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| Marc |
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The actress, Chloe, is 13 years old. She's old enough to make her decisions.
The violence in Kick-Ass is not much different than countless video games...and about as realistic. This is a comic book for grown-ups.
Ebert was bitchin' about similar shit back in the 80s when he and Siskel had hissy fits over stalker movies like the Friday the 13th series. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:35 pm |
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| Ebert gave one star each to The Back-Up Plan and the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. That seems to be pretty much the consensus on those two. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:15 am |
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| You'll see some reviews of Harry Brown, the new Michael Caine movie about a geriatric vigilante, which will make it look unwatchably lurid. Lurid it is, but unwatchable not at all. It's gripping and visceral though exploitative. It's Dirty Harry for the AARP crowd, and graphically, satisfyingly brutal, as Caine dispatches human scum. Yay! |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:47 am |
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Ebert will probably complain out the immorality of have an old guy doing all those ghastly things.  |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:22 pm |
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billyweeds wrote:
Roger Ebert went apoplectic about Kick-Ass, calling it morally reprehensible in its depiction of a young girl committing mayhem, no matter how cartoonish.
A comment the stupidity of which is only matched by his original put down of Night of the Living Dead in Reader's Digest. Her character is amazing, and no one who celebrated Pulp Fiction should have any trouble with her behavior. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:46 pm |
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Quote: You'll see some reviews of Harry Brown, the new Michael Caine movie about a geriatric vigilante, which will make it look unwatchably lurid. Lurid it is, but unwatchable not at all. It's gripping and visceral though exploitative. It's Dirty Harry for the AARP crowd, and graphically, satisfyingly brutal, as Caine dispatches human scum. Yay!
Billy, I remember you originally dismissing this movie based on it's reception at Toronto. I told you that you were wrong. I was right. Ha! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:56 pm |
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Marc wrote: Quote: You'll see some reviews of Harry Brown, the new Michael Caine movie about a geriatric vigilante, which will make it look unwatchably lurid. Lurid it is, but unwatchable not at all. It's gripping and visceral though exploitative. It's Dirty Harry for the AARP crowd, and graphically, satisfyingly brutal, as Caine dispatches human scum. Yay!
Billy, I remember you originally dismissing this movie based on it's reception at Toronto. I told you that you were wrong. I was right. Ha!
I never dismissed the film. I simply pointed out that it got some terrible reviews. It got some today as well, from critics who didn't like the graphic brutality. Sue me. But don't kill the messenger. More cliches at eleven. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:24 pm |
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| My friend in England saw "Harry Brown" last year (I had to check the IMDB to find out what film she was talking about) and said it wasn't as good as "Gran Torino." But we don't always agree, and I like Caine better than Eastwood. (She loves most things American, I love most things British.) |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:41 pm |
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Quote: I never dismissed the film. I simply pointed out that it got some terrible reviews. It got some today as well, from critics who didn't like the graphic brutality. Sue me. But don't kill the messenger. More cliches at eleven.
and as I said at the time, it also got some very good reviews.
I'll wait for the DVD. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:00 pm |
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carrobin wrote: My friend in England saw "Harry Brown" last year (I had to check the IMDB to find out what film she was talking about) and said it wasn't as good as "Gran Torino." But we don't always agree, and I like Caine better than Eastwood. (She loves most things American, I love most things British.)
Gran Torino was pretty good up till that perfectly terrible and hokey ending. Feh! |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:31 pm |
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| Didn't like Gran Torino, mainly because of the generally rotten acting--including Clint ("Growl!") Eastwood's. Harry Brown is tons better acted--and tons more violent, too. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:52 pm |
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 6:29 am |
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Saw an absolutely wonderful independent dramedy last night called Please Give. This would I think definitely fly under everyone's radar, so hop on board by all means. It's directed by the extraordinary writer-director Nicole Holofcener, who created Friends with Money, Walking and Talking, and Lovely & Amazing. In many ways, Please Give tops them all (actually, I've never seen L&A, so maybe not, but whatever, Please Give is lovely and amazing itself).
It stars the great Catherine Keener along with Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet, and Rebecca Hall, with a superb supporting cast. It's like we've returned to the glory days of Woody Allen, as a NYC couple (Keener and Platt) with a teenage daughter run a very successful antique furniture shop, the furniture coming from the homes and apartments of dead people. In the apartment next door to them lives a 91-year-old woman (a wow of a performance by Ann Guilbert) whose apartment they have already bought, planning to break through after she dies and add it to their own apartment. The old woman has two granddaughters (Hall and Peet) of wildly disparate characters, and a lot of stuff--sex, death, nastiness, young love, teenage angst, personal growth, unnatural tanning, etc.--happens. It's one of the most accurately observed urban stories in my memory--as well as being extremely funny at times and very tellingly touching at others. Marvelously satisfying movie; Holofcener is a great filmmaker/writer. |
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 7:34 am |
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| Opposite to you, I never saw the other films but I saw Lovely & Amazing. I liked it very much. I saw it in Palms Springs a number of years ago and pretty sure I wrote a little review of it. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 9:24 am |
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Ebert likes The Secret in Their Eyes considerably more than I did. He also reminds me that some of the aging makeup was unimpressive (though he believes the opposite)
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100421/REVIEWS/100429994
And what's with all of the Coco Chanel movies?
A 3rd one, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky just turned up. I haven't seen any of them, though I intend to watch the Audrey Tattou version once it comes with subtitles. |
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