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bartist

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:20 am

Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Posts: 6961 Location: Black Hills

Austin never put a man on the moon, did it?

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marantzo

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:07 am

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Joe Vitus wrote:

Austin is Hipster Purgatory. I prefer Houston. 70's-80's era Austin was a different thing entirely.

Having never been to either, I'll take your word for it. I'd imagine that Austin has better video stores. Smile

Joe Vitus

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:45 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 14498 Location: Houston

I'm sure that's true. But then, Houston almost doesn't have any video stores anymore. Smile

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Marc

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:44 pm

Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 8424

Vulcan Video and I Luv Video have two stores each in Austin and they have amazing inventory.

jeremy

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:47 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

I saw the Adjustment Bureau on DVD recently. As fantastic or sci-fi movies go, it was refreshingly light on action and big cgi moments, but I felt that it missed its mark too many times to warrant elevation to a best of list or any sort fantasy Pantheon. It lacked passion. It's big plus point was the unshowy, but excellent acting. Matt Damon rarely picks a bad role (or he has a knack for turning bad roles around), Terrance Stamp is to be cherished and I heart Emily Blunt.

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Marj

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:45 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 10497 Location: Manhattan

I just finished watching it, Jeremy and for the most part agree with you. But I doubt that Matt Damon picks or lucks put with good roles. IMO he's an excellent actor, too often underrated, but excellent nonetheless.

I found that the film had a problem I see all too often. It begins with bang, then has trouble following up. The reasoning behind the whats and whys left me thinking, "Is that all?" Still it was a good popcorn movie.

billyweeds

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:36 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

I will have to see TAB again to see if it holds up, since so many are underwhelmed by it. Maybe I was in a particularly receptive mood the day I saw it, but I loved the chemistry between the leads so much that it made me forgive every flaw.

Joe Vitus

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 11:52 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 14498 Location: Houston

Haven't seen Jeremy, but agree with Marj about Damon being underrated. It may be that he's not one for showy roles, but on the other hand not from the laconic Gary Cooper school, either. So people don't know how to evaluate him.

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Ghulam

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:12 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 4742 Location: Upstate NY

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The Norwegian movie A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) tells the story of a man coming out of prison after 12 years and trying to readjust while at the same time pursuing revenge. Uninteresting and somewhat silly.

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marantzo

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:05 am

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Ghulam wrote:

That reminds me of an interview with a guy who had been released from prison after serving many years for, I forget what kind of crime. He was asked what some of the major adjustments he had to make and he said one of them was crossing the street because he had lost the ability to judge the distance of oncoming traffic and he would wait on the sidewalk for cars to pass even though they were far away but for him they seemed to be dangerously close.

I found this problem very interesting. The other adjustments he had to make were things that were more obvious.

bartist

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:24 am

Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Posts: 6961 Location: Black Hills

Odd to hear mention of the Norsk flick right on the heels of the news of a Norwegian man spectacularly failing to adjust to society.

Jeremy...

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It's big plus point was the unshowy, but excellent acting. Matt Damon rarely picks a bad role (or he has a knack for turning bad roles around), Terrance Stamp is to be cherished and I heart Emily Blunt.

All that you said. As for the lack of passion, the storyline didn't really have me seeking passion....just some chemistry and a humorous sense that the gods might be bureaucrats and the hope one can get around them once in a while.

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whiskeypriest

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:34 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 6916 Location: "It's a Dry Heat."

Joe Vitus wrote:

Jeremy was actually one of my wife's favorite movies when she was young and living in Poland. Liked it so much she chose "Jeremy" as the American name for her son when they came here, "Przemyslaw" neither being usable for English speakers or translatable into something that is. It is OK if obviously 70s-ish.

Pretty much agree about Damon.

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bartist

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:44 am

Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Posts: 6961 Location: Black Hills

Finally saw my first Almodovar, Hable Con Ella (Talk to Her), which pulled off the feat of drawing humor and a rather touching love story from the situation of a mildly retarded man who wants to marry the beautiful coma patient he is tending to as a care nurse...and ends up raping and impregnating her. An eccentric mixture of Norman Bates (a virgin who had stayed home nights, tending to his domineering mother, all during his youth) and Lenny Smalls in "Of Mice and Men," he is, looked at in the cold light of facts, a monstrously repellent creature who commits a violation so foul and repugnant that I don't like to think about it. Yet somehow Almodovar removes the mask so slowly, develops his sweet and human side so deftly (with the device of giving him a new friend, a man in the hospital to visit another comatose patient, his lover, a woman bullfighter severely gored in the ring), that I find myself just riding with it, sort of marveling at the Jekyll/Hyde duality and laughing at the black humor.

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knox

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:24 pm

Joined: 18 Mar 2010 Posts: 1246 Location: St. Louis

The best part of the black humor in TTH is the notion that the ideal female companion is one in a coma. VERY low-maintenance. Well, in a way.

Marj

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:33 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 10497 Location: Manhattan

Billy - Please don't let what I or Jeremy said, skew your thinking. You're right. Both leads are wonderful and that alone can carry a movie - after all, when all is said and done, TAB is a love story, at very least a romantic adventure.

Also keep in mind, I saw it at home. I much prefer movies I see in theaters. And as usual, my expectations were on the ceiling!

Btw, did I mention that I saw Midnight in Paris? I LOVED IT! And I will not be surprised if it get a nomination this year. I just have a feeling about this movie, and the word of mouth accompanying it.

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