Oh Daesu
Joined: 11 May 2005
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I'm on a Hal Hartley kick right now. I watched The Unbelievable Truth and Henry Fool, both of which are awesome.
Also, in honour of a friend moving to england for his british wife I watched Straw Dogs. |
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futuristxen
Joined: 01 Jul 2002
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Watched Carrie for the first time last night. Brian Depalma is GENIUS. I knew what the story would be, but I didn't expect to enjoy the direction. I think I like it better than Scarface and Untouchables. I need to get more familiar with early Depalma. Hi Mom is next |
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Captiv8
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
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futuristxen wrote:
Watched Carrie for the first time last night. Brian Depalma is GENIUS. I knew what the story would be, but I didn't expect to enjoy the direction. I think I like it better than Scarface and Untouchables. I need to get more familiar with early Depalma. Hi Mom is next
Do you ever find you can't enjoy great movies because of who's in them? Sissy Spacek, while terrific in the title role, just doesn't work for me. I have a similar issue with Minnie Driver. Thankfully she's actually endearing in Good Will Hunting so I can tolerate it, but everything else ticks me off. Anyway, sitting through Carrie was tough, just because of how fragile and timid and weird Sissy Spacek was. I know it's called acting, but it bugged me all the same. |
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futuristxen
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Captiv8 wrote:
futuristxen wrote:
Watched Carrie for the first time last night. Brian Depalma is GENIUS. I knew what the story would be, but I didn't expect to enjoy the direction. I think I like it better than Scarface and Untouchables. I need to get more familiar with early Depalma. Hi Mom is next
Do you ever find you can't enjoy great movies because of who's in them? Sissy Spacek, while terrific in the title role, just doesn't work for me. I have a similar issue with Minnie Driver. Thankfully she's actually endearing in Good Will Hunting so I can tolerate it, but everything else ticks me off. Anyway, sitting through Carrie was tough, just because of how fragile and timid and weird Sissy Spacek was. I know it's called acting, but it bugged me all the same.
Sissy Spacek has a great ability to make you hate her, and I enjoy her for that. Have you seen 3 Women with Spacek and Shelly Duvall? She really ramps it up there. But no, I like her a lot. I'd watch a lot of what she's in. Even though she oftentimes makes me feel gross.
I can't think of a great movie that I just refuse to watch or enjoy because of a particular actor though. |
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futuristxen
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Saw A Woman Under the Influence. Which was my first Cassavettes film. My girlfriend is a huge Fassebinder and Cassevettes fan, so I'm getting my education on both. I enjoy the shit out of this movie. Peter Falk was so brilliant. Columbo!
Gena Rowlands kills it too. Obviously. |
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Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:28 pm |
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Just saw Lions for Lambs, 2007 Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and Tom Cruise. Tome Cruise was a villain according to my viewing, but he got the war hawk position down, though i would credit that more to the writers. Meryl Streep and Robert Redford acted really well though Redford's character as a college professor seemed non-academic but I guess it's a movie so they can't get to heady. Anyway, the movie reminded me of how much I hate this bullshit war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_for_Lambs |
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Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:48 pm |
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doogs
Joined: 15 Jul 2003
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BARFLY. i have never enjoyed a film so much. |
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Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:57 am |
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futuristxen
Joined: 01 Jul 2002
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Barfly is a godly movie. I love it too :) |
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Watched The Thin Red Line for the first time. I don't know how I hadn't seen it until now. That movie is fucking brutal. So, so good. |
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Captiv8
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futuristxen wrote:
Captiv8 wrote:
futuristxen wrote:
Watched Carrie for the first time last night. Brian Depalma is GENIUS. I knew what the story would be, but I didn't expect to enjoy the direction. I think I like it better than Scarface and Untouchables. I need to get more familiar with early Depalma. Hi Mom is next
Do you ever find you can't enjoy great movies because of who's in them? Sissy Spacek, while terrific in the title role, just doesn't work for me. I have a similar issue with Minnie Driver. Thankfully she's actually endearing in Good Will Hunting so I can tolerate it, but everything else ticks me off. Anyway, sitting through Carrie was tough, just because of how fragile and timid and weird Sissy Spacek was. I know it's called acting, but it bugged me all the same.
