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| mirgun |
 Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:43 pm |
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Exit Through The Gift Shop
The film centers around an L.A. based Frenchman, Thierry Guetta, who owns a
vintage clothing store, who is obsessed with video taping. Through his cousin, the grafiiti artist Space Invader, he meets Shepard Fairey and Swoon and other artists. He films them, helps them, becomes a spotter for the cops, they welcome him into their world.
Through Shepard Fairey he finally meets Banksy, and becomes friends with him, following him. We see some footage of how Shepard, Banksy and Swoon get to do what they do . I loved seeing Banksy doing his thing on the Palestinian Western wall and the Guantanomo stunt at Disneyland, the phone booth. I wanted to see more..
After shooting tons of footage, Guetta, comes up with the worst, unwatchable movie ever made. Bansky, who’s voice is altered and is in darkness with a hoodie, makes the funniest comments and takes over the project, and turns the camera on Guetta, claiming he's more interesting. He suggests to him that Guetta should be the grafiffiti artist and the subject of this movie. Well, Guetta gets a tag line "Brainwash" and makes the worst imitations of Warhol, Banksy etc and has a huge show with celebrities and demands huge prices for his “work”
His self-promotion gets a bit tiresome but I must admit the guy is relentless or as one of his helpers says “retarded” Banksy says something like ” I like to help people, mentor them etc........not any more.His comments throughout the movie had the audience cracking up.
I was expecting this to be a documentary of one of my favorite graffiti/ street artists, Banksy, who fiercely guards his anonymity. But it’s a comment on art, what is art, is it art, galleries, hype, the mindless following of art enthusiasts. looking for the next big thing. Or is it? See for yourself, I recommend it. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 10:56 pm |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:22 am |
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NYTimes had a good review of Exit Through The Gift Shop last week. Sounds good, but unfortunately is so below the radar that the good pirates of China are unlikely to churn it out for about 2 years (and possibly never). It sounds in the spirit of Welles' F for Fake.
Hmm .. here's an NYT review I hadn't read.
Okay... here's the one I did read/like.
I've only very quickly skimmed the first one.
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I forgot to mention that my favorite part of Gentleman Broncos was the opening sequence in which some pretty wild covers of mock paperback sci-fi novels were used to provide the various credits. It was clever, well-done and a nice mood set-up for the film.
So when GB pops up on cable soon enough, be sure to check in for the first few minutes at least. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:49 am |
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Marta and I saw Date Nite yesterday. It was much better than I'd been led to believe. I liked the two lead going in and had read that they ill used by the movie, but they were not at all. Their roles were very well suited to them and they were very good. I also read that it was only mildly funny. There were parts that were outrageously funny, especially a car chase that had me laughing my ass off and Marta laughing so much that she had tears streaming down her face.
In sum; I liked it a lot and Marta looovvvveed it! |
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| mirgun |
| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:05 pm |
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]Quote:" NYTimes had a good review of Exit Through The Gift Shop[ last week. Sounds good, but unfortunately is so below the radar that the good pirates of China are unlikely to churn it out for about 2 years (and possibly never). It sounds in the spirit of Welles' F for Fake"
Call me a liar (hahaa) but F for Fake is one of my favorite movies.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:13 pm |
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Re: Marc's comment--
I haven't been able to go out to the movies lately. Too busy with life, my own career, other stuff. I have posted about some of the other stuff to the usual no comment. Will get to the Coen forum as soon as it starts. |
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| mirgun |
| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:16 pm |
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lshap wrote: Hot Tub Time Machine is for those who found The Hangover too cerebral. Three old friends - John Cusack inexplicably among them - take a weekend trip to a ski resort they partied at in the 80's. They stumble into a hot tub that accidentally turns into time machine, spinning them back to the mid-80's.
That's it. I'm not making this up.
The film's only saving grace is that it doesn't pretend to be anything other than stupid & simple. It succeeds.
Ironically, I wanted to see Kick-Ass, which has gotten some good reviews, including Marc's, but I was voted down.
If you want to see a kick ass fun movie, you should see Kiss Ass.I want Hit Girl to be my daughter, I can use her on the subway..
From all that is written and said AND the title only, I don't think I want to pay to see Hot Tub |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:24 pm |
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Mirgun, it's not Kiss Ass. That would be an entirely different movie. 
I'm looking forward to seeing it also. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 4:07 pm |
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Quote: Mirgun, it's not Kiss Ass.
Freudian slip. She was thinking of me. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:10 pm |
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mirgun wrote: lshap wrote: Hot Tub Time Machine is for those who found The Hangover too cerebral. Three old friends - John Cusack inexplicably among them - take a weekend trip to a ski resort they partied at in the 80's. They stumble into a hot tub that accidentally turns into time machine, spinning them back to the mid-80's.
That's it. I'm not making this up.
The film's only saving grace is that it doesn't pretend to be anything other than stupid & simple. It succeeds.
Ironically, I wanted to see Kick-Ass, which has gotten some good reviews, including Marc's, but I was voted down.
If you want to see a kick ass fun movie, you should see Kiss Ass.I want Hit Girl to be my daughter, I can use her on the subway..
From all that is written and said AND the title only, I don't think I want to pay to see Hot Tub
Mirgun - You shouldn't pay to see it. In fact, I should get my money back after seeing it. In fact, it should come with one of those '100% Back Money Guarantees If Not Completely Satisfied!' things, so that the audience could move directly from the theatre exit to the refund line. It could be the start of a great new trend - the Box Office Negative-Gross, where we measure how much money a film pays out to audience members. |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:42 am |
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Mirgun - You shouldn't pay to see it. In fact,
I I should get my money back after seeing it. In fact, it should come with one of those '100% Back Money Guarantees If Not Completely Satisfied!' things, so that the audience could move directly from the theatre exit to the refund line. It could be the start of a great new trend - the Box Office Negative-Gross, where we measure how much money a film pays out to audience members.[/quote]
We definitely should start that trend..maybe i should go and see Hot Tub just to get a refund! hhahaahaaa
I CAN'T believe I wrote "Kiss Ass!!" |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:16 pm |
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| Kick Ass is just that. I was expecting a half-amusing, brainless comedy. I got a great movie experience. More detailed write-up forthcoming. |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:03 pm |
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| The New Yorker reviewed "Kidk-Ass' last week. Haven't read it yet, but the fact that they reviewed it raised it on my radar. |
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| With less than $4 million in B.O., Greenberg may be the bomb of the year. Ben Stiller doesn't seem to be much of a draw. |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:51 pm |
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Saw him and the director on Charlie Rose, and the movie looked like a pretentious piece of shit. Lost in Translation meets Reality Bites.
In a perfect sign of idiocy, there's a put down of "Starbucks fast food coffee." Hey morons, there's no such thing as fast food coffee drinks, unless you mean instant coffee, which Starbucks doesn't serve. Yeah, I know, it's a chain and chains are E-VIL, but it makes espresso drinks just the way your mom and pop chain does: hot water and espresso beans. Coffee chains aren't to coffee what McDonalds is to food: no cheap sythetic form of ingredients, no preserves that kill the healthy ingredients or add extra pounds. They're just like every other coffee shop you might patronize.
Nothing worse than elitists posing as populists and having no idea what they're talking about. |
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