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There was always more of an edge to him, he was jazzier. |
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His movies, of which I've seen only a few, tend to feature transvestites, transsexuals, lesbians, and what you might call persons of ambiguous sexuality. |
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Incidentally, despite the title, it is "another nice mess" |
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And he manages to make me feel sorry for Charlton Heston, a man I would not piss on if he were on fire. |
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You have to learn to kill your favorite children, Judd. |
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From the very first scene we cringed at acting that wouldn't have made the cut in a junior high play. The writing was terrible. The cutting was rudimentary. People talked and laughed, and nothing was funny. |
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He was a moral, gentle, intense man who spoke the truth, so naturally he had to be killed. |
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They'll bet on anything, and seeing them in their sleazy natural habitats, and the crazed characters that surround them, is the real delight of this film. |
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Through complex machinations, they find themselves in a morally indefensible situation concerning journalistic ethics and simple humanity. |
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If you don't think that's funny, don't see this. |
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They were the Japanese equivalent of John Wayne and John Ford, though the Japanese pair had more range than the two Johns. |
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At the end is a long polemic about the abuse, exploitation, and general neglect of children which I'm sure is heartfelt ... |
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Mistaken identities, confusion, mistakes, near misses, good luck and bad luck accumulate, and it is all hilarious. |
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If theres a lesson here, its that we should all be a lot more careful what we assume about people ... but we probably wont. |
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There is some of the over-acting (to western eyes, anyway) that you have to get used to if you watch Japanese films... |
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These films are too good to be as neglected as they are. |
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I remember that it was hard to watch, as a white person, that it opened my eyes a little to how black people experienced the world. |
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Just a series of 11 vignettes about people sitting around smoking and drinking coffee and talking.... Try it some night when you arent in the mood for slam-bang action. |
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Im ashamed to admit that when I first saw the movie I was pretty much in complete agreement with his outlook. |
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Graham Nash might have popped right out of a time machine from 1983. Hell, from 1975. I guess he was always the clean-living one, and it shows. |
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Just try to estimate the number of explosive squibs that go off during this scene, the number of blood bags bursting onto costumes, and then imagine how long it took to replace and re-wire them all after the first two tries got screwed up. |
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They circle, they tap, they bob and weave and feint ... and then comes a flurry of punches and they back away to assess the damage. |
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There were wars between the Indian tribes, and ... hell, you name it, it went wrong. |
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...sort of like the films Woody Allen used to make without quite so much angst. |
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It is well-written and includes a lot of people new to the movies, and was made for $400,000, which qualifies it as a credit card movie these days. |
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Fights happen. Scenery is destroyed. A train blows up. People run and scream. Ho-friggin-hum. |
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I'm not good at remembering plots, especially of movies whose main reason for existence is action and special effects. |
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If you have the DNA for being a movie director, the irresistible urge to film a big cavalry charge goes with the territory. |
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Dont let this DVD into your house or it will piddle all over your carpet and hump your leg. |
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I am aware of just how good the acting is, but the character is so repulsive I just have to back away. |
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for an idea to take a weird bounce off a wall there has to be a wall... |
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...the most egregious example of pretension, sloppiness, artsy-fartsyness, and most of all being the booriiingest movie of the year... |
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And yet there is something faintly distasteful about these big-city nabobs oohing and aahing at stuff that is frequently on a kindergarten level of sophistication...
