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| marantzo |
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whiskeypriest wrote: marantzo wrote: I'll be seeing Seven Psychopaths and I think I'll like it, so if i give it a good review you can trust me and go see it.
Why wait?
I should be seeing it on Tuesday. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 7:53 pm |
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marantzo wrote: whiskeypriest wrote: marantzo wrote: I'll be seeing Seven Psychopaths and I think I'll like it, so if i give it a good review you can trust me and go see it.
Why wait?
I should be seeing it on Tuesday. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:52 pm |
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| It was very good and very ghastly when I didn't see it. Not having seen it, I found it laugh out loud black gory humour. I'd like to not see it again, but I don't want to sit home and eat popcorn once more while I imagine more of the good things about it that I didn't see until there would be nothing left to see. Better get to see it before I don't see it any more time. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 12:20 pm |
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Very inspiring, Gary.
I'm planning to not see it at all, so that my review remains objective and completely untainted by personal reactions of any kind. I haven't seen the trailer, either, so I really think I can nail this. Nor will I be influenced by the somewhat self-satisfied cleverness with language which has distanced some audience members or ever feel let down by a potentially arty and quip-heavy script. My intention is to focus on the casting, which appears to be excellent. In the austere and lofty non-viewing perspective that I bring, I'm going to assume that "Seven Psychopaths" is a cabaret-styled musical and that Tom Waits steals the show. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:01 pm |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 5:19 am |
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Smashed is a new entry in the "movies about alcoholism" genre. And it's a particularly good one, featuring an absolutely stunning, award-worthy turn by Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a schoolteacher with a serious drinking problem. It's a very low-key riff on Days of Wine and Roses, as Winstead and her hard-partying husband (played by the terrific Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad) negotiate the twists and turns of a complex relationship and her emerging sobriety.
This is definitely one to see, joining Leaving Las Vegas, Clean and Sober, The Lost Weekend, and Days of W&R as a top entry in this subgenre. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:27 am |
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Gad did I hate everything about LLV.
Watched an Albanian revenge drama, Forgiveness of Blood (2011). Picked up by Criterion.
I passed through that area of northern Albania last year, but this film has a very limited local setting which shrinks throughout the film from the general rural village to the house the family becomes trapped in. I liked the cast, with the father reminding me somehow of an Albanian Spencer Tracy (not a phrase you hear every day).
The set up is fairly good and interesting, but then everything kind of stagnates 2/3rds of the way through. This is probably/possibly intentional as that's the fate of the boy and his family as become trapped indoors. But I still think the scripting kind of let them down the last 1/3 of the way.
A fairly good film, worth catching on cable the next time they run an Albanian film festival.
The film was written and directed by Joshua Marston best known for Maria Full of Grace. And this film has the same realism about poor people caught up in larger forces and problems of their own making. Along with Irish Juanita Wilson's As if I Am Not There (2010) set in Bosnia, and UK's Peter Strickland's Katalin Varga (2009) set around Transylvania, there seems to be a mini-trend of Anglo-directors making films in and around the Balkans. Along with a distinctly related trend of gromit watching such films.
Though it came first, Katalin Varga essentially combines the themes of the other two films -- rape and revenge -- and is a really powerful gut-punch of a film. I'd rec that people queue that up in their Netflix world. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:35 am |
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I look forward to Smashed but must ask why do Mary Winstead and Mary Mastrantonio feel the need to so elongate their names with an Elizabeth in the middle?
Winstead was great as "Ramona Flowers" in the Scott Pilgrim v. the World. And she's stunning. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 1:27 am |
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Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master is a wonderful film, the best movie on the subject of charismatic leaders-cum-charlatans that I have seen. Superb performances by the three leads Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:41 am |
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Frankenweenie is fun, and certainly the best Tim Burton movie in many, many years (this is known as damning with faint praise). But it's a bit of a disappointment. It's just kinda sorta okay.
I guess it will be no surprise that I consider Tim Burton's career, shall we say, "uneven." Three great movies (Beetlejuice, Batman, and Ed Wood), one good one (Batman Returns), a couple of interesting failures (Sweeney Todd, Big Fish) and a raft of mediocre-to-terrible things (almost everything else).
Full disclosure: I've never seen Edward Scissorhands or The Nightmare Before Christmas. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:05 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Frankenweenie is fun, and certainly the best Tim Burton movie in many, many years (this is known as damning with faint praise). But it's a bit of a disappointment. It's just kinda sorta okay.
I guess it will be no surprise that I consider Tim Burton's career, shall we say, "uneven." Three great movies (Beetlejuice, Batman, and Ed Wood), one good one (Batman Returns), a couple of interesting failures (Sweeney Todd, Big Fish) and a raft of mediocre-to-terrible things (almost everything else).
Full disclosure: I've never seen Edward Scissorhands or The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Don't disagree with your likes, but apart from the last shot in Sweeney Todd, I found it drab. Big Fish, I just about hated. Edward Scissorhands was very good to excellent. The Nightmare Before Christmas was very good. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:17 am |
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| I had to look up Burton's other movies. Mars Attacks was great fun. I liked Corpse Bride and, though I think I'm the only one in the world that did, liked Planet of the Apes. I've never seen Pee-wee's Big Adventure, but according to all the comments about it that I've read or heard were all plaudits. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:33 am |
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marantzo wrote: I had to look up Burton's other movies. Mars Attacks was great fun. I liked Corpse Bride and, though I think I'm the only one in the world that did, liked Planet of the Apes. I've never seen Pee-wee's Big Adventure, but according to all the comments about it that I've read or heard were all plaudits.
I really hated Mars Attacks!. Corpse Bride and Pee-wee's Big Adventure are excellent. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:13 am |
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marantzo wrote: ...I think I'm the only one in the world (who) liked Planet of the Apes.
No argument here. I really really really hated it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:22 am |
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It was Heston's best, and only good performance, in his long line of performances.  |
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