Escape Artists
The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: DKT on November 19, 2009, 08:02:53 PM
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With two kids, both my wife and I working, time is pretty limited. When we do get to go out, it's seldom to the movies because we just want to hang out and talk. (Mellow nights at home? Netflix and DVR are our friends.)
That said, there a TON of movies that have come out this year that I'd like to see (some, sadly, no longer in theaters), and I think I'm going to actually go to the movies Thanksgiving weekend.
What's worth seeing that's out now?
Movies I'd like to check out I know of:
Men Who Stare at Goats
The Informant!
Where the Wild Things Are
Paranormal Activity (my wife's not a huge horror fan, but I might see this with a friend...)
The Road
Red Cliff
I am kind of curious about A Christmas Carol, but I probably won't see that unless I hear from a lot of people that it's a) Spectacular, and b) not a stupid Jim Carrey slapstick comedy (as some of the previews have led me to believe it is)
Further off in the Distance:
The Lovely Bones (really, REALLY want to see this one. Excellent book and Peter Jackson, yadayada)
Avatar
Up in the Air
Invictus
NOT interested in seeing New Moon. Fine if you love it, nothing personal, but if it's one or two movies, that's not going to be it!
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I saw Where the Wild Things Are...
it was mehh. more specifically, it was cute, but that was about it. It got pretty damn boring and I hated the logic used (ie. little kid logic... i dont like it)
I haven't seen The Men Who Stare at Goats but I want to, tho it only got a 54% on rotten tomatoes... i dunno...
that's all I know of from that list
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I enjoyed 'Paranormal Activity.' Its very much in a similar vein to 'Blair Witch Project,' but better done, I think, and with a healthy dose of just average everyday life mixed in.
And I personally am very keen to see 'The Road' - the book was excellent, though very, very GRIM.
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The Box was very suspenseful. I was impressed at how much I liked it.
You could always go see New Moon.
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PFFFFBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry.
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And I personally am very keen to see 'The Road' - the book was excellent, though very, very GRIM.
Agreed. I loved that book. Hope the movie's up to snub. (As is Lovely Bones.)
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Oh Dave, you're playing my tune!:)
Except of course, films tend to lag getting over here from your side of the pond. Regardless, fun stuff I've seen recently:
Taking Woodstock-Very gentle, very relaxed comedy based on the events around Woodstock being put on. Worth it, entirely, for Demetri Martin's star making turn in the lead, Emilie Hirsch doing his best Jack Black impersonation (With actual emotional weight to it too) and Liev Schreiber in a dress. That last one in particular, he's excellent in this.
The Men Who Stare At Goats-I would love to see but when I tried, I ended up spending fifteen minutes being The Man Who Stares At The Immobile Queue In Front Of Him Until The Movie Starts. Catch that on DVD I think.
Pirate Radio-Known as The Boat That Rocked over here. UTTERLY ramshackle in terms of plotting and pace but...it's Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Chris O'Dowd and Rhys Ifans just riffing off one another for a couple of hours. Very charming, very funny and podcasters will, I think, get as much of a kick out of the last few minutes as that bit in Pump Up The Volume where he's been taken off the air and suddenly Everybody Knows plays and the kids are all like 'WWOOOOOO!' and then they arrest Christian Slater but he won't do time and even if he does Samantha Mathis will wait for him.
Or that might just be me.
Tomorrow, I MAY go and see 2012. I'll let you know what I think:)
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Eagerly awiating the replies to this- with the hubs doing the deploy thing I watch movies at home too. But there IS a lot out that looks good, and I could use a movie night away from the girls.
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2012? Oh, somehow that managed to slip my mind... ;D
Pirate Radio does look like buckets oceans of fun! Forgot about that one. I could see both that and Taking Woodstock very much appealing to my better half.
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Trust me. Wait for "The Men Who Stare at Goats" to come out on DVD.
