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| whiskeypriest |
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| RIP Arthur Penn, director of two of my favorite movies of the last 50 years. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:48 pm |
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| And the Broadway version of Wait Until Dark, one of the most brilliant pieces of staging I ever saw. (And I saw it five times.) |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:14 pm |
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| Little Big Man was in my top ten for many years and is still in my top 10. I'm not sure if I saw The Miracle Worker a long time ago or I've seen so many clips I just think I have. For some reason, I've never seen Bonnie and Clyde. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:22 pm |
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| It's an extraordinary movie, Syd. You should check it out. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:06 am |
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| It's been a long time--many years, in fact--since a movie has received so many out-of-the-park critical hosannas as The Social Network. Here's hoping they're right. This is a movie I really want to embrace. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 11:44 am |
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Hard for me to motivate to see films on the basis of raves. This looks boring to me, so I'd have to really like the actors...and I don't. Honestly, I think the world needs a solar flare that kills Facebook and Twit-ter and forces all the 20/30-somethings out of their electronic nests and their information-saturated cyber friendships. (If your Irony Detector just went off, or exploded, yes, I'm aware....)
Other choices are Let Me In (fuck remakes for illiterate Swedophobic American boobs, no matter how good they are), Case 39 (not screened in advance for critics, a bad sign), and (out here in the sticks) Winter's Bone. And WB has no matinee, at the arthouse, so fuck them, I'm not paying $9 for it. So "Easy A" it is! |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:36 pm |
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| Bart, that's one genie that's not going back in the bottle. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:39 pm |
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bartist wrote: Hard for me to motivate to see films on the basis of raves. This looks boring to me, so I'd have to really like the actors...and I don't.
I truly wonder whether you even really know the actors. What is it about Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, and Andrew Garfield that you don't like? What did you have against Garfield's performance in the Red Riding Trilogy or Never Let Me Go? Did you hate Timberlake's turn on SNL? Can you really say you disliked Eisenberg in Solitary Man, The Squid and the Whale, or his two "Land" movies, Zombie... and Adventure...?
IMO Eisenberg is a major talent, Timberlake is a genuine star, and I don't know Garfield at all, except in Lions for Lambs (which can't be blamed on him).
Having said that, I agree the movie sounds lethally overrated, but time will tell. I'll certainly be there. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:44 pm |
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| I, of course, remember Timberlake from Black Snake Moan and am trying to overlook that he was also in The Love Guru. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:51 pm |
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| My younger daughter, Suki, was not overly impressed by Zak Efron's latest vehicle. What's it called? Charlie St. Cloud, or something like that. I guess 'meh!' would best sum up her review. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:56 pm |
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| It looked truly dreadful. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:34 pm |
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| Stephen Fry to play Mycroft and Jared Harris to play Moriarty in Homes sequel. I hope they ease up on the big, cgi and action sequences for this one. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:25 pm |
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Billy -- "This looks boring to me, so I'd have to really like the actors...and I don't." really like was the key phrase. I like them, just not to a degree that would get me to buy a first-run ticket.
I haven't seen Garfield in Never Let Me Go, because it's limited release -- easy to forget that, if you live in NYC. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:13 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: IMO Eisenberg is a major talent, Timberlake is a genuine star, and I don't know Garfield at all, except in Lions for Lambs (which can't be blamed on him).
I actually agree with you on all counts, but let's be honest. Jesse Eisenberg is a name that conjures up the bully in your kid's fifth-grade class, not a major acting talent. I remember being blown away by his performance in The Squid and the Whale and loved him in Solitary Man, but no one I know has seen either film and has no clue who the actor is. Sadly typical, I'd guess.
As to Timberlake, again, agree 100%. He's a rare pop star with brains, humour and minimal embarrassing moments. But I don't really know him as an actor.
As to Garfield, my brain says, "Orange cat", and "Some old U.S. president". Actor? Who knew.
Bottom line: Social Network got 4.5 stars outta' 5 in my paper. I hate, hate HATE such impossibly high expectations and look forward to being crushed. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:12 am |
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The Secret of Kells (2009) disappointed.
I didn't care much for the drawings and the storyline seemed pretty basic. It felt like an extended Saturday morning cartoon. Seemed aimed more at young kids.
I had been looking forward to this, heightened by a French only dvd turning up a few months ago. That confused me, but it turns out that it was a co-production between Ireland-France-Belgium. |
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