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The dialogue is crisp, delivered in turns, no improvised babble, no talking over another actor's lines, and, maybe best of all ... no whispering! |
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He actually tries to kiss his fathers balls ... apparently because he has none of his own. |
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And there was always the chance, microscopic but measurable, that it might be fun. |
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But what QT and I dont share is his enthusiasm for B movies, slasher pics, and Hong Kong and Taiwan kung-fu potboilers. |
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...from the very first minute you know there is something wrong, wrong, wrong with this girl. |
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Theres probably some deep existential message here, but I didnt care. |
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Just look at him. Raised in an orphanage, then sent to the workhouse, unwanted, unloved, on his own. And yet he is so angelic, so full of goodness. How the hell did he survive ten years? |
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I thought he was a haircut in search of a personality. |
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The most dangerous weapon in the world is an ignorant, blood-crazed, conscienceless twelve-year-old with an AK-47. |
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He gets his script, he calls up some actors (who almost always say yes), and he shoots, generally in the summer. |
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Nobody in it is very nice, but man, are they ever cool! |
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Did we really say "groovy" as often as the people in this movie do? |
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Maybe someone can tell me how the people who make these things can sleep at night. |
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The two main characters are engaging, and the actors are uniformly good. A warm-hearted story beautifully told. |
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In fact, it leads me to wonder what has happened to our culture, and other deep thoughts like that. |
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What is really too bad is that its the only film I can think of about fireworks, a subject I love, and it could have been a great film. |
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You can't even shout "Action!" in Hollywood for that kind of chump change. |
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I can guarantee that on that great day when we all kiss our asses goodbye, the bombs would sound terrific! |
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Russia invaded in 1939 and expected a walk-over, since their army was 4 times bigger. But the Finns fought the mighty Red Army to a standstill in what would come to be known as the Winter War... |
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By the age of 10 he is acting out amazing psychodramas for his movie camera, and making weekly suicide attempts not much later. |
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They stop in the middle of nowhere on a dark road, and in the angry chaos of unloading, an infant is left behind in a box. |
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He has wedged himself into the plot like the producer's talentless mistress, and he ruins every scene he is in. |
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We see most things through her eyes, she is endlessly observant and fascinated by the smallest things. |
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You've heard of cardboard characters? This movie has cardboard sets, cardboard cities, cardboard cars! And I don't mean that in a bad way. |
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The pedophilia is a monstrous act, but that doesnt mean the pedophile is a monster. |
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This is an adolescent boy's fantasy, even if the super powers are just being superhumanly good at throwing knives and kung foolishness. |
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Much of the movie is almost black-and-white, sepia-toned, infinite shades of brown except for Gwyneth Paltrows luscious red lips. |
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Never use something hard to pronounce in a title. People won't talk about something they don't feel sure about pronouncing. |
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As he points out, it's not everyone who gets to revisit the site of his own crucifixion. |
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Polish Christians don't have anything to be proud of there, but this was a time for morale-boosting films. |
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She jokes about rape, AIDS, 9/11, the Holocaust, race, you name it, nothing is too taboo for her. |
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Without narration, we see the arrival of children at a one-room schoolhouse in rural France. There are big kids and little kids, ages 4 to 11, and one teacher, Georges Lopez. |
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There's hardly any violence in this, but there is tension aplenty, of the sort that only very few writers and directors and actors can create. |
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Im a sucker for David and Goliath stories, and apparently this really shook up Mickey D. |
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I applaud their willingness to take a risk on such chancy stuff. |
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Because it is so pretty it took me a little while to realize how pretentious it was. |
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But what I kept coming back to, watching it, was growing up in small towns, and either leaving or sticking around.
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The current administration, bought and paid for by the mega-corporations who care only for the next quarter's bottom line... |
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A fat, schizoid woman meets a penny-ante, bald, vain, grifter lothario...
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A woman walks into a psychiatrists office and starts spilling her guts about the sexual troubles in her marriage. |
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And I got news for you: it is well-known that you remember stuff a lot better if it is presented in an entertaining manner, and you can't beat JC in that department.
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It strikes just the right note, the perfect note, by not spoon-feeding us a "message," |
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Wills got to have the biggest gun, and hes got to fire it a lot.
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I kept thinking I should be liking the movie more than I was, that it just wasn't coming together for me though all the elements were there.
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An awful thing happened to him when he was 8, and his shrink father tried to cure it with drugs. Now hes going home for his mothers funeral and gradually coming out of his trance.
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I just know that if you ask me about this movie a month from now, I won't have a clue what it was about.
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They ran into a pair of monsters who looked like human beings, and whose idea of morality was based on video games.
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The Spike Lee brand name leads you to expect a certain type of product, and this isn't it.
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The idea is great and there are some very funny moments, but the execution is sloppy. |
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Watching people run on water is pretty and interesting, but just doesnt do it for me. |
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Mostly, it's the sort of picture actors love.
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The people who made this peculiar piece of shit are not qualified to hand the slapsticks and pig bladders and cream pies to Monty Python.
