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Post by inlovewithcrow on Apr 23, 2009 18:38:34 GMT -5
Clerks II. I am a major fan of Chasing Amy and have been disappointed with Smith's slide thereafter back to endlessly boring adolescent misogynist scatalogical blathering, as Amy promised me a major talent at the beginning of a career. This film did make me laugh (though sometimes in shock, a sort of bark of nervous laughter) and I appreciated that there was actually some insight and emotional weight in the jailhouse scene, but it was an awfully little bit of the movie, so I remain overall disappointed and wistfully hopeful that one day he will finally leave high school behind and do something else that knocks my socks off.
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Post by Diet Kolos on Apr 23, 2009 21:35:11 GMT -5
Star Trek
Just saw it at a free screening. I'm not a Trekkie. I don't and have never watched Star Trek with more than apassing interest. But that was a pretty good movie.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Apr 25, 2009 0:17:29 GMT -5
Thirty-Day Princess Cute old film from the 30s that is lifted by the charm and performances of the leads, Cary Grant and Sylvia Sidney. Sidney plays an actress hired to immitate a visiting princess who came down with the mumps. Grant is a reporter who falls for actress thinking she's the real item.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Apr 26, 2009 16:28:44 GMT -5
Wrestler Very good, sad. Well acted by one and all (How did Mickey not win that Oscar?)
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Apr 26, 2009 16:49:59 GMT -5
Wrestler Very good, sad. Well acted by one and all (How did Mickey not win that Oscar?) Don't think the Academy liked the film MJ! The Boss didn't even get a nod for the brilliant song he did for it. It really is a great piece of work (the film and song).
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Apr 27, 2009 17:41:30 GMT -5
In The Loop Hilarious British comedy directed by one of the geniuses behind The Day Today, Alan Partridge and a myriad other great TV shows. This is essentially the big screen version of the excellent show The Thick Of It. It deals with the build up to a planned war in the Middle East and the methods taken to make the war a reality (hmm, sounds familiar). It's pretty much character and dialogue focused and the latter is some of the finest you'll hope to hear, although if swearing offends you it might be best to give this a miss. My review: splicechuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/in-loop.htmlThink it comes out in the States in the summer. Well worth tracking it down. Destined to be as quotable as stuff like Spinal Tap and Withnail & I.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Apr 28, 2009 12:45:41 GMT -5
Stone's extended/third cut of Alexander. I'm not a fan of Oliver Stone's but this movie was amazingly accurate to the history I've read of Alexander. Competent enough.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Apr 29, 2009 23:52:58 GMT -5
Lost In Austen British production, it ran nearly 3 hours. It's about a woman who loves "Pride and Prejudice" and one day Elizabeth shows up, seems there's a doorway between her world and ours, The 2 end up switching place.
Now I thought this was going to be the standard, "fish out water, screws things up but soon wins everyone over and fixes all she messed up" And there are parts of it that are like that, but what it actually does is veer off into it's own story, because the woman can't fix a thing she's changed.
We also learn new sides to characters and situations that Austen didn't share. What a complete and utter delight. I thought it was going to be filler and ended up a great companion piece to P&P.
If you love Jane Austen or the movies based on her novels this really is a wonderful film, we'll worth the 3 hours investment (I suspect it might have been a mini series as it feels like a TV movie)
The actors are pitch perfect, aside from a bit at the final half hour where they fart around, the story moves at a nice pace. I was completely charmed.
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Post by Jack Burton on Apr 30, 2009 6:34:20 GMT -5
Fast & Furious
A bit late on this one. Diesel's macho posturing made the movie. There was one scene that was freaking hilarious. Diesel gets shot in the back by this jackass and Vin doesn’t even get hurt; just mildly annoyed. This guy knows he screwed up big time too because he doesn’t even TRY to shoot Vin again, he just immediately drops his gun and goes down on all fours; Duck and Cover style, whimpering. Diesel hustles over and just starts beating the crap out of the dude for inconveniencing him by putting a bullet in his back. Brilliant. I dug it because it kept the racing stuff to a minimum and focused more on revenge and action. (The opening scene was worthy of a James Bond movie.) It runs out of gas (PUN!) by the time the third act rolls around, but overall it's about on par with the original.
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Post by Skyroniter on Apr 30, 2009 20:03:11 GMT -5
Rogue 2007
Australian effort is a fairly effective though preposterous crocodile flick that goes south for a totally impossible climax. The scenery is beautiful at times and the GGI competent. You could do much worse.
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Post by Satchmo on Apr 30, 2009 20:31:27 GMT -5
In Bruges
Very, very good, but the darkest and most violent comedy I've ever seen, and I'm a fan of the Coen Brothers.
Still, it's definitely worth checking out if you have the stomach for the last half hour of it.
Who'd have thought that Colin Farrel was a good actor? I was very surprised.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Apr 30, 2009 22:11:05 GMT -5
Oh man, I loved In Bruges. It was one of the best movies I saw last year.
I just recently watched the Academy-award-winning documentary Man On Wire, about wire-walker Philipe Petit. He's done lots of amazing walks, but the one the film focused on was his 1974 wirewalk between the Twin Towers. The dude WALKED on a teensy weensy CABLE between the TWIN fracking TOWERS. Which were a QUARTER MILE up in the air. No harness, no nets, no nothing. Even though, when you're seeing the film, and seeing the photos of the event, you know he didn't die, it still makes you queasy watching it. I don't know why anyone would ever do such a crazy thing (and he didn't do it for press or anything -- he just snuck into the building the day before and set it up overnight), but you had to love the guy, because he clearly wanted to do it SO MUCH, just for the sheer hell of it, and his enthusiasm was really infectious. So even though I almost fainted simply looking over the edge of the Empire State Building, I kinda saw where the guy was coming from. It was a great story, anyway, and I think I'll have a look out for his book.
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 2, 2009 5:34:48 GMT -5
Frost/Nixon
I didn’t like Nixon and I remember watching those Watergate trials, day after day and hoping they’d nail the $%#@! And then there were the Frost interviews, which were kind of boring as I recall (the President did drone on) but they finished up strong and that’s what people remember.
It’s a good movie; it’s got some good performances It’s riddled with inaccuracies (Howard’s bio-pics have all taken noted liberties) but I found it fascinating.
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Post by Crowfan on May 4, 2009 19:42:16 GMT -5
Baby's Room. Very creepy Spanish horror movie about a newlywed couple who move into a house with their young baby. After getting a baby monitor, the couple hear strange noises coming from the baby's room. Very creepy. Recommended.
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 6, 2009 2:54:53 GMT -5
Sgt. Kabukiman, N.Y.P.D. There is the completest in me who would like to review everything superheroee for the website. Then there's cold hard reallity. I hate Troma films, they are all the same tasteless garbage film after film and my reviews will likewise, be saying the same thing. So I'm retiring Troma from the marathon. As for Kabukiman, to quote myself... "God awful doesn't begin to describe it".
I guess I'm not the target audience.
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