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| marantzo |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:48 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Back to current films. I saw Sin City: A Dame to Kill For this afternoon. Only in 3D. The 3D was actually pretty good. I saw the original Sin City and it was very good. This one was also very good, but not quite as good as the first one, but close. Both movies strangely and visually interesting as hell. Good, famous cast and a few non-famous.
A movie well worth seeing. Has anyone on here seen it or the previous one?
I've seen the first one, and liked some of it, including admiring Carla Gugino. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:58 pm |
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Syd wrote,
"I've seen the first one, and liked some of it, including admiring Carla Gugino."
Actually, just reading his comment clicked a few things I remembered about the first Sin City. It had a number of different plots. I don't remember a lot of what actually happened, but i remember really liking it.
The current Sin City is far easier to follow. Maybe if I saw the first Sin City again, I might end up liking the second one better. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 8:38 am |
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| The Skeleton Twins, starring two of my all-time SNL favorites, Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader, in semi-comic but mostly serious roles as estranged siblings who both make suicide attempts in the first scene and are forced to communicate. It's an occasionally very funny but more often very emotional film, and the two stars are simply wonderful. Hader is primed to get more press because he's never gone "serious" before, but Wiig is every bit as good in a less showy role. And when they lip-synch to Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," it's movie heaven. Also aces in support are Luke Wilson as Wiig's well-meaning but somewhat plastic husband, Ty Burrell as Hader's closeted former lover, and Joanna Gleason as the twins' narcissistic mother. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 10:05 am |
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| Of the 2 twin theme films opening a week apart, this looks to be the pick. The descript of The Identical sounds pretty bad. In fact it sounds so awful, as in the Plan Nine of Elvis movies, that im tempted to go... |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:48 pm |
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| I guess it's time for a film version of A Comedy of Errors. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:11 pm |
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Syd wrote: I guess it's time for a film version of A Comedy of Errors.
The Comedy of Errors, BBC, 1983, with Cyril Cusack et al. Sans slapstick. No like. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:34 am |
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| The Drop is a crime drama that centers on a Brooklyn bar and a barkeep, Bob, who tries to live an honest life but is forced to call upon old skills when his cousin, the bar's owner, comes up with a Bad Idea to implement a retirement package. Throw in Chechen mobsters, money drops, an abused puppy, and Noomi Rapace as Bob's object of affection, and you have a pretty gripping yarn. Good ensemble, Gandolfini's last perf. seems fitting. Lehane story, maybe his best transfer to screen so far. |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 9:45 am |
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We had this exchange a while back. Relating to the Freud Archive book I was talking about.
Joe Vitus wrote: gromit wrote: that theory is ingenious and very persuasive, but the only flaw with it is that it just isn't true.
To my mind, this may be the most perfect quote ever.
Just reading some Krugman and he has a quote from Mencken which sums it up: “There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible and wrong.” |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:51 pm |
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| I like that one, too. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:24 pm |
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| Anyone seen the new Duplass movie? Really liked SNG and Jeff Who..., so kind of a Duplass fan. A couple is sent to some therapeutic retreat by shrink Ted Danson, and then it gets surreal. That's all I've heard. "The One I Love" or similar title. |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 12:05 pm |
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I liked The Drop, too. One of Lehane's best. And its not Boston this time, so he is spreading his literary wings a bit.
Looks like the Weeden guy is at it again. "Ungovernable Force" a low budgie horror/comedy/punk thing is out this January. Saw this blurb - sorry don't have the link - for it at a horror website and noticed the cast of hardy veteran actors. Looks like it might be fun. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:45 am |
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knox wrote:
Looks like the Weeden guy is at it again. "Ungovernable Force" a low budgie horror/comedy/punk thing is out this January. Saw this blurb - sorry don't have the link - for it at a horror website and noticed the cast of hardy veteran actors. Looks like it might be fun.
It was a lot of fun to make. Filmed in Boston this summer. Would be surprised if it's ready for release by January, but stranger things have happened. Another horror film I made this summer called Abandoned in the Dark is being premiered in November, so who knows?
And in more horror news, my wife Dolores and I are soon to be seen on line in a very short "Walking Dead" parody from United Citizens Brigade. Premieres October 6; details to follow. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 2:21 pm |
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Big Miracle is the 2012 movie about the 1988 attempts to rescue three grey whales, mother, father and baby, trapped by the ice as the Alaska winter closes in. By the time they are discovered, all they have is a clear patch of water maybe ten feet across and probably destined to drown when that patch freezes over, because the nearest open water is five miles away, too far away for the whales to reach while holding their breaths.
I remember this vaguely because a Russian ice breaker got involved despite the initial misgivings of the Reagan administration, but it was really a joint effort by Greenpeace (represented by Drew Barrymore playing a character named Rachel for dramatic license, but really named Cindy Lowry), oil companies who had useful equipment and saw a chance at good PR (here led by Ted Danson; the actual company was Veeco), the Inuit, a Minnesota pair who'd invented a miracle De-Icer machinesome media people, and a lot of people who generally gave a damn.
Pretty good but not great movie that manages to get a little satire in. The movie takes place during the last month of the Bush-Dukakis presidential race, so Rachel get to threaten the Republicans with the electoral consequences of breaking the hearts of millions of schoolkids if the Administration refuses to get its act together with Gorbachev. This is a safe movie to take your kids to, and not bad for adults despite a few cutesy moments.
EDIT: Oops, wrong forum. But at least it's more current than most films I review. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:24 pm |
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I remember when they were saving the Whales. I couldn't remember if they were the Whales or Dolphins. I guess it were Whales.  |
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