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| Joe Vitus |
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| I wasn't saying Davis is untalented. Just saying that's not what I've ever concentrated on. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:44 am |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:49 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Damn. I was looking forward to this movie.
If you're talking about "Benj. Button," I'd urge anyone who's interested to _see_ the film. It's certainly _not_ atrocious. I'd term it an interesting failure.
It's just, errrr, very weird. |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:14 am |
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| Just saw the trailer for Defiance - looks like I need to see that one. What's the buzz on it? |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:56 pm |
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Rod wrote: Ah-hem...
But yeah, Brad Davis was cool.
Are you kidding? Brad Davis was hot!
[I say tomato, you say tomahto ...] |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:25 pm |
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Quote: Kristin Scott Thomas is excellent in Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long. The movie is enjoyable for the most part, the story is somewhat traditional but warm and full of empathizable emotions. The denouement is a bit soapish but there is enough good in the movie to make it worthwhile.
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I liked the film. Kristin is more haggard than you're used to seeing. But there's a Frenchness that I liked about the relationships.....especially between the sisters. You can enjoy her in another French movie: Tell No One.
I have taken all my excess energy in viewing 4 films in 2 days. I'm almost caught up in this awards season........and looking forward to the BLANCHES!
THE READER is an allegory about how the new Germany views the old Germany (the 3rd reich)......represented by the older Kate Winslet and the younger David Kross as unlikely lovers. Kross is completely believable and Winslet is way more interesting in this than in Revolutionary Road.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD is a film that made me think of Mad Men alot. Leonardo di Caprio has a much less glamorous job in NYC than Don Draper. But he's not the appreciated husband he'd like to be. Kate Winslet blames him for her lack of achievement in life. She's a middle class housewife...not the important actress she aspired to be. She acts out in ways that January Jones would understand.
DOUBT is a puzzle.......guilty or innocent? Doubt is about doubt. Who knows?
GRAN TORINO features Clint Eastwood as the ultimate grumpy old man. He could be paired with Meryl Streep's nun. They've aged unhappily since The Bridges of Madison County. It's kind of a vigilante story. He's living in a neighborhood that's gone to seed......typical of an old midwestern city's.......and this isn't the retirement you'd strive for. |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:39 pm |
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| Yeesh...I have SO much catching up to do before the Blanches! |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:46 pm |
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lissa wrote: Yeesh...I have SO much catching up to do before the Blanches!
Me too. It's why I finally got Netflix. I've rented and watched In Bruges and The Visitor, and will be seeing some of the likely documentaries soon. Unfortunately, some of the films I haven't seen are not on DVD yet. |
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| lissa |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:50 pm |
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| That's my problem too. It's what in theaters - newly, too - that I have to catch up on...and the other problem is that Netflix STILL doesn't consider Canada worthy of their service. I wrote them back when they were first popular, and they sent me a form email saying they would keep me informed as to when they branch out "internationally". So far...nothing. Wrote them again, a couple of years ago. Same form letter. Same empty promise and empty apologies. Sucks, big time! |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:43 pm |
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Broadcast Film Critic's 14th annual results: Slumdog takes best pic, as well as honors to director Boyle, writer Beaufoy, composer Rahman, Dev Patel for young actor/actress; Penn takes actor, Hathaway and Streep tie for actress, Ledger and Winslet take supphose prizes; Milk best ensemble, WALL-E best animated, Tropic Thunder best comedy, Dark Knight best action pic, Man on Wire docu, Waltz With Bashir forlang film, Springsteen best song
http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/critics/env-et-critics-choice-2009jan8,0,1519037.story |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:06 am |
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I need help!
Mondo has gone dormant so it seems.
Can some of our members tell me more about Netflix? I'm not sure if I should subscribe or not.
Our local video stores (Mondo and Video Casa) are pretty good...but I'd really like to know more about Netflix.
Thanks for your opinions. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:27 am |
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| Netflix is very good for independent, foreign and documentaries. (It's also good for early movies, which is kind of irrelevant for the Blanches.) Currently I'm mooching off Nancy's subscription, but I'll have to get my own for the Cameron Diaz Film Festival. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:27 am |
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Befade wrote: ....GRAN TORINO features Clint Eastwood as the ultimate grumpy old man. He could be paired with Meryl Streep's nun. They've aged unhappily since The Bridges of Madison County...... |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:33 am |
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| I resisted Netflix for a long time. I would go on their website and go through screen after screen of movies without finding anything I hadn't seen. Then I found out what they are good for: foreign films, obscure silents, and just about anything most video rental stores (Mondo excepted, of course) don't have. They've also got a lot of documentaries, Bollywood flix, and even lesser Gilbert and Sullivan operettas no one but my friend Anne has ever heard of. You can even watch some movies online (useless to someone with my slow connection). Their cheapest membership is $4.99, which I think is for one movie out at a time, total of two movies per month. I originally had their one movie out at a time, an unlimited number per month, which was about ten bucks. For the Blanches I recently changed to the two movies out at a time, unlimited per month, which is $13.99, as I recall. The movies get to you pretty quickly in most cases. I usually mail one back on one day, they tend to get it on the next day, and they send the next film in my queue out that day, so it arrives the day after. (A bit longer over weekends.) If it's something that the local center doesn't have (like some of the really obscure stuff), it may have to come from another part of the country, which can add a couple of days. That doesn't happen very often, though. I've found that it does keep me from having to buy as many movies, and lets me preview the ones I really want to have. Oh, and postage both ways is included in the membership. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:56 am |
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Lady, thanks.
I'm afraid that because mail to Taos is very slow (we aren't near any major city) that I will have to wait a long time for films to arrive. I know I'd like to see the older films -- something that seems fairly hard to find locally.
I have the feeling that at this point I have already seen most of the stock that's already in our 2 major video stores. |
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