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The Informant! is getting good reviews, but I thought it was so-so. I had listed to the episode of This American Life where they talk about the same story, and it was much more interesting. The movie was a little too silly, and I think tried too hard to date itself. And I think it's the only movie I've ever seen where the music was annoying enough to be distracting.
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And I think it's the only movie I've ever seen where the music was annoying enough to be distracting.
damn what was that movie called... with Leslie Nielsen... I wanna say 2001: A Space Travesty... the background noises and music in that movie made it next to impossible to hear dialogue for most of the movie.
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Resurrecting this thread because, I can't find one anywhere else here that states how wonderful Toy Story 3 is. I really, really enjoyed it, and so did my daughter.
Another great outing from the Pixar gang.
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Predators baby! Woohoo!
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Predators baby! Woohoo!
Yeah, I admit, I really, really want to see that one.
Although, for me this year's must see is Inception.
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Predators baby! Woohoo!
HELL yes!
Also Inception CANNOT turn up fast enough.
Also also:
US Remake of Let The Right One In, which has some seriously good people attached to it so I'm hopeful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjavOLdPk1c
Never Let Me Go, which looks very Children of Men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXiRZhDEo8A
The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin script, David Fincher direction, WOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esw8F5_GE9s
The Sorceror's Apprentice, Nick Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, GIGANTIC METAL EAGLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VZllR44gdA
Scott Pilgrim vs the World, appears to truly be an EPIC OF EPICNESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0HUH_JZKKQ
Resident Evil: Afterlife, I actually REALLY like this series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYFY8d8HRDo
Easy A, I'm a sucker for good teen movies and this looks Mean Girls level good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7W6pEuAW0
The American, George Clooney does phenomenal work, pretty much constantly now and this looks refreshingly nasty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ywmoXZwkA0
And finally, Red, Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary Louise Parker, based on the Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner graphic novel about what happens when the CIA go after their retired assassins. I think I love this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci6US-MfUcI
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World just might be the other must-see.
Red does look funny. I saw the preview a couple nights ago.
Oh, also Despicable Me looks insanely good, but I'm not sure if my daughter's ready for it or not...
May also catch Avatar when it gets rereleased in the fall.
I dunno, though. That'd be like five movies in four months. A new record for me in fatherhood.
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I am baffled and annoyed they are remaking 'Let the right one in' because its "too foreign" or something. WTF. The original was wonderful, I do not understand the need to Americanize it. Maybe Hollywood thinks we're too dumb to read subtitles.
*angry grumbling*
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I can't find one anywhere else here that states how wonderful Toy Story 3 is. I really, really enjoyed it, and so did my daughter.
Another great outing from the Pixar gang.
All four of my kids and I really enjoyed it. It was fun to watch my kids' reactions. My youngest girl was very worried at a perilous part and could barely hold still. My oldest daughter (the emotional one) cried near the end. I gotta admit, that part got to me a little, too. Of course, we all laughed multiple times. It good to know the creativity isn't gone at Pixar.
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FWIW, if you haven't seen "Lovely Bones" yet, I wouldn't bother. It's not horrible, just sort of 'meh'. My father wanted to see it for some reason and I ended up tagging along. I'd go into further detail, but if you're insistent on seeing it, I wouldn't want to spoil anything. :)
I just saw "Predators" today. Better than "AvP" and "AvP: Requiem", but the predators are still not quite where I'd like to see them. They've gone from these pants-crappingly frightening aliens to just another nifty monster for people to fight. "Predators" restores a little bit of the glory, but not enough for my taste. The pacing was a bit slow in the beginning, and it felt like they forgot to write in any characterization until the last half of the movie. Worth a watch if you're a Predator fanboy (like myself), but not necessarily worth a visit to the theater.
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If you haven't seen it yet, I really liked the new "Karate Kid". It was a little slow from the end of the first fight to the scene where Dre runs away from the gang, but I found it to be a worthy applicant to the KK continuum. It also isn't a remake, not to my mind.
Definitely worth the money. Even better because we had free passes.
