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| whiskeypriest |
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billyweeds wrote: whiskeypriest wrote: Anyway, back to a current film, I must say I really hate the poster for Hurt Locker. Not that it isn't excellent from an aesthetic standpoint, but that's a great scene that loses a bit when you've already seen the reveal.
To be honest, I think one may not even realize what scene that is from seeing the poster, so I don't think anything is really spoiled. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:33 am |
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| Whiskey, you didn't give away the part with the alien landing, did you? |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:35 am |
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| No, the scene with the gorilla. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:16 am |
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whiskeypriest wrote: especially the ending, which Greene did not like
Greene was clearly imperfect.
whiskeypriest wrote: * Because John Shade was taken as an NYT screen name and Charles Kinbote just wouldn't do.
We are sooooo on the same page here. Pale Fire is 'da bomb. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:59 am |
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whiskeypriest wrote: No, the scene with the gorilla.
Unfortunately continuing the typecasting of Marlene Dietrich. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:41 pm |
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Saw The Hurt Locker for the third time today. Better and better. This time the black humor emerged more strongly. There are some pretty solid (uneasy) laughs along the way, and Kathryn Bigelow and Jeremy Renner time those moments very cannily.
It's an instant classic the like of which all too rarely comes along. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:07 pm |
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| there were some amusing moments between Sgt. James and Beckham. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:25 pm |
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Marc wrote: there were some amusing moments between Sgt. James and Beckham.
The second mission, the one where he searches through the car and takes his suit off, was quite funny.
SPOILER
Where the other two guys are trying to figure James out and where James flips Sanborn off. |
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| McBain |
| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:24 am |
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lshap wrote: I saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince yesterday, not because of any personal interest, but because it was part of the birthday party for my two boys and four of their friends. I saw the very first film, liked it, but had no idea what's happened in the last six years worth of films.
Lots, apparently. While Harry, Ron and Hermione are familiar enough, and Dumbledore (sp?) remains the timeless Obi-Wan-esque father figure, a whole other mythology has evolved, grown up, and swirled out of thin air. There are bad guys, really bad guys, and uberbad guys - layer upon layer of evil, apparently dependent on a magical pissing match of whose wand is bigger. I don't mean to be dismissive, it's just that I don't know the players. But I recognize quality, and it's clear The Half-Blood Prince is a really good film, anchored by central characters with solid histories that are well-acted, and nicely nurtured from adolescence into early adulthood.
But as Syd said, it ain't for the non-fan. I had no clue who, what, when and why things were happening, which, I guess, proves how popular this franchise is if it can build a huge box office base on fans alone. It also proves you should never take a group of nine-year-olds to a two-and-a-half hour movie without forcing them to go to the toilet beforehand.
I've seen all the films because my wife is a *huge* fan of the books and films. The sixth film is actually quite good, and one of the best aspects of it is that its a children's story that actually allows real bad guys.
My criticisms mostly center around a plot point which my wife tells me is greatly expanded upon in the book, but which obviously is broken in any reasonable narrative sense in the movie.
The third film is still far and away the best of the six, because the director was a real artist. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:12 am |
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| The only real criticisms I've heard about the Harry Potter movie have to do with the way the book was trimmed down. Maybe I should read the book again before I see it. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:35 am |
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carrobin wrote: The only real criticisms I've heard about the Harry Potter movie have to do with the way the book was trimmed down. Maybe I should read the book again before I see it.
I'm hoping they find a way to fit the cut-out elements into the two-part finale. They did a much better job of trimming the plot than they did in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:36 pm |
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Finally saw The Hurt Locker. My first reaction is to turn to that swaggering, confident, convention-breaking film and say to it what that hard-ass captain said to Sgt. James: "You're a wild man!". Like James, The Hurt Locker flushes expectations down the latrine and, in the end, does an amazing job.
The fact that this male-based story with an all-male cast smelling of jockstrap sweat was directed by a female is just one cool surprise. You're a wild man, Katherine Bigelow! |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:19 pm |
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Quote: that hard-ass captain
a brief but indelible performance by David Morse. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:59 pm |
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Marc wrote: Quote: that hard-ass captain
a brief but indelible performance by David Morse.
That was David Morse???? Holy shit, he was unrecognizable! |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:57 pm |
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Moon: Lorne pretty much nailed it back here: http://tinyurl.com/nwnttt. This is thoughtful science fiction, in the vein of Solaris, Vanilla Sky, 2001, Blade Runner, etc.,* trying to give you the feeling what it might actually be like to live in the future. In this case spending a three-month tour at a lunar mining station with the only ones to talk to being yourself and a sentient robot. It starts off like it's going to be a mindbender, but it does wind up pretty much making sense, trusting in you to make some connections that aren't explicitly laid out. It actually had a pretty good audience despite (or maybe because) it being restricted to two shows a day, both in the evening with zero publicity. It's sure to be an arty entry at science fiction and space conventions.
[I suspect Silent Running is the closest to it, but I haven't seen it. For some reason, I was also thinking of Dark Star, although Moon is not funny at all.] |
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