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| bartist |
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billyweeds wrote: bartist wrote: Def want to see KYD, Philo., ILD, but am unsure what to make of mixed buzz about Oldboy. Always wary when it's a remake (Korean original, 2003), plus the long list of actors who turned down roles in it. Was the original any good?
Maybe you haven't heard the buzz on American Hustle. Generally I despise the whole concept of "buzz," but in this case it sounds deserved. Cannot wait to see it; directed by David O. Russell, whose work (with one huge exception) I love, starring Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, etc. Russell directed both Lawrence and Bale to Oscars and the story of AH is supposedly crackerjack.
Given my state of near-adoration of David O. Russell, not to mention Xtian Bale, there really would be no need for "buzz" to get me to AH.  |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 12:30 pm |
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Saw the trailers for Hustle and Inside LD. Will definitely see both.
Old Boy is part of the revenge trilogy that includes Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Mr. Vengeance. These are tricky films with no obvious story line. But they are passionate, visually beautiful and in the end very insightful. Old Boy is probably the most difficult to make sense of. The remake will be interesting if nothing else.. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:20 pm |
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| Not my type of film at all, but I thought Old Boy was silly, ridiculous and inane. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 4:23 pm |
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| Revengey bloody stuff doesn't appeal to me, but was sorta intrigued by the existential premise of Josh Brolin stuck in a hotel room for 20 years. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 2:04 am |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 2:09 am |
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Didn't like the Korean film Oldboy and don't plan to see the American version.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:11 am |
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Ghulam wrote: .
Didn't like the Korean film Oldboy and don't plan to see the American version.
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You're clearly in the majority here. The movie is tanking as badly as anything in years. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:23 am |
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In a World... is loads of fun. (Finally got around to seeing it last nght.) It has an initially jerky rhythm (my wife mistook it for mumblecore) which starts the movie a bit shakily, but once you get with the program the flick proves solid entertainment and hits all the bases beautifully. Lake Bell (who also wrote and directed) plays the leading role of a would-be voice-over artist and current vocal coach who is the daughter of a voice-over superstar with a gigantic and obnoxious case of clinical narcissism. Since the father is played by Fred Malamed from A Serious Man, we know we are in genuinely talented territory here.
The movie charts their head-on collision in pursuit of a plum assignment and along the way gets up close and personal about his and her romantic liaisons and her sister and brother-in-law. It all comes together like a delightful jigsaw, helped enormously by charming performances from Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins, and (the heretofore unknown to me) Demetri Martin, among others, including Geena Davis in a terrific cameo. It will work fine on video, but I'm glad I went out to see it. It was a perfect "night at the movies." |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 5:31 pm |
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Has anyone here seen Short Term 12? If not, go to see it when you can. I just came back from watching it and it is just as good as its reviews say it is.
It's about a foster care facility. The supervising staff members and the young inhabitants are the basic characters in the film. All of them are so well acted that it almost seems like a documentary. All the main characters have well drawn personalities. It is emotional, comic, sad, disturbing, uplifting and ends in a way (a perfect ending), that I can't believe anyone would go out of the theatre thinking it wasn't very good. I don't want to write very much, or anything about the story line so you can follow it without any spoilers. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:56 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Has anyone here seen Short Term 12? If not, go to see it when you can. I just came back from watching it and it is just as good as its reviews say it is.
It's about a foster care facility. The supervising staff members and the young inhabitants are the basic characters in the film. All of them are so well acted that it almost seems like a documentary. All the main characters have well drawn personalities. It is emotional, comic, sad, disturbing, uplifting and ends in a way (a perfect ending), that I can't believe anyone would go out of the theatre thinking it wasn't very good. I don't want to write very much, or anything about the story line so you can follow it without any spoilers.
Can. Not. Wait. To see Short Term 12. It's one of my must-see films but it wasn't playing anywhere last I looked. Will keep at it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 9:26 pm |
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| It just opened here at the Globe which shows regular movies and movies that don't always play at the other theatres. They have early Sat. and Sun, showings so I has happy to catch it. I certainly wasn't disappointed. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 2:01 pm |
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Homefront looked entirely skippable. Then a review alerted me that Winona Ryder returns to the screen as a meth whore. Hmmm. Have kinda missed her.
"Nebraska" today or tomorrow. Am hearing really mixed responses, so am curious, given the thumb up shown here. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 2:55 pm |
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bartist wrote: Homefront looked entirely skippable. Then a review alerted me that Winona Ryder returns to the screen as a meth whore. Hmmm. Have kinda missed her.
"Nebraska" today or tomorrow. Am hearing really mixed responses, so am curious, given the thumb up shown here.
Winona was in The Iceman with Michael Shannon. Hasn't had a leading role in quite a while. Shame.
Where are these "mixed" responses to Nebraska? It's getting almost nothing except flat-out raves. The only negative I've read is from David Denby in The New Yorker. He's all wet on that one. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 6:18 pm |
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Frozen is pretty good, with this time the main relationship being between two sisters who love each other but are separated because one has power over a force of nature but is deathly afraid of hurting her little sister Anna after almost killing her by accident. Disney's been trying to do "The Snow Queen" for ages, but they finally decided to do a totally different story, and I think it was a wise decision. The scene where Queen Elsa finally gets to "let it go" is stunning. Although Anna is more central, Elsa was the one I cared about.
Olaf the Snowman is a bit irritating and mostly superfluous but has the best song, on how much he's going to enjoy life when summer returns. No one has the heart to mention a problem with that. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:24 am |
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Inside Llewyn Davis is a good-not-great film by the Coen Brothers. Better than most of their movies, it's still not a Coen classic. Well acted and photographed and possessing a wonderful soundtrack full of folk music, it's the character study of a very self-destructive folk singer with a wildly erratic personality. Oscar Isaac is extremely convincing and quite sympathetic as this infuriating man, and he's backed by a good supporting cast including Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, F. Murray Abraham, and a host of well-chosen character types. All the other characters besiides Llewyn, however, are either cameos or extended cameos.
The movie is essentially plotless and depends entirely on one's interest in the character of Llewyn Davis. He's a fascinating character and, as noted, well acted--but it's not enough to make this a great film. Good, however, it is.
As for yours truly and my vaunted presence, you can recognize me as a blurry white-haired image in the background of one scene if you know exactly where to look and are willing to ignore the rather important and amusing dialogue taking place in the foreground. (In other words, if you're me.)
Hey, whatever, I'm definitely there. |
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