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| marantzo |
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billyweeds wrote: Seeing Boyhood tonight. Salivating.
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:43 pm |
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| You guys just make me feel guilty. I have to take a subway downtown to see a movie, but I seldom get around to it. I did manage to see three movies with my mother and sister in May, but one of them wasn't even worth crossing the street. At least the other two were good, which considering the quality of summer flicks and the compromise of tastes, wasn' t really a bad ratio. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 5:27 am |
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Boyhood is not only the best movie of the year so far (and probably won't be topped), it's also one of the best movies I've ever seen. The masterpiece of master filmmaker Richard Linklater, it could have emerged as a simple gimmick movie. Filming was done over a period of twelve years in which Ellar Coltrane as the “boy” aged from six years old to 18; this alone would have made the movie an interesting oddity. But wonder of wonders, it turned out to be a great film, period.
It’s pretty amazing how Linklater was able to cast a six-year-old and just trust that he would age successfully, but it sure paid off. Coltrane turns out to be a marvelous actor--fascinatingly laid-back in the style of Keith Carradine and beautifully sensitive and funny when needed. As his parents, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke are pitch-perfect, both of them award-worthy as all get-out. Supporting performances by Lorelei Linklater (the director’s daughter, who also ages 12 years), Marco Perella, and Brad Hawkins--breathtaking work all around.
As for what happens in the story? Too much to detail and too little to describe. In other words, life. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:18 pm |
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| I'll see it when it gets here. Thanks Billy. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 6:58 pm |
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| Waiting till it gets here....... I watched Bernie again to see if I liked it as much as the first time.......another Linklater film. It wasn't as funny the second time around. A lot of it seemed too staged. But the interesting thing is that the subject of the film is now living over Linklater's garage in Austin. His sentence was shortened. I wonder what Marc has to say about Boyhood. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:08 pm |
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Wow, Snowpiercer is an awful film. In an effort to combat global warming, scientists release a chemical to block sunlight. However, they overshoot and are plunged into snowball earth, and all life allegedly* is extinct except on an enormous hermetically sealed train that travels around the world endlessly, like the world's largest model train. The tail dwellers are sick of protein bars (although it's better than the cannibalism of the early days), and revolt, deciding to go to the front of the train to talk to the engineer. The whole movie is going from one car to the next, with lots of people shooting people, which doesn't seem a good idea in a train that's supposed to be a closed ecosystem. (Or mostly closed. They do melt snow for water.) The whole thing is remarkably silly. And a bit of a sham. At the end we see a polar bear. What has it been eating for the last seventeen years?
No performances stand out. The cars with plants and fish are pretty, but what about the car with sides of beef and plucked chicken? Where do they keep the cattle and hens? |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:16 pm |
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Snowpiercer - saw the trailer at a showing of the re-rel. of Hard Day's Night. It did look ridiculous and overblown.
Was great to see the lads again, though. Beautiful renovated print, soundtrack, and there is joy and life and boisterous youth, with a nice 60's sendup of the whole business of marketing bands....there's a sense of the absurd that almost puts it in the realm of mockumentary, while giving fans what they want. 50 years later, the faces are iconic, but you can peel that away and just see the lads, trying to have some fun and do a bit of subversion along the way. It's shallow and surreal, and the grandfather is very clean. |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:07 pm |
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Syd wrote: Wow, Snowpiercer is an awful film. In an effort to combat global warming, scientists release a chemical to block sunlight. However, they overshoot and are plunged into snowball earth, and all life allegedly* is extinct except on an enormous hermetically sealed train that travels around the world endlessly, like the world's largest model train. The tail dwellers are sick of protein bars (although it's better than the cannibalism of the early days), and revolt, deciding to go to the front of the train to talk to the engineer. The whole movie is going from one car to the next, with lots of people shooting people, which doesn't seem a good idea in a train that's supposed to be a closed ecosystem. (Or mostly closed. They do melt snow for water.) The whole thing is remarkably silly. And a bit of a sham. At the end we see a polar bear. What has it been eating for the last seventeen years?
No performances stand out. The cars with plants and fish are pretty, but what about the car with sides of beef and plucked chicken? Where do they keep the cattle and hens?
Bolded section above reminded me of Soylent Green......  |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:22 pm |
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| It would have made more sense for “Dawn of the Planet of The Apes” (2014) to the prequel “Rise of the Planet of Apes” (2011) be called “Rise” rather than “Dawn” and vice versa, but never mind. “Dawn” was better that “Rise”, which in turn was better than all the films in the previous reboot. However, “Dawn” was still only good rather than great. It had much to commend it: the cgi; the performances, including that of go to, mo-cap star and top ape, Andy Serkis; and some the imagery and set pieces, but I found the pacing a touch pedestrian and some the ideas obvious and laboured in their execution. For the most part, I remained unmoved. It probably doesn’t need saying, but it’d need something really special to match the impact and resonances of the original film. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:50 am |
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Begin Again, from the creator of Once, doesn't have the grit and originality of the latter, but it's still a lot of fun, largely due to the contribution of the always-great Mark Ruffalo as a formerly hotshot record exec who now drinks a lot, never shaves, and is on the outs with his wife and teenage daughter. He meets a young singer-songwriter frpm England (Keira Knightley) and they team up to create an album, using the streets of New York as their recording studio.
It's all a little hard to believe and more than a little superficial, but hard to resist nonetheless. Ruffalo and Knightley (who also sings, and well) are capably supported by Adam Levine (!) as her rock-star b.f., Catherine Keener and Hailee Steinfeld as his wife and daughter, and James Corden as her busker friend from the old country. Don't expect reality or even a "good movie" and you can really enjoy this sucker. As for me, any chance to see Ruffalo is worth taking, especially when he gets to lip-synch "Luck Be a Lady" and "For Once in My Life." |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:53 am |
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| Tammy, the ramshackle Melissa McCarthy vehicle, is an occasionally funny, mostly incompetent attempt at farce-with-a-heart. McCarthy's shtick is wearing out its welcome even though she can still manage to get laughs with her often weird readings and physical slapstick. What makes Tammy almost worth seeing, however, and certainly worth catching on cable, is one poignant, brilliantly acted scene featuring Kathy Bates as a lesbian. It seems to be from a different movie starring Bates and her fictional partner Sandra Oh, and I'd much rather see that movie than Tammy. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 9:15 am |
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billyweeds wrote: [i][b] James Corden as her busker friend from the old country.
That's the guy who won the Tony for his almost-one-man show a couple of years ago, right? I wouldn't mind seeing what he's like on screen. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 9:33 am |
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carrobin wrote: billyweeds wrote: [b] James Corden as her busker friend from the old country.
That's the guy who won the Tony for his almost-one-man show a couple of years ago, right? I wouldn't mind seeing what he's like on screen.
Wow, you're right! I saw him on stage in that show but had forgotten his name. The part in [i]Begin Again doesn't show his talents off, but he's very, very good. |
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| jeremy |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 9:48 am |
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| When he won the Tony, I read that he's rather unpopular with the British theatrical community because of ego issues. But I thought Corden was hilarious in "One Man, Two Guvnors." |
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