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Post by RocDoc on May 26, 2004 13:43:58 GMT -5
Watched 'Love Actually' last night and was really disappointed considering the good press it had gotten AND the stars involved....VERY much an Altman wannabe flick, with it's disparate simultaneous plots, where you're saying 'OK, WhoTF are these people and what do they have to do w/one another?'
But then it just went into one cutesy-poo segment after another, and totally lost me....
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Watch Lost In Translation again, kat. For me it was the near-total 'American-ness' of Murray and Johansson's characters feeling so lost in the weirdness/different-ness of Japan....and coming together to help one another find things to enjoy. And coming together in such a civilized, truly friendly way....NOT sexualized in the least, the way it could've been. Coppola's subtlety THERE was very appreciated by me.
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on May 26, 2004 18:06:59 GMT -5
Kats, I forgot all about Doob and it would be great if you'd send him an email.
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Post by Mary on May 27, 2004 2:49:16 GMT -5
Hey all... Well I saw Super Size me earlier tonight, and it was entertaining, if not particularly revelatory - I mean, as ekul said before, is anyone really surprised that eating McDonalds three times a day for 30 straight days does fucking horrible shit to your body?? I think there are plenty of reasons to think McDonalds is a pretty horrible corporation, but I'm not sure this is really one of them!! But the movie is fun for plenty of other reasons. Just seeing the perplexed reactions of doctors and nutritionists when the dude explains what he's doing to them is pretty priceless. His girlfriend's bleak assessment of their rapidly declining sex life is also amusing. The insane man who eats nothing but Big Macs, ever, is pretty astonishing. And as far as any insightful political commentary, far more than the critique of fast food restaurants, the critique of public school cafeterias is much more damning, and much more troubling, since it concerns young kids, who often have no choice but one crappy meal vs. another crappy meal. Anyway, yeah, it's worth seeing. It's entertaining. If nothing else, it made me feel good about quitting soda!  Cheers, M |
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Post by phil on May 27, 2004 15:29:45 GMT -5
No more soda ...
No coffee ! No Wine !!
AMARETTO ALL THE TIME ...Ü...
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Post by rockkid on May 28, 2004 7:24:42 GMT -5
Surely Phil you haven’t fore gone [glow=red,2,300]lumpy gravy!![/glow]  |
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Post by Thorngrub on May 28, 2004 18:09:14 GMT -5
~Every1 have a happy Memorial Weekend~
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Post by PC on May 28, 2004 22:01:10 GMT -5
Thanks for the review Mary; ever since it's premiere at Sundance this year, I really wanted to check out Super Size Me. And while I haven't actually quit soda for good, I'm definitely drinking a lot of less of it than I used to (which was about a glass a day).
~PunkChick
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Post by rockkid on May 29, 2004 7:44:07 GMT -5
Ekul you’ve still got me wondering with your response post to The Punisher.
Who TF is Frank Black??
It starred Thomas Jane & the character is Frank Castle.
I’ve had the comic series for years I don’t think I’ve missed something. ?
This is really rather TV ish as opposed to film but anyone else intend on catching ole Magnum PI as Ike on A&E ?
It looks ½ way promising.
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on May 29, 2004 17:28:50 GMT -5
 The Day After Tomorrow [ *** of 4 stars] Numbering up the cliches trodded through in this disaster epic is a never-ending task. The seperated family looking for an excuse to get back together, the characters all miraculously being in the middle of every major event of this disaster, and then the disaster solving all of their relationships. That's just the start, but you get the picture. Still, the picture proves that you can make an entertaining summer popcorn muncher by following the tried and true disaster formula. No matter how ridiculous or silly the premise is stretched the film's message and tension remains and that makes for fine entertainment. In this script of conveneint convergence Dennis Quaid is a climatologist who thinks that global warming could set off the next ice age......and then that happens a day later. It also takes place over a couple days, but it takes little time to quit thinking about the scientific impossibilities and remember it's only a movie. We see that Quaid is no newbie at artic expeditions, but his most important one will be to get from DC to NY and join his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal). Sam is in NY because of a quiz bowl team he's only interested in because a girl, but he'll certainly win her over because of his take charge attitude as the Big Apple becomes the Big Ice Cube and he must keep his band of believers alive in the public library. What can the father really do for the son? Nothing, but we need that "i love you, man" moment. You may call this ruining the plot, but if you don't see this miles away you need to get your few brain cells left checked. Outside of the spectacular visual effects of the aweing power of mother nature I really enjoyed the characters and the performances in the film thrown into the disaster-film-by-numbers. Sure, they are predictable, but they help work us into the zone of unreality. Gyllenhaal isn't yet, but there is no way he won't be a huge star. His natural underperformance can't be overlooked. The subtle (sometimes not so subtle) pokes at the Bush Administration is, of course, smirky, but welcome. The film's jaw dropping push makes the argument fully one-sided, but it's closer to the truth than we wish it to be. The Cheney/environmental thug vice presdient and his all but pushing the photo-op president in a corner was a nice tongue-in-cheek joke that, again, is probably closer to the truth than should be. So we've concluded that The Day After Tomorrow can be seen coming miles ahead of time, but it's entertaining enough to disregard time and science for convenience's sake. The science is rushed, but it's got a point in the end. There is enough emotional pieces to make the film move along and develop interest outside of the superb disaster visual effects. It's not every day we can see Manhattan turn into a ski resort with -150 temps, basketball sized hail take out people, or LA being torn apart by the best realized fake tornadoes yet. Check reality at the door, pass the popcorn, and leave with a smile on your face after that matinee. |
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Post by mellie on May 29, 2004 23:24:35 GMT -5
Ive heard so many mixed things about that movie, and read some pretty bad reviews from the pre screening... but I might go see it now.
That and Shrek 2
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Post by ScottsyII on May 30, 2004 0:40:13 GMT -5
I just reckon it'd be cool for the CGI... bugger the story, I just wanna see stuff get smashed up!
I know, I have this whole destructive thing going on, and I usually would look for more meaning in movies...
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on May 30, 2004 8:27:19 GMT -5
If someone goes into something like The Day After Tomorrow looking for deep characterizations they are wanting to dislike the film. You need some and that film has enough to hold it together fine. Then you sit back and enjoy the fantastic (in this case) visual effects of destruction.
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Post by kats on May 30, 2004 8:44:52 GMT -5
weeps, while i wasn't expecting smart and witty dialogue with some deep insight into the human condition...(i expected such blunders as 'with great power comes great responsilbility-- honestly, who writes this shit?  ) the special effects are amazing, but WHAT THE HELL WAS WITH THE FREAKING WOLVES? drove me nuts. i started laughing when they first came on...i don't know. drove me batty. i'm probably being pedantic pete, but sheesh. and why didn't they burn chairs? did they have to burn every single rare book for god's sake when there was so much WOOD they could have burnt? i got eh message from that of 'where have your damn books got you now, huh??' other than that, the special effects WERE amazing, and soe absolutely surreal images. |
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on May 30, 2004 8:47:48 GMT -5
The wolves were ridiculous, there is no way around that one. A person KNEW they were going to come into play. The chair thing too. When the other guy asked "where did you get the chair?" I was thinking the next line would be "why aren't we burning them?"; however, they needed to work in the the context to talk about burning books and humanity's past with the bible.
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Post by kats on May 30, 2004 8:52:51 GMT -5
i got that much. i pictured myself like the guy with the glasses...burn the hobo before you burn james joyce!!
i agree with you, though. dennis quaid is quite possibly the most irritating person in the world, but nothing else is to be expcted from that character. oh, and how anatartica splits where their camp is??
good fun, though. i'd give it a two outta five.
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) the special effects are amazing, but WHAT THE HELL WAS WITH THE FREAKING WOLVES?