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Dalton said:
Its supposed to bait YOU into feeling more guilty than you already do.
Sinner.
joyfulgirl said:I just saw "Control."
deep said:
anyways, in the last couple of months
I saw this, that Dylan mess of a film and the Joe Strummer film
joyfulgirl said:
I was fascinated seeing the shy, quiet, humble Ian Curtis off stage and then his intensity onstage, and seeing him going to his day job even after he'd become well-known.
anitram said:Once. 9/10.
Fabulous!
It took me a little while to get used to the documentary style of it - generally I'm not a big fan of this type of filming because it leaves me disoriented and I find that I have a hard time paying attention (then again I have attention span issues).
Fantastic soundtrack and really a lovely story. For me, Glen Hansard stole the film. His eyes are so expressive and there is just a very special warmth about him that translates very well on screen. Even though it was obviously a love story between the main characters (aptly Guy and Girl), I found that one of my favourite sequences was the old video he watched of his ex-girlfriend while he was composing a song. There was something very touching about the plainness of her.
The best thing to happen to this movie is that it wasn't a Hollywood film, or we certainly would have been robbed of one of the loveliest endings to a movie that I've seen in a long while. Just beautiful, in every way.
Dalton said:
My wife and I watched this movie tonight on your recommendation and we LOVED it!
13 out of 10. I rarely buy movies, but I'll buy this one. Simple but very elegant.
elevation2u said:Eastern Promises
4/10
Probably the most disappointing and boring film I have seen in a while (and I sat through all of Margot at the Wedding). The movie was so mediocre, uncreative, predictable and somehow managed to cast two good leading actors and still have them show no skill or potential. How this managed to get such highly praised reviews is the real mystery of this film.
LemonMacPhisto said:I hated The Squid in the Whale, but I really thought I would enjoy it.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a waste of 2 hours for me. Maybe I'll like it after reading the book then revisiting it, but for now, big pile of nice-looking meh.
anitram said:
A Cronenberg hater!!
I really thought it was quite excellent.
lazarus said:YOUTH
WITHOUT
YOUTH
(dir. The Maestro, Francis Ford Coppola)
I really don't understand the lukewarm critical reception to this film. When David Lynch puts a camera to his masturbatory fantasies, he's fawned over like a genius. And while I also thought Mulholland Dr., I don't understand how one can support that film and call Youth Without Youth pretentious, baffling, impenetrable, etc.
Plot-wise it's a very hard film to describe. Essentially it's about a 70 year-old linguistics professor who is struck by lightning and after recovering finds he has been transformed physically back to half his age. In addition, he gradually discovers mental powers including an ability to learn new languages almost instantly. Throw into the mix a subplot about the Nazis trying to capture him for their own use, and a chance meeting with a doppelganger of a former love, and you have a film that is some kind of intimate epic. It bounces from country to country and covers a period of 40 years, but there's no big scenes of travelling or crowds, set pieces, or other things that you'd associate with such an ambitious project.
What Coppola is more interested in that this represents a metaphor for his own life: a director in his older age who has lot his creative nerve, and seizes upon a chance rebirth. It's true that this film seems more like something a film school student would produce, someone in love with the idea of making movies and willing to try anything, go down any rabbit hole. This film raises a lot more questions than it answers, but the benefit is that it allows you to ruminate on your own mortality, the unfulfilled dreams you may have, the regrets of things done or not done. And in that sense this film is very much a cousin of the work done by Wong Kar-Wai.
On the technical side Coppola is as gifted as he was in his prime, the number of breathtaking images too high to count. Supposedly the camera does not move in any of the shots in the film, but you'd never know it because of their quality. The whole film was shot in Romania (doubling at times for Switzerland, Italy, and India) with a local crew and it has a decidedly European flavor to it throughout. Tim Roth deserves credit for going along on this ride and making the character as believable as possible.
Well worth the 10 year wait, and I'll be even more excited about his next project. One of cinema's greatest talents is back.
Lancemc said:BUT, last night I purchased my tickets for There Will Be Blood this Wednesday.
inmyplace13 said:Walk Hard
Anyone else seen this yet? I went in with pretty low expectations, but I wound up really enjoying it. John C. Reilly was fantastic, as he has been in everything I've ever seen him in not titled Talladega Nights, and the rest of the cast was great too. Tim Meadows, in particular, had some great lines. It was nice to see him actually be funny again.
There are a few jokes that aren't any good at all, but it was consistent enough to be enjoyable throughout. If you're a Dylanphile like myself, you'll particularly enjoy a certain sequence. The Beatles portion was really good too.
Anyhow, I liked it. I'd see it again.