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| Marj |
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| Inla, come here and I'll go with you. I have this visual of two rabid moviegoers. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 2:38 am |
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| Super will probably top my worst of 2011 list. Appallingly bad. Ellen Page needs to find a new agent...quick. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:16 am |
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Marc wrote: Super will probably top my worst of 2011 list. Appallingly bad. Ellen Page needs to find a new agent...quick.
I almost went to see this movie based on the cast and what sounds like an edgy vibe, but something ineffable warned me away. I think I dodged a bullet. (Though I'll no doubt check it out on DVD some day.) |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:48 pm |
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| Dylan Dog: The Dead of Night. Mediocre horror comedy with a reasonably good premise and the odd feeling that it's a sequel to a film that's never been made. The Harry Dresden TV series did it better (although Dog has no magical powers). If you've seen the previews, they're pretty accurate. Dylan was once the intermediary between the undead (vampires, zombies and werewolves) and the living, but someone is breaking the wall and killing "civilians" and rekilling the undead. The vampires want to be back on top of the food chain. The zombies mostly want to get out of the way. The werewolves want lunch. Dylan wants to find out who turned his partner into a zombie. And there's a nefarious plot involving special effects. It all seems pretty tired. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:33 pm |
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Well, Fast Five was a waste of time, but luckily we walked out in the middle and moved over to another theatre in the multiplex to catch the Disney doc African Cats, which saved the evening.
FF is not a return to form. It's slick and loud and borderline incoherent, with nonexistent acting and almost no plot. Lotsa action and almost nothing else.
African Cats has that "Disney" anthropomorphic deal going big time, but despite obvious manipulation it's effective and very touching. |
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| Syd |
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| It appears mine was one of the kinder reviews of Dylan Dog. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 1:09 pm |
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| Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins is terrific. A classic samurai movie with Miike's over-the-top violence. Graceful and visceral. |
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| bartist |
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| I didn't know that werewolves were included in the category of undead. Vampires and zombies, I understand the concept. But can't you be a living person and then turn into a living pooch during the full moon, without any death or undeath in the mix? |
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bartist wrote: I didn't know that werewolves were included in the category of undead. Vampires and zombies, I understand the concept. But can't you be a living person and then turn into a living pooch during the full moon, without any death or undeath in the mix?
Yeah, I was wondering whether I misheard something.
From the description of the comic book, they would have made a much better movie if they hadn't tried to tailor it to Americans. |
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| Thor is currently running 92% at Rotten Tomatoes after 62 reviews. |
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| Saw a short preview of Thor on Tv and I thought it looked promising. Glad I may be right. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 11:31 pm |
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| May 16 and 17 at the Screen Actors Guild Film Society we will see The Beaver and Thor. Can't wait. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:00 pm |
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Marj wrote: Inla, come here and I'll go with you. I have this visual of two rabid moviegoers.
Mon coeur Marjorette, if you can deal with hydrophobia, I'll take the sway-backed stride/foaming-at-the-mouth aspects. Maybe we could even bite a talkative/text-messaging patron or five....
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:14 pm |
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Saw H20 for Pachyderms last night with someone who had actually read the novel. She said it was definitely better than the novel. The film was good, not great, seemed like it was stronger as a showcase for actors Chris Waltz, Reese W, and Robert Pattinson than as anything else. Waltz plays a volatile, sometimes charming, sometimes frighteningly angry and cruel, boss of a circus in the Depression -- apparently this is an interesting choice if you've read the book, because the character in the book is Jewish. So getting a guy who can't quite hide his German accent and is best known for playing a Nazi, is sort of a different direction.
The treatment of the animals, especially by Waltz and his men, is disturbing and sad, but historically accurate. Reese W, as his star performer and wife trapped in a marital hell, is quite convincing and generates some voltage with Pattinson, who boards the circus train just to get out of town and ends up as the new vet and the closest thing to a PETA member available in the 1930's. I hope it doesn't sound ridiculous to say he has great chemistry with Rosie the elephant, but I was able to buy into him as the Elephant Whisperer (apparently, he picked up some Polish from his immigrant parents, and Rosie only understands stunt commands in Polish) as well as the Boss's Wife Whisperer. |
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