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Post by Ampage on Mar 25, 2005 12:41:07 GMT -5
Looks like the feel good hit of the summer!
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 25, 2005 13:02:29 GMT -5
Below is a list of theaters & the cities where Oldboy will begin its limited run:
Empire New York 3/25
Angelika New York 3/25
Nuart Los Angeles 3/25
Century Chicago 3/25
University Irvine 3/25
Playhouse Pasadena 4/1
Camera 12 San Jose 4/8
Cinema Arts Centre Huntington, NY 4/8
Angelika Dallas 4/8
Angelika Houston 4/8
E-Street DC 4/8
Main Art Detroit 4/8
Mayan Denver 4/8
Embarcadero San Francisco 4/15
Act I&II Berkeley 4/15
Aquarius Palo Alto 4/15
Kendall Sq. Cambridge 4/15
Ken San Diego 4/15
Neptune Seatlle 4/22
Cinema 21 Portland 4/22
Upstate Films Rhinebeck, NY 4/22
Dobie Austin 4/29
Loft Tucson 4/29
Broadway Salt Lake City 4/29
Midtown Atlanta 5/20
Tivoli St. Louis 5/20
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 25, 2005 13:03:42 GMT -5
Looks like the feel good hit of the summer! *sick chuckle* Indeed . . .depending on one's perspective. . . |
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Post by Adam on Mar 26, 2005 9:49:59 GMT -5
You can't go wrong with a film with a scene in which some people get bashed in the head with a hammer...
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 28, 2005 10:01:24 GMT -5
I personally am looking forward to the scene in which our protagonist devours a live octopus, headfirst.
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Post by Ampage on Mar 28, 2005 10:25:30 GMT -5
I have already written PETA.
Watched “Cellular” the other night. Pretty good little thriller. Implausible, but well written and performed. Had ya on the edge of your seat, and that’s a good thing. Think “Speed”, but with better acting.
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Post by Adam on Mar 28, 2005 13:16:57 GMT -5
I have already written PETA. Watched “Cellular” the other night. Pretty good little thriller. Implausible, but well written and performed. Had ya on the edge of your seat, and that’s a good thing. Think “Speed”, but with better acting. Compared to Speed, it has a more believable situation. Speed worked the first few times and then the plot holes emerge from the woodwork. - I'm going to go home...and have some sex.
- Harry, you're going to go home and puke.
- Yeah, well, that'll be fun too.What really makes Cellular shine are the old pros: William H. Macy, Jason Statham, and Kim Basinger. |
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Post by Ampage on Mar 28, 2005 13:47:50 GMT -5
I also liked:
What’s your son’s name?
Ricky.
Ricky Martin?
Yea,well it was before……
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Post by pattentank24 on Mar 28, 2005 14:33:55 GMT -5
I have a question for this board
I was trying to watch Godfather II last night on Spike it's unedited and uncut supposedly but you know it still had commercial breaks so what happens 2 hrs in I fall asleep during commercials
So what I want to know is
Can You watch movies on tv that have commercial interuptions anymore with On Demand and endless DVD'S to choose from?
Me personally I grew up on Kung Fu/Horror movies on local stations late at night and now don't think I could watch those with commercials ever again
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Post by Ampage on Mar 28, 2005 14:49:15 GMT -5
To tell the truth, I cannot remember the last time I watched a movie on television. Too much of a time commitment. But commercials don’t really bother me when I watch a regular show, so I don’t think they would bother me during a movie either. At least they give us a break to go take a whiz or refill the grapes.
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on Mar 28, 2005 19:04:55 GMT -5
Watching films on TV is impossible, except TCM.
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Post by Adam on Mar 28, 2005 20:30:39 GMT -5
It depends on the film. Films with heavy profanity or violence levels suffer on tv, so Goodfellas, Scarface, and The Exorcist (to name a few) are atrocious.
And speaking from a geek point of view, if the film was shot in widescreen, it immediately gets the pan & scan treatment, ruining the film's composition and going against the filmmakers intentions.
If I'm bored, I'll see a film good enough to watch to pass the time. Better yet, if its a film I already own, I'll be enticed to watch my copy.
But, as Weeping said, only on TCM can films be bearable. I'd add IFC to that list as well.
