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School of Rock
I took Josie and the Pussycats to the cineplex last night to see School or Rock. It's a poorly filmed movie that is nonetheless entertaining for burnt-out rockers and children alike.
Jack Black is going to hurt himself. Joan Cusack is dead on.
The kids were appeased.
Jack Black is going to hurt himself. Joan Cusack is dead on.
The kids were appeased.
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Saw "Mystic River" tonight. Very good. The first scene has some really crappy direction, you'll see with the hand and the ring...WWWAYYYY over the top, that. Tim Robbins is fucking brilliant in it....I mean it!!! Sean Penn is very very good and Marcia Gay Harden had me the whole time.
Very good movie, just some obvious direction choices with scenes and frames that make you think "Yeah, I see that already...move on".
I personally would give Tim Robbins an award for this, and I'm not an award person.
Very good movie, just some obvious direction choices with scenes and frames that make you think "Yeah, I see that already...move on".
I personally would give Tim Robbins an award for this, and I'm not an award person.
Where are the strong?
Who are the trusted?
Who are the trusted?
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Saw Mystic River, Intolerable Cruelty, Son Of Raggy Boy and Holes over the weekend.
Mystic is a fine piece of work, with career performances from all involved. Clint really has found his voice, not a wasted minute. Intolerable falls between two stools, still it was entertaining. Bemusing, but not surprising, to hear dialogue with quotes from Shakespeare tanking with a sellout friday night audience.
Raggy Boy and Holes are similiar in storyline and subtexts. Both,imo, work quite well. Holes, obviously, is more palatable, while Raggy Boy really is savage and hits home. An older lady walked out after one of the more brutal flogging scenes. That says it all.
Mystic is a fine piece of work, with career performances from all involved. Clint really has found his voice, not a wasted minute. Intolerable falls between two stools, still it was entertaining. Bemusing, but not surprising, to hear dialogue with quotes from Shakespeare tanking with a sellout friday night audience.
Raggy Boy and Holes are similiar in storyline and subtexts. Both,imo, work quite well. Holes, obviously, is more palatable, while Raggy Boy really is savage and hits home. An older lady walked out after one of the more brutal flogging scenes. That says it all.
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Just seen On the Run (Cavale) [Trilogy 1]. Extraordinary, I can't wait to see the next part.
Just seen On the Run (Cavale) [Trilogy 1]. Extraordinary, I can't wait to see the next part.
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sappy isn't always bad
I just saw "Love Actually" and thought it was excellent. Sappy, yes in some ways, as Christmas movies tend to be, almost have to be, but quite good in the clinches. The scene where new PM Hugh Grant meets his Number Ten household staff for the first time has a huge laugh in it, and Grant, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson and the boy who plays his stepson are all wonderful. I don't know Bill Nighy's previous work, but he very nearly steals the picture from an excellent and much more attractive cast.
Okay, the payoff scene at the school Christmas pageant is highly improbable, but that's nicely balanced against the sweet scene in the restaurant, with the halting Portuguese and the equally bad English providing nice laughs.
Anyway, I recommend it.
Okay, the payoff scene at the school Christmas pageant is highly improbable, but that's nicely balanced against the sweet scene in the restaurant, with the halting Portuguese and the equally bad English providing nice laughs.
Anyway, I recommend it.
"But it's a dangerous game that comedy plays
Sometimes it tells you the truth
Sometimes it delays it"
Sometimes it tells you the truth
Sometimes it delays it"
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Re: sappy isn't always bad
Bill is great, is'nt he. Here's his imdb page.I don't know Bill Nighy's previous work, but he very nearly steals the picture from an excellent and much more attractive cast.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0631490/
He's particularly brilliant in State of Play,
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0362192/
a great mini series that was on here last spring.
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Apologies in advance to all the Matrix-haters, but I saw Matrix: Revolutions. I thought it was ten times better than the second one, more entertaining, easier to follow, etc. And Keanu has his part of his face covered for part of the movie, camouflaging his terrible acting. Poor Monica Bellucci's breasts had more lines than she did, and the painfully explicit Christlike imagery at the end was unnecessary, but overall, I was entertained down to my toes. I even believed that Trinity and Neo were really passionately in love for a few seconds.
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Re: sappy isn't always bad
Bill is great, is'nt he. Here's his imdb page.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0631490/
He mentions Elvis in this
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/printabl ... teid=50082
-And Elvis Costello was always a favourite rock dancer of mine, because he used to do post-modern ironic dancing which involved putting your knees together and looking really stupid.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0631490/
He mentions Elvis in this
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/printabl ... teid=50082
-And Elvis Costello was always a favourite rock dancer of mine, because he used to do post-modern ironic dancing which involved putting your knees together and looking really stupid.
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i rented a movie called the florentine (1999) starring chris penn, michael madsen, tom sizemore, etc, etc, and it´s the story about this bar (the florentine) and a bunch of people who go to this bar......it´s a nice little movie.....but what it surprised me the most was its soundtrack: e.c´s how much i´ve lied, springsteen´s beautiful reward, southside johnny´s i don´t wanna go home, etc, etc,.......really nice sndtrk.!
...the promise of indulgence in my confidential voice approached inmortal danger but you´ll never know how close....
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ance&s=dvdgirl out of time wrote:i rented a movie called the florentine (1999) starring chris penn, michael madsen, tom sizemore, etc, etc, and it´s the story about this bar (the florentine) and a bunch of people who go to this bar......it´s a nice little movie.....but what it surprised me the most was its soundtrack: e.c´s how much i´ve lied, springsteen´s beautiful reward, southside johnny´s i don´t wanna go home, etc, etc,.......really nice sndtrk.!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 2?v=glance
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/6 ... 61-6402751
Sounds fascinating, must check it out.
