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| grace |
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| I knew I was forgetting someone: Bill Pullman, best movie President ever. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:46 pm |
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grace wrote: I knew I was forgetting someone: Bill Pullman, best movie President ever.
My favorite was Jeff Bridges. He might even be able to reason with the aliens, having himself been a Starman. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:29 am |
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gromit wrote: Zodiac did little for me. Kind of dull.
Fight Club kicked ass.
Well-conceived and executed. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 12:27 pm |
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| Nice to back among those who do not straddle fences. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:52 pm |
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I am angry, I am ill, and I'm as ugly as sin.
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I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit.
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:55 pm |
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Fight Club seems to be a highly polarising film.
Lovers: Jeremy, Gromit, Tire...
Loathers: Billy, Whiskey... |
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I am angry, I am ill, and I'm as ugly as sin.
My irritability keeps me alive and kicking.
I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit.
I know beauty and I know a good thing when I see it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:21 pm |
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| I never saw it and I loathe it. Add me to the negative list, add me, add me, add m.......aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhh!!!! |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:33 pm |
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The main protagonist is a troubled. split personality whose repressed masculinity, and perhaps homosexuality, manifests itself in extreme and sweaty man-on-man violence, whilst his alter-ego screws, skuzzy screw-ball, Helena Bonham, who otherwise feeds her need for love and attention by erroneously attending self-help and victims' groups, including one for men who have suffered from testicular cancer. The film, the darkest of comedies, entirely peopled by unsympathetic damaged goods, is a nihilistic attack on the consumer economy and the neutering of men by the demands of the wage economy. Perhaps, it is the first truly masculinist film.
I thought Fight Club would have been right-up Gary's alley. |
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I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:56 pm |
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| Conviction is a well-made mediocrity, a very-high-level made-for-TV-style movie, but nicely acted and directed. It tells the true story of a sister who got a law degree just to get her wrongly-convicted brother out of a life sentence for murder. Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell do well as the sis and bro, and they are well supported by Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis. But the whole thing is pretty much what it sounds like, a movie of the week with bigger stars. Tony Goldwyn does a smooth directing job, however, and it's not boring or insulting to the intelligence. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:26 am |
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| The real brother and sister were featured on the CBS evening news. (Brother died in freak accident of some sort 6 months after being freed from prison.) Barry Scheck's Innocence Project was responsible for getting him out. MORE power to that! (DNA evidence) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 6:29 am |
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Befade wrote: (Brother died in freak accident of some sort 6 months after being freed from prison.)
That was a sad event, and I'm glad I didn't know it going in. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 10:50 am |
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jeremy wrote: The main protagonist is a troubled. split personality whose repressed masculinity, and perhaps homosexuality, manifests itself in extreme and sweaty man-on-man violence, whilst his alter-ego screws, skuzzy screw-ball, Helena Bonham, who otherwise feeds her need for love and attention by erroneously attending self-help and victims' groups, including one for men who have suffered from testicular cancer. The film, the darkest of comedies, entirely peopled by unsympathetic damaged goods, is a nihilistic attack on the consumer economy and the neutering of men by the demands of the wage economy. Perhaps, it is the first truly masculinist film.
I thought Fight Club would have been right-up Gary's alley.
Gee, when you put it like that, it sounds like a pretty good movie. However, I remain a "loather" because I don't actually believe that men are neutered by the demands of the wage economy. And if you don't see my point, I'll punch your face in, you great bleeding ponce. I have no idea who wrote that previous sentence. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:44 pm |
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jeremy wrote: Fight Club seems to be a highly polarising film.
Lovers: Jeremy, Gromit, Tire...
Loathers: Billy, Whiskey...
Add me to the Lovers category. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:14 pm |
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And me. Loved Fight Club.
It's easy to pick apart the film because it dares to travel into the fantastic. The plot is out there, and I've heard people debating the likelihood of this or that detail happening. But that really isn't the point. Nor is the point to be the quintessential peek into the male id. It's just a glorious, colourful mindfuck, and a great thrill ride through the psyches of Ed Norton and Brad Pitt. Tons of fun! |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:18 pm |
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The Social Network starts with our hero being an obnoxious ass with no sense humour, social skills, or idea of how he comes across. His egotism is so overwhelming and crass that it's obvious that our hero is a bitter, reckless, unethical misanthrope. There is nothing to like about this guy.
The movie doesn't really have any, or hardly any, twists, turns, ups or downs. But it is a good movie. Well done, though certainly not a great one. The writing as one would expect is very good and it has to be because dialogue is it's motor. You do get Fincher's penchant for drab using lots of brown tinted (atmosphere?) scenes, but it's not to an annoying degree like in his past films that I've seen.
Like I said; A good film, but not as good as I was expecting. |
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