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| billyweeds |
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| I accidentally made some comments on J. Edgar and its woeful makeup on Couch. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:41 am |
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| Love After Hours and its many important lessons, e.g. don't let yourself be encased in papier mache, keep a tight grip on $20 bills, etc. Surreal, funny, like Scorsese meets the Twilight Zone. "Hugo" looks like Scorsese getting old and grandfatherly, and wanting to tell his grandkids a bedtime story, a la Steampunk genre. Will wait for video. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:23 pm |
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| I enjoyed it way back when. Haven't seen it since the late 80's. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:26 pm |
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I caught xxxx After Hours randomly on cable a few years after it came out, and thought it was funny and charming, and was surprised that it was Scorsese.
But saw it more recently and found it really dull. I still like Desperately Seeking Susan, which is somewhat similar. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:08 pm |
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gromit wrote: I caught Love After Hours ...
ROTFLMAO. The Scorsese movie is simply After Hours. Love After Hours is on the Playboy channel. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:34 pm |
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That is funny.
I often copy and paste in order to get the titles right.
A little sloppy that time. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:38 pm |
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| But your revised post is even funnier somehow. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:56 am |
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Quote: But saw it more recently and found it really dull. I still like Desperately Seeking Susan, which is somewhat similar.
The twin career peaks of Rosanna Arquette?
"After Hours" would have potential for hybrid film titles. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:11 pm |
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bartist wrote: Love After Hours and its many important lessons, e.g. don't let yourself be encased in papier mache, keep a tight grip on $20 bills....
I guess this sentence structure of Bart's was the origin of Gromit's blooper? LOL
some of those 80's weirdo comedies don't hold up that well. I saw both DSS and AH in recent years and they were less funny than I remembered.
None of the actors were much good....Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Dunne....I liked early Turturro in DSS, tho. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:36 pm |
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| I really disliked both movies, even though conventional wisdom says they're both good. After Hours in particular is often cited as one of Scorsese's best, but definitely not by me. And DSS is usually called a good performance by Madonna. Also not here--except by comparison with her truly lousy turns (which include everything else she ever did besides A League of Their Own). |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:32 am |
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| I would not remotely call After Hours one of Scorsese's best. But if we forget Scorsese's resume for a moment, and just consider it as an interesting, off-beat movie, it gains enormously. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:54 pm |
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Take Shelter -- Blew. Me. Away.
And good fodder for film message board chat, having an ambiguous ending that invites rival interpretations of what we are seeing in the final seconds.
A film that does everything right, makes no wrong moves, and takes its time to build suspense and guide us along a fascinating and terrifying breakdown of a man's ordinary life, leading him to either psychosis or mystical epiphany or both. Both Shannon and Chastain are great. As in Revolutionary Road, Shannon meets the challenge of conveying a character with relatively few words of dialog. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 3:14 pm |
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| So far, Shannon is my Best Actor of 2011 and Chastain is something or other--she's amazing in Take Shelter and astonishing in The Help and so different in both that she might as well be two great actresses. At the very least, she's preternaturally gifted. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 3:51 pm |
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Yeah, if I were starting to think Blanche-ly, Shannon would be in contention with Jake G. in Source Code, Ryan G. in Drive, Matt D. in Adjustm. Bur, Owen W. in 12AM Paris.....seems to have been a year for roles where reality breaks down or suddenly tilts toward darkness. Or maybe those are the type of films to which I gravitate. 
A fantastic film year, however you look at it. |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:03 pm |
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| You should not overlook (in the Best Actor category) Demian Bichir in A Better Life, Brad Pitt in Moneyball, and (Oscar, here he very iikely comes again) George Clooney in The Descendants. They, Gosling, and Shannon are all fantastic. |
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