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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Christina on January 07, 2011, 06:59:42 PM
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My RSS feed is fulla articles about what's coming up, and this caught my eye: (http://www.thewrap.com/deal-central/column-post/exclusive-johnny-knoxville-andy-samberg-shane-jacobson-three-stooges-short-?page=0,0)
"Jackass" prankster Johnny Knoxville, "Saturday Night Live" star Andy Samberg and Australian comic Shane Jacobson are on the shortlist to play Moe, Larry and Curly, respectively, in 20th Century Fox's "Three Stooges," TheWrap has learned from an agency insider.
This would be a major shift in direction for the project, which initially had Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn and Jim Carrey circling the iconic titular roles, though the latter two actors have officially dropped out of the running. It makes sense, however, as not only would Knoxville, Samberg and Jacobson appeal to younger audiences -- there's an entire generation (or two) that's mostly unfamiliar with the Stooges -- but they're also more in line with the spirit of the original slapstick trio.
Also, that The Thing prequel!
And about 8 billion superhero movies.
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Piranha 3DD.
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You're not looking forward to the Thing prequel? What's ailing you?
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Having Sean Penn play Larry, of all roles, would have been funnier to me than anything else they could have come up with. I suspect watching Milk would be impossible now without noticing the creeping influence of Larry Fine on that performance.
Are: Meek's Cutoff, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Are not: Kristen Wiig's Gilly movie (I still predict this will be made)
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You're not looking forward to the Thing prequel? What's ailing you?
No, I am looking forward to that - I'm more ambivalent about all the superhero movies.
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Having Sean Penn play Larry, of all roles, would have been funnier to me than anything else they could have come up with.
I know - that was the beauty and the horror of the whole thing before - the casting was so bonkers that the finished product was either going to be glorious or horrifying, and very likely both.
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http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/01/07/three-stooges-peter-ferrelly-exclusive/ (http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/01/07/three-stooges-peter-ferrelly-exclusive/)
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That article makes this thing sound more horrifying than anything Penn could witness in Haiti.
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The Ted 'Golden Throat' Williams Story.
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It's technically a 2010 film, but I'm not looking forward to A SERBIAN FILM at all. In fact I vow not to see it. There's a very detailed plot synopsis on its Wiki page, if you're curious. Too much. Let's just say it makes THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE look like MY LITTLE PONY.
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It sounds vile, but even so this bit from the Wiki entry made me laugh out loud: Miloš jams his erect penis into the man's empty eye socket, killing him.
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Yes, I mentioned on twitter that the plot synopsis sounds so over the top and gruesome it made me think of THE ARISTOCRATS, like the writer/director just sat around and tried to come up with the sickest things imaginable, and then put them into the movie.
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But it does sound absolutely appalling. Not over the top in any kind of comic/schlocky sense, just vile. One of those things you'd want to unsee if you saw it.
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I think I'd feel like an accessory to a crime if I watched it.
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This should not tempt anyone into reading that Wiki entry who wouldn't otherwise, but:
Harry Knowles? Hate Pit.
I was looking forward to Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, with Viggo as Sigmund Freud, but right at the moment I'm sorta reconsidering my interest in anything sexually creepy.
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This should not tempt anyone into reading that Wiki entry who wouldn't otherwise, but:
Harry Knowles? Hate Pit.
I was looking forward to Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, with Viggo as Sigmund Freud, but right at the moment I'm sorta reconsidering my interest in anything sexually creepy.
Before reading your post, I got the feeling that 'A Serbian Film' would be the kind of thing that AICN mutants would like just because it was so over-the-top, and how its graphic nature would make it some kind of magical geek secret that The Man doesn't want you to see. Then again, the last time I visited AICN (to read Knowles whine about Patton Oswalt's screed against complacent geek culture in Wired), the banner cartoon was a Human Centipede reference, so yeah.
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Robot ("Endhiran" TeztigoMix_Part 02) ***Kollywood(Tamil)*** (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svOlz2ei4Yk&feature=player_detailpage#ws)
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Having Sean Penn play Larry, of all roles, would have been funnier to me than anything else they could have come up with. I suspect watching Milk would be impossible now without noticing the creeping influence of Larry Fine on that performance.
Are: Meek's Cutoff, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Are not: Kristen Wiig's Gilly movie (I still predict this will be made)
Sean Penn, of course, could have reused his wig from Carlito's Way.
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Can't wait for that new Terry Malick flick!
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Piranha 3DD.
I hope that's pronounced "Three Double D".
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I'm with you, CWN. I wonder if the rest of Endhiran lives up to that clip, or if we've seen all there is to see of that flick.
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Does anybody else think that this could be the summer of superhero burnout? Green Lantern, Thor, Captain America...
The movie going public will probably prove me wrong.
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That might happen this year, but if not then it will definitely happen next year.
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That might happen this year, but if not then it will definitely happen next year.
Yep - Superman end of this year, right? And then some more of that goddamned Batman.
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That might happen this year, but if not then it will definitely happen next year.
Yep - Superman end of this year, right? And then some more of that goddamned Batman.
Auntie Christina, I love everything you post on here but you might have broken my heart with your forsaking of Batman. I will admit a large fondness to that fictional character and indeed, the Christopher Nolan movies.
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Arriving this summer!
http://www.expectantdadsmovie.com (http://www.expectantdadsmovie.com)
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Arriving this summer!
http://www.expectantdadsmovie.com (http://www.expectantdadsmovie.com)
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW That was great! Talk about a Who's Who!
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Auntie Christina, I love everything you post on here but you might have broken my heart with your forsaking of Batman. I will admit a large fondness to that fictional character and indeed, the Christopher Nolan movies.
Aw! If it helps, it's more directed at the marketing hype that's coming - like, right around April-May, and going into the summer, I'll be saying, "That goddamned Green Lantern!"
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Not sure if this will be a 2011 movie, technically, but I don't wanna start a new thread - Ryan Gosling is gonna be in a Logan's Run remake ... he's one of those guys who is in movies that everybody says are really good but I never get around to watching them for some reason.
However, I will go see a Logans' Run remake.
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I like Ryan Gosling a bunch, but his involvement is just a bonus, 'cause I'd watch any Logan's Run remake going.
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Up until I saw the trailer, I would've had to say the Russell Brand remake of Arthur was in the "not looking forward" pile, but I was pleasantly surprised by the trailer, so now I guess I'm cautiously optimistic.
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Dear God
Atlas Shrugged Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM#ws)
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I can assume that is being produced by The Asylum?
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I don't know what that means
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Do you know what Google means?
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I like that John Galt is being played by a New Zealander.
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It looks like an ABC Family original.
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Do you know what Google means?
I certainly know what asshole means. Ever met one?
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Good to see Armin Shimerman getting some work.
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It has not yet been picked up for distribution, so, to quote Rick Perlstein "I guess the free market works after all."
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To quote a poster on another message board: "Maybe you should let me finish speaking" is the new "Hasta la vista, Baby."
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Viral marketing at CPAC! (http://twitpic.com/3yqh7e)
I would've gone with "Why so Galty?"
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Imagining the theater experience for Atlas Shrugged, I see a bunch of Baby Boomer-aged guys with mustaches and baseball caps, sprinkled with a few younger guys who look like they'd be in a 70's progressive rock band.
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Viral marketing at CPAC! (http://twitpic.com/3yqh7e)
I would've gone with "Why so Galty?"
The unmitigated Galt!
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I look forward to the first highly positive review appearing in some wingnut outlet under the title "Galty Pleasures." Oh wait, no I don't.
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I look forward to the first highly positive review appearing in some wingnut outlet under the title "Galty Pleasures." Oh wait, no I don't.
Socialist says, "What?"
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You know Geddy Lee will be there.
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"Who is Remo Williams?"
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You know Geddy Lee will be there.
Isn't it just Peart who's into that stuff?
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You know Geddy Lee will be there.
Isn't it just Peart who's into that stuff?
And isn't it "PEEEEEEEEEEErt"?
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I know this does not count because they are doing it as an HBO series, but Game of Thrones.
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From the bubblegum file, Bela Tarr's new (and allegedly final) film
The Turin Horse - Official Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWYoqi4Kpw4#ws)
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I kinda want to see this even though it will be painful to see the truth.
Bad Writing - Official Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=raWLS2_PEfI#ws)
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Imagining the theater experience for Atlas Shrugged, I see a bunch of Baby Boomer-aged guys with mustaches and baseball caps, sprinkled with a few younger guys who look like they'd be in a 70's progressive rock band. Rush
FTFY
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I kinda want to see this even though it will be painful to see the truth.
Bad Writing - Official Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=raWLS2_PEfI#ws)
looks great.
though I think it's oddly ironic that using a song like Habanera in the trailer is such a boring, cliche and uninspired choice.
unless it was intentional i guess.
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I like that John Galt is being played by a New Zealander.
Is the guy playing Hank Reardon a New Zealander or did I actually miss the appearance of JG (he doesn't show up until near the end in the book [Part II, I'm guessing)?
did i just out myself as being super excited to see this? i loved Ayn Rand as a young punk rocker.
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Quite right. John Galt is being played by a Canadian (who is also the director).
(Confession: I've never read Atlas Shrugged, and neither do I plan to.)
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(Confession: I've never read Atlas Shrugged, and neither do I plan to.)
Neither do I, but she was right on when it came to religion. Love how she slaps down Donahue here:
Ayn Rand - Faith vs Reason (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GS6vxb4H3M#)
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I hope they cut out the part about killing people when they get too old and just make it about how the future will look like ABBA living in a shopping mall.
