In my mind a bag of tits doesn't sound fun at all. It sounds repulsive and disturbing. I'm not going to see this sick mastectomy movie.
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In my mind a bag of tits doesn't sound fun at all. It sounds repulsive and disturbing. I'm not going to see this sick mastectomy movie.
Saw this on the front page of IMDb today...
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And I have to admit I got the headlines mixed up while reading them the first time, and it nearly resulted in me spitting my beverage all over the monitor.
"Lohan is 'bisexual', Schwarzenegger urges"
:lol:
I see no problems with the script. I think this is one of their best movies. Great stuff, and M. Emmet Walsh makes for one creepy villain. []
Hah. You know I dig yah man. Strictly non-platonic, of course :lol:
Part of me wants to create a thread where I throw up my reviews and I have you guys tear them apart. But once again it runs into my constant problem of not posting any of said reviews. I did write a half ass write up of Annie Hall today in about 15 minutes though. Paper>the internet.
Timecode was surprisingly a pretty good movie. I thought its gimmick was a little tough to get used to after a while but I got more interested in the gimmick and the story as the movie went on. I liked how it was shot on digital and despite a few unintentionally hilarious moments, the improv was impressive.
My review of Quid Pro Quo
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0/10
Role Models was a solid comedy. Pretty standard structured script for a comedy, but manages to bring some unique stuff into the equation. The whole L.A.I.R.E. subplot was fantastic. It was nice to see a lot of The State cast together again along with some funny stuff from the youngin's and the headliners, but Jane Lynch ends up stealing the show. All of her scenes are easily the funniest.
A neat article by Roger Ebert on the "DONT'S" of film critiquing.
I watched it last night and will be reviewing it for the paper on Friday. For the first 15-20 minutes, I made the mental note that I had finally entered movie reviewer Hell. I was in the realm of embarrassingly awful. By the 45 minute mark, I was smiling. By the end, I realized I'd had a pretty darn good time.
I'm sure you are familiar with the Hero's Journey stuff that writers draw from so consciously these days. Well, this movie plays like a first effort by a writer taking a Joseph Campbell 101 class. Dialog like "when one door closes, another opens" signaling the call to adventure and "that was a transformation" when the hero shows some effort to change and "you'll know when to put it on" when the hero is given a costume.
And yet, even though it's not supposed to all be so transparent, the movie proves the durability of myth. It's so fun to see these things play out even if you can put little mental check marks next to each stage as it transpires.
By the way, Zack and Miri was equally transparent. I think both movies are about equal in quality although I probably enjoyed Role Models a bit more by the end.
Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky is a wonder of cinematography by the incomparable John Toll. Scenes look ravishing, magnificently alive with color, and they lend the film an atmosphere of incongruity as images look too alive, too vivid. However, Crowe's working in pop psychology here, so any wonder that the images contain are not carried over to the story. Which is a shame, since there's good character acting by Russell, Swinton, and Spall, and even Cruise, but they don't amount to much. And even the opening shot of NYC streets empty doesn't quite resonate because it hasn't been contrasted against any earlier filmic cognition of the city. Further, positioning the score on popular music is too much, as the musical cues feel too manufactured and manipulated. This is a film that could have amounted to a powerful depiction of the individual in contemporary society, but it's too inconsistent in tone. Sad.
Role Models is amazing. It was like someone made a movie directly for me.
Every clip I see of Role Models seems to involve something about kids saying inappropriate things or being in inappropriate situations. Not my kind of humor.
I liked Vanilla Sky when I first saw it - it's very slick, but it was also dumbed down quite a bit when the Noah Taylor character comes on screen and basically says, "In case you were confused, here's what happened!"
Then I saw Open Your Eyes, and totally fell in love. This film is fantastic.
And then it dawned on me why I enjoyed both so much - they seemed to be patterned off of Philip K. Dick's novel UBIK. I wouldn't be at all shocked to find that the original film was at least partially inspired by UBIK, and maybe even Time Out of Joint (which I believe was also secretly the inspiration for The Truman Show).
I like the narrative in these films because it reminds me of something PKD might have written. It tackles some of the same themes of identity and modern society.
I remember back when Vanilla Sky first came out, I was in high school and there was this guy who sat behind me in French class named Dan Cornejo.
Open Your Eyes was one of his favorite movies, but he said one glaring "fault" it had was that the main character's facial scars were nothing, really. He said that Vanilla Sky had much more convincing scarring, especially to make the audience believe that the protagonist would choose to wear a mask to cover it up.
I read a review of Sukiyaki Western Django that described it as "two great tastes that taste great together."
I thought that was a cool way to sum it up. Definitely want to see this one soon.
Yeah, as someone who works in social work with young people, there were moments in the film that made me cringe. But, luckily I work with young people that swear and do drugs, so it wasn't a big deal most of the time.
However, that work experience also made Jane Lynch's already awesome character even funnier. There are many people EXACTLY like that working in the field, and she was spot on in every scene.
I pretty much couldn't stand watching Sukiyaki Western Django. It was almost a painful experience. A gorgeous looking film, but having to listen to non-English speaking Japanese phonetically recite their lines does not equal a good time.
Time for...
Christmas on Mars
Yes.
Sitting down to watch Make Way For Tomorrow, thoughts later....