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Earl
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:11 pm Reply with quote
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Moving this discussion over to Couch With a View from Current Film...

shannon wrote:
American Beauty vs. The Ice Storm? Since when were they competing? Who cares, honestly?


Someone actually went to the trouble of creating a site devoted to comparing those two films:

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~rsimon/Hum410/IceSAmeBchart.htm

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Ghulam
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:07 pm Reply with quote
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Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin is an exquisitely well filmed story of the life changing ill effects of childhood sexual abuse. It is also about friendships and families, and bonds that grow out of similar traumatizing experiences. It has the impact and the pain of "The Midnight Cowboy". It is touching, tender and sad, and yet in a strange way uplifting. A must-see.[/i]
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Rod
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Why does Midnight Cowboy always get called "The"?

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Ghulam
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:22 pm Reply with quote
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Indians are known to overuse "the".
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chillywilly
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:23 pm Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
Finding Forrester, which I heard was ok.

You heard wrong. It sucked b.v.c.

I'll keep it on my list of films to not worry about seeing.

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chillywilly
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:26 pm Reply with quote
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Earl wrote:
Moving this discussion over to Couch With a View from Current Film...

shannon wrote:
American Beauty vs. The Ice Storm? Since when were they competing? Who cares, honestly?


Someone actually went to the trouble of creating a site devoted to comparing those two films:

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~rsimon/Hum410/IceSAmeBchart.htm

Ok. I never realized there was that many subject similarites with those two films. Thanks for posting that, Earl.

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Rod
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:34 pm Reply with quote
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Ghulam wrote:
Indians are known to overuse "the".


Maybe, but this is like the third time in two days in various places I've read the title as "The" Midnight Cowboy.

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lshap
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:59 pm Reply with quote
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I liked The King Arthur much better than Rod. The film presented a dark and dirty look at the knights that struck me as pretty likeable. Clive Owen was the suitably tormented, overworked leader whose feelings for his men I found believable, and whose character I liked.

I can't really go to the mat and proclaim King Arthur it to be great cinema, but I found it far more entertaining than Rod's take.

The Finding Forrester was The Goodwill Hunting redux. Certainly not as terrible as Billy suggests, but just as maudlin and predictable and full of superfluous "the's".
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billyweeds
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:01 pm Reply with quote
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I loved Good Will Hunting. It was the good twin of Finding Forrester.
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chillywilly
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:20 pm Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
I loved Good Will Hunting.

In full agreement here.

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Joe Vitus
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:32 pm Reply with quote
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I thought Good Will Hunting was lame, with yet another sweat-of-the-milk-of-humanity-on-his-forehead performance by Robin Williams. It was filled with lame moments ("How do ya like them apples?") and the fact that Gus Van Sant made such a completely impersonal movie was depressing. Ben Affleck, admittedly, was still in his actor phase, disappearing into his role so completely I didn't recognize him. A good performance, among several he gave before he became a star and adopted that irritating smug persona. Damon was okay, no big deal one way or the other. Minnie Driver, playing a Harvard girl, reminded me a lot of the Harvard girl I dated, so how could I help but love her? (Said girl being still a very close friend.)

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jbottle
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:34 pm Reply with quote
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Thanks for the "Mysterious Skin" heads up, I forgot it was out on DVD. I liked Araki from "The Doom Generation," which I went to at the arthouse back in the day. Somehow I'm still straight.
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Marc
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:41 pm Reply with quote
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While MYSTERIOUS SKIN has several standout performances, there is one that continues to haunt me: Billy Drago's.
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billyweeds
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:48 pm Reply with quote
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Ben Affleck, admittedly, was still in his actor phase, disappearing into his role so completely I didn't recognize him.

I actually hated Affleck even more in GWH than I do now. I have never ever ever ever liked Ben Affleck even a little. Except in Gigli. Really.

(Rhyme unintentional, but cute.)
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Ghulam
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:52 pm Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:
While MYSTERIOUS SKIN has several standout performances, there is one that continues to haunt me: Billy Drago's.



Which one was that?
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