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I don't mind that film at all. It's better when you ignore that it's a remake. Classic Cage. |
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great change of subject http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QPKcADzNQs |
i watched wild at heart recently, and though it still would have been bad with anyone else.... cage was hard to take
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I dunno, maybe there's good actors, bad actors and then just really likable ones, like Nicholas Cage, where it doesn't really matter if they can act or not. Very kind eyes.
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 OK! This shit was weird. I have no idea what happened....but it was funny. Favorite clips: Babbling hot spring vixens(the panda ride one), Nitto's dream, and the homeroom clips... |
 LOL This was OK, I suppose. I haven't seen the French movie it's a remake of but seeing as it's directed by the same woman, I expect the only real difference is the cast and locations. |
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i actually liked wild at heart-- a lot. probably in spite of, or regardless, of nicolas cage. what i mean is that he didn't bother me in it. it's only after leaving las vegas that i started to say "who the fuck is this clown and what the fuck is he doing in my tv?" but anyway wild at heart was pretty great, for me-- loved lynch's postmodern take on the wizard of oz. i like this kind of thing much more than his unrelatable weird-ass personal nightmares. |
HDS is great for any and all depressing, pathetic, depraved characters
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Yes, the US version is god awful, hit-girl or no hit-girl. But the version above is one of my favorite movies ever, irrespective of genre. And I actually thought the US ...Dragon tattoo was fairly good, if pointless. I am just kind of a sucker for Daniel Craig, and seem to have a thing for David Fincher as well. That's just me though. |
 The September Issue This is either a must see or an entire irrelevance, depending on how interested you are in the whole Anna Wintour thing. |
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Great film.  Ended up watching this last night. It looked amazing and the two actors were brilliant, but it was hard for me to get into the story I dunno why. I preferred Happy Together for sure. |
 Teenage Paparazzo  Annoying little cunt. |
Yeah I agree with the humor thing and that deleted scene showed that if done right could've worked helped the film. Again, not a bad film but not a amazing one.
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i think you missed the point of the movie it's about frustration and wanting what you can never have it's meant to be endlessly sad and in that way it's as good as movies get the director is not some optimistic american who thinks that the good guys win in the end thank fuck for that |
I agree. It's a film I admire a lot but find more difficult to enjoy than most of his other films. Lack of humour isn't a problem it just feels unusually heavy for a Wong Kar Wai movie. I'm a fan of his but think he's much better with more lighthearted stuff like Chung King Express or Fallen Angel.
Does some of my fave endings/credits, too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgTRTVRf7s From about 3 mins in. |
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so, porkers, was that any good? |
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Chung King Express does have sad cops etc but I maintain that it has a light centre. That's its genius and Wong Kar Wai seems to be one of the few directors capable of pulling it off. Kieslowski and Haneke can do the in your face miserable thing brilliantly, so it's never a problem. The issue isn't with heavy vs light but that some directors excel in certain areas but not others. Antonioni's no less a director cos he couldn't do slapstick, any more than Mack Sennet shouldn't be criticised cos he couldn't make L'avventura. Xavi's a genius but you wouldn't stick him in goal. |
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right, but in the mood for love is a fucking fantastic, gorgeous movie that needs nothing except a good screen and an audience. |
I just wanna eat tacos with Ms Krazie
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<cheeto> wouldn't you rather eat maggie cheung's taco? </cheeto> |
only if it's guaranteed not to be a fish one.
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 I thought this movie would be an ass kicking cliche, and that I would walk away satisfied, with my brain completely turned off. Actually, though, it's nothing of the sort. It is heart breaking and far more layered that it appears to be (probably more than it intends to be even). Liam Nieson's character curses God in one of the most moving and uncannily true to life movie moments in my recent memory. I've never heard anyone call the almighty a "fraudulent mother-fucker" in such a real and relatable way. It made me tear up a bit, actually. Public and critical opinion unanimously agrees that it's adrenaline fueled rubbish, which reinforces my theory that most people need more exposure to social and religious philosophy, psychodynamic thought, and the basics of symbolism and allegory. "Yeah right, wolves don't do that! Bad movie cuz not scientifically or zoologically accurate!!!" shut the fuck up, and go give Avatar 5 stars again, shithead. |
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 Crash Watched this again and liked it even more. It was probably a bit overrated when it came out but the resulting backlash seemed to go way too far in the opposite direction. It's not perfect by any means but it's becoming one of my favourites from the past few years. |
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You definitely make it sound more interesting than the other reviews I've read, which'd pretty much lead to me ignoring it. I'll look out for it now though, out of pure curiosity. |
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Yeah, you should. I'm no film expert, but I am pretty picky about movies, and generally a harsh critic. I think the movie got a bad wrap. On the other hand, I may be going overboard with my interpretation ( thank the psychoanalytic film theory classes I took for kicks in college) but I thought Liam's performance was incredible. Oscar nod worthy at the very least. I think people's interpretations of films are clouded by their perception of the genre. Survival movies and "animals go crazy" flicks both tend to be pretty tepid and shallow, so I think the good ones are written off pretty easily. This one is different. To me anyway. Let me know your thoughts if/when you see it. |
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i went to see tis movie because i wanted to see liam neeson punch a wolf in the face, which NEVER happened. your review is dead on though, the movie was just not what i was expecting. also there were too many scenes that dragged because of emotions that are moronic. an example would when the one dude is dying and it's about a ten minute scene with everyone else crying and being pussies...dude's fuckin' done for! move on goddammit! |
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In the plane? Great scene. But not as good as: "I'm gonna start beatin' the shit out'a you in about five seconds, and yer gonna be swallowing a lotta fuckin' blood over a fuckin billfold if you don't put that wallet down right fucking now!" [see realization on guy's face that he's fucking with the wrong mick as he backs away like child and obeys, pants freshly pissed] |
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yeah pretty good, plenty of gore and ridiculousness as usual! watched this one last night  |
you socrazy murmur. dead man is the shiznit
coffee and cigarrettes was half good half boring |
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i'm sure he'll be grateful, and appreciates the fact that you're planning to steal his work while he had to sweat blood to have it made verily i say unto him, what a privilege to get your work stolen by a fan such as murmer. |
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This may be just what you're looking for ...  Detour Perhaps the ultimate B Movie Noir; it was made for practically nothing, clocks in at barely over the hour and has to one of the bleakest, seediest films to have ever come out of Hollywood (Fritz Lang's film noirs aside). Saddest thing is that all the DVD versions are from terrible prints, although that at least adds to the z-grade cheapness of it all. As with classic westerns, when I watch movies like this I find myself wondering why I bother watching anything else. Massively recommended. |
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please tell us about this? |
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20% good, 80% boring. ;) |
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girl whose brother is bullied to death seeks revenge on the ringleader who just so happens to be the son of a yakuza boss. special effects by the director of tokyo gore police. one of the better japanese gore films i've seen. |
 This movie had a lot to offer, but I think the last scene ruined it for me. It just didn't fit, and was not appropriate for the style of the film. They could have maintained the true-to-life human quality of the story by making the "climax" more subtle and less of a goddamn spectacle. There were also some plot elements that didn't really make sense in the end; things that went unexplained, which the viewer is left to guess about. Like, why did he lie about Belinda? Why was it so important for him to do what he was doing, especially if his story didn't line up? Did he just want to go back so he could not be a retard? And how did Darius's mother die? I think that the story would have benefitted from his having something to do with that. 98% of the film was very good, though. |
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