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| marantzo |
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| When reading the summary and reaction to Family Plot, I kept thinking that it didn't sound anything like the movie I saw many years ago. Then Billy's post cleared it up for me. I never saw Family Plot, I thought the movie being discussed was The Trouble With Harry. Dead body and all, I got the title mixed up. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:53 am |
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Come to think of it, Harry and FP were the only two black comedies AH ever made to my knowledge. Though other movies like NxNW and To Catch a Thief had comic elements, there were only two (FP and Harry) that told stories of mayhem through basically lighthearted humor from beginning to end.
It's the kind of humor one often sees in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television show. Sometimes it's too cute for words (in a negative sense), like The Trouble with Harry, and sometimes it's just right (like Family Plot). |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:03 pm |
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| I finally saw all of Thor and generally enjoyed it. For mythological reasons, they should have cast a blonde as Sif, but the one they got was nice. I thought Loki made some very good points, but needed to show more restraint. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:27 pm |
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| Grace - well, we saw neither the Roddenberry nor the Bunuel, but installed 3 (THREE!) cats in my house, due to rental problems of my daughter's boyfriend. Much catproofing, as my house has undergone a bit of remodeling, and there were dangling wires and other hazards to secure. Still, a feline paradise compared to the windowless garage which was their first refugee camp. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:28 pm |
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| The Trip is not like My Dinner With Andre in any way, so comparisons are useless. Here the repartee is sometimes forced, but so what. Any film with ongoing impersonations of Michael Caine should command attention. This whole work is a fairly constant belly laugh. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:43 pm |
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My plans to see The Trip hinge mainly on the expectation of good Michael Caine impressions.
Bart - says something that you adopt 3 cats and then watch the cat-narrated The Future. (I found it unwatchable, but believe people who say that it has value) |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:09 am |
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The 2010 Israeli movie Lebanon is set in wartime Lebanon of 1980's. Almost the entire movie takes place inside one tank, and focuses on the tensions, backgrounds, hopes, dreams and fears of five or six soldiers. Some action scenes are pretty brutal. Reminiscent of Hurt Locker.
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:49 am |
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| Ghulam, I like your avatar. What is it? |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:08 pm |
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Family Plot worked very well for me, even though it's been over 10 years since the last time I saw it.
I caught a bit of Alfred Hitchcock Presents the other night on TV and the wry humor of the movie genius, standing with a fishing rod and dipping into the bathtub was fun to watch as the intro to the show. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:12 pm |
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Watched Super 8 last night and it reminded me why J.J. Abrams is this generations Spielberg, even though Spielberg was attached in a big way to the movie. It felt more like Close Encounters, but had some E.T. feel thrown in and some Cloverfield in certain scenes.
The kids stories were more adult than kids. I was hoping to show this to my wife's 9 yr old granddaughter, but can't to due to it being very agressive in both casual language and bloody attacks.
Wish I would have seen this on the big screen (it was the same wish I had with Cloverfield), but enjoyed the movie still on the 40" smaller screen. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:28 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Ghulam, I like your avatar. What is it?
Thanks. Just something I picked up at random from "Google Flowers".
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:53 pm |
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They are definitely flowers.
I liked Super 8 a lot until the ending which was a typical Spielberg ending. His ending in Close Encounters also took the movie down a number of notches. For me an ending is very important and a weak or dumb ending really pisses me off when it is tacked on to a good movie. Alternately, an average movie with a strong ending changes it into a good or very good movie for me. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:59 pm |
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I'm the opposite. I prefer a crappy ending.
No, but I'm willing to overlook a bad ending. I just ignore it and pretend it didn't happen. Hard to do with a long drawn out ending, but generally I can just mentally edit out a poor ending. And it affects my opinion very little. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:27 pm |
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| I remember being at the screening of "Mean Streets" and people were walking out; I found it pretty dull too, until the final scenes. When some of the class members criticized it in class later, the professor asked "Did you stay till the end?" and they would say no and there would be a class-wide groan. Gotta see the ending to really appreciate that one. (And that was the class with Scorsese sitting next to me and nervously wringing his hands until he was introduced and went up on stage--I thought he was just an anonymous weirdo until that moment.) |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:02 am |
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| Double post. |
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