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Dave visits the headquarters of Scott's doomed Terra Nova Expedition of 1910 and it looks like they just stepped outside for a moment to bugger the huskies. |
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It's like studying an ingrown toenail, or staring at a homeless man muttering to himself while sitting in his own filth. |
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That they were and are scum, that they cheated, lied, bribed, stole, and fucked old ladies and poor children is a given in my mind; what I wasn't too sure of was how they did it.
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Now we sit, zombified, while the meaningless or actually mind-rotting content is poured into our eyes with no connection at all to our brains.
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So, raped, beaten, with zero support from her father, her union, the bosses, her women workmates, all the women in town ... doesn't this feel a little like piling on? |
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He doesn't have the loopy enthusiasm of our old friend Sir David Attenborough or the polish of Sir Kenneth Clark, I find he's growing on me. This is a personal take on England, and he has some insightful and funny things to say.
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Here, he is Bobby, a flower child whose brother gives him his first LSD...
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But I ask you, is it necessary to jiggle the camera in a shot of the scoreboard at the end of an empty stadium, after the game?
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The dramatic tensions are unbelievably high, the script is honed to perfection, and all parts are perfectly played. |
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Unlimited wealth almost always degrades the fabulously wealthy, almost as much as it degrades the poor slobs the unlimited wealth was stolen from. |
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Pedophiles. Child rapists and murderers. I have lost track of the number of times I've heard otherwise peaceful, loving peoplethe majority of them womenrecommend cutting their fucking dicks... |
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But he can never really be Aryan, because of that tiny bit of skin he lacks and which he must go to great lengths to conceal.
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One guy brandishes the videotape and shouts You got any more of these? Wheres your stash?
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Its a fact! If youre wisecracking, nobody can hit you! |
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Nobody can fucking decide how to spell a word you can't fucking say.
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Of course, it had been happening all along, in spite of what psychopaths like George Patton maintained.
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Is there a better actress working in the movies and television today than Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov?
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H & K smoke some really good dope, get a gigantic case of the munchies...
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He observes that if the Axis had won the war, they would all have been tried as war criminals.
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...he often goes to the site of the townhouse, ruminating on his mistakes. |
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This instantly made him a hero to insecure males world wide, and a thorn in the side of progressive women. |
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Looting his dead body, they find some money, a gun with one bullet it in, and a video camera. |
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The background music is moody and intrusive and the story is fairly distasteful and not easy to believe. |
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Laugh out loud moment: half their turkey is plain, American style, and half is basted in spicy chili, with no demilitarized zone between North and South. |
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They actually shoot at metal rabbits, at Coney Island, early in the film, and its more exciting than killing 100 real bad guys. |
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Very soon I was making a lot of mental notes, various nasty things to say, really vicious cuts and overhand chops and knees in the nuts. |
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Im on Shylocks side. I think hes a genuine hero, and I am sad at his final defeat. Spat upon ... in constant danger of his life, deserted and robbed by his daughter with the connivance of those same Christians ... wouldnt you want your pound of flesh? |
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I hated this movie so much it almost pains me to say it did do one thing well. |
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It looked like it had been filmed by people who'd never touched a camera before, lit by people who had never hung a light, and written by apes randomly banging on keyboards. |
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...later I found out that frass is a word meaning insect excrement... |
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... it's hard to pin this movie down as being anything at all ... which I guess is the point. |
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He is at first ingenious, in the second magnanimous, and in the third fearless ... until he shoots himself in the head! |
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The only blonde child in a family of 5 is real good at swimming, but his sports-mad alcoholic father favors another son who is only pretty good. |
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Its wonderfully ironic to see how quickly they grasp the concept that electoral politics is inherently dishonorable and dishonest, how quickly Boris abandons his dour expression for big smiles. |
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He turned it into a routine thriller ... actually, dumber than usual. The ending is stupid, everything about it sucks. |
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An old guy gets it into his head to do something insane, and pulls it off. |
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Unless youre actually lying on the sidewalk, youve got very little to fear from them. |
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They were pissed off about it, and wanting to get the word out any way they could... |
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...we know you can be funny, and you can be serious, often both at the same time, that you have aspirations, and want to stretch. |
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Not realizing what hes doing, he lets her see what a shitbag his dad is... |
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Sure, theyre freeloading, and getting laid, but no one is being hurt, everybodys having a ball. |
