Posted on 10/23/2010 12:21:35 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Winter's Bone - "Jennifer Lawrence puts in a staggeringly good performance as a teenager looking for her bail-jumping dad in Debra Granik’s superb drama. An enthralling rites-of-passage film that wisely takes its time to unfold, this marks the arrival of a prodigiously talented actress."
Sheesh, couldn’t you have at least used a picture of Charlotte Rampling? :(
She was beauuuutiful in those days.
My list of favorites is about 20 titles long. I Accuse My Parents is one of them. (”Did I tell you I won the essay contest?!?!?!”) Werewolf is good—”Vaaarrrrwollffff??”—but I have a weird list of favorites that don’t seem to match up with other people’s—some of my favorites are considered the worst ones to many fans.
Incredibly Strange Creatures is my #1 ever...Beginning of the End... I was a Teenage Werewolf (includes possibly my favorite riff ever—showing the squeaky-clean teeny boppers dancing, Crow says, “They’re listening to ‘Kind of White’)... Prince of Space... Manos... Mitchell... Red Zone Cuba... Beast of Yucca Flats... Girlstown (another awesome riff: “Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Six Degrees of Separation’”)...
I gotta go pop one on now!
“Idi I Smotri” (Come and See) is a war movie that will change you.
The Social Network was excellent.
The journey in SI is so great that the destination doesn’t really matter. Most people saw it coming and Scorsese didn’t really try to conceal it.
A scene from the offbeat director Ray Dennis Steckler’s magnum opus, “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?” (1964), made for $38,000.
I’M WATCHING IT RIGHT NOW!!!!
I can’t wait for “Schick Out of Shape”! :D
I want to see this movie. But first I am "audio-reading" (on my drives) the Aubrey-Maturin books. Finished the first, "Master and Commander," and am mostly through the second, "Post Captain." "Far Side of the World" doesn't come up until about ninth in the series, I think.
Have you read the books? Without giving anything away, do you think it's a good idea to read the books first (at least through FSW) before seeing the movie, so as not to spoil one's surprise and enjoyment of what happens in the books one has not yet read?
I think it matters. It was disappointing, and a letdown. I think he was stuck with it, and couldn’t think of a better one, or wouldn’t or couldn’t make such a huge change ala Kubrick and The Shining. I do think the final scene goes a long way for making up for it, though—the signal the character gives indicating...well, you know what I mean. I thought that was brilliant, whether it’s in the book or not. But I think the destination does matter. In Seven, for instance, you can see the ending coming—I think intentionally—but you’re thinking “They’re not gonna let him get away with that ending,” and when it comes, it still has impact.
Social Network
I can’t for the life of me understand the fascination with DeCaprio.
He’s ugly.
You are good.
Have you gotten any good suggestions from the thread that you will be checking out?
He looks like he’s 16 years old, to me.
"Sam Rockwell’s upcoming sci-fi space thriller Moon. The film tells the story of an Astronaut who has been mining Helium 3 on the moon for the last three years by himself. With only two weeks before he returns home, Sam begins seeing and hearing things.
The promise of an old school in-space science fiction film scored by Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream) certainly has us excited."
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