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Saw Master & Commander, Love Actually and Trilogy 2 over the last few days.
M&C really does deliver, excellent storytelling with not a wasted minute. Crowe puts in his best performance since The Insider, the support cast of RADA's finest are great. You really are out in the sea, one can almost taste the salt.
Love Actually is as bad as most critics are saying, though strangely endearing. Laura Linney and, big surprise, Emma Thompson put in nuanced performances, while the rest of the cast, with the exception of Bill Nighy, who plays a blinder,suffer from bad direction. A good half hour could have been dropped from the running time.
Trilogy 2, the funny one, is not as good as 1, still I can't wait to see 3, and then maybe see a marathon of the three of them back to back.
Anyone else see any films?
M&C really does deliver, excellent storytelling with not a wasted minute. Crowe puts in his best performance since The Insider, the support cast of RADA's finest are great. You really are out in the sea, one can almost taste the salt.
Love Actually is as bad as most critics are saying, though strangely endearing. Laura Linney and, big surprise, Emma Thompson put in nuanced performances, while the rest of the cast, with the exception of Bill Nighy, who plays a blinder,suffer from bad direction. A good half hour could have been dropped from the running time.
Trilogy 2, the funny one, is not as good as 1, still I can't wait to see 3, and then maybe see a marathon of the three of them back to back.
Anyone else see any films?
Bad Santa and Mystic River. We were excited about Bad Santa since Terry Zwigoff directed it, the Coen's exec produced it and Billy Bob Thornton is a great actor. It was interesting but I thought that it had some serious problems with maintaining a consistent tone. It had the look of a serious drama, contained some pretty raunchy comedy and had some almost disturbingly graphic violence. It didn't quite gel together coherently, but it was still worth seeing.
Mystic River was absolutely devastating. I've been haunted by it all night and still can't get over how a movie so risky could have ever gotten greenlighted even with so much A-list talent on board. I'm also shocked that Clint Eastwood directed it. He's directed some damn fine movies such as High Plains Drifter, Play Misty For Me and The Outlaw Josey Whales but has made so many consecutive stinkers that I took him for done as a director. I've always found it odd that Unforgiven got so much praise for being a thoughtful deconstruction of western movie mythology but ultimately it made violence look cool because it ended with Clint echoing his Man With No Name character from the Sergio Leone films. With Mystic River, we actually get a very mature, grim depiction of what violence can do to people and how traumatic experiences can shatter lives and continue to reverberate for generations afterwards.
Mystic River was absolutely devastating. I've been haunted by it all night and still can't get over how a movie so risky could have ever gotten greenlighted even with so much A-list talent on board. I'm also shocked that Clint Eastwood directed it. He's directed some damn fine movies such as High Plains Drifter, Play Misty For Me and The Outlaw Josey Whales but has made so many consecutive stinkers that I took him for done as a director. I've always found it odd that Unforgiven got so much praise for being a thoughtful deconstruction of western movie mythology but ultimately it made violence look cool because it ended with Clint echoing his Man With No Name character from the Sergio Leone films. With Mystic River, we actually get a very mature, grim depiction of what violence can do to people and how traumatic experiences can shatter lives and continue to reverberate for generations afterwards.
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took the younguns to see The Cat in the Hat. The hands are all wrong, but the kids liked it. I think the Cat is much more of an icon to me than he is to my kids, but dammit, I read that book over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over to them. Will Hop on Pop be out next year?
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Saw Strayed , http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329111/ , this afternoon at a French film festival here in Dublin. Obviously it's so new they have'nt got around to doing english subtitles for it yet. Still I could just about follow the story. Eamanuelle Beart is never bad, though the male lead looked a bit out of his depth. Now I'm off to Colin 'fockin' Farrell's latest vehicle, SWAT. Crunchy with the smooth.
Any one in the US care to share with us non-US people their impressions of The Last Samaurai?
Any one in the US care to share with us non-US people their impressions of The Last Samaurai?
Haven't seen "Last Samurai" yet -- but the critical consensus seems to be done "don't get your hopes too high." Ed Zwick is a good director, but very, very earnest and not always in a good way.
Re: "Swat" -- if the whole movie was like the first half, this actually would have been good. It starts out like a sort of slick semi-documentary look at something resembling the actual world of high-end policing and then turns into a really silly action flick with lots of explosions. Still, there's good stuff in it -- and I hope for better stuff coming up from the director, Clark Johnson. Fans of the great TV series "Homicide" will know him as Det. Meldrick (the guy with the hat).
He actually appears very briefly in "Swat" as the soon-to-be-ex-partner of one of the cops, and his character is named "_____'s Handsome Partner" in the credits.
Re: "Swat" -- if the whole movie was like the first half, this actually would have been good. It starts out like a sort of slick semi-documentary look at something resembling the actual world of high-end policing and then turns into a really silly action flick with lots of explosions. Still, there's good stuff in it -- and I hope for better stuff coming up from the director, Clark Johnson. Fans of the great TV series "Homicide" will know him as Det. Meldrick (the guy with the hat).
He actually appears very briefly in "Swat" as the soon-to-be-ex-partner of one of the cops, and his character is named "_____'s Handsome Partner" in the credits.
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Bobster is bang on the money about SWAT, god it goes to hell half way through. At least Farrell has the dignity to look embarassed. He is capable of better, and by the sound of things his next few films should be just that. I was watching out for Clark Johnson, nice cameo, though he has got chubby. Hard to believe his last appearance was in a quite good Canadian feminists film called On Our Knees, which is well worth checking out. So another weekend's films out of the way, still have to see Trilogy 3 and an interesting sounding film called WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF.