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| Marj |
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billyweeds wrote: I also failed to see Tim in the trailer. How did you originally hear about Tim's participation, Marj? (You seemed utterly unsurprised by the revelation that he was in it.)
Billy--I am rarely surprised these days by a lot of things. Also having spoken to him a while back and having tried to follow his career, I kind of expected this.
But clearly my eyes and computer screen deceived me. I've seen plenty of pictures of Tim and I honestly thought that that was him in the preview. I'm sincerely embarrassed. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:32 pm |
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Quote: Off topic - Marc's new avatar looks like he'd be a good match for Marj's cutie-pie punim*...
*punim: Yiddish. Literally "face"...figuratively, "sweet face"
Lissa -- My Yiddish is awful. And yet I do know what a punim is. Still had it not been for you, I probably would have spelled it incorrectly.
And thanks for the sweet words. But I think Marc's avatar, whomever he may be, might be a tad too old. I think I was two or three in that photo. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:38 pm |
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Marj wrote: billyweeds wrote: I also failed to see Tim in the trailer. How did you originally hear about Tim's participation, Marj? (You seemed utterly unsurprised by the revelation that he was in it.)
Billy--I am rarely surprised these days by a lot of things. Also having spoken to him a while back and having tried to follow his career, I kind of expected this.
But clearly my eyes and computer screen deceived me. I've seen plenty of pictures of Tim and I honestly thought that that was him in the preview. I'm sincerely embarrassed.
There is one guy who is wearing a beard and could be Tim. He's the only one I thought might be, though I haven't ever seen Tim with that much facial hair. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:45 pm |
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| I guess now, we'll just have to wait to see the movie. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 3:02 pm |
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The drummer in the film is a street musician called Shakerleg. Seems he plays at Union Square a lot and more recently outside the Trump Tower, where he accidentally got hooked up with opening two shows for Guns and Roses last week (prior to the opening act). No wonder Tim was in this film.
Here's a review of his CD recorded in the Union Square subway station.
Yambu, check out the trailer and let us know what you think of his drumming. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 6:37 pm |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 6:48 pm |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 9:37 pm |
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Terminator Salvation doesn't give you a break. Sit down, hold your breath for two hours, then exhale. This is a good and bad thing. Good because the action is relentless. Bad because it's like sex without foreplay.
Here's what happens: it's 2003 and a prisoner on death row donates his body to science. He's remorseful, even thoughtful, and the message seems to be, "Here's one of the nice murderers". There's more to this character than meets the eye and you know that...um...he'll be back.
Then it's 2018, and there's John Connor in mid-battle with Skynet robots. Don't recognize those names? Tough luck, game's on. The future the first three films described is here, and it's not friendly. Terminator Salvation is a bleak, extended chase scene, with the remaining pockets of humanity and the big, bad robots alternating between being chased and doing the chasing.
Connor's the moral leader of the resistance, and he's got two jobs. He must find a way to stop Skynet's robotic machines from eradicating what's left of the human race. That's the easy part. The hard part is he must also find and protect his father, who's presently younger than him and who must live long enough to be sent back to the past to sire Connor in the first place, thus giving the resistance its leader and best shot at salvation. Problem is, Skynet is hoping to kill Connor's once and future Dad before any of that happens.
But of course you knew all that. The film assumes you come with that backstory strapped firmly in place, which, in fairness, it should be, along with any other sensitive body parts, as the fourth film in the series careens from one desolate, bleached road to another, barely pausing for a grunt of dialogue before the next machine attacks.
Terminator Salvation wastes no time explaining. It just does. Like I said - sex without foreplay. It gives you an orgasm, but you kinda' wish you could've seen even one flower. |
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 10:25 pm |
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SUMMER HOURS directed by Olivier Assayas is a talky French flick that bored me to tears. It's been compared to the films of Jean Renoir and Ozu, two directors who I also find boring. Critics adored this one, I didn't.
So, the weekend tally from Marc and Uncle Richard:
Thumbs down for SUMMER HOURS and THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE.
Two big thumbs up for GOODBYE SOLO. |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 7:52 am |
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Tim (as Timothy) Davis is listed in the credits for The Girlfriend Experience, playing - of all things - Tim, according to IMdB. But he's not the boyfriend. And I've no clue who Tim is in the movie because there's no character biography as of yet.
Link here
Oh, and Marj - Yiddish words are pretty much spelled however the speller wishes. I spelled it the way I've always seen it, but usually, if you can pronounce it as written - it's all good.  |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 11:10 am |
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Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank is the only film from Cannes which I'm interested in -- though clearly Manohla isn't.
Arnold's short film Wasp is great -- I just watched it for a third time on a short film anthology Dvd. Probably can still be found online. I really disliked her feature film Red Road. So I'm somewhat wary on Fish Tank, but willing to give it a try.
Nearly picked up Momma's Man tonight on Dvd. Will likely get it at some point. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 11:50 am |
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| Wish Tim would stop by here occasionally. But if his career is taking off at such a speed he has not time to post, I'm happy for him. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 11:52 am |
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| Yeah, he was great as the Tim character in that Girlfriend movie. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 12:18 pm |
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Marc--Why the edit? Many of us saw the original post. And you said very recently--I can produce the post where you said it--that you never edited posts except for punctuation and such like. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 12:20 pm |
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gromit wrote:
Nearly picked up Momma's Man tonight on Dvd. Will likely get it at some point.
Please do. You will not regret it.
Meanwhile, I have a major bone to pick with you. Why the snarky comment about Tim's career? You may not know how difficult it is to get a role in a movie, much less one directed by a mainstreamer like Steven Soderbergh. |
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