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| Marc |
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Gary, Get Him To The Greek is not as funny as The Hangover, but it is one of the better over-the-top comedies to come out in awhile and one of the few comedies about rock and roll that gets many of the details right. There's a bit involving a joint that contains, along with pot, a smorgasbord of various mind altering drugs (XTC, crystal meth, PCP, peyote...). It's called a "Jeffrey". Some of the scenes involving people whacked out of their minds on Jeffrey are sidesplitting. If slapstick drug and sex humor appeals to you, you'll dig "Greek". It might add to the fun if you smoke a bit of Jeffrey before seeing the movie.
If anyone decides to do a re-make of The Ruling Class, Russell Brand would be perfect in the Peter O'Toole roll. Brand has some of O'Tooles drink besotted, rakish charm. I think Mr. Weeden is going to be surprised by the evolution of Mr. Brand. We'll be seeing alot more of him. I expect him to blow minds in a future dramatic role. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:47 pm |
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| Being a raging ass hole does not prevent a person from being talented. It may actually help. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:29 pm |
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Quote: Being a raging ass hole does not prevent a person from being talented. It may actually help.
I'm a living example that this is true. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:24 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: 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!
Saw Harry Brown today and I agree with Billy. Indeed, Billy's was the only review I could find on Third Eye. Has no one else here seen it yet?
The movie does a terrific job of evoking the fear felt by people who live in a crime-ridden community. As Harry makes his daily walk to the pub to meet an old friend, he glances in the direction of a pedestrian tunnel. This tunnel would provide him with a much shorter route to the pub, but it also happens to be the hangout for drug-dealing thugs. So Harry takes the much longer path around the block to avoid them.
It's not underlined or anything. And no character in the movie ever comes right out and says explicitly, "I don't want to walk through there because I'm afraid of the gangsters." Caine does it all with body language and facial reaction. He walks, he pauses, he glances at the tunnel and then he moves on. It's only a few seconds of screen time. Caine doesn't seem to be doing much, but he conveys a lot in that early scene.
SPOILER question for anyone who has seen the movie: The final shot of the movie shows SPOILER Harry walking through that tunnel. The gangsters are gone and he's no longer afraid. But it also shows him walking straight into total darkness. Significant?END SPOILER
I got a chuckle out of the end credits. In the section titled "The Director Would Like to Thank:", one of the dozen or so names listed was "My Rabbi."
Fans of the Harry Potter series will enjoy seeing David Bradley (aka Mr Filch) in the role of Harry Brown's longtime friend, drinking buddy and chess opponent. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:51 pm |
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lshap wrote: Gary - When you mentioned Jennifer Anniston my first thought was, "The Breakup", which I really liked. In fact, I think she's a better actress than she is a celebrity. What that means is if producers could get past her tabloid persona as the sad, jilted woman, and try her in a different role, I think she would pleasantly surprise a lot of people.
The Breakup was not a great comedy, but next to The Bounty Hunter it's Annie Hall and Bringing Up Baby rolled into one. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:02 pm |
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| I don't not like Aniston because I think she is a bad actress. She's competent as far as I'm concerned. I just watch her and find her unlikable, just like Joan Crawford, ever since I was very young, and she did turn out to be a very unlikable person. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:23 pm |
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Are we not men? Go see Solitary Man. What's with this Aniston crap?
Life is short. Art is long. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:32 pm |
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Quote: Gary, Get Him To The Greek is not as funny as The Hangover...
Marc, I didn't think The Hangover was very funny so I still don't know what to do about the GHTTG movie.  I'll probably see it if I get a chance. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:02 pm |
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Marc wrote: Are we not men? Go see Solitary Man. What's with this Aniston crap?
Life is short. Art is long.
I'd be glad to if I was located near any of the 53 theaters that are showing the movie. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:06 pm |
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| I'm surprised that Solitary Man hasn't gotten a wider release. It's got an A-list cast, it's accessible. Further indication that Americans have no interest in challenging themselves. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:00 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I don't not like Aniston because I think she is a bad actress. She's competent as far as I'm concerned. I just watch her and find her unlikable, just like Joan Crawford, ever since I was very young, and she did turn out to be a very unlikable person.
And the inside skinny (always to be taken with a grain of salt) is that Aniston and Angelina are in real life the absolute opposites of their widely accepted images. In other words, "siren" Jolie is in actuality a very appealing, warm, accessible woman, whereas "girl next door" Aniston is sort of a bee-yotch. Gary may be on to something here. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:21 pm |
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| Saw a movie. Great movie. Terrific movie. Wanted to shout "Again!" when the credits came up. Two and a half hours long and goes by like a blink. "Robin Hood." Loved it. Talk about testosterone--even Marian catches it, suiting up in chainmail for the big final battle. And great old-fashioned swordfights--not those neat artful ones like Errol Flynn's but big swinging ones where you're just going for taking off the guy's head, like Kirk Douglas in "The Vikings." A lot of it reminded me of "The Vikings," in fact, which is good. Loved "The Vikings" too. Castle sieges, skies full of deadly arrows, good solid British folk, sleazy kings, evil traitors, rebel kids, gorgous horses. And the scenery. What more can one ask? Now that Alan Bates is gone, anyway. |
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| Kate |
| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:22 pm |
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| Aniston was excellent in The Good Girl. An very, very good film IMO. This should be in Couch, of course. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:56 am |
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Marc wrote: I'm surprised that Solitary Man hasn't gotten a wider release. It's got an A-list cast, it's accessible. Further indication that Americans have no interest in challenging themselves.
It's not Americans per se, it's gutless American distributors. They seem to operate with the notion that anything that doesn't hit the youth demographic won't fill seats in Peoria. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:01 am |
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| I'm with Bart. Americans are not as dumb as all that. There is a huge audience for movies as good and mature as Solitary Man--and The Hurt Locker and The Visitor and The Wrestler and Crazy Heart, for that matter. Just not as huge an audience as for The Waterboy. And the suits don't get it. |
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