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The Iron Lady. <br />
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I watched the Descendants last night with George Clooney. I thought it was a great movie - which is lucky because I went to one of those boutique cinemas and it cost me $17.50 for the bloody ticket. If I had paid that kind of money to see Titanic or Mullholland Drive* I would have rioted.<br />
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Clooney was in good form, both the storylines were pretty interesting. I was a bit worried with myself as I found the eldest daughter to be quite enchanting but I checked IMDB and she's over 20, phew .... (Although she doesn't photograph well incidently). <br />
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The basic storyline is that Clooney's wife is in a coma and he's the trustee of a large piece of land in Hawai'i that he owns with a bunch of cousins and they're having to sell it due to some trust laws.<br />
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Best movie of the year for me.<br />
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Quiet you. Lynch is great and so is Mulholland Drive. I bet you never even liked Twin Peaks! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />
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[quote name='Tim' timestamp='1330216321' post='272109']<br />
Quiet you. Lynch is great and so is Mulholland Drive. I bet you never even liked Twin Peaks! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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I didn't mind Twin Peaks and liked Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man, but I don't believe in loving all films by directors* and Mullholland Drive was so far up it's own arse, it's comes out its mouth.<br />
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[quote name='Tim' timestamp='1330218052' post='272114']<br />
Non-linear narative. Accept it and enjoy it.<br />
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Continuing in my "finally watching movies that have been out for a year" theme of late, i watched "The Town" on the weekend. Essentially it's "Heat" with barely understandable english and lacking the cool factor, and a shit end.
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Continuing in my "finally watching movies that have been out for a year" theme of late, i watched "The Town" on the weekend. Essentially it's "Heat" with barely understandable english and lacking the cool factor, and a shit end.<br />
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You not a fan of the Boston accent mariner? I liked it, it was a remake of Heat but I thought it was done well, plus I like Boston set films. -
Not that i am not a fan, but its hard to understand when you have the TV down a bit so the kids don't wake up. Plus the wife battles, which means she keeps asking me what they just said, and tha is in no way annoying....<br />
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Look, the movie was alright, i would give it a 6.5, but when its a direct remake of a personal favourite, it's always going to struggle. -
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Not that i am not a fan, but its hard to understand when you have the TV down a bit so the kids don't wake up. [b]Plus the wife battles, which means she keeps asking me what they just said, and tha is in no way annoying....[/b]<br />
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Look, the movie was alright, i would give it a 6.5, but when its a direct remake of a personal favourite, it's always going to struggle.<br />
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I watch movies alone most of the time - that shit would drive me batty! <br />
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I saw "The Artist" a couple weeks ago. It's a very good film, the two leads are charming, it was fun... but a Best Pic winner?!? Cough, cough. It's a kinda featherweight, equal parts "the-Greta-Garbo-and-John-Gilbert" story mixed with "A Star is Born"-minus the downer ending. Mind you, I saw nearly all the other nominated films, and they weren't much better. Lousy year for movies.
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[quote name='Tim' timestamp='1330216321' post='272109']<br />
Quiet you. Lynch is great and so is Mulholland Drive. I bet you never even liked Twin Peaks! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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Dune cough cough.<br />
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See the Oscar results are in. Good to see Streep finally winning again but is this Artist film even that good? No doubt Mr Oldman and Clooney will be rather pissed of tonight. -
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is this Artist film even that good?<br />
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Yes, it is very good. But not good enough IMO to get a Best Pic nom, let alone win the thing. It's a charming novelty gimmick, well told, well acted, and should make you smile. There's just not very much heft or depth to it. -
[quote name='red terror' timestamp='1330333620' post='272392']<br />
Yes, it is very good. But not good enough IMO to get a Best Pic nom, let alone win the thing. It's a charming novelty gimmick, well told, well acted, and should make you smile. [b]There's just not very much heft or depth to it.[/b]<br />
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Here's a question, why does there have to be depth and heft - why can't a light movie be the best?<br />
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Here's a question, why does there have to be depth and heft - why can't a light movie be the best?<br />
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I haven't seen it so asking more in general.<br />
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Just my $0.02, but I like protein, carbs and fat in my meal. I love candyfloss, but it only takes me so far. I like to be entertained, but I want to leave the cinema and actually think about the film and the questions it posed (Midnight Cowboy, Cuckoo's Nest, Godfather, etc), the same way I like songs that stick into my head weeks after hearing them. I love ideas that titillate and challenge me and become hardwired into my DNA.<br />