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I saw Predators yesterday. I enjoyed it, there were many cool deaths to watch, etc. All of the character development seemed to happen right as a character was about to die... which is lame... but whatever, it's an action movie. What really stood out to me though was Topher Grace, because I'm currently going through That 70's Show on Netflix. There was a good amount of Eric Foreman in his performance, which was awesome for me. There were also a few homages to the first movie, which was nice, however one of those homages was shittily executed in my opinion... lame. All in all I'm happy I saw it, and I would definitely recommend it... but only if you are bored. This is not a movie to pick over seeing other movies out right now... except Twilight. But if you aren't going to see it in theaters, I definitely say rent it when it comes out on DVD. :)
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I can't find one anywhere else here that states how wonderful Toy Story 3 is. I really, really enjoyed it, and so did my daughter.
Another great outing from the Pixar gang.
All four of my kids and I really enjoyed it. It was fun to watch my kids' reactions. My youngest girl was very worried at a perilous part and could barely hold still. My oldest daughter (the emotional one) cried near the end. I gotta admit, that part got to me a little, too. Of course, we all laughed multiple times. It good to know the creativity isn't gone at Pixar.
Dude, my daughter boo-hooed during the end of Toy Story 3. And I'm not ashamed to say I had a pretty good lump in my throat at the end of it. Pixar is just genius.
FWIW, if you haven't seen "Lovely Bones" yet, I wouldn't bother. It's not horrible, just sort of 'meh'. My father wanted to see it for some reason and I ended up tagging along. I'd go into further detail, but if you're insistent on seeing it, I wouldn't want to spoil anything. :)
Yeah, since I initially posted about that, I read a lot of reviews that felt similar to the way you did. I loved the book, and I love Peter Jackson, but said reactions to the movie have deterred me. I may see it at some point, but it's not in my top 100 :)
Also, Listener - I keep hearing surprisingly good things about the new Karate Kid. Would very much like to check it out at some point. Probably before I see Lovely Bones, at this point ;)
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You couldn't pay me enough to see Karate Kid.
*shudder*
I'm just vehemently opposed to the thing in principle. Bleh.
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My landlord (and good friend) took his two kids (6 & 8) to see Toy Story 3. The youngest started getting a little antsy with the ending and the pit of fire, at which point, he tells me, "I wanted to lean over and say 'don't worry Ethan, it's only a movie. It's all gonna be OK' except I really wasn't sure it was all gonna be OK!" Really awesome movie.
I am baffled and annoyed they are remaking 'Let the right one in' because its "too foreign" or something. WTF. The original was wonderful, I do not understand the need to Americanize it. Maybe Hollywood thinks we're too dumb to read subtitles.
*angry grumbling*
I can see the reasoning, even if I don't agree with it. The Swedish film was just too damn slow for Hollywood to accept that it would play anywhere but in the arthouse circuit. Subtitles were an additional stumbling block/straw on the camel's back. As much as I wish otherwise, I'm betting the remake will be rife with more gore, some CGI, more action in the action scenes, and a complete inability to direct children in a realistic manner.
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My landlord (and good friend) took his two kids (6 & 8) to see Toy Story 3. The youngest started getting a little antsy with the ending and the pit of fire, at which point, he tells me, "I wanted to lean over and say 'don't worry Ethan, it's only a movie. It's all gonna be OK' except I really wasn't sure it was all gonna be OK!" Really awesome movie.
When I was a kid - probably the age my daughter is now - my dad took me to see ET. At the end, when ET "dies" I broke down and sobbed. SOBBED. In the movie theater. I asked my dad if ET was going to come back to life. He shook his head and said, "No, I don't think so." And I sobbed more. Then ET came back to life and I sobbed and yelled at my dad for lying to me. :D
My poor dad.
The next movie I remember seeing with him (just the two of us) was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I must've given him some serious emotional scars over that one!
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I cried at the end of Toy Story 3 :p
I am a huge sap.
But yes, really fabulous movie. I will happily go see anything Pixar ever does. They rule.
