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Post by Sunnyhorse on Apr 17, 2011 16:05:38 GMT -4
We just watched it, Witchie (OK, most of it -- the satellite signal got garbled in one of the storms we had this week, so we missed the last 10 minutes or so). Some of it (for instance, my favorite scene, between the Prince and Beatrice at the first-night revelry) affected me much as it ever did, but I found myself even more annoyed this time around by Dogberry (I love Michael Keaton, but come on), Don John, and Benedick, who, when he's stomping around whining about how dumb love is, sounds exactly like my brother-in-law, who is like nails on a chalkboard to me when he gets going about something. (Once the wedding has been disrupted and he and Beatrice are confessing their love for each other and he pledges to challenge Claudio, Benedick gets interesting and intense and sexy and stays that way for the rest of the film.)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2011 18:20:48 GMT -4
Mozart and the Whale, a romance about people with Asperger's Syndrome. Josh Hartnett is in it. It was okay. I thought some parts were more realistic than others.
Next up: Reeker, about a stinky serial killer (I think).
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Post by huntergrayson on Apr 17, 2011 19:27:41 GMT -4
I lurve having real interwebs/WiFi because my new BluRay player has Netflix Instant and Hulu Plus pretty seamlessly built-in. It's so ridonkulosly convenient.
Chloe - lurve Amanda, Love Julianne, have liked Egoyan's other stuff (I am still pissed that he didn't win Best Director for The Sweet Hereafter) but I just thought this was...okay. I think the third act/ending was kinda awful and brought down the rest of the movie.
Eat Pray Love - really nice scenery, went on waaaaaay too long with nothing happening, terrible voice-over, Julia and her character were annoying as fuck. I checked my email and did chores for most of it, when not posting my frustrations in its thread.
Hot Tub Time Machine - Meh. Maybe I would've liked it more if I had 80s nostalgia. I also think the whole suicide subplot was a little too dark for what was supposed to be a mindless entertaining comedy.
Black Dynamite - Pretty amusing, especially since I took a blaxploitation class. I think it could've used a little more narrative-tightening though. Yeah, I get that the plots were ridiculous in blaxploitation films, but this felt like it just lurched around between vignettes/individual scenes. The Roscoe's Chili & Donuts cracked me up. For recent films done as old-school throwbacks/parodies, I think both Down with Love (Doris/Rock rom-coms) and OSS 117: Lost in Rio and OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (Bond, if Bond were a bumbling Frenchman) did it better and funnier.
I also watched all the Futurama films.
Red-Boxed The Tourist and it was totally not terrible. I actually really enjoyed it. Plus, it Italian Tourist Porn-ed better than Eat Pray Love and Angie's outfits were stunning. Speaking of throwbacks, it's very much supposed to be in the mode of 60s Hitchcockian Rom-Com/Thriller hybrids like Charade or To Catch a Thief.
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Post by WitchyPoo on Apr 18, 2011 14:08:01 GMT -4
I totally forgot I watched Hot Tub Time Machine yesterday. It was about ten minutes of real funny with about an hour and a half of light chuckling mixed with indifference.
I just finished Public Speaking with Fran Lebowitz. I adore her. She's brilliant.
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Post by Sunnyhorse on Apr 18, 2011 16:13:37 GMT -4
About the best thing I can say about HTTM is that it wasn't nearly as awful as I was expecting ...
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Apr 18, 2011 19:26:12 GMT -4
Watched 127 Hours. Yowza. Too bad for James Franco that this was Colin Firth's year to win the Oscar, or else he would have won it for sure. Very intense performance. Am now reading Aron Ralston's book.
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Post by bklynred on Apr 19, 2011 13:18:18 GMT -4
Franco did his best work this year, I think.
I'm rewatching The Weather Underground. I'm on a kick since I just saw Bastards of the Country and Made in America, both movies about how the Crips & Bloods LA gangs grew (tenuously) from the dearth of leadership following the government's shutdown of the Black Panther movement. All available via Hulu on Google video. I always felt I was born a decade too late, I would've loved to have witnessed the 70s (I did but was too young to know anything interesting was happening, with the exception of the Atlanta child murders...whoopie).
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Post by chiqui on Apr 21, 2011 1:23:37 GMT -4
Whoa. I'm gonna have to watch these. I actually remember when the Black Panthers were the coolest dudes around.
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Post by kateln on Apr 21, 2011 19:53:14 GMT -4
Wow, I watched MST3K's version of The Giant Gila Monster. I now hate the song "Laugh Children Laugh".
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Post by Sancho on Apr 22, 2011 11:49:53 GMT -4
Not a rental but a "recorded off of some movie channel" -- In the Loop. A really hilarious British satire about a minister in Parliament being courted by rival American politicos to either support or oppose an upcoming war. Wonderfully written and acted. Plus, if you're a Masterpiece Theatre geek like me, you'll get to see some of your favorite actors putting aside their hoop skirts and waist coats and cravats to play contemporary characters.
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