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| whiskeypriest |
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billyweeds wrote: Been hearing enough good stuff about Ex Machina that I may have to cave and see it. But will probably WFC. Meanwhile, tomorrow I will see Kristen Wiig in Welcome to Me, which sounds right up my alley. Perfect Mother's Day movie to see with my favorite mother, also known as my wife. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 11:33 am |
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| knox |
| Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 8:44 pm |
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| Just one week until "Zombeaver" will premiere on Netflix. I can feel the excitement building. For those who haven't heard about the film, it is exactly what it sounds like. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 11:03 pm |
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Move over, Martin Scorsese!
I couldn't quite believe it was a movie about zombie beavers but, looked it up, and that's the case. The last beaver-based film I saw wound up with Mel Gibson chopping off his hand, so I am looking for something more upbeat. Or at least not being left with a gnawing sense of emptiness. That wood be dammed awful. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 9:46 am |
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"What's scarier than flying sharks?" "Zombie beavers!"
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 7:01 am |
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| Kristen Wiig starrer Welcome to Me is quite a big disappointment for Wiig fans, or indeed anyone looking for laughs. It's admirable in its refusal to sugar-coat its leading character's borderline personality, but not so hot in turning the funny/disturbing dramedy that might have been into a rather lame drama. Wiig is brave and sometimes funny, but this is far from her finest hour. My advice is to WFC (or wait for cable, if you must) and lower your expectations if (like me) you're a Wiig fanatic, or totally Wiigged out, as I'm now calling it. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 2:19 am |
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Noah Baumbach's While We're Young was a disappointment. It has some good ideas about inter-generational tensions, but the script and its execution leave much to be desired.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 5:52 am |
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Ghulam wrote: .
Noah Baumbach's While We're Young was a disappointment. It has some good ideas about inter-generational tensions, but the script and its execution leave much to be desired.
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Totally agree. It was a real bummer on any level, but particularly for someone like me who has admired Noah Baumbach's other movies to distraction. This was by far his worst effort to date. Really lame. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 8:16 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Ghulam wrote: .
Noah Baumbach's While We're Young was a disappointment. It has some good ideas about inter-generational tensions, but the script and its execution leave much to be desired.
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Totally agree. It was a real bummer on any level, but particularly for someone like me who has admired Noah Baumbach's other movies to distraction. This was by far his worst effort to date. Really lame. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 8:18 am |
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| I guess I won't be seeing it. I haven't seen a movie here since I came home at the beginning of April. I'll have to see a movie this week. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 11:08 pm |
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Saw The Avengers: Age of Ultron, which I found fairly uninteresting, with way too much repetitious action at the expense of character and plot development. Exactly how many times do you need seven robots to simultaneously appear and be destroyed? The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are interesting characters and I wish they'd let us know them better. (In the comics, they're the twin children of Magneto.) It looked to me like the Scarlet Witch was the most powerful character in the movie. At least until someone aims a bullet at her. I liked the glimpses at Hawkeye's homelife and Black Widow and Bruce Banner's relationship.
And absolutely nothing in this movie would have been necessary, and all those deaths would not have happened, if Tony Stark wasn't an idiot. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 2:32 am |
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Shoojit Sircar's Bollywood movie "Piku" has a well-written script and good dialogue. It succeeds in doing what it sets out to do, namely make us laugh. It is about an elderly gentleman who is cantankerous and hypochondriacal. His chronic constipation is the dominant theme in the family and is the dominant theme of the movie. Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone and Irrfan Khan are all very good, especially Deepika. She is perfect!
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 6:11 am |
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| Seeing Mad Max: Fury Road this afternoon. Word is ecstatic on this movie, with almost everyone agreeing that although Tom Hardy is fine as Max, the flick is stolen lock, stock, and barrel by Charlize Theron. Wow. Will report. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 9:29 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Seeing Mad Max: Fury Road this afternoon. Word is ecstatic on this movie, with almost everyone agreeing that although Tom Hardy is fine as Max, the flick is stolen lock, stock, and barrel by Charlize Theron. Wow. Will report.
When I saw the ads for that on TV, I thought, Why are they remaking movies that were virtually perfect? (I mean "The Road Warrior" and "Far From the Madding Crowd," of course.) But then I read a couple of reviews and it sounded pretty good. I await your review. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 11:02 am |
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| The trailer seemed to be pitching the movie to 14 year olds, and consisted entirely of eye-popping and eardrum-shattering CGI dominated action. I would skip it but of course they had me at "Charlize." |
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