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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: oilgun on March 13, 2009, 10:39:55 am ---Tonight, I think I'll watch HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, lol! (After DOLLHOUSE, natch!)
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I'll be interested in hearing your take on Happy-Go-Lucky. It's in my queue, and I'm looking forward to seeing it.
When you mentioned Dollhouse, at first I was thinking of the movie Welcome to the Dollhouse. That's a movie I've never seen. I'm kind of afraid to, given my low threshold for post-cinema depression.
I've never seen Dollhouse, either, for that matter. I've heard interesting things about it, though.
delalluvia:
Finally saw Milk. Strange movie. A little uneven, heavily unbalanced in its treatment of characters and it meandered into small subplots that didn't impact or enhance the plotline at all. White was a cipher. He was in the movie so little, his backstory so vague that when the time comes for him to snap, you have no idea what his motivation is or why he's so upset in the first place. I'm not sure if they played it this way because in reality no one did know why he went postal. I expected a better soundtrack to help set the time and place and a lot more sex. This was the 70's, before AIDS came in and destroyed a way of life, sex was everywhere. The movie was kinda gimmicky with some of the cinematography, but for the most part it was extremely well done. Sean Penn was inspired casting, his Oscar well deserved.
BelAir:
I saw Slumdog finally. I thought it was quite good, but not in the class of Brokeback... And I'm not certain where I would rank it in the 'best movies of all time' list...
I have to admit I'm a little surprised it won the Oscar - not because it wasn't good enough, just because it doesn't seem like typical Oscar fare. That said, I haven't seen any of the other best pic nominees.
One thing that I find especially amazing about Slumdog, despite all the awful things that happen, I never really felt "down" - only worried and hopeful for Jamal and Latika.
Kd5000:
--- Quote from: BelAir on March 14, 2009, 10:16:53 am ---I saw Slumdog finally. I thought it was quite good, but not in the class of Brokeback... And I'm not certain where I would rank it in the 'best movies of all time' list...
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I have to agree with you on that matter. I've seen all pictures this year that were critically acclaimed and I wasn't big on SLUMGDOG MILLIONAIRE. Not since CRASH have I seen a movie as weak to have won best picture. I liked NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and the THE DEPARTED, but SLUMDOG didn't grab me.
I saw THE READER last weekend and it was better then I thought it would be. So much moral ambiguity in THE READER. What is evil? What's it like to live in a post genocide society? Whose to blame and how much responsibility do ordinary ppl who just looked share? How does a society come to term with it's recent atrocious past?
It touches on these issues and many many more...
southendmd:
--- Quote from: oilgun on January 23, 2009, 04:46:08 pm ---Which reminds me, did you ever watch THE TATTOOIST with Mr. Behr? Blockbuster's had a previously viewed DVD of it on sale for under $10 and I stupidly didn't buy it.
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Hey Gil, I finally saw The Tattoist. (Netflix streaming video--pretty good.) I'd see Jason Behr in just about anything. The story was interesting, and not as violent as I'd thought it might be, a little light overall. Jason was very cute, but unfortunately just as wooden as he was in Roswell.
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