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| billyweeds |
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jeremy wrote: Brad Pitt will always be underrated as an actor. He's just too pretty for his own good.
Brad Pitt was nominated for an Oscar for a truly crappy performance, in Twelve Monkeys. This is not what I call underrated. It's what I call going gaga over a pretty boy movie star supposedly "acting." |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 4:27 pm |
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| Pitt in Twelve Monkeys was chewing the scenery and everything else within mouth-shot. My best friend once told me that he thought Pitt was terrific in Twelve Monkeys. I didn't even bother arguing with him. I liked the movie a lot. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:32 pm |
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jeremy wrote: I remember reading that unlike Pitt who had a great time playing an unintelligable, dissolute Irish gypsy, Benicio Del Toro did not really enjoy himself on the set of Snatch. Partially, this was because his part was small and inconsequential, so he did not really have much to go on, but I also suspect that it had something to do with the fact that not only was the evironment alien to him, but that he did not really get the pomo vibe.
Maybe it's just me, but sometimes when I see a lower case letter "m" it looks like a lower case "r" followed by a lower case "n". It happened when I saw the next-to-last word in your post. And given that the film under discussion is Snatch, well... |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:43 pm |
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| I saw the samew thing earl. I had to put my reading glasses on to check if I was seeing correctly. I wasn't. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:45 pm |
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Marc wrote: FIGHT CLUB is the best film of the '90s.
Oh, c'mon. Fight Club was OK on one viewing. It was a well-made movie, but I wouldn't want to sit through it again. You're seriously saying it's better than Pulp Fiction? Goodfellas?
Or is this one of those times when you're trying to shake up the forum because you think it's gotten boring around here? |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 8:38 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I saw the samew thing earl. I had to put my reading glasses on to check if I was seeing correctly. I wasn't.
I had the same problem. But I have no idea what pomo is? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 8:42 pm |
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| I may be wrong but I think that pomo may be a term that refers to that particular gypsy culture. It may have been in the film but I don't remember. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 9:40 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: jeremy wrote: Brad Pitt will always be underrated as an actor. He's just too pretty for his own good.
Brad Pitt was nominated for an Oscar for a truly crappy performance, in Twelve Monkeys. This is not what I call underrated. It's what I call going gaga over a pretty boy movie star supposedly "acting."
My feeling is that Brad Pitt's career is in a decline. I think his looks have definitely deteriorated in the last few years. I don't see him growing into a character actor (and director) the way Geo. Clooney has.
Just my $.02. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 1:08 am |
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Pomo is short for post-modernism.
Fight Club isn't the best film of the 90s. That's Pulp Fiction. Fight Club is the second best film of the 90s. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 1:34 am |
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1. Dead Man Walking
2. Goodfellas
3. Natural Born Killers
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Three Kings
Fight Club was my 2nd favorite film of 99, behind Three Kings, so it's got a pretty strong shot at cracking the top 10. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:02 am |
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Quote: You're seriously saying it's better than Pulp Fiction? Goodfellas?
absolutely. FIGHT CLUB is visionary. Like most of Kubrick's films are visionary. . GOODFELLAS is Scorsese doing Scorsese. PULP FICTION is a fanboys homage to genre filmmaking. FIGHT CLUB is its own beast, transcending genre, creating something startlingly new and thoroughly cinematic. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:04 am |
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Quote: is this one of those times when you're trying to shake up the forum because you think it's gotten boring around here?
no, fuckface. |
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| Mr. Brownstone |
| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:34 am |
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Ha! Fuckface! Ha!
Fuckface is one of my favorite curse words. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:58 am |
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Marc wrote: Quote: You're seriously saying it's better than Pulp Fiction? Goodfellas?
absolutely. FIGHT CLUB is visionary. Like most of Kubrick's films are visionary. . GOODFELLAS is Scorsese doing Scorsese. PULP FICTION is a fanboys homage to genre filmmaking. FIGHT CLUB is its own beast, transcending genre, creating something startlingly new and thoroughly cinematic.
Well, I'd say that Scorsese doing Scorsese is still better than Fight Club or anything else by Fincher. And that Pulp Fiction is much more than your description would make it out to be. But thanks for the reply. I appreciate now where you're coming from even while disagreeing with you on this. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:10 pm |
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Goodfellas is one of the best movies to come out in the 90's.
I did not care much for either Pulp Fiction or Fight Club. |
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