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| Befade |
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Quote: Paris, New York, Winnipeg, I've lived in all the favourite film making spots. Medellin is next.
I have a movie made there: Our Lady of the Assassins. Viewing might be best from a safe distance however........ |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:39 am |
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Befade wrote: Quote: Paris, New York, Winnipeg, I've lived in all the favourite film making spots. Medellin is next.
I have a movie made there: Our Lady of the Assassins. Viewing might be best from a safe distance however........
Sounds like it might be about Medellin's Cartel days. Why should I view from a distance. Too much gore or is it just very bad? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:40 am |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:36 pm |
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Quote: Too much gore or is it just very bad?
It's very good.......alot of street scenes, country scenes, church scenes...Good acting. Good director: Barbet Shroeder. It's the assassins, Gary.....they are teenagers. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:40 am |
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| Looks like Funny People and A Perfect Getaway, two movies I really loved/liked a lot at least, are headed for lousy box office. These are two you should catch, at least on DVD. They're both terrific, and FP much more than that. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:30 pm |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:31 pm |
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(500) Days of Summer
Finally saw this yesterday even though I had initially resisted the idea. From what little I knew about the plot, I worried that its themes would hit too close to home for me. And they did, but even so, the things which affected me in personal ways ended up bringing me closer to the story and, thus, better able to appreciate what an intelligently crafted examination of idealized romance and love it is.
Some SPOILERS in the next three paragraphs
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has gotten a lot of praise, rightly so, for his performance as Tom, the guy who falls in love with a woman named Summer. He is in virtually every scene, he has the burden of carrying the movie and the story is told through his character's perspective. It's a splendid performance and it only adds to his standing as one of the best actors of his generation.
But Zooey Deschanel, as Summer, has the trickier task. She gets extra points for level of difficulty. Summer must be simultaneously desirable and unattainable. Deschanel's entire performance lives in a grey area. Because of the movie's frequent jumps backwards and forwards over the title's 500 days, it is known very early on that their romance will hit some rocky patches and that Summer will dump Tom, which will devastate him.
Thereafter it's hard not to watch her like a hawk whenever the picture flashes back to early in the relationship. Was that moment the beginning of the end? Why is she being seductive there when clearly she already has half a mind to leave him? The audience can never really be sure and neither can Tom as he looks back through a haze of anger and sadness while trying to sort it out.
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But I'm making the movie sound like a grief-fest which isn't a fair description. It's actually a delightful comedy with winning supporting performances in every corner. I particularly enjoyed Chloe Moretz as Tom's preternaturally wise little sister Rachel. Every guy in the world should have a little sister like her.
See (500) Days of Summer. Some parts of it might be painful, yes. Each of us has been through something like this. But see it.
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A question for those participating in the Brian De Palma thread who have also seen this movie: What did you think of (500) Days of Summer's use of (and since this is a key moment in the movie I mustn't say too much because it would be a shame to ruin it) the split-screen technique? While it could easily be dismissed as a gimmick, I thought it was inventive and it ended up being my favorite scene in the movie. And since we've been seeing a lot of split screens in De Palma's works, I enjoyed it even more. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:04 pm |
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Earl,
I too thought of De Palma during the split screen scene in 500 DAYS. It was very effective. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:24 am |
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Quote: I thought it was inventive and it ended up being my favorite scene in the movie.
Now that you mention it Earl.......I remember that there was a split-screen......but thanks to my early Altzeimer's I have no memory of what the scene was about.......
Besides the acting and the story......what I liked the most was the way the film tackled time. It took a while to get in the groove with the switching back and forth.....but because the scenes were numbered you knew where they fit into the life-span SPOILERS: of the romance. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:27 am |
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Befade wrote: Quote: I thought it was inventive and it ended up being my favorite scene in the movie.
Now that you mention it Earl.......I remember that there was a split-screen......but thanks to my early Altzeimer's I have no memory of what the scene was about.......
Answer to your question with spoiler in white
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There was a party scene which was set on the rooftop of Summer's apartment building. The split screens were labeled "Expectations" and "Reality."
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| Befade |
| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:50 pm |
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| Oh......yeah.......that's when he found out SPOILERS: the love of his life was engaged...sigh |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:38 pm |
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Betsy,
that's a huge spoiler and hard to avoid reading. You might want to re-post in white. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:02 pm |
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Marc wrote: Betsy,
that's a huge spoiler and hard to avoid reading. You might want to re-post in white.
Couldn't avoid reading it. Does that ruin the movie? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:04 pm |
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| Yup, I had the same problem. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:11 pm |
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Can I write a review on The Bank Job? It's current in Colombia.  Marta and I were checking out a mall multiplex here, seeing what movies were playing and the times. A couple of young lovers were looking at the poster for The Bank Job. Even the poster looked dated. I went over to them and said in my impeccable Spanish, está bien, está muy bien! I wonder is they went to see it. |
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