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| marantzo |
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| I have no idea who Taylor Lautner is either. And I don't care. I haven't heard of the new movie Abduction either. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:53 pm |
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Gromit and Gary,
He's Jacob the hunky teen/werewolf from the Twilight movies. You might have seen some of the commercials for Burger King asking if you are on "Team Jacob" or "Team Edward" (meaning, in terms of the series, which character you think is hotter, the hunky teen werewolf or the emo teen vampire, and related to that, which one the heroine Bella should choose).
Since neither of you is a teenager or a female, its makes sense that you don't know/don't care. And indeed, I have only the vaguest interest, based on finding Lautner kinda attractive (I think the Twilight movies, what I've seen of them at least, suck). But since teens make up the majority audience, and the Twilight series does great box office, this could make Abduction a hit. On the other hand, the two stars of Twilight, Kristen Steward and Robert Pattinson, have not managed to parley their connections to the series into a successful career. Then again, I think they both did projects not aimed at a hyperventilating teen audience, which might have been the reason.
The plot of Abduction is that a teen who loves his dad sees a picture of himself on a milk carton, suggesting that in fact he was abducted as a child and doesn't remember it, and that this seemingly great dad might in fact be an abductor. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:25 am |
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Moneyball has a couple of big problems, (1) if you're not a baseball fan, you may have trouble relating to the movie, and (2) the book is probably impossible to do as a character-driven drams, though Pitt and Co. make a noble attempt. The book spends a lot of time on a baseball draft; the movie sensibly concentrates on the 2002 season, which was Beane's shining hour, when the A's lost three of their biggest stars and wound up winning more games than the year before, including a monumental winning streak.
I like a lot of little bits, like Billy Beane talking to David Justice (who comes off really well here) and Scott Hatteberg (ditto). I especially liked the scene where Beane shows up at Hatteberg's doorstep because of the family dynamics with Hatteberg, his wife, and their daughter. Nicely done scene. The movie mentions the trade of Jeremy Giambi for John Mabry, which was treated as ludicrous at the moment, but made Beane seem clairvoyant when Mabry played well above his head for the rest of the season. John Mabry was nicknamed John Fucking Mabry as a result, which is understandably not dealt with in a family movie; actually Mabry's only dealt with in passing.
Pitt, Hoffman, Chris Pratt and Jonah Hill are fine. I really liked the scenes between Brad Pitt and Kerris Dorsey as his daughter; you get the idea that a big reason Beane became a fixture in Oakland is because he wanted to stay on the same coast as his daughter. I'm disappointed her song wasn't written for the movie, because it might well have gotten an Oscar nomination. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:58 am |
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| From the previews, I really want to see the J. Edgar Hoover movie and "We Bought a Zoo," which looks like the holiday movie to watch. The Aardman Pirates movie looks like it may be a lot of fun. It also looks to be in 3D, which could be a problem. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:55 am |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 7:58 am |
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| Funny video, Marc. Seems like they had a lot of fun making the flick. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:13 pm |
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| Since it medically makes no sense, I'd have to watch the film as a multi-legged macabre joke. And from curiosity what it took to get both the centipede movies banned in England. But anything that can be described as "torture porn" is not high on my viewing list. |
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| Besides, it's not a centipede anyway. It's a millipede. |
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| mirgun |
| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:25 am |
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| Hi everybody..We've been seeing a lot of movies at Fantastic Fest. Last night we saw 'A Lonely Place To Die." I thought it was one of the scariest movies I've seen in a while. It's a beautifully shot high altitude thriller taking place in the mountains in Scotland, with the meanest villains. It's honest terror, without special effects or teeny boppers or shaky cameras. I'm sure Marc will review it in depth so I won't spoil it. I just wanted to post this because I liked it so much. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:50 am |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:01 pm |
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Syd's review of Moneyball has my jaw dropping to the floor. It's one of the very best movies of the last decade. Brad Pitt woos Oscar with a dynamic movie-star performance which is also a wonderful piece of acting. His Billy Beane is a classic role played to the hilt. The film is basically a two-actor job, and Jonah Hill matches Pitt move for move and line for line. They are an amazing duo. The movie is lively, funny, poignant, thrilling, suspenseful, and beautifully edited. It reminded me not of the much inferior The Social Network (with which it's being compared) but of All the President's Men, which it quotes visually in a moment I won't spoil for you. Aaron Sorkin is the co-writer and once again proves his mastery. Bennett Miller goes way beyond his dullish turn on Capote, and gets Philip Seymour Hoffman to play a supporting role. Moneyball is a great film.
This makes the fourth exceptional American film (IMO) of 2011. That's a lot for mid-September. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:49 pm |
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Loved Drive!!
Ryan Gosling has this incredible ability to deliver context, mood etc to any story simply with his eyes like no other actor his age can. It blew me away years ago in The Believer and again in Drive
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:05 pm |
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| Gosling and Pitt are the two (male) actors of the year. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:38 pm |
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When I saw Crazy, Stupid, Love I was impressed with Gosling's performance. I figured that this was the kind of character that he usually played and didn't think I had ever seen him before though I certainly knew his name. I looked up his name and found out that I had seen him before, in Lars and A Real Girl, a movie that I liked very much and thought the guy who played Lars was excellent.
Yeah he's the real deal. A very good actor. And I'm not saying that because I'm Canadian.  |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:21 pm |
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| I more or less hated Lars and the Real Girl, but Gosling was great in Half Nelson, for which he got an Oscar nomination as a drug addict who is a school teacher. Really good movie, great performance. |
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