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| bartist |
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gromit wrote: Upstream Color (2013) is an odd film which I don't think will have much appeal here.....
....Overall it's the kind of film where you're pretty sure the writer/director doesn't know the answers, because there are none. It's sort of Tree of Life meets Keane with some sort of skewed Side Effects plot grafted on. I guess I more or less like the open-ended vaguery involved, but think this plot/storyline either aren't interesting enough or not developed enough. Shane Carruth also wrote and directed Primer (2004), which I've not seen. Any thoughts on Primer? Maybe I'll track it down.
Primer was a good ultralow budget time travel pretzel. Did a good job giving a sense of the paradoxes that would actually arise from time travel, unlike most films that tackle the subject. I'll check out Upstream Color, if only to see what Carruth has been up to for the last 9 years. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:51 am |
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I knew something went grammatically wonky but forgot to look for the error.
this ... aren't = yikes! |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:08 am |
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| Uh....what? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:10 am |
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| if you look at the part of my post you quoted you'll see a pretty egregious grammar slip-up. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:15 am |
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| It's not all that "egregious," especially since you're not writing for publication. Most folks don't notice such details anyway. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:20 am |
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Ah. Kind of corrected in my head as I read, so no harm.
Yeah, wonder if Redford will get a nod for "All is Lost," which got him a standing ov at Cannes. Definitely "ordeal movie" year. Sounds like the movie "Castaway" could have been if you'd dialed down the cuteness, and simplified it to its most elemental state. And booted out the volleyball. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:59 am |
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| I didn't see the movie, but wasn't it a basketball? |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:12 pm |
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| I'll be seeing Nebraska and Big Sur tonight. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:13 pm |
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bartist wrote: Ah. Kind of corrected in my head as I read, so no harm.
Yeah, wonder if Redford will get a nod for "All is Lost," which got him a standing ov at Cannes. Definitely "ordeal movie" year. Sounds like the movie "Castaway" could have been if you'd dialed down the cuteness, and simplified it to its most elemental state. And booted out the volleyball.
I fucking hated Cast Away. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:25 pm |
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Billy, I guess you follow Marc's mandate. You have to see everything. 
Back then I saw the preview to Cast Away and it didn't make me want to see it in the least, so I didn't. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 1:06 am |
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| Tonight I saw two films at the Austin Film Festival. Alexander Payne's "Nebraska" is an instant American classic with stunning performances by Bruce Dern and June Squibb. The other was the perfectly awful Jack Kerouac flick "Big Sur" - another nail in the coffin of poorly made movies about the Beats. I loathed 'Big Sur" as much as I loved "Nebraska." Pretty much the opposite of how feel about them as geographical locations. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:31 am |
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At least Nebraska is not a giant festering armpit like, say, Texas. I was in Austin one summer and it was like walking around inside a dog's mouth.
Seriously, I'm pretty stoked about "Nebraska" and glad to hear your upbeat report.
GARY: fairly certain it was a volleyball. Will put up a still photo, if you want. The film inspires hatred because it was a failure of something that could have been terrific. |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 9:58 pm |
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| 12 Years a Slave is one of the most powerful movies imaginable on the subject of slavery. It's the true stoty of a free man who is sold into slavery. The acting is excellent and the direction fine, but the overall effect is grueling and graphic. There are scenes of sadism by slave traders and owners that are very hard to watch. This will definitely be an Oscar contender for picture, director (Steve McQueen), actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and a couple of supporting slots (Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong'o), but I don't think I could ever bring myself to see it again. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:38 pm |
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Ridley Scott's THE COUNSELOR is getting hammered by critics. Ignore them. This an engrossing and wonderfully dark mindfucker written by the stellar Cormac McCarthy.
I loved every twisted minute of it. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:07 pm |
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Marc wrote: Ridley Scott's THE COUNSELOR is getting hammered by critics. Ignore them. This an engrossing and wonderfully dark mindfucker written by the stellar Cormac McCarthy.
I loved every twisted minute of it.
Hammered by some critics, absolutely adored by others. This is the pure essence of "mixed reviews." If one of the raves were not by the loathed and almost-always-disagreed-with Manohla Dargis, I'd be more excited. Anything that uses Cameron Diaz intelligently is up my alley, but the Dargis rave is a definite bummer for me. I think of Synecdoche, New York--and others which I have luckily blocked out. |
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