Incidentally, I'm sure I've posted this here before, but for newbies and anyone who missed it, I LOVED this story..
http://boingboing.net/2009/06/19/pixar-grants-dying-k.html (http://boingboing.net/2009/06/19/pixar-grants-dying-k.html)
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I saw "Let The Right One In" on Netflix the other day in response to learning there was going to be an American remake. That movie was nothing short of brilliant, and there is no way I'll pay to see a Hollywood remake. No way they would do it any sort of justice. No way.
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But yes, really fabulous movie. I will happily go see anything Pixar ever does. They rule.
I'm not a huge Pixar nut, but yeah, they're pretty damn good filmmakers. I didn't like "UP" because the opening depressed me (I was only a couple of months shy of being married). Which is impressive when you consider that they're capable of instilling that strong of a reaction in so short a space and with minimal dialogue.
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But yes, really fabulous movie. I will happily go see anything Pixar ever does. They rule.
I'm not a huge Pixar nut, but yeah, they're pretty damn good filmmakers. I didn't like "UP" because the opening depressed me (I was only a couple of months shy of being married). Which is impressive when you consider that they're capable of instilling that strong of a reaction in so short a space and with minimal dialogue.
I saw Up most of the way through my mum's chemotherapy. I loved it but will never, ever sit through it again. When it came out on DVD, Mum asked if it was worth watching and I explained the opening and the effect it would have on Dad. She steered him away from it:)
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I'm not a huge Pixar nut, but yeah, they're pretty damn good filmmakers. I didn't like "UP" because the opening depressed me (I was only a couple of months shy of being married). Which is impressive when you consider that they're capable of instilling that strong of a reaction in so short a space and with minimal dialogue.
I saw Up most of the way through my mum's chemotherapy. I loved it but will never, ever sit through it again. When it came out on DVD, Mum asked if it was worth watching and I explained the opening and the effect it would have on Dad. She steered him away from it:)
I know so many people who've said something like this.
"Pixar: Putting ourselves out of business with heart-wrenching quality!"
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I saw "Let The Right One In" on Netflix the other day in response to learning there was going to be an American remake. That movie was nothing short of brilliant, and there is no way I'll pay to see a Hollywood remake. No way they would do it any sort of justice. No way.
The only note I've seen in its favor is that Chloe Moretz is starring. Even if you didn't like Kick Ass, she was stealing the whole movie with enough panache that I think she's gonna be a really good actress.
...maybe not the right actress for this movie, but a really good actress.
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Wait...
Even if you didn't like Kick Ass
is that possible? Are there people in this dimension, or any dimension for that matter, who didn't like that movie?!
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Wait...
Even if you didn't like Kick Ass
is that possible? Are there people in this dimension, or any dimension for that matter, who didn't like that movie?!
Well... box office returns being what they are...
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Saw [REC]2 (2009) - I liked the original - it wasn't earth shattering or anything but for a late-period zombie (in everythiung but detail) movie, it was suspenseful and claustrophobic. I didn't dislike QUARANTINE, the US remake, either, (despite the final image being plastered all over the commercials) although I liked [REC] a bit more for having the source of the super-rabies be supernatural (silly as the actual idea is) over QUARANTINE's biologic infection. The following is a little bit spoilery...
Trailer is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G18Y-S8YrQ0
But that difference between the original and the remake becomes more pronounced here (and means that QUARANTINE 2 pretty much has to go in a somewhat different direction than [REC]2, although maybe only in the specific details) as, minutes after the end of [REC] a small SWAT team lead by a mysterious expert are allowed into the sealed building to complete a deadly mission. It's pretty much more of the same, frenetic and bloody as that is, recorded with helmet cams, as they make their way to the attic room pretty quickly, only for things to go haywire. And then comes a story detour that bugged a lot of people (eh, yeah, it kind of deflates suspense but it didn't bug me as much as others) and then things get bloody/crazy/screamy again until a tense ending.
