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Originally posted by James James wrote:

I've not seen Eraserhead but I did once see Cronenberg's Videodrome but that was when I was in my teens.  I may have to explore Lynch one day.
That was a terrible movie, although the concept was clever.
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I guess you don't like Brasil either?
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Just finished Sideways. I didn't like it much.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tarquin Underspoon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2010 at 00:25
Originally posted by James James wrote:

I guess you don't like Brasil either?
 
I love Brazil! If we're indeed talking about Terry Gilliam here.
 
Just watched Fargo. I found it strangely hilarious. I think it was a bit over-hyped for me, but a very enjoyable watch nonetheless
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

I've not seen Eraserhead but I did once see Cronenberg's Videodrome but that was when I was in my teens.  I may have to explore Lynch one day.
That was a terrible movie, although the concept was clever.


All Cronenberg is good.  I can see we diverge quite starkly in our tastes!  Wink
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I mean Brazil the Gilliam film, yes.

I need to ask some questions:

Kurt Vonnegut film adaptations.  I've never seen any and would like to check some out but I have yet to check their availability.

I hear the 1972 version of Slaughterhouse-Five is pretty good and I also want to watch Mother Night.  I would see Breakfast of Champions but I haven't read the book yet.

I also hear Guillermo del Toro has a remake of Slaughterhouse-Five planned... I cannot wait!

Also, what's 2081 (the film adaptation of Harrison Bergeron) like?


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Just watched Fargo. I found it strangely hilarious. I think it was a bit over-hyped for me, but a very enjoyable watch nonetheless
 
That is an excellent movie. I really love the Cohen brothers.
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The only Coen brothers film I've seen is The Big Lebowski.

Good movie though but not ultimately my kind of film.
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I loved The Big Lebowsky. But Fargo and The Man Who Wasn't There were slightly better. 
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Fargo is absolutely brilliant. Jerry Lundegaard is one of the great characters of modern cinema.
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A masterpiece indeed.
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Temple Grandin

In a not so extraordinary portrayal of an extraordinary person - "The Woman who Thinks Like a Cow" - autistic trailblazer Temple Grandin whose connection with animals led to major breakthroughs in both autism therapy and treatment of cattle is overplayed by a loud and fey Claire Danes, a portrayal unlike the actual woman.  Grandin's books are far better as is the BBC documentary.



 


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Food, Inc.--Pretty good movie (and even connected to Temple Grandin!), but they lost all credibility with me when the film actually believed that diabetic family's sh*t about being so poor they can only afford fast food. They wasted $3 on soda in that drive through segment, which admittedly is cheap compared to some things, but if you're so damn poor, why the hell are you buying soda in the first place? Northern Virginia is not really a low cost of living area, but I could easily buy 2 pounds of ground beef, a pound of spaghetti, and a bag of frozen vegatables for $11.50 at GIant, and you can drink a glass of tap water for a fraction of a cent, you morons. There's no need to go and show them at a supermarket pissing and moaning that oh sh*t a pound of on sale pears costs a whole dollar. And I'm 100% positive their teenage daughter could handle cooking that if they don't have time to, although I have to question that assertion as well since they were shown twice all together during daylight hours, yet they said they were always away from 6am to 9pm.
 
As you can tell, I think I completely missed the point, but if that family's story is real, it genuinely upsets me that there are people who are so unbearably ignorant about the most basic things, and that both the film makers and the reviewers are willing to accept that ignorance as the truth in order to prove a point about teh evil corporations.


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Not watched it yet (not sure when I will) but I've just purchesed Reiner Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz (Remastered).

15 hours of supposed epicness.  I just hope I like it.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Rant about Food, Inc.
That's why I stuck to reading The Omnivore's Dilemma  instead of finishing Food, Inc.

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Best In Show.
 
Funny stuff here, I like Guest's style. Previously the only other thing of his I had seen was Spinal Tap. 4 stars out of 5.
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Best in Show isn't bad, but I thought A Mighty Wind was better (almost like Spinal Tap 2)


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tarquin Underspoon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2010 at 23:27
Also just saw Across the Universe and I wanted to know what everybody around these parts thinks about it.
 
I personally think that the placement of the songs blurs the plot and renders the movie confusing and a little bit forced. I don't care, I love it anyway LOL
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I have absolutely no desire to see Across the Universe. 

I didn't like Best in Show very much. Christopher Guest is awesome, but Eugene Levy is just atrocious and too much of the movie was poisoned by him.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

I have absolutely no desire to see Across the Universe. 
 
 
Might I ask why?
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