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| Befade |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:51 pm |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:19 pm |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:30 pm |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:06 pm |
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Quote: During the three-month transition period between Election Day and Inauguration Day, have the winner of the election do the job of notifying the next-of-kin that their loved one has just been killed in action. See if the leader will still send young people to die after that.
Brilliant. And thank you Earl for posting on new films. I will see The Messenger thanks to your review. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:33 pm |
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Re: Thirst
lady wakasa wrote:
Wade & I (and Marc in there somewhere) talked about it last spring or so.
And I finally got around to it two or three months after you guys did. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:09 pm |
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National Board of Review picks Up in the Air as top pic of 2009; Precious gets snubbed (though Mlle. Sidibe, alongside Hurt Locker's Mr. Renner, takes Breakthrough Performance); East Clintwood for Invictus directus, Clooney and Freeman tie for Master Thespian, La Belle Carey of An Education Prima Donna; Messenger Harrelson and Up in the Air Kendrick get supphose; Up animated feature, A Prophet foreign language, The Cove documentary, It's Complicated ensemble, the Bros. Coen original screenplay Reitman and Turner adapted.
National Board of Review Picks 'Up in the Air,' Snubs 'Precious' |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:17 pm |
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Inla, from the article you just linked to:
"Besides “Precious” and “Nine,” such well-regarded films as Tom Ford’s “A Serious Man,” John Hillcoat’s “The Road” and Michael Hoffman’s “The Last Station” were not mentioned."
What's wrong with that sentence? |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:19 pm |
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I just saw The Invention of Lying, which I enjoyed without being knocked out by it. This is the one where Ricky Gervais plays a man who spontaneously develops the ability to lie in a world where everyone always tells the truth, often without discretion. Fortunately for the world, he also is an intelligent and kind man. If he'd had the personality of Joseph Goebbels, it would be a horror movie rather than a comedy. When he makes up heaven to ease his mother's death, he also looses religion on the world.
The movie is pleasant enough, but it would benefit by being a bit nastier.
The movie also suggests that couples not being able to lie to each other results in people marrying for pragmatic reasons such as genetics rather than also considering that kindness and intelligence might also be traits that you'd want in a father, even if he is short, fat and has a little nose. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:10 pm |
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I'm probably the only one here who has already seen Up in the Air (except maybe inla) and I am here to tell you that it is nowhere near the best film of the year.
That said, it is a very good movie. It does give Clooney a quintessential Clooney role and I fully expect him to win the Oscar (and did upon seeing the film). Anna Kendrick as supporting actress is a stretch, especially since she occupies the same movie as Vera Farmiga, who gives a more memorable, far more iconic performance in the same supporting category. (They are both being plumped for the Oscar.)
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:18 pm |
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Quote: (They are both being plumped for the Oscar.)
Is being chubby an advantage in the supporting actress category? |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:42 pm |
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| Hey, you ignoring my question? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:55 pm |
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Marc wrote: Hey, you ignoring my question?
Who is Tom Ford and what does he have to do with A Serious Man? |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:17 pm |
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| yeah. I e-mailed the writer of the piece, Steve Pond, asking him who Tom Ford is and what does he have to do with the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man". I haven't heard back. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:04 pm |
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Marc wrote: yeah. I e-mailed the writer of the piece, Steve Pond, asking him who Tom Ford is and what does he have to do with the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man". I haven't heard back.
It's a mistake. He's talking about A Single Man, not to be confused with A Serious Man, just as Up is not to be confused with Up in the Air. Can't these people get their titles together??? |
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