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Neither do I, but she was right on when it came to religion.
Ayn Rand - Faith vs Reason (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GS6vxb4H3M#)
As my ol' Grampaw used to say, "Even a blind hog turns up an acorn once in a while."
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Funny how Randites now conveniently forget about her atheism.
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Funny how Randites now conveniently forget about her atheism.
Really? I always thought of most of her followers as equally Objectivist and atheist.
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Yeah, I don't think it's a dirty secret. Her true believers embrace it, while a much larger contingent of right-libertarians just say so what, it's her economic ideas we're interested in.
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Gather i hate ayn rand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KmrW3R-ps&feature=related#)
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I am not looking forward to ANY of the comic book movies coming out ever- Thor? Priest? When Weirdo-wood is reaching for bottom of the barrel heroes and coming ever closer to making Entourage plotlines a reality, I think it's time to end it.
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Now, I wouldn't exactly call Thor "bottom of the barrel."
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No disrespect to his holy hammerness, it's just that you don't exactly see kids running around with wing helmets on Halloween. Hopefully the movie proves me wrong.
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Is the Thor of comics an asshole? He is in every representation of him I've encountered.
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Is the Thor of comics an asshole? He is every representation of him I've encountered.
I thought he was supposed to be aloof.
Like Prince.
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I see him portrayed most as a hot-headed, short-tempered, humorless numbskull. I've disliked him ever since I read my first Norse myths as a kid.
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I see him portrayed most as a hot-headed, short-tempered, humorless numbskull. I've disliked him ever since I read my first Norse myths as a kid.
Talk like that is a good way to get thunderstricken.
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I'll take my chances. After all, the Judeo-Christian god hasn't struck me down yet, and I've said much worse about that one.
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I'll take my chances. After all, the Judeo-Christian god hasn't struck me down yet, and I've said much worse about that one.
these are the kind of things i wish i could give a thumbs up to a la facebook.
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Is the Thor of comics an asshole? He is in every representation of him I've encountered.
He's arrogant, but thats why he's stuck on Earth, to learn a bit of humility. He loves life and a good fightin'.
No disrespect to his holy hammerness, it's just that you don't exactly see kids running around with wing helmets on Halloween. Hopefully the movie proves me wrong.
You'll see them next year.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/viral-video-stars-movie-the-chronicles-of-rick-roll-2011-2 (http://www.businessinsider.com/viral-video-stars-movie-the-chronicles-of-rick-roll-2011-2)
Some one finally decided to go whole hog and not just steal ideas for their ads from the internet, but turn it into one giant SNL cash-in movie. Someday we'll look back on the days when the only time the internet turned up in real life was when your boss tried to be funny by saying "Your The Man Now Dog" even though it was three years after that was even relevant, or that time Rick Astley sang during the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. We'll look back on those times like Adam looked back on the gates to Paradise.
He's been planning this film for over six months now, and he's aiming for a theatrical release.
Nice to know he's really put a lot of time into this movie, sounds like a real labor of love. I was worried it would be a pathetic cash grab that would almost definitely fall flat, but nope. Sounds like this guy is really devoted to his...
"Instead of going to Hollywood for expensive A-list actors, why not sign people on with a name who command an audience?" Fischer told us.
Does he not get the traditional internet life-cycle. These people "commanded an audience"? People laughed at them, called them idiots, then patronizingly declared them awesome, then got tired of them, and now either don't care, or actively don't want to hear the "Hide Your Husband" crap. Uh, god.
"A lot of people will be very surprised by the plot," said Fischer.
No, they won't, because you work for a marketing company called NURV and NURV stands for Never Underestimate Radical Vision. If you were in the sixties, you'd be making a movie about flower-children and Astronauts bringing a Jimi Hendrix alien back from the moon, and your company would be called something like Let's Fly! Aeronautics And Design.
That being said. I want to see this movie. I know it's incredibly idiotic of me to waste my time with a horrible, advantageous movie, but I love a horrible advantageous movie. Bad Mad Max knockoffs, Star Wars ripoffs from any other country. This could be the next wave of the popular Dashploitation genre. With its rich history of Black, Mex, Sex and Drug sub-genres, I'm sure "Internet" will find it's place, so that in thirty years crappy film school students can look back and say "You know, I think that 'The Chronicles Of Rick Roll' really is talking about what man must do to find a place in the then burgeoning information age. It really is a triumph, up there with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Wheels Of Fire"
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I've got a feeling Terry is gunna make it on TMZ soon:
(http://icydk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/first-look-benaffleck-rachelmcadams.jpg)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1595656/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1595656/)
But Tree of Life will be out May 27.
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Hmm, I guess Tree of Life 2 is being postponed.
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Meek's Cutoff looks promising. I'm a big fan of Reichardt.
Meek's Cutoff - Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEmL9at6JT0#ws)
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Meek's Cutoff looks promising. I'm a big fan of Reichardt.
That does look really interesting. A lot of great actors. Plus, I'm a sucker for modern Westerns like that.
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Meek's Cutoff looks promising. I'm a big fan of Reichardt.
That does look really interesting. A lot of great actors. Plus, I'm a sucker for modern Westerns like that.
Too many bonnets. I'm gonna have to pass on Meek's!
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Meek's Cutoff looks promising. I'm a big fan of Reichardt.
That does look really interesting. A lot of great actors. Plus, I'm a sucker for modern Westerns like that.
Too many bonnets. I'm gonna have to pass on Meek's!
I'm excited but after I saw True Grit I determined that I was kind of tired of that old western, dirty film style. The Proposition, Jesse James, There Will Be Blood, 3:10 to Yuma all come to mind. However, Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy were among my favorite films for their respected years. Plus, even though I feel like that style is worn out, I am always impressed and like/love the films.
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1.33:1?! ???
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1.33:1?! ???
From what I've heard, it was shot this way because Reichardt wanted a tighter frame, as opposed to wide-open western landscapes.
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I don't often concern myself with movie ratings, but that really does not look to be a PG film.
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1.33:1?! ???
From what I've heard, it was shot this way because Reichardt wanted a tighter frame, as opposed to wide-open western landscapes.
Interesting. Reminds me of Fish Tank - Andrea Arnold wanted a 4:3 frame on that aswell, supposedly to create more of a locked up feel to it.
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I'll watch it when it comes my way, although I'm a little a-scared to, what with the Village Voice's Karina Longworth saying the movie involves "literal life-and-death stakes" and all.
Addendum: Just read your earlier nice remark, IABVT. Thank you.
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http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/kaboom (http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/kaboom)
Honestly why do I keep watching this man's films? Why did I even start? I will probably go see this.
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http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/kaboom (http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/kaboom)
Honestly why do I keep watching this man's films? Why did I even start? I will probably go see this.
Mysterious Skin - Smiley Face - Kaboom is certainly Araki's best run. I can't say I liked any of his previous stuff, although they are intriguing artifacts of a certain strain of American indie films of a certain time.
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http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/kaboom (http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/kaboom)
Honestly why do I keep watching this man's films? Why did I even start? I will probably go see this.
Mysterious Skin - Smiley Face - Kaboom is certainly Araki's best run. I can't say I liked any of his previous stuff, although they are intriguing artifacts of a certain strain of American indie films of a certain time.
Yeah Mysterious Skin was a really good film. Smiley face, I got through like 5 minutes. Anna Faris is just too rmuch for me. I think I saw it was on Instant. Does it get better?
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No, Smiley Face was pretty terrible.
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http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/kaboom (http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/kaboom)
Honestly why do I keep watching this man's films? Why did I even start? I will probably go see this.
Mysterious Skin - Smiley Face - Kaboom is certainly Araki's best run. I can't say I liked any of his previous stuff, although they are intriguing artifacts of a certain strain of American indie films of a certain time.
Yeah Mysterious Skin was a really good film. Smiley face, I got through like 5 minutes. Anna Faris is just too rmuch for me. I think I saw it was on Instant. Does it get better?
Doom Generation is one of the worst movies ever
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I have my doubts over whether it'll live up to the hype but I'm looking forward to seeing Submarine.
Submarine - In Cinemas March 18 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CAntLzsQ74#ws)
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No, Smiley Face was pretty terrible.
Yeah. Don't like Araki, gave this one a shot because I like Anna Faris, but that thing just didn't work for me.
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I have my doubts over whether it'll live up to the hype but I'm looking forward to seeing Submarine.
Richard Ayoade, the kid from Becoming Human, and Jacques Brel in the background? Count me in.
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I'm in love with Richard Ayoade.
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Who isn't?
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Doom Generation is one of the worst movies ever
There is no bad worse than pointlessly bad.
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Doom Generation is one of the worst movies ever
There is no bad worse than pointlessly bad.
exactly! i started watching expecting it to be trashy but fun but it was just frustrating
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OMG, you guys!
ÉVOCATEUR - Official Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_w4bAV3P9I&feature=player_embedded#ws)
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What the flip does that title even mean? "Provocateur" I would understand. Why French for "evocative"? Why French at all?
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OMG, you guys!
ÉVOCATEUR - Official Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_w4bAV3P9I&feature=player_embedded#ws)
25 years ago? How old are we, sister?
I did a class project where I dressed up as Morton Downey, Jr. I have no - repeat no - idea what it was about. I do remember that none of the other kids had any idea who I was supposed to be.
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Not sure if this will be a 2011 movie, technically, but I don't wanna start a new thread - Ryan Gosling is gonna be in a Logan's Run remake ... he's one of those guys who is in movies that everybody says are really good but I never get around to watching them for some reason.
However, I will go see a Logans' Run remake.
I hope they don't cut the line, "I HATE the outside!"
