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[Dubey]

brvheart, on 29 May 2012 - 04:04 PM, said:

Did you like Michael Clayton and would you watch it again?

I loved Micheal Clayton as well.

[brvheart]

ShakeZuma, on 29 May 2012 - 04:13 PM, said:

hmm, well, it seems that I had forgotten that I'd watched that. but yeah, I liked it, but no, I doubt I'd watch it again. I mean under current circumstances (having to re-rent it from netflix and take up one of my three slots), but I guess if I had hbo and nothing to do and it was on, then sure, I'd watch it again. why did I do all of this analysis for that simple question? the world may never know.

I've never seen Ides of March, and i was going to judge my interest level based on how you'd answer that.

[DJ Vu]

brvheart, on 29 May 2012 - 07:49 PM, said:

I've never seen Ides of March, and i was going to judge my interest level based on how you'd answer that.

Michael Clayton was much better than Ides of March.

[frautotenkinder]

DJ Vu, on 29 May 2012 - 12:19 PM, said:

I liked the movie and the ending. I have, however, avoided thinking about the implications of the ending as it relates to the first movie.One minor quibble:

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Will Smith takes those spider-spears to his body, then time jumps back a couple minutes and he's fine. But nothing in the movie ever suggested you change when you time jump. That wouldn't even make sense. So how come he still wasn't all shot up?

Oh, and I think Will Smith has at least 8 ounces of charisma. Probably more. I don't actually know how you weigh such things.

Noes, the ending?

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The ending which posits if you have two black people in the same movie, they must be related?

I thought Ides of March was okay--the actors, Gosling and Clooney seemed smarter or more aware than their characters.

[DJ Vu]

frautotenkinder, on 30 May 2012 - 07:36 AM, said:

Noes, the ending?

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The ending which posits if you have two black people in the same movie, they must be related?

That doesn't make any sense to me at all.

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The story is obviously trying to tie everything together and so they needed Will Smith's father to play some sort of role in TLJ's life. Is your complaint that there weren't more black people in the movie?

Would you at least admit that Josh Brolin was pretty great as a young Tommy Lee Jones?

[Iphonenkinder]

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I get frustrated with movies and stories which spend 90% hammering home how big the universe is, and then 10% of their time blowing that reasonable hypothesis apart.I've lived in the same large city for 11 years now, and when I bump into someone randomly--not in my neighborhood, or out where larger social circles might find one another--when I truly just bump into someone I get pissed off. That's why I don't live in a small or mid sized city, so I don't see the same people over and over. I'm supposed to believe, with open universes, that fathers and sons and former partners run into each other? No, I do not believe it, and I don't understand why anyone would want their story or universe that small. This rule is also known as: George Lucas, You Have a Lot to Answer For.

[Mercury69]

The Ides of March = morality storyPretty well executed and reasonably written with good performances from a number of actors. Began to get predictable halfway through, as things spiraled out of control. The inter-relational (?) connections between the most affected characters ended up being a little too convenient. Still worth seeing for effective performances by Gosling, Clooney, Hoffman and Giamatti. Evan Rachel Ward makes a good sacrificial lamb.Michael Clayton was a better film.Oh, and screw MIB. The entire franchise. Can't believe people are actually analyzing it.

[DJ Vu]

Iphonenkinder, on 30 May 2012 - 10:29 AM, said:

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I'm supposed to believe, with open universes, that fathers and sons and former partners run into each other? No, I do not believe it,

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But that's not how it happened at all. The timeline is Agent J's father saves Agent K's life. Agent K vows to watch over his son. When K feels NYPD J is ready, he recruits him to be his partner. There is no "running into each other."

[Mercury69]

Badlands (on TCM)Terrence Malick's first filmOK, this is a great starting point to "get" Malick. This movie was one of those cinematic revelations I have every now and then. For someone who had (according to his Wiki credits) hardly worked in film at all, this movie is so well executed and self-assured it blew my mind. The shot composition and visual narrative complemented the story and dialogue so well, albeit in an often abstract way, it made this movie on of the most complete films I have ever seen.This movie rightly deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Bonnie and Clyde (which followed it on TCM, but I don't like it as much as Badlands), Apocalypse Now and Taxi Driver.Maybe this will help me enjoy Thin Red Line...Might as well give it a 10/10

[frautotenkinder]

Kiki's Delivery ServiceIt's my favorite of the Miyazaki movies I've seen--and probably the sweetest. Kiki is a 13 year old witch, who moves away from home and starts a delivery service. She has backup from her awesome cat Jiji.

[Essay21]

my god mercury is a douchebag.watched the change up. you know the jason bateman, ryan reynolds body switch movie. it was okay i guess. i laughed a few times and there were some boobs and a lot of cursing, which is always good.

[brvheart]

Essay21, on 03 June 2012 - 11:40 AM, said:

watched the change up. you know the jason bateman, ryan reynolds body switch movie. it was okay i guess. i laughed a few times and there were some boobs and a lot of cursing, which is always good.

I have some bad news for you Essay. There were no real boobs in that movie. The actresses were wearing white t-shirts and the boobs were 100% CGI. No lie.

[Essay21]

i'm going to choose not to believe that.

[SuperJon]

Boy WonderVery goodWatch it

[JubilantLankyLad]

Iron Sky. Much better than expected - almost not a b-movie. Some legitimately LOL moments and a few good pop culture references. Needed more boobs, though. Definitely the best "nazis living on the dark side of the moon" movie this year.

[brvheart]

Essay21, on 03 June 2012 - 06:15 PM, said:

i'm going to choose not to believe that.

http://www.screenjun...-nude-fake-cgi/

[Essay21]

not even gonna read those.

[brvheart]

Essay21, on 10 June 2012 - 04:46 PM, said:

not even gonna read those.

The 2nd link has a beautiful picture of Olivia Wilde. CLICK IT, SA! CLICK IT!

[Essay21]

it wasn't worth it.

[ShakeZuma]

ok has anybody talked about cabin by the woods in here yet? I just saw it tonight and that shit was GNARLY. I loved it. it started off like a typical terrible teen horror movie, but as it got going, it got awesome and fucking hilarious. I don't think anybody in the theater thought it was quite as hilarious as me, but it was definitely meant to be that way, and it definitely was. I highly recommend it.edit: cabin IN the woods. thought I had written cabin by the lake, but at least I got the woods part wright. it's the movie about people getting killed in a cabin.