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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
MaineWriter:
I suppose my list might change if I see Frost/Nixon but I have very ambivalent feelings about that movie. Sort of like Good Night and Good Luck. I watched it, I could see why people liked it but it was low on my list.
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SFEnnisSF:
I'm about 3 years late to the party, but I finally rented Monster's Ball. It was nice to see "Ennis" again :) ;D , and hearing him speak different dialogue than what I'm used to and already know by heart.
Also watched The Shipping News. Noticed Annie Proulx's gritty storytelling there.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on December 28, 2008, 11:23:01 pm ---I suppose my list might change if I see Frost/Nixon but I have very ambivalent feelings about that movie. Sort of like Good Night and Good Luck. I watched it, I could see why people liked it but it was low on my list.
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That's right! I forgot about F/N.
As for GNaGL, I just watched it for the second time the other night. I can see why you'd be ambivalent. I liked the look of it, the acting, the seemingly pitch-perfect recreation of the tone of the era, the constant flow of cigarette smoke (oh, I guess you wouldn't agree with me on that one, L!), the kind of "adult" mood to it.
You know what I said to Del a few posts back about the '50s being a more adult era? This movie captures that, I think. The characters all seem like grownups. Even Robert Downey Jr., who doesn't always come off that way in other roles (though I like him either way).
That said, the plot just didn't have enough oomph for me. At the end, it kind of fizzles and feels anti-climactic.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 28, 2008, 10:42:18 pm ---
Slightly OT: Don't you sometimes wish you could search one particular person's posts in a single thread? In this case, I'd like to search my own posts, to jog my memory about what else I saw this year.
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Why don't you just enter 'serious crayons' in the search box? Try it!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 29, 2008, 01:02:32 am ---Why don't you just enter 'serious crayons' in the search box? Try it!
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Interesting! Well, it's true that all the posts that came up were from this thread. But there were two problems.
One is, they were not posts by "serious crayons," they were posts that mentioned or quoted "serious crayons." For the quotes, of course, I could click on them to find some of my own original posts. But then the other problem: they only went back to November.
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