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| marantzo |
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Kate wrote: marantzo wrote: So far I've seen three previews of movies that will be playing here shortly (it seems) The Taking of Pelham 123, which looks even worse than I remember it looking. The Ugly Truth, which looks like a terribly lame paint by numbers rom/com, and another rom/com that I can't even find on IMDB (looked three months back and three months forward). I don't remember the name, but it looks like it will make The Ugly Truth look like Annie Hall. I'm thinking it may not even be released in the states. It is an American film, but they might have thought dumping it on foreign shores might be a better idea. The next time I go to the movies, I'll be sure to remember the name.
Gary, The Ugly Truth was a seriously lame film that I wasted 10 bucks - you have been warned - it sucked.
Thanks for the warning Kate, but after seeing the preview, I had no intension of seeing it. I like Heigl too. Wish she would pick better projects. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:19 am |
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I saw Inglorious Basterds today after a meeting with a "talent agency". *ugh*
While I loved the dialogue and winks and nods, I wasn't nearly as blown away as most in here. Worthy of seeing because of Tarantino, but far, far away from being his best.
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:35 am |
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| Just want to say I wasn't "blown away" by Basterds. I enjoyed it. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:04 am |
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Basterds has been available here on dvd for 2-3 months already. I had planned to avoid it, but with all of the hoopla, I'll probably give it a go.
After suffering through the two Kill Bills, I steered cleared of his grindhouse film. Not a QT fan. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:30 am |
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Tyson is a pretty engrossing documentary, essentially one long interview with a reflective and emotional Iron Mike, interspersed with fight clips and past interviews. Some of his answers seem a little scripted as if that's what he learned to say (or learned to interpret his behavior) in therapy.
But it's fairly direct, and I have a fondness for not conventionally educated people who yearn to be articulate and educated (see Frazier, Walt "Clyde"). Though Tyson hangs on to and repeats some words a bit much, he uses a much more sophisticated vocabulary than one would expect. (his only real gaffe is referring to the President of Istanbul once or twice).
Most disturbing is his attitude towards women, which is largely skirted around. And there's also his anger management troubles both in and out of the ring. I would have also liked more thoughts and details on Don King. It's kind of shocking when he mentions winning a lawsuit against King and getting ""$20M or maybe $30M, I forget, but it was just small money" from it.
Anyway, this is a worthwhile doc. I know somebody (befade?) was touting this a few months back. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:05 pm |
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Inglourious Basterds (is that the right wrong spelling?) is certainly one of Tarantino's best, and certainly his most arrantly entertaining. It held my interest--or should I say gripped my interest as in a vise?--from first moment to last. It's somewhat crude--hell, it's really crude sometimes--but has an artistic vision which is consistent and riveting.
Christoph Waltz's Nazi is the best performance of a raft of them, including Pitt's obviously cartoonish one and the two ladies, Melanie Laurent and Diane Kruger, whose performance I slightly preferred to Laurent's(I seem to be in the minority there). Waltz makes Fiennes in Schindler's List seem mildly sympathetic by comparison.
It's funny often and suspenseful more often than that. The violence is so over-the-top that it's not really unsettling, except in one of Waltz's scenes toward the end (when he takes someone into the office at the movie theater). That was tough to take.
But by and large I loved this movie, and frankly I did not expect to do so. It's one of the best of the year. And this year is really shaping up, btw. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:34 pm |
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Marc wrote: Just want to say I wasn't "blown away" by Basterds. I enjoyed it.
Just want to say that I more than enjoyed it. If I wasn't "blown away," I was the next thing to it.
Must add that I did not recognize Mike Myers. I kept trying to figure out which actor was Rod Taylor and decided it was either the British commander (really Mike Myers) or the fat old man in the same scene (who was supposed to be Winston Churchill--I missed that--and was in fact Rod Taylor). Neither actor looked remotely like himsel, and neither was particularly good nor bad in his role IMO. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:23 pm |
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Quote: he uses a much more sophisticated vocabulary than one would expect
Yes, Gromit, I saw it and liked it. Agree with the above. And I was impressed with the fight clips. The guy could really box. He's lived in Phoenix and I saw him there at an Apple store. I was checking out the iphone and he came in with his bodyguard to buy one. I was like 2 feet from him and just stared trying to remember what movie he'd been in that I liked. Black & White......but I wasn't sure that was the title. In a slower world I would have said "I really liked you in ______. I hope you're going to be in more films." But in the real world he looked at me staring and nodded.
He had a young daughter who died here recently while playing with exercise equipment at her mother's house. A few weeks later Tyson got married to a younger woman in Las Vegas. He was raising pigeons in PHX. An unusual man. An unusual life. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:23 pm |
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Billy,
Yes, you correctly incorrectly spelled the title. (I got it wrong for a number of posts.) I'm really glad you liked it, and that it didn't turn out to be the kind of movie you thought it would.
I was blown away while watching it, because when Tarentino is on his game, his movies really revv me up. Having said that, I don't put it in the category of Kill Bill. I certainly expect to see Inglourious Basterds again, but I can't imagine wanting to see over and over as I did Kill Bill. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:35 pm |
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Kill Bill Vol.2 was the Tarantino movie I had enjoyed the most, and Inglourious Basterd does match it, the unsatisfactory ending notwithstanding.
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:46 pm |
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The British comedy In the Loop, with James Gandolfini, is about a bunch of high level bureaucrats in London and Washington falling over each other about the creation of a secret war committee in the U.S. Department of State. It is funny, but somewhat less so than that other comedy about Washington D.C. bureaucrats, Coen brothers' Burn After Reading, which I have now seen six times since it started appearing on HBO.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:54 pm |
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| In the Loop is one of the more overrated movies of the year. It has funny moments, but is far too impressed with its own edginess and supposed intelligence. It's a British satire on government bureaucracy, war, and a whole lot of other things, and talks and talks and talks, mostly in a profane way. It made me laugh occasionally, but more often bored me silly. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:55 pm |
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| Don't understand the love for Kill Bill, especially Pt. 1, which I thought was pretty lousy. Pt. 2 improved a bit, but this is so far from the best Tarantino that I just don't get it. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:10 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Don't understand the love for Kill Bill, especially Pt. 1, which I thought was pretty lousy. Pt. 2 improved a bit, but this is so far from the best Tarantino that I just don't get it.
While I suspect levels of resentment stemming from the film's title and your own movie career, I do agree that the Kill Bills were atrocious. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:28 pm |
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| We are all over the map on this one. I liked Kill Bill I, but the last 20 minutes of Kill Bill II completely ruined it for me. |
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