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billyweeds
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:44 am Reply with quote
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Glad you sorta liked it, gromit. As I think I've made clear, it's one of my two favorite Woody Allens of the last ten years. (The other, slightly better IMO, is Vicky Cristina Barcelona.)
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gromit
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:05 pm Reply with quote
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I liked it, thought it fairly solid.
Might scrape in to the bottom of my proto-Top 10.
Or just below.

Found VCB hard to watch.
In fact, gave up 30+ minutes in on first try.
I just remained way outside that film.
Complete disinterest.

Looking over Woody's catalog, Tall Dark is his best in the last dozen years. I thought Cassandra's Dream was pretty decent and Melinda x 2 watchable, and most of the rest pretty drecky.

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With a couple of extra days after Christmas in South Carolina, thanks to the NYC-closing snowstorm, I had time for a movie with my sister and my mother. But of course it had to suit all three of us, so we ended up at "Tangled." There were at least four other movies at the multiplex I'd have preferred to see, but what are you gonna do. The flick was fun, though--I guess one never outgrows being charmed by a Disney princess, and both the art and the script were excellent.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:35 am Reply with quote
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Tangled is delightful.

I saw The Fighter and found it really boring, which is an achievement considering the cast. Frankly, Mark Wahlberg's character is one of the least interesting protagonists in recent memory, Christian Bale is actively annoying for the first hour of the movie (he has a really good scene with Amy Adams later on)

I'm really dumbfounded by the praise this movie is receiving.

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billyweeds
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:35 am Reply with quote
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Finds the Marx Bros. tedious! Thinks The Fighter is boring! Talk about going against the grain! What a curmudgeon!

I love it.
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gromit
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:18 am Reply with quote
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When I was a kid one of the NY local stations -- 5, 9 or 11 -- would run a whole schmeer of silent and 30's comedy classics every New Year's Eve. It was a lot of fun -- WC Fields, both Laurel & Hardy, the Karl Marx Bros., Keaton.

Actually to keep up the tradition, I was going to delve into my L&H box tonight and find something to watch while I try to stay warm.

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gromit
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:20 am Reply with quote
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Has there been any discussion of Winter's Bone?
I think I want to see that now.

I'll try Search, but man was that function useless for Please Give.

Edit: Looks like Ghulam, Bart and Trish liked W'sB.

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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:33 am Reply with quote
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gromit wrote:
Has there been any discussion of Winter's Bone?
I think I want to see that now.

I'll try Search, but man was that function useless for Please Give.

Edit: Looks like Ghulam, Bart and Trish liked W'sB.


I admired Winter's Bone without remoting loving it. Jennifer ? is excellent, and so is the woman who plays the "villainess." But the movie is too steeped in its own self-righteousness and self-importance for me to embrace it fully.
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marantzo
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:04 am Reply with quote
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Not much of anything good showing here except for what I've already seen, like Social Network just opening. I'm temped to see Red which might be fun but it's at out-of-the-way theatres. Has anyone seen Megamind? Is it worth seeing?
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marantzo wrote:
Not much of anything good showing here except for what I've already seen, like Social Network just opening. I'm temped to see Red which might be fun but it's at out-of-the-way theatres. Has anyone seen Megamind? Is it worth seeing?


Megamind is pleasant enough. Not quite as good as Despicable Me, but it does some nice twists on the superhero genre.

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Thanks Syd.
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Once again, cartoons are providing some ofthe best entertainment avaiable. The forthcoming Rango looks good.

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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:24 pm Reply with quote
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Happy (Belated) New Year's, 3rd Eyesters!



