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| carrobin |
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| Nice to know Tom Conti is still working. He and Alan Bates had the same agent in London. I really liked him in something I saw years ago--but I can't remember what it was.... |
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| knox |
| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:59 am |
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| Might have been "Reuben, Reuben," in which he plays a drunken womanizing poet (is there any other kind?) whose name, IIRC, was "McGland." I recall it as pretty funny stuff, and co-starred Kelly McGillis before she went to live with the Amish or wherever she went. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:02 am |
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| Yes, it was "Reuben, Reuben"--I had been thinking "Witness" but I knew that wasn't it. The Kelly McGillis connection, apparently. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:00 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Seeing Savages tomorrow, and will bring it. Saw Rock of Ages today. Fun, overlong, and Tom Cruise is not all that good. Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand steal the movie.
Fortunately you get a lot more of Julianne Hough than Tom Cruise and I like her. Diego Boneta reminds me of someone who should have been in a boy band. I liked the way they included appropriately cheesy rock songs from the 1980s (some of which I like). This became immediately apparent when you get a whole bus singing "Sister Christian. I thought the movie was fun and overlong as well, and pleasantly silly. I like the whole image of the Christian mothers doing "Hit Me with Your Best Shot", led by Catherine Zeta-Jones. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:38 pm |
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Very surprised and pleased that my old and incredibly awesome friend Roger Ebert has incuded me in the cast list of Bill W., a documentary about Bill Wilson, founder of AA. I'm only an extra in the cast, though there are two big fat closeups. Anyway, thank you, Roger!
http://tinyurl.com/d9gdz93 |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:26 am |
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Overall, I found TDKR watchable, but a bit plodding.
Nolan flirted with some some interesting ideas about the nature of urban decay - for a while the film felt more like an Alan Moore adaptation than a DC Comic. However, I sensed that the demands of the genre prevented him from develpoing these themes.
I had feared the worst when I learnt that the film featured Anne Hathaway as Catwomen. Unless they embrace it, many films of comic book are undone by the innate hokeyness of some of the characters. I am still embarrassed for Halle Berry and Michelle Pfeiffer. Fortunately, the film managed to do away with the ears and the tail by the conceit of making Cat Woman a cat burglar. Anne Hathaway was unembarrasingly good.
I didn't resent paying NZ$15 to see it. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:29 am |
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| I enjoyed your review, Jeremy. I'm a fan of Pfeiffer's kinky Catwoman, but then I join Billy in being an unrepentant Burton Batman franchise fan. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 5:28 am |
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| I liked Pfeiffer, too, but Hathaway is better, and in years to come she may be remembered as the single best thing about TDKR. Certainly she beats out Christian Bale, who is completely uninteresting as Batman. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:07 am |
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I just couldn't bring myself to buy Yemen Fishing.
Maybe it was the very chick flick cover or the fact that I could imagine the entire film from a few sentences on back.
I actually passed through the at-the-time South Yemen airport and am interested in the region. Maybe I'll get to it later. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:45 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Very surprised and pleased that my old and incredibly awesome friend Roger Ebert has incuded me in the cast list of Bill W., a documentary about Bill Wilson, founder of AA. I'm only an extra in the cast, though there are two big fat closeups. Anyway, thank you, Roger!
Congratulations, Billy--and I'm glad the title doesn't refer to you! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:04 am |
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carrobin wrote: billyweeds wrote: Very surprised and pleased that my old and incredibly awesome friend Roger Ebert has incuded me in the cast list of Bill W., a documentary about Bill Wilson, founder of AA. I'm only an extra in the cast, though there are two big fat closeups. Anyway, thank you, Roger!
Congratulations, Billy--and I'm glad the title doesn't refer to you!
There are few men in the history of the world I respect as much as that other Bill W., so any mistaken identity is a compliment. Interesting tidbit: my name is Bill W. and my birthday (coming up Wednesday, hint, hint) is the same as the other co-founder of AA, Dr. Bob. Hmmmm. There are no coincidences. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 2:33 am |
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| Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is a self-parodying attempt to set up a contrast between youthful rebellion and adult decadence. Interesting for the first half hour or so. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:51 pm |
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| Went to The Watch with no expectations and had a good time. The film is transcendently crude and ridiculous, but also fun - somehow the strong comedy cast manages to keep things rolling along, bouncing between fratboy humor and some genuinely funny moments of suburban paranoia and spoofing of the alien invasion genre. I don't know if it's really that funny, or that Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill and Ben Stiller (in full Uptight Control Freak mode) just have a good time in front of the lens in a rather infectious way. I think Vaughn has done, what, 163 films where he does his Wedding Crashers character? This is one more of them. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:59 pm |
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[quote="billyweeds"][quote="carrobin"]billyweeds wrote: Very surprised and pleased that my old and incredibly awesome friend Roger Ebert has incuded me in the cast list of Bill W., a documentary about Bill Wilson, founder of AA.... |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:20 pm |
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[quote="yambu"][quote="billyweeds"]carrobin wrote: billyweeds wrote: Very surprised and pleased that my old and incredibly awesome friend Roger Ebert has incuded me in the cast list of Bill W., a documentary about Bill Wilson, founder of AA.... I look forward to anything dealing with Bill Wilson.
It's quite a good documentary, telling his story sorta warts and all. A few too many stats and dry facts, perhaps, but otherwise very worthwhile. And I'm in it. |
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