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OMG, you guys!
ÉVOCATEUR - Official Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_w4bAV3P9I&feature=player_embedded#ws)
I loved when Stuttering John tried to ask Morton Downey, Jr. a question at a book signing and Morton physically attacked John while calling him a "ridiculous little fart."
Now that I think about it, that event deserves to be documented in the "two-way tie for last" thread.
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(http://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/wesanderson1-550x368.jpg)
Moonrise Kingdom!
“Ed Norton, Frances McDormand and Jason Schwartzman will join the already stellar cast of Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray“ (http://rushmoreacademy.com/2011/03/23/cast-confirmed-and-jason-schwartzman-joins-moonrise-kingdom)
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(http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/49799.jpg)
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=30483 (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=30483)
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(http://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/wesanderson1-550x368.jpg)
Moonrise Kingdom!
“Ed Norton, Frances McDormand and Jason Schwartzman will join the already stellar cast of Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray“ (http://rushmoreacademy.com/2011/03/23/cast-confirmed-and-jason-schwartzman-joins-moonrise-kingdom)
I like all of his movies just fine, but I kind of hope he rolls back the visual style for this one. It's getting kind of claustrophobic.
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(http://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/wesanderson1-550x368.jpg)
Moonrise Kingdom!
“Ed Norton, Frances McDormand and Jason Schwartzman will join the already stellar cast of Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray“ (http://rushmoreacademy.com/2011/03/23/cast-confirmed-and-jason-schwartzman-joins-moonrise-kingdom)
I like all of his movies just fine, but I kind of hope he rolls back the visual style for this one. It's getting kind of claustrophobic.
Is it like being trapped in a room with nine animals?
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Being trapped with nine animals, being trapped in a closet of suits, you get the idea.
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OMG, you guys!
ÉVOCATEUR - Official Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_w4bAV3P9I&feature=player_embedded#ws)
Can't wait! I'm gonna watch it with the Lee Atwater movie for a Why We're So Fucked double feature.
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I wish you people would be more clear about if you are or aren't excited for whatever movie you are posting about.
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OMG, you guys!
ÉVOCATEUR - Official Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_w4bAV3P9I&feature=player_embedded#ws)
Can't wait! I'm gonna watch it with the Lee Atwater movie for a Why We're So Fucked double feature.
I think I'll watch that Lee Atwater movie tonight. It looks interesting.
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Wow, Atwater is kind of fascinating. There needs to be a good biopic about him.
Can you imagine this guy in the Obama era?
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Wow, Atwater is kind of fascinating. There needs to be a good biopic about him.
Can you imagine this guy in the Obama era?
With all of Atwater's children running around, it's not really that hard to imagine.
His story is captivating. It's hard to believe his illness and physical transformation isn't the product of a screenwriter trying too hard to fit someone's life into a neat three-act structure.
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He was kind of a dead ringer for Daniel Johnston by the end of it.
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Can you imagine this guy in the Obama era?
With all of Atwater's children running around, it's not really that hard to imagine.
Yes. There are plenty of aspiring Republican power-brokers out there who are more shameless in their amorality and willingness to race-bait than Atwater could have dreamt of (Andrew Breitbart, anyone?). So far, none of them have come as close to the levers of real political power as Atwater did, but just wait until 2012.
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Can you imagine this guy in the Obama era?
With all of Atwater's children running around, it's not really that hard to imagine.
Yes. There are plenty of aspiring Republican power-brokers out there who are more shameless in their amorality and willingness to race-bait than Atwater could have dreamt of (Andrew Breitbart, anyone?). So far, none of them have come as close to the levers of real political power as Atwater did, but just wait until 2012.
Karl Rove?
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Rove was absolutely shameless about gay-baiting, but Atwater-style race-baiting? Nothing's coming to mind, but I'm happy to have my memory refreshed.
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Rove was absolutely shameless about gay-baiting, but Atwater-style race-baiting? Nothing's coming to mind, but I'm happy to have my memory refreshed.
You should ask John McCain's illegitimate black child.
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Ooooohhh!
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Rove was absolutely shameless about gay-baiting, but Atwater-style race-baiting? Nothing's coming to mind, but I'm happy to have my memory refreshed.
I don't think Rove used race-baiting when running Bush's campaign. What I meant was that Rove unquestionably uses the skill set that Atwater brought to the table for the first time. Yeah, they used a different group as a springboard for fear and hate, but it's the same technique.
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Atlas Shrugged the Movie
On April 15, Atlas Shrugged: Part I will be released in theaters in select cities around the country.
Based on Ayn Rand's epic 1957 novel, the new movie plots the collapse of American society after men of the mind (thinkers, industrialists, scientists, artists and other innovators) go on strike and vanish, refusing to contribute to a collectivist world.
To learn more about the film and to get involved, please visit the official website at http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/ (http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/)
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Let's see, thinkers, industrialists, scientists, artists (artists??)...what group of movers 'n' shakers are the publicists for this movie passing over in silence?
Oh yeah, financiers. Gee, we'd all really be screwed if the finance industry went on strike and vanished.
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Let's see, thinkers, industrialists, scientists, artists (artists??)...what group of movers 'n' shakers are the publicists for this movie passing over in silence?
Oh yeah, financiers. Gee, we'd all really be screwed if the finance industry went on strike and vanished.
Excellent observation, Nudie.
What gets me is the part one part.
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Atlas Shrugged the Movie
On April 15, Atlas Shrugged: Part I will be released in theaters in select cities around the country.
Based on Ayn Rand's epic 1957 novel, the new movie plots the collapse of American society after men of the mind (thinkers, industrialists, scientists, artists and other innovators) go on strike and vanish, refusing to contribute to a collectivist world.
To learn more about the film and to get involved, please visit the official website at
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We have an entire thread about this, Fredericks:
http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7669.0.html (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7669.0.html)
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Atlas Shrugged the Movie
On April 15, Atlas Shrugged: Part I will be released in theaters in select cities around the country.
Based on Ayn Rand's epic 1957 novel, the new movie plots the collapse of American society after men of the mind (thinkers, industrialists, scientists, artists and other innovators) go on strike and vanish, refusing to contribute to a collectivist world.
To learn more about the film and to get involved, please visit the official website at
(http://[/url)
We have an entire thread about this, Fredericks:
http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7669.0.html (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7669.0.html)
Found this thread first after getting a Cato notification in an email.
Still not looking forward to it.
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Finally, Rand is getting the movie treatment her work deserves! (looks like crap, I mean)
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Fredericks, did you see this?
Be part of Atlas Shrugged History (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-fN7oV2VlY&feature=player_embedded#ws)
Do it, Fredericks! You could get a slot in the DVD's extra features, along with this guy:
I am John Galt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5_9hhwsc0E&feature=player_embedded#)
Or this guy:
toddgalt.m4v (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqItzDLJTkc&feature=player_embedded#)
Not to forget this guy!:
I Am John Galt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr8XQJIE3CA&feature=player_embedded#)
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I played them all at once. Quite fun!
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I played them all at once. Quite fun!
Goddamn you for being that awesome and making me do that too, Fonpr!!!
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(http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt191/Aunt1eChr1st1na/cowboys-aliens-ford-craig.jpg)
God dang, this looks kind of awesome! (http://www.slashfilm.com/read-detailed-description-act-cowboys-aliens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29#)
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(http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt191/Aunt1eChr1st1na/cowboys-aliens-ford-craig.jpg)
God dang, this looks kind of awesome! (http://www.slashfilm.com/read-detailed-description-act-cowboys-aliens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29#)
They showed the trailer in front of something I saw recently and the audience was laughing at the trailer.
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It really is going to have dinosaurs in it!:
(http://film-book.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/the-tree-of-life-movie-poster-01.jpg)
^^^^Not a slag on Mr. Penn.
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(http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt191/Aunt1eChr1st1na/cowboys-aliens-ford-craig.jpg)
God dang, this looks kind of awesome! (http://www.slashfilm.com/read-detailed-description-act-cowboys-aliens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29#)
They showed the trailer in front of something I saw recently and the audience was laughing at the trailer.
Hurr'son Ford gunna kill 'nem Aliens with his lethal surliness.
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High Plains Invaders will always be my cowboys-and-aliens movie.
James Marsters stars in HIGH PLAINS INVADERS • rhitv.com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeenlEM62cE#ws)
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(http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt191/Aunt1eChr1st1na/cowboys-aliens-ford-craig.jpg)
God dang, this looks kind of awesome! (http://www.slashfilm.com/read-detailed-description-act-cowboys-aliens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29#)
They showed the trailer in front of something I saw recently and the audience was laughing at the trailer.
Hurr'son Ford gunna kill 'nem Aliens with his lethal surliness.
"Get off my plain!"
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Ho.
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"Get off my plain!"
"Get off my UFO!"
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Jesus, it just gets better and better. By which I mean, more abjectly wretched and more obscenely horrible.
Dagny Taggart Confronts the Union (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8MVFoiw-dw&feature=player_embedded#ws)
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(http://www.endofshow.com/wp-content/uploads/certified-copy.jpg)
This in Philadelphia Weekly:
"Certified Copy (2010): Sorry, folks, but that Before Sunrise -looking film about Juliette Binoche and some dude strolling through Tuscany and falling in love? It’s actually a crazy mindfuck from Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami. Go see it anyway."
Good to know because the trailer is shit. Gunna see it today after work.
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Certified Copy is so goddamn good.
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Jesus, it just gets better and better. By which I mean, more abjectly wretched and more obscenely horrible.
