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« Reply #6040 on: September 13, 2009, 02:46:07 PM » |
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Saturday Night Fever
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« Reply #6041 on: September 13, 2009, 03:10:01 PM » |
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Saturday Night Fever
Not what I was expecting.
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« Reply #6042 on: September 13, 2009, 03:21:36 PM » |
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What were you expecting?
Something not with rape scenes. |
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« Reply #6043 on: September 13, 2009, 03:26:17 PM » |
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Something not with rape scenes.
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« Reply #6044 on: September 13, 2009, 04:50:14 PM » |
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Sounds like my expectations of Ponyo.
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« Reply #6045 on: September 13, 2009, 05:13:36 PM » |
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Notorious
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« Reply #6046 on: September 13, 2009, 05:46:43 PM » |
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Sounds like my expectations of Ponyo.
At least one of our expectations were met. |
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« Reply #6047 on: September 13, 2009, 08:39:44 PM » |
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The Godfather Part II
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #6048 on: September 13, 2009, 09:03:27 PM » |
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After II I just never bothered to see III. I heard it was disappointing...
Disappointing, yes, but not the cinematic abortion it has been made out to be. Worth a watch if you can see it for free and have nothing better to do. |
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« Reply #6049 on: September 13, 2009, 09:13:47 PM » |
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Disappointing, yes, but not the cinematic abortion it has been made out to be. Worth a watch if you can see it for free and have nothing better to do.
Yeah, I think the intensity of some folks' criticisms of the film has been lost in translation. |
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« Reply #6050 on: September 13, 2009, 11:54:06 PM » |
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Benefactors
Busted (1982)
these are two BBC movies with Alan Rickman. it amused me to hear his one character talk rather rapidly about the political uses of getting "some aspect of human destiny into five dactyls and a spondee". spondee is an inherently funny word, I think. also, Firefox doesn't like it.
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« Reply #6051 on: September 14, 2009, 09:28:27 AM » |
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After II I just never bothered to see III. I heard it was disappointing...
I never have seen III, either. In fact, we only own I and II. |
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« Reply #6052 on: September 14, 2009, 08:39:03 PM » |
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« Reply #6053 on: September 15, 2009, 04:49:52 AM » |
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I just watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I liked it a lot less than I remembered....it used to be a favorite. This time, I thought the visuals were still imaginative and surreal but I couldn't buy the romance between main characters like that.
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« Reply #6054 on: September 15, 2009, 01:27:51 PM » |
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I just watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I liked it a lot less than I remembered....it used to be a favorite. This time, I thought the visuals were still imaginative and surreal but I couldn't buy the romance between main characters like that.
I don't think you're supposed to buy it. I think they were wrong for each other but too insecure to let it go, which is why they even tried to get back together after having their memories erased. They listened to the tapes of all the awful things they said about each other, and had a good laugh over it, and I suppose it's open-ended at that point... does the final scene illustrate that they're back together, or is that just a lingering memory of good times they had in the past? Either way, I get the sense that they're not really meant for each other but it's more of a "moths-to-flame" thing that even a memory wipe couldn't thwart. |
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« Reply #6055 on: September 16, 2009, 06:01:42 AM » |
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« Reply #6056 on: September 17, 2009, 12:22:37 PM » |
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« Reply #6057 on: September 17, 2009, 11:03:04 PM » |
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Cold Souls.
The problem with films like this is that they frequently project an aura of artistry and significance which is not, when looking at the work itself, present. I feel like Cold Souls fits this mold well. While the performances were impeccable--especially Paul Giamatti, inexplicably playing himself--and the cinematography was at times stellar, the plot itself offered little. I feel like there were glimmers, but ultimately as either a darkish comedy or a profound commentary there was nothing there.
I'm not entirely sure where it went wrong. The premise was promising, the acting as mentioned was excellent, and the film work was, with a couple notable exceptions, not particularly heavy-handed. I'm not saying that I didn't like it, merely that it didn't achieve what I thought it could and should have achieved.
