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| billyweeds |
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| A very early review seems to bear out the contention voiced around these parts that The Hangover Part III may be in contention for "worst film of all time." The review posits that "beheading the giraffe" may replace "jumping the shark" as the term for...jumping the shark. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 6:19 am |
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Inside Llewyn Davis continues to pull in not only the best reviews of the Coens' careers, but almost the best reviews in movie history. Eight reviews on Metacritic yield an average of...wait for it...100. This is unprecendented AFAIK.
Meanwhile, Behind the Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh's Liberace movie starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon as the gay predator and his prey, is garnering reviews almost as good as ILD. Douglas would be up for a second Oscar were it not for the fact that this is an HBO feature. Picture me slavering and you've got the right idea. So glad we didn't cancel our HBO subscription after Phil Spector. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 7:09 am |
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| Do you know yet whether you made the final cut? |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:32 am |
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Befade wrote: The pomposity!
LOL!
GROMIT - I don't think the Baz interpretation really is one that's viewing Gatsby as a period piece. Indeed, I think he's making a point with the 21st century music. I won't say more - you can draw your own conclusions. BTW, there is also some Jazz Age period music in there, too, and it also works in those particular scenes.
I'm eager to see Inside Llewyn Davis, but what's with the endless wait? Tom Petty was right. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:50 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Do you know yet whether you made the final cut?
I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty confident that scene will remain in the movie. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:55 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: Do you know yet whether you made the final cut?
I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty confident that scene will remain in the movie.
Let's hope so. I have no interest in another cliche-ridden, non-Billyweeds film. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 9:33 am |
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bartist wrote: Befade wrote: The pomposity!
LOL!
GROMIT - I don't think the Baz interpretation really is one that's viewing Gatsby as a period piece. Indeed, I think he's making a point with the 21st century music. I won't say more - you can draw your own conclusions. BTW, there is also some Jazz Age period music in there, too, and it also works in those particular scenes.
I'm eager to see Inside Llewyn Davis, but what's with the endless wait? Tom Petty was right.
Tom Petty allusions are the new acronyms.
The endless wait is due to the movie thinking--obviously correctly--that it's gonna be Oscar fodder and wanting to position itself thusly. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 10:01 am |
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lshap wrote: billyweeds wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: Do you know yet whether you made the final cut?
I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty confident that scene will remain in the movie.
Let's hope so. I have no interest in another cliche-ridden, non-Billyweeds film.
Personally, I pretty much hate the majority of the Coen Bros. movies. But I'll support anything that aids Billy's career. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 10:15 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote:
Personally, I pretty much hate the majority of the Coen Bros. movies. But I'll support anything that aids Billy's career.
Now I gotta know what you mean by the majority. Because there are a few Coen movies I'm not crazy about, but dissing the bulk of their work is just not seeing the forest for the trees.
Fargo
Blood Simple
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
Raising Arizona
A Serious Man
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
v.
Intolerable Cruelty
The Ladykillers (I haven't seen it but don't have to to know it sucks)
True Grit (I'm in the minority who think it sucks)
Barton Fink (I'm in the infinitesimal minority WTIS)
with
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Hudsucker Proxy
O Brother Where Art Thou?
in the middle.
Majority? Not quite. |
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| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 10:55 am |
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Quote: Tom Petty allusions are the new acronyms.
Heh!
"The waiting is the hardest part...." This song may have sunk into relative obscurity. If so, pardon my cryptography. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 11:34 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: I'll support anything that aids Billy's career.
But btw thank you so much, Joe. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 6:15 pm |
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| Do they have an Oscar for the best extra? Or do you have any lines Billy? |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 7:13 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe Vitus wrote:
Personally, I pretty much hate the majority of the Coen Bros. movies. But I'll support anything that aids Billy's career.
Now I gotta know what you mean by the majority. Because there are a few Coen movies I'm not crazy about, but dissing the bulk of their work is just not seeing the forest for the trees.
Fargo
Blood Simple
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
Raising Arizona
A Serious Man
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
v.
Intolerable Cruelty
The Ladykillers (I haven't seen it but don't have to to know it sucks)
True Grit (I'm in the minority who think it sucks)
Barton Fink (I'm in the infinitesimal minority WTIS)
with
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Hudsucker Proxy
O Brother Where Art Thou?
in the middle.
Majority? Not quite. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:40 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe Vitus wrote:
Personally, I pretty much hate the majority of the Coen Bros. movies. But I'll support anything that aids Billy's career.
Now I gotta know what you mean by the majority. Because there are a few Coen movies I'm not crazy about, but dissing the bulk of their work is just not seeing the forest for the trees.
Fargo
Blood Simple
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
Raising Arizona
A Serious Man
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
v.
Intolerable Cruelty
The Ladykillers (I haven't seen it but don't have to to know it sucks)
True Grit (I'm in the minority who think it sucks)
Barton Fink (I'm in the infinitesimal minority WTIS)
with
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Hudsucker Proxy
O Brother Where Art Thou?
in the middle.
Majority? Not quite. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 9:43 pm |
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I'd swap O Brother with No Cunt for Old Men.
O Brother top tier.
No Country middling stuff.
Hudsucker largely a clunker. |
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