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whiskeypriest
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:31 pm Reply with quote
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marantzo wrote:
I love movies too, but only movies that I enjoy watching. I mdon't go to movies that I'm pretty sure I won't like unless I read some review that I respect that makes it sound better than I've been lead to believe. I don't see movies where the subject matter has no interest for me, regardless of it's quality.

I saw all those movies you mentioned Marc, except Titanic.
I think we all love movies. That's why we post here. But we don't all have time, and many of us have to pick and choose where we spend our time and money for movies - particularly in theaters. I'll drive across town to see A Serious Man and shoehorn it into my schedule because it looks like it would (and indeed did) jibe with my sensibilities and be a great movie experience for me. Avatar, on the other hand... "cheesy dialogue" and "predictable plot" are the type of things that I keep coming across, even in raves. It may be impressive visually - though what I've seen of it it looks like a live action Yes album cover, and I hate Yes - but it is the other aspects that make me think my time would be better spent at, say, Up In the Air.

I'd wait to see Avatar on video, but for the sense that it would be an even greater waste of time - at least until I blow bucks on a big screen high def TV. And perhaps even then.

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Marc
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:47 am Reply with quote
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Interesting possible scenario: Cameron and Bigelow get Oscar noms for best director this year.
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Befade
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:47 am Reply with quote
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Whiskey.......glad to hear that. I think you'll like Up in the Air. It's particularly interesting because of the character Clooney plays and what we know about him in real life. I'd add The Messenger to your list. It pairs well with UITA.......both about people whose job it is to deliver bad news. And the female romantic interest......compare those. David Denby in the New Yorker said Vera Farmiga should have played Samantha Morton's role in TM. I strongly disagree.

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billyweeds
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:43 am Reply with quote
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Befade wrote:
Whiskey.......glad to hear that. I think you'll like Up in the Air. It's particularly interesting because of the character Clooney plays and what we know about him in real life. I'd add The Messenger to your list. It pairs well with UITA.......both about people whose job it is to deliver bad news. And the female romantic interest......compare those. David Denby in the New Yorker said Vera Farmiga should have played Samantha Morton's role in TM. I strongly disagree.


I would rather see Vera Farmiga play almost any role played by any other female actor. Farmiga is my favorite current actress--versatile, nuanced, and sexy all at once. Strangely, the one time I thought she came up a tad short was in The Departed, her most famous role to date (until Up in the Air, which now becomes her signature role).

Farmiga in Running Scared gives one of the finest performances I've ever seen in a purely genre flick. She is astonishing.

She's also terrific in a crucial, major supporting role in Nothing But the Truth and an exquisite one-scene cameo in Mind the Gap. Check them out.

I will be seeing The Messenger this week and will be able to assess Denby's comment. Samantha Morton is a fine, fine actress whose message I have never gotten. She leaves me breathless with respect but emotionally detached.


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billyweeds
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:48 am Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:
Interesting possible scenario: Cameron and Bigelow get Oscar noms for best director this year.


You don't explain why, you old dog, though I know and will explain.

They are ex-husband and wife.

That "interesting possible scenario" is a lock.
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billyweeds
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:53 am Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
Befade wrote:
Whiskey.......glad to hear that. I think you'll like Up in the Air. It's particularly interesting because of the character Clooney plays and what we know about him in real life. I'd add The Messenger to your list. It pairs well with UITA.......both about people whose job it is to deliver bad news. And the female romantic interest......compare those. David Denby in the New Yorker said Vera Farmiga should have played Samantha Morton's role in TM. I strongly disagree.


I would rather see Vera Farmiga play almost any role played by any other female actor. Farmiga is my favorite current actress--technically impeccable, nuanced, and sexy all at once. Strangely, the one time I thought she came up a tad short was in The Departed, her most famous role to date (until Up in the Air, which now becomes her signature role).

Farmiga in Running Scared gives one of the finest performances I've ever seen in a purely genre flick. She is astonishing.

She's also terrific in a crucial, major supporting role in Nothing But the Truth and an exquisite one-scene cameo in Mind the Gap. Check them out.

I will be seeing The Messenger this week and will be able to assess Denby's comment. Samantha Morton is a fine, fine actress whose message I have never gotten. She leaves me breathless with respect but emotionally detached.


This is Denby's full quote from that review, and about Morton (I've highlighted the key phrase) he could not have expressed my feelings more accurately.

"The movie’s pulse slackens a bit when Morton is allowed to hold the camera too lng. Morton was passive and mute in Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown; she was one of the seers floating in water in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report.

She’s a little vague, as if she were always floating. Moverman would have done better to cast a more overtly sexual actress—Amy Ryan, say, or Vera Farmiga."


(Note that Denby mentions Amy Ryan as well as Vera Farmiga. I also prefer Ryan to Morton overall.)
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marantzo
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:44 am Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
Marc wrote:
Interesting possible scenario: Cameron and Bigelow get Oscar noms for best director this year.


You don't explain why, you old dog, though I know and will explain.

They are ex-husband and wife.

That "interesting possible scenario" is a lock.


Yeah, you said that about the public option too. Laughing
ehle64
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:17 am Reply with quote
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fuck avatar you promised me you would see brokeback mountain
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billyweeds
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:20 am Reply with quote
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ehle64 wrote:
fuck avatar you promised me you would see brokeback mountain


Who is that directed to? I saw Brokeback Mountain.

Happy holidays! (To one and all.)
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Marc
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:00 am Reply with quote
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ehle,

I saw Brokeback Mountain and reviewed it.
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ehle64
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:39 am Reply with quote
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where baby is this while i was gone?
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ehle64
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:43 am Reply with quote
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i'm sorry billy it was directed towards you

i came to see your show and you didn't recognize me
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ehle64
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:44 am Reply with quote
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WASn't
sorry

ugh
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ehle64
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:48 am Reply with quote
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p.s. your wife looked at me like i was an alien and i've met you both before.
how horrendous
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Marc
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:50 am Reply with quote
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ehle,

Billy didn't recognize you because he had you confused with Monty Clift.
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