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| marantzo |
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| In my comment on TTTW I was going to ask, has Bana ever been worse? Of course he hasn't by a long shot. In a lot of cases you can blame the director for the performance of an actor or actress. That may apply. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:32 am |
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| I think there's a joke in that movie, something about Eric Bana disintegrating right before your eyes. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:47 pm |
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Oh yes, another Ken Russell classic. The Boy Friend. Mind-bogglingly BAD. Watched it with my ex when we lived in NY. I would have left in the first 20 minutes if it weren't for Tommy Tune who was a pleasure to watch. Garishly coloured and characters who were like gross marionettes, but more wooden. Then came a scene with the performers taking turns with short screen filled extreme facial closeups mouthing loud somethingorothers. Just tragically stupid. I turned to my then wife and asked, "Do you want to go?" She answered, "YES!"
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:14 pm |
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| Of course Inception fills the bill here for me big time. But I've commented enough elsewhere. Did I say I hate Inception? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:29 pm |
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How far were you into Inception before you left?
Just read about Ken Russell on wikipedia. I like Russell much more than his movies, though there are many that I haven't see. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:49 pm |
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marantzo wrote: How far were you into Inception before you left?
Around 45 minutes. Believe me, I knew there was no hope. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:48 am |
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| I left after 30 minutes into Inception. I hate it when films think they're smarter than I am but aren't. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:06 am |
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| Of course you can't take Inception's mumbo jumbo seriously. My reaction was, "Oh yeah, sure. Let's see what happens." I was not really entertained by the first part of the film, but my popcorn was good and I didn't have anything else to do. I enjoyed the last half in a James Bond sort of way. Lots of good visuals, and I still maintain that Gordon-Levitt's sequence when he is in the hotel and trying to escape being killed, was excellent and easily the best thing in the movie. I thought DeCaprio's performance was as flat as a pancake. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:19 am |
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| I walked out of Inception before I even got there. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:26 am |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:39 am |
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marantzo wrote: And you hated it, right? |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:38 pm |
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| Inception was less than the sum of its parts. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:42 pm |
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I kind of like Joe-gord in the movie (what Marantz said). And the photography/art was pretty engaging, even if it's Kubrickian austerity was not that suitable to the story. I don't think of it as hate-worthy, though maybe if I hadn't seen it, I would have turned against it like Mr. Priest.
I do hate Weekend at Bernie's, which I have never seen. Though the spoof of WAB they did a few years ago on NCIS was pretty funny. The main reason I watched NCIS for a couple seasons was that Tony is a film freak. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:25 pm |
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| This week on NCIS they trapped a young suspect in a lie when they referred to a movie he supposedly saw. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:14 am |
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The World of Henry Orient
I post this with the simple question: was this film ever bearable to watch for any but intense "Eloise" devotees? I don't want to recount the grim circumstances that led to my watching over an hour of this leviathan of pubescent cutesyness and every excruciating form of 60's cinematic cornballery (including the dreaded fast-motion chase, and the equally dreaded funny Chinese coolie hats), but I can tell you that watching a duo of precocious 14-year old schoolgirls lust for, and pester an avant-garde musician (Peter Sellers) while he is trying to get Paula Prentiss in bed with him is....well, more painful than it sounds. |
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