Dagny Taggart Confronts the Union (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8MVFoiw-dw&feature=player_embedded#ws)
The Republican monsters in Maine who are trying to relax child labor laws will love this movie. (My favorite quote (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/30/maine-gop-legislators-loo_n_842563.html): " 'I would support removing the cap for daily and weekly hours, but I would also support amending it to six hours when school is in session, so the student could get home from school -- say 3:00 -- and could work from 4:00-9:00. They'd still have plenty of time for homework,' Bickford added. 'Most of these kids are generally up well past 10:00. They could work a 3:00-9:00 shift.' ")
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Jesus, it just gets better and better. By which I mean, more abjectly wretched and more obscenely horrible.
Dagny Taggart Confronts the Union (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8MVFoiw-dw&feature=player_embedded#ws)
This looks like a Derrick Comedy video.
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The one cool thing about that Atlas Shrugged clip: The Jerry-Orbach-lookin' union dude whose magical jacket buttons and unbuttons itself.
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Jesus, it just gets better and better. By which I mean, more abjectly wretched and more obscenely horrible.
Dagny Taggart Confronts the Union (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8MVFoiw-dw&feature=player_embedded#ws)
This is horrible and ham-fisted, but is it really any more horrible and ham-fisted than most Hollywood schlock out there?
If it were up to me, every copy of, say, Gladiator and Crash (not the Cronenberg one) would be individually tried and burned for hamfistedness.
These guys had to draw from actors from the awful Christian movies, probably because there actually IS too much risk in a mainstream actor appearing in an Ayn Rand film these days.
We can talk all day about who started it, and who deserves what, but it's sad to me that we've gotten to this point.
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Certified Copy is so goddamn good.
As I continute to catch up w/ the films of 2010 it handily tops them all so far.
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Jesus, it just gets better and better. By which I mean, more abjectly wretched and more obscenely horrible.
Dagny Taggart Confronts the Union (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8MVFoiw-dw&feature=player_embedded#ws)
This is horrible and ham-fisted, but is it really any more horrible and ham-fisted than most Hollywood schlock out there?
If it were up to me, every copy of, say, Gladiator and Crash (not the Cronenberg one) would be individually tried and burned for hamfistedness.
These guys had to draw from actors from the awful Christian movies, probably because there actually IS too much risk in a mainstream actor appearing in an Ayn Rand film these days.
We can talk all day about who started it, and who deserves what, but it's sad to me that we've gotten to this point.
I would say it is more horrible than the usual crap because of the actively odious, as opposed to just stupid, content. And the big risk for a mainstream actor is to appear in a doomed turkey, which this was obviously always going to be.
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Jesus, it just gets better and better. By which I mean, more abjectly wretched and more obscenely horrible.
Dagny Taggart Confronts the Union (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8MVFoiw-dw&feature=player_embedded#ws)
This is horrible and ham-fisted, but is it really any more horrible and ham-fisted than most Hollywood schlock out there?
If it were up to me, every copy of, say, Gladiator and Crash (not the Cronenberg one) would be individually tried and burned for hamfistedness.
These guys had to draw from actors from the awful Christian movies, probably because there actually IS too much risk in a mainstream actor appearing in an Ayn Rand film these days.
We can talk all day about who started it, and who deserves what, but it's sad to me that we've gotten to this point.
I would say it is more horrible than the usual crap because of the actively odious, as opposed to just stupid, content. And the big risk for a mainstream actor is to appear in a doomed turkey, which this was obviously always going to be.
Allow me to retort!
Now, as a disclaimer, while I'm way, way more conservative than to my knowledge literally everyone else on this board, I'm pretty liberal compared to the nation as a whole.
Rand isn't particularly out there for the group of people that your fellow citizens elected to lead our country and most of our states this past fall.
Do you find all conservative ideas odious? And do you think that that type of thinking - and the type of thinking that prevents decent actors from thinking about appearing in these types of films - has anything to do with the extraordinary, country-ruining election results this past fall? Because I do.
Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal starred in the Fountainhead, which was a weird-ass movie but well acted. Are we better off that actors are forced to choose roles based on political ideology at this point? You can't separate the fact that this movie is a doomed turkey from the fact that no known actor in Hollywood - with two types of exceptions - would feel comfortable starring in an Ayn Rand movie with a $500 million budget.
The two exceptions are people who already have a lot of money (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis, uh Mel Gibson) and people who aren't ever going to make any money (whichever Baldwin it is).
Again, I ain't saying this is a good movie or a good book. I'm just bothered by the fact that what is always, always the second most influential book cited by Americans can't attract any actors to it because it's career suicide to be associated with anything conservative.
And that just leads to more wins for the worst types of conservatives in areas that really matter, like, you know, politics.
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. . . what is always, always the second most influential book cited by Americans . . .
I challenge.
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. . . what is always, always the second most influential book cited by Americans . . .
I challenge.
Considered...
Denied.
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Allow me to retort!
Now, as a disclaimer, while I'm way, way more conservative than to my knowledge literally everyone else on this board, I'm pretty liberal compared to the nation as a whole.
Challenge.
Rand isn't particularly out there for the group of people that your fellow citizens elected to lead our country and most of our states this past fall.
Maybe not. Have you checked the approval ratings recently for the Rand-influenced (i.e., "Tea Party") Republicans) that a whole lotta Wisconsonians, Iowans, Floridians, etc. elected and are now having serious buyer's remorse about?
Do you find all conservative ideas odious?
No. All contemporary Republican-Party ideas, yeah, pretty much. Elementary research will tell you that those ideas are more Nihilist than they are the conservative ideas of, say, the Eisenhower years.
And do you think that that type of thinking - and the type of thinking that prevents decent actors from thinking about appearing in these types of films - has anything to do with the extraordinary, country-ruining election results this past fall? Because I do.
OK, you lost me. You mean my type of thinking, the type that finds Palin-era Republican thinking odious? No. I think quality filmmaking can survive the mostly-self-contrived martyrdom of actors like Gary Sinise, Victoria Jackson, Kelsey Grammer, and Jon Voight. And I'm having trouble seeing how my anti-conservative type of thinking contributed to the election results which, we apparently agree, were country-ruining. Hold on, are you accusing liberals of ruining the country in 2010?????
Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal starred in the Fountainhead, which was a weird-ass movie but well acted. Are we better off that actors are forced to choose roles based on political ideology at this point?
Not particularly, but I think the myth that they are is mostly their bullshit, Ask Bruce Willis.
You can't separate the fact that this movie is a doomed turkey from the fact that no known actor in Hollywood - with two types of exceptions - would feel comfortable starring in an Ayn Rand movie with a $500 million budget.
The two exceptions are people who already have a lot of money (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis, uh Mel Gibson) and people who aren't ever going to make any money (whichever Baldwin it is).
Again, I ain't saying this is a good movie or a good book. I'm just bothered by the fact that what is always, always the second most influential book cited by Americans can't attract any actors to it because it's career suicide to be associated with anything conservative.
And that just leads to more wins for the worst types of conservatives in areas that really matter, like, you know, politics.
I wish it were more suicidal for actors or anyone else on the public stage to identify themselves with an ideology that is ruining this country, but in the end, money will always talk (with your support, apparently).
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OK, Pauline Kael. No need to get so worked up.
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. . . what is always, always the second most influential book cited by Americans . . .
I challenge.
Considered...
Denied.
If every single American cites Atlas Shrugged as the second most influential book, what am I?
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Do you find all conservative ideas odious? And do you think that that type of thinking - and the type of thinking that prevents decent actors from thinking about appearing in these types of films - has anything to do with the extraordinary, country-ruining election results this past fall? Because I do.
OK, you lost me. You mean my type of thinking, the type that finds Palin-era Republican thinking odious? No. I think quality filmmaking can survive the mostly-self-contrived martyrdom of actors like Gary Sinise, Victoria Jackson, Kelsey Grammer, and Jon Voight. And I'm having trouble seeing how my anti-conservative type of thinking contributed to the election results which, we apparently agree, were country-ruining. Hold on, are you accusing liberals of ruining the country in 2010?????
I believe buffcoat was saying that a position of finding all conservative ideas odious contributed to the latest election results, not your stance of finding Palin-era Republican thinking odious. The flaw in his argument, of course, is that only a small proportion of people find ALL conservative ideas odious, and those few are hardly responsible for the ascendance of the tea party last November. The responsibility for that, I think, falls more with white folks' fears of no longer automatically being top dogs and variously hued folks' fears about the money, fears so overwhelming that they make loud, stupid, simple-minded suggestions on how to fix things sound attractive.
Also, is it not possible that actors chose not to get involved in this movie because they thought the script sucked, not just because of its politics?
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I believe buffcoat was saying that a position of finding all conservative ideas odious contributed to the latest election results, not your stance of finding Palin-era Republican thinking odious. The flaw in his argument, of course, is that only a small proportion of people find ALL conservative ideas odious...
Yeah, I realize that I didn't read him quite correctly there, but I admit I find this a very strange argument. If people on the left were less doctrinaire, hard right-wingers wouldn't have done so well at the polls? If name actors were more willing to be associated with highly polarizing propagandafests, we would be electing better leaders?
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I think he was arguing that people, feeling that their concerns were not being given the proper attention, turned to more extreme candidates. In small part, I agree--although I think the concerns that were being given short shrift deserved no more. In any case, the bigger reason so many mad fools won last year is that too many Democrats were content to sit on their laurels, not that tons of moderate conservatives were swayed to the dark side because they felt slighted.
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Fair enough. Anyway, I don't see why the focus turned to "all conservative ideas" in the first place. I used "odious" in reference to the content of that movie. The movie doesn't encompass "all conservative ideas," it encompasses Ayn Rand's ideas. Are Ayn Rand's ideas odious? Yes. I don't see how you can say that's even an open question while calling yourelf "pretty liberal compared to the nation as a whole." I'm done now.
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I'm done now.
That makes three of us!
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We Need To Talk About Kevin
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Allin? He passed on.
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He might be dead, but I hear there have been talks to digitally recreate him for movies and commercials.
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Apparently, Jimmy Stewart's family is pushing for a digitally recreated Allin to play the angel in the upcoming It's a Wonderful Life remake.
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Not sure whether I'm looking forward to this or not, but here's the trailer for Lars von Trier's latest laugh fest Melancholia:
Melancholia (http://vimeo.com/22072654)
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Definitely a must-see, as long as there's no genital mutilation. A planet hiding behind the sun!
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I think it looks pretty boring. I know it's just a trailer though. Feels like Close Encounters meets Festen meets Antichrist.
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The wedding stuff looks like it might be old hat but "Lars Von Trier blows up Earth" is a concept that sells itself.
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I think we probably heard the best line of the whole movie in that trailer:
"I hate that stupid planet"
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Definitely looking forward to Damsels in Distress by Whit Stillman:
(http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/damsels-in-distress-slice.jpg)
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/10/adam-brody-joins-whit-stillmans-damsels.html (http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/10/adam-brody-joins-whit-stillmans-damsels.html)
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Definitely looking forward to Damsels in Distress by Whit Stillman:
(http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/damsels-in-distress-slice.jpg)
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/10/adam-brody-joins-whit-stillmans-damsels.html (http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/10/adam-brody-joins-whit-stillmans-damsels.html)
I'm there.
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Greta Gerwig might be my favorite actress. I really loved her in Nights and Weekends, which I believe she cowrote.
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Greta Gerwig might be my favorite actress. I really loved her in Nights and Weekends, which I believe she cowrote.
She's pretty glorious in Ti West's House of the Devil.
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Definitely looking forward to Damsels in Distress by Whit Stillman:
(http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/damsels-in-distress-slice.jpg)
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I'm there.
Fifth from left?
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Greta Gerwig might be my favorite actress. I really loved her in Nights and Weekends, which I believe she cowrote.
She's pretty glorious in Ti West's House of the Devil.
That's a pretty interesting movie, isn't it? I mean, it's about 99% pastiche, there's practically nothing new in it, exactly, but it hit all the right notes for me.
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Greta Gerwig might be my favorite actress. I really loved her in Nights and Weekends, which I believe she cowrote.
She's pretty glorious in Ti West's House of the Devil.
That's a pretty interesting movie, isn't it? I mean, it's about 99% pastiche, there's practically nothing new in it, exactly, but it hit all the right notes for me.
The whole cast is great and its almost unbearably suspenseful. That movie really earned all of the scares that it dishes out. I can't wait to see what Ti West does next.
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Repping for the "not" half of this thread
Straw Dogs Trailer 2 (2011) HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRFiLq3QQFg#ws)
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Greta Gerwig might be my favorite actress. I really loved her in Nights and Weekends, which I believe she cowrote.
She's pretty glorious in Ti West's House of the Devil.
That's a pretty interesting movie, isn't it? I mean, it's about 99% pastiche, there's practically nothing new in it, exactly, but it hit all the right notes for me.
The whole cast is great and its almost unbearably suspenseful. That movie really earned all of the scares that it dishes out. I can't wait to see what Ti West does next.
I love that movie. I thought I was going to have a heart attack while watching it. The suspense was smothering.
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Greta Gerwig might be my favorite actress. I really loved her in Nights and Weekends, which I believe she cowrote.
She's pretty glorious in Ti West's House of the Devil.
That's a pretty interesting movie, isn't it? I mean, it's about 99% pastiche, there's practically nothing new in it, exactly, but it hit all the right notes for me.
The whole cast is great and its almost unbearably suspenseful. That movie really earned all of the scares that it dishes out. I can't wait to see what Ti West does next.
Some of the early reviews for West's The Innkeepers haven't been great, but I look forward to it.
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Repping for the "not" half of this thread
Straw Dogs Trailer 2 (2011) HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRFiLq3QQFg#ws)
People who wanted to see Straw Dogs get remade are the same monsters that complained when Peter Jackson didn't film the rape scene in The Lovely Bones. Could you imagine sitting in a theater filled with dudes all jazzed up to see this?
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Definitely looking forward to Damsels in Distress by Whit Stillman:
(http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/damsels-in-distress-slice.jpg)
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I'm there.
Fifth from left?
I could never wear clothes that cool.
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Definitely looking forward to Damsels in Distress by Whit Stillman:
(http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/damsels-in-distress-slice.jpg)
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I'm there.
Fifth from left?
I could never wear clothes that cool.
What's your boff order? 2 3 1 5 4, why?
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Repping for the "not" half of this thread
Straw Dogs Trailer 2 (2011) HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRFiLq3QQFg#ws)
Around here this is called "Another Day in Knox County".
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Tree of Life booed at Cannes:
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/05/16/cannes-brad-pitt-tree-of-life-2/ (http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/05/16/cannes-brad-pitt-tree-of-life-2/)
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Definitely looking forward to Damsels in Distress by Whit Stillman
Really? I seem to have heard rumors of its release for many years... Hmm...
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Tree of Life booed at Cannes:
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/05/16/cannes-brad-pitt-tree-of-life-2/ (http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/05/16/cannes-brad-pitt-tree-of-life-2/)
they were saying "Booo-urns"
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It's Cannes, they boo everything there. It's like a sport. And most people seem enthusiastic enough.
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It's Cannes, they boo everything there. It's like a sport. And most people seem enthusiastic enough.
yeah, after actually reading the article, and other reviews from Cannes, the headline seems a bit misleading. I don't think some people booing amidst mostly applause and glowing reviews hardly constitutes "getting booed."
though I do like imagining The Sandman tap dancing Brad Pitt off the stage.
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They also gave The Beaver a 10-minute standing ovation, so I'd not put too much stock in that audience's opinion.
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They also gave The Beaver a 10-minute standing ovation, so I'd not put too much stock in that audience's opinion.
Is this true?
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They also gave The Beaver a 10-minute standing ovation, so I'd not put too much stock in that audience's opinion.
Is this true?
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/18/gibsons-the-beaver-gets-standing-o-at-cannes/ (http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/18/gibsons-the-beaver-gets-standing-o-at-cannes/)
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Amazing that after years of anticipation, the reaction to Malick's film is being overshadowed by this silly Von Trier flap, and that some of the reviews I've seen are favoring Melancholia as a sort of anti-Tree of Life
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More on the "booing" from The Guardian's Jason Solomons, who was there:
http://twitter.com/# (http://twitter.com/#)!/JasonCritic/status/70118985819095040
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Amazing that after years of anticipation, the reaction to Malick's film is being overshadowed by this silly Von Trier flap, and that some of the reviews I've seen are favoring Melancholia as a sort of anti-Tree of Life
Criterion announced today that they are releasing The Complete Lars von Trier Press Conferences on Blu-ray this fall.
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Amazing that after years of anticipation, the reaction to Malick's film is being overshadowed by this silly Von Trier flap, and that some of the reviews I've seen are favoring Melancholia as a sort of anti-Tree of Life
Criterion announced today that they are releasing The Complete Lars von Trier Press Conferences on Blu-ray this fall.
I'm starting to think Malick has the right idea about not doing interviews
http://www.avclub.com/articles/lars-von-triers-nazi-jokes-just-got-him-kicked-out,56314/ (http://www.avclub.com/articles/lars-von-triers-nazi-jokes-just-got-him-kicked-out,56314/)
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Much ado about nothing. More fuel for the fire of my hatred of the press.
P.S. And self-important people.
P.P.S. I watched The House of the Devil last night and found it suspenseful not at all. It did successfully mimic movies of the period in which it is set (although the acting is far too good for it to be a truly accurate imitation), and I was pleased at the feist of the heroine at the end. As for Greta Gerwig, I thought she overacted like crazy.
P.P.P.S. I had forgotten that I had a crush on Lars von Trier. That press conference brought it all back.
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I was kinda over Curb Your Enthusiasm but this promo for the new season got me excited again
Curb your Enthusiasm season 8 trailer! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8iW4vr1EaU&feature=player_embedded#ws)
PFT!, Brett Gelman, Rick Sommer, Michael J Fox and I'm pretty sure I saw Robert Smigel in there. this is excting
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I'd heard this (http://theenvelope.latimes.com/la-ca-terrence-malick-20110522,0,3375397.story) before but it's nice to get confirmation.
It turns out Malick is a huge fan of "Zoolander," Stiller's 2001 send-up of fashion fabulousness — so much so that for Malick's birthday one year, Stiller dressed up as the character Derek Zoolander, made a personalized video card and sent it to the director. "I think 'Zoolander' is one of Terry's favorite movies ever," said Jack Fisk, Malick's longtime production designer, who has known him for nearly 40 years. "He watches it all the time, and he likes quoting it."
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I'd heard this (http://theenvelope.latimes.com/la-ca-terrence-malick-20110522,0,3375397.story) before but it's nice to get confirmation.
It turns out Malick is a huge fan of "Zoolander," Stiller's 2001 send-up of fashion fabulousness — so much so that for Malick's birthday one year, Stiller dressed up as the character Derek Zoolander, made a personalized video card and sent it to the director. "I think 'Zoolander' is one of Terry's favorite movies ever," said Jack Fisk, Malick's longtime production designer, who has known him for nearly 40 years. "He watches it all the time, and he likes quoting it."
