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It's set in Oslo, but most of the film is in English. It's a documentary about a painter who wants to meet the man who stole her paintings. They end up having a deep and profound impact on each other. It's not as simple as "they aren't who they seem," but you learn that he is much more than a drug-addicted criminal and that her artist life isn't as glamorous as one might think. There are many twists in the story, some predictable and some not, that make it hard to believe it wasn't a scripted story. Highly recommended.
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If war movies interest you at all, you should watch this one. Probably even if you just like history or drama... the story told here is very encapsulated and intimate. Most of the time there is only one or two actors in any given scene.
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“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”
― Lester Bangs, on what should be the motto of TWBG
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Then she tries her grift on the wrong person...
I found this movie entertaining, even as I kept hoping for the main character to get her comeuppance. Bonus points for Peter Dinklage.
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We watched this last night and kept asking, "Who exactly are we supposed to be rooting for?" We also kept up hope for Marla to get what she deserved. Peter Dinklage was the victim here.hotseatgames wrote: I watched I Care a Lot on Netflix.
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The Three Musketeers (1973) is quite unlike any other version that you may have seen. It follows the original book to an unusual degree, according to the internet, but I take that on faith as I haven't read the original work by Alexandre Dumas. The tone is intermittently serious, but largely played as a farce. There is a silly number of situations where people fall down, and every combat seems to involve drunkenly incompetent combatants, though not explicitly drunk due to any onscreen drinking. If you ran a role-playing game based directly on this movie, you would need a system that called for fumbles and critical failures about 25% of the time, as well as critical successes maybe 10% of the time.
That said, the sets, costumes, and overall commitment to the setting is very impressive. And this cast is loaded with talent, including Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, Raquel Welch, and Sybil Danning. Welch won a Golden Globe for her role. The sequel that I remember was possibly filmed at the same time, and released just one year later. And today I learned that there was a second sequel in 1989 (The Return of the Musketeers), featuring much of the same cast, and loosely based on Dumas' sequel book, Twenty Years After.
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As someone who doesn't ignore the levels of poverty in America I do feel that as awful as their lives are they're sugarcoated in the movie. You can even read articles about the motels in the movie that have families living in them with no power or running water. It's also not just a Florida problem and it is getting worse all over.
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Watched OCEAN'S 11 (Clooney/Pitt) with my elder two. My son bailed, but my daughter really liked it. It's so damn stylish, even if things don't make tons of sense. That's movie-magic!
SHUTTER ISLAND, Scorsese's take on THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. DiCaprio is kind of a mess in this one, and the gumshoe angle is not really well carried, but maybe that's because (SPOILERS SPOILERS). It's good.
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I used to make every new (girl)friend watch Memento as a rite of passage, but now after about 10 viewings I don't want to see it again.
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My favorite moment:
Warden: If I was to sink my teeth into your eye right now, would you be able to stop me before I blinded you?
Teddy Daniels: Give it a try.
Warden: That's the spirit.
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My favorite bit is the very end, the discussion that takes place on the steps. Thought the twist there was pretty wild.
Also really enjoy Ben Kingsley's performance. The bit where he moves his hands explaining how the woman vanished is striking.
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