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#3176 Post by MichaelB » Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:07 pm

Anyone who repeatedly refers to women as "females" as though they were some mysterious alien Other almost certainly doesn't know enough about them to have the faintest clue what they actually like. Sorry, dig.

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#3177 Post by Gregory » Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:07 pm

Stuff that chicks dig:
-Feelings, talking, etc.
-Female characters who kick ass and, when possible, even have speaking parts
-Two men fighting over a woman
-Weeping as they watch Cossacks massacre women and children

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#3178 Post by swo17 » Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:12 pm

You forgot two of my favorites:
-Things that are educational (maybe)
-Themes

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#3179 Post by rspaight » Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:14 pm

- Manipulating suitors

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#3180 Post by bottled spider » Thu Dec 04, 2014 6:26 pm

The synopsis for The Goddess (dir. Renata Litvinova) at Mubi:
Death dominates Faina’s consciousness, and therefore the diegesis, both metaphorically and metonymically. Litvinova’s skill as a screenwriter is most apparent in the variety of ways she manages to combine death and her other theme, love, in single images or events.
The writer knows some big words, but not, apparently, the meaning of synopsis.

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#3181 Post by domino harvey » Sun Dec 07, 2014 8:52 pm

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Stupid Christmas albums being only about Christmas

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#3182 Post by Gregory » Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:16 pm

From an Amazon review of Fellini Satyricon:
"It lacks the creativity, wit, subtlety and imagination that the original book may have had (which I have not read)."
The reviewer also complains about perfectly normal dubbing practices in the Italian film industry, "excessive" visuals, tasteless behavior (during Trimalchio's banquet, I suppose, which was entirely appropriate), and Fellini's autocratic "approach," but the above sentence is what really gets me.

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#3183 Post by domino harvey » Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:40 pm

They dress up like cops, get super cereal about it, start doing cop stuff, the cops be like "Damn, they cops", cop works alongside the guys dressed up like cops doing cop stuff. Not bad.

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#3184 Post by warren oates » Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:52 pm

From context clues, I'm guessing it's Let's Be Cops?

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#3185 Post by sir_luke » Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:53 pm

It turns me off when a film takes itself too cereally
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#3186 Post by willoneill » Wed Dec 24, 2014 10:53 am

For Grand Budapest Hotel (I cannot emphasize that enough):
4.0 out of 5 stars A Wes Craven Classic, Dec 22 2014
By duckysan1
I enjoy Wes Craven's movies, and this is no exception. Fun and entertaining from beginning to end. Not so happy with the 4x3 aspect ratio used for most of the movie - a little irritating on my HT screen.
Short on extras.

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#3187 Post by sir_luke » Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:06 pm

Amazon review of Mood Indigo
SmithFamilyAccount wrote:Uh,...what in the heck.
I didn't like this movie.
It was kind of boring.
I had to fast forward through some of it,
because I was starting to get an
anxiety attack from watching it.
It made me stop breathing at times.

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#3188 Post by domino harvey » Sat Jan 10, 2015 1:48 pm

I LOVE the original book and picture of The Day of The Jackal, one of my favorite pictures. It is NOT a picture for A/A fans, it is methodical and moves nicely through a good story...what A/A fans would call BORING!
This version of The Jackal is full of Action and lots of explosions and killings, meat and potatoes for A/A fans. I was able to sit through this without yawning or laughing so even non-A/A people can enjoy it. It follows just the most basic parts of the original and Bruce co-stars with a big mechanical GUN.
Mercury Rising is not loaded with explosions but does have enough murders to get a good A/A rating.

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#3189 Post by Gregory » Sat Jan 10, 2015 2:54 pm

Amazon review of The Wire Season 1 by someone in Omaha, Nebraska:
Won't be viewing any further episodes. I can do without the gratuitous grit, grime, filth and horrible language. I am interested in a good story plot that is presented in an entertaining way when I seek entertainment. If I desire what "The Wire" offers, I can go to the inner city and observe street life and the strip bars on my own. No thanks. And if this is supposed to be "reality TV," it doesn't take a rocket scientist to recognize that the phrase "reality TV" is an oxymoron. Again, thanks, but not thanks.
Omaha, NE—exactly like West Baltimore. There's one "show girl" club I know of in Omaha, which is near an Olive Garden, a Red Lobster, a derelict Borders bookstore, and a shopping mall that shoppers stopped going to because they were afraid of loitering teens in the foodcourt, some of whom must have been gang members—i.e., a really rough area! I'm sure people around there use all kinds of horrible language. Who needs "reality TV" shows like The Wire when we can just walk out of our front doors and see the same filth?

