Miscellaneous Movie Musings - Page 398

Alex · 12-13-2008, 10:09 PM

If it's good enough for Twitter...

My review of Rachel Getting Married:

1/3 suck. 1/3 really good. 1/3 eh. Hathaway good throughout.

flippyshark · 12-14-2008, 12:13 AM

I'm willing to give it a go based on 1/3 good and solid Hathaway. She's really interesting to me.

LSPoorEeyorick · 12-14-2008, 01:06 AM

Oh, do. I found it far more than 1/3 really good - you may find yourself somewhere in between us, but no matter what, definitely worth viewing.

wendybeth · 12-14-2008, 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Watched Dark Knight on DVD last night. Ledger's performance is still awesome to me. It's... dark.

I loved the scene when he's hanging his head out of the moving car- it's a very short shot that speaks volumes about where this character's head is at, far more so than the blood and gore.

Alex · 12-14-2008, 08:21 AM

Yes, the 1/3 suck is concentrated in the first part and nearly redeemed by the second part.

Worth watching, but if I had been watching on DVD at home I'd probably have given up on it before it became worthwhile.

Ghoulish Delight · 12-16-2008, 02:36 PM

Clint Eastwood to America: Stop thinking, start punching.

Alex · 12-16-2008, 03:09 PM

Clint Eastwood will always have my admiration for the year he called all the PGA golfers at Pebble Beach (he was involved in some way with running the event that year) a bunch of candy asses for whining about the weather.

Alex · 12-16-2008, 10:10 PM

There was some discussion earlier this year about whether The Dark Knight would be able to overtake the box office record set by Titanic.

Well, that feat was finally accomplished. Titanic is now the second highest grossing movie of all time.

In the United Kingdom.

Having just been passed by Mamma Mia!

Alex · 12-19-2008, 04:31 PM

Well, I'm definitely out of lockstep with the critics so far this season. So far I haven't been particularly overwhelmed (or even simply whelmed) by any of the consensus critical hits this season.

But I was just bowled over by Seven Pounds, the new Will Smith/Rosario Dawson drama. Which has a 30% rating at RottenTomatoes. Pure emotional manipulation, but I saw the entire conclusion coming from about 20 minutes in and it still got to me.

Yes, it is a grotesquerie, but I think it knows that. It isn't selling you on the idea that what is portrayed is right -- it most certainly is not -- but simply that it is powerful. Reading reviews the thinking seems to be that the movie is holding up Will Smith's character as an example and I disagree. Yes, it is implausable, but one-tenth the implausibility we are asked to swallow to even pretend the standard action movie makes any sense and no worse than frogs falling from the sky.

Anyway, Will Smith is good. Rosario Dawson continues to mature into something amazing.

I recommend it strongly, but lately I'm on the wrong side of these things so you probably don't want to rely on me.

€uroMeinke · 12-19-2008, 07:22 PM

The other night we saw Hare Krishna Hare Rama, which I thought would be a tale about the last incarnation of Vishnu- instead it was a 1970's Bollywood hit about hippies in Kathmandu. Who knew the hit filmi tune was about smoking dope. Anyway, it was another fun viewing of westerners from the eyes of Indians.

12-13-2008, 10:09 PM	#3971
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	If it's good enough for Twitter... My review of Rachel Getting Married: 1/3 suck. 1/3 really good. 1/3 eh. Hathaway good throughout.
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flippyshark Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,852	I'm willing to give it a go based on 1/3 good and solid Hathaway. She's really interesting to me.
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LSPoorEeyorick scribblin' Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: in the moment Posts: 3,872	Oh, do. I found it far more than 1/3 really good - you may find yourself somewhere in between us, but no matter what, definitely worth viewing.
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12-14-2008, 08:21 AM	#3975
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Yes, the 1/3 suck is concentrated in the first part and nearly redeemed by the second part. Worth watching, but if I had been watching on DVD at home I'd probably have given up on it before it became worthwhile.
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12-16-2008, 02:36 PM	#3976
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Clint Eastwood to America: Stop thinking, start punching. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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12-16-2008, 03:09 PM	#3977
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Clint Eastwood will always have my admiration for the year he called all the PGA golfers at Pebble Beach (he was involved in some way with running the event that year) a bunch of candy asses for whining about the weather.
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12-16-2008, 10:10 PM	#3978
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	There was some discussion earlier this year about whether The Dark Knight would be able to overtake the box office record set by Titanic. Well, that feat was finally accomplished. Titanic is now the second highest grossing movie of all time. In the United Kingdom. Having just been passed by Mamma Mia!
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12-19-2008, 04:31 PM	#3979
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Well, I'm definitely out of lockstep with the critics so far this season. So far I haven't been particularly overwhelmed (or even simply whelmed) by any of the consensus critical hits this season. But I was just bowled over by Seven Pounds, the new Will Smith/Rosario Dawson drama. Which has a 30% rating at RottenTomatoes. Pure emotional manipulation, but I saw the entire conclusion coming from about 20 minutes in and it still got to me. Yes, it is a grotesquerie, but I think it knows that. It isn't selling you on the idea that what is portrayed is right -- it most certainly is not -- but simply that it is powerful. Reading reviews the thinking seems to be that the movie is holding up Will Smith's character as an example and I disagree. Yes, it is implausable, but one-tenth the implausibility we are asked to swallow to even pretend the standard action movie makes any sense and no worse than frogs falling from the sky. Anyway, Will Smith is good. Rosario Dawson continues to mature into something amazing. I recommend it strongly, but lately I'm on the wrong side of these things so you probably don't want to rely on me.
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12-19-2008, 07:22 PM	#3980
€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	The other night we saw Hare Krishna Hare Rama, which I thought would be a tale about the last incarnation of Vishnu- instead it was a 1970's Bollywood hit about hippies in Kathmandu. Who knew the hit filmi tune was about smoking dope. Anyway, it was another fun viewing of westerners from the eyes of Indians. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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