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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on April 23, 2008, 12:28:19 pm ---I think this has come up on this thread before, but last night I watched Dogtown and Z-Boys which was the documentary that inspired The Lords of Dogtown. I enjoyed it very much. It was fun to see the real people and real footage of skateboarding and surfing and so on. They explained alot of things which made LOD make more sense to me. I'd recommend both.
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Not to sound like a broken record, because I've said this before, but Dogtown and Z-Boys is one of two movies I own! (Guess what the other is? ::)) But Dogtown came first, because my son gave it to me for Mother's Day a couple of years ago. :)
And of course I love LOD. Which I've also said many times. So I'll shut up now. ;D
Meryl:
I saw Smart People yesterday, and like you, Katherine, I didn't absolutely love it, but I enjoyed it. The performances were all good, and I like that kind of cynical, ironic family humor. I didn't even mind Sarah Jessica Parker, maybe because she wasn't playing a narcissistic bimbo. I did wonder why both she and Dennis Quaid's character kept picking up their relationship time and again. Neither was exactly captivating. Thomas Hayden Church was the best, I think; you just have to look at him, and you're grinning. He's got a great comic gift. Setting the story in Pittsburgh was a good idea, too, since that area has a combination of highly educated people and lots of depressed, poor people, both of which come into play in the movie.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: seriouscrayons on April 23, 2008, 01:53:28 pm ---Not to sound like a broken record, because I've said this before, but Dogtown and Z-Boys is one of two movies I own! (Guess what the other is? ::)) But Dogtown came first, because my son gave it to me for Mother's Day a couple of years ago. :)
And of course I love LOD. Which I've also said many times. So I'll shut up now. ;D
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Hahahaha, you don't need to shut up!!
You own two movies? Cripe, I own five copies of BBM alone...the bootleg version, the widescreen version, the fullscreen version, the deluxe version, and the other one that someone gave me (not sure which version that is).
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MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Meryl on April 23, 2008, 01:59:56 pm ---I saw Smart People yesterday, and like you, Katherine, I didn't absolutely love it, but I enjoyed it. The performances were all good, and I like that kind of cynical, ironic family humor. I didn't even mind Sarah Jessica Parker, maybe because she wasn't playing a narcissistic bimbo. I did wonder why both she and Dennis Quaid's character kept picking up their relationship time and again. Neither was exactly captivating. Thomas Hayden Church was the best, I think; you just have to look at him, and you're grinning. He's got a great comic gift. Setting the story in Pittsburgh was a good idea, too, since that area has a combination of highly educated people and lots of depressed, poor people, both of which come into play in the movie.
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Hm, sounds like the kind of movie that I would enjoy, too. I haven't gotten to see it yet and I probably won't this weekend, since I need to go see Deception really fast since I think it is going to get lousy reviews and close in a matter of days. But I want to see Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams. That trio alone is enough to get me to plunk down $8, even on a lousy movie!
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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on April 23, 2008, 02:20:02 pm ---You own two movies? Cripe, I own five copies of BBM alone...the bootleg version, the widescreen version, the fullscreen version, the deluxe version, and the other one that someone gave me (not sure which version that is).
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What's even more shocking is that I didn't own ANY versions of BBM until last October, when someone (a Brokie, of course! :)) gave it to me for my birthday.
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