Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

[servechilled81]

Chloe Moretz is great, she was so good on 30 Rock.

I watched the movie Hick which seemed like a seemed like a version of the Wizard of Oz with

her and Blake Lively (whom I also think is downplayed as an actress) the movie was ok but Chloe Moretz

was awesome!

 

[pabstblueribbon]

Blake lively in the town >

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Marketing Depts for these studios are like a woman who just got a boob job & wants to show them off to everyone. Too many movie clips (like iron man 3) being released so by the time you see the movie, you've seen too many clips & know too many details.

That's why I love Nolan. He keeps almost everything under wraps & let's out a few morsels that are enough to get you all geeked up & hype...

I would like to see a trailer for Neill Blomkamp's Elysium starring Matt Damon though. It was supposed to come out in March but the studio wanted it to be released at the end of the summer so now it's scheduled for release August 9th...

 

[T0INE]

 

[big j 33]

[h1]The People's Critic: Remembering Roger Ebert[/h1]
Wesley Morris on Roger Ebert, some good highlights

Ebert's dismay changed my understanding of how to read a film. For one thing, I didn't know a film could be read.

Ebert did a lot of reading, particularly on social issues. No major critic did more for black movies than he did. He championed great filmmakers like Spike Lee and Charles Burnett. He lifted up directors like John Singleton and Matty Rich, finding the upside in some of their mediocre filmmaking without ever seeming to damn with faint praise, lower his standards, or lie. Their filmmaking might not have been spectacular, but he deemed it morally necessary.

Even with his illness he continued to write. And the writing (and how much of it there is to read!) is what will keep Ebert a titan, alongside Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris, who died last June. Ebert worked in a separate realm (and city) from Kael's and Sarris's rivalries and coteries and seemingly endless word counts. In print, Ebert practiced criticism with vivid clarity. A writer I know once told me he didn't read Ebert because he get could a plot summary anywhere. It's true that a typical Ebert review contains mostly plot synopsis, but it's mostly plot synopsis the way diamonds are mostly coal

Men, women, children, the young, the old, black people, white people, large Scandinavian-looking people, people who lived in Chicago, people crazy enough to vacation in Chicago at the end of July: They all had a look. A few of them stopped him for a picture, an autograph, or an opportunity to give him their two cents about a movie they'd seen. He obliged. I've never walked around downtown Chicago with Oprah Winfrey or Michael Jordan, superstars inextricably synonymous with Chicago, but the response to Ebert seemed vaguely comparable.

When he arrived at the store, he said, matter-of-factly, that he didn't mind the fans and the photos and the gawking — he said he needed to buy the new battery because he wanted to take pictures of them.

 

[CP1708]

Ya know, I only know him from his show with Siskel, I never even realized he did anything web based, or anywhere else for that matter. I had no idea he wrote anything, or was well educated on social topics and such. He'll be missed in the indurstry of course, I'm sorry I never took advantage of what he offered outside of just a tv show.

 

[kevin cleveland]

A dystopian home invasion flick?

I am all the way in.

 

[jpzx]

Mystic River was pretty freaking awful.

 

[big j 33]

I think his review database is down (likely because of overload), but I want to go back and read Ebert's reviews for some of my favorite movies.. or well reviewed movies in recent memory.

Some excerpts

Some reviews have said Mr. O’Brien (Brad Pitt, crew-cut, never more of a regular guy) is too strict as a disciplinarian. I don’t think so. He is doing what he thinks is right, as he was reared. Mrs. O’Brien (the ethereal Jessica Chastain) is gentler and more understanding, but there is no indication she feels her husband is cruel. Of course children resent discipline, and of course a kid might sometimes get whacked at the dinner table circa 1950. But listen to an acute exchange of dialogue between Jack and his father. “I was a little hard on you sometimes,” Mr. Brien says, and Jack replies: “It’s your house. You can do what you want to.” Jack is defending his father against himself. That’s how you grow up. And it all happens in this blink of a lifetime, surrounded by the realms of unimaginable time and space.

- Roger Ebert on The Tree of Life

So much has been written about those few words at the end that Bob whispers into Charlottes’ ear. We can’t hear them. They seem meaningful for both of them. Coppola said she didn’t know. It wasn’t scripted. Advanced sound engineering has been used to produce a fuzzy enhancement. Harry Caul of The Conversation would be proud of it, but it’s entirely irrelevant. Those words weren’t for our ears. Coppola (1) didn’t write the dialog, (2) didn’t intentionally record the dialogue, and (3) was happy to release the movie that way, so we cannot hear. Why must we know? Do we need closure? This isn’t a closure kind of movie. We get all we need in simply knowing they share a moment private to them, and seeing that it contains something true before they part forever.

- Roger Ebert on Lost In Translation

And Cage. There are often lists of the great living male movie stars: De Niro, Nicholson and Pacino, usually. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He’s daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air. No one else can project inner trembling so effectively. He always seems so earnest. However improbable his character, he never winks at the audience. He is committed to the character with every atom and plays him as if he were him.

- Roger Ebert on Nicolas Cage

We’ve been shown by Andy’s example that you have to keep true to yourself, not lose hope, bide your time, set a quiet example and look for your chance. “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really,” he tells Red. “Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’.”

Roger Ebert on The Shawshank Redemption

 

[mronegative]

it really looks interesting from the preview, but I'm sure it's going to be terrible.

It seemed like an interesting concept at first, but then I thought about it for like another minute and realized that its pretty ridiculously far-fetched. Just a horror movie that's trying to be high concept. I'll probably pass.

I don't know what I was hoping for, but that just looks like a less clever Jennifer's Body. Bates Motel seems a cut above.

