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| Syd |
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| I think you mean subsilver. Select Profile, board style, subsilver. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 4:01 am |
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"The Theory of Everything", the Stephen Hawking biopic, is 20% about cosmology, 25% about Lou Gehrig's disease and 55% about a remarkable love story. The writers got the proportions just about right. This is an excellent movie. Both Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones give Oscar-worthy performances. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:02 am |
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| Mr. Turner, the Mike Leigh film about the great British painter, features stunning cinematography and a magnificent performance by Timothy Spall. It's certainly a must for any art maven and any fan of either Leigh or Spall. But its lack of a story arc makes it less than it could have been for me. It's highly anecdotal and--in book terms--an anti-page-turner. Seldom if ever boring, especially when Spall is front-and-center, it's not riveting either. At two-and-a-half hours, it seems long. But the positives far outweigh the negatives, and the movie has a huge effect. Spall is a marvelous character actor who's never had such a layered role before. Turner is the ultimate eccentric, the genius with issues all over the place, and Spall elucidates them beautifully, frequently with no dialogue. Meanwhile, the photography by Dick Pope is almost in a class by itself, recreating the look of Turner's paintings while making you wish that he and Leigh would team up and do all of DIckens right now. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 4:38 pm |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 4:42 pm |
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| Yes. Bart, it is stupid. I'm looking forward to see how that film is going to be in Canada. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 6:10 pm |
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| Mark Wahlberg's checkered past aside, he's a sensational actor when he's given a shot at it, and he gets a blistering one in The Gambler, Rupert Wyatt's adrenalized remake of the 1974 Karel Reisz movie starring James Caan. Both films (the original was written by James Toback, who's a producer on this one) are about a man with a severe gambling addiction and a lot of other problems as well. But whereas the original was somewhat pretentious and soporific, the new one is full of energy and great music and supporting performances that range from superb (Michael K. Williams, Brie Larson, and Jessica Lange) to astonishing (John Goodman). The leading character is on some level unknowable and certainly infuriating, as he succumbs time and again to an addiction so deep and self-hating that one wants to wring his neck. But wow, does Marky Mark make it work! I loved it. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:16 am |
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bartist wrote:
Should N.Korea be telling us what movies we can watch?
This is just pathetic.
Maybe when Kim Jong Il was in power.
He was a big movie buff.
Even going so far as to kidnap Japanese actresses.
But Kim Jung Un -- No Way! |
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| knox |
| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:52 am |
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| What's weird is that NK can get anyone to take the threat seriously. How many N Korean terror attacks have actually taken place. Compare to, say, radical Islamic groups. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:04 am |
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| What is interesrng to me is that thru can carry out sophistareď cyber attacks but have to run their threats through babelfishm |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:30 pm |
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Ha! Does babelfish have a Korean translator? I know they've got around ten major languages, but I don't think Korean is one of them.
North Korea is like a parody of itself. You should know you're a clown on the world stage when Dennis Rodman is the nation's only friend. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:05 pm |
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bartist wrote: Ha! Does babelfish have a Korean translator? I know they've got around ten major languages, but I don't think Korean is one of them.
North Korea is like a parody of itself. You should know you're a clown on the world stage when Dennis Rodman is the nation's only friend. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 7:32 am |
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Have no desire to see The Interview even for historical reasons. it sounds unwatchable.
Another overrated item of 2014 is the crime melodrama with slight pretensions called A Most Violent Year, which counts as a genuine disappointment since J.C. Chandor directed Margin Call so remarkably well and here just sort of does the job. It's an okay movie, nothing bad about it, but it's getting raves and Oscar buzz and that annoys me. Hell, it was even named Best Picture of the Year by the National Board of Review. In a year that includes Boyhood and Selma for starters, that's just plain idiotic.
I was one of Oscar Isaac's biggest fans when he (IMO) stole Drive from Ryan Gosling and everyone else. But in Inside Llewyn Davis and now this movie he doesn't look like the star I thought he was. Doesn't have the charisma to "carry" a film. Sigh. Meanwhile, Jessica Chastain does "Mafia princess" duty in competent but unexceptional style. Chastain seems to be approaching Streepian untouchability by the critical community. She could sneeze and get an Oscar nomination for it, it appears. Oh, well. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 1:04 pm |
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| She's only received two so far, which doesn't seem excessive. I wouldn't mind seeing her get one for Interstellar. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 4:42 pm |
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Syd wrote: She's only received two so far, which doesn't seem excessive. I wouldn't mind seeing her get one for Interstellar.
I was exaggerating, of course, but I so wholly disagree about Interstellar that I may have to insist I was being literal. Interstellar deserves nothing, nada, zilch. My least favorite movie of the year, and my least favorite since Inception. Don't those two movies have something in common? Oh, right. Just remembered. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 6:10 pm |
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Of the films that Billy gave a bad or lukewarm comment, I agree with the one's I also saw. Interstellar is a movie that I looked forward to. When I saw it, I liked it up to a point and then the mishmash and length took a big dive! Inception was a movie that I didn't hate but wasn't anything to write home about. But there is the same creator of both those films. A creator who can't make a movie that has good scenes all the way through and doesn't throw out the dreck which would cut at least a half hour less.
In both those films I found a lot of visuals that liked, but that wasn't enough.
Now the Galaxy movie was really enjoyable. I'd tell anyone to see it.
Now I'm waiting for Billy to not like it. (I think he did or will like it.) |
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