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| bartist |
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| That was quite a scene, with drama heightened by the company people standing around trying not to react. Yeah, Rogen was a convincing "Woz" and I gotta admit a lot of the poignant and/or raw moments are actors reacting to Fassbender. I was, briefly in my working life, involved in the skirmishes between Apple and PC, one of many who had reasons to view Apple as a Disney version of computing, so I could remember the tech stuff that was relevant in the film. Really, one can ignore the mumjum, the key thing to absorb is that nobody stole anything from Jobs that he didn't steal from someone else earlier. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 12:14 pm |
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Very limited interior sets (except when Jobs steps outside to have a heartfelt with his not-my-daughter-yes-my-daughter). Might make a good stage play. Or it might be even worse, sans the CU head shots.
Not much movie watching lately, but work rush has eased off, so hope to catch up a little. A lot of current film is derivative, in one way or another. The Jobs film is based heavily on the Isaacson megabio, but without connecting dots that would make it easier to follow. And the upcoming Secret in their Eyes, already spoilered for anyone who saw the original. The Martian seems to be a retake on a couple previous marooned on Mars pics. And the Dark Places adaptation with Charlize (is that being held back by the studio?). Guess what I'm saying is that I'm hungry for an original script, which is being delivered more on the indie side than from big-H Hollywood. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 12:33 pm |
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| Dark Places was barely released to theaters. It's now available On Demand or on Amazon. The results are pretty much what you'd expect from that kind of release. Mediocre would be overrating it, and even Charlize is kind of nowhere in the role. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 12:35 pm |
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All the Oscar-bait movies I've seen are slightly-to-very disappointing, including The Martian, Spotlight, and The Danish Girl. So far my favorite movies of the year are all also-rans in the award area--The End of the Tour, Ricki and the Flash, Love & Mercy, and Infinitely Polar Bear.
The acting in all of these movies, however, is exemplary. I'm hoping for a Michael Keaton supporting actor make-up Oscar for Spotlight to atone for his snub last year in Birdman.
Surprise of the year is Rick Springfield's beyond-great performance in Ricki and the Flash. More than enough to make up for "Jessie's Girl." (And why was that not spelled J-E-S-S-E?) |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:02 pm |
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| I was going to note earlier that Dark Places was almost DTV and fell far short of the book, disappointing. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:08 pm |
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bartist wrote: I was going to note earlier that Dark Places was almost DTV and fell far short of the book, disappointing.
I give up. What is DTV? |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:36 pm |
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Well, have finally found my way back, only to discover my working emails have been banned. Hmmm. Anyway, hi, Third Eyesters, It's been a most turbulent year-plus, don't get me started, but hope your cinematizin' is going full throttle.  |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 4:44 pm |
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inlareviewer wrote: Well, have finally found my way back, only to discover my working emails have been banned. Hmmm. Anyway, hi, Third Eyesters, It's been a most turbulent year-plus, don't get me started, but hope your cinematizin' is going full throttle.
So glad you're back. What's this about banned emails? That's ridiculous. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 5:21 pm |
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billyweeds wrote:
So glad you're back. What's this about banned emails? That's ridiculous.
Well, I entered my current email addresses so as to get updates, but the system keeps telling me those email addresses are banned. Maybe they've been doing nefarious things behind my back, wouldn't put it past them. Anyhoo, it's nice to be returned to 3rd Eye.
Meanwhile, our 10-Second Review of "Room" is up on that forum. It really did get under my skin in ways that, having read the novel and thinking "There's no WAY this can be a fillum" when it was announced, kind of knocked me for a loop. Literally, it was like rediscovering that (extremely challenging) property anew, and I left the cinema with no fingernails left and cherry-tomato eyes. Brie Larson has done creditable work before, and beyond creditable work in "Short Term 12," but what she achieves here, not least because of the multiple levels of both immediate and past layers the character must convey, and then grapple with, is something else again: truly transcendent, palpably felt acting. And THEN, there's The Kid, whose ability to unaffectedly exhibit what a 5-year-old who's never known any world but the 10 by 10 foot titular space would believably register, is absolutely preternatural -- Spencer Tracy meets Margaret O'Brien, or sump'n. They are my picks for Best Actress AND Best Actor (yes, you read that last right, Master Tremblay is far beyond the usual sop of a Supphose nom) as of now, and the rest of it isn't exactly chopped adaptation. Fans of the book, you already know what's afoot, except you don't, because helmer Mr. Abrahamson and scribe Ms. Donoghue have found some pretty darned inventive ways to cinematize it; those who haven't read the book, just go. It's not easy, it's not always pristinely logical, certain reductions to the second half flirt with TV-movie efficiency (though William H. Macy manages to get chapters' worth of edits into his brief appearance, and Joan Allen is atop her game) -- but the emotional, psychological and visceral impact it achieves is exceptional. As I said in my FB off-the-cuff remarks the night I saw it, if the mater were still alive, I'd never stop hugging her, and have quite contentedly been bidding household objects "Hello" in the morning and "Goodnight" in the evening. Am still thinking about it weeks later, and that in itself is telling in the current climate. A little film, but quite an unforgettable one.
