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Post by stamper on Jan 18, 2011 7:58:07 GMT -8
oh, well, duh. We can all relate to that.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 18, 2011 7:59:27 GMT -8
Naw, but I grew up in a similar kinda place, with similar kinda people.
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Post by stamper on Jan 18, 2011 8:06:05 GMT -8
my childhood was kinda like the one the guy on HBO's Dream On had... raised by television and movies. anybody remember that show?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 18, 2011 8:32:58 GMT -8
Fuck yeah dude, Dream On was great. I was sure Brian Benben was going to have a huge career. I was bummed when that turned out not to be the case, he was great in 'Radioland Murders'.
Dream On moved to network tv eventually, and yeah that was a bad idea.
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Post by ComesWithASword on Jan 18, 2011 12:23:14 GMT -8
Winter's Bone was a good movie. Reminded me of my childhood and hometown. And John Hawkes. We'll have to disagree on this one too. Interesting you related so much to the setting/people, i thought the film reeked of artifice.
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Post by know ID yuh on Jan 18, 2011 21:12:40 GMT -8
Hey everyone, I watched a movie!
Having read all the posts in this thread, I thought everyone really liked True Grit. I didn't. The 14 year old deserves all sorts of awards though.
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Post by Hancho on Jan 18, 2011 22:23:11 GMT -8
Hey everyone, I watched a movie! Having read all the posts in this thread, I thought everyone really liked True Grit. I didn't. The 14 year old deserves all sorts of awards though. It was good, not spectacular. I give Bridges, Damon and the girl praise for playing their parts well, but that antagonist was way too weak, which made for a blink of an eye climax.
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Post by emptyfox on Jan 18, 2011 22:27:35 GMT -8
Ya, I would say the film didn't have much of a third act. It ended pretty abruptly.
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Post by Pea on Jan 18, 2011 22:29:47 GMT -8
Just got back from True Grit. Good movie. Not great. Jeff Bridges is a real card.
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Post by Lump on Jan 19, 2011 6:52:06 GMT -8
Just got back from True Grit. Good movie. Not great. Jeff Bridges is a real card. What he said.
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Post by Drew on Jan 19, 2011 7:00:32 GMT -8
Hey everyone, I watched a movie! Having read all the posts in this thread, I thought everyone really liked True Grit. I didn't. The 14 year old deserves all sorts of awards though. It was good, not spectacular. I give Bridges, Damon and the girl praise for playing their parts well, but that antagonist was way too weak, which made for a blink of an eye climax. That was their point. It was a little meta, in the sense that the denoument was a comment on contemporary cookie-cutter movie-making - the Coens were saying, we're not doing close-ups, one-liners, dramatic music, slow-motion, blah blah blah; we're just giving it to you straight up, because we think you're smart enough to know that this scene is important contextually and you don't need a hundred cues to alert you to that fact. I appreciated it.
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Post by Lump on Jan 19, 2011 7:08:23 GMT -8
It was good, not spectacular. I give Bridges, Damon and the girl praise for playing their parts well, but that antagonist was way too weak, which made for a blink of an eye climax. That was their point. It was a little meta, in the sense that the denoument was a comment on contemporary cookie-cutter movie-making - the Coens were saying, we're not doing close-ups, one-liners, dramatic music, slow-motion, blah blah blah; we're just giving it to you straight up, because we think you're smart enough to know that this scene is important contextually and you don't need a hundred cues to alert you to that fact. I appreciated it. Hmmmm. Maybe I need to watch it again when I'm not exhausted, just got home from work, and falling asleep for half of the movie, then I might pick up on this. So scratch everything I said about True Grit before.
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Post by stamper on Jan 19, 2011 11:03:37 GMT -8
on another note - i just got finished watching an HBO Greek Mythology doubleheader of Clash of the Titans (2010) and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief...
I'm never getting those hours back am I?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 19, 2011 11:07:53 GMT -8
Jesus, what time is it that you just finished watching TWO shitty movies?
edit: Yeah, it's 11:00am - which means that you can't (or at least shouldn't) be drunk or stoned enough to have made it through even ONE of those. Nobody is allowed to give me shit about Yogi Bear ever again.
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Post by stamper on Jan 19, 2011 11:17:36 GMT -8
Jesus, what time is it that you just finished watching TWO shitty movies? edit: Yeah, it's 11:00am - which means that you can't (or at least shouldn't) be drunk or stoned enough to have made it through even ONE of those. Nobody is allowed to give me shit about Yogi Bear ever again. I've been at home sick the past couple days. Part of my healing process is watching terrible films... that and the remote is all the way on the other sofa. That Cats vs Dogs movie is on right now too.
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Post by stamper on Jan 19, 2011 11:18:21 GMT -8
This just in....
Anne Hathaway was cast as the new CATWOMAN.
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Post by Drew on Jan 19, 2011 12:36:47 GMT -8
This just in.... Anne Hathaway was cast as the new CATWOMAN. That role's a career-killer. So long, saggy-tits hathaway
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Post by Hancho on Jan 19, 2011 17:33:09 GMT -8
That was their point. It was a little meta, in the sense that the denoument was a comment on contemporary cookie-cutter movie-making - the Coens were saying, we're not doing close-ups, one-liners, dramatic music, slow-motion, blah blah blah; we're just giving it to you straight up, because we think you're smart enough to know that this scene is important contextually and you don't need a hundred cues to alert you to that fact. I appreciated it. Yeah, I'm well aware thats what their intentions were with this movie, but that doesn't change the fact that the last third of the movie was "meh". Lately good westerns have been few and far between. I appreciate it for that alone. To be fair, part of my opinion has to do with favoritism... That being "Tombstone" for best western IMO.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 19, 2011 17:34:51 GMT -8
My favorite western has to be Raimi's 'The Quick and the Dead'.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 19, 2011 17:38:18 GMT -8
Tombstone is the worst western ever. It's like the Kings of Leon of westerns. True Grit was everything a western was supposed to be. And the WHOLE movie was about the bonds Maddie forms with Rooster and Lebeouf and vice versa (vice versa). You literally had this movie go way over your head if you have a complaint with the "action" parts.
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