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| bartist |
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'Sfunny....AH felt overhyped to me, and I didn't have much to base that on.
As for Amy Adams, don't tell anybody but Sunshine Cleaning is a guilty pleasure. Alan Arkin selling rotting shrimp, Emily Blunt wearing raccoon-levels of eye shadow and burning down a house, and Adams realizing her old school friends aren't worth trying to impress.
Yeah, what tailpipe was I breathing from that day? |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 1:46 pm |
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bartist wrote: 'Sfunny....AH felt overhyped to me, and I didn't have much to base that on.
As for Amy Adams, don't tell anybody but Sunshine Cleaning is a guilty pleasure. Alan Arkin selling rotting shrimp, Emily Blunt wearing raccoon-levels of eye shadow and burning down a house, and Adams realizing her old school friends aren't worth trying to impress.
Yeah, what tailpipe was I breathing from that day?
That's a movie I want to see. I generally like Amy Adams a lot. She's okay in AH too, but the whole thing is sorta kinda meh. |
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billyweeds wrote: bartist wrote: 'Sfunny....AH felt overhyped to me, and I didn't have much to base that on.
As for Amy Adams, don't tell anybody but Sunshine Cleaning is a guilty pleasure. Alan Arkin selling rotting shrimp, Emily Blunt wearing raccoon-levels of eye shadow and burning down a house, and Adams realizing her old school friends aren't worth trying to impress.
Yeah, what tailpipe was I breathing from that day?
That's a movie I want to see. I generally like Amy Adams a lot. She's okay in AH too, but the whole thing is sorta kinda meh.
Emily Blunt's better in Sunshine Cleaning than Amy Adams. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 7:28 am |
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Been rewatching a couple of movies to see if my first impressions were correct. Boy, were they ever! Frances Ha is even better the second time. You're able to stick with the sometimes almost unbearably immature leading character because you know there's an arc coming that pays off beautifully. And Greta Gerwig is sensational in the lead.
On the other hand, American Hustle, which I was hoping I would change my mind about, proves impossible to get through on a second try. This heavy-handed, infelicitous jumble of a misfire is without competition the most egregiously overrated movie of the last decade. A must to avoid, which has been anointed BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR by the NY Film Critics, who have effectively lost all future credibility with me. And Jennifer Lawrence, who is a good actress (as witness Winter's Bone) and cannot be blamed for being this year's "it girl," is not so hot in her awarded supporting role. Bummer flick. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 9:57 am |
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David Denby heaped praise on AH. Between the anointing and the autopsies, I'm a bit curious.
Oscar Isaac gave a funny interview about his role in ILD, dealing with the cat in particular, on the NPR quiz show, "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me." Don't have link, but it should be clickable at the NPR website. |
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"Dallas Buyers Club" has a sad but uplifting story, a true story, which has been made into one of the year's best movies. Remarkable performances by Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 6:28 am |
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Ghulam wrote: .
"Dallas Buyers Club" has a sad but uplifting story, a true story, which has been made into one of the year's best movies. Remarkable performances by Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.
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Agreed. Both guys are great. |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:06 am |
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Llewyn Davies has been held back from several markets in the U.S., including Omaha, Lincoln, and many areas of the midwest. CBS Distributors is the company responsible for this sad and bizarre decision. The Coens are from the northern Plains, but apparently the area is viewed as too much of a cultural desert to bother with. Won't be in Omaha until Jan. 10, and possibly much later in Lincoln.
Seeing DBC asap. |
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| St. Louis is also being passed by, on Inside L. D. There is a lot of love for the Coens in the Midwest and West, and we are baffled here, too. I've seen companies do "slow expansion" on very iffy niche films, but this is an insult to two of the finest filmmakers in the U.S. |
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I assume it's just strategy.
A slow roll-out builds buzz and anticipation and extends a film's theater life. |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:39 am |
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| Llewyn Davies isn't playing here either. Nebraska is opening here tomorrow, at one theatre. I'll most likely see it on Saturday afternoon. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:51 pm |
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I thought Dallas Buyers Club would have worked better as a documentary. It was based on a real persons story and a doc could have filled in some of the blanks about a fascinating person. I'd never heard of the whole buyers club situation but I did see a doc about the movement at the beginning of the Aids epidemic to get the government to fund research.
Matthew M. was scary thin but Jared Leto was a phenomenon.
Gay stuff in the news lately..... The struggle continues: the Duck Dynasty rant and the Methodists getting rid of a minister who married his gay son.[/list] |
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| Philomena is another movie based on real peoples stories. Another compelling one that I had not been aware of. I think the presence of Judi Dench added something not evident in the DBC. I did not find Judi's character like able. I would not have wanted to spend any time with her. Despite that, I felt a lot of compassion for what she went through. I think there was a movie called The Magdeline Sisters that was about the same subject. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:58 am |
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gromit wrote: I assume it's just strategy.
A slow roll-out builds buzz and anticipation and extends a film's theater life.
Often, that accounts for it. Was odd this time around, since they were running ads for Llewyn on local affiliates a couple weeks ago, as if it were imminent. I think the buzz was pretty well built by Dec. 10 or so.
DBC seems to have been sacrificed to the holiday film glut. It's gone from here. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:47 am |
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| Spike Jonze's "Her" looks like a "robot" plot with more psychological depth than is usually to be found in that theme. |
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