The Onion AV Club cites [REC]2 as ripping off ALIENS (helmet cams) and THE EXORCIST (possession), but it seemed to me more like a generous borrowing from Lamberto Bava's DEMONS (1985) and DEMONS 2 (1986) what with, respectively, a new set of characters "sneaking" into a supposedly sealed situation and lots of rushing past apartment doors (also, for the latter, [REC] 2's attic room seems very much like DEMONS 2's transmitter station). I liked the scene in the crawlspace/vent, the juddering malfunction of the camera when attacked (worked well on the big screen), the not secret/secret room and especially the super-tense groping around in pitch black by the absolutely mega-creepy lich-woman-thing.
What can I say? It was a fun night out at the movies. No award winner but if you liked the first, you might dig this one as well.
Also saw PREDATORS (2010) which was unusual for me, as I'm not a fan of the series, although I do respect the first one (tough-guy action-horror or action-sci-fi just isn't my thing, basically). But needed to get out of the house and away from the sickroom and it was the only thing mildly interesting. I enjoyed it. It's not brilliant or anything but there's something to be said for movies where, if you think about it you pretty much know what you're going to get, and the art comes in giving us what we expect in satisfying ways, not suprising us and not dilly-dallying (really, you know the set-up from the commercial so why waste more time than is logically needed to set it up, which the director doesn't so good for him). They kind of blow the ending a tiny bit (to say how would be spoilers), and the visuals get a bit murky as the film progresses (filming at night with lots of big fires) but there are some great scenes - the Yakuza guy's big fight being my favorite (the "oh, shit" opening scene is pretty cute as well). Definitely worth a rental at least. I liked all the glow-in-the-dark blood from the Predators!
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I finally saw Shutter Island. It was an interesting experience because someone had more or less blown one of the twist's for me, but I still enjoyed seeing how it was pieced together. Good psychological thriller. Quite disturbing in parts - particularly toward the end.
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recently saw Avatar:The Last Airbender. The child actors weren't too bad ( I find so many of them annoying. Worst had to be young Aniken from the horrible attempt at star wars prequels.) I had never seen the anime so I found the movie rather entertaining. I went with a fan of the anime, who picked apart much of the movie and their casting/costuming decisions. I do agree that a mostly white cast, for people who were obviously based on innuit people doesn't make sense. Worth a rent/dollar movie showing though.
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recently saw Avatar:The Last Airbender. The child actors weren't too bad ( I find so many of them annoying. Worst had to be young Aniken from the horrible attempt at star wars prequels.) I had never seen the anime so I found the movie rather entertaining. I went with a fan of the anime, who picked apart much of the movie and their casting/costuming decisions. I do agree that a mostly white cast, for people who were obviously based on innuit people doesn't make sense. Worth a rent/dollar movie showing though.
The real problem with the movie was that - by necessity - it removed all of the things that made the cartoon show worth watching (humor, deft characterization, strong ensemble cast) and concentrated solely on the Megaplot in plodding solemnity.
(Also, it's not an "anime," per se. American producers, American writers, Korean animation studio.)
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I thought the costumes and sets were actually very well done! But yes, the movie lost pretty much everything that the cartoon had.
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CROPSEY (2010) - Documentary about Staten Island, campfire tales, child abductions/murders, poorly run state mental facilities in the 1970s and how we as a culture tend to spin stories from varied details, sometimes just to cover terrible but unappealing truths. Interesting for fans of horror films, as will become apparent.
The starting point is twofold. The traditional widespread urban legend/campfire folklore tale of the "mad killer" tends to have a particular name attached to it in the Hudson Valley - "Cropsey" (yes, just like from the horror movie THE BURNING). The documenatry makers were told this traditional story like most kids who went to summer camp, but they went to camp on Staten Island, and so "Cropsey" was said to haunt the huge, abandoned state mental hospital adjacent to the summer camp.