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There is another level to anime, where the back-grounds are gorgeous and subtle, and the stories are things you will never see from Disney, Pixar, or Dreamworks. |
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The result was ... well, it's still a shoe, isn't it? |
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I realize that what I have grown mortally tired of is what "science fiction" has come to mean in the minds of the movie-going public. |
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I kept thinking that a tight, well-done one-hour documentary could have been a lot better than 3 hours and 15 minutes of arguing and debate. |
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She's one of those people who go through life always a step or two behind other people, and behind where she's trying hard to be. She's not a bad person, but everything she does is just a little bit ... off. |
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She uses what is at hand to great effect. |
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It is the granddaddy of all heist films, and centers around a famous 28-minute scene with no dialogue and no music. |
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They actually shoot at metal rabbits, at Coney Island, early in the film, and its more exciting than killing 100 real bad guys. |
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Exactly! I hated the little prick! |
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It's like a therapist fucking a client, an officer fucking an enlisted man or woman. The question of whether the fuckee has the power to say no, or even to understand he or she can say no, is very much in doubt. |
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What's the deal here, are the stories in the public domain? I mean, they're good stories, but no other SF author has had nearly as many big, expensive, stupid movies made from his works. |
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The famous actors who have now completely replaced what used to be voice-over talent in Hollywood are all adequate to the job (snort, snarf). |
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There are many characters and a lot of story threads, and by far the best was the making of a suicide bomber: relentless, even logical. |
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If you're not ready to go that far, watch this movie, and you'll be tying the noose yourself and looking for the right tree to hang them from. |
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He does have an ego, and its so powerful that he doesnt care that he looks like an asshole.
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It makes you want to grab Don Rumsfeld ... jam him down into a poorly-armored humvee ... and let him cruise the mean streets of Baghdad for a few months.
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His specialty is losers and fanatics. He spoofs them mercilessly, and yet there's always a core of affection for the behavior he's observing.
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His posture, is defeated, every step he takes is as if he expects the ground to give out under him.
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I wont say nobody gets hurt, but the only one who dies is the one who had it coming.
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In fact, everything about it is wonderful.
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Sorry to say, one outstanding performance cant rescue a movie ... but it can make it watchable.
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It begins as a simple heist movie, which isn't bad at all, but in the middle it turns into something quite different, and that's even better.
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After firmly establishing his credentials as a spoiled little asshole, after his mom cuts off his X-box, his MySpace, and his wide-screen plasma TVall of which will probably be included in the new Geneva Conventions against torture when this generation gets around to amending them...
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Most impressive scene: a car chase in the snow on icy streets.
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The acting is bad, the cinematic technique is non-existent, and it switches right in the middle from light-hearted to soapy drama. The message is driven home with a sledgehammer.
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They walk. They walk and walk and walk. They walk some more.
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But I shouldnt have been yawning at the end.
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He's talking about Brando and James Dean ... but he's looking right at a real 2006 actor who can't do anything but squint and mumble.
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Maybe it has something to do with hanging on to ones comfortable faith in the very, very thin veneer we call civilization.
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The film indicates that she is the true African, in that she was born there and knows far more about Africa than he ever will. But she will never know what its like to be black.
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Considering she'd been dead for seven years at the time, I assume this was a project long in gestation. |
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There is no way of ever knowing how many works of genius the human race never got to see because of this stupidity. |
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The "charm" of this film is in its ability to delight me for no specific reason I could name. |
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The director was sketching the artists life in brush strokes of film. |
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Who cared what you looked like or how well you could dance or how well you were lit and edited when you were just a beautiful voice coming over the radio?
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These special movies are made by internationally acclaimed directors, and more often than not, are lauded by the critics. |
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... and who gives a Phoenician fart? |
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But what makes this one of the best romantic thrillers ever filmed is the incredible, steamy chemistry between... |
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Fourteen years from first draft to the theaters. |
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I don't see a whole lot of point in stomping on the gas pedal and turning left for 200 laps in the world's fastest billboards... |
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Lars is, not to put too fine a point to it, an asshole. |
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Is there anyone else in the universe who can make James Brown and Joe Cocker look like Perry Como?
