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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Meryl:
--- Quote from: oilgun on April 28, 2008, 07:03:08 pm ---And Takashi Miike's Visitor Q - :o :o Holy lactating incestuous necrophiliac, Batman! :o
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Oy, I don't think I want to know any more about that one.... :P ;D
I went to see Enchanted with my sister-in-law, who has played ingenue characters in community theater all her life and didn't want to miss it. I had a great time! All the New York locations were familiar, which was fun, but to me the most hilarious part was when she was cleaning the apartment with the help of flies, pigeons and rats, singing cheerily ala Cinderella. :laugh: I thought the ending was a letdown, too, but for the most part it was a very clever take on the whole Disney thing. :)
oilgun:
--- Quote from: Meryl on April 29, 2008, 12:35:51 am ---Oy, I don't think I want to know any more about that one.... :P ;D
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And I didn't even mention the woman (the one lactating) who gets beaten on a daily basis by her substance-sniffing(?) teenage son and how she turns tricks to support her heroin addiction while her husband visits their prostitute daughter. The theme of the film is the importance of family I think. ;D
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I recently ordered a DVD copy of LOVE IS THE DEVIL: A Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, I hadn't watched it since in came out back in '98 so I was eager to see if the movie was as good as I remembered or if my memory was distorted by the Daniel Craig full-frontal bathtub scene. (naked-hunk-tinted glasses?) Well, I'm happy to report that I enjoyed it even more this time around, the movie and the FF.
One thing I had forgotten (or didn't even know) is that Tilda Swinton is also in it as one of Bacon's drunken friends. She's completely unrecognizable and wonderfully OTT. I saw her name in the closing credits and that's how I found out she was in it.
oilgun:
The Toronto InsideOut film Festival opens in a couple of weeks and it looks like it will be a good year. I'd love to here what people think of some of the movies, what are the must-sees and the stinkers. I already have tickets for Shelter and Love Songs :-* but any input would be greatly appreciated:
http://www.insideout.on.ca/18Annual/schedule.cfm
oilgun:
I finally watched La Vie en Rose and if Marion Cotillard's twitchy OTT performance is what AMPAS is into, then I'm officially relieved that Heath did NOT win for BbM! I thought she was just terrible and shame on the director for not reigning her in. She wasn't just chewing the scenery, she was swallowing it whole. She played Piaf's alcoholism like it was Parkinson's and made her to be such an unlikeable person it was a mystery that she had any friends at all.
By the end of the film when she's (yet again) deliriously screaming her dead lover's name, I was thinking, "The guy's dead, just get over it! Now it's your turn, die already!" Sorry, it was all too much swelling melodrama for me. Which is funny because the day before I watched an equally melodramatic & mainstream film, Jacquou le Croquant, and really enjoyed it. I think the difference is that I cared about the characters in Jacquou, but in this one, Piaf is portrayed as such a repulsive drunk that it was impossible for me to empathise.
MaineWriter:
I went and saw Made of Honor with my daughter last evening. We were having a girl's night out and it was her choice, so...
Completely predictable. It is one of those movies you start forgetting the minute you walk out of the theater. I thought Patrick Dempsey was too old for the part (he is supposed to be 32 and he looks very much his full 42 years). And, if you think about the movie for 3 minutes, you start to realize all these implausibilities.
Oh well, at least I enjoyed the evening with Hannah!
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