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| Joe Vitus |
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| Metropolis is a great movie. See it. Don't buy it yet, because restoration of lost footage in on-going. But see it. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:42 pm |
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| Yeah, Metropolis, even in its truncated form, is a visual wonder and a great movie. A must for anyone who thinks Blade Runner is original. (Yes, but perhaps not as much as you think) Can't wait for the recently found lost footage to be fully restored. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:57 pm |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:49 pm |
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Love Blade Runner. A jaw-droppingly beautiful movie.
Don't see much comparison with Metropolis; I guess they are kind of the flip sides of each other. Metropolis posits a shiny-bright Art Deco wonderland (exept for the very poor beneath the city), while Blade Runner shows us an industrial sprawl of element-beaten refubised-but-falling-to-pieces urban blight (Tyrel's nest excepted). The fake Maria is a robot while the real Rachel is one. But I rather doubt a direct influence.
I find the story in Blade Runner more compelling, even if I don't find the plot to Metropolis quite the hogwash a lot of people make it out to be. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:57 pm |
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| The neat thing is that they have found the final missing segment of Metropolis, and restoration on the footage is occurring. A pretty monumental find, at this late date. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:42 pm |
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| Watched Superbad last night. Wait, that's a lie. Watched perhaps 15 minutes of Superbad and could not bear to watch more. Michael Cera's a one-trick pony, and boy am I tired of watching him turn the trick. Guess it's no worse than many other nerd or got-to-get-laid comedies, but I've seen more than my fill of both. If I were a teen, I would have probably liked it. But I remember the Porky's-type movie cycle. And the American Pie-type movie cycle. Don't need another cycle. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:46 pm |
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| you should have stuck with SUPERBAD. Its a very very funny movie. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:02 pm |
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Caught up with Last Chance Harvey. Nice idea to reteam Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson again after their supporting roles in Stranger than Fiction, and they are both, of course, very good and believable. It may be my mood, but I found a lot of sadness in the film, even though the ending is preordained, Harvey not being a complete idiot. The first part especially, where we get to see both of them in their loneliness, got to me. And this may actually be Harvey's last chance.
I found Harvey's heartfelt speech to his daughter a bit odd considering I thought she had treated him pretty badly. But maybe he was a worse parent than was shown here. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:02 am |
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Marc wrote: you should have stuck with SUPERBAD. Its a very very funny movie.
Nothing remotely funny in what I saw, just Cera's stuttering trying-to-hide-his-nerdiness-and-failing schtick. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:05 am |
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| Superbad is one of the funniest movies within memory, and I hate teen sex comedies as a genre. It's not a teen sex comedy. It's just a fall-down-hilarious movie. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:11 am |
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| inla--You gotta resize those Metropolis shots. They're making the page impossible to work with. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 7:11 am |
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I'm glad I avoided Superbad so far.
I also really disliked Pineapple Express,
so Billy's power of persuasion will not work on this one.
Watched most of the original In Cold Blood last night.
Very well-handled. I'm impressed.
It really captures the mood of the book,
in that we know what's about to go down,
but seeing it slowly come together is horrifying.
And then when the two worlds intersect ...
we veer off into another world, the police and detectives doing their jobs.
Powerful stuff. Some great editing choices.
I jumped a little when Perry turns out a light somewhere and then we cut to
the Clutter boy turning out his light before going to bed.
I also bought Fritz Lang's Man Hunt yesterday,
and am super-excited to watch that.
But last night I was afraid my eyes weren't up for a full movie. |
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You still might like Superbad, gromit. But it's a long shot.
Speaking of long, we should keep our sentences short until we change pages. |
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