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| marantzo |
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I went to see Ant-Man yesterday afternoon. I thought I would like it and I really did liked it. The one thing that makes you really like a movie is when you don't dislike any of the scenes.
I am looking forward to know what anyone on here thinks about Ant-Man. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 6:00 pm |
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marantzo wrote: bartist wrote: Yes, was JK. He's an excellent action/comedy actor.
What does JK stand for?
Just kidding. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 10:01 am |
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Ghulam wrote: "Mr. Turner" is a visual delight, another gem of a movie from Mike Leigh. J.M.W.Turner is portrayed as an eccentric, fiercely independent, sometimes callous, sometime kind, prolific painter. The cinematography is superb. Each scene is like a Turner painting. Timothy Spall is wonderful as Turner. A "must-see".
The scene where he is humping his housekeeper did not seem much like a Turner painting. Seriously, I mostly agree, and it was a must-see for a Turner fan like me. Wish I'd caught it in theater. I wondered about him putting that red dot on a painting at the Royal Academy...film scenes like that provoke a bit of research, to see how much they are tinkering with what is really known.
Kind of long and unplotted, but not such a fault with this kind of biography, where the director clearly wants to take his time and give us some quotidian life in the early 1800s.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:57 am |
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| "Mr. Holmes" was excellent, an aging Holmes struggling with memory loss and trying to remember his last case, living on the coast of Kent and keeping bees. He befriends a young boy, the housekeeper's son, who is enthusiastic to read the memoir he is writing of his final case, and serves as a catalyst for remembrance. The story jumps around in time, back to the final case concerning a woman's disappearance, and also to a trip to Japan where he seeks a botanical extract that aids memory and also encounters the ruins of Hiroshima. In clumsier hands, the story could be disjointed, but this film is masterful. And exquisitely shot. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:42 pm |
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| Alicia Vikander, who faced some acting hurdles in Ex Machina, really gets to spread her wings as the famous pacifist and writer Vera Brittain in "Testament of Youth." The film concerns her personal losses in WW1, and her stint as a nurse near the frontlines. Vikander is terrific, a Swede whose English is so flawless that I expect we will be seeing a lot of her in future Anglo-American projects. I feared this might be some trite romantic war weepie, but it offers considerably more. As true stories often do, when executed faithfully. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:07 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I went to see Ant-Man yesterday afternoon. I thought I would like it and I really did liked it. The one thing that makes you really like a movie is when you don't dislike any of the scenes.
I am looking forward to know what anyone on here thinks about Ant-Man.
Sorry, I thought I'd replied to you. I liked it a lot more than I expected, though there's nothing deep about it. Pym's daughter is obviously destined to be the new Wasp. I like the contrast between what's happening from ant-eye view and what the big people say.
Hank Pym was also Giant-Man, by reversing the polarity of Pym particles, I guess. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 4:56 am |
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I had a great birthday, capped off by one of those self-constructed double-bills (two for the price of one) only possible at a multiplex (wink, wink).
First up was Ricki and the Flash, the new Meryl Streep dramedy in which she gets to rock with Rick Springfield as well as provide laughs and tears in a family story that actually has heart and soul. I loved it. Never a particular Streep fan, I usually like her best in her less "Oscar-worthy" performances. (My favorite has always been and remains Postcards from the Edge, but Ricki is maybe #2.)
Then across the hall to The End of the Tour, the movie where a Rolling Stone journalist (Jesse Eisenberg) interviews writer David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) and learns some edgy and disturbing things about the man and the country in which they both live. It's a fantastic movie in which Segel and Eisenberg are both beyond brilliant. Segel should be up for Best Actor and Eisenberg for Supporting, and they both may be there at year's end.
Streep should also be up for Best Actress as Ricki, but never gonna happen. The movie is way too much fun for that--by which I mean too "superficial" in the very, very superficial eyes of the Academy voters. Rick Springfield deserves a supporting nomination, too, but that's about as likely as "Jessie's Girl" returning to the Billboard charts.
So I had a great movie experience all around. Two movies with nothing in common--except for the presence in both of Streep's actress daughter Mamie Gummer, excellent in the first as (duh) Streep's daughter and in the second as a fan of David Foster Wallace. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:39 pm |
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| DO NOT READ the NYTimes review of The Gift before you see it, which you should do. The review (by Stephen Holden, who should be fired for the shoddy job) is egregiously stuffed with spoilers, and the movie is legitimately surprising. Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall are stunning in the leads and Joel Edgerton, as main support, writer, and director, iis a genuine triple-threat. The movie is not perfect, but it's a thriller of consequence, which is a rare bird indeed. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:29 am |
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Agree with Billy. The Gift is a gripping psychological thriller. Well scripted and very intelligently directed. All three principals give excellent performances.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:20 am |
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| Straight Outta Compton, the story of N.W.A., is gripping and extremely well made. Paul Giamatti, as the manager of the band, is amazing. F. Gary Gray does a stellar directing job, and all the portrayers of the band are great. It's a terrific film. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:39 pm |
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I saw Trainwreck this afternoon and liked it much more than I thought I would. Amy Schumer made a very good movie and her character in the movie is someone who is rather strange and sort of sad and does about many things that are one-sided on her side.
It is a movie that should be seen. Who on here has seen it? |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:59 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I saw Trainwreck this afternoon and liked it much more than I thought I would. Amy Schumer made a very good movie and her character in the movie is someone who is rather strange and sort of sad and does about many things that are one-sided on her side.
It is a movie that should be seen. Who on here has seen it?
Me. I liked it, though I liked Bill Hader better. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:43 pm |
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