A dystopian home invasion flick?

I am all the way in.

Yea...this on the other hand.

Ethan Hawke, to me, has great taste. His films might not always turn out great, but he's always on point in them, and you can see the seeds of inspiration that he gravitated towards. He doesn't make boring or rundown movies. Always something interesting going on.

 

[big j 33]

I don't know if this was posted here originally or not, but if it wasn't...

Hearing the passion and energy Tarantino uses to describe Jules eating the burger is awesome. 

 It's the seemingly absurd attention to detail that makes him so interesting as a director.

 

[mronegative]

Some reviews have said Mr. O’Brien (Brad Pitt, crew-cut, never more of a regular guy) is too strict as a disciplinarian. I don’t think so. He is doing what he thinks is right, as he was reared. Mrs. O’Brien (the ethereal Jessica Chastain) is gentler and more understanding, but there is no indication she feels her husband is cruel. Of course children resent discipline, and of course a kid might sometimes get whacked at the dinner table circa 1950. But listen to an acute exchange of dialogue between Jack and his father. “I was a little hard on you sometimes,” Mr. Brien says, and Jack replies: “It’s your house. You can do what you want to.” Jack is defending his father against himself. That’s how you grow up. And it all happens in this blink of a lifetime, surrounded by the realms of unimaginable time and space.
 
- Roger Ebert on The Tree of Life

And Cage. There are often lists of the great living male movie stars: De Niro, Nicholson and Pacino, usually. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He’s daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air. No one else can project inner trembling so effectively. He always seems so earnest. However improbable his character, he never winks at the audience. He is committed to the character with every atom and plays him as if he were him.


 
- Roger Ebert on Nicolas Cage

"Take cover child! Now SWITCH to KRYPTONIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE!!!"

Cmon. That's just a nothing line that could've been delivered Jeremy Renneresque, and look what he did with it. LOOK.

Nic Cage is an artist. If only he wasn't so hard up on cash that he has to constantly do ****** movies, cuz he can't stop buying islands and dinosaur eggs.

I think his review database is down (likely because of overload), but I want to go back and read Ebert's reviews for some of my favorite movies.. or well reviewed movies in recent memory.

See, I wanna do the same for when he ethers movies. Ebert had the serpent tongue.

 

[big j 33]

That's such an awesome scene.. I got chills when she was running with the strobe.

 

[lawdog1]

I don't know what I was hoping for, but that just looks like a less clever Jennifer's Body. Bates Motel seems a cut above.

I don't know, just the idea that people could go buck wild and be murderers for one night a year and then go back to being model citizens the next day is just kind of dumb to me. Like, "hey Bob, sorry about trying to cut your head off with a chainsaw last night, but it was the Purge ... so no hard feelings." Maybe I'm over-analyzing it, but still.

 

[duba169]

finished videodrome. intense and ambiguous movie. blurs the line between reality and fiction. don't know what we see is real or not.

james woods was great and in every scene except one brief view of a satelite (that i can remember). good job carrying the movie. the 2nd half is way trippy.

funny how the director predicted this torture porn stuff with no plot that comes out nowdays

is it a government conspiracy? a brain tumor? a virus? commentary on how TV has altered our perception of reality? 2 different philisophical groups using a man as a weapon? just a bunch of crap thrown at the wall?


def worth a watch. But very confusing. might be a good idea to read what it's about and different theories before watching if you are the type that can't stand being confused during a film

 

[CP1708]

Purge and Carrie looked solid. I hope it wasn't just solid previews and then the movies turn to dust once the show starts for real.

 

[mronegative]

I don't know what I was hoping for, but that just looks like a less clever Jennifer's Body. Bates Motel seems a cut above.

I don't know, just the idea that people could go buck wild and be murderers for one night a year and then go back to being model citizens the next day is just kind of dumb to me. Like, "hey Bob, sorry about trying to cut your head off with a chainsaw last night, but it was the Purge ... so no hard feelings." Maybe I'm over-analyzing it, but still.

Oh, see I thought you were talking about Carrie.

I'm intrigued. I'm all for anything that feels like people were at least inspired to make it. Like Carrie...it's not that I was looking for Let Me In, but that's a good step down from what I expected.

 

[imvictor]

Looking forward to Only God Forgives.

 

[Nawzlew]

Hermione just stole all our ****

 

[nazdrowie]

steve carrell is such a hit or miss. watched that burt wonderstone crap and it is just horrible. almost evan almighty bad.

 

[Deleted member 38182]

Please tell me Sherry Palmer dies

 

[omgitswes]

I think I'm going to give Kick A** another shot. The only thing I liked about it at first was Hit girl.

One of my favorite movies of all time came in today. Shogun Assassin, it's been sampled a lot in Wu Tang songs. I have yet to see the original Lone Wolf and Cub series though

 

[Deleted member 38182]

George Mason Da Gawd

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

It has been a long time since I watched shogun assassin.. I need to re watch it again..

 

[noblekane]

Outside of cheesy CC lines, what didn't you like about GI Joe Noble?

i dunno it seemed like it was just pieced together. i think if they made it longer it would have given them more time to bridge everything together. also not much action in between the begining and then the end.

i guess i just got my hopes too high lol

i think the best part was the whole side plot of snake eyes and storm shadow...

they never explained how storm shadow survived either or any background on flint or roadblock. i would have loved cobra commander to have a less deeper voice as well.

and what the hell was up with rza?

i think the next one will be better though. GI Joe has a ton of unique characters they can bring on in the future.

I loved the vehicle designs though.

I know people hate this cartoon but i think the movie should have went more the GI Joe Renegades route