"This was pretty freaking outstanding. Recklessly inventive, eminently quotable..." is cryptic?

I loved it. After I got to about the twenty minute mark, I had to stop myself from going back to watch the first twenty minutes again, just for the pleasure of experiencing it again.

It seemed perfectly cast, the writing was top-notch, especially the verbal sparring between the three leads. I'm not really picking up on the "spoonfuls of contempt", though: I felt it was just Black being self-aware and affectionately snarky. Thought it had maybe one ending too many. (Although that scene wouldn't have bothered me at the end of the credits, so that complaint's a little feeble.)

I'd like to see Black adapt one of Palahniuk's novels next.

I only saw your recent comment about peeing on a corpse. Black is known as a pretty angry guy who sufdfered a massive creative burnout. The movie came off as anything but affectionate to me.

Not knowing the whole Black backstory, I could only go with what I saw onscreen. And what I saw seemed to be a joy-filled noir homage/tweaking.

And Elemeno made the pee joke.

Oops. OK I'm redirect my question at Elemeno.

My favorite film of the last two years. I made the pee comment as tip of the hat to the scene that made me laugh my ass off. In a perfect world where offbeat flicks like this win awards, Downey takes the Oscar.

Darko had no chance with a main plot strand involving a plane crashing so soon after 9/11.

After it's slow burn word of mouth it did rather well here.

Opening Weekends

$110,494 (USA) (28 October 2001) (58 Screens)
£191,348 (UK) (27 October 2002) (37 Screens)

for those of you scoring at home on 27 October 2002
1.55090 was the £ to $ Exchange Rate
so it made $298,3112 on that wkd

So sue me, I liked the extended version better, only because there's more time with Donnie's dad, an underrated film character

Caught up on late 2006/early 2006 viewing:

Nanny McPhee was a little better than I thought it would be. A kind of British sweetness-amongst-dark-humored kinda anti-Mary Poppins kinda thing. Love how they skimped on the special FX where needed.
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Memoirs of A Geisha was worse than I expected. It MIGHT have been better in Japanese instead of English to give it more an air of genuineness. The soap opera machinations of the plot loudly creak and grumble (along with me and my wife) by the last 1/3 of the movie, killing any serious historical consideration of the world of the geishas. Too bad...I hear the novel was excellent. Zhang-Zhyi-Yi is still my fave Oriental hottie.
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Match Point. Never thought I would get tense watching a Woody Allen movie. 4 stars from me. Even if you hate Woody Allen, you will still love this movie, honest to God.
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agrimorfee, you ignorant slut.

I laughed harder at some of the painful dialogue in this piece o' crap than I have at many of Woody's putative comedies. There's nothing in this movie that Woody didn't explore (and do infinitely more with) in Crimes and Misdemeanors. Easily one of my Top 5 Disappointments of '05®.

The scene where Scarlet starts yelling is a complete embarrasment.

Really? We are all standing at divergent points in this road. IMHO, she was totally justified for being angry at him and reacting the way she did. Albeit, I haven't seen Crimes & Misdemeanors. Please point out some examples of the "painful dialogue", slackmo, I honestly want to know.

The thing with cringe-inducing dialogue is that you hear it, you wince, and then your brain tosses it. But here are some of the quotes from the IMDB page that others have deemed as memorable, and they all are as wooden as they read:





Originally I was just disagreeing with your statement: "Even if you hate Woody Allen, you will still love this movie, honest to God."

Now I think you may be right, and that I'm just in line with the obviously corollary: If you love Woody Allen, you will hate this movie.

We will agree to disagree, then.

This excerpt in particular:
Nola Rice: Men always seem to wonder. They think I'd be something very special.
Christopher "Chris" Wilton: And are you?
Nola Rice: Well, no one's ever asked for their money back.

...was one of my favorite bits.

And some of the other stuff you cited was from a fantasy sequence that would not have been out of place in a Bergman film (no small coincidence there!), and some of it was pretty justifiable--if perhaps cliched--moments of high passion and/or tension. Maybe you just couldn't picture Jewish New Yoikian Woody being able to write in the voice of overly priviliged Brits and angsty slutty failed actresses?



Honestly, if your mistress called you at home during your swanky dinner party, what else would you say?

I meant her playing of the scene was embarrasing. Scarlet can't act.

I am saddened further by these revelations. Except for her accusatory dialogue at the end, I thought she was on the mark throughout the whole movie.

The last Woody Allen I saw and enjoyed was Crimes and Misdemeanors. Martin Landau's performance is amazing. His reactions when he's on the phone completely knocked me into the ground.

The marketing was terrible. It was advertised as a horror movie and played in art houses, where people hate horror movies

Good shit.

Leroy & Stitch, the fourth in the Lilo... series, and the conclusion to "Lilo & Stitch, the Series." It's basically an oversized TV show, like Stitch, the Movie was just an oversized episode to start the series.

Hey! I just found out that the kid who plays Mertle is Billy Mumy's kid! Cool!

watching murderball for the 2nd time right now. again, this movie is fantastic. i know i'm not the only one championing it's cause.

Odd balance of darkness and cheese. The music is sort of pointless. A must-see for all 80's unicorn/pony fans!

Also contains the most bizarre and inappropriate scene I've ever seen in a children's animated movie.

I want to watch this but it doesn't seem to be on DVD. Same with this one.

I just want to see some good rooftop fighting scenes with good footage of guys falling. None of that CGI crap. I want the real thing.

Undo = OTM.


Just purchased a few Criterions:

strange, i feel like i need to watch it again but it is beautifully shot.

I have this movie sitting in my DVD player. I like movies with sex scenes a lot.

Just saw "Traffic" again. Parts of it still seem heavy-handed but nothing hits you in the chest like that final baseball diamond shot.

Just watched this:



Will watch this next:



And I also have this to watch:

I'm been playing catch up all weekend..

Time to amplify the lion's roar.

Kung Fu Hustle. I'll be damned is this some great stuff. These two in particular just kept crackin me up. Stephen Chow is masterful with this.


Don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys..

Brokeback Mountain. Thinking I was getting to feel like I was on the verge of being the last person to see this one. Not a bad little film I suppose. I wasn't as won over as I'd been by previous works by Ang Lee but its certainly well done. More of a take on 'Same Time Next Year' than I'd thought it'd be. Michelle Williams is barely in this which made me ponder the Oscar nod?

Great coffee.... Joey

A History of Violence. Did I not hear/read that this was going to be done by someone else and the studio dumped the director for Cronenberg? Oddly different for Cronenberg and yet so very much the same. Scene 44 should have stayed in. If you rent the DVD you can see it for yourself.

It's bewildering to watch the U.S. vs the International versions. It's all about the blood content.
I never thought looking at a person having their nose smashed in would be 'R' versus the one that squirts blood which would be too offensive for an american audience. Yet at the same time while there's nothing really seen in the sex scenes. They are certainly more acrobatic. Several stones seem to be left unturned with this and I sort of wish that he made further attempts to directly speak to issues he brought up. Instead we just thrive on the remains of this dysfunctional all american family.

She went non-glamourous, and implicitly gets sodomized by hubby Heath Ledger at one point. That's 2 checks for Oscar contention for Best Actress.

this was my sun afternoon. on par with the previous potter movies; i liked it a lot.

Best one is still the 3rd.

I just watched this over the weekend too - so you're not the only one who hadn't seen it.

Pretty well made, although I'm not sure it's Oscar caliber (although what really is?). I thought Michelle Williams had the best performance in the film. It was a kick to see Linