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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
oilgun:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 13, 2010, 03:30:12 pm ---I read that in the review that was in Friday's Philadelphia Inquirer.
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It must have been a negative review. It's usually the critics who didn't like the film that focus on those scenes.
Anyway, you guys are funny, letting a little lesbian content prevent you from seeing a film, lol!
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 13, 2010, 03:30:12 pm ---I'm not sure I follow the logic here, but if it works for you, that's what matters.
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Well, my thinking is is because if she were a bisexual, I doubt she would have done the scene had she considered it exploitive. Natalie Portman does not HAVE to work for anyone.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 13, 2010, 03:30:12 pm ---I read that in the review that was in Friday's Philadelphia Inquirer.
I'm not sure I follow the logic here, but if it works for you, that's what matters.
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I see I told a lie. I double checked, and that review wasn't in the Inquirer. I know I read it somewhere. It must have been in the Metro.
But it was an unfavorable review. I remember the writer thinks the movie is rather "over the top."
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 13, 2010, 02:29:08 pm ---Friday night somebody asked me if I was going to see it. I said I didn't know if I needed to see Natalie Portman simulate masturbation and Lesbian sex with Mila Kunis.
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Of course, now I see in this morning's Philadelphia edition of the Metro that Natalie Portman also gets to have fake sex with Sergio Torrado, one of the principal dancers from the Pennsylvania Ballet. Seeing that just might be worth the price of admission. ... 8)
delalluvia:
Watched the movie, Creation about Charles Darwin, starring real life married couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly.
6/10
While I appreciate that the producers tried a different tack with Darwin, trying to humanize him and making him 'user friendly' for the masses by focusing on his personal life (the movie was based on the book Annie's Box), it didn't really make the impact it should have because you don't really get into the public reaction to his writings, so it's all on a personal and local level and thus rather soap-opera/movie-of-the-week-ish. I found myself wanting more on the conflict in his writings and publishing as I believe that would have been even more dramatic and worthy of the movie. There were lines that were really intriguing that SHOULD have been explored in the movie,
"I see you've received Wallace's letter? Forget it. He has 20 pages, you have a book."
"Your enemies - and you have them - are ready to burn you at the stake if they knew what you were about to publish."
"But you need to publish. We can win this in our lifetime. We must win."
but weren't and it's a shame. The makers of the movie had the production values and talented actors to make a powerful movie, but they underutilized them and wimped out, IMO. A shameful waste of talent.
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