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| knox |
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BotSW is okay...and surprising how well non-actors can step up.
Safety NG seemed a little thin to me. I liked the characters, but somehow couldn't believe a magazine sending that many staff to report on an anonymous ad. Some funny moments. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:01 pm |
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Saw the trailer for Trouble With The Curve; Clint Eastwood directs and stars. It struck me as a hapless vanity project. As an actor and filmmaker, he has learnt to evince or include a few tropes of vulnerability, but it strkes me as fake.
He now has young women act as his daughters rather than his love interest. It is margnially less discomfitting, but it feels the same.
I would orefer it if Mr Eastwood didn't star in his own projects. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:07 pm |
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Reading Cloud Atlas before the film comes out.
Should this be in the current, book or pre-current forum? |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:26 pm |
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Current encompasses pre-current, AFAICT.
2nd that, on keeping Clint out of the frame. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:40 pm |
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| I may be in a minority here, but IMO The Bourne Legacy is better than any of the previous Bourne movies, and better than most action blockbusters of my lifetime. Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz are the perfect couple to head this breathless and constantly riveting suspense thriller with a heart. Tony Gilroy returns to the excellence of Michael Clayton after a disastrous detour into ineptitude with Duplicity. Gilroy has kept the action continuous and has coaxed superb performances from his two leads and solid work from all supporting actors, including Edward Norton, Stacy Keach and many others. It's a long movie, but I never once consulted my watch. This is one of the truly great action flicks. (And my favorite film of 2012 so far.) |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:06 am |
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| I'm startled, BW. Had no expectation other than that this would be a Rocky V kind of deal, milking the Bourne cow until the udders bleed. Will see soon - haven't seen Keach in anything in years - good to know he's working. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:09 am |
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bartist wrote: I'm startled, BW. Had no expectation other than that this would be a Rocky V kind of deal, milking the Bourne cow until the udders bleed. Will see soon - haven't seen Keach in anything in years - good to know he's working.
You're going to see a lot of Keach in this film--and I don't mean that his part is large, but he is...very large. Can you say "porked out"? |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:21 am |
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| As in (cough) "fat city." |
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| Marc |
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| Duplicity had its moments. Not enough of them, but enough to hint at the film it could have been. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 4:22 am |
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jeremy wrote: Saw the trailer for Trouble With The Curve; Clint Eastwood directs and stars. It struck me as a hapless vanity project. As an actor and filmmaker, he has learnt to evince or include a few tropes of vulnerability, but it strkes me as fake.
He now has young women act as his daughters rather than his love interest. It is margnially less discomfitting, but it feels the same.
I would orefer it if Mr Eastwood didn't star in his own projects.
He can also have older actresses play his love interest. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:19 am |
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Marc wrote: Duplicity had its moments. Not enough of them, but enough to hint at the film it could have been.
Duplicity's plot ideas were just intriguing enough to make you angry at how badly they were mangled. And I've never seen Julia Roberts so unappealing. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 10:23 am |
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| Campaign? Trailer = sum total of all comedic content? Wondering if we should roll the dice on this one... |
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| marantzo |
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Marc wrote: The Dark Knight Rises is rotten to the core. A boring, lifeless, steaming pile of batshit.
Just saw TDKR. In about the first hour I was trying to figure out why Marc gave it such a bad (?) rotten little review. The next one and a half hours answered my question. If I weren't with a friend and not wanting to ask him, I didn't walk out and there were so many long boring scenes with verbal bullshit that I was tempted to disturb my friend with the question, but didn't. It was close to torture sitting through it.
P.S. When the movie was over my buddy (the guy who lives in Nassau) said, "this is not my kind of movie." He hated it as much as I did.
Marc, you were right. It's a punishing piece of dreck (batshit in Yiddish). |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 7:13 pm |
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| Saw Hope Springs. Pleasant. Pleasantly SASSY (that's for inla). Not making my Top 100 any time soon. Have spent worse 100 minutes in a movie theater. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:54 am |
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| Gary--Funny. I thought the last half hour of TDKR was the best part of the otherwise underwhelming but never awful movie. |
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