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Post by RocDoc on Mar 29, 2005 20:45:44 GMT -5
Back B.P.(*Before Progeny), I'd sometimes come home from work and my wife'd already be home lounging on the couch watching some movie on one of the 'Big 3-4 Networks' and beg and plead for her to change it over to ANYthing else, that I'd get it on VHS or DVD and we could watch without the edits or the BULLshit changes in dialog making it 'safe'....no movies on commercial TV anymore.
Tho I now remember one that drew me in regardless of it being on ABC(I think), chopped to bits....'The Peacemaker' with Nicole Kidman and whomever else it had.
QUITE entertaining and I think I got the VHS from the library the next week and watched it again.
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Watched Altman's 'The Company' 2 nights ago and enjoyed it right up until the final(and I'd have to suppose to Altman's purposes)'crowning' set piece, this goofier-than-fuck Cirque Du Soleil wannabe pseudo-philosphical piece of contrived choreography which some moonbean of a jackass 'genius' French-Canadian choreographer foists on the Joffrey Ballet and their boss-man, 'Mr 'A''.
I also AM a dance fan, and to me this conception was the most falsely executed in the whole film, which is highlighted by a series of other faaaar more interesting dance pieces performed(and/or rehearsed) in some of the best venues in Chicago..which to me is yet another reason to want to like this movie, but the last 40-or-so minutes left a really bad taste in my mouth cause they couldn't finish it off in a way fitting the rest of what had gone....
Lumen, you mentioned The Company over at Random 10s I think...and I'd be interested what your take on that DeRosier-dude, whatever he was...an actor, a real choreographer...I understand the 'artistic temperament might be seens as that sort of a 'flake', but the piece was a Barney the Dinosaur fantasy gone wild...
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Post by rockkid on Mar 30, 2005 1:48:41 GMT -5
Managed to stumble on to only the last half of Tuskegee Airmen today damn! I’ve read 5 or 6 great books on them but had never seen the flick. Let the hunt now begin.   |
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Post by lumencandle on Mar 30, 2005 2:00:56 GMT -5
Rocdoc, that is so funny, when I ha dbeen composing my little film review in my head, I was meaning to critique the inclusion of that piece...
(I love that your the resident dance fan here!)
Anyway, I remember when the movie came out reading in Dance Magazine that the choreographer of 'Blue Snake' (that heinous, grotesque, finale) was a kind of up-and-comer in dance and the reason he was involved in The Company was simply because Neve Campbell got herself somehow promoted to the level of producer on the film and she had danced with him at whatever Canadian company she danced in until she became an actress (I think it was The Royal Winnipeg, but don't quote me.) So, of course, no talent required, see. Just a connection.
Ok, soapbox over. Review: The piece ruined the movie for me, too. I loved the other pieces, and each one seemd very polisehd and profesional aside from being just gorgeous to watch. And didn't even care that the movie had no plot. As for the movie as a whole, I thought Altman did a beautiful job showing the innerworkings of a professional company...kind of debunked some of the glamour and unveiled some of the mystery. It was equal parts respect due for the artform/artistry but at the same time in places the attitude of real-life and normalcy -- 'this-really-isn't-that-big-a-deal-they're-dancers-not-brain-surgeons (they have to work in nightclubs to make ends meet after all) 'cos...really, dancing for a living is...just. a. job. really. when it's all said and done.
I felt that idiotic character, whatever his name was, that last choreographer, was just over-the-top. The Arpino character already made the point that directors and choreographers are pompous a-holes stuck on themselves and their philosophies, and that other was just TOO much. He's like the guy that gives modern dance and contemporary ballet a bad name to non-dancers and I have to go around saying, 'no, we're not all strange hippy interpretive tree-dancing wind-worshipping weirdos. People like that are around, yeah, but they don't last in actual dance classes. But I don't know any serious dancer who wouldn't laugh at him (at least they got that right), and I don't know how a company that's supposed to be on the level of The JOFFREY would ever commission a dance from someone like him. Yuck. (even The Louisville Ballet woulda sent him packing for God's sake! How could I take that character seriously?) The whole time I watched that dance I thought, "Wow, this looks like I'm watching Barney. "
Anyway, basically, I read that Altman said he wanted to be a mirror to the dance world with with The Company, just like Nashville was with um, Nashville. And it was a great success...except 'Blue Snake', which is more like children's theatre than contemporary dance repertoire.
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