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We see his aunts, uncles, and cousins. They have different ideas on his art, but all agree that he wasnt a you-know-what. |
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I totally disagree with what you have to say, but Ill defend to the death your right to say it, you unspeakable, posturing, pustulent, reeking unwiped asshole.
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I only read enough to pass the tests back then, and all I remember is a bridge collapsed and killed some people. |
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He is monomaniacal, obsessive, humorless, and pretty much everything I usually hate in a human being ... but by the end of his ordeal I found I'd grown to like him.
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Beautiful, ravishing stinkers, but stinkers nonetheless. |
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At one point he lets an old woman ramble about her ungrateful son, and you either have to laugh at her, or cringe. I cringed.
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For sheer in-your-face wild imagery you cant beat Federico. |
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This is an early example of the caper movies I love so much ... |
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In 1943 in Berlin, there was apparently an underground resistance of Jewish lesbians... |
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I am sure it is crammed full of metaphors about savagery vs. civilization, and the folly of colonialism, but... |
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He demands standards of others that he doesnt enforce for himself. |
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Thus, when a madman is on the loose, killing little children, the most important thing is to not let the news get out. |
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She is smart and articulate. She speaks her mind and doesnt compromise. And she has more charisma than every presidential nominee from both parties since 1972 put together. |
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And there's really no point in discussing the plot, which barely exists... |
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Suffice it to say, it fooled me, and it fooled me honestly. |
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There was always more of an edge to him, he was jazzier. |
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The girls were certainly destined for prostitution themselves, the boys destined to be pimps or drug dealers. |
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"Good student" is an epithet among the brainless in their endless attempts to bring you down to their level. |
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You arent expected to believe everything you see, though the movie is deeply grounded in the real world. |
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The latest and possibly last of the monumental study of human growth that began in 1964... |
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There were wars between the Indian tribes, and ... hell, you name it, it went wrong. |
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He seems to know, down deep, that it will be a disaster. |
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High school was hell, is hell, and probably always will be hell, but now it's hell with video games written by psychotics. |
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I'm afraid this movie is all surface and no center. But what a surface! |
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The reviews were all over the map. Hilarious. Disgusting. Way, way, WAY beyond disgusting. EXTREMELY hilarious. I was intrigued. |
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When the music stops, the plot plods. |
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A classically trained pianist has suffered a mental breakdown and lives in a cave in New York City. |
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Id have to have the two stories compared in open court ... and his story is better than mine. |
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He didn't make them say a single racist, anti-Semitic, anti-female word. All that stuff came pouring out of the toilet bowls they use for mouths of their own volition. |
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It has a heroine/ victim who keeps doing the right, smart thing (until one little mistake at the end, which I warned her about, but did she listen?)... |
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The filming is stark and beautiful. The acting is ... well, of its time, a bit overdone, but very good, even so. |
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This is one of the films where they famously destroyed cars in interesting ways. |
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I wont tell you anything except that, if you dont really, really, really like these two people on at least some level ... I probably wont like you. |
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Seldom have I disliked two protagonists as quickly and intensely... |
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If it was just sex they needed, there were 10,000 sheep available... |
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They cannot make a decision according to the most basic principles of right and wrong that any non-psychopathic human being knows deep in his gut. |
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When your position in the chain of command is obtained by means of your old man's wealth and influence, the degree of incompetence knows no bounds. |
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Already a practiced liar and self-promoter, by the end of the five-year ordeal he had very few principles left ... |
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It is a matter of the individual parts being a whole lot better than the sum of the parts. |
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You see scenes to come, scenes that have already happened, in no particular order, and you have to put it together yourself until the end arrives... |
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The people in this movie are so shallow they don't need to open doors, they can just slide right under them, and so superficial they dare not go out in the rain or their faces will wash off.
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His ride is a piece of shit. He's got no fine clothes or an ounce of bling-bling. Hell, what's the point of being a pimp if you can't wear about fifty pounds of gold chains?
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And its not the acting, though all the children are competent and the supporting cast is a whos who of the English cinema.
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It's not a caper where everything goes wrong; these guys have already stolen $2,000,000 in the first scene. Then things go wrong ...
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Some people cant take Frank Capras corny populism and eternal optimism. To me, its a tough trick to turn, but if you can do it, I like it.
