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  1. #43801
    Quote Quoting Qrazy (view post)
    Dinner for Schmucks was disposable but pretty funny overall. Rudd is a bit bland here but Galifianakis, Jermaine Clement and Carrell carry the show. The central romance felt very forced but whatever.
    How big was Clement's role? He didn't feature at all in the trailer.
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    Quote Quoting Winston* (view post)
    Better than The Thin Red Line? Nah.
    I didn't mean the film most here thought should win, but in that scary place called the real world.
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    How big was Clement's role? He didn't feature at all in the trailer.
    Pretty big and he plays a great character. He's a modern artist/photographer who exhibits enormous pictures of himself in odd costumes (for instance evil looking fawn demon) in an effort to express his sexual magnetism.

    Imdb seems fairly accurate on the issue in this case. He has probably the fourth or fifth most screentime after the three leads (Rudd, Carrell, Szostak).
    The Princess and the Pilot - B-
    Playtime (rewatch) - A
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    The Comedy - D+
    Kings of the Road - C+
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    Quote Quoting Raiders (view post)
    I didn't mean the film most here thought should win, but in that scary place called the real world.
    Are you saying that Shakespeare in Love is better than Saving Private Ryan? Painful framing device aside, it's a pretty amazing film.

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    Quote Quoting Qrazy (view post)
    Pretty big and he plays a great character. He's a modern artist/photographer who exhibits enormous pictures of himself in odd costumes (for instance evil looking fawn demon) in an effort to express his sexual magnetism.

    Imdb seems fairly accurate on the issue in this case. He has probably the fourth or fifth most screentime after the three leads (Rudd, Carrell, Szostak).
    Good to hear. I think he's a pretty awesome screen presence and I'm glad he's going places in Hollywood.
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    Good to hear. I think he's a pretty awesome screen presence and I'm glad he's going places in Hollywood.
    Agreed.
    The Princess and the Pilot - B-
    Playtime (rewatch) - A
    The Hobbit - C-
    The Comedy - D+
    Kings of the Road - C+
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    Quote Quoting Derek (view post)
    Are you saying that Shakespeare in Love is better than Saving Private Ryan?
    Yes.
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    Quote Quoting Raiders (view post)
    Yes.
    Ok, just wanted to clarify. I don't mind Shakespeare in Love.

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    Quote Quoting Derek (view post)
    Ok, just wanted to clarify. I don't mind Shakespeare in Love.
    Batman: too serious. why so serious?
    Shakespeare in Love: not serious enough

  10. #43810
    Quote Quoting Clipper Ship Captain (view post)
    Batman: too serious. why so serious?
    Shakespeare in Love: not serious enough
    Why ever would you want Shakespeare in Love to be serious? I mean, really? Don't you have enough po-faced, deathly truthful biopics to choose from already? SiL may have its problems, but its approach to the subject is certainly not one of them.
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    Quote Quoting Derek (view post)
    Painful framing device aside, it's a pretty amazing film.
    Worst sequence Spielberg has ever produced, except for that mind-boggling sex scene in Munich.
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    Why ever would you want Shakespeare in Love to be serious? I mean, really? Don't you have enough po-faced, deathly truthful biopics to choose from already? SiL may have its problems, but its approach to the subject is certainly not one of them.
    Is Ben Affleck giving yet another cringe-worthy performance not a problem to you? Because that's a problem precisely because of the film's lack of seriousness and thematic maturity. Not to mention the fact that the movie takes the "approach" of applying the typical Hollywood romance genre conventions to overly theatrical, stagey baroque garbage that only Hollywood's money can buy.

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    Quote Quoting Clipper Ship Captain (view post)
    Is Ben Affleck giving yet another cringe-worthy performance not a problem to you? Because that's a problem precisely because of the film's lack of seriousness and thematic maturity. Not to mention the fact that the movie takes the "approach" of applying the typical Hollywood romance genre conventions to overly theatrical, stagey baroque garbage that only Hollywood's money can buy.
    So, if the film was more serious, Affleck's performance wouldn't have been a problem? I don't get it. Especially because Affleck is perfectly used in that film in any case.

    As for the rest of it, it reads like you threw a bunch of words in a blender.
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    So, if the film was more serious, Affleck's performance wouldn't have been a problem? I don't get it. Especially because Affleck is perfectly used in that film in any case.

    As for the rest of it, it reads like you threw a bunch of words in a blender.
    Looking at his performance, it's hard to tell whether its a product of the movie's general awfulness or his general awfulness. (Gigli only works because Brest has an unmistakable style.)

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    I like Ben Affleck.
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    Quote Quoting Raiders (view post)
    I like Ben Affleck.
    What's he ever done for you?

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    Quote Quoting Clipper Ship Captain (view post)
    What's he ever done for you?
    The aqueduct?
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

  18. #43818
    So I basically don't know what to make of Suicide Club. Like Love Exposure, I'm in admiration of Sono's ability to follow his own nihilistic impulses and take it to extremes without a hint of self-consciousness, but there just wasn't enough of a thematic throughline or emotional centre here for all the craziness to work for me like it did in LE, and it all felt like low-rent K. Kurosawa. The suicide scenes themselves are pretty effective though, esp. the hospital and school building ones. Dunno... maybe it'll get better upon reflection, seems like that kind of film.

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    Quote Quoting Raiders (view post)
    I like Ben Affleck.
    Yeah, he's perfectly serviceable. Seems like a strange choice for concentrated venom. He was great in Changing Lanes, for example.
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    He was great in Changing Lanes, for example.
    He was, but he had a string of really shitty films before and after that simultaneous with his rise to fame, Bennifer, etc. I think people just got sick of always hearing about a guy who, in a 7-year span, starred in Reindeer Games, Bounce, Pearl Harbor, The Sum of All Fears, Daredevil, Gigli, Paycheck, Jersey Girl, Surviving Christmas, Clerks II and Smoking Aces and one good film, Changing Lanes. Serviceable actor, horrible choices in roles.

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    Quote Quoting Derek (view post)
    He was, but he had a string of really shitty films before and after that simultaneous with his rise to fame, Bennifer, etc. I think people just got sick of always hearing about a guy who, in a 7-year span, starred in Reindeer Games, Bounce, Pearl Harbor, The Sum of All Fears, Daredevil, Gigli, Paycheck, Jersey Girl, Surviving Christmas, Clerks II and Smoking Aces and one good film, Changing Lanes. Serviceable actor, horrible choices in roles.
    That's a bloody horrible list of films, it really is.
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    Quote Quoting Clipper Ship Captain (view post)
    (Gigli only works because Brest has an unmistakable style.)
    W. R. O. N. G. On at least two counts. Brest's style being unmistakable because... what? I mean, I like his movies, don't get me wrong, and I could say a bit about his technique. But I don't see how Meet Joe Black is unmistakably like Beverly Hills Cop is unmistakably like Going in Style is unmistakably like Gigli. Second: so much more than just directorial style sets Gigli apart.

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    What's he ever done for you?
    He was kinda funny the couple of times he was on The Daily Show.

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    Ben Affleck directed Gone Baby Gone, which so far is my #1 of 2007. Plus Smoking Aces, Clerks II, and Daredevil are fairly enjoyable movies, although I can only defense Clerks II as actually being decent. Maybe he should just stay beyond the camera, but he comes across as a likable actor who's made some bad movie choices.
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    Two very good movies. Two excellent covers.
    And Paths of Glory and The Darjeeling Limited.

    I think I'll have to try House.
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