This reminds me of the "Thomas Pynchon dressed as a plumber to go see a screening of The Monkees film Head" rumor.
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Very much looking forward to this:
(http://exclaim.ca/images/up-george_harrisonLG.jpg)
http://exclaim.ca/News/Martin_Scorsese_to_Unveil_George_Harrison_Documentary_in_2011 (http://exclaim.ca/News/Martin_Scorsese_to_Unveil_George_Harrison_Documentary_in_2011)
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P.P.P.S. I had forgotten that I had a crush on Lars von Trier. That press conference brought it all back.
Not based on what he said, right? We can agree it was overblown, but it wasn't... sexy.
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My crushes don't necessarily have anything to do with sexiness.
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My crushes don't necessarily have anything to do with sexiness.
He does make films about women being tortured then rising to twisted heroism.
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That is not the reason, either.
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Forgot all about Mike Mills new film Beginners until i checked out the trailer again after reading Slants 5 star review of it.
http://youtu.be/rXUFUp6vsxg (http://youtu.be/rXUFUp6vsxg)
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Forgot all about Mike Mills new film Beginners until i checked out the trailer again after reading Slants 5 star review of it.
http://youtu.be/rXUFUp6vsxg (http://youtu.be/rXUFUp6vsxg)
I guess the new fourm doesnt let you post youtube videos the way the old one did, oh well theres the link.
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That is not the reason, either.
I think I can guess four reasons.
(http://twitchfilm.com/news/LarsFuckKnuckles.jpg)
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You just made me snort-laugh very unattractively.
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Maybe I shouldn't be excited--this sounds a lot like Sideways... but Sideways with Steve Coogan would have been great, right?
http://www.slate.com/id/2296201/ (http://www.slate.com/id/2296201/)
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Saw the trailer for this during the basketball game tonight. OH DEAR LORD! This looks fantastic.
Real Steel - Official Trailer [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S8a180uYBM#ws)
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Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots: The Melodrama
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I have to say that I'm really looking forward to The Zookeeper.
I guess I'm just a sucker for CGI gorillas.
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I have to say that I'm really looking forward to The Zookeeper.
I guess I'm just a sucker for CGI gorillas.
Then you're gonna poop your britches and throw it at someone when you see "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
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Cronenberg/Viggo Pt. 3:
A Dangerous Method (2011) Official Trailer - Keira Knightley & Michael Fassbender (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ7JKmcLTsI&feature=player_embedded#ws)
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Cronenberg/Viggo Pt. 3:
A Dangerous Method (2011) Official Trailer - Keira Knightley & Michael Fassbender (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ7JKmcLTsI&feature=player_embedded#ws)
That guy that wrote Dangerous Liaisons and this is kind of a sex creep.
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I am looking forward to seeing this movie. (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/the_coens_brothers_next_film_will_take_on_the_60s_new_york_city_folk_scene/#.TgYF7sem17w.twitter)
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I'm with you on this one.
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I am looking forward to seeing this movie. (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/the_coens_brothers_next_film_will_take_on_the_60s_new_york_city_folk_scene/#.TgYF7sem17w.twitter)
The Big Man kept calling Darren Cook, "Pete, Pete."
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I am looking forward to seeing this movie. (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/the_coens_brothers_next_film_will_take_on_the_60s_new_york_city_folk_scene/#.TgYF7sem17w.twitter)
The Big Man kept calling Darren Cook, "Pete, Pete."
Buff,
What are you doing here on a Saturday night?
Shouldn't you be crunching numbers or throwing back some weak brew with a lemon?
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I am looking forward to seeing this movie. (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/the_coens_brothers_next_film_will_take_on_the_60s_new_york_city_folk_scene/#.TgYF7sem17w.twitter)
The Coens' trademark facetiousness seems to me to be a weird mismatch with this scene, but who knows. Might be interesting, or it might be a self-indulgent blob of hip irony, and those pretty much describe the two poles of their work as far as I'm concerned.
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I think it will almost certainly disappoint, but I'm still eager to see it. My mother was a big folk buff when I was growing up--she was even in a jug band for a while--and all that music was the soundtrack of my life. I've been listening to Dave Van Ronk for as long as I can remember.
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I am looking forward to seeing this movie. (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/the_coens_brothers_next_film_will_take_on_the_60s_new_york_city_folk_scene/#.TgYF7sem17w.twitter)
The Big Man kept calling Darren Cook, "Pete, Pete."
Buff,
What are you doing here on a Saturday night?
Shouldn't you be crunching numbers or throwing back some weak brew with a lemon?
An orange, baby. I just stopped by for a few minutes.
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I am looking forward to seeing this movie. (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/the_coens_brothers_next_film_will_take_on_the_60s_new_york_city_folk_scene/#.TgYF7sem17w.twitter)
The Coens' trademark facetiousness seems to me to be a weird mismatch with this scene, but who knows. Might be interesting, or it might be a self-indulgent blob of hip irony, and those pretty much describe the two poles of their work as far as I'm concerned.
People said their adapting Cormac McCarthy wouldn't work either. I think it's safe to say they'll come up with something interesting, even if it isn't the movie people expect.
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It could be fine. I will be very fussy, however, because these are the heroes of my childhood. I think they will do justice to the music no matter what, though.
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I am looking forward to seeing this movie. (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/the_coens_brothers_next_film_will_take_on_the_60s_new_york_city_folk_scene/#.TgYF7sem17w.twitter)
The Coens' trademark facetiousness seems to me to be a weird mismatch with this scene, but who knows. Might be interesting, or it might be a self-indulgent blob of hip irony, and those pretty much describe the two poles of their work as far as I'm concerned.
People said their adapting Cormac McCarthy wouldn't work either. I think it's safe to say they'll come up with something interesting, even if it isn't the movie people expect.
When I first heard they were remaking True Grit, I didn't think it would work, but looking back after having seen it, I can't see how I would ever think such a thing.
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these are the heroes of my childhood.
Yeah, I too am skeptical about this Three Stooges movie.
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Monte Hellman's Road to Nowhere:
Road to Nowhere: SXSW 2011 Accepted Film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufJg6m7MmeQ#ws)
and: http://www.generalordersno9.com/ (http://www.generalordersno9.com/)
and for future discussion on The Mike Show:
Sleeping Beauty Trailer (Bande annonce) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sIGo9z2JDU#ws)
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Just when you thought American indie trailers couldn't get any more nauseatingly twee, Miranda July returns and out-twees them all within seconds.
The Future - Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_l05MZ9y8A&feature=player_embedded#ws)
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Well thank god for good old-fashioned indies like Larry Crowne (in theaters this weekend!)
'Larry Crowne' Trailer HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS155D2HlwY#ws)
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Just when you thought American indie trailers couldn't get any more nauseatingly twee, Miranda July returns and out-twees them all within seconds.
The Future - Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_l05MZ9y8A&feature=player_embedded#ws)
I really disliked her previous movie. This doesn't look any better.
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Watched two of those trailers and have no idea what either of the movies could be about. Is that thing a talking cat?
As for twee, until "Belle and Sebastian: The Movie" comes out, they will all fall short.
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I sincerely think it looks absolutely fantastic. Her previous film was one of my favorites of the last 5 - 6 years. I have seen it at least 4 times.
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I love the diversity in this forum. A handful of people will say they hate something then someone comes in with praise almost as if the previous posters loved it.
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I love the diversity in this forum. A handful of people will say they hate something then someone comes in with praise almost as if the previous posters loved it.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the Larry Crowne love, young fella.
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I'll go on the record as saying that I loved Miranda July's first film. Only seen it once though. And the trailer for her new one didn't do much for me, though I didn't hate it.
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I sincerely think it looks absolutely fantastic. Her previous film was one of my favorites of the last 5 - 6 years. I have seen it at least 4 times.
I like it a lot as well (I also enjoyed her short story collection). It was my first exposure to the great John Hawkes.
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and for future discussion on The Mike Show:
Sleeping Beauty Trailer (Bande annonce) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sIGo9z2JDU#ws)
Or until Mike sees "Salo"...
The Future - Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_l05MZ9y8A&feature=player_embedded#ws)
AHHHHHH! THE TWEE! IT BURNS!
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This may be a good show (one can always hope), but why on earth are they calling it Prime Suspect? Take one of the most iconic performances in the history of television by one of the Grand Dames of British Film and recreate it using Maria Bello in a funny hat?
http://www.nbc.com/prime-suspect/ (http://www.nbc.com/prime-suspect/)
This looks more like a recreation of Baretta.
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DRIVE
Drive - Official Trailer HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39mErOQcCg#ws)
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A TV show but...: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981538/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981538/)
I can't wait for its first, and probably only, season.
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Whoa, that's the first trailer I've seen from Drive, other than that short, 2 minute clip of the robbery. Besides Drive, I'm hoping Melancholia shapes up to be the feel bad movie of the year, the trailer looks promising.
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Just heard that there's going to be a remake of The Evil Dead, and that Diablo Cody is working on the script.
It won't be out in 2011, but I heard about it in 2011.
I am assuredly not looking forward to it.
The only thing worse than a bunch of wieners incessantly quoting Army of Darkness (maybe the Monty Python and the Holy Grail of horror movies, in terms of irritating fandom) would be the same bunch of wieners incessantly quoting fake-o Diablo Cody slang from some new Evil Dead.
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Why is that Drive trailer rated R?
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Im with everybody else on Drive but i have one reservation it looks a little Michael Mannish. Anybody see Bronson ive heard it was pretty good?