And that's where the second strand of the documentary comes in. A young reporter, Geraldo Rivera, made a name for himself in 1974 exposing the state-run, poorly funded Willowbrook Asylum as one of the last notorious "snake pits" - (barely) surviving videotape footage of the television expose shows naked, retarded children living in their own filth, crammed into vast halls unattended and being fed like animals. 10 years later (ahhhh, lazy, unregulated local government), Willowbrook was shut down and fell into ruin. And stories developed that many of the mentally ill, turned out onto the streets with no support structure (ahhhh, Reaganomics) returned to the grounds of Willowbrook, living in the underground tunnel systems. And then a developmentally disabled little girl disappeared. And then her body was found buried on the grounds of Willowbrook and a (seemingly) crazed itinerant worker, Andre Rand - who HAD been living on the grounds since he worked at Willowbrook as a physical therapist - was arrested and jailed for the murder on less than solid evidence (nice to see local NYC TV news reporters I grew up with, like Sue Simmons and Jack Cafferty, in poorly degraded videotape news clips). And then the public and the police began to realize that quite a number of kids had been disappearing from Staten Island towns all through the 70s and 80s...
This was an interesting documentary, a bit different than the usual true-crime doc as it also explores the stories (plausible, bizarre, paranoid) that build up around unresolved events that expose things we'd rather not think about as a society. The backbone of CROPSEY forms as, in 2008, Andre Rand comes up for parole, and an attempt is made to keep him in jail by trying him for some of those other disappearances on circumstantial evidence. But is/was Rand innocent, just an easy scapegoat as one of his few acquaintinces contests? Or was he involved in something more complex? The filmmakers gather increasingly bizarre local tales, from both credible cops and dubious religious nuts, of Rand leading an undeground society of mentally ill homeless people that haunt the tunnels, of Rand's own mental problems and troubled family past, and (as may be expected during the "satanic panic" of the 1980s - ahhhh, Evangelical zeal) of the inevitable expected ties to supposed child-killing Satanic cults employing Rand as a procurer (Maury Terry's half-credible/half-credulous research from his Son of Sam book THE ULTIMATE EVIL is lightly touched on). They talk to the locals who organized searches for the girl back in the 80s and then visit the abandoned asylum and the tunnels themselves. And then Rand finally writes back to the filmmakers from jail and agrees to an interview.
CROPSEY stays interesting all the way to through to the almost inevitable end and, like the culture of storytelling and dark suburban secrets it exposes, leaves us with more questions than answers. Compelling stuff.
The trailer is HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJKPvaNEVjs
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There simply aren't words for how awesome Inception is. Go see it ASAP.
IMHO lives up to every drop of the hype.
That is all.
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There simply aren't words for how awesome Inception is. Go see it ASAP.
IMHO lives up to every drop of the hype.
That is all.
We're planning on seeing it this afternoon.
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Made it to see Inception last night. Absolutely incredible movie.
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I obtained "The Girl Who Played With Fire", sequel to "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo".
I enjoyed all three books, but "Fire", as a film, didn't do it for me. It was kind of like, okay, we have these Star Wars movies that are all about rebels and the Imperial ships, but now here are some prequels that show you what life was like back home before the war. Well, most of "Fire" takes place in and around Stockholm, whereas "Tattoo" was out in the sticks, and really "Tattoo" was just a more satisfying film overall.
If "Tattoo" is still in theaters where you are, go see it.
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Tattoo is actually available on netflix instant. I may watch it tonight.
Haven't read the books yet, and feeling weirdly torn about watching the movie first...
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Tattoo is actually available on netflix instant. I may watch it tonight.
Haven't read the books yet, and feeling weirdly torn about watching the movie first...
My wife is reading those books, is really loving them, and insistent on me reading them (and watching the movies too). I am torn on whether I should watch the movies first or not, as my TBR pile is already pretty intimidating...
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Made it to see Inception last night. Absolutely incredible movie.
I've already seen Paprika but it's probably pretty cool as a live-action film too :P
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Made it to see Inception last night. Absolutely incredible movie.
