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| billyweeds |
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Marc wrote: My main problem with THIRST is that it kept shifting tone from horror to bizarro comedy. I found that jarring. It did not cast the spell that OLD BOY did.
Billy, have you seen OLD BOY?
Yes, and had a weird reaction to it. I found it absolutely riveting at first and it held me for quite a while, but somewhere around the halfway mark its deliberate grotesquerie became rather annoying to me and I bailed. It's a strange and unique movie but isn't a favorite of mine. The title, btw, is Oldboy (one word) but it's being remade by Spielberg as Old Boy (two). |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:30 am |
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| Billy, if you're up to it, give Oldboy another chance. It has an amazing ending. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:11 am |
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Marc wrote: Billy, if you're up to it, give Oldboy another chance. It has an amazing ending.
Sounds like a plan. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:40 pm |
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| Oldboy being remade? Yes, Billy you need to see the ending. I can't say the film is a favorite of mine......probably because the clues to the story are so undecipherable. And it has a wretched tone to it. (as opposed to relaxing or intriguing.) |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:43 pm |
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| Earl........I bailed. I didn't drive 2 hours to see Thirst. But I'm thinking about driving 2 hours this week to see a double feature. Any opinions? There's 3 to pick from: New York, I Love You; A Serious Man; and An Education. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:58 pm |
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Befade wrote: Earl........I bailed. I didn't drive 2 hours to see Thirst. But I'm thinking about driving 2 hours this week to see a double feature. Any opinions? There's 3 to pick from: New York, I Love You; A Serious Man; and An Education.
I've seen the first one and liked it very much. I haven't yet seen the other two, but both are on a growing list of movies in theaters right now that I want to see. I just hope I have time to get to all of them. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:20 pm |
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| I think you're doing better than me. I'm behind my last year's viewing. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:54 am |
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| The only one I've seen is A Serious Man, but I doubt either of the other two is as good. Few movies are. |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:20 am |
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| I got sort of confused between Nine and District Nine, so I picked them both up. I guess I don't know anything about Nine, except the cover and the animation look pretty cool. And since this is the Year of Animation, I bought it. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:46 am |
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gromit wrote: I got sort of confused between Nine and District Nine, so I picked them both up. I guess I don't know anything about Nine, except the cover and the animation look pretty cool. And since this is the Year of Animation, I bought it.
You're also going to get confused between 9 (the aninmated feature) and Nine (the musical).
I've been getting confused between A Serious Man and A Single Man. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:40 pm |
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| And you'll soon be seeing Up and Up in the Air both nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. Bet on it. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:12 pm |
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| A Christmas Carol is a potential threat for the Best Animated Feature. It's spectacular looking. It may run into trouble with some animation choices, and to some extent the look of the people. Same problem as with The Polar Express. However, here the story is stronger, if over-familiar, and it is scary where it needs to be scary. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:20 pm |
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Syd wrote: A Christmas Carol is a potential threat for the Best Animated Feature. It's spectacular looking. It may run into trouble with some animation choices, and to some extent the look of the people. Same problem as with The Polar Express. However, here the story is stronger, if over-familiar, and it is scary where it needs to be scary.
Up is unbeatable. Period. Paragraph. The end.
That doesn't mean it's necessarily better than A Christmas Carol (it's nowhere near as good as the unnominatable Sita Sings the Blues), but it's...unbeatable. Believe it. Bet on it. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:24 pm |
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| I'm looking forward to Wes Anderson's animated fox movie. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:08 pm |
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I'm not sure who votes in the animated category. Does everyone vote or just the animators? If the latter, they may go for the flashier animation rather than story.
There was a longer preview of The Princess and the Frog and I don't think it will make the cut if there are three nominees, but probably will if there are five. There seem to be more animated films this year than usual.
There was a new preview of Despicable Me which reveals what it is about: Gru is the #1 supervillain in the world who is suddenly demoted to #2 so there is a clash of supervillains. There was also one for How to Train Your Dragon with those and Toy Story 3, I'm expecting to spend some time next year at the movie theater with a silly grin on my face. Well, sillier grin. |
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