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Post by Pea on Dec 29, 2010 17:03:35 GMT -8
I think The Wrestler was sort of a departure from his normal "take out brain, scramble, place back inside head" style of movie.
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Post by Drew on Dec 29, 2010 20:10:42 GMT -8
Oh yeah I forgot about the Wrestler. Yeah that was into n't quite as...deranging...but it had a similar conclusion. Descent into chaos, moment of hope, doom.
What's funny is that I often forget how movies end, but the end of every Aronofsky movie is tattooed on my brain.
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Post by unifiedscene on Dec 30, 2010 23:27:49 GMT -8
As far as music themed movies go I loved the life and hard times of guy terrifico. Fantastic.
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Post by Drew on Dec 30, 2010 23:39:55 GMT -8
What the fuck happened there?
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Post by ComesWithASword on Dec 31, 2010 11:10:11 GMT -8
I assumed it was some fancy poetry shit I'd never heard of.
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Post by Drew on Dec 31, 2010 12:08:00 GMT -8
Oh, I mean, uh, yeah, it was
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 3, 2011 10:58:19 GMT -8
Feist's "Look What The Light Did Now" is phenomenal!(!). Saw her three times on that tour and lost my mind each time. Watch this film you guys.
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Post by ComesWithASword on Jan 3, 2011 12:04:52 GMT -8
Ahhhhhh TRUE GRIT. So good. Such an old school western. Fuck all those assholes who went to little fockers instead of this last weekend. I'm looking at you HG.
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Post by Drew on Jan 3, 2011 12:14:30 GMT -8
Does Feist do a cover of that song? Is that why the tour movie is named Look At What The Light Did Now?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 5, 2011 11:33:13 GMT -8
Ahhhhhh TRUE GRIT. So good. Such an old school western. Fuck all those assholes who went to little fockers instead of this last weekend. I'm looking at you HG. Little Fockers? Jesus, what you people must think of me. I wouldn't watch that shit for a million dollars. True Grit massively re-arranged my Favorite Coen Films list. I'm anticipating back-to-back Oscars for Jeff Bridges, and that little girl is a sure thing.
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Post by Drew on Jan 5, 2011 11:59:02 GMT -8
Little girl is a sure thing, but the academy won't give Bridges two straight Oscars, in spite of this being an even better performance than Crazy Heart. They're idiots of course so it doesn't matter
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Post by ComesWithASword on Jan 5, 2011 13:27:22 GMT -8
Little Fockers? Jesus, what you people must think of me. I'm all over that Yogi Bear movie when it comes out. Fuck everyone, I watched 'Marmaduke' and I laughed my ass off.
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Post by Pea on Jan 5, 2011 17:15:56 GMT -8
Has anyone seen both True Grit and Black Swan? I haven't seen TG yet but I can't imagine anyone topping Natalie Portman's performance in BS. That secured her as my favorite actress on earth right now.
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Post by Drew on Jan 5, 2011 19:19:10 GMT -8
Just saw both last week, and I think you're right. There can't possibly be a better performance, IMO. Aronofsky brings that out with the suspense in the story, but I also think he's got a gift for bringing out raw emotion in the actors in his movies. I haven't seen all the movies I'm interested in seeing yet, but so far Black Swan is my favorite.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 5, 2011 20:21:22 GMT -8
Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine" makes Queen Amidala look like an annoying pinched faced child with a really bad stage mother who against all sound reason keeps pushing her reluctant annoying pinched face in front of the camera. The Black S(whoops). See Blue Valentine. Michelle Willams is just as naked daring, but without the annoying pinched face.
Also, I am aware that I basically described Portman's character, but I am also very aware that that is a real deal central character we have to watch for 108mins! Watch "Inland Empire" and kill the Black Swan.
True Grit, that's a good movie people. Like someone else stated, pretty cool they went with a traditional Western take. Usually the Coens make a genre movie "Coen style" (which is usually definitely always a good thing), now it's just a Coen made movie, which also turns out to be pretty incredible.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 5, 2011 20:23:47 GMT -8
Not trying to start a war (National style!), but the other side needs to be told. We can not remain not at all silent!
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Post by Pea on Jan 5, 2011 20:31:18 GMT -8
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 5, 2011 20:32:26 GMT -8
How dated does that shit look?
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Post by Drew on Jan 5, 2011 20:34:01 GMT -8
Oh the war is on. I loved True Grit probably just as much as you. The thing is, it's just as eccentric as Black Swan, just in a totally different way. The dialogue, a lot of the editing choices, that final battle scene - that would have been shot differently by any director. Totally unique to the Coens.
Black Swan's eccentricities are in its surrealism, which is on the surface. It was uncomfortable to watch, but I can deal with that. It was uncomfortable because it was so visceral. And the acting...
Black Swan SPOILER alert...
When Portman's character is dancing the black swan well, I can totally tell, even before everybody tells her so. I was like, "oh that was a good one, she nailed it!" in that last rehearsal and in the final performance. And I don't know SHIT about ballet or dancing or anything. It was just in her face, and her body language. Seeing her being a crazy badass, for the few minutes it actually happened, made the pinched-face rest of the movie make sense.
Anyway, they're both great, but for my money it's Black Swan.
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Post by Drew on Jan 5, 2011 20:37:02 GMT -8
Patrick just won that argument. That shit is so funny.
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