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| bart |
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| Earl, yes, sherrybaby is a rental -- I think it was released over a year ago and saw only limited venues. Stranger than Fiction is coming up in my queue. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:40 am |
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| BATMAN BEGINS - Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine...oh my. I read somewhere it transcends its genre. You can put lipstick on a pig, and it's still a pig. |
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| grace |
| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:44 am |
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yambu wrote: BATMAN BEGINS - Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine...oh my. I read somewhere it transcends its genre. You can put lipstick on a pig, and it's still a pig.
I dunno, I'm not a fan of the bat, but I'll take a chance on just about anything Murphy is in. Haven't been disappointed so far. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:07 pm |
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I actually thought that Christian Bale probably dragged the franchise as far up as it's going to go (and Murphy was quite notable). I just wish they weren't planning to redo all the movies.
Murphy's also in The Wind That Shakes the Barley - I'm interested to see if he's still as good as the first few indications suggested. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:41 pm |
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| I've been waiting impatiently for Wind, and I didn't even know Murphy was in it. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:52 pm |
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I put aside all my uppity remarks about Borat and watched it the other night.
It was alot more refined than I expected. (I'm comparing to Will Ferrell movies which I hate.)
It's definitely in a class by itself.......and I'm not sure it could support a sequel. The crazy premise: A foreigner from a backward Russian country comes to the U.S. to make a documentary for his homeland.......showing them American ways. He ends up taking a road trip in a used ice cream truck (who would have thought of this?). He crosses the country with the goal of finding and marrying Pamela Anderson. On the way he talks with Americans about their ways.
Well........first off......Americans are certainly gullible and give a wide berth to visitors from other countries.....Noone knows what they are in for when they give Borat the American welcome.
And of course, Borat is nuts. He likes Pamela Anderson because she has an anoos (anus) the size of a 7 year old. He keeps his wife in a cage. His country's economy is based on exporting pubis (pubic hair). (In one of the bonus features he is on the Conan O'Brien show and asks Conan if his pubis is red. Conan says yes and Borat begins to attack him with scissors exclaiming how valuable his pubis is.)
The men he engages with go along with his kisses and high fives. I laughed and enjoyed this movie......thinking it's one to watch again and laugh at the memories of. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:04 pm |
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yambu wrote: BATMAN BEGINS - Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine...oh my. I read somewhere it transcends its genre. You can put lipstick on a pig, and it's still a pig.
But lipstick on Cillian Murphy makes a very pretty pig indeed!
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:47 pm |
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| If I was gay I'd want a boyfriend just like him. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:05 pm |
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| Batman Begins was like an absentee father desperately overstuffing the Christmas stocking to wow his children, only to have the stocking explode and bury the kids in a mound of merchandising including the new unimproved Batmobile and the action figures of I'm-doing-this-shit-for-the-money character actors. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:32 pm |
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| That's quite an image. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:58 am |
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Befade, I am wanting congratulations to you for now having seen Borat film. But what are you mean by
"I put aside all my uppity remarks about Borat and watched it the other night.
It was a lot more refined than I expected."
Is this joke you are making? You expect perhaps film with MORE jokes about ahnouss and the men with testicles in other men's face and jokes about SUV with Pussy Magnet and jokes about Jews turning into cockroaches and jokes about putting the poop in a bag for hostess and...
Please to help understand. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:03 am |
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bart--LOL.
befade--I also would love to know the answer to bart's question. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:51 pm |
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Quote: It was a lot more refined than I expected.
I know it seems incongruous, but that's what I meant. After all Borat wears a suit throughout the movie......except for the nude wrestling scenes.....and the beach scenes. And he is polite (in his way) with the Americans he interviews.
Do rent the dvd and watch all the out takes. There's a good one with him getting a massage......and trying to adopt a dog from a shelter. He gets thrown out in both cases.....(can you guess why?) |
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| bart |
| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:03 pm |
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| I would guess that Borat was expecting a "happy ending" to his massage. As for the dog, perhaps I'd rather not know....are we talking Peking Dog here? |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:07 pm |
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| I don't want to put words in Befade's mouth, but mayber, for all its superficial grossness and hard to stand comedy of embarassment, she was taken by its incision and intelligence. |
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