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| Melody |
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I liked Moon, too, it having the distinction of being my very first Redbox rental. I was glad I had the opportunity to backtrack when the first "say what??" moment happened. I thought Duncan Jones' direction was effective, and I love Sam Rockwell.
For you Tweetheads, I tried following Duncan Jones for a while on Twitter but soon gave up. He's not tweeting to the unwashed. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:57 pm |
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What Bart said about sci-fi films no longer being about ideas.
Or maybe we're just getting old. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:21 pm |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:22 pm |
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| Still don't know why an astonishingly good Swedish film needs a remake. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:31 am |
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| It's not about fixing. It's about wanting to bring the movie to a larger audience. The fact is, this movie will open in venues, and make the material available, to a vastly wider audience. And since this seems to be a very good remake, it's not a desecration. Don't know if I'll be seeing it, since I still haven't seen the original. But I'm glad people who do will see something, er, watchable. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:20 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: It's not about fixing. It's about wanting to bring the movie to a larger audience.
They should have just dubbed the original into English.
Here's an interesting book on The History of Foreign Films in America.
Though Google books has every 5th page missing. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:10 am |
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| Cudos cross-over conversation. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:25 am |
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They should have just dubbed the original into English.
Yes.
"Case 39" looks like a well-casted horror film, opening this week. Has the girl who was the one really good thing about Terry Gilliam's ghastly "Tideland." The director did the recent "Pandorum" which was a fairly original bit of sci-fi, beautifully shot. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:40 am |
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Sometimes you just gotta listen to this forum. The professional critics would have you believe The Town is a pretty good movie. The forum saw the truth: it's pretty much a piece of crap. A couple of well-choreographed car chases through narrow Boston streets do not a good movie make. To call the story far-fetched would be an understatement. At so many points in the narrative one shakes one's head in wonderment that they thought they could get away with such malarkey, and that the critics would buy it.
The performances don't make up for it. Affleck is at his shallowest and Renner, so great in The Hurt Locker, falls back on "loose cannon" cliches. Hamm cannot rely on his Mad Men mojo to vivify a role that is underwritten and bland, and Rebecca Hall is hampered by an ill-conceived character.
Only the great Pete Postlethwaite, as an villainous Irishman, manages to transcend his role and create an original and thoroughly hateful human being. All else is overrated at best and really, really bad at worst. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:36 am |
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I really hope I remember to avoid The Town.
I should, but months from now, I might forget.
Did see Solitary Man and thought it was iffy.
The story seemed rather contrived (oh, I have the flu, travel alone with my smoking hot daughter to her college interview, because you know the dean .. cough).
Most of the film seemed overwritten.
"I don't want you to endanger my daughter's environment."
Does anyone talk like this?
In my O, it was a decent idea/treatment that needed to be worked up more and made to feel real and lived in, rather than the phony morality play it was. I wanted more and deeper. I wasn't convinced by any of the relationships.
Imogen Poots is a complete hottie, but seemed too much so for the role. She caught my eye in Cracks, a pretty good girls boarding school drama, which I'd rec over this.
I quite liked Jenna Fischer, especially her voice, even if her role as the daughter was pretty basic.
Entirely okay ... likely to disappear from my brain any day now. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:39 am |
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Juno Temple is sure making an array of films.
I've seen her in Cracks, Mr. Nobody and Greenberg in the last 2 years (and the last 2 films in the last 2 weeks). |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:47 am |
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Re Solitary Man -- you had to believe Douglas was putting out that much charisma and libido while pushing 60, to the degree that younger women were buying it. One of those rare cases where the actor's private life might lend a bit of credibility to the theory. Still, I couldn't quite see the chemistry with the 18 year old. I thought Elegy was more plausible, with Sir Ben and a 30-something spanish lady.
The Town....what Billy said, though I was briefly able to like it for the romance and Hall's performance and the "kinetic" car chases. A film you think back on, and it just falls to pieces. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:28 am |
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bartist wrote: Re Solitary Man -- you had to believe Douglas was putting out that much charisma and libido while pushing 60, to the degree that younger women were buying it.
Not even that.
I didn't buy his friendship with DeVito.
Or with his rich mom-girlfriend.
Or with his daughter and grandson.
The film also just went in such obvious directions.
Two things I liked:
- how he re-uses the same lines that worked earlier
- how he returns a different new shirt
I can explain why, but I thought those two moments were interesting and insightful. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:47 am |
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| It seems like Easy A is the only current film here, that is worth seeing. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:01 pm |
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| Speaking of Michael Douglas, I'm hoping to catch Wall Street: Sequels Never Sleep this aft. Kinda' know what to expect, but hoping I'll get slightly more. |
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