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| bartist |
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We plan to see it (Love &Mercy) when the sigboth gets back from some kind of reunion.
Just finished Gillian Flynn's "Dark Places," which is the best suspense chiller I've read in the past decade...if the upcoming movie does any justice to it, it will be the movie of the year and showered with awards. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:20 am |
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bartist wrote: We plan to see it (Love &Mercy) when the sigboth gets back from some kind of reunion.
Just finished Gillian Flynn's "Dark Places," which is the best suspense chiller I've read in the past decade...if the upcoming movie does any justice to it, it will be the movie of the year and showered with awards.
Currently reading Dark Places myself, partly because it sounded terrific and partly in preparation for the buzzed-about movie. Charlize Theron is an early buzzee for the Oscar, and her mother is being played by the awesome Christina Hendricks (Joan on Mad Men). Reading with extreme pleasure, anticipating forthcoming flick with bated breath. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:44 am |
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| That's right, the mom is a redhead in the book, and Hendricks would be perfect. And she looks like a real woman who had four children (or could have four children). When I started watching Mad Men, it struck me that you don't see that kind of figure much in contemporary films or movies. As for Libby, who I visualize from the book and is described as barely 5 feet tall with boots, I will have to forget that to see statuesque Theron in the role. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:53 am |
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bartist wrote: That's right, the mom is a redhead in the book, and Hendricks would be perfect. And she looks like a real woman who had four children (or could have four children). When I started watching Mad Men, it struck me that you don't see that kind of figure much in contemporary films or movies. As for Libby, who I visualize from the book and is described as barely 5 feet tall with boots, I will have to forget that to see statuesque Theron in the role.
I know, I know. In fact, the stature of Libby v. Charlize made me wonder and wonder again how Theron ever saw herself in the role. Well, she's an actress, an awesome one, and reportedly a fiercely intelligent (and--whispered and also reportedly--ruthlessly self-centered) one, so why the fuck not? Frankly, I don't care what she's like off screen, on screen she rings my every chime. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:50 pm |
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| By the way billy is tbat you prominently on display on Huffpo today, in an article about times The Onion predicted the futurs, holding a large pile of roast beef in your arms with a paranoid look on your face? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 2:23 pm |
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whiskeypriest wrote: By the way billy is tbat you prominently on display on Huffpo today, in an article about times The Onion predicted the futurs, holding a large pile of roast beef in your arms with a paranoid look on your face?
Had no idea that was on Huffpo but yes! Thanks. That's one of the funniest articles in Onion history IMO. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 1:03 am |
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| Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is about three high school friends one of whom has leukemia. It is also about adolescence and identity formation. Flawed but engaging. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:13 am |
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Has anyone seen It Follows?
I'm not much on horror films, but it's getting good buzz and supposed to be well filmed with good character understanding. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 1:40 pm |
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gromit wrote: Has anyone seen It Follows?
I'm not much on horror films, but it's getting good buzz and supposed to be well filmed with good character understanding.
It Follows promises dread and delivers dread. Good but not memorable. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:06 pm |
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| I've heard that It Follows is awesome. Sorta scared to see it but probably will anyway. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:10 pm |
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| Love & Mercy is quite an achievement for Bill Pohlad. It presents the quirky life of a musical genius quite well and, I think, honestly. John Cusak and Elizabeth Banks are very good, especially the latter. She is awesome. |
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| Befade |
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| Love & Mercy was great for the exposure of Brian Wilson's musical genius. I have to say though......Paul Dano was so right and I like him in anything. John Cusack I don't like in anything and I thought it was jarring to go from Dano to Cusack physically........nevermind who looked like Brian Wilson. The wife was an inspiration. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:28 am |
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| Movies like that often run a week here, but the opening of Ticketnator on Wed. meant L&M got 5 days. So the frau and I missed it. I wrote a letter to the theater company. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:18 pm |
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Befade wrote: Love & Mercy was great for the exposure of Brian Wilson's musical genius. I have to say though......Paul Dano was so right and I like him in anything. John Cusack I don't like in anything and I thought it was jarring to go from Dano to Cusack physically........nevermind who looked like Brian Wilson. The wife was an inspiration.
I don't think Love & Mercy has been here yet. I hope I haven't missed it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:19 pm |
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