiction) to Sybil Trelawney (Harry Potter) to the numerous characters she plays in Angels in America, this is an actor from the old school of "I can do anything, and do it well" acting. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 2:37 pm |
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| I'll be seeing STAR TREK tonight. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 2:45 pm |
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| So far every review has been a rave. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:39 pm |
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Even I want to see "Star Trek," and I've never wanted to see another one of the movies before. (I did watch the TV show, back in the day.)
Lissa: "Last Chance Harvey" is very predictable but its charm is in the characters--they're both so incredibly likeable, and it's extremely enjoyable to watch them getting their lives intertwined. Even when they're walking together, him so short and her so tall, it's obvious that they're a perfect match. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 5:23 pm |
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Just saw Observe and Report and can't understand why the critics didn't rave more about it. It's my favorite movie of the year so far. Seth Rogen plays a bipolar mall security guard with delusions of grandeur, and things happen. Rogen is brilliant in the lead, trumping Will Ferrell in a Ferrell-type role, and he gets great support from Anna Faris, Michael Pena, Ray Liotta, and Celia Weston. The movie has been compared with Taxi Driver, but it's far funnier; in fact, it's hilarious, though quite dark at the core. I rate it a must.
Rogen makes his very edgy character intensely sympathetic despite horrible things the character does, and this is an impressive achievement.
P.S. Just noted that Manohla Dargis loathed the movie. Well, that makes sense. She and I hardly ever see eye to eye. |
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