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| bartist |
 Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:00 am |
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Quote: If it gets decent reviews...
If this turkey gets decent reviews, then it will be due to an unprecedented solar flare that triggers aneurysms in the brain of every film critic on the planet.
OK, maybe Peter Travers will like it. He likes everything.
Seriously, you should see it - as you say, it's Cusack playing Poe, and even if you find it to be the stinkfest that I did, you will have witnessed an interesting failure. And there are some nice boob shots of the damsel in distress. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:14 am |
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| The reviews of The Raven are largely negative and--reinforced by Bart's very convincing pan--make me want to avoid this movie totally. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:26 am |
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| Totally? Come on, sneak in a see a few scenes. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 12:01 pm |
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| I like solar flares and unprecedented occurrences, so I might be tempted to see it still ... |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:26 pm |
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bartist wrote: Joe, that toss-everything-in-the-stew thing drives me nuts, generally, but of course I want to see it anyway.
It's hard for me to explain without giving anything away, but it's not like we have a vampire slayer and and vampire with a soul in an outer space western about a mind-erasing prostitution ring. What I mean by all series combined is that there are motifs from all of them that work their way into the plot. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 7:49 am |
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Quote: It's hard for me to explain without giving anything away, but it's not like we have a vampire slayer and and vampire with a soul in an outer space western about a mind-erasing prostitution ring.
Well, that's a load off! Will see Thurs. or Fri.
Just arrived at the arthouse here is Damsels in Distress, which Billy panned here about a month ago. It sounds godawful, and I'm glad I got the Search function to work and be warned. Too bad, I wanted to see Greta Gerwig again, after her amusing perf in Greenberg. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:39 am |
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I wouldn't try to dissuade anyone from seeing The Raven, but it's not much of a movie if you go for a movie about Ed Poe. Cusack seems to have been handed a role that's really a pastiche, with bits of Poe tossed in here and there. Sort of like a longish episode of Night Gallery, for people who have never bothered to read Poe, but want a romantic and dashing hero.
Greta Gerwig seems to do quirky girls well, even if Damsels was a bad choice for her. She was great in Arthur and Greenberg. (next project: "Arthur Greenberg" ?) Kind of a latter day Teri Garr. Or Terri Gar. Wherever those dang R's go. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 12:36 pm |
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How disturbed should we be that the next major feature film concerning Lincoln, after The Conspirator, is going to be Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?
I was already alarmed by the attempt to rewrite Jane Austen with zombies. But this REALLY crosses the line!  |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 5:58 pm |
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| My thoughts on AL:VH would not be printable at a message board for Merchant Marines who are fans of Joe Pesci. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 12:30 am |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:30 am |
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| Deeply silly but amusing concept. An interesting sidelight is the fact that Benjamin Walker (the young actor and future Streep son-in-law) plays a revisionist Lincoln here and made his breakthrough move in the Broadway musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a similarly revisionist view of AJ. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:39 am |
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| Maybe I have the wrong idea, then...it doesn't sound "revisionist" so much as "pandering to a generation that has no patience for actually learning some history, so we have to turn a Jane Austen novel into a zombie novel, and Abe Lincoln's youth into another vampire flick." I would have been amused by the concept, but lately I've been seeing, in my children and their friends, this really disturbing aversion to books and to any subject that takes some attention span....or anything that doesn't do backflips to entertain you. I couldn't get either of them interested in seeing The Conspirator, for example. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:49 am |
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| bartist--Well, when you're right you're right, and you're right. ALVH is not revisionist; it's idiotic. But it still looks faintly amusing. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 8:55 am |
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| I agree with your post Bart. It's disturbing how the younger generations know almost nothing about history before the 60's and I'm not even sure that they know anything about the Vietnam war. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 3:49 am |
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