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| marantzo |
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| Tom Hanks playing Disney is funny. Disney was not a very nice guy. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:16 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: DiCaprio's range is enormous. The quaalude scene with the car is worthy of Buster Keaton, and scenes with McConaughey in a restaurant and Kyle Chandler on a yacht, as well as everything with Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie, are sheer genius. Leo is king!
And I love his first sale of penny stocks. Actually, I was smiling and laughing throughout that whole sequence even though he's a rat.
I agree with on DiCaprio; this is the best male performance I've seen this year. He just owns the screen. The movie's full of good supporting performances, especially Hill, Robbie and Reiner. There are a few movies this year I like better, but none that are such a rush as this.
I really wish Jordan had spent the 20 years in prison, though. He worked hard for it, earned it, and should have gotten to enjoy his full comeuppance. I wonder what happened to his cohorts. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:42 pm |
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marantzo wrote:
Which one of the movies had the scene where he goes on stage and keeps having to duck when the ballerina twirls and her long heavy braid keeps swinging at his head.
Knock on Wood. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:47 pm |
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Syd wrote: There are a few movies this year I like better, but none that are such a rush as this.
Actually, there are none I like better, though there's one that I like just as much--Enough Said. They are so completely different that comparing them is like apples and oranges, however, so--barring a miracle--my Best Movie of 2013 will be a tie. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:29 pm |
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| My #1 is Gravity, after which I have to start thinking. I'm surprised how many good films came out this year. It didn't seem like it until I started trying to make a list and remembered films like The Place Beyond the Pines and The Conjuring. Flawed films, but good. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:46 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: marantzo wrote:
Which one of the movies had the scene where he goes on stage and keeps having to duck when the ballerina twirls and her long heavy braid keeps swinging at his head.
Thanks Billy, that's the one I thought it was but couldn't remember the connection of that scene. When I first saw that scene I couldn't stop laughing. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 1:15 am |
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Syd wrote: My #1 is Gravity, after which I have to start thinking. I'm surprised how many good films came out this year. It didn't seem like it until I started trying to make a list and remembered films like The Place Beyond the Pines and The Conjuring. Flawed films, but good.
It was a wonderful year for American movies. Gravity, which is absolutely great, is only my #5 film--#3 and #4 being Frances Ha and Nebraska respectively. There are many, many honorable mentions.
My "overrated" list is headed by American Hustle, but close behind are such overhyped items as 12 Years a Slave and Blue is the Warmest Color.
Likely to be overlooked is the very good Inside Llewyn Davis, which had such overblown prerelease buzz that anything less than the best Coen movie ever would have been disappointing...and it wasn't up to that.
My chief guilty pleasure of the year remains the raunchy, somewhat sloppy farce We're the Millers, which is fall-down funny and contains at least three marvelous comic performances--by Jason Sudeikis, Will Poulter, and Kathryn Hahn. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:22 am |
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When I saw the previews for We're The Millers I decided to see it for sure. I went to see it on a Tuesday afternoon, but I got the wrong time for it, (two hours early), so I decided to see it the next week. It was gone the next week.
I am going to see The Wolf Of Wall Street this week. I'm going to have to see Inside Llewyn Davis this week also. It's only playing at one theatre. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:52 am |
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I had a brain fart while listing my favorite movies of the year. The Spectacular Now is a firm #4, but Gravity is staying at #5, which means Nebraska drops to #6. The bottom line is they're all fantastic.
I have to make special mention of the actor Kyle Chandler, who will not be nominated for the Oscar as supporting actor but who is simply great in two separate and very contrasting roles--the alcoholic, deadbeat, but pitiable father in The Spectacular Now and the indefatigable, sardonic FBI agent in The Wolf of Wall Street. Chandler is the star of TV's Friday Night Lights, which I never see, and IMO stole Super 8 even from Elle Fanning, the only other good thing about it. Chandler is a charismatic mix of Kevin Costner and Van Heflin, the kind of macho man who never pushes the macho. I expect big, big things from him. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:03 pm |
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I'm having a pleasant few days catching up on films. I liked The Wolf of Wall Street a lot, obviously, despite thinking Jordan and Donnie deserved nice long jail sentences. Jordan still has paid about 10% of what he was fined, which is about half he should have paid. Really good cast.
Really liked Saving Mr. Banks, with Emma Thompson as P. L. Travers and Tom Hanks burying himself into the role of Walt Disney. Fine supporting performance by Paul Giamatti as Travers' chauffeur. This has a very good script that hung around for years because Disney was the only studio who could produce it without being sued. This is one of the few movies this year that moved me to tears.
American Hustle: It's far from the best film of the year, but is still pretty good. I really liked Amy Adams, and it had some twists I didn't see coming. Besides, where else can you see Jennifer Lawrence kissing Amy Adams full on the lips. |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:17 am |
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Syd wrote: I liked The Wolf of Wall Street a lot, obviously....
Why "obviously"? Am I missing something? Is Syd a stock trader? An FBI agent? |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 10:24 am |
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Maybe Syd is just heavily into fraud.
Just your run of the mill scum ...
I kid.
Saw the dvd of Saving Mr. Banks and The Butler but couldn't bring myself to pick up either. I'm sure they are both fine and forgettable, and I'll probably of for one or the other eventually.
Of course now that Syd is on the praise for Mr. Banks, I'll have to consider all the angles ... |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:08 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Syd wrote: I liked The Wolf of Wall Street a lot, obviously....
Why "obviously"? Am I missing something? Is Syd a stock trader? An FBI agent? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:16 am |
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Saw The Wolf of Wall Street yesterday. I did like it but didn't love it. Unlike Billy I found it too long. It could have been edited more than it was. A number of the scenes were rather redundant, but watchable. A lot of funny scenes, many of a porno calibre. Seeing so many good looking naked women cavorting and such with an army of men and a few women, were weird and grossly funny.
The acting of the partners, DiCaprio and Hill, is very good and all over the place.
Considering the huge multiple drugs used, I thought they had to drop dead.  They did come close.
I think Scorsese could have made it better with some editing. |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:24 am |
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| Gary--You may or may not know how much I hate overlong movies, and yet I could only see room for one or two snips in TWoWS. One was the storm at sea, which I thought went on too long. |
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