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| Earl |
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The URL you posted needed an "m" at the end of the ".co" to make it a ".com" I added the "m" in the quotation of your post above, so now it should work.
And thanks for the link. Interesting stuff which I hadn't known before. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 8:44 pm |
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| Drag Me to Hell is a lot of fun, but I didn't like it nearly as much as Marc did. It's silly and scary and intermittently funny, but scarcely a classic horror film. There are some genuinely icky moments which grossed me out in an entertaining way, and it certainly isn't boring by a long shot. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 8:50 pm |
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lshap wrote: Up got a rave review from our only-sometimes-right local critic. The question is: do I bring kids and resign myself to the inevitable talking and shuffling of snacks? Or do I go with the wife and have a quiet, cinematic experience while wondering, "Would the kids like this?"
Take the kids. They'll like it a lot and you'll be happy knowing they're having a good time. You'll probably like it too. Occasionally it starts getting cute but quickly rights itself. It's also a sort of love story that had my eyes damp a couple of times.
One charming little shot is the shadow of the house with the balloons above it, but since the balloons are translucent, you see their shadows as colors. Very pretty.
The closing credits are charming, too. The Wilderness Explorers give badges for the oddest things, some of which made me laugh.
The opening short is hard to describe without giving too much away. It starts off cloyingly cute but then gets really funny. |
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 9:02 pm |
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Up sounds like an update of Danny Deckchair, which was a pretty decent little film. Or maybe Castle in the Sky. I don't know much about Up, but it's getting good buzz all around.
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I'm looking forward to Coraline which has just turned up here.
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Thanks, Earl. I went back and fixed it too.
I tried to delete the / and removed the m instead.
Looks liek the Austin Cinemateque is just during the school year, or at least they haven't added a summer schedule yet. Nice listings during the Spring, though most of those are available on dvd, most from Criterion. Still I'd love to see Cria Cuervos on a Big Screen. |
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:19 pm |
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They had a preview of Fame, which didn't need to be remade. Having said that, both "Fame" and "Out Here on My Own" are in the soundtrack, and the girl in the trailer does a nice job on the latter. That was my favorite song in the original. It's just a lovely song, beautifully sung by Irene Cara in the original. I see the character names are different this time, so it may not be a straight remake.
There was a trailer for The Princess and the Frog, too, with a joke that I saw coming a mile away and is still funny. SPOILER: (An alternate title was The Frog Princess, which tells you what the joke is.) If you're wondering about the accents, it's set in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It's also hand-drawn animation, which Disney was going to stop doing, but apparently changed their minds because John Lasseter has a brain in his head. Looks to me like the chief challenger to Up for Animated Feature at the Oscar.
As for G-Force, they have successfully animated talking guinea pigs. Looks like a good job of animation, and it might well be worth watching if you have a 10-year old in tow.
There was also Planet 51 where an alien planet is suddenly invaded by alien aliens, i.e. humans. Looks like a one-joke movie, but the joke is a good one, used more seriously in Battle for Terra, which I haven't seen. |
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:26 pm |
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Quote: Drag Me to Hell is a lot of fun, but I didn't like it nearly as much as Marc did. It's silly and scary and intermittently funny, but scarcely a classic horror film. There are some genuinely icky moments which grossed me out in an entertaining way, and it certainly isn't boring by a long shot
Billy, I think we more or less agree. DRAG ME TO HELL may not be a classic horror film, but it has a scene that I think will be considered classic over time. The scene is the one that takes place inside the car in the parking garage involving a staple gun, a ruler, false teeth and a cinderblock. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 5:49 am |
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Marc wrote: Quote: Drag Me to Hell is a lot of fun, but I didn't like it nearly as much as Marc did. It's silly and scary and intermittently funny, but scarcely a classic horror film. There are some genuinely icky moments which grossed me out in an entertaining way, and it certainly isn't boring by a long shot
Billy, I think we more or less agree. DRAG ME TO HELL may not be a classic horror film, but it has a scene that I think will be considered classic over time. The scene is the one that takes place inside the car in the parking garage involving a staple gun, a ruler, false teeth and a cinderblock.
You're right about that scene. My particular favorite in terms of total ick was the one in bed, featuring nose, mouth, and...you know.
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I think Raimi could have found a more acceptable way around the kitty sacrifice. It lost sympathy for our heroine. I was also not enchanted by the ending. I wanted the Stuart-gets-the-button finale that Christine rejected. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:26 am |
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| Though the car scene and some other fights with the curse giving, dead old horror were well done and entertaining, (I especially liked the rainy adventure in the cemetery), the movie was just plain silly and I didn't like it. I didn't care if the heroine went to hell or not. And I don't know where the humour was that has been mentioned by a lot of viewers and critics. For me Drag Me To Hell was a dumb, messy, one-note bore. And to add insult to injury, the popcorn was lousy. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:57 am |
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marantzo wrote: And to add insult to injury, the popcorn was lousy.
I made my own popcorn. That took care of that. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:04 am |
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| My kids liked Up. I loved it. Pixar's skill at infusing emotions into their animated characters should be the envy of any actor. Yes, the effects are great and the story is fun, but it's the feeling, the motivation, the love story wafting in the background that moves this film forward. That this is conveyed through animated expressions is damn impressive. Up is mediocre as an action/adventure tale, but it's sublime as a story of lost love and unfulfilled promises. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:09 am |
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| Had you decided to go sans kids, Lorne, I'd have asked to borrow your twins to go see the movie. Not sure my older son is into it, and the younger went on his own with two other friends Friday night ("no mom, you can't come with us"). Turns out, one of the friends didn't like it, so they left at the beginning and went into another theater. He still wants to see it. My Pixar viewing days are safe! So this weekend, it's either that, or Night at the Museum 2 at the IMAX downtown. YAY! |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:45 am |
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Lissa, I'll fax you a schedule of the best times to take my kids to a) A film; b) A water slide; c) Dinner; d) My Mother-In-Law.
Thanks in advance, and I'll let you know what you owe me. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:00 am |
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Uh wait...what I owe you? We're talking mother-in-law, remember?
How's about clubs, do the boys like clubbing? |
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Observe and Report has perhaps the weirdest anti-hero in film history. Seth Rogen plays a mall security man who thinks he is something special. The movie is a journey with this deluded, inflated, way off centre character who does and says outrageous things with an air of self aggrandized confidence. He lives in his own strange world and lives with his drunken, crude, repulsive mother.
This is a funny, disturbing and coarse movie that through some kind of magic has emotional tenderness seeping through the crassness in which it is wrapped. It also contains one of the funniest date sequences that you can imagine. A couple of excellent scenes of mayhem. A cast of characters that inhabit the mall who are right out of a Chuck Jones cartoon.
I could go on, but I'm too lazy right now. I really liked this movie.
Thanks Billy. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:51 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Observe and Report has perhaps the weirdest anti-hero in film history. Seth Rogen plays a mall security man who thinks he is something special. The movie is a journey with this deluded, inflated, way off centre character who does and says outrageous things with an air of self aggrandized confidence. He lives in his own strange world and lives with his drunken, crude, repulsive mother.
This is a funny, disturbing and coarse movie that through some kind of magic has emotional tenderness seeping through the crassness in which it is wrapped. It also contains one of the funniest date sequences that you can imagine. A couple of excellent scenes of mayhem. A cast of characters that inhabit the mall who are right out of a Chuck Jones cartoon.
I could go on, but I'm too lazy right now. I really liked this movie.
Thanks Billy.
So glad you liked it. It's still far and away my favorite movie of the year thus far. |
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