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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:29 pm |
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Befade wrote: Inla..........I'm so glad to read your thoughts on Julie & Julia......and the relevance to modern women. Of course I now want to try some of the recipes (the cakes and the beef bourg.....) I don't know if any other men on the forum have seen it. The women I know who have seen it loved it.
Exactly. The mater now wants me to buy the old series on DVD. The two audiences filled with wommyn, a handful of husbands/dates and me, essentially, went bonkers at each screening. Just saying.
Befade wrote: I'll take your advice and see Hurt Locker and District 9. By the way I bet you're the only one here who has heard of Paper Heart......which I saw and enjoyed. I have heard of it, of course, and it's bitterly dividing the cognoscenti, they either enjoy it or are annoyed by it -- but I do love that uncanny Miss Yi in the interviews I've caught, and will surely catch it sooner or later.
Be prepared for extreme tension and apolitical incorrectness in the Bigelow masterwork, and the saving grace of the splatter in District 9 is not only that it happens very quickly, in near-documentary fashion, but that, as seldom, it is justified by the premise. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:31 pm |
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I assume you haven't seen G.I. Joe, inla.  |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:36 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I assume you haven't seen G.I. Joe, inla.  Um, no, marantzo, I haven't, tee-hee.
I did finally see Kamikaze Girls. I liked it. Does that count? |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:40 pm |
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| I haven't seen the Girls so I can't tell you if that counts or not. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:47 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I haven't seen the Girls so I can't tell you if that counts or not. That was a joke, marantzo. Kamikaze Girls is like, so 2006.
Am glad you enjoyed G.I. Joe, though. Will add it to the list. It's a long list, but I'll try to bump it up a few notches. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:50 pm |
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Inla...........Maybe your mother will take up cooking Julia's recipes and you can let us know how they turn out...
I had a delicious cream of carrot soup today.
I'm not a fan of war movies or action movies........but if you think they're good I'm influenced. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:02 pm |
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Befade wrote: Inla...........Maybe your mother will take up cooking Julia's recipes and you can let us know how they turn out...
I had a delicious cream of carrot soup today.
I'm not a fan of war movies or action movies........but if you think they're good I'm influenced. Well, that's very sweet, but, really don't be influenced by anybody but yourself...maybe nudged, a little. The Hurt Locker is not like any war film I've seen in recent years, as much a triplicate character study as anything else (and it's a lot else). It grabbed me in ways I'd have to go back to Battle of Algiers or Paths of Glory to properly analogize. District 9 is equal parts sci-fi, post-John Carpenter thriller, globalization cautionary, racial-prejudice allegory and pseudo-documentary, and also caught me off-guard, though in different ways, for different reasons.
Am quite certain the mater will take up Julia's recipes. She's already considering a rotisserie to spit-roast a chicken, and has started practicing her omelet flipping technique. Many eggs will perish, I fear, but she's enjoying herself.
Mmmmmmm, cream of carrot soup. Am hungry all over again. THAT is the other thing J&J lacks: a warning that "This movie will make you want to eat, and eat some more, and eat again after that." |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:15 pm |
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Quote: Mmmmmmm, cream of carrot soup.
Ordinarily that soup would not have appealed to me, but the cafe was offering free samples......and there was a touch of curry........Yummmmmm |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:19 pm |
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| Okay, that's it. I have to go get some Indian food, now, because as PDQ Bach would say, if you'd curry favor, favor curry. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:30 pm |
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| If you could send some curried spinach my way........ |
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:27 am |
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| All About Steve scores 0 out of 34 reviews! Sandra Bullock plays a crossword puzzle constructor, so I was mildly interested, but......! |
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:34 am |
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Oh, my. That's not a good sign for AAS or Ms. Bullock. There's usually at least one good/tolerant notice.
Befade wrote: If you could send some curried spinach my way........

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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:35 am |
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Befade wrote: I don't know if any other men on the forum have seen it. The women I know who have seen it loved it.
I beg your pardon. I reviewed it here the day after the movie came out. |
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:14 pm |
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| Sorry, Syd........I will carefully search for your review while I eat Inla's wonderful curried spinach......(Thank you!) |
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:28 pm |
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Syd......haven't found your review yet but I did find Inla's:
Quote: Of course, THE movie of our recent film going must wait until it's possible for me to do justice to why I loved it, perhaps in a (Famous inla First) actual review of it for Lorne to post. For now, let's just say that Julie & Julia is now my third (second if you count Up and Hurt Locker as tied for first) favorite film of 2009 so far, and that the bipolar, seam-full aspects that most critics belabor were probably my favorite thing about the movie, apart from the awards-bound Mrs. Gummer and Stanley T. (and a scene-devouring Jane Lynch). It's not deep-dish, it won't change the world as we know it or would like to see it, but it seemed to me entirely delectable. Would say that at least 80 per cent of the audience were wommyn, and more power to 'em. We went out and gorged ourselves at Le Petit Bistro afterwards. Fully expect to see it again after I've dieted.
I think I'm going to take a break before I resume searching..... |
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