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#3190 Post by MichaelB » Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:07 pm

I know someone who refused to see Nil By Mouth for a similar reason, but he really did live a block or two from where most of it was shot, so he had slightly more of a point.

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#3191 Post by sir_luke » Sun Jan 18, 2015 12:22 am

From the trivia section of the IMDb entry for GIRLHOOD (which looks amazing, by the way):

"This is a cheap knockoff of Boyhood by Richard Linklater, a sad sad knockoff"

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#3192 Post by TMDaines » Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:38 am

Senses of Cinema World Poll (Part 4)
DAVID MELVILLE

LECTURER IN HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR AND GOTHIC EXCESS, EDINBURGH, UK.

Should I perhaps disqualify myself from compiling such lists? My passion is for old movies and much contemporary cinema has no appeal to me at all. Still, here are five films that caught my eye in the past 12 months…

Grace of Monaco (Olivier Dahan, 2014)

Why has this film been so vilified? In past decades, a glamorous star suffering grandly in opulent surroundings was the essence of what movies were about. Nicole Kidman (a far better actress than the original) gives a heartbreaking performance as an intelligent woman who makes a bad decision and feels trapped – but has to make her life work anyway. Wait till you’re alone with the curtains closed…and have a good old-fashioned sob.

[...]
Wow.

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#3193 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Jan 24, 2015 7:24 am

I'm going to pass over the troll-worthy "(a far better actress than the original)" comment that somehow seems unfair to both Grace Kelly and Nicole Kidman!

I know that he means it in the sense of isolating yourself to fully indulge in the glorious majesty of Grace of Monaco uninterrupted, but I like to cheekily imagine that he is suggesting that you have to furtively close the curtains, pull the DVD (surely Mr Melville wouldn't have bought it on Blu-ray?) out from the pile of pornography it was hidden under (tissues at the ready!) and ensure that nobody can see you as you watch the film!

"What are you doing in there?"
"Oh! Nothing, nothing"
"You're watching that Grace of Monaco again aren't you? I've told you before that you'll go blind if you do it too much!"

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#3194 Post by MichaelB » Sat Jan 24, 2015 8:45 am

Brad Stevens has also defended the film. I haven't seen it, so can't comment.
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#3195 Post by Gregory » Sat Jan 24, 2015 2:30 pm

In past decades, a glamorous star suffering grandly in opulent surroundings was the essence of what movies were about.
Yeah, overlooking all the great comedies, musicals with minimal suffering, westerns, crime films, films made with nonprofessional or otherwise obscure actors, films set in ordinary city environments and in remote and rustic places, during wartime, documentaries, adventure/sci-fi...

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#3196 Post by Gregory » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:45 pm

For a while now I've been submitting reviews to the Least Helpful blog, which lately is sort of limping along.

My submission for today's post...

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...is an example of how bad Amazon reviews have gotten since the introduction of all the free streaming selections for Prime members, who have no clue what they're watching, shut it off in a matter of minutes, and then write a 1-star review, or just write something like "Couldn't get it to load."

Did this person really think that something that said "Wings (1927)" with a picture of aircraft going down in flames and Clara Bow, was going to be the '90s sitcom called Wings? Amazon movie reviews are now this times a million. ](*,)

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#3197 Post by domino harvey » Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:28 pm

To be fair, I'd rather have the sitcom too

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#3198 Post by Gregory » Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:23 pm

Both versions of the story are way too old.

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#3199 Post by Gregory » Thu Jan 29, 2015 4:22 pm

Brooks Barnes on American Sniper in the New York Times:
While America’s coastal intelligentsia busied itself with chatter over little-seen art dramas like “Boyhood” and “Birdman,” everyday Americans showed up en masse for a patriotic, pro-family picture that played more like a summer superhero blockbuster than an R-rated war drama with six Oscar nominations.
Funny to see Boyhood as an example of some obscure art movie that's irrelevant to the mainstream. Never mind that it was also nominated for six Oscars, and Birdman nine (since Barnes thought that worth mentioning in his comparison) and that Boyhood made a very respectable box office showing after being released to hundreds of theaters. But the really rediculous part is how Brooks sets up a routine piece about awards and box office returns by setting up the old polarizing distinctions between the "coastal intelligentsia" and their obscure art films vs. what some like to call "the Real America" (a cynical strategy of political opportunism, really). And apparently "patriotism" is inextricably tied to the financial success of a hagiographic dramatization of Chris Kyle and his "lethal" exploits.

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#3200 Post by swo17 » Thu Jan 29, 2015 4:56 pm

I like how The New York Times suggests reading this.

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