Sissy Spacek has a great ability to make you hate her, and I enjoy her for that. Have you seen 3 Women with Spacek and Shelly Duvall? She really ramps it up there. But no, I like her a lot. I'd watch a lot of what she's in. Even though she oftentimes makes me feel gross.
I can't think of a great movie that I just refuse to watch or enjoy because of a particular actor though.
Yeesh, Spacek and Duvall? Duvall was great in her role in The Shining, but also helped me empathize more with Nicholson more than I should have, naw mean? That said, I haven't seen Spacek in anything else that I can remember off-hand, and the only other Duvall role I can remember is her as Olive Oil, which she was absolutely perfect for. |
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xGasPricesx
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Saw The Informant the other day, it was good, not great, but good. Was much more true to the original story then the trailer made it out to seem.
The story is pretty crazy, if you have never heard it before you should check out the This American Life episode about it - http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=168 - or you could just go see the movie. Oh and I'm pretty sure there's a book about it too. |
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Dan Shay
Joined: 30 Aug 2003
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Sarcastro wrote:
Best Hockey movie: Youngblood, close 2nd: Mighty Ducks 1
You obviously didn't play hockey because Slapshot is the fucking shit. |
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:32 pm |
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Sarcastro
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Dan Shay wrote:
Sarcastro wrote:
Best Hockey movie: Youngblood, close 2nd: Mighty Ducks 1
You obviously didn't play hockey because Slapshot is the fucking shit.
played hockey, didn't see Slapshot until I was an adult, didn't have the same effect on me, but I can understand how people would have that as best hockey movie. |
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futuristxen
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Captiv8 wrote:
futuristxen wrote:
Captiv8 wrote:
futuristxen wrote:
Watched Carrie for the first time last night. Brian Depalma is GENIUS. I knew what the story would be, but I didn't expect to enjoy the direction. I think I like it better than Scarface and Untouchables. I need to get more familiar with early Depalma. Hi Mom is next
Do you ever find you can't enjoy great movies because of who's in them? Sissy Spacek, while terrific in the title role, just doesn't work for me. I have a similar issue with Minnie Driver. Thankfully she's actually endearing in Good Will Hunting so I can tolerate it, but everything else ticks me off. Anyway, sitting through Carrie was tough, just because of how fragile and timid and weird Sissy Spacek was. I know it's called acting, but it bugged me all the same.
Sissy Spacek has a great ability to make you hate her, and I enjoy her for that. Have you seen 3 Women with Spacek and Shelly Duvall? She really ramps it up there. But no, I like her a lot. I'd watch a lot of what she's in. Even though she oftentimes makes me feel gross.
I can't think of a great movie that I just refuse to watch or enjoy because of a particular actor though.
Yeesh, Spacek and Duvall? Duvall was great in her role in The Shining, but also helped me empathize more with Nicholson more than I should have, naw mean? That said, I haven't seen Spacek in anything else that I can remember off-hand, and the only other Duvall role I can remember is her as Olive Oil, which she was absolutely perfect for.
Duval is in a LOT of great 70s movies. Especially with Altman.
She's in:
Annie Hall (remember she's Woody's spaced out Stoner GF)
Nashville (masterwork film)
3 Women (which I mentioned)
Thieves like Us (one of her better roles I think)
McCabe and Miller (An all-time great movie)
She was in a lot of great Altman movies basically.
I love her face, she has really angular interesting features. I haven't seen Popeye yet, perhaps surprisingly, but it's coming up on my Netflix.
If you want to see Sissy Spacek play a very likeable character, watch Coal Miner's Daughter. Love that film. She plays Loretta Lynn and is incredible in it. A young Tommy Lee Jones is in it too. |
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:44 pm |
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Oh Daesu
Joined: 11 May 2005
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futuristxen wrote:
Watched Carrie for the first time last night. Brian Depalma is GENIUS. I knew what the story would be, but I didn't expect to enjoy the direction. I think I like it better than Scarface and Untouchables. I need to get more familiar with early Depalma. Hi Mom is next
I just watched Blow Out. Great movie. Probably my favorite Travolta role ever. Likewise Lithgow. |
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