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I was really impressed with Ben Affleck's first two films, Gone Baby Gone and The Town, so I'm really looking forward to this. The tampering with facts issue aside (All the Presidents Men did it, too) he's becoming a far better director than he ever was an actor, I think. |
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Along with Shivers that's my favourite Cronenberg. |
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You can't deny that when he wants to be, he can be a bloody good actor.
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I completely agree, but I don't think I'd seek out a movie on the strength of him starring in it in the way that I've started to with whatever he directs. |
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Thats a good roundup of films. My faves of the year shook out like this: 15. Once Upon a Time In Anatolia (total mood film) 14. Cloud Atlas (ambitious and oddly moving) 13. The Grey (existential and not what I expected in a great way) 12. Perfect Sense (truly under rated and released apocalypse film) 11. Beasts of the Southern Wild (profound, like New Orleans David Gordon Green) 10. Kill List (the less you know, the better off you are) 9. Rampart (rambling but corrosive) 8. Killer Joe (brutal and brutally funny) 7. Rust and Bone (another masterpiece for Audiard) 6. Oslo August 31 (deeply moving) 5. Looper (best sci fi in years?) 4. Anna Karenina (love how it manipulates time and space, formally ravishing) 3. Moonrise Kingdom (surreally sweet, as usual for Wes) 2. Zero Dark Thirty (a crackling procedural.... Chastain deserves the Oscar) 1. The Master (a towering, oblique masterpiece) |
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MARS ATTACKS
and then i thought, why not listen to it with the audio only soundtrack? which is something i've been wanting to stick onto a cd |
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![]() watched this classic again with my wife. she had not seen it. Great flick.
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The pic isn't showing. What is it?
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sorry, Day of The Jackal, original 1973 one.
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Somewhere up there, my dad's reading that and thinking, now there's a man who knows how to educate a woman. Must spread more rep, etc |
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Yeah Jessica Chastain will win this year. I'm surprised at the response to Django, I thought it was a blast.
Jessica is quite the workhouse it seems. Good choice of roles. And her lips are mighty pouty.
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![]() Cabin in the Woods The last half hour of this film effectively saves it for me, going from "what was all the fuss about?" to, "oh, so that's what all the fuss was about." |
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![]() "no jews were hurt in the making of this film" i liked it a lot-- actually i'm probably overrating it, but eh. |
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just finished part 2 of barry lyndon-- watched part 1 last week
to those who think blu-ray makes no difference---- daaamn it looks amazing web pictures don't do justice, but i believe stills from this movie ought to be hanged in modern art museums all over the world, as postmodern reconstructions of classic painting ![]() ![]() ![]() absolutely exquisite. the way kubrick made use of bad actors to fit his style is just genius. |
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I'm ashamed to admit I still haven't seen that movie all the way through.
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![]() Very enjoyable and odd movie. JB has done it again.
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i know you like the more what should i say the more actor-oriented films? dramas, you know, what bresson called filmed theatre, and yes there are great great movies in that style, but this one is just so much eye candy, so much of a visual pleasure, primarily, and then only everything else. it can be exhausting and boring and all that-- but it's beautiful. like i don't know- l'avventura is also visually gorgeous slow and boring. anyway i hope you get to see it-- the bluray is the wrong aspect ratio, but it's still amazing for the quality it brings to the screen http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/ba...-aspect-ratio/ ^^ look, even this man calls it boring. but i call it delicious! --- ps- read this if you wanna nerd it up! http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/d...erview.bl.html |
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if you consider that the snappy dialogue of "the maltese falcon" makes it one of demonrail's favorite movies you can see how the polar opposite of more cinematography-based films wouldn't tickle him so much. (im going to venture a guess and presume he's probably not crazy about"kooyanisqatsi" or tarkovski's "solaris" either.) these are difficult movies in general because they depart from the conventions of filmed theatre that inform traditional film. you have to get accustomed to their language and that's not always an easy transition-- and even if you get their alternative conventions it doesn't mean that the movie itself has to be your thing. i think i get matthew barney but i still hate a number of his movies. and while i take delight in many so-called boring movies, i really draw the line at david lynch's inland empire wankery-- that's both boring an irredeemable for me, except for some select snippets. maybe some day i'll have a chance to alter my evaluation of it, but definitely not today. regardless, david lynch doesn't need me to love his every movie and i'm sure he's not even aware of my existence. |
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