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You think you're seeing one thing because that's what the magician wants you to see, but ... and that's almost too much right there.
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And, when you think about it, what studios largely produce these days are $100,000,000 B-movies, suitable for the drive-in crowd.
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Myself, I don't care if Jesus left little bastards all over Palestine and was crucified because he didn't pay child support.
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I worked up such a serious dislike for these rugrats that it was hard to try to like them when they began to learn the lesson.
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Im sitting here trying to decide an adequate punishment for a director who uses slow-motion for more than, say, two shots in an action movie.
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Im sitting here trying to decide an adequate punishment for a director who uses slow-motion for more than, say, two shots in an action movie.
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I've asked many people to come up with a similar list for K-12, and no one has ever beaten that total.
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All through the movie I kept wondering where I'd seen the woman playing the receptionist at the gym.
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Most of what they knew was wrong, fed to them by B movies like this and cheap tabloids.
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She says she excused herself for years by saying that she was young and stupid, as we all are at 22.
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Of course, crazy people are almost never the engaging, sweet, smart people we see in these movies ...
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This movie is about reality shows, and Hollywood bullshit, and about five levels of deadpan looniness, and it all worked for me.
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In how many movies, before or since, have you ever seen a woman urinating?
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...the movie is probably the best fiction ever made about mountain climbing. |
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Id dump a man for a film, but Id never dump a film for a man.
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...they wear shoes that are guaranteed to destroy their feet by the time they're 30, if not before.
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Well, technically, the process is brain damage. About like a bad weekend drunk.
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Both of them exist in alternate universes. They are audacious, brilliantly designed and lit and imagined ... but...
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Take me back to the days when guys used to go balls-out on dirt tracks in actual cars...
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And a boy treks across some of the bleakest land you'll ever see to free the fastest land animal in the world.
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If you ignore the fact that it is relentlessly stupid, poorly written, scientifically laughable, and totally predictable ... its actually kind of good.
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All the witnesses against him are either incompetent or clearly lying, probably intimidated by threats from the government.
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Nobody's going to put up with a screen that says "DOES NOT COMPUTE!" |
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In how many movies, before or since, have you ever seen a woman urinating?
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If you can't figure out every scene of this movie ten minutes to an hour before it happens, you've never seen a movie or read a book.
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But what I kept coming back to, watching it, was growing up in small towns, and either leaving or sticking around.
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Then one of the producers, Saad Fahker, a man who had a high opinion of Bush a year ago, is gunned down in his car by Americans in a case of mistaken identity.
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I'd insert a spoiler warning here, but if you haven't caught on to what the ending will be by the first 30 minutes you're too dumb to need one...
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One weekend gross was listed as $72. Not thousand dollars. Dollars! |
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The house Danny has been snooping on is two doors down from us! |
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Its all sheer exuberant and purgative display.
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This is probably my favorite Laurel and Hardy two-reeler, though it's a hard pick. |
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A trifle, a bon-bon, but never wienerschnitzel.
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All that is achieved here is pretentiousness, from the silly musical theme to the poetry-quoting psychopaths. |
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It seems to be reasonably realistic, from the little reading I did on the man, though there will always be debate as to whether Kelly was a revolutionary or just a horse thief. |
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He is something Evelyn stepped in when she was young, and should have wiped off her shoes shortly afterward, but before you know it she had eight children ... |
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But the grandeur of the place, the stunning ceremonies, dances, and shows within the show left me totally in awe at the end.
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... the purpose of the whole rigmarole seems to be to boost the ego of the man, tell him how important he is, flatter him. |
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She plays a saintly but no-nonsense woman who runs a boarding house for societys losers.