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« Reply #6058 on: September 18, 2009, 08:37:33 AM » |
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Season premieres of The Office and Fringe. Both were excellent.
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« Reply #6059 on: September 19, 2009, 05:03:22 AM » |
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State of Play
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« Reply #6060 on: September 19, 2009, 01:25:54 PM » |
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"When we spend so much time promoting everything we're against that the message of who we are for gets lost, when Christians are putting everyone else down, how is Jesus lifted up in that?." Doug Fields
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« Reply #6061 on: September 19, 2009, 09:37:00 PM » |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
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« Reply #6062 on: September 19, 2009, 11:04:03 PM » |
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« Reply #6063 on: September 20, 2009, 08:19:26 PM » |
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I agree with the consensus of everyone else who chimed in. Though it had its weak points and it suffered a little bit from cliche at times, overall I enjoyed it. I also agree that the ending made very little sense. I suspect it was designed to appease the emotions rather than the intellect.
I also want to point out that the score and the arrangement was excellent.
On a side note, our showing was at 7:15, the movie is 1 hour and 20 minutes (maybe a couple longer since we stayed to the end of the credits, as we do for most movies), and we got out at 9pm. By my calculations this means that we saw 25 minutes of advertisements and previews. Gah.
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« Reply #6064 on: September 20, 2009, 11:50:09 PM » |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
GREAT movie!
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« Reply #6065 on: September 21, 2009, 06:25:53 AM » |
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Surf's Up
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« Reply #6066 on: September 21, 2009, 05:07:25 PM » |
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The Informant - this movie just gets more and more screwed up as it goes along! I enjoyed it. Very funny.
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Ashley Cleveland - "Willy" (from Big Town)
Margaret Becker - "I Don't Want To Be Without You" (from The Reckoning)
Out Of The Grey - "The Deep" (from Live 12.6.2000)
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« Reply #6067 on: September 21, 2009, 10:04:17 PM » |
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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« Reply #6068 on: September 22, 2009, 01:48:53 AM » |
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Cache
I did not think it was very suspenseful but...I still thought it was good.
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« Reply #6069 on: September 22, 2009, 11:40:54 AM » |
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(500) Days of Summer
Sweet Land
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« Reply #6070 on: September 22, 2009, 02:11:43 PM » |
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most of Bob Roberts. it became unbearably annoying, and I only wanted to hear Alan Rickman say "and now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go pray".
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« Reply #6071 on: September 23, 2009, 04:17:01 AM » |
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« Reply #6072 on: September 26, 2009, 02:06:45 AM » |
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District 9
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« Reply #6073 on: September 26, 2009, 06:26:02 PM » |
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(500) Days of Summer. I was most of the way through the movie before it really clicked with me. Then it went from "Hmm." to "Whoa." The wife said is was "cute". That was more than I expected.
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« Reply #6074 on: September 29, 2009, 03:47:24 AM » |
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Bernard and Doris
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« Reply #6075 on: October 02, 2009, 10:03:10 PM » |
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The Long and Short of It
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« Reply #6076 on: October 02, 2009, 11:33:35 PM » |
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The Invention of Lying
Quite funny, actually; I don't think I would classify it as a rom-com per se since the romance is sort of ancillary to the main story, but it's enough of a driving force to make it a viable option as a date movie. I'm not sure how I feel about certain parts--there are a couple somewhat crude scenes that keep it from being a good movie to bring the offspring to, and it walks the line between lampooning religion and sneering at it. Overall, though, I was amused and I enjoyed seeing a couple of the Arrested Development characters.
(The premise is mildly interesting but mostly played for laughs; it's a little inconsistent, but it works for its purpose).
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« Reply #6077 on: October 04, 2009, 10:29:39 AM » |
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The Brothers Bloom - it was OK.
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Ashley Cleveland - "Willy" (from Big Town)
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« Reply #6078 on: October 04, 2009, 04:24:10 PM » |
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« Reply #6079 on: October 04, 2009, 09:47:56 PM » |
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I started watching season 2 of Dollhouse but cannot make sense of what is going on.
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