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| Syd |
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billyweeds wrote: Winter's Bone is getting the best reviews of the year, and it's undeniably an impressive achievement, a very convincing evocation of poverty-stricken rural characters living close to the edge. And it features a solid, flawless performance by Jennifer Lawrence as a 17-year-old head of the household whose meth dealer father is missing in action and whose mother is catatonic.
What it lacks for me is dramatic urgency and real vitality. I seem to be in a minority, however, so by all means check it out.
I finally watched this last night, and that's mostly true; much of the film is her visiting various relatives, many of who are hostile if not actually alarming. There's a certain amount of urgency that she needs to find her father dead or alive or her family will be homeless, and there's one scene that's actually violent, although even there some of the violence is discreetly off-screen.
It is well-acted, especially by Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes. I was amazed that he was the same actor I saw in Me and You and Everyone We Know. I think he should have won the Oscar, not Christian Bale.
One thing I noticed is that a lot of the women seem like the same person at different stages of her life (Lawrence and her best friend excepted). |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:40 am |
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Quote: One of the drawbacks of Medellin is that a lot of very good, American films, either don't get here or they get here very late.
But I bet the cocaine is exquisite. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:30 am |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:20 am |
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Marc wrote: Quote: One of the drawbacks of Medellin is that a lot of very good, American films, either don't get here or they get here very late.
But I bet the cocaine is exquisite.
Apparently the best.  ) Colombians are very sensitive about remarks about Colombia's cocaine and cartels and crime etc. because that isn't the situation here anymore. They don't recognize the sarcastic humour that is so commonplace in North America. I've had to explain to Marta that these are jokes not a criticism.
They still grow coca here but a lot of the crops have been destroyed and it is FARC, those sweethearts, who grow it in the jungles and get their money from the drug trade. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:16 am |
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It's hard for me to take a group called "FARC" seriously.
Winter's Bone had a quiet urgency that was sufficient for me. It seemed true to the rural pace and tone, which may be why it didn't have the bounce in its walk of a more urban meth-drama. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:32 pm |
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On The Atlantic's 2012 movie list, The Avengers is my most anticipated movie for next year. I still need to see Captain America and the Hulk film, but even if I don't, Nick Fury and Iron Man will carry the movie very strong.
Others on the list that I want to see:
TED
Brave
I saw the trailer for The Hobbit last night and it looks good. Very similar to the LotR movie franchise. |
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| grace |
| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:55 pm |
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| Looper looks like it could be fun, but it's almost a year off (late Sept). |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:48 am |
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I'm not looking forward to ANYTHING next year. Inside Llewyn Davis is slated for a 2013 release, which will make two entire years with no Coen brothers movie. It's like they are turning into Terrence Mallick or something.
OK, I'll probably check out the Lincoln movie and The Hobbit. And the Luhrman adaptation of Gatsby has "fascinating train wreck" written all over it, so that could be fun. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:03 am |
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Looper looks like it could be (faintly hoping here) a decent sci-fi thriller, or it could be cashing in on Bruce Willis in 12 monkey mode again.
You know you're a Coen bro fan when two years seems like too long to wait for the next movie.
Not watching "Ted" unless it goes dark like The Beaver. In which case, it might be a Rule of Two. Cigar-chomping exec: we want a guy attached to a furry cute toy that talks. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:38 am |
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| Got a little spoiled by that 2007 - 2010 Coen run of a movie a year, all very good to great. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:28 pm |
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2006-2010, if you count "Tuileries." Yeah, we got spoiled. The previous incidence of movies a year apart was Intolerable Cruelty and Ladykillers. The previous, before that, was Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing. Win some, lose some.
John Goodman is one of the cast signed on for Llewyn Davis...the true Coen perennial. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:48 pm |
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| January 20 and 27 are red-letter movie days for me. My first two songs ever to be included in movies are in films opening those days. On Jan. 20 it's Carol Channing: Larger Than Life and on the 27th it's After Fall, Winter. Wow; amazing. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:38 pm |
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| Great, Billy! I just told Marta. She didn't know you wrote songs. She thinks that's terrific. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:51 pm |
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| Songwriting is my first and once and current and future career. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:26 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: January 20 and 27 are red-letter movie days for me. My first two songs ever to be included in movies are in films opening those days. On Jan. 20 it's Carol Channing: Larger Than Life and on the 27th it's After Fall, Winter. Wow; amazing.
What are the movies? |
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