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| Joe Vitus |
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| Thanks Billy, Gary and Lorne (those names together sound like the title of a Mamet play to me, for some reason). Will now check it out. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:16 pm |
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Carol--You didn't mention Manhattan. Oversight?
I keep forgetting Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway, both of which I like without loving. Dianne Wiest won supporting Oscars for both, of course, and she's a great actress, but only the Hannah Oscar was deserved IMO.
Judy Davis deserved the Oscar for Husbands and Wives, in perhaps the greatest performance ever to emerge from a Woody Allen film. She lost to Marisa Tomei, who (contrary to urban-legend-style lore) was extremely good too and has proved herself over and over again since. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:31 pm |
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| Billy: I liked "Manhattan" but it fell rather flat for me--I didn't feel much chemistry in the relationship between Allen and Hemingway. I had forgotten about "Husbands and Wives"--very good, but that's about all I remember about it. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:39 am |
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Don't believe the hype. Woody Allen's BLUE JASMINE is a terribly outdated movie full of caricatures and stereotypes. Pretty close to awful. Cate Blanchett's performance is a mash-up of nervous tics and breakdowns amounting to a big "so what"?
On the hand, Neil Jordan's BYZANTIUM is brilliant despite what some critics have to say. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 5:42 am |
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Sam Rockwell is wonderful in The Way, Way Back. All Rockwell fans will enjoy his performance and others will too. Otherwise, the movie is a yawn from beginning to end.
It's a coming-of-age dramedy (are you still awake?), and this one is as by-the-numbers as such movies get. I could literally predict every single thing that happened. The cast is full of fine actors, but even Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Maya Rudolph, Alison Janney. and Amanda Peet cannot triumph over the hackneyed plot developments that befall a 14-year-old whose mother (Collette) is dating a jerk (Carell) who cheats on her and who criticizes him and damages the already fragile ego of the teen who then gets a job at a water ride with an unconventional mentor (Rockwell) who... I can't go on.
This might be better were the young actor playing our hero the slightest bit interesting or surprising. But he's dull, dull, dull to the extent where I began to side with bad guy Carell and wonder what good guy Rockwell sees in him.
This said, Rockwell still manages to get a load of laughs and some substance out of his character, although he's a mix of many other characters from other movies and therefore as predictable as everything else.
After The Spectacular Now this seems even lamer than it would otherwise. Even We're the Millers (a well-acted raunchfest) has more insight (courtesy of the marvelous Will Poulter) into the issues facing a male teenage virgin than this supposedly "sensitive" treatment. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:58 am |
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The trailer I saw looked awful. Led with an ass joke (on the water ride) and went down from there.
The Millers was great....rare feat of managing to be raunchy without being gross (well, except for that one spider bite situation). I'm sure Mr. Poulter will long remember the no-doubt multiple takes of the "kissing lesson" scene. His love interest also plays the daughter of "Castle" - a role that demands the suspension of disbelief, as there is no way she could be Nathan Fillion's daughter. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:22 am |
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| Rudolph's good, too, but wasn't given much to do. AnnaSophia Robb was another wasted actress, and she plays the love interest. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:53 am |
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| LOVELACE is TV movie caliber with a topnotch cast. Sharon Stone is a standout. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:12 pm |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:08 pm |
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| You couldn't swallow it? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:19 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: You couldn't swallow it?
Seems.like.it.didn't.suck.or.blow.but.he.wasn't.exactly.down.with.it.
Excuse.the.crazy.formatting.
The.keyboard.is.busted. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:45 pm |
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| Who do you think you are, Christopher Walken? |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 10:36 pm |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 11:05 am |
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| Where are the good current films? I was in the mood for a conspiracy thriller, but "Paranoia" sounds like a turkey. (actually, I would guess that just watching a modern farm turkey would supply more genuine paranoia....) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 11:26 am |
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bartist wrote: Where are the good current films? I was in the mood for a conspiracy thriller, but "Paranoia" sounds like a turkey. (actually, I would guess that just watching a modern farm turkey would supply more genuine paranoia....)
The Spectacular Now is a terrific movie with amazing performances, and We're the Millers is hilarious. Haven't seen Blue Jasmine, but many love it. Lee Daniels' The Butler, being released today, is apparently splendid and will probably garner Forest Whitaker a second Oscar. How many good current movies do you need? |
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