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| Syd |
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lshap wrote: Agree with the Bart-Man regarding Splice. "Decent" is the perfect adjective to describe a story that hints at sci-fi and horror, but then flips the torch over to the CGI guys rather than fully commit to either genre. The whole is mostly entertaining, but I walked away feeling like I just saw a bunch of old ideas...uh... spliced together.
That's pretty much it. Shame because it could easily have been more than simply decent. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:47 am |
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| I wonder if the problem isn't that we're seeing the movie from the wrong point of view. The interesting character is Dren; she should be the protagonist. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:21 pm |
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Cyrus is not a premature biopic about Hannah Montana. It's a sometimes very funny, more often very painful (in a good way) dramedy about a divorced man approaching desperation (John C. Reilly), his new girlfriend (Marisa Tomei), and her adult son (Jonah Hill). It has some very gut-wrenching material around the Oedipal complex and other things, but it's extremely entertaining for all that. Reilly and Tomei are superb, and Catherine Keener is wonderful in a supporting role (for which she is overqualified, but who cares?). But the real surprise is Hill, whose extraordinarily funny performances in Superbad, Funny People, etc., were no preparation for his powerful work here as the severely fucked-up title character.
The movie is pretty unrelenting at moments, but I am very glad I saw it. |
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| Marc |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:08 am |
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Wow. Brand may be an asshole personally, but he has the affect of a cool dude. The images fit. The song is, as always, fantastic. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:05 am |
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Marc, really good. Don't you get royalties from something like that?
I have to look up Russel Brand. Name sounds familiar but I don't know who he is. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:13 am |
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Ah ha! He played the clueless, no talent British rock star in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. He was very good. And so was the movie.
Billy, was he type cast? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:51 am |
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marantzo wrote: Ah ha! He played the clueless, no talent British rock star in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. He was very good. And so was the movie.
Billy, was he type cast?
He plays the very same character in Get Him to the Greek. Same director, same character. I don't think, however, that he's meant to have no talent. That may be just in the eye/ear of the beholder/listener. Marc? |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:23 am |
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billyweeds wrote: marantzo wrote: Ah ha! He played the clueless, no talent British rock star in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. He was very good. And so was the movie.
Billy, was he type cast?
He plays the very same character in Get Him to the Greek. Same director, same character. I don't think, however, that he's meant to have no talent. That may be just in the eye/ear of the beholder/listener. Marc?
I don't think he's supposed to lack musical talent. He reminds me a little of Nirvana. The lyrics, on the other hand, are intentionally brain-dead, as are those of his ex-wife. |
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| FSM wasn't anything I expected to like, and then saw it and had a blast. Wasn't sure who Brand was either until I saw the current Rolling Stone and it had him on the cover (with some ridiculous title like "The Sexual Healing of Russell Brand" to insure I wouldn't bother to read it) and I knew he was the rocker in FSM, and very funny in it. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:07 pm |
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I have to look up Russel Brand. Name sounds familiar but I don't know who he is.
He was the subject of a debate we had not long ago that you joined in on. He's the guy who made the comment on the radio about fucking somebody's granddaughter. Sheesh Gary, time to start taking gingko biloba. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:09 pm |
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| bartist, get over your bad self and read The Rolling Stone piece. It's good. The cover is intended to be a joke. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:11 pm |
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Marc wrote: Quote:
I have to look up Russel Brand. Name sounds familiar but I don't know who he is.
He was the subject of a debate we had not long ago that you joined in on. He's the guy who made the comment on the radio about fucking somebody's granddaughter. Sheesh Gary, time to start taking gingko biloba.
 Oh, that guy. I fucked his grandmother. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:54 pm |
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Quote: I don't think, however, that he's meant to have no talent. That may be just in the eye/ear of the beholder/listener. Marc?
He has talent in the same way that cockrockers like Steve Tyler of Aerosmith have talent - a preening, shallow, narcissist who is entertaining in a dumb kind of way. All flash with little substance. "Get Him To The Greek" opens with Brand's character doing a Bono-like video to raise money for South African tribes. Brand is dressed up like a Black tribesman and singing a wretchedly corny song in the "We Are World" style. It's as funny as anything in Spinal Tap. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:57 pm |
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Winter's Bone is getting the best reviews of the year, and it's undeniably an impressive achievement, a very convincing evocation of poverty-stricken rural characters living close to the edge. And it features a solid, flawless performance by Jennifer Lawrence as a 17-year-old head of the household whose meth dealer father is missing in action and whose mother is catatonic.
What it lacks for me is dramatic urgency and real vitality. I seem to be in a minority, however, so by all means check it out. |
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