Anybody seen Beginners yet, its my favorite movie so far this year.
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MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE: Official HD Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERREgOobLOs#ws)
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MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE: Official HD Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERREgOobLOs#ws)
I saw this trailer a couple months ago and had forgotten all about it, thanks for the reminder! Does anybody know a release date on it?
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Finally a trailer for We Need To Talk About Kevin.
http://dai.ly/nUZih2 (http://dai.ly/nUZih2)
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Nobody here is looking forward to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
http://youtu.be/-TvdqRvCwGg (http://youtu.be/-TvdqRvCwGg)
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Finally a trailer for We Need To Talk About Kevin.
http://dai.ly/nUZih2 (http://dai.ly/nUZih2)
I thought this was about Kevin Smith's psychotherapy sessions...
Don't put John C. Reilly in just anything.
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Anybody see this yet?
God Of Carnage (2011) - Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoiZxkBzkCk#ws)
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How do you embedd a video on this thing i know ive done it before?
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How do you embedd a video on this thing i know ive done it before?
It's easier than you thought. Just copy and paste the youtube link alone.
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Another one im looking forward to.
Trailer for Martin Scorsese's GEORGE HARRISON: Living In The Material Word (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnx87LIDO9k#ws)
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Hey, imagine how big a book and movie Moneyball would have been if the f------ A's had actually managed to win something instead of rolling over for the Yankees again and again?
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Well, there was the 2006 ALDS... >:(
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Well, there was the 2006 ALDS... >:(
Wasn't that just Moneyball beating Moneyball, Jr. and Goliath, Jr. beating Super Goliath?
Then Goliath, Jr. whupped up on Moneyball and made sure everything made sense.
Baseball is a crime. You can't have pure capitalism in an otherwise completely regulated system. Moneyball-era Oakland is the (ugh) "exception that proves the rule."
Nice job last night, Tampa.
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"You can't have pure capitalism in an otherwise completely regulated system. Moneyball-era Oakland is the (ugh) "exception that proves the rule.""
Taking the words….
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FREAKS IN LOVE :: A Quarter Century in Underground Rock with ALICE DONUT (Official Trailer) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eie3vXcFff4#ws)
I am looking forward to this, even if it does appear to have four hours of Jello Biafra.
First time I saw Alice Donut was at Foufounes Electriques in Montreal back in 1990. I was right in front of the stage.
Anyway, I had an afro at the time and Tomas' first order of business upon coming onto the stage was to pull my hair...HARD. The behavior scared me, then angered me, and finally fascinated me.
A few songs in, a drunk guy bellyflopped onto the stage from the balcony. At first he lay motionless, but then he stood up and started singing emphatically into the mic with Tomas. Plus the band was tight as hell. A very memorable show all around.
Oh, and I used to see the drummer/trombonist at the Park Slope food coop on a regular basis.
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The Mill and the Cross was released in 2010 but I'm looking forward to seeing it tomorrow.
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The Mill and the Cross was released in 2010 but I'm looking forward to seeing it tomorrow.
I liked it. If you are ok with dead boring films that teach you something about art and history, prepare to have your face melted. Read no irony into the previous comment. I'm serious.
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This may be a good show (one can always hope), but why on earth are they calling it Prime Suspect? Take one of the most iconic performances in the history of television by one of the Grand Dames of British Film and recreate it using Maria Bello in a funny hat?
http://www.nbc.com/prime-suspect/ (http://www.nbc.com/prime-suspect/)
This looks more like a recreation of Baretta.
Prime Suspect wasn't bad. Then again, I can't remember whether Baretta was bad. Unfortunately, they could call it "Maria Bello Wears Quirky Hats" and it would be an apt title. It bears a small resemblance to the Helen Mirren masterpiece in that she's hated by her fellow detectives and relies on her father.
I don't like to pick up new shows, but I will watch a few more episodes of this one. I cannot say the same for Person of Interest, which I caught 10 minutes of and found dreadful. I like the guy from Lost, but he's just playing a good guy version of Ben Linus here, with significantly worse music cues. And the other actor is wooden.
Jeremy Sisto is one of my favorite actors, but I won't be catching his new series, either. Why watch the only 4 episodes of something?
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Not exactly a movie coming out in 2011 or probably ever, but I'd look forward to it if it ever got made: http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/10/02/look-out-will-ferrell-zach-galifianakis-wants-to-play-ignatius/ (http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/10/02/look-out-will-ferrell-zach-galifianakis-wants-to-play-ignatius/)
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Not exactly a movie coming out in 2011 or probably ever, but I'd look forward to it if it ever got made: http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/10/02/look-out-will-ferrell-zach-galifianakis-wants-to-play-ignatius/ (http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/10/02/look-out-will-ferrell-zach-galifianakis-wants-to-play-ignatius/)
Remember when i said this. If anybody could pull it off its Zach.
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Not exactly a movie coming out in 2011 or probably ever, but I'd look forward to it if it ever got made: http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/10/02/look-out-will-ferrell-zach-galifianakis-wants-to-play-ignatius/ (http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/10/02/look-out-will-ferrell-zach-galifianakis-wants-to-play-ignatius/)
Remember when i said this. If anybody could pull it off its Zach.
He might not be marketable enough. The studios might just have to go with Spike.
I'm not a fan of this show, but I'm sure this is big news to a lot of people on this board: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/02/arrested-development-back-new-episodes-movie_n_991404.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/02/arrested-development-back-new-episodes-movie_n_991404.html)
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Before this thread dies and people begin to migrate over to the 2012 thread: For those of you who contributed to this thread, what is your assessment of the movies you contributed? Did they live up to your expectations, or were they duds?
And on this topic: Auntie Christina, is the new version of The Thing as bad as the critics are saying? Like you, I was amped for this. It sounded like a great idea for a prequel, but it also sounds like the creators watered down the original plans.
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And on this topic: Auntie Christina, is the new version of The Thing as bad as the critics are saying? Like you, I was amped for this. It sounded like a great idea for a prequel, but it also sounds like the creators watered down the original plans.
Still haven't seen it yet! I've been too busy to get to the movies the last few weeks but hope to maybe wknd after next ...
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Not wowed.
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Anyone want to share their top 10 for 2011? Mine looks pretty lame so far -- I guess there are still a lot of movies that I have to see.
1. Drive
2. The Tree of Life
3. Warrior
4. Cedar Rapids
5. Terri
6. Margin Call
7. Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene
8. Everything Must Go
9. Crazy, Stupid Love.
10. Source Code
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1. Tree of Life
2. The Descendants
3. Drive
4. Certified Copy
5. Beginners
6. The Trip
7. Attack the Block
8. Meek's Cutoff
9. Bridesmaids
10. Super 8
(I still have a lot to see. Did anyone see the new Herzog documentary? It was only here a week.)
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I just finished reading Who Goes There? the novella on which all movie versions of The Thing are based. It's a cracking yarn; I recommend it. You can read it here (http://www.whogoesthere.info/download.php).
Now I'm going to watch the Carpenter movie and maybe even the old Hawks version.
It's all Thing, all the time 'round these parts.
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I had no idea the Thing films were based on a book. I saw the original Thing on TCM the other day. I could just be a Philistine, but I thought it was pretty crummy -- a B-movie with a couple cool scenes. To these eyes, the 1982 version was much, much better.
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It's all Thing, all the time 'round these parts.
It is your thing; do what you wanna ado.
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I had no idea the Thing films were based on a book. I saw the original Thing on TCM the other day. I could just be a Philistine, but I thought it was pretty crummy -- a B-movie with a couple cool scenes. To these eyes, the 1982 version was much, much better.
Your eyes are right. The 1951 movie is pretty crummy. The 1982 version is by far the best. I'm just being a completist.
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Really looking forward to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It was already out when I was in England in September and everyone there was going bananas for it.
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Really looking forward to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It was already out when I was in England in September and everyone there was going bananas for it.
I'm very excited as well and glad to hear the good word of mouth. I read the book a few months ago and loved it. I now want to go back and read the Smiley series from the beginning.
I'm also looking forward to Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I love David Fincher's movies (except Benjamin Button) and the book while not a masterpiece of genre fiction was definitely something unique and kept my interest through the long haul.
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The BBC adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (which stars Alec Guinness as George Smiley) is phenomenal. Check it out if you haven't already. I haven't seen Smiley's People, but I hear that's good as well.
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Hugo was pretty great; probably Scorsese's most all-around satisfying film since The Age of Innocence. What a surprising relief.
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Nobody talking about this new Diablo Cody thing?
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Young Adult has Patton Oswalt in it, which is nice, but Diablo Cody's pretty much a deal breaker for me. They could add Paul F. Tompkins, John Hodgman, and Bill Murray to the cast of that movie, and I still wouldn't want to see it.
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Young Adult has Patton Oswalt in it, which is nice, but Diablo Cody's pretty much a deal breaker for me. They could add Paul F. Tompkins, John Hodgman, and Bill Murray to the cast of that movie, and I still wouldn't want to see it.
It wasn't bad i could hardly tell Diablo Cody wrote it there was hardly any annoying dialog like Juno. Patton was great in it and it also had some pretty good 90's music.
Did anybody see Pattons King of Queens prank?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/patton-oswalt-stands-perfectly-still-on-king-of-queens_n_1108501.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/patton-oswalt-stands-perfectly-still-on-king-of-queens_n_1108501.html)
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Here's how my top 10 ended up. I saw Certified Copy last year... I don't know who here would possibly recall that or care, but it would have been #2 on this list. Will be seeing Tinker Tailor... in a week or two maybe.
