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| marantzo |
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| It's a Keaton trio and I ain't keaton. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:41 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: .... Keaton took his name from Diane Keaton, I think, though it may have been Buster. Again, no relation to the other Keatons.
The one true thing (IMO, of course) is that all three Keatons--Buster, Diane, and Michael--are among the true greats of the screen.
Yes.
I'm going to guess, based on his breakout perf in Beetlejuice, that he took his name from Buster. I remember seeing an interview with Keaton (MK, that is) in which he said Beetlejuice was exhilirating fun because he could do ANYTHING and no one could say that his character wouldn't do that. He basically could try anything. Not many roles where that's the case, I'd guess. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 2:44 pm |
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| Supposedly Diane, not out of admiration but because he lilex the sound of her name. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:09 am |
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Jason Reitman is a highly original director (Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult, Thank You for Smoking) whose latest movie, Men, Women & Children, has been largely written off by the critical community as a neo-Reefer Madness, a wildly over-the-top diatribe that calls the internet an instrument of the devil. I beg to differ from the received wisdom about this very provocative film. It's a tad overstated, perhaps, but it paints a very poignant and extraordinarily timely picture of the way we live now. In contemporary Austin, TX, a group of middle-class people use the internet in varying ways. Adam Sandler and Rosemarie DeWitt are a bored married couple who arrange hookups. Their teenaged son watches non-stop porn and has become impotent. Judy Greer helps her teen daughter create a website to show off her acting skill which quickly becomes a magnet for pervs. Jennifer Garner obsessively monitors her daughter's internet activity. All of the above come to grief but it's a collective learning experience. And that's not all!
If this sounds a bit overheated, it's actually not, because Reitman directs with a non-stop pace (and a musical score that sounds like a porn film) and actors who are so good (yes, even Sandler) that they make the whole thing believable. Two hours seem half an hour shorter. Do not believe the negative chatter about this movie, which would have you believe that Reitman's fifteen minutes are history. The movie is pretty darned good. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:19 am |
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Ro2, "Disconnect"
Hadn't heard the negative chatter, fortunately, and am seeing with an unbesmirched brain in a few days. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 3:08 pm |
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| "The Skeleton Twins" is perhaps the saddest comedy I have seen in a long long time. I liked it a lot in spite of its formulaic denouement. Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader are outstanding. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:03 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Jason Reitman is a highly original director (Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult, Thank You for Smoking) whose latest movie, Men, Women & Children
I've liked all of his films.
Probably the best young director out there.
Hadn't heard anything about the new film.
The premise doesn't sound that great, but i'll definitely give it a try. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:14 pm |
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bartist wrote: Ro2, "Disconnect"
Hadn't heard the negative chatter, fortunately, and am seeing with an unbesmirched brain in a few days.
What does Ro2 mean? I loved Disconnect. It's sufficiently different from MW&C to make them a reasonably interesting double bill. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:30 pm |
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| Rule of Two ... |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:46 pm |
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| "Snowpiercer" is a Korean/American film based on a French novel. It is a marvelous and macabre post-apocalyptic dystopic science-fiction with deeply allegorical sociological takes on power structures and class divisions. It is quite a ride! Directed by Joon-ho Bong ("Mother"). Excellent performances by Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris and John Hurt. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:54 pm |
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| Stonehearst Asylum is a would-be Gothic thriller adapted from a Poe short story. It's not exactly a must to avoid, but it's bland and flavorless, despite a cast including Kate Beckinsale, Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Brendan Gleeson, and David Thewlis. It's like a Hammer film but minus the cheese that made those movies fun. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:18 pm |
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| Red flags went up for SA....Thewlis playing a guy named Mickey Finn (can you be that cute when writing a gothic thriller?), the (possibly misplaced) sense of a Ro2 with "Shutter Island" (both films have Sir Ben K.), and rumors of major talent being relegated to trivial parts. Then you delivered the coup de grace, Billy, with "Hammer film but minus the cheese..." |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:52 pm |
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bartist wrote: Red flags went up for SA....Thewlis playing a guy named Mickey Finn (can you be that cute when writing a gothic thriller?), the (possibly misplaced) sense of a Ro2 with "Shutter Island" (both films have Sir Ben K.), and rumors of major talent being relegated to trivial parts. Then you delivered the coup de grace, Billy, with "Hammer film but minus the cheese..."
You're right about everything except that Thewlis's name isn't really Mickey Finn (at least I don't think it is). He's listed that way to make it clear what part he's playing since a big scene has to do with a "Mickey Finn." This doesn't make his role or his performance any more interesting, however. A big fat waste of talent. And Michael Caine is more than wasted. He might as well be an extra. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:19 pm |
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| Finally finished reading "Gone Girl," and I can't figure how it could be properly filmed. The book keeps you guessing until the middle, when you find out what's really going on, but progresses into more twists as more becomes known. I'll probably see the movie, but I won't expect it to work like the novel does. (I had to go back and read the first few "diary entries" again. They look different after all has become clear.) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 8:08 am |
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| "Futuristic action flick with political agenda attached" is very, very far from my favorite cinema genre, but given that fact, Snowpiercer is certainly one of the best (if not the best) I've seen. Bong Joon-ho is the Korean director in charge, and he's a true visionary. The setting is a train on which all the travelers are survivors of the end of the world, brought about by a cure for global warming gone terribly awry. The world outside is covered in ice and most of humanity has long since frozen to death. On the train--the "snowpiercer" of the title--people are divided into a class system and the revolution is ongoing. The movie's pace is swift and the action non-stop. The look is dark and the vibe depressing, yet the movie has its own exhilaration. It's kind of a must-see. |
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