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| bartist |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:23 pm |
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Quote: As a critic accurately noted, one fears that Knightley's jaw will become dislocated in her efforts to simulate hysterics.
Yes, Billy.......that jaw was jutting this way and that way........Has Keira ever had a great performance? (can't remember........Last Night wasn't one of them.) Fassbender is such a chameleon.......I'm fascinated at the moment. |
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| jeremy |
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I thought Kiera Knightley was just fine in the two period pieces, Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, that she did with Joe Wright. She also made a perfectly pleasing romantic heroine in the franchise that made her a household name, Pirates Of The Caribbean.
She does do that jaw jutting thing though. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:13 pm |
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| never saw any Pirates.......but yes, Atonement was good. I'll give Never Let Me Go a try. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:54 pm |
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| Keira Knightley was superb in Pride and Prejudice and beautiful in Pirates. She's never been bad until ADM, in which she is difficult to watch. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:24 am |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:32 am |
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I live four miles from their largest milling facility. Milling is a dangerous method, btw. Lots of accidents because the dust is extremely flammable and, if you fall in to the grain, you can suffocate.
Keira was not-good in The Jacket, where she attempted to be American and deal with Adrian Brody's time traveling. Also unspectacular in Never Let Me Go, and vastly overshadowed by Carrey Mulligan. KK was fine in The Duchess, Atonement, P&P. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:05 am |
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| London Boulevard, with Keira and Colin Farrell, is out on DVD, from redbox, in a couple weeks. It seems to be like several of her recent films, largely unnoticed. She may have been overly successful right at the start of her career, with the Pirate pics. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:32 pm |
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| Aha! The movie "Everybody Loves Whales" listed showing at a local theatre is actually "Big Miracle," the movie about the icebound whales. Somehow it's listed under the working title. "The Secret World of Arriety" is listed as "The Borrowers," which it really is. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:11 pm |
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| Keira Knightley's movies seem to be mostly very British, or at least don't cross the Atlantic. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:16 pm |
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Up for Best Animated short, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adzywe9xeIU
"La Luna" is Pixar's entry. Looks gorgeous, but we may not get to see the whole thing until Brave comes out. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:41 pm |
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| Thanks, Syd--that's a beautiful little movie. |
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| grace |
| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:45 pm |
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Syd wrote: Keira Knightley's movies seem to be mostly very British, or at least don't cross the Atlantic.
I liked Bend it Like Beckham well enough. The story is admittedly a little simplistic, but quite nicely done. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:21 pm |
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| Nothing stills the hum of current movie chat quite like the approach of the Oscars. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:05 pm |
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You know how sometimes in a suspense movie they'll throw something at you with a loud noise or scream and you jump out of your seat? And how, when they do it for the fifth time you get really, really annoyed? And how when they're about to do it for the tenth time, you know it's coming and you're swearing at the picture?
Well if the sound effects man for The Woman in Black is found dead with a microphone down his throat, you know who to blame.
Too bad. It could have been a creepy suspenseful movie if they'd realized sometimes less than more. As it is, it's overwrought and annoying. |
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