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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/21/08 03:23 PM
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I'm seeing There Will Be Blood this weekend. I'm excited to see how it compares to No Country For Old Men. From reviews it sounds like it is even better, and I loved NCFOM! So I can't wait. There's no comparison between the two films except in the context of which one does one like better. What I mean is that lots of people are comparing them as if they're two Westerns, which I think neither are, or two films that are similar, which I don't think they are, as if they're adapting the same novel or stylistically similar. There Will Be Blood is comparatively loudly intense while No Country For Old Men is quietly intense. The former, to use PT Anderson's words, is like a boxing match and has a Dracula-like protagonist. In my words (using movies that many have alluded to when talking about Blood), it's Raging Bull-The Shining-Giant-Citizen Kane-Treasure of the Sierra Madre hybrid which isn't implying that I think Blood is derivative or unoriginal. It's just shorthand, really, to allude to those films. The latter is a contemplative apocalyptic "chase-thriller" film. It's a highly personal genre film worthy to be in the company of other exemplars of personal genre films like those of Hawks and Hitchcock. I'm kind of surprised at myself because I tend to favor things that operate at No Country For Old Men's lower register, but There Will Be Blood is so mindblowing that my preferences were blown to smithereens.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/21/08 07:43 PM
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) **** Roy Scheider's passing last week prompted me to watch this last night. It's a cops and robbers thriller that has been much copied but rarely matched, featuring one of the greatest car chases ever filmed. And Gene Hackman ain't bad either.  Filmed two years prior to his redefining of the horror genre with THE EXORCIST, William Friedkin set the standard for the police thriller with this classic that won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Hackman's Popeye Doyle. Doyle is one of two cops (the other played by Scheider) who are trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming into New York from France, courtesy of the suave drug kingpin Charnier. It's packed with memorable set pieces, tense action and a great script. It also boasts one of Hackman's best performances. And that's saying something. Worth seeing again. And again.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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The French Connection is the film responsible for getting me "into" films. I'll forever be indebted to it, should I make it as a filmmaker myself. 24fps, though I know you're reluctant to join FCM, you may be aware (through Kino?) that we do annual awards; I recommend you get involved ( click). Here are last year's winners: http://filmcinemamovie.proboards76.com/index.cgi?board=discussion&action=display&thread=1175462136Take that as an invite/recommendation/encouragement/outright plea; whatever. I'd like you on board.  I genuinely think we would benefit from your presence on there. If nothing else, it has more film discussion than this place. (In the past you've hinted it doesn't, but I disagree; I think people can make discussion, too, not just intervening after the fact.)
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/21/08 11:22 PM
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I'm seeing There Will Be Blood this weekend. I'm excited to see how it compares to No Country For Old Men. From reviews it sounds like it is even better, and I loved NCFOM! So I can't wait. There's no comparison between the two films except in the context of which one does one like better. I guess when I said I was excited about how they compare I meant more on a personal "Which one do I like better" level. Everyone including yourself has made similar comments that There Will Be Blood is so much more mindblowing and since I loved No Country so much I can't help but get giddy over the thought of a film that's even better.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." -Calvin and Hobbes
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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24fps, though I know you're reluctant to join FCM, you may be aware (through Kino?) that we do annual awards; I recommend you get involved I have no real reason for thinking this but I thought 24fps was Kino. 24fps' posts are very similar and are as intelligent and insightful as Kino's so I guess that's why I thought that. You really should head over there 24fps!
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." -Calvin and Hobbes
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/22/08 12:05 AM
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JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY  1/2 (First Viewing) An AIRPLANE style film for gangster picks that doesn't seem to have the same great gags AIRPLANE did.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/22/08 12:23 AM
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JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY  1/2 (First Viewing) An AIRPLANE style film for gangster picks that doesn't seem to have the same great gags AIRPLANE did. Was that the movie from the 80s with Joe Piscopo? That was a clunker. Then again with Joe Piscopo, how could it be otherwise.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/22/08 02:16 AM
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How did you hear about that movie and what made you want to watch it? Apparently I12 buys a DVD with only one criterion: he doesn't own it yet, so why not pay for it 
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/22/08 01:29 PM
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I'd say watch Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, Irishman, but I know betterrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!! Play it with the Kill Bill soundtrack accompanying it. 
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...dot com bold typeface rhetoric. You go clickety click and get your head split. 'The hell you look like on a message board Discussing whether or not the Brother is hardcore?
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/22/08 09:46 PM
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AWAKE (2007)  1/2 (First Viewing) An interesting and original script however I felt the film could have been more. I'm not on the "I hate Hayden Christensen bandwagon" and thought his films post-STAR WARS have been pretty decent. As usual, Terrence Howard does not do bad films.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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HATCHET (2006)  1/2 (First Viewing) It's always refreshing to see a new and original horror film. Although, while this was more of a tongue-in-cheek type of horror film, at least it wasn't a remake/sequel or Japanese based flick. This had a great blend of humor and blood!
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/23/08 02:42 AM
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George Clooney is one of those actors that I don't want to like but I always end up enjoying his characters.
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"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." -Calvin and Hobbes
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/23/08 11:05 AM
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I just finished watching Midnight Run it's the first time i have seen it and i thought it was great,Charles Grodin played an excellent part as did Robert De Niro as usual. Great film. As far as "buddy" films go, it's right up there with Butch and Sundance. It was Dennis Farina's breakout role, if a character actor gets a breakout role. My favorite part is when Charles Grodin steals the airplane, "you're a fucking pilot!"  DeNiro's hysterical "straight man" actually foreshadowed the role he played in MEET THE PARENTS. Again, great film!
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion
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02/23/08 04:04 PM
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SOLYARIS (1972)  (First Viewing) Beautifully shot and the most intelligent alien film I've ever seen. Still, I feel some of it was over the top. Does anyone know if the 2002 version with George Clooney is worth watching? It is. Though the original SOLARIS was taxing with that infamous Moscow traffic stock footage*, there is something profound with it that isn't as much with the remake. But the remake is really darn good on its own, I must say. *=Which supposedly, its director placed so to "weed out the stupids."
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