huntergrayson
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Post by huntergrayson on Jan 10, 2012 18:56:56 GMT -4
I thought Naomi, Edward Norton and Liev were all great in The Painted Veil. It's not a grand or perfect movie but I think it's an interesting look at romance and marriage.
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Post by ratscabies on Jan 10, 2012 22:17:37 GMT -4
I may have said this before, but I saw King Kong in the theatre, knowing full well that the monkey buys it, and yet, I still got a bit choked up. That wasn't the CGI monkey's doing. That was Naomi.
I haven't seen much else she's done, and I don't go looking for her movies, but that one she did pretty good in.
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Post by Witchie on Jan 11, 2012 19:28:29 GMT -4
I thought Naomi, Edward Norton and Liev were all great in The Painted Veil. It's not a grand or perfect movie but I think it's an interesting look at romance and marriage. I loved The Painted Veil. |
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Post by mmmkrimpets on Jan 15, 2012 2:21:31 GMT -4
Since someone bought up Ed Norton, I don't get why Fight Club is supposed to be such an awesome movie.
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Post by divasahm on Jan 15, 2012 10:17:56 GMT -4
Since someone bought up Ed Norton, I don't get why Fight Club is supposed to be such an awesome movie. I can only speak for myself, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching Brad Pitt get punched in the face... |
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Post by Shalamar on Jan 15, 2012 10:52:06 GMT -4
I enjoyed "Fight Club", but the only reason I watched it was because I have a friend who's obsessed with it and considers it THE BEST MOVIE EVAH. He drives his wife nuts by constantly saying "I am Jack's (blah blah blah)."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2012 11:09:36 GMT -4
I thought it was alright. I think liking Fight Club might be a guy thing.
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Post by Atreides on Jan 15, 2012 13:37:25 GMT -4
Since someone bought up Ed Norton, I don't get why Fight Club is supposed to be such an awesome movie. Thank you! I saw it and just thought it was thoroughly average. I always figured the movie's message was something white guys really gravitated towards. |
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Post by chonies on Jan 15, 2012 14:08:37 GMT -4
Since someone bought up Ed Norton, I don't get why Fight Club is supposed to be such an awesome movie. Thank you! I saw it and just thought it was thoroughly average. I always figured the movie's message was something white guys really gravitated towards. Agreed! I saw it on video, so I'm factoring in the possibility that I was post-hype, but I definitely thought it was sub-average at best. The message about consumerism was really heavy handed and juvenile, and now I give the side-eye to people who think it's a great movie. It was an okay concept but it was Just So Anvilicious In Its Message. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2012 16:37:03 GMT -4
For me, that was the point, chonies, that heavy-handed, doctrinaire "solutions" for individuals seeking meaning in our increasingly-chaotic social system -- where everyone's reduced, almost democratically, to nonexistence other than as a consumer -- are doomed from the start. I think the film's a more romantic version of the book's nihilist story, that brief and passionate moments of emotional connectedness are the only respite from the madness yet not a cure.
Everything is extreme in the movie -- the visuals, music and sound -- and the fights are especially so in an effort to push the critique of Extreme, Doctrinaire Responses to Social Ills. It goes over the top in such a controlled and deliberate manner that it dares being show-offy in its bravado.
Marla Singer is very much the entry point for the audience to the story, and she acts as our stand-in. The idiots who identify with the narrator or Tyler Durden have missed the point of the book and are mocked in the movie. As a cultural artifact it's unique in that it's been embraced by the very people it eviscerates.
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