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Something to offend everybody, but with wit. Then they started writing for what seemed to be an audience of about 15 super-hip people in New York, and faded away. |
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As I understand it she went on to further adventures in self-absorption, and chronicled them all for us to read. |
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He speaks to saints, who are solid and real to him, and they are ordinary joes, and funny with their advice on life. |
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It is funny, and heart-breaking, and a wonderfully thoughtful meditation on the role of inherited privilege in the 21st Century. |
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This film is an attempt to inject an element of poetry, maybe even magic into the lives of a group of ordinary people. |
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I had completely forgotten that this was directed by my old friend, Richard Rush... |
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It has a hypnotic quality at times, and a great sense of humor. |
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Like so many revolutionaries he probably started out with his heart in the right place, and then lost his heart entirely. |
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He loves to sing, but he's not particularly good at it; he can carry a tune, but not elegantly. |
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Ive seen hat-racks with more of an emotional range. |
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This movie is so far above your typical murder mystery that it would be better to invent a whole new genre to contain it. |
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Arthur and company are sort of indentured knights fighting for decadent Rome. |
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Sometimes he's simply misunderstood, sometimes it's his own fault. He's got no support in his lousy little home. |
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Hollywood perfected this sort of thing in the 30s and if you listen you'd swear the incidental music was lifted intact from a Rock Hudson/Doris Day movie of the '60s... |
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Lord, she was beautiful as a young woman! And how very young she was! Shes still beautiful, of course, but now its a mature beauty. |
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This film has good intentions, the cast works very hard, and the themes are intriguing, it's definitely for grown-ups ... |
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It gets off to a very nice beginning, but squanders it in a lot of bloody foofaraw. |
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For fifteen minutes hes the biggest news in town. And fifteen minutes later, no one will return his phone calls. |
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Somehow, the Three Stooges end up in the last stronghold of the T. Accidentally. Just climbed on this here truck, see, and next thing we knew they were shooting the shit out of us! |
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It is slow, pretentious, self-consciously arty, the editing is fractured for no good reason. |
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Nobody knew what to do about this guy. He wasn't playing the PR game ... or he was playing it so subtly and ironically that no one ever got the joke. |
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He has an incredible eye for detail, and he works well with actors. |
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Empty and pathetic as Warhol was, he looks like Jonas Salk or Albert Schweitzer compared to these human toxic waste dumps. |
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Sir David is an enthusiast, and his brand of breathless excitement has no element of hype in it. He's civilized, authoritative, and you just immediately like him.
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A real asshole at times ... and yet able to inspire a cult-like devotion in those who worked for him. |
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No celluloid salad of one-second shots designed to disguise the fact that somebody cant dance without a big cheat from the film editor. |
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Tableaux are okay, hootchy-kootchy is not. |
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Exactly! I hated the little prick! |
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The saddest character is Grace, who Beth and Jake both fail in the most basic way. |
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Wed see hordes of evil, grasping peasants earning $300 per year doing their evil work to force cocaine up the noses of innocent Americans who earn $300,000 per year... |
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I have somehow managed to not see any of the dozen versions of this classical warhorse ... |
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They meet in Mexico City and, through a series of drunken and sober encounters, become friends. |
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It's not really an exposι of these loathsome pedophile wet dreams or the monsters who promote them, |
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What it points out is that, assuming he even lived (which cant be proven historically), we dont know shit about Jesus and his life. |
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The sets are so fabulously colorful you find yourself missing the action because you can't take your eyes off the walls, or the scenery. |
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In fact, a human would find it impossible to tell a guy from a girl without an autopsy ... which leads me to wonder, do they ever make mistakes themselves while courting? |
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The basic insanity of the situation builds and builds for scientist Folke, and farmer Isak, and Folke eventually cant resist going native. |
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It isn't fair to end an interesting story by saying "and then they all got run over by a truck. The End." |
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But there's really nothing here but an exercise in weird futility, and I was left empty and uninvolved, all the way through. |
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Neither of them could imagine the day when the likes of Jon Stewart has to use a nuclear weapon to even get your attention. |
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The reviews really sucked, but the idea was so good we had to see for ourselves ... |
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The opening ten minutes where he tries to feed his finicky cat, totally irrelevant to the plot, are not to be missed. |
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The build-up is very slow, and the pay-off shocking. |
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These things are always stupid, self-indulgent, pretentious, and silly, like the people who create them, and this is no different. |