Next up, "Brooklyn," and of course, when it finally gets released, "Carol," both of which are again based on novels we treasured and whose trailers made our antenna stick straight up and vibrate wildly, just saying. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:05 pm |
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| inla, just yesterday I was wondering what happened to you. Glad to see you back again! |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:17 pm |
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marantzo wrote: inla, just yesterday I was wondering what happened to you. Glad to see you back again!
Ah, marantzo, it's been a bit of a trial (E. LA household fell apart, subsequent roomies turned out to have substance abuse issues, etc.), but am at least settled again. Glad to be back, chum. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:33 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: All the Oscar-bait movies I've seen are slightly-to-very disappointing, including The Martian, Spotlight, and The Danish Girl. So far my favorite movies of the year are all also-rans in the award area--The End of the Tour, Ricki and the Flash, Love & Mercy, and Infinitely Polar Bear.
The acting in all of these movies, however, is exemplary. I'm hoping for a Michael Keaton supporting actor make-up Oscar for Spotlight to atone for his snub last year in Birdman.
Surprise of the year is Rick Springfield's beyond-great performance in Ricki and the Flash. More than enough to make up for "Jessie's Girl." (And why was that not spelled J-E-S-S-E?)
Depending on how "Brooklyn" and "Carol" pan out (Ms. Ronan seems a sure bet, sight unseen, and, barring some Rooney overload, La Blanchett could conceivably snag a Prima Donna nod for "Carol" AND a Supphose nod for "Truth," even if she was hardly a supporting character), I wouldn't quite rule out Mrs. Gummer in "Ricki," who did after all learn to credibly play steel guitar and embodied a reactionary pro-Bushite bad mom (which is about as far from her real-life persona as it's possible to get), while, in Supphose land, Mamie was quite wonderful, pure and simple -- given some Lifetime-TV situations, she remained funny, true and affecting. I didn't adore it as a movie, but I liked its intent, all the same (Audra Dearest CERTAINLY made the most of her Great Big Scene with The Eleanor Roosevelt of Acting), and not just because of SASSY partisanship. And Great Big Yes on The Springfield -- he was assured and easy and vivid and very impressive. Also dug Mr. Demme's use of performance footage, even if it did seem like two different films battling it out at times, nor is the screenplay among Ms. Cody's finest efforts.
Of the others you cited, have so far only seen "End of the Tour," am in total agreement, remarkable fillum, but am pretty sure it's too specialized for proper Aclademy recognition, and we'll leave it at that.
Oh, and our guess on "Jessie's Girl" is that it was a subliminal Lebizian thing, or sump'n..... |
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| inla--ROTFLMAO on the Lebizian idea. And you made me put Room on my must list even though I was sort of past caring. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:53 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: inla--ROTFLMAO on the Lebizian idea.
Well, THAT'S a mercy, ANYHOW.
Quote: And you made me put Room on my must list even though I was sort of past caring.
Yes, billyweeds, you really need to see it, even if you end up hating it and especially if you haven't read the novel, at least for possible SAGGY nods to Ms. Larson (whom I know you admire) and The Kid. Ii's not really as sensationalistic/dreary as the trailers and media hype make it appear. There's parable, surprise and even allegory there, and almost all of it from inside the work rather than outside the premise, and a surfeit of near-invisible directorial and technical ingenuity to make the claustrophobic first hour cinematic. It absolutely slew me, and, again, I knew going in what it was about, but then it turned out, I didn't. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 9:16 am |
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| Time Out of Mind is a new movie but was released almost under the radar, so I saw it at home On Demand. Maybe that makes it a candidate for Couch, but whatever. It's a fine movie about homelessness, centering on the character of George Hammond, a down-and-outer played by socially-conscious, very talented movie star Richard Gere, who also produced. It's directed (by Oren Moverman) almost like a documentary and Gere is seen almost as one person in a crowd. He is momentarily upstaged by Ben Vereen as a fellow homeless man. Vereen is so marvelous in the role that he might as well have been a real homeless guy off the streets. Jena Malone plays Gere's estranged daughter, and she's also excellent. The movie, which is not Oscar-bait by any means (although Vereen's performance is award-worthy) is well worth seeing. |
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