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spaffe said:
Hear hear -- that movie was more awesome than I had ever expected

Strangely though, I actually watched a movie yesterday that was just as good: Ang Lee's latest one, namely Lust, Caution. It's one of those movies were nothing distracts your attention from simply enjoying the movie itself, all was done right, from the photo to the acting. The only thing that I found slightly annoying was actually the overly long and detailted sex scenes... :oops:
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cool ... just put that in my Netflix qoueee the other day. Not an Ang Lee fan but the promise of extended Asian sex scenes made me do it. :loco:
 
i watched "he was a quiet man" last night, feat. william h macy, elisha cuthbert and hollywood hunk christian slater (zey tell me in your next movie....we get to see your butt)

pretty good, sort of uncomfortable and depressing but an interesting character study about a guy (slater) who wants to shoot up his office but becomes a hero after he inadvertently saves a coworker's (cuthbert) life when another dude beats him to the punch. some really unnecessary CG and a bit slow-paced but overall a B grade.
 
Semi-Pro = Complete utter shit. How Will Ferrell is still employed in Hollywood is mind boggling.

Be Kind Rewind - God damn atrocious. Are there any good comedies being made nowadays?!!? Jack Black is just as bad as Ferrell, but with a little more variation to his schtick. Mos Def sounded like he had a crawfish clamped to his tongue.

Neither film kept my attention for more than 15 minutes. Be kind, don't watch shitty cinema.


Vantage Point = Simply unwatchable. Think the "Phone Booth", with worse acting.



Obviously these movies were written by scabs during the WGA strike.


Edit - Add Witness Protection to the list of movies to avoid like the plague.
 
saw DEATH SENTENCE ... nice surprise, from the director of the original SAW ...
Kevin Bacon was relentless ... couple of nice parts that were obvious Taxi Driver homages ...
and a great sequence in a parking lot, where a foot chase over a few levels was filmed uninterupted ... watch the "making of" for the cool camera trick they used to make it happen.
cool ending as well!
 
Reign in Acai said:
Mos Def sounded like he had a crawfish clamped to his tongue.
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I saw him for the first in the Bruce Willis movie, 16 Blocks. I couldn't tell if he was attempting (and failing miserably) some odd accent or if he was half retarded. Turns out, that's how he talks. And ironically, he's actually a fairly bright guy. He was on Bill Mahr's show, and acquitted himself well.

Zod
 
lurch70 said:
saw DEATH SENTENCE ... nice surprise, from the director of the original SAW ...
Kevin Bacon was relentless ... couple of nice parts that were obvious Taxi Driver homages ...
and a great sequence in a parking lot, where a foot chase over a few levels was filmed uninterupted ... watch the "making of" for the cool camera trick they used to make it happen.
cool ending as well!
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Saw that one the other day myself - wasn't quite as taken with it as you seem to have been, but it was watchable. I thought the pace slowed down altogether too much in places, and I got the impression that the film was trying to be more clever than it was - particularly in that exchange where the detective is telling Bacon's character "Everyone thinks that they're right in a war - but everybody still dies". I kinda heard that as being a fairly ham-fisted reference to the Middle East conflict, and to the immorality of the idea of violent reprisal in general (like right at the end, when the gang leader says to a freshly shaven-headed and leather-wearing Bacon, "Look at you. You look like one of us. Look what I made you.")

I mean, either go for gung-ho violence with fingers being blown off hands and feet being blown free of their legs with a shotgun blast, or make a ponderous morality tale. But don't show the bloodshed then half-heartedly wag your finger at the audience for enjoying it.

If you can ignore that, though (and I know I'm particularly guilty of reading too much into movies), it's not too bad.
 
and I got the impression that the film was trying to be more clever than it was
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i felt the same way ... but thought it succeeded in some ways. the pacing was good.
not sure how to feel about the "message" ... i think it was simply how an event like that in your life can turn you ... there was a weak attempt by John Goodman's character towards the end to try to go into an explanation ...

bah, whatever ... it was decent.

did you catch all the Taxi Driver references?
 
one was the way Goodman's charcter presented the guns to Bacon for sale ... I think the first 2 he showed were described the same way as the sales guy in Taxi Driver does to DeNiro ... also the neck shot in the end ... i don't know they both felt like Taxi Driver lifts.
the 2 movies have very similar messages as well.
the shaven head thing of course as well ...
 
Just been in theatre at the sweden authorial movie "Garry's Daughters". Authorial movies rule...

A few months ago I've been at International Movie festival in Kiev. And they were showing finnish short movies. There was one called "Fakiiri" (The Fakir). It's only 10 minutes long, but I fell in love with it - so amazing deep and beautiful. I can't find it anywhere though. If you have any clue where I could get it - please let me know.
 
I watched Caligula the other day.

Take a bad movie with overpaid, quality actors doing horrid work, put them in sets stripped down to the bare bones due to budget cuts, and then splice in hardcore pornography every 15 to 45 seconds for several seconds at a time, including some of the grossest double-female muff-diving I've ever seen + manblowjobs (the unattractive kind). It wasn't even trainwreck fun. Just plain bad.
 
It was the best of times it was the blurst of times as this evening as I was at the theater and the end credits hit for No Country for Hans Molemen, some woman muttered I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY GOT AN OSCAR FOR THAT CRAP!!!

I laughed.
 
Which Oscar did that guy get anyway? Right as it ended I was thinking to myself that, although his character was crucial, I didn't think he really acted enough to get an Oscar. Then that woman muttered what she muttered :loco:
 
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