I've already seen Paprika but it's probably pretty cool as a live-action film too :P
Hahaha, no Paprika was famazing and crazy and wild. Inception was (obviously) more toned down. You just can't do that stuff in live action. Anyway I saw Inception yesterday and I really enjoyed it. I am also now adding The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo to my netflix instant queue
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Made it to see Inception last night. Absolutely incredible movie.
I've already seen Paprika but it's probably pretty cool as a live-action film too :P
Very different movies on many different levels. (Mild spoilers ahead.)
Paprika was an intensely visual reality-warp mind-f**k that tended to get lost in itself a little too thorougly. Philosophy and psychology were at its core. Inception was mostly a political/conceptual intrigue with a unique hard sci-fi concept at its core. "Dreaming" was the philosophy of Paprika, but the setting and the hard-sci device of Inception.
They really are very different. For one thing, Inception is surprisingly talky. There's really only action in the very beginning, and then for the final 1/4 of the film. The entire middle is character development, setup of the technology and devices, and expounding upon an odd mystery.
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I've seen 2 movies in the theater this millennium. The most recent was the A-team. How brutally disappointing! It would have been better if they had just made the movie without the A-team tie in. Also, I heard more of the original theme from my ring tone before the movie started. I literally was muttering under my breath, "Where's my music?".
But, on the plus side, my 9 year old daughter is hooked on the original series, and watches it with me. Hurray for Netflix!
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Paprika was an intensely visual reality-warp mind-f**k that tended to get lost in itself a little too thorougly.
With the exception of Tokyo Godfathers, Satoshi Kon's work tends to be like that. (By doG I love it so!)
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Paprika was an intensely visual reality-warp mind-f**k that tended to get lost in itself a little too thorougly.
With the exception of Tokyo Godfathers, Satoshi Kon's work tends to be like that. (By doG I love it so!)
Memories and Milennium Actress weren't really mind f**ks either. Pretty, philosophical, cinematic, yes, but they made sense. Even Perfect Blue fit together well (though that was more of a mind-f**k). Only Paranoia agent even approaches the kind of vast, unexplainable berserkoid surrealist plotting of Paprika.
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Saw "Inception" yesterday. Decent movie up until the last forty minutes, where it turns awesome. That last 3/4's-ish of an hours is a bloody brilliant multi-tiered action sequence.
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Tattoo is actually available on netflix instant. I may watch it tonight.
Haven't read the books yet, and feeling weirdly torn about watching the movie first...
My wife is reading those books, is really loving them, and insistent on me reading them (and watching the movies too). I am torn on whether I should watch the movies first or not, as my TBR pile is already pretty intimidating...
The first film is good enough that you can watch it without having read the book. The first book is very hard to get into for the first 150 pages or so, and then suddenly you're ripping through it and it's 3am.
The second film is a decent adaptation, instead of being a sequel to the first film*. However, the second book is better than the second film (after you get past the part in Grenada, which basically sets up one plot point in the third book but doesn't have much other to recommend it, besides reminding you that Lisbeth hates men who use/abuse women).
I haven't seen the third film yet. Waiting for a subtitled version.
I hear Daniel Craig is playing Blomkvist in the American/British remake of "Tattoo". I'm sorry, but Blomkvist isn't supposed to be THAT good-looking. Just somewhat-above-average, if I'm reading the book correctly. I just fear that they'll get Kristen Stewart to play Lisbeth -- which, scarily, might work, given that Lisbeth is sometimes emotionless and Kristen Stewart... well, she's Kristen Stewart.
* Whereas HP6 the film was a sequel to HP5 the film, not an adaptation of HP6 the book.
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Made it to see Inception last night. Absolutely incredible movie.
I saw this last weekend. I agree--abosolutely incredible! I liked that the effects shown in the previews were not essential to the plot. Story, direction acting, all top notch. I can think of a couple plot holes / dangling threads but maybe I just need to watch it again.
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Just saw Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. I thought it was very fun, though I can see how the particular flavor of surrealism might not be to everyone's taste.
Apparently the director said it was filmed in the style of a musical - only instead of everyone breaking out into song at certain story points, big video-game style fights break out.