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| bartist |
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Not sure I can bring myself to watch this, now showing up at arthouses in the area....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing
Herzog says it's the most powerful film he's seen in the past decade, and unprecedented in the history of cinema - he signed on as an executive producer, after seeing it. Ditto Errol Morris. I am sort of amazed that it could get made at all. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:33 am |
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| I get in a guilty bind when movies like this come out. If I don't go, because I am so repelled by the subject matter that just a written description makes me ill, then I wonder if I'm wimping out as a film freak. If I do go, then I feel sick and disheartened for the human race, and for the fact that I can't really do anything to help the people suffering brutal repression in Sumatra or wherever. I try to imagine that there is some hope that if enough people like me watch the film, then we, as a political entity, are more likely in some way to bring pressure to bear against other developing situations of genocide. But that doesn't seem to happen. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:34 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Somewhat a Response to Somewhat Spoilers
I may be mistaken, but I don't think both parents remarrying a younger person was a coincidence in the book. I think the mother married a gigolo, and then later the father, competing with her, married the...governness?
It's interesting that they essentially marry children but won't care for the child they conceived.
Yes, but with the order switched. The father marries the governess, so the mother follows up/competes by marrying the bartender guy.
They both marry someone they hope will help take care of their child, though they still want the connection/love from their child.
The little girl at the center is quite good. And at the 18 minute mark you can see her actual mother walking her home, pretending to be the mother of a schoolmate. They really had some nice interesting outfits for the 6 year old girl. The film also has a good deal of Lower Manhattan, and taxi cabs and the High Line.
I thought the final 2 minutes were kind of cheesy and like a Tv commercial -- though that's a quibble. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:17 pm |
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| I won't be seeing The Act of Killing. But I'm sure you all knew that. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 4:12 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I won't be seeing The Act of Killing. But I'm sure you all knew that. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:38 pm |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a bit like Jurassic Park with the dinosaurs replaced with taco creatures, burger monsters with french-fry legs, and sentient giant strawberries. There are giant creatures which I think are supposed to be scallionsaurs, that are a kind of homage to Spielberg. It's a high-concept movie. Flint's machine did not die in the previous movie, and Flint is hired by his new boss Chester V (a mad Mr. Science) to go back to the island and turn it off with a special USB drive. But Chester V is secretly evil...
Flint's old team assembles itself, including delightful mad meterologist/girlfriend Sam (Anna Faris), and Flint's sardine-mad father--much against Flint's wishes, since this was supposed to be a solo mission.
This is a reasonably good follow-up to a movie that was a pleasant surprise. The lost world is pretty, if weird. If I have any complaints, it's that the sight gags often go by too fast to catch them.
There was a preview of Frozen. I'd be looking forward to it if that damned snowman didn't drive me up the wall.
Now I'm starving and am going to the refrigerator with chair in hand. 6.5 of 10. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:52 pm |
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| Although what the refrigerator is doing with a chair in its hand, I don't know. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:36 pm |
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| 6th October. Jeremy. Sydney (the place). World's biggest (IMAX) screen. Gravity 3D. Sorted. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:17 am |
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| Can't wait to see Gravity (which I will do October 7), and one of the main enticements is that it's only 90 minutes long. An IMAX 3-D masterpiece in an hour and a half? Wow. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 4:34 pm |
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You lucky dog, Jeremy.
Manhola like "Don Jon," so I'm going to WFV. As with other reviews of hers I've seen, she seems to give lightweight films more poundage than they actually carry. JMO. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 4:55 pm |
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bartist wrote: You lucky dog, Jeremy.
Manhola like "Don Jon," so I'm going to WFV. As with other reviews of hers I've seen, she seems to give lightweight films more poundage than they actually carry. JMO.
She's not only off base with lightweight flicks either. She can make the worst pretentious film in the world (Synecdoche, New York) sound like a masterpiece. I agree with Dargis...next to never. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:20 pm |
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I'll be seeing Don Jon. I was going to see it today but the weather was so crummy today I didn't feel like driving to the theatre.
I always like Gordon-Levitt. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 10:44 pm |
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Synecdoche, NY was an interesting mess.
I wouldn't mind revisiting it.
Of course, it was no Huckabees ... |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 5:33 am |
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gromit wrote: Synecdoche, NY was an interesting mess.
I wouldn't mind revisiting it.
Of course, it was no Huckabees ...
I will give you "interesting." Rather than revisit it I would have pincers tear out my fingernails one by one. Can't deny it was no Huckabees. The latter was an unwatchable would-be comedy. S,NY was an unwatchable drama. Both of them are in my personal pantheon of cinematic hell. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:03 am |
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| SNY was a fascintating failure. And while I like billy would never want to watch it again, hardly cinematic Hell. That'd be a David Lynch film festival. |
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