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Now, having said that, a "light" movie that lacks substance but has terrific form & style can also win me over big time - if it's unique and original. The Artist really isn't original. I will conceed in this marketplace that it is somewhat unique, in the same way that a Mennoninte farmer driving a horse & buggy down a highway qualifies as "unique" in the 21st century. It may be fresh - it's shot in black & white, almost void of any dialogue (in the same way that Chris Marker's "La Jetee" was almost void of any moving images), and in a 4x3 format. Cute! But anybody who has seen great silent films from the silent era, be it the comedies of Chaplin/Keaton/Lloyd or the heavier dramatic works by Vidor/Lang/Von Stroheim/Gance/Murnau etc., by comparison, 80-90 years down the road, this simply doesn't measure up. At the stone-age pantomime dawn of film, when they were still discovering the wheel and experimenting, when they didn't have colour, widescreen or synchronized sound, they actually made better artistic and scientific films than a 21st century Oscar winner.<br />
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As a Best Pic that is supposed to represent the very highest merit of Arts and Science, it is an indictment of modern filmmaking and storytelling. I mentioned the Garbo/Gilbert and Star is Born comparisons, there are lots of others in there too, Clara Bow "the It Girl," it's kinda paint-by-numbers with nods & winks, a very simple story, pretty much swiped from part of "Singing in the Rain" which tells much the same story (and a heckuvalot more)<br />
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I wouldn't discourage anybody from seeing it, I actually would say, yeah, definitely see it. It's a charming novelty film. 8/10 from me. -
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Just my $0.02, but I like protein, carbs and fat in my meal. I love candyfloss, but it only takes me so far. I like to be entertained, but I want to leave the cinema and actually think about the film and the questions it posed (Midnight Cowboy, Cuckoo's Nest, Godfather, etc), the same way I like songs that stick into my head weeks after hearing them. I love ideas that titillate and challenge me and become hardwired into my DNA.<br />
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Now, having said that, a "light" movie that lacks substance but has terrific form & style can also win me over big time - if it's unique and original. The Artist really isn't original. I will conceed in this marketplace that it is somewhat unique, in the same way that a Mennoninte farmer driving a horse & buggy down a highway qualifies as "unique" in the 21st century. It may be fresh - it's shot in black & white, almost void of any dialogue (in the same way that Chris Marker's "La Jetee" was almost void of any moving images), and in a 4x3 format. Cute! But anybody who has seen great silent films from the silent era, be it the comedies of Chaplin/Keaton/Lloyd or the heavier dramatic works by Vidor/Lang/Von Stroheim/Gance/Murnau etc., by comparison, 80-90 years down the road, this simply doesn't measure up. At the stone-age pantomime dawn of film, when they were still discovering the wheel and experimenting, when they didn't have colour, widescreen or synchronized sound, they actually made better artistic and scientific films than a 21st century Oscar winner.<br />
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As a Best Pic that is supposed to represent the very highest merit of Arts and Science, it is an indictment of modern filmmaking and storytelling. I mentioned the Garbo/Gilbert and Star is Born comparisons, there are lots of others in there too, Clara Bow "the It Girl," it's kinda paint-by-numbers with nods & winks, a very simple story, pretty much swiped from part of "Singing in the Rain" which tells much the same story (and a heckuvalot more)<br />
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I wouldn't discourage anybody from seeing it, I actually would say, yeah, definitely see it. It's a charming novelty film. 8/10 from me.<br />
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Ah, all good - to me a good movie is a good movie, although it is not like Oscar always selects the best - Shakespeare in Love FFS! With an 8/10 on the RT scale I'll definitely watch it.<br />
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Fwiw some of my fave movies are "light" fare. When people ask me what movie I've seen more than any other, my answer is easy: Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I saw it on a big screen when it came out, it rang true for me then, and whenever I'm channel surfing and stumble across it, it puts a smile on my face and I cannot pull my eyes away. A total guilty pleasure.<br />
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e.g. Mike Damone's 5-point Plan:<br />
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[quote]First of all Rat, you never let on how much you like a girl. "Oh, Debbie. Hi." Two, you always call the shots. "Kiss me. You won't regret it." Now three, act like wherever you are, that's the place to be. "Isn't this great?" Four, when ordering food, you find out what she wants, then order for the both of you. It's a classy move. "Now, the lady will have the linguini and white clam sauce, and a Coke with no ice." And five, [b]now this is the most important[/b], Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.[/quote] -
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Fwiw some of my fave movies are "light" fare. When people ask me what movie I've seen more than any other, my answer is easy: Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I saw it on a big screen when it came out, it rang true for me then, and whenever I'm channel surfing and stumble across it, it puts a smile on my face and I cannot pull my eyes away. [b]A total guilty pleasure.[/b]<br />
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e.g. Mike Damone's 5-point Plan:<br />
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Phoebe Cate's boobies.<br />
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