1. Melancholia
2. Tree of Life
3. Poetry
4. The Turin Horse
5. Le Havre
6. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
7. Mysteries of Lisbon
8. Bill Cunningham New York
9. Tuesday, After Christmas
10. Hugo
Also liked: A Dangerous Method, Drive, Essential Killing, Tabloid, Nostalgia for the Light, 13 Assassins
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Young Adult has Patton Oswalt in it, which is nice, but Diablo Cody's pretty much a deal breaker for me. They could add Paul F. Tompkins, John Hodgman, and Bill Murray to the cast of that movie, and I still wouldn't want to see it.
It wasn't bad i could hardly tell Diablo Cody wrote it there was hardly any annoying dialog like Juno. Patton was great in it and it also had some pretty good 90's music.
Did anybody see Pattons King of Queens prank?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/patton-oswalt-stands-perfectly-still-on-king-of-queens_n_1108501.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/patton-oswalt-stands-perfectly-still-on-king-of-queens_n_1108501.html)
I liked the movie quite a bit, and thought Patton was amazing. Hated lots of other people in the theatre, laughing/guffawing at scenes i didn't find funny but sad. And my friend didnt like the movie at all, but she's a lot more discerning.
I never watched Juno all the way through, but would never discount a movie because of a single component.
Pattons King of Queens prank where he was a statue was great!
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Young Adult has Patton Oswalt in it, which is nice, but Diablo Cody's pretty much a deal breaker for me.
Yup. After seeing "Juno" I suddenly understood why some people hate Tarantino's dialogue so much...
Although I admit I thought "Juno" had a pretty satisfying ending...
Plus, let's be honest, "Diablo Cody" is the lamest pen name of the last hundred years. It sounds like something Busey concocted when she was 14, thinking it sounded bad-ass, and just stuck with it. I can hear this conversation:
Dad: Brooke, go clean your room.
Brooke (whiningly): I told you, my name isn't Brooke. My name is Diablo Cody!
Or this conversation at a party in which she converses with a similarly all black clad 15 year old:
Kid: My name is Agamenon the slayer.
Brooke: My name is Diablo Cody.
Kid: That's fuckin' rad...
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I actually kind of like Juno. I agree that the forced lingo is grating but most of that stuff is within the first thirty minutes. I don't know if it's intentional but I see the dropping of that language during the movie tracing Juno's own maturation arc; as she matures and deals with life and pregnancy, the constructed world of a teenager ceases to be.
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I actually kind of like Juno. I agree that the forced lingo is grating but most of that stuff is within the first thirty minutes. I don't know if it's intentional but I see the dropping of that language during the movie tracing Juno's own maturation arc; as she matures and deals with life and pregnancy, the constructed world of a teenager ceases to be.
You're right. It by and large is. But the cheesy, twee soundtrack is throughout...
I spent the first 40 minutes of "Juno" fighting the urge to leave. By goddammit, Brooke Busey wasn't going to beat me... But again, the ending was pretty satisfying. I'll give Miss "Cody" that...
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I loved Juno the first (and second) time I saw it (both in the theater), but tried to watch it a third time at home and couldn't stand it.
I loved the soundtrack, too, especially the Barry Louis Polisar song at the beginning.
I liked Young Adult fine, but seriously don't see what all the hype is about.
So let that color how you take movie and music advice from me.
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...but tried to watch it a third time at home and couldn't stand it.
That's one doodle you can't undo...
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Should I start a 2012 thread?
Anyway, for those of you who were culturally aware in the early part of the 90s, Whit Stillman is finally coming out with a new movie. It's called Damsels in Distress and focuses on college guys and gals.
Damsels In Distress Movie Clip "Lily Introduces Charlie" Official (HD) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBDYl-p9dH4&feature=relmfu#ws)
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Should I start a 2012 thread?
http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,8423.0.html (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,8423.0.html)
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Anyway, for those of you who were culturally aware in the early part of the 90s, Whit Stillman is finally coming out with a new movie. It's called Damsels in Distress and focuses on college guys and gals.
I wish Chris Eigeman was in this.
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Anyway, for those of you who were culturally aware in the early part of the 90s, Whit Stillman is finally coming out with a new movie. It's called Damsels in Distress and focuses on college guys and gals.
I wish Chris Eigeman was in this.
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Have you seen the clips from it? I'm mixed it looks like it may not be very promising.
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Anyway, for those of you who were culturally aware in the early part of the 90s, Whit Stillman is finally coming out with a new movie. It's called Damsels in Distress and focuses on college guys and gals.
I wish Chris Eigeman was in this.
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Have you seen the clips from it? I'm mixed it looks like it may not be very promising.
I felt the same way but I think that any of his movies would suffer the same judgement if shown in five minute clips.
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Anyway, for those of you who were culturally aware in the early part of the 90s, Whit Stillman is finally coming out with a new movie. It's called Damsels in Distress and focuses on college guys and gals.
I wish Chris Eigeman was in this.
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Have you seen the clips from it? I'm mixed it looks like it may not be very promising.
I felt the same way but I think that any of his movies would suffer the same judgement if shown in five minute clips.
I'd have to disagree, I guess. This clip from Metropolitan is what got me into Stillman's work:
Metropolitan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dows1BmmA7g&feature=related#)
Edit: Fixed. I posted the wrong clip.
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Quentin Tarantino's favorite and least favorite of 2011. (http://"http://www.tarantino.info/2012/01/14/exclusive-quentin-tarantinos-favorite-films-of-2011-more/") About what you'd expect, but it looks like he's willing to stir up a fanboy fight in a couple of categories.
Quentin Tarantino’s official Top 11 of 2011
1. Midnight In Paris
2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
3. Moneyball
4. The Skin I Live In
5. X-Men: First Class
6. Young Adult
7. Attack The Block
8. Red State
9. Warrior
10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)
11. The Three Musketeers
Others considered in no particular order
50/50
Beginners
Hugo
The Iron Lady
Carnage
Green Hornet
Green Lantern
Captain America
The Descendants
My Week With Marilyn
Fast Five
The Tree Of Life
The Hangover Part II
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
The Beaver
Contagion
The Sitter
War Horse
Nice Try Award
Drive
Hanna
Drive Angry
Real Steel
Best Director
Pedro Almodovar
Bennett Miller
Woody Allen
Jason Reitman
Michel Hazanavicius
Best Original Screenplay
Midnight In Paris
Young Adult
Red State
Attack The Block
Our Idiot Brother
Beginners
Best Adapted Screenplay
Moneyball
The Skin I live In
Carnage
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Hugo
X-Men: First Class
Worst Films
Sucker Punch
Potiche (Trophy Wife)
Miral
Insidious
Rampart
Straw Dogs
Paranormal Activity 3
Meek’s Cutoff
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I didn't expect a Woody Allen film to be at the top of the list. Though Midnight in Paris, by what I can tell from the previews, does seem like it might fall under Tarantino's nebulous "hangout movie" category, which he loves to gush about.
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I didn't expect a Woody Allen film to be at the top of the list. Though Midnight in Paris, by what I can tell from the previews, does seem like it might fall under Tarantino's nebulous "hangout movie" category, which he loves to gush about.
No joke, he also included what might be Woody's most maligned movie, ANYTHING ELSE, on a list of favorite films since '92 that he made a while back.
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That "Nice Try" thing for Drive...
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...and some other picks are puzzling at best.
Overall a pretty bland selection though.
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I had no problem with him putting Meek's Cutoff in the "worst" list.
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...and some other picks are puzzling at best.
Overall a pretty bland selection though.
Classic QT. His taste in film, especially in these year-end lists, is always delightfully bizarre. I think "Nice Try" is a perfect response to the overrated Drive.
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Let's take a look at that top ten again:
1. Midnight In Paris
2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
3. Moneyball
4. The Skin I Live In
5. X-Men: First Class
6. Young Adult
7. Attack The Block
8. Red State
9. Warrior
10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)
11. The Three Musketeers
Now, this may reflect either on QT or the year of our lord 2011 (depending on what you (dis)like more), but can we at least agree that that is a stunningly mediocre list? Bizarre only in that it's thoroughly middle-of-the-road stuff, maybe except for The Artist and Almodovar. I find nothing delightful about it. I'm not a big QT fan but at least his taste in film used to be somewhat interesting or eclectic. This looks like your average cineplex goer's top ten.
(Or maybe it just says something about me.)
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I saw "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes." It had some horrible cardboard bad guys, but some cool special effects. Was it 2011's Avatar?
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The inclusion of The Three Musketeers was the biggest WTF until I realized his buddy Christoph Waltz was in it.
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Attack the Block is the only thing I saw from his top ten list, but it was pretty great.
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I saw Red State and he is being generous putting it on a list of "films" much less a top ten. I like the recent use of the word puzzling because that is a good word to describe it. And listening to Smith's WTF interview where he is like "You fuckers thought I could only do comedy, well look at this!" just baffles me more. Is he that clueless?
Some of you have see it too, right. Isn't it like frustratingly bad?
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It's terrible.
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I tried to give Red State a go, but turned it off after a half hour because it was really dumb and bad. Not sure what I was thinking by attempting to watch that. But, really, some of the other stuff Tarantino likes makes Red State look like a masterpiece.
Even though I don't agree with most of what Tarantino's has to say about movies, his view of himself as a public intellectual (which requires him to steeple his fingers whenever he talks about movies) is too amusing not to like. I'm looking forward to this side of him going into overdrive 15-20 years from now, when he retires from directing films and becomes a "man of letters" (as he's promised to do in recent interviews).