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| carrobin |
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| My mother and sister in SC saw "The Artist" Saturday and loved it. Of course their favorite character was the dog. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:58 pm |
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carrobin wrote: My mother and sister in SC saw "The Artist" Saturday and loved it. Of course their favorite character was the dog.
It was nice to see the dog onstage when they accepted the Oscar. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:22 pm |
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chillywilly wrote:
Did it deserve to win Best Picture? probably not, but it wasn't a horrible mess like several others that have won over the years (TEP takes the top prize for the worst, in my book).* Overall, it was enjoyable and fun.
*We are certainly on the same page here. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:57 pm |
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Quote: I didn't know you were in Scottsdale.
Whiskey.........don't pan the senior discount there.......... |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:17 pm |
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Befade wrote: Quote: I didn't know you were in Scottsdale. ...
Whiskey.........don't pan the senior discount there.......... |
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| grace |
| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:02 pm |
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| AARP eligibility kicks in on one's 50th birthday. Not that I would know or anything. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:06 pm |
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grace wrote: AARP eligibility kicks in on one's 50th birthday. Not that I would know or anything. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:43 pm |
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grace wrote: AARP eligibility kicks in on one's 50th birthday. Not that I would know or anything.
I will ask my wife in mid-August what benefits she will be getting.  |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:19 am |
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Old fart discussion moved to the Geriatric Section of the Lobby.
Haven't seen The Artist yet.
But that and A Separation should turn up quickly now they they've won, generating demand.
A few years back, the street sellers would often have print-outs of the Oscar winner list to help sell pirated dvd's. I don't buy on the street, but was much amused. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:55 pm |
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| Wanderlust is a bewildering, tremendously unsatisfying mix of hilarious and horrendous, sometimes within the same scene. For every side-splitting moment (and there are a few) there are at least five groan-inducing, near-unwatchable cliches about hippies or wildly overstated caricatures of obnoxious capitalists. It's not worth spending money on, yet I'd recommend checking it out on cable or as a rental. Paul Rudd does great work on individual riffs, but an interesting cast is largely wasted. Not so Linda Lavin, who has some very funny moments of her own as a weird real estate agent. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:46 pm |
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| My Week with Marilyn is pleasant. A good movie to catch on cable. Reminded me a lot of Me and Orson Welles. But with Marilyn Monroe as Orson Welles. I think the cast is the main attraction. The script is kind of basic/expected, never really getting underneath things. I liked Me & Orson better. Also thought that was a good cable watch. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:01 am |
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I'll rent it from Redbox, but only because Michelle (sigh) Williams stars.
I'd like to see a "My Dinner with Andre" treatment of Marilyn....maybe she dines with Wallace Shawn's father and they debate the Apollonian vs. the Dionysian or something like that. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:25 am |
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bartist wrote:
I'd like to see a "My Dinner with Andre" treatment of Marilyn....maybe she dines with Wallace Shawn's father and they debate the Apollonian vs. the Dionysian or something like that.
It's called Insignificance, and Marilyn explains relativity to Einstein ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insignificance_(film)
edit: you have to copy and paste the link, because the end part in parenthesis gets cut off and you don't get to the film. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:45 pm |
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| Wow. And I thought I was just being silly. Thanks, it's on my list. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:08 pm |
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The Descendants is fairly good. Though I'm pretty surprised it got 4 major nominations. (more support for my weak year theory). It's a bit much with incident piled on top of coincidence in the script, but mostly it's handled well. I liked Clooney and the older daughter.
And issues of a death in the family were affecting at times.
Things I didn't like:
- The voice-over narration seemed like clunky exposition.
- I didn't really believe that Sid would be brought along on all of this -- or that he'd want to.
- the Hawaiian music kind of bothered me. Not sure why, maybe I should have just lowered the volume, even if it was never loud. It seemed too buoyant and just out of place with the rhythm of the film. Maybe that's the point as the extended rich white family isn't really in sync with native Hawaii.
- the film seemed to try very hard to depict HAWAII and remind you at every turn that this is HAWAII. Maybe that's part of the problem I had with the music.
Otherwise, the real estate issue seemed a little underdeveloped (a pun there). Maybe again that was the point -- something that would normally have been a major event becomes rather secondary and anti-climactic in the face of death.
Plus, the lawyer in me couldn't help thinking that if a developer was willing to pay $500M, it probably wouldn't be too hard to work out a deal with the state (or even federal) gov't for say $50M which would take care of all the descendants and preserve the land.
I liked Sideways a good deal, and really disliked About Schmidt. So The Descendants easily fell into that middle gap. |
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