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Joe Vitus
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:49 am Reply with quote
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Well, what do I know about rock or pop, anyway? I like Hair. Smile

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marantzo
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:58 am Reply with quote
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Never saw the musical, Hair, but I liked the score.
bartist
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:26 am Reply with quote
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Greta Garbo, and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine

Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers, dance on air

They had style, they had grace
Rita Hayworth gave good face
Lauren, Katherine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you



--Madonna and engineers

Nice to see Jeremy and Befade emerging from the ones and zeroes.

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shannon
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:10 am Reply with quote
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Ghulam wrote:
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Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol is an over-the-top piece of stupidity. But I could be wrong.

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But isn't that the point? The Mission Impossible movies have always primarily been an excuse for good directors to just get as crazy with the action scenes as they can. (In MI2's case, John Woo already had all these action scenes he'd been dreaming about doing composed even before they were attached to a particular movie, the script had to be written around them.)
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shannon
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:12 am Reply with quote
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The Descendants is a perfect film. Absolutely flawless. It and Drive, only two movies that I've been more than "meh" about all year (although I haven't seen all that much).
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billyweeds
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:24 am Reply with quote
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The Descendants and Drive are certainly wonderful movies, but there have been quite a few others this year. I think 2011 was a way-above-average year at the movies, much better than last year and slightly better than 2009.
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shannon
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:28 am Reply with quote
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Yeah, I haven't seen a lot. Come to think, I'm at a loss to think of a movie I've seen at the theater all year that hasn't starred either The Gos or The Cloon, or both. Hugo, MI4, and that Planet of the Apes movie, that's about it. That's weird.
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billyweeds
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:43 am Reply with quote
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shannon wrote:
Yeah, I haven't seen a lot. Come to think, I'm at a loss to think of a movie I've seen at the theater all year that hasn't starred either The Gos or The Cloon, or both. Hugo, MI4, and that Planet of the Apes movie, that's about it. That's weird.


Loved Rise of the Planet of the Apes; not your others. But War Horse, Take Shelter, Margin Call, The Conspirator, Bridesmaids, Another Happy Day, Like Crazy, Moneyball, The Debt, A Better Life, Martha Marcy May Marlene--all aces or close. A real bonanza of a year.
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shannon
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:48 am Reply with quote
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I plan on seeing War Horse, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Take Shelter soon. Moneyball is on dvd next week. I'll rent it. Bridesmaids was good, not great. (I did watch it on dvd alone, though. Comedies tend to succeed more when viewed with others.) The Debt, I honestly didn't like it at all. And I wanted to. I love serious spy movies.
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chillywilly
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:58 am Reply with quote
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Almost every album that Madonna has released has some great songs on it. The only exception is the horrible "American Life" *shudder*

I really enjoyed the "Music" album as a whole. "Ray of Light" was a close second, followed by "True Blue"

As for movies, I'm only reminded of Evita as her strongest role.

Guy Ritchie movies have been better since they split up.

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chillywilly
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:00 pm Reply with quote
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Still have several movies to watch, with War Horse and The Descendants being on the top of my list.

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billyweeds
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:07 pm Reply with quote
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Never saw Evita, but I can understand it being one of Madonna's successes, since it sounds like an extended music video. She was almost always effective on music videos, where she didn't have to handle (yipe!) dialogue.
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bartist
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You know it's the slow season at a film website when a discussion of Madonna runs for two or more pages.

Razz

Since people are posting the films they haven't seen, but feel they must, here are mine:

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marantzo
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:55 pm Reply with quote
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When I spent a couple of weeks in Atlanta in November I was planning to see some movies, but in the whole time I was there, there wasn't one movie that I was interested in seeing and the ones I would have seen, I'd already seen. Atlanta which is quite a nice metropolis isn't a great place for movie going considering its size.
Joe Vitus
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:12 pm Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
Never saw Evita, but I can understand it being one of Madonna's successes, since it sounds like an extended music video. She was almost always effective on music videos, where she didn't have to handle (yipe!) dialogue.


It isn't. It's a terrible, terrible movie that kills the ice-cold look at the Rainbow of Argentina created on stage. Plus, because Madonna was pregnant, a fairly dance-oriented show becomes a movie where people just keep walking, walking, walking while they're singing. It's a movie with no guts and no imagination.

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