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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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Watched Kingsman a few months back. I hated pretty much everything about it. The entirely juvenile nature of it just didn't appeal to me I guess.
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The Visit: A return to decent form for Shyamalan, though like The Gift, there are some contrived head scratcher moments. Yes, there is a Syhamalanic twist, and it's well done and was unexpected to me, as I was thinking the film would play out in a very different way just before that point. There's a quirky feel between being a lighter look at old folks and something more genuinely sinister, but it definitely has a dark side. I wouldn't say it's fantastic... in some respects it's kind of goofy... but it was pretty entertaining and should get M. Knight some better directing opportunities again.
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I was going to see Everest today but it was only in IMAX 3D this week. Probably good to see on IMAX, but I really didn't want the 3D. So I opted for The Visit, which was a fun enough diversion for a couple hours.
Previews: The Revenant looks great. Crimson Peak, the gothic horror film by Guillermo del Toro looks like it might be good, but despite some cool creepy visuals (par for del Toro), I'm not sure that the trailer is selling me on the story aspect. H8ful Eight looks like a really fun Tarantino romp.
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1) "erotic" thriller? Uhhh...sure, okay (backs away slowly)
2) Can see why it blew minds in 1986
3) kind of loses steam at the end, doesn't really sell the resolution
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Finally watched Tree of Life, which I'd been meaning to for what, four years. Whew. Don't even know what to say, but it's powerful and beautiful and frustrating and transcendent and indulgent and all of that. More like poetry than anything really narrative driven, but man, some really poignant moments here and there. Hey Barney, have you seen that? I found a post where you had listed it in that year's Oscar noms and you only said "ugh." I was surprised, as I know how much you love Boyhood, and I thought Tree of Life was very much in that vein. Sure, Tree of Life also has the artsy-fartsy stuff and is much more enigmatic at times, but the core of the film is the childhood and growth of the kid, and there are some similarly wonderful moments like in Boyhood as he's dealing with his life and father and the usual kid stuff.
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On the village, yeah the marketing was all off on that one. I think it’s Ok, it was just his first disappointment. I think things didn't start really turning on him until lady in the water
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I completely agree. I even said the exact same thing about it being "poetry." I thought it was a phenomenal film.Grudunza wrote: Finally watched Tree of Life, which I'd been meaning to for what, four years. Whew. Don't even know what to say, but it's powerful and beautiful and frustrating and transcendent and indulgent and all of that. More like poetry than anything really narrative driven, but man, some really poignant moments here and there.
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Black Barney wrote: awwwwww, thanks
I hope it didn't pull you out of the movie
Ha, yes. As my soul was stirring from the existential weight of the imagery in the film, a sudden vision of Richard Simmons deeply disturbed my contemplation.
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