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| gromit |
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Did you sit in every seat and put your feet up and loudly discuss plot developments?
I would have.
I picked up a copy of Twilight for the nieces. So I'll probably give it a look.
Not a current film you say? Tis in Shanghai where it just hit the theaters this week.
Countess is already here on deeveedee. I'm leaning towards adding that to my dvd supply.
Anyone hear anything about Moon with Sam Rockwell? On dvd here. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:23 pm |
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| Mr. Fox is tanking at the boxoffice. Go see it now. This is a lovely movie that needs an audience. If you want to see quality films being produced we must support films like FANTASTIC MR. FOX. |
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| mirgun |
| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:27 pm |
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| Anyway I saw Fantastic Mr .Fox. It was a terrific movie which made me feel happy and optimistic, which is not a bad thing, is it? I liked the handmade quality of the puppets and I thought the voice overs matched the characters really well. it was a sweet and endearing movie. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:48 am |
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Marc wrote: Mr. Fox is tanking at the boxoffice. Go see it now. This is a lovely movie that needs an audience. If you want to see quality films being produced we must support films like FANTASTIC MR. FOX.
It'll be next weekend for me, but I'll see it. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:03 am |
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Pirate Radio
I like the U.K. title, The Boat That Rocked, a whole lot better than its U.S. name. Also, writer/director Richard Curtis can't seem to decide if he wants to tell a boy-coming-of-age story or a cool-rebels-fight-uptight-establishment story. No matter, the movie is still utterly charming and fun. There is enough great music* and good vibrations to keep things flowing in an entertaining way. Go see it in a theater with a really good sound system and enjoy the nostalgia bath.
*I'm no rock historian or anything, but the movie is supposedly set in 1966 and I think some of the music heard in it actually came a few years later. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:07 am |
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Earl,
I'm a little surprised you're the first who has seen it. I thought the promos looked like fun. Either way, glad you enjoyed it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:55 am |
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Marc wrote: Mr. Fox is tanking at the boxoffice. Go see it now. This is a lovely movie that needs an audience. If you want to see quality films being produced we must support films like FANTASTIC MR. FOX.
The movie got good review, actually very good reviews all around. Why would it be tanking? It's been touted as a good movie for children and adults. Strange. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:52 am |
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| After the largely negative reviews for Pirate Radio, I am hearing nothing but raves from people who have seen it. This may have to be checked out. I also asked those who saw it about the chronological inaccuracies of the songs involved. At least one person says the inaccurate songs are "on the soundtrack" rather than being the ones played in the story line. (Does this make sense to you? I know I haven't phrased it clearly.) |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:10 am |
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I agree with all the praise for The Fantastic Mr. Fox. It was a delight to watch. My qualms about the stop-motion vanished within a minute. It was very cleverly done. I think kids will like it, too.
On the other hand, I walked out of Ninja Assassin after about twenty minutes. I like my crap adulterated, thank you. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:15 am |
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Marj wrote: Earl,
I'm a little surprised you're the first who has seen it. I thought the promos looked like fun. Either way, glad you enjoyed it.
I'm glad, too, especially since I didn't set out to see it. On a whim last night I decided to walk down to the theater to see the martial arts/action movie Ninja Assassin. Earlier in the day I had read an article in the paper about Rain (I've forgotten his real name), the Korean star of the movie, and was curious about him and the movie. The next show was sold out and, even though it was playing on two screens there, I didn't feel like hanging around waiting for the one after that. "House of the Dead 2" is a fun video game, but I'm not good enough on it to last an hour.
Anyway, that's kind of a pressure-filled situation. My movie was sold out, a line at least ten people deep was behind me and I had to make a quick decision about what to see. I stepped back to scan the overhead board showing all the titles and my eyes landed on Pirate Radio. Remembering that I had wanted to see it when it was first released, and noticing that a show was about to start in a few minutes, I asked for that.
Thus, a spur-of-the-moment decision to see Ninja Assassin led to a spur-of-the-second decision to see Pirate Radio.
It's not a great movie by any stretch. And it won't get any Blanche nominations from me unless we invent a new category called "Best Cameo" in which case I'll vote for January Jones from Pirate Radio. But maybe it caught me in the right mood; I had a fun time with it.
The audience seemed to be in the 40-65 age group and filled the theater to about 3/4 capacity. They enjoyed it a lot. I heard a few British accents before the house lights went down, so perhaps they had personal memories of this period in British history. When the movie ended the audience spontaneously applauded, something I rarely hear in a movie theater anymore. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:18 am |
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Syd wrote: I agree with all the praise for The Fantastic Mr. Fox. It was a delight to watch. My qualms about the stop-motion vanished within a minute. It was very cleverly done. I think kids will like it, too.
On the other hand, I walked out of Ninja Assassin after about twenty minutes. I like my crap adulterated, thank you.
After seeing this comment, I'm glad I didn't see Ninja Assassin after all.
And The Fox is definitely on for next weekend. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:27 am |
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billyweeds wrote: After the largely negative reviews for Pirate Radio, I am hearing nothing but raves from people who have seen it. This may have to be checked out. I also asked those who saw it about the chronological inaccuracies of the songs involved. At least one person says the inaccurate songs are "on the soundtrack" rather than being the ones played in the story line. (Does this make sense to you? I know I haven't phrased it clearly.)
This is a good point. I hadn't considered the distinction between "Source" music and "Soundtrack" music. Maybe within those definitions, Richard Curtis got it right. I'm really not sure. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:07 pm |
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Earl wrote: billyweeds wrote: After the largely negative reviews for Pirate Radio, I am hearing nothing but raves from people who have seen it. This may have to be checked out. I also asked those who saw it about the chronological inaccuracies of the songs involved. At least one person says the inaccurate songs are "on the soundtrack" rather than being the ones played in the story line. (Does this make sense to you? I know I haven't phrased it clearly.)
This is a good point. I hadn't considered the distinction between "Source" music and "Soundtrack" music. Maybe within those definitions, Richard Curtis got it right. I'm really not sure. |
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ANTICHRIST relies too much on shock, as opposed to narrative and performance, to deliver an emotional impact. It has some beautiful imagery but overall is simpleminded and pretentious. A deadly combo. Von Trier is trying to meld his Tarkovsky and Bergman aspirations with contemporary torture porn tropes. An interesting idea that turns out to not really be very interesting. The dialogue is such a mashup of psycho-babble cliches and mystical relgious mumbo jumbo that it borders on parody. Which may be Von Trier's intent. Too bad I found little humor in it and zero insight.
Charlotte Gainsbourg survives the Von Trier boot camp with the requisite scars, bruises and tears. Willem Dafoe is typically underwhelming, a black hole of an actor.
Go into this expecting the grimmest of fairy tales and perhaps you won't be too disappointed. Go into it expecting a satisfying intellectual or emotional experience and you'll leave the theater famished. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:43 pm |
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Marc wrote: Willem Dafoe is typically underwhelming, a black hole of an actor.
Bravo. It seems that to fail to praise Dafoe one risks the label of Philistine, but he's never done much for me, except in a very funny episode of Fishing with John, the television series in which John Lurie (Stranger Than Paradise) goes fishing with other cult actors. Dafoe and Lurie go ice fishing and end up deep in Samuel Beckett territory. Hilarious. Otherwise, I take a pass Dafoe-wise. |
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