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Baggo Billgo
I feel...thin.
Sort of stretched, like...butter scraped over too much bread.
Baggo Billgo
you gave it some stars
I think it was your last sentence, that left me with the impression, of less than enthusiastic.
I would recommend
Short Cuts for your 2nd
And how the hell did Happy Feet win an Oscar? Fuck that movie.
Since there was love expressed for The Sweet Hereafter, a Russell Banks book, did anyone see Affliction with Nick Nolte? Man, that was harrowing. (Also, another excellent book.)
Another great film. I think Nick Nolte was really robbed of an Oscar that year (Roberto FUCKING Benigni?!), though it was nice that Coburn won.
How's Banks as a writer? I haven't had a chance to read any of his work.
Adapted by Christopher Trumbo from his Off-Broadway play about his father, "Trumbo" is a witty, angry and verbose documentary about screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. After citing the First Amendment and refusing to testify during the McCarthy Senate hearings on communism, Trumbo became one of the Hollywood 10, imprisoned for political beliefs and forced to give up their livelihoods - or write using assumed names.
Trumbo, belatedly recognized for "Roman Holiday" and "The Brave One," among others, was finally able to put his name on a film when Kirk Douglas championed him with 1960's gladiator drama "Spartacus."
Using Trumbo's letters, statements, speeches and scripts, director Peter Askin creates a rich portrait of a cantankerous, principled man of words.
Michael Douglas, Liam Neeson, Joan Allen and David Strathairn are some of the actors giving staged readings, though Donald Sutherland's passionate rendition of a speech from Trumbo's 1971 film "Johnny Got His Gun" (based on his novel) is worth the price of admission.
Btw, I'm writing this on my iPhone in the middle of A 2-day train trip.
I can barely, navigate and read on my iPhone.
You, punctuate, capitalize and spell properly, impressive.
Agree with your remarks re: both films, u2pm. Intolerable is better than most modern, generic comedies, but by Coen standards its a bit subpar. Clooney is as funny and cartoony as he was in O Brother, though. And yeah, whoever said this was the funniest movie ever has a screw loose, or hasn't seen Lebowski, Caddyshack, Yong Frankenstein, Airplane, etc.
Darjeeling was a bit of an improvement over Life Aquatic as an overall film, but not sure if it had as many memorable scenes. Still, credit to Wes that he stepped away from the zany extended cast of misfits and focused on jus a few relatively normal chars. One thing to point out, I was a tad put off by the travelogue nature of the setting, which seemed a little British Empire colonial at times (as opposed to American Empirical, the name of Anderson's productin company).
Btw, I'm writing this on my iPhone in the middle of A 2-day train trip. Becuz that's how much I care.
and speaking of S H
I will also recommend Atom Egoyan's "Exotica"
it has a creep factor to it
but, things are not always what they seem.
I can barely, navigate and read on my iPhone.
You, punctuate, capitalize and spell properly, impressive.
Most impressive.......
I'm off to not masturbate to pictures of hirstute women and their animals.
Tropic Thunder - 7.5/10
I went into this knowing what elements of the movie were sheer genius (Downey, Jr.) and which were pure filler (hey, ho Jack Black!). But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't cracking up over the brilliant points of the movie. The hilarious cameos were icing on the cake.
This is the summer comedy you want to catch this year. Fuck Zohan.
I'm still neck-deep in my Woody/Scorsese-athons.
The Ruins
You know, after reading and enjoying the hell out of the book, I had very low expectations for the movie, but wanted to see how they adapted it.
All things considered, it wasn't bad. They cut some important theme-ish things out for the movie, and changed a few plot points, but I thought they did a decent job with the movie. For a gory horror flick, anyway. I don't watch a lot of them.