The queue for this movie was wrapped around the block and then some yesterday for this film's opening at a local cinema. Quite a statement given that it was the 4th of July holiday and that was for a 12pm showing!!! People here really want to see this movie!!! (We did not go, but, I'm hoping to find a weekday time when there won't be as long a line).
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #152 on Aug 1, 2012, 10:53pm »
Has anybody here seen Friends with Kids? It was my default movie this morning, and I really must admit that I am extremely perplexed by both the bitterness and the raunchiness of the recent new genre of "romantic comedies" written and directed by women in the United States. (I mention the United States because apparently women directors are still in a pretty small minority there.) The bitterness, I can understand, but I have to admit that the raunchiness surprises me. That's not because I don't think women can be raunchy -- far from it! -- but if a male wrote some of these dialogues and portrayed some of these situations, he would be attacked instantly for sexism. It is almost to the point where I am offended by what women think they can get away with.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #153 on Aug 4, 2012, 5:37am »
I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about. Haven't seen Friends With Kids, but that was my take on Bridesmaids, surely one of the most mean-spirited & pointlessly gross movies about & supposedly for women ever. Yes, it was directed by a man, but I was appalled at how women embraced that nasty piece of wedding cake.
But the movie that came to mind immediately upon reading your post was The Kids Are All Right, which was directed by a woman who was also one of the writers & starred two major actresses. There were many good things about the movie, but I don't think I was alone in wondering if it was really all that necessary to show Julianne Moore enthusiastically fucking her brains out at quite such length.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #154 on Aug 4, 2012, 2:09pm »
Good question.
I've never thought raunchiness was even interesting, let alone titillating, but then I tip towards the prude side. Raunchiness keeps my movie dollars firmly in my wallet. I'd also like it if they quit putting the obligatory big sex scene into every movie.
I had the impression the fecal scene in Bridesmaids was to make it more accessible to all. Would've gladly skipped that and the initial screwing scene. Otherwise, it didn't strike me as particularly bitter or mean. Women do get jealous, take up with jerks, feel left out when everyone else pairs up, etc. It didn't change my life or anything, but I liked it 75% as a social event.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #155 on Aug 4, 2012, 4:05pm »
Bridesmaids was quite similar in certain ways to Friend with Kids (unfortunately). Lots of screwing and lots of talk about fucking, just to prove that not only men are interested in the subject.
Bixa, for me a default movie is the movie that you choose at a megaplex because 15 of the 22 movies are of no interest to you or you have already seen them, and just one of the remaining possibilities is starting in less than 15 minutes. I should mention again that my unlimited movie pass allows me (forces me) to see a lot of movies that I would never dream of paying to see.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #157 on Sept 10, 2012, 8:50pm »
Oh Jeez, Killer Joe is such a nasty piece of work. William Friedkin has seemed to have become a respectable director over the years, even though The Exorcist was considered to be unbearably extreme back in 1973. But then there was Bug a few years ago, based on a play by Tracy Letts (a totally sick fuck), and so now here is Killer Joe, written by the same Tracy Letts.
I found Matthew McConaughey absolutely astounding in his role -- definitely the most impressive work that he has ever done, but sick sick sick. No one will ever forget the scene with the fried chicken drumstick. Emile Hirsch was good, too, but just a shadow compared to grand master M.M.
One of the things that struck me the most was knowing that this was a play before becoming a movie, and I absolutely cannot imagine the actors going through these scenes every night for months, even if they had different fried chicken every night.
I don't think this is going to play in very many cinemas.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #158 on Oct 28, 2012, 5:34pm »
I certainly understand why they keep pushing back the release date of The Great Gatsby (currently scheduled for mid May 2013) -- it looks like a total piece of trash, and filming it in 3D makes it sound even more desperate.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #159 on Oct 29, 2012, 4:30pm »
Well, too bad.
I admit being curious to see what Kiera K does with Anna Karenina. And Jude L as the poor jerk Karenin. The trailer looks overheated. I don't see how it can compare with the British 2000 Helen McCrory version, which was perfect.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #160 on Nov 19, 2012, 3:37pm »
I went to see Werner Herzog's Into the Abyss, and I found it extraordinary. It is a documentary about two "ordinary" convicts in Texas, what they did and how it affected all involved -- their families, the victims' families, the executioner, the chaplain... It was already released a year ago in the United States, but it is the sort of film that only plays on a screen or two in the largest cities -- everybody else has to rely on video.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #161 on Mar 16, 2013, 9:50pm »
Some movies are made not at all for "enjoyment" but to make the spectators as uncomfortable as possible. I understand the reasons for this, but I also understand people who do not want to see such films and who even walk out when they have reached their breaking point.
Such a film is the one that I saw today -- Camille Claudel 1915 -- starring Juliette Binoche portrayed in a way that will never renew her Lancôme contract. After the spectacular Camille Claudel movie of many years ago starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Dépardieu, this movie just shows 3 days in her life in the insane asylum near Avignon where she spent the last 30 years of her life. The director Bruno Dumont is known to be extreme and austere and this was no exception except for his unusual use of a major movie star when most of his films use non professionals. And in fact, most of the people in the movie were "authentic" -- real mentally ill people and the real psychiatric nurses who care for them, albeit dressed as they would have been in 1915. It is really very grim.
Nevertheless, I "enjoyed" suffering through it and gained quite a bit of knowledge about how life was in those days. It could have been even worse, if the director had chosen the end of those 30 years. Basically the psychiatric patients, including Camille Claudel, starved to death during WW2 because the Vichy government provided no food for them.
The trailer shows nothing and lasts less than a minute.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #162 on Apr 27, 2013, 8:39pm »
Frankly, I am not at all a fan of the films of Baz Luhrmann, so I am expecting the worst as usual from the upcoming The Great Gatsby, which is opening the Cannes film festival. For one thing, release of the film has already been delayed about two years, which is never a good sign, and also -- why on earth release it in 3D? It isn't a superhero movie, for god's sake!
But I will go see it, and I'm sure that it will be visually impressive for a probable piece of crap, wasting the talent of fine actors. I kind of hope that I am wrong.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #164 on May 7, 2013, 4:50pm »
Looks like I am right to expect the worst. However, I find the casting of DiCaprio and Maguire to be rather inspired since they are childhood best friends in real life and can really make their relationship come alive in a movie like that.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #165 on May 7, 2013, 9:10pm »
I had a bit of hope for Ender's Game, but now that I have seen the trailer, it has mostly vanished.
Asa Butterfield has been in some good productions at a very young age (Hugo, Merlin, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas...) and this movie will probably make him a star for all of the wrong reasons.
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Re: The Current Cinema « Reply #168 on May 12, 2013, 7:29pm »
I'm looking forward to seeing the latest Star Trek film. Loved the last one and am eager to see how Benedict Cumberpatch copes with his big screen role. Playing the baddie of course (he's English so it goes without saying)
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