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| marantzo |
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| I saw Running Scared when I was in Atlanta a few years ago. I was really surprised how good it was and surprised how good Paul Walker was. I wrote a review about it. I'm glad that I was reminded of it when it was mentioned here. I don't think it had much of an audience. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:16 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: The Room is better than Plan 9 from Outer Space, Valley of the Dolls, and Road House. That's saying something fierce.
Finally watched this to complete the pre-Teen decade. Actually, I think Plan 9 is a bit better. However, The Room is better than God Monster of Indian Flats, Orgy of the Dead, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Maybe even The Love Guru.
It's a sad movie, but Denny knows where to get drugs to cheer everyone up. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:50 pm |
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Adore The Shop Around the Corner, always have, always will. The avatar of charm, that film, and a definitive romantic comedy. Pity La Sullavan didn't make more movies with James Stewart (they were close personal friends off-camera), because they're utterly delicious together.
Alfred Kralik: There might be a lot we don't know about each other. You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.
Klara Novak: Well I really wouldn't care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik, because I know exactly what I'd find. Instead of a heart, a hand-bag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. And instead of an intellect, a cigarette lighter... which doesn't work.
To watch Frank Morgan in gruff-bluff mode as the boss, or Sara Haden (blessedly NOT having to deal with Andy Hardy) as the cashier, or Felix Bressart as the milquetoast yes-man clerk, or Joseph Schildkraut demonstrating why he deserved his early stage acclaim as the cad, or William Tracy having a snappy blast as messenger boy Pepe, is to be captivated by what studio movies used to achieve without effort. It was the mater's viewing fare on Christmas Eve, as it has been every annum since she got the VHS tape, ever so long ago. Ninotchka, Trouble in Paradise and To Be or Not To Be apart, my favorite Lubitsch. In fact, one of my desert island films. Heavenly. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:06 pm |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:17 pm |
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Unless you are 7 years old, you should avoid Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. I came in late on the movie, but only my wife's granddaughter (who just happens to be 7 years old) was laughing at the repeated dumbassery acting and antics.
I felt bad for Amy Adams, who was the only mildly intelligent character in the movie (she played Ameila Earheart). |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:28 am |
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| Sorrentino's Il Divo (2008) is an engrossing staged docudrama on the powerful and tainted political leader Andreotti who was Italy's Prime Minister seven times. Compares very well with another excellent docudrama released in the same year Gomorra. The Italians seem to have elevated this genre to art form. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:08 am |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:40 am |
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| Gamorra was a powerful piece of work. It's surely in my top ten 2009 films. I'm glad you mentioned Il Divo because I saw it on a list of films somewhere and thought it was a concert movie about Il Divo the operatic pop foursome (who Marta and I went to see in Winnipeg [terrific performance]). |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:51 am |
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Watched Z again after more than 30 years, and it's still a damn effective political thriller. Although it's a (slightly) fictionalized account of a political assassination in Greece* in 1963, it's a pretty universal story. Change the self-serving justifications of the perpetrators and you could tell a similar story of thuggery in ancient Rome or Judea, Germany in the early 1930s or modern Iran. There's even a reference to France when one of the villains says, "Dreyfus was guilty."
If the movie had been made twenty years later, then the epilogue would have mentioned that the real-life heroic investigator served as President of Greece from 1985 and 1990. He was just as conservative as the villains but is still honored for his integrity.
*The country is never mentioned by name, but the signs, newspapers, typewriter balls are all in Greek. |
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| I'm watching Anvil: The Story of Anvil. I keep expecting to see see a sign announcing "PUPPET SHOW and Anvil" |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:17 pm |
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| The comparisons between Anvil and Spinal Tap are off-base. Two entirely different movies. Both feature a longhair rock band and that's about it. |
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Marc wrote: The comparisons between Anvil and Spinal Tap are off-base. Two entirely different movies. Both feature a longhair rock band and that's about it.
I know, but when I first heard "Anvil", that's what I thought.. I was wrong |
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| Spinal Tap is a terrific parody of rock and roll culture. It's hysterical and insightful. Anvil is also about rock and roll, but it could also have been about any two men who have a dream and won't let go of it. They could have just as easily been film makers or actors. Comparing Anvil to Spinal Tap is like comparing King Kong to Head because they both involve monkeys. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:55 pm |
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Marc wrote: Spinal Tap is a terrific parody of rock and roll culture. It's hysterical and insightful. Anvil is also about rock and roll, but it could also have been about any two men who have a dream and won't let go of it. They could have just as easily been film makers or actors. Comparing Anvil to Spinal Tap is like comparing King Kong to Head because they both involve monkeys.
I understand your comparison, but a more apt statement would be "comparing Anvil to Spinal Tap is like comparing Sideways to Monty Python." |
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| mirgun |
| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:35 pm |
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| Ouf!!.. I don't think i compared Anvil to Spinal tap. I said basically the same thing about Anvil as you said Marc. But if you guys want to rave on, go ahead. |
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