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| marantzo |
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Syd,
"...17th century samurai Musashi Miyamoto* (Toshiro Mifune), whom I'd never heard of."
I take it that it is Miyamoto that you never heard of, not Mifune. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:04 am |
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marantzo wrote: Syd,
"...17th century samurai Musashi Miyamoto* (Toshiro Mifune), whom I'd never heard of."
I take it that it is Miyamoto that you never heard of, not Mifune.
Yes. If I hadn't heard of Mifune, that would have been inside the parentheses. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:32 am |
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If you hadn't heard of Mifune, I'd have been shocked....shocked I'd say!  |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:20 pm |
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As usual, two nights ago I woke up around 4 AM and started watching a movie which was around half way through. I liked it and liked the cast. At first I couldn't figure out what movie it was but then figured it was Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I was right. I remember it getting very mediocre to just bad reviews. I found it very entertaining and had me interested enough to keep me awake. Maybe if I saw the first half I would have had a lower opinion of it, but I don;t think so.
SPOILER ALERT:
When Kevin Spacey's character dies near the end, has he been short or has he killed himself or has he died from his disease that the guy he has killed used to watch over him when he had an attack?
END SPOILER
I'd recommend this movie.
Maybe it were just the people who read the book who didn't like the movie? |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:27 pm |
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| he book - atrocious - kept me away from the film. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:35 pm |
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I liked the book, didn't see the film. I don't remember enough about the book, however, to recall exactly how it ended up.
i enjoy that game of turning on TCM and trying to figure out who the actors are and (if I'm lucky) what the film is. There was one a few weeks ago with Barbara Stanwyck taken hostage by escaped convict Ralph Meeker when she's trying to find help for her husband, Barry Sullivan, who's been trapped somehow in the rocks with the tide coming in. I didn't recognize Meeker, couldn't think of Sullivan's name, but Stanwyck was obvious, even though I couldn't figure out what she was doing in a lousy b-movie. I guess they were all sliding into TV roles by then. (I don't remember the title now, but it was something like "Suspense." I should look it up on IMDb.) |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:35 pm |
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I never read the book and don't even know who wrote it, but I did like the movie and all it's weird characters.
I always like John Cusack and he was very good in it. I have never cared for Eastwood's directing very much, but I liked his work on this one. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:40 pm |
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| It's not Suspense but it's a one word title. 1953. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:44 pm |
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What is "Jeopardy," Alex?
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:54 pm |
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| That's it. Not a terrible movie, but not very good either. I think it was the kid who didn't want to leave his waterlogged dad that really put me off. (The tide takes a long time to come in, in those movies--and sometimes it's up to the chin and then back down to the shoulders. Fun to watch.) |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:05 am |
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Marwencol
Documentary about a man brutally beaten in a bar fight, into a coma, who recovers from brain injury by building a tiny Belgian town, set during WW II era, and populating it with dolls that represent himself, friends, and people he'd like to know. And enemies on whom he can vent his rage. He gradually rebuilds a life and connections to real people in the process, and gets some NY artists and gallery interested in his work (which is pretty amazing). This is the weirdest and somehow most compelling documentary I've seen this year (a 2010 release that's a 2011 release if you live in the boonies). There is something remarkable about his art, its lack of pretense or ironic distance, and something quite likeable about the man. Strongly recommend this. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:47 am |
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Bart, my take on Marwencol from mid-Summer.
Make sure you watch the extra scene where the meaning of the name Marwencol is explained. Not sure how/why they left that out of the movie.
I think I say this a lot -- but I really believe this is a Golden Age of Documentaries.
And so I wonder what I've missed this year. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:55 am |
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| Though I have seen few, I agree that this is the golden age of documentaries. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:53 pm |
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Gromt, thanks -- I was trying to remember who here had recommended it and thought it might be you. Will look for the extra scene (actually, a family transport crisis caused me to miss the last 10 minutes, so I'm going to catch that tonight...). Yes, tis a golden age, and so many good docus I have yet to see. And it was sort of a good choice, Marwencol, since I'd just seen Grizzly Man, also about an eccentric and isolated man with an obsession.
What's funny is that I openly laughed at Grizzly Man, with its much more tragic outcome, but somehow Hogancamp stilled my impulse to laugh or mock, even though a bare description of his hobby sounds like it's straight out of Dinner for Schmucks. (think Steve Carell and the mice tableaux) |
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| The Chilean documentary Nostalgia for the Light sets up a parallel between two searches, astronomers searching the sky, and grieving women searching the desert for the bones of their missing husbands, sons and daughters, victims of dictator General Pinochet's mass murders. Sad and reflective. |
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