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| Marc |
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Quote: Dark Shadows looks dreadful.
A bomb. Even with Depp. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:52 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: I'm a huge MacLaine fan, a sorta Black fan, and (this almost counts as a guilty admission) a really big McConaIcan'tspellit fan. I can't wait for Bernie.
LOL. If you can't spell it, then no one can. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:05 pm |
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| Did you see it Marc, or was that the box office figures? |
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| knox |
| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:28 pm |
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It doesn't open for a couple weeks, so I imagine the BO figures are fairly low at this point.
I too await "Bernie" with some optimism. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:48 pm |
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bartist wrote: Ah yeah, the SAG perk. Thanks! Turns out the Swedish dvd release is May 3, and my son can jigger the regional code, so we're good to go. Just disgruntled because I'd like to have seen it on the big screen. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:05 am |
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| Good god, do you think they dubbed it in Swedish, forcing us to read the English subtitles? |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:37 am |
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bartist wrote: Good god, do you think they dubbed it in Swedish, forcing us to read the English subtitles? |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:14 am |
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It's a plains culture thing. I don't ask favors unless a limb has been severed and someone happens to have a tourniquet dangling from a pocket. Weird, yes, but better than the plains passive-aggro thing, which I haven't embraced - and is horribly prevalent in Iowa and Nebraska AFAICT. Easterners are regularly driven insane by it.
Given that it's small screen now, I can probably wait.
This looks interesting, BTW...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/mar/08/the-raven-review?INTCMP=SRCH
Opens Friday. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:59 pm |
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Saw the Judd Apatow-produced comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Though not a perfect film, it's far more interesting than 90 percent of rom-coms. Reminiscent of Like Crazy, it's about a couple who are deeply in love yet have many problems getting to the altar. Overlong and somewhat repetitive, it's nonetheless remarkably engaging and entertaining, due largely to the extraordinary chemistry and charm of the two leads, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt. Both Blunt and Segel have long since proved themselves actors of skill and charisma, she in The Adjustment Bureau and The Devil Wears Prada, he in Jeff, Who Lives at Home and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. But here they create romantic sparks even more taking than Blunt's with Matt Damon in TAB.
Plus, there's a sadness about the movie that sometimes threatens to derail but more often deepens it. And there are several physically painful moments along with many emotionally painful ones. It's quite a trip.
Nicholas Stoller directs with a certain iconoclasm that moves this beyond the typical Judd Apatow production. There are also excellent supporting performances by Chris Pratt, Rhys Ifans, and others. I recommend this movie, highly. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:27 am |
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| This is not a Film shows Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who made such highly acclaimed films as The Circle, Offside and Crimson Gold, now confined to his home facing a six year prison term and a 20 year ban on making movies from the repressive Iranian regime. As a result of international pressure from people like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Juliette Binoche, the sentence was reduced to one year in house confinement but the 20 year ban on film making still holds. In this documentary, he goes about his house pretending he is making a movie, moving furniture as if he is creating sets, giving us a glimpse of how a director's mind works. He gets so intensely interested in the story of a young man who drops by filling in for the usual garbage collector, that we feel his urge to make a movie about him. The documentary got superlative raves. One of a kind! |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:55 am |
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| Be interesting to know if, after the house arrest ends, he decides to leave the country. Iran: exporting its best and brightest, daily. |
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| Syd |
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The Pirates: Band of Misfits is hard to judge for me, partly because I was distracted by other events, partly because the movie was dimly lit by the theatre even for 2D. The previews, which were mostly for 3D movies, looked a little out of focus, so something was up.
Anyway, the movie concerns a group of pirates whose captain, called, imaginatively, The Pirate Captain, is longing to be named Pirate of the Year, which means he has to bring in the most booty, which is a bit of a problem when you're raiding plague ships and scouting expeditions. On one of these, he raids Charles Darwin, who also has no money but is surprised to notice that the ship's parrot is a dodo. Naturally he wants to get the dodo to London so he can become famous and pick up chicks. Thus he needs to get the Pirates to London, which is a bit of a problem because Queen Victoria has declared war on pirates, and, being a queen, is a mean hand with a sword. You didn't think it was just for knighting, did you?
To tell the truth, the story was so lightweight I kept getting distracted by the details in the background, like Darwin's collections, his mansion, the pirate dives and the handbills. A lot more of these Easter eggs are over the closing credits.
Not as strong as Chicken Run or Were-Rabbit, but if Aardman adapts the other books, I'll be there. |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:52 pm |
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Quote: I'm a huge MacLaine fan, a sorta Black fan, and (this almost counts as a guilty admission) a really big McConaIcan'tspellit fan. I can't wait for Bernie.
Saw Bernie tonight in Austin. Not so great. A rental, as they say. McConaIcan'tspellit's mother, Kay, walks away with the film. She's a trip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=my8clxStMZI |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:18 am |
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That sounded fun even before you mentioned it's from Aardman at the end of your review. In the UK it has the book's title The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, which I like better because it gives a sense of the humor. I'm interested to see how the claymation and CGI meshes. Sounds amusing.
Quote: The DVD release of the film will be accompanied with a short stop motion animated film called So You Want to Be a Pirate!, where The Pirate Captain hosts his own talk show about being a true pirate. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:54 am |
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| It doesn't look to me like Frankenweenie has survived expansion to a full-length film. I'd rather see ParaNorman. |
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