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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Meryl:
I just saw a preview of "Another Earth" tonight, Gil. Love the effect of seeing the earth and moon in the daytime sky. 8)
I saw "The Tree of Life" tonight and have to agree with Paul's assessment: exquisitely beautiful images and tons of great music paired with a kind of stream-of-consciousness, inscrutable look at a young family in Texas. I was very moved at the end and love the feeling Malick creates of how we are both part of and overwhelmingly dwarfed by the Creation. That said, however, it was a bit like watching grass grow.
--- Quote from: southendmd on June 10, 2011, 11:45:43 pm ---I saw "The Tree of Life" tonight, and I'm not really sure what I think about it.
For its first week, it showed exclusively at an art house theatre, but was shown at the multiplexes starting tonight. Sparsely attended, several people walked out early on.
It is certainly visually stunning, yet perplexing. Light on dialogue and even lighter on plot, I suppose it's very personal to filmmaker Terrence Malick, in that it seems to be his own brand of spirituality. Some of the images will stay with me. Especially one sequence showing a huge flock of birds from a great distance as they swoop and swerve, almost as a single unit following some mathematical formula. (I once witnessed this exact same phenomenon on a much smaller scale, in a tidal pool of tiny minnows, and was completely mesmerized by it.)
I thought Brad Pitt was very good (he produced the film as well), and had a hard time imagining Heath in the role. In fact, I thought Heath might have been better in Sean Penn's role. Lots of wordless closeups.
Creation and loss and grace. I'm still not sure what it's all about, but I'm glad I saw it.
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Jeff Wrangler:
This will probably surprise a lot of people--it sort of surprises even me--but I actually went to a movie this evening. I went with a friend to see Captain America. I think I saw lots of echoes of early Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark in it, but I liked it. It's my kind of movie.
I probably wouldn't have bothered without Chris Evans, so cute and buff, in the title role, but I'm glad I saw it.
Meryl:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 23, 2011, 10:29:49 pm ---This will probably surprise a lot of people--it sort of surprises even me--but I actually went to a movie this evening. I went with a friend to see Captain America. I think I saw lots of echoes of early Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark in it, but I liked it. It's my kind of movie.
I probably wouldn't have bothered without Chris Evans, so cute and buff, in the title role, but I'm glad I saw it.
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I hear CA is one of the better super hero movies to come along for awhile. Might duck in to see it if the heat keeps up. :P
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Meryl on July 24, 2011, 01:00:44 pm ---I hear CA is one of the better super hero movies to come along for awhile. Might duck in to see it if the heat keeps up. :P
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I think Chris Evans is well cast. I don't know the Captain America comic book franchise, but in this movie, anyway, the character is supposed to be both the stereotypical 98-pound-weakling (although a 98-pound-weakling who never backs down or gives up) and something of an average Joe. Chris Evans is cute, but I think he has a boy-next-door quality to his cuteness that makes him right for this role. If I were a beer drinker, I could see myself comfortably having a beer with Chris Evans.
Incidentally, I noticed someone in a supporting role as one of CA's "team" who looked familiar, but I couldn't quite place him. I watched the credits at the end, then double-checked at IMDb. Turned out the familiar face was Neal McDonough; I didn't quite recognize him because in CA he's got side whiskers and a big mustache. ;D
And of course there's good ol' reliable Tommy Lee Jones as a gruff army officer. ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
OK, I confess, I don't care how cheesey the concept sounds, I wanna see Cowboys and Aliens. ;D
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409847/
Actually, I guess I wanna see it because it does sound cheesey. :laugh:
With Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, and Olivia Wilde (House), it can't be entirely unredeemably awful.
Can it? ;D
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