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| gromit |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:41 am |
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I've been avoiding The Avengers assiduously, but now I'm beginning to hear a lot of good things about Ruffalo's performance therein, so I may have to take the plunge at some point.
Ruffalo was marvelous in Zodiac and The Kids Are All Right. He is also essential to Margaret. I saw him on Broadway in Awake and Sing! and can attest to his charisma and skill on stage as well. However, there has seldom been such waste of an actor than what happens to him in Rumor Has It.... |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:29 pm |
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| Am I the only one who appreciated him in Jane Campion's In the Cut? (I don't care that it wasn't the greatest ever film.) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:22 pm |
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Befade wrote: Am I the only one who appreciated him in Jane Campion's In the Cut? (I don't care that it wasn't the greatest ever film.)
Haven't seen it. Must remedy that. The original reviews were pretty brutal, so I skipped it, but I often disagree with reviews. I'm catching up with it. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:21 am |
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Helena Bonham Carter doesn't appear to be on the cast list of Frankenweenie. Is there something we should know? Has anybody checked her relationship status on Facebook? Is she unwell?
However, It's nice to see that he has re-united with his erstwhile muse, the underused and underrated Winona Ryder [sigh!]. Perhaps there is some sort of unwritten, one-muse-per-film rule in operation. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:44 am |
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Befade, I didn't much like In the Cut, but Ruffalo was pretty good. Can't say I was wowed by Meg Ryan playing against type.
I lament the insurance issue that made several studios balk at hiring Ms. Ryder-nee-Horowitz for several years. Cowardly and ridiculous. What, she might steal a costume from Wardrobe?
She can clean out my closet ANYTIME. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:24 am |
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jeremy wrote: Helena Bonham Carter doesn't appear to be on the cast list of Frankenweenie. Is there something we should know? Has anybody checked her relationship status on Facebook? Is she unwell?
However, It's nice to see that he has re-united with his erstwhile muse, the underused and underrated Winona Ryder [sigh!]. Perhaps there is some sort of unwritten, one-muse-per-film rule in operation.
The same rule that keeps Zhang Yimou from using Li Gong and Ziyi Zhang in the same film. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:40 pm |
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| I spoke briefly with Wynona Ryder yesterday at Fantastic Fest's "Frankenweenie" premier. She was with Tim Burton and Martin Landau. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:02 am |
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| Marc--It's Winona with an I, not Wynona with a Y. That's Ms. Judd. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:09 am |
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Saw two movies in the last two days, both worth your while. One is the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, in which an unknown presumed-dead 1960s rocker named Rodriguez becomes the object of a search, yielding some surprising results. More I won't reveal, since that's the beauty of the film, but the movie is memorable.
The second film is Arbitrage, a Richard Gere thriller about a Wall Street big who gets into mucho trouble. The plot is consistently interesting without being exactly pulse-pounding. Tim Roth appears as a very Columbo-ish detective, Susan Sarandon is on hand as Gere's wife, and the whole thing is very intriguing. New York City is photographed exquisitely, and the excellent Gere remains a devilishly handsome fellow, even at "a certain age." He's a genuine movie star. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:06 am |
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Not showing here, but I'll look for Arbitrage when I'm down in KC next week.
In other news....this guy is hilarious when I've heard him on NPR....
http://www.theross.org/nowshowing.php?mid=574
....so might check out this movie based on his material. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:12 pm |
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| I see they have made The Hobbit as a trilogy. Two films I could accept, butsplitting a one volume child's story into three is pure, cynical greed. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:59 pm |
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Quote: Marc--It's Winona with an I, not Wynona with a Y.
The rose smells just as sweet. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:05 am |
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The Hobbit is a "one volume child's story" that has been read by far more adults than children. And that one volume is well over 300 pages and quite epic.
If the film trilogy is good, than who will complain that there are three well-made movies? |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:18 am |
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I was fleeing football traffic and wound up at a 3-D showing of Finding Nemo. I enjoyed it, but you're better off at 2-D because 3-D washes out some of the softer colors. This is one movie that cries out to be shown on an IMAX.
The next Pixar movie to be fitted to 3-D will be Monsters, Inc., which doesn't mean there was any reason to do that except completeness.
The short subject, Partysaurus Rex is firmly for children, who will probably enjoy it if they're ten years or so.
Rise of the Guardians turns out to have nothing to do with owls. The Guardians in question are Jack Frost, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and the Easter Bunny. It does look well-animated, but may cross over into uncanny valley territory like A Christmas Carol and The Polar Express. Besides, they forgot to give each of them an origin movie before turning them into a superhero team.
Epic is advertised as being from the teams that brought you Ice Age and Rio, which doesn't sound promising; I'd be more hopeful if it had come from the team that produced Horton Hears a Who! (same studio). (It also comes from the team that did Robots, which was forgettable.) It's based on "The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs" and looks like a story about wee fairies. For some reason, their world looks misty. I'll probably give this one a pass. |
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