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| whiskeypriest |
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billyweeds wrote: lady wakasa wrote: Thanks, folks!
Now for a couple of stress-filled weeks (it turns out I'm co-hosting a baby shower in DC the following weekend)...
whiskeypriest wrote: So I can expect you back on the NCfOM board on October 4?
Oh, NCfOM will never end... although it might be October 5th; I have the feeling there will be a large party the evening of October 3rd. %^D
I'd sort of like to dedicate this to Nancy, although it's probably too late to get that in the program.
Congratulations, Lady! It's all better than good!
But...what is this "NCfOM board" all about? Is there a Coen Bros. forum being planned that I don't know about? And if so, how did I miss it?
Though a Coen forum on the heels of A Serious Man sounds like a damned good idea. I'd even table my pending suggestion for a "Shakespeare on Film" forum for that. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:42 pm |
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9 is an 80-minute extension of the short that was nominated for an Oscar in 2006. The short was about an animated ragdoll (with a "9" stitched on his back) fighting a mechanical antlike beast roaming a post-apocalyptic ruined cityscape. It was evocative and weird, the characters were voiceless, and there wasn't any explanation as to what had happened. You got the idea, though, that humanity had destroyed itself.
The movie is much the same, except (1) the characters have voices (and one has a female voice), and you meet all of 1 - 8, (2) there is a second, more deadly monster, and (3) there are now explanations. Both the short and movie are action-packed. I think it worked better at the shorter length, but the new monsters are still pretty cool, robotic, and insectoid. Still an unusual looking film that owes a bit to Heavy Metal but is actually bearable. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:03 pm |
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| Major congrats, Lady_w. Wishing I could be there for the event. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:00 pm |
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| Up in the Air is getting some pretty serious good word out of Toronto. I like Reitman's first movie, Thank You For Smoking a lot, less so Juno, which made me want to brain the overly glib screenwriter with a god damned home skillet. May have to add that to my must see before the Blanches list. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:07 pm |
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Clooney has two--count 'em, two--movies opening which are reported to be equally good and equally among the very best of the year. One is Up in the Air and the other is The Men Who Stare at Goats. Those titles and Clooney's performances are going to be talked about so much we will be sick of them. But I will not miss them for anything. His co-star in Up in the Air is Vera Farmiga. Their chemistry is said to be for-the-ages, and the movie may bring Farmiga the major stardom she's been closing in on for quite some time.
Look for Clooney as this year's favorite in the Best Actor sweepstakes. (He's never won as Best Actor, just for supporting in Syriana.) |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:18 pm |
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| I was sold on The Men Who Stare at Goats from the title on, though the trailer, as too often happens, makes me wonder if I've already seen the good stuff. Not as much as, say, what appears to be some sort of remake of The Nutty Professor starring Michael Cera (Youth in Revolt, I think), where I am positive that I have already seen the one scene I would likely find incredibly funny, so there's no real reason to bother, but still.... |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:33 pm |
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Relayed Deaction Dept.:
Waytago, Lady W., woo-hoo, hoorah, hopla!
Non-Sequiturial Dept.:
It's so much easier to stomach At The Movies now that Michael Phillips and A.O. Scott have replaced the Pepcid-necessitating Bens. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:31 pm |
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| I wanted to watch "At the Movies" and it was pre-empted by some kind of ball game. Then I remembered that that was why I was always missing it before. Here in NYC, it gets no respect. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:02 am |
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inlareviewer wrote: Relayed Deaction Dept.:
Waytago, Lady W., woo-hoo, hoorah, hopla!
LOL, thanks, inla.
You *found* the main picture (although it's from the other showing we were working on %^D)... I'm impressed. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:41 pm |
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| So Extract was good, but for me, missed the mark. A story about a successful business man in a marriage that has hit a slow spot or actually stop spot when it comes to sex. His buddy played by Ben Affleck comes up with an idea that has unfortunate consequences. It is both funny and sad, and both Jason Bateman and BF are very entertaining - it just....didn't quite work for me. There are a number of very funny moments though. |
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whiskeypriest wrote: I was sold on The Men Who Stare at Goats from the title on, though the trailer, as too often happens, makes me wonder if I've already seen the good stuff. Not as much as, say, what appears to be some sort of remake of The Nutty Professor starring Michael Cera (Youth in Revolt, I think), where I am positive that I have already seen the one scene I would likely find incredibly funny, so there's no real reason to bother, but still....
The trailer of The Men Who Stare at Goats is very funny. I like the idea of an Army Psychic Corps. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:26 am |
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Syd wrote: whiskeypriest wrote: I was sold on The Men Who Stare at Goats from the title on, though the trailer, as too often happens, makes me wonder if I've already seen the good stuff. Not as much as, say, what appears to be some sort of remake of The Nutty Professor starring Michael Cera (Youth in Revolt, I think), where I am positive that I have already seen the one scene I would likely find incredibly funny, so there's no real reason to bother, but still....
The trailer of The Men Who Stare at Goats is very funny. I like the idea of an Army Psychic Corps.
http://incontention.com/?p=13981 |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:28 am |
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| I recall reading about that military group, which was evidently put together because the Russians were doing psychic research and we didn't want to let them get ahead. (It made for a good episode of The Prisoner.) |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:37 am |
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carrobin wrote: I recall reading about that military group, which was evidently put together because the Russians were doing psychic research and we didn't want to let them get ahead. (It made for a good episode of The Prisoner.)
So see? It was useful for something. |
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