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If you want 5 feet 2 inches of firecracker intensity with a southern accent, you could not possibly think of anyone else for the part. |
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He gradually returns to the human race, and it is a long, slow trip, done amazingly well. |
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Youre with them as all the illusions of civilization break down, gradually, and they realize that, in the end, we are all meat... |
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But even in this moral wasteland, there should be some standards ... and in this movie Sonny the narc pisses all over them. |
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They cant string three words together without two of them being bullshit. |
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He always insists on putting himself in the picture, and typically he will appear on 6 continents, and sometimes on the 7th... |
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But there is something quite disturbing about it that only a few reviewers picked up on. |
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But there is something quite disturbing about it that only a few reviewers picked up on. |
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They were the lucky ones, they were simply shattered, rather than exterminated. Sad world, when thats lucky. |
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And again when he's trying to recover his severed finger for the second time ... |
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Its the kind of movie where the lovers get wet a lot. Jump into a lake. Get caught out in the rain. Sit in the bathtub with a bridal veil on. |
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It takes a special sort of psychopath to do these things and sleep like a baby. |
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Dumb, dumb, dumb, da dum dum. Dishonest, unbelievable, stupid. |
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But while there's good build-up, there's very little payoff. |
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A small fishing town in Iceland in the winter is pretty close to my idea of the perfect hell. Being the town weirdo is just icing on the cake. |
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The film stars most of the emerging Hispanic stars of the last decade. It is gorgeous, colorful as a serape, and only goes over the top now and then. |
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The son is an ex-junkie, and blames Dad, as all junkies blame somebody else. |
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It's about magic ... I hate that word, it's about illusion, which I love. It is very well done. |
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She uses what is at hand to great effect. |
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I don't know if these are videos of dead people or "pre-need," as they say in the trade. |
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Comes from nowhere, early struggles, success, bigger success, crisis and downfall (usually from booze and/or drugs), triumphant return. |
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And it has one of the lamest endings I've ever seen. |
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It's rare that a film takes an interesting though totally impossible concept and runs with it all the way to the end, exploring all the possible consequences. |
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It is impossible for me to picture either of them proposing, or any sane woman accepting. They are so childlike. |
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The whole point is, you don't have to go, and you can still see all the wonderful and amazing sights he sees, without sand in your food. |
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I love satire, and I have always liked stories about amoral rogues. |
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And I have to say, Id have found the movie a lot easier to laugh at if this was some sort of creepazoid minority cult. |
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He is a psychopath with a very sick mother complex, plain and simple, there is nothing to like, though you can maybe sympathize with his crippling headaches. |
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I wouldnt want to be as dumb as I was back then, but Id sure like to have my body back. And Im not celebrating whats going to happen to it. |
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It's a celluloid salad, all the right poignant and/or frightening elements thrown in, a little salt and a lot of honey, shake well, serve earnestly. |
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Being born in Soweto is almost a death sentence to so many who find themselves there. Options are few, and robbing and stealing seems like a reasonable lifestyle choice. |
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I recall some dissent at the time from people who liked the muddier sound of Carnegie, just as some incredible dopes hate the restoration of the Sistine Chapel, on the grounds that it ought to be brown and dusky because ... because ... well, because it was that way for a long, long time! |
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Sitting there with 3 or 4 other people I'm competitive as hell, no quarter is asked or given, I take no prisoners. But that's as far as it goes. |
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The ending is stupid, everything about it sucks. Why? Because... |
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This scandalous system has been in place with almost no change since the 1960s, headed by that sanctimonious asshole, Jack Valenti, the counter-in-chief of nipples, cocks, and pussy hairs. |
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...see the movie again, marvel at Billy Wilder's audacity at even making it, and at Gloria Swanson's bravery in letting it all hang out in such a personal way. |
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The story is puerile, and every clichι in the book is used, including the long, long, long run of the family at the train station... |
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There are no phony, overblown heroics here, no cardboard heroes, just ordinary, everyday heroism. |
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He is very withdrawn, sick and tired of being a circus attraction everywhere he goes... |
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Each movie has a vertigo-inducing scene with the road collapsing beneath the tires. |
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Mel, I love ya, pal, but you're no Ernst Lubitsch. And you're certainly no Jack Benny. |
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He is such a simple, lonely, friendly, shy guy, and all he has in the world is his music, which he isnt even good at. But Id buy the guy a beer. |
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I guess this is what bothers me, the whole buying-in to the idea that Indians are somehow more mystical than the rest of us. They may in fact be more "spiritual" than many whites, but that's a whole different thing. |