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| billyweeds |
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Marc wrote: ENTER THE VOID
Ready to watch. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:09 pm |
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Shane:
Quote: I believe my favorite future 'travel' film has to be The Jacket. It is the closest thing to reality that I can say from personal experience.
Knightley had a weird American accent, but otherwise I join you in praise of this underrated timewarp flick. Loved the moody photography, interiors and exteriors stark and haunting, and Brody brings his game to just about anything. |
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| Shane |
| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:38 am |
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bartist wrote: Shane:
Quote: I believe my favorite future 'travel' film has to be The Jacket. It is the closest thing to reality that I can say from personal experience.
Knightley had a weird American accent, but otherwise I join you in praise of this underrated timewarp flick. Loved the moody photography, interiors and exteriors stark and haunting, and Brody brings his game to just about anything.
Yes Bart that can really be said for both on this film...I think it was the silence which gave so much of the connection between them. |
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| Shane |
| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:39 am |
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The Oscars are bigger than Christmas in my household. I’m so excited I can’t sleep. I love movies.
My favorite film of 2010, Enter The Void, was unsurprisingly ignored by the Academy. So, I’m rooting for my second favorite, The Fighter.
Someone who thinks like Marc....unless it is Marc. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:16 pm |
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| No One Knows About Persian Cats is coming out on Netflix on March 15! |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:18 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Marc wrote: ENTER THE VOID
Ready to watch.
In my queue - probably a week or so. |
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| Shane |
| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:07 am |
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[quote="Syd"]No One Knows About Persian Cats is coming out on Netflix on March 15
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| I watched it again recently. It holds up. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:42 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Marj wrote: billyweeds wrote: Marc wrote: ENTER THE VOID
Ready to watch.
In my queue - probably a week or so.
You can stream it onto your computer, Marj.
I know, Billy. But on my laptop and with my set up, It's very uncomfortable. I also have to use earphones, because my sound is so bad. But thanks for the reminder. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:17 am |
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Paul Bettany seems to be cornering the market in pious malcontents, mad priests and various messengers of God. I wonder how long the producers spent agonising over who to play the title role in the forthcoming theologically-themed, comic-book actioner, Priest. In lending his reputation and faux-theatrical gravitas to a slew of schlock, he may be in danger of damaging brand Bettany to the extent that he may become the new Julian Sands.
For all that, Legion, the story of a fallen angel and the said of the...er...angels was not as bad as it could have been. Good production values and acting lifted it above the bubbling hell pits that host most of the genre.
If I have one criticism (and actually I have several) it is that, in common with many Hollywood films, Legion seemed driven to deliver action set pieces at the expense of the other story telling. The possibilities of cgi coupled with an apparently, unshakeable belief that only brain-addled teenagers pay to see horror and fantasy movies has robbed these genres of much of their scope to engage with more sophisticated audience . For me, Legion would have been much better had it delved deeper into the more primal elements of our psyche. The biblical obscura, quasi-religious ritual and folklore that is the biscuit base for these cheesecake movies should enable them to create something intriguingly dark, bewildering, chanrming, sinister and, God forbid, even scary. Does anyone remember a film called The Exorcist or Wing's of Desire.
Even Tim Burton’s imagined sequel to Lewis Carrol’s Alice stories, a subject that all but demanded a more transgressive treatment, spurned the interesting in favour of a fest of cgi action. In this respect, the children’s fantasy Coraline was a more dangerous film. |
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