Despite last night's resolution to be less reactionary/overwritten/incomprehensible, some items cannot be resisted:

marantzo:
inlareviewer wrote:


Megamind left me only a fraction less euphoric, in part because I saw it after I caught Tangled., also because it works on a more wryly satirical level (though it's just about as heartfelt at the core). It tickled and engaged me mightily, all the same, and its animation looks like a zillion Dreamworks bucks. Operates from an extremely clever premise, at once an irreverent riff on the Superman/Lois Lane/Lex Luthor(with Mr. Mxyzptlk thrown in)/Metropolis mythology, and a surprisingly mordant allegory about the thin line between and mutual dependence of good and evil. Many delicious visual jokes, verbal zingers and throwaways that I wouldn't dream of spoiling, even if I could recall them. Will Farrell, Tina Fey and Brad Pitt are wonderfully apt vocal casting as title antihero, news-anchor heroine and superhero foil, respectively. Perhaps The Incredibles traveled some corners of this territory already, but only on a surface level -- the new film carries its own intrinsic relationship to Now, and, like Tangled, seems entirely worthy and family-friendly.
lshap also liked it a lot, I believe. It's unpretentiously hip fun, with an unexpectedly trenchant message.

willybeeds: Jennifer Lawrence is the heroine of Winter's Bone, Dale Dickey -- a paradigm of Southern Gothic playing ever since she and Leslie Jordan walked off with every area stage award in the original production of Del Shores' Southern Baptist Sissies, unbearably grotesque as the horrific meth-addict/skank mom in Season 2 of Breaking Bad -- is the scary wife of the Ozark patriarch. As noted a few posts ago, it seemed unflinching and representative yet airless and over-severe, though but Ms. Lawrence is all but guaranteed this year's Indie Darling nom.

"Heavy-handed" is roughly about as opposite a view from mine of The Kids Are All Right as can be imagined. Love that it can elicit such diverse reax. Sidebar: They filmed Mark Ruffalo's character's home two domiciles up from where the Baroque Violinist, His Late Partner/My Best Friend and I shared digs together in the 90s. That backyard hasn't changed an iota in decades.

Topsy-Turvy remains my favorite Mike Leigh film, though, again, that has more to do with my unshakable G&S devotion (since the age of 3) than anything; also, it worked in so many ways directly against his idiomatic, Stanislavsky-meets-Dogme methodology. Am quite looking forward to the new one.

Must reiterate that, while Tall Dark Stranger didn't offend, it's easily light years better than The Woodster's string of recent, execrable works, it still left me ultimately shrugging.

The same cannot be said for The King's Speech; could hardly have enjoyed it more. It will absolutely generate a battle royale of an Oscar campaign to challenge Social Network, receive multiple noms, a certain victory for Colin Firth (the operative word colleagues keep using is "masterful," exactly right), and probably more -- Mr. Rush is perhaps the strongest threat to Mr. Bale's supphose trek, Ms. Bonham-Carter/Mrs. CommonLaw Burton a Credible Spoiler for supphose actress. Old school crowd-pleasing craft at its most efficient and entertaining. Laughed out my ears at Rosemary Harris' Progeny as Elocutionist's Wife reacting to The Queen of England Pouring Out Tea, and the ending was lovely. So's the film.

Now, The Tillman Story, which showed up on my doorstep yesterday, that's hardly lovely, but neither is the story it tells, a very disturbing and necessary one, even if you think you know all there is to know about this particular bit of U.S. government skullduggery. If Restrepo remains my apolitical and reportorial 2010 docu of choice, this is easily the unapologetically proto-biased one. Enraging, upsetting, heart-breaking and powerful, and his parents rival Matthew Shepard's for awe-inspiring determination, righteous indignation and grace under pressure.

Hereafter is finally arriving on screener in the week ahead, Another Year soon to follow thereafter.

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Earl
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:03 pm Reply with quote
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inlareviewer wrote:
Laughed out my ears at Rosemary Harris' Progeny as Elocutionist's Wife reacting to The Queen of England Pouring Out Tea, and the ending was lovely. So's the film.



Yeah. That hasn't been talked about much. It was lovely to see Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle together onscreen again. Even if their paths crossed in only one scene.

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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:11 pm Reply with quote
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Earl wrote:

Yeah. That hasn't been talked about much. It was lovely to see Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle together onscreen again. Even if their paths crossed in only one scene.

D'accord. Still my favorite Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Always wanted to see a Rebecca remake with them as Maxim and The Second Mrs. DeWinter.

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