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Oh all she said was "let them eat cake."

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Originally Posted by SynthethicalY

Oh all she said was "let them eat cake."

she didn't etc.

you guys should really see the interview i posted, its interesting even though the movie sukkd.

I am but I am watching The Altrnative on vh1 I am seeing a Cure's video.

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Originally Posted by schizophrenicroom

ah, i want to see idiocracy.

the last movie i sat and enjoyed was the 400 blows.

That was that last movie I watched too. Great stuff.

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Originally Posted by noumenal

I'm going to go see a film called The Lives of Others today.

the german movie based in Berlin (well in ex- East Berlin)?
i really would like to see that one, as i have heard good things about it...

Oh yeah The Lives of Others, I so badly want to see it.

free passes to 300. going with a pal or two.

sin city blew me, a fan of the original comics from the beginning, away. hopefully the 300 is good.

I've heard 300 is good.

I've seen 300's high def trailer like 20 times in 2 days. Opens next friday here in italy. I think I'll love it.

oh that looked kickassss!!!!

tideland is a pretty fuckign sweet movie its kinda depressing but its so good

i saw Half-nelson last night, not bad at all ... the main character kinda reminded me of myself, wich is not good

anyone looking forward to seeing the new halloween movie?
Lots of prequels appear to be coming out recently, this one looks promising.
Hopefully it will be raw and dirty, with lots of information of michael's childhood that will be insightful without humanising him.

Some things I viddied recently

1. The Squid and The Whale-a great indie film, very real. It's an autobiographical story of the director set in 1980s Brooklyn. A+

2. The Merchant of Venice (2004 version)-great production, filmed in Venice. Pacino is wonderful as Shylock. A

3. Before Sunset-wonderful romantic film. Great dialogue and everything. A+

The Squid and the Whale was A+

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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37

hell yes! i haven't seen the merchant of venice but since we share 2 out of 2 i'll give it a shot.

squid & the whale was awesome. before sunset + before sunrise in spite of their imperfections i love those films.

The Squid and the Whale is great. The whole plot, the acting, the dialogue, everything is just top notch. It's just very...real, to put it in a simple term.

Jeff Daniels has a great performance as the "washed-up" writer father who just "needs a new agent", and the younger brother is great too. Foul-mouthed, horned-up, and great.

Edit:!@#$%!, you must see The Merchant of Venice. it is spot on Shakespeare with only a few lines missing, very very powerful and dramatic without being over the top. Plus, where it was filmed in Venice, the sets are spot on.

My dad and I really like Jeff Daniels. The Squid and the Whale was better than I thought it would be, though I didn't care much for the wishy-washy ending. I mean sometimes when I see movies that are as solid as that one, I wish that the ending didn't feel so misdirected. They were reaching for a great metaphor, and it didn't really work for me. And I am pretty fond of metaphors a lot of the time. But in the case of this movie, I think the ending felt half-assed.
But yeah, I did enjoy seeing how the characters interacted with one another, and comparing it to my own parents' divorce, and seeing all of the similarities. Some parts were a real stretch and kind of overdone, but for the most part I think the movie was a success.

Marie Antoinette...rated PG for "pretentious garbage"

the same with Inland Empire

(Jef (& others) worry me when they applaud these piles of shit...oh well, the life of the Goo...)

Here's what I wrote:

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Originally Posted by Hercules Rockefeller

I'm writing out of the side of my neck considering that I haven't even seen it.

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...8&postcount=26

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Originally Posted by Rembrandt Q. Einstein

Most likely the film is a beautiful...dud.

No "The Chauffeur" on the soundtrack kind of sucks.

It was booed at Cannes, but of course, that may have been just the French critical reaction to an American-made movie about their history, sorta like if a film was made with all French actors about, say, George Washington.

I've heard that there is little dialogue really (which is becoming a S. Coppola trademark in a sense) and that there are ridiculously long shots on extravagant meals and desserts.

There was a pretty neat article on it in Entertainment Weekly and Sofia mentioned a "punk" influence a bunch of times.

and
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...7&postcount=37

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Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful

Yeah, in a way it is so Romeo + Juliet, but that movie used a modern-day setting.

The soundtrack makes sense in a way since it is about a more intimate portrait of Antoinette and not really a historical account in the traditional sense. The 1938 version (I actually didn't even look that up...I watched it on AMC last Friday (the night of the wide-release premiere of the new movie and I remember the year from the cable guide---(excuse me for tooting my own horn for little to no reason)) is more about history than placing you in a setting contemporary with Marie, which, is another interesting way to tell the story and learn about history in itself. (Thanks noumenal, for mentioning the book on which it's based because that's new information to me).

Sofia says that she wanted the audience to feel the emotion of the modern-day songs to convey what the scenes are about rather than attempting to tell the story with a more classical soundtrack. I can buy into that, but (bearing in mind that I haven't seen it yet) I can't buy into this movie judging by what else I've heard, read and seen so far.

Some reviews have likened Marie's charmed life to that of Sofia's herself and claim that the movie is a bit autobiographical, but then again, critics have a penchant for reading all sorts of things into films for the sake of having something interesting to write about and exaggerrate what's really there in the process.

Lost in Translation was a bit different in its pacing and storytelling than many movies today, but I really do like it. Then again, that one had Bill Murray. Ribisi is a good actor, but he was like a cardboard cut-out in it. Johansson is nice to look at, but she's no great actress. I don't think this movie will be a deserving follow-up really. I just may be completly off-base, but it seems to me that Sofia built up a lot of cred with Lost in Translation and now she's self-importantly abusing the praise with an unwatchable movie, relying on the impressive beauty of the actual setting at Chateau de Versailles to carry the film.

and, last but not least
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...8&postcount=40

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Originally Posted by Max Power

A nagging suspicion I have is that people who will say that they really adore this movie are the same people that hang around coffee shops with their copy of James Joyce's "Ulysses" or the like.

And since it's so very tiring to actually read actual writing, I'll close this message in the vernacular:

Suck me.