General Movie Thread

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Has anyone mentioned Fantastic Mr. Fox on here?




I liked it.

[Joe Rogaine]

Saw it last night and thought it was really fun. Reminded me of those Penny bits from Pee Wees Playhouse. I thought it was much better than Were The Wild Things Are and i usually go for depressing.

[Joe Rogaine]

NEWSFLASH!  I just watched Slumdog Millionaire and don't understand what the fuss was all about. 

Me neither i thought this and Crash were the two worst best picture winners of the decade.

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Saw it last night and thought it was really fun. Reminded me of those Penny bits from Pee Wees Playhouse. I thought it was much better than Were The Wild Things Are and i usually go for depressing.

I'm not much of a Wes Anderson fan but I thought this one put his peculiar talents to great use. I was sort of dreading it but I laughed a lot.

[yesno]

Slumdog Millionaire wasn't Best Picture worthy, but it was an entertaining little confection. I need to find out more about this "India" place, it seems charming.

[Sarah]

I think you mean "quaint," sir.

[Lothar_Brightblade]

Has anyone mentioned Fantastic Mr. Fox on here?




I liked it.

I thought it was great. In the first few minutes I was afraid the animation style was going to make me seasick, but it ended up just metsmerizing me.

[fonpr]

Slumdog Millionaire wasn't Best Picture worthy, but it was an entertaining little confection. I need to find out more about this "India" place, it seems charming.

I'd like to go to india
Live in a big white house in the forest
Drink gin and tonic and play a grand piano
Read a few books
Far from what saddens my heart
Try to live away from it

[JonFromMaplewood]

Saw 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' this weekend.  Liked it a lot.  The kids liked it too, but found the rat to be terrifying.

Also saw "An Education" this weekend. Nick Hornby usually bugs me (ever since he wrote a New Yorker article bashing Kid A as too introspective and existing only for kids who have time to listen to albums in depth....argh! I'm getting angry again just thinking about it).  However, I think he did a nice job creating these characters.

Is it just me, or does Alfred Molina look like Mr. Creasote after a couple of trips to the gym?

[masterofsparks]

Is it just me, or does Alfred Molina look like Mr. Creasote after a couple of trips to the gym?

Having only seen the trailer, I can honestly say...*snorts with laughter* I will never be able to look at Alfred Molina the same way again.

[fletcher munson]

Saw it last night and thought it was really fun. Reminded me of those Penny bits from Pee Wees Playhouse. I thought it was much better than Were The Wild Things Are and i usually go for depressing.

Where the Wild Things are dragged on and on, 5 minutes in I wanted to tell that kid to take a seat.  I thought the hand-made twig village was cool, though.

[masterofsparks]

The positive comments I'm hearing are making me consider seeing Fantastic Mr. Fox in spite of the fact that I absolutely loathed the two Wes Anderson movies I've seen (Rushmore and Royal Tennenbaums). Is the movie good enough to overcome that level of animosity?

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Anyone seen Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans yet?  In fact, I know many of you did, so let's debate: was it (1) awesome, or (2) really awesome?

Or does it have its own thread, I forget.

Re. Nick Hornby, for a guy who seems to represent all of music geekdom in the public mind, that guy has horrible fucking taste in music.  Or at least he seems to, based on his iTunes playlist from 2004 or so.

[Bryan]

Anyone seen Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans yet?  In fact, I know many of you did, so let's debate: was it (1) awesome, or (2) really awesome?

Or does it have its own thread, I forget.

I think there are actually several threads devoted to The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. But in the spirit of the Bad Lieutenant's who-gives-a-fuck attitude, let's ignore that.

And I'll go with (1). I found a lot of things unpleasant about it - especially the sexual assault-iness of it, and the fact that it looked like a shitty straight-to-video thriller starring Steven Seagal. And it actually is really easy to imagine this movie starring Steven Seagal. But given that, it's amazing how awesome it is. Nic Cage's performance is hilarious.

[Chris L]

I chose a poor thread in which to post about THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, so I'll just copy it here. 

Saw THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (the "the" really does add something to the title) last night and liked it quite a bit.  First, it seems no one here has had a good word for the original yet. I haven't seen it in years but I thought it and Keitel's performance were riveting. I can't think of another director that makes sleaze and depravity look as authentically disgusting and unsexy as Abel Ferrara.  His movies are skeevy like none other, and I mean that as a compliment.  On that level, the Herzog version with its cartoonier lead actor can't compete.   

That said, this movie was about as fun as I'd hoped, not because watching Cage indulge his many vices is a hoot, but because of the personal stamp he and Herzog put on what must have been a terribly boring script.   A lot of movies are odd or idiosyncratic by design, but rarer is one that's modestly conceived as one thing and then triumphantly turned on its head by a visionary weirdo and his iguanas.