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« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2011, 02:12:43 PM »
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Somewhat puzzled by the Solomon Kane movie love. I tried to see it but I was too tired from work, and slept through it (story of my life, really :D). My wife, who also slept through it but watched half an hour more than I did, assures me that it was a half hour of crap. Between this and the nearly universal panning fo the movie by critics and blogosphere alike, I chose to pass. Maybe I'll give it a second chance...


It's not a cerebral movie by any means, but it promises sword- & sorcery adventure and delivers same.

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« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2011, 03:47:54 PM »
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(...) My wife (...) assures me that it was a half hour of crap. Between this and the nearly universal panning fo the movie by critics and blogosphere alike, I chose to pass.(...)

Not if I am to believe the entry for the film on Wikipedia:
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Reception was generally favourable, with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 82% following the UK release; the film's atmosphere and Purefoy's acting attracted the most acclaim.
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The film has received mostly positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reports 83% of them being favourable, averaging out as 6.5 of ten.

Anyway, as Insufficient said it's nothing cerebral. But there's some nice atmospheric imagery and solid action and IMHO decent acting.
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« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2011, 04:35:36 PM »
Ah hell, I'll go watch it [strike]again[/strike] for real this time. :D

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« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2011, 07:44:55 AM »
This weekend we watched Thor. Gotta say that i found it rather disappointing overall. I started clock-watching half-way through which is never a good sign.

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« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2011, 10:13:10 AM »
Watched The Centurion (i think it came out 2010). Was kind of dissapointed by it. I dont mind violence but it got borderline silly.

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« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2011, 05:31:42 PM »
Nirvana! A very cyberpunk Italian science fiction movie starring Christopher Lambert. I was advised to look for the subtitled version rather than the dubbed version. It is quite a bit of fun, a little cerebral, a little silly, with a lot of great images of a dark, dystopian future. Good stuff for swiping.

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« Reply #21 on: October 05, 2011, 07:36:44 PM »
Just watched Bellflower. I wish Pauline Kael was still around to review movies.

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« Reply #22 on: October 05, 2011, 11:10:24 PM »
Watched the director's cut of Duck, You Sucker! It has the same problem as Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America, which is that it needs a better editor than it got (exacerbated by being a director's cut), but there are some visually brilliant shots in it, and the core story is a good one.
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« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2011, 01:49:26 PM »
I like Leone's meandering plots. Duck You Sucker is a flawed movie in several respects (although the way it turns from a lightweight buddy flick to a severe statement about oppression and revolutionary violence is masterful whether it was created intentionally or not), so it may not be the best candidate to appreciate it, but the technique works admirably for both Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America, where a lot of pivotal scenes work because they go on forever. OUaTA is goddamn epic, and one of my favourite movies (along with For a Few Dollars More).
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« Reply #24 on: October 06, 2011, 07:48:48 PM »
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Watched The Centurion (i think it came out 2010). Was kind of dissapointed by it. I dont mind violence but it got borderline silly.


I just finished watching it. I agree. That and the whole "Olga is such a great tracker she can point out their tracks in the snow and at the dead elk" thing.
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« Reply #25 on: October 06, 2011, 11:57:46 PM »
I just got an assortment of David Mamet films and I started of with Homicide. It's a good film to start out with if you're unfamiliar with Mamet or if you only know his work from the TV show, The Unit. It's a genre piece infused with some very provocative ideas. This of course was during his ,ahem, "pre conversion" days. Like I said, the ideas are provocative, the writing razor sharp and the action scenes...well kinda of good, for Mamet. Not bad for a self described "brain dead liberal".

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« Reply #26 on: October 07, 2011, 12:15:41 AM »
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I like Leone's meandering plots. Duck You Sucker is a flawed movie in several respects (although the way it turns from a lightweight buddy flick to a severe statement about oppression and revolutionary violence is masterful whether it was created intentionally or not), so it may not be the best candidate to appreciate it, but the technique works admirably for both Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America, where a lot of pivotal scenes work because they go on forever. OUaTA is goddamn epic, and one of my favourite movies (along with For a Few Dollars More).


Once Upon a Time in America is a movie I love, but when that scene in the opium den with the ringing phone going on and on while De Niro lays there went on for five minutes I got up to check my DVD player to make sure it wasn't broken.

Personally, ...West is my favourite of the trilogy. The slow pace works extremely well with the actors - Bronson is able to pack so much into a single gaze that a close up of watching him look around is compelling. It's also a very tightly plotted movie compared to the other two. There's a constant push from the mounting tension that moves you through any individual scene. I do think that the chunk after the main plot resolves, when Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinale are settling down, is a little long, but it's by no means fatal to the movie.
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« Reply #27 on: October 07, 2011, 12:33:53 AM »
Hoping to watch Stalker this weekend if I can talk my buddy who has the DivX into finally sitting down to watch the damn thing.
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« Reply #28 on: October 07, 2011, 10:36:34 PM »
For me Stalker is problematic but in an interesting way. I guess it's Tarkovsky approach to cinema - every film an experiment - which sometimes throws me off a bit.

Well, a buddy finally sent me the Brit dystopian 70's SF flick No Blade of Grass. Cannibalistic Viking Hat-ted Bikers. You'll love it, he said. We'll see.

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« Reply #29 on: October 08, 2011, 09:05:41 PM »
Didn't get to No Blade of Grass but did (with some friends) revisit Mamet's Oleanna. The problem I had with this film was more with it's execution than subject matter. Mamet regular, Willian H. Macy just seems a bit too convenient as the naive college proffesor and this film was supposed to be anything but convenient. I think (other Mamet regular) Joe Mantegna would have been a better choice. There's a brutishness in the latter which would have added more fuel to the fire. Having said that, the film is the best example of what Mamet does best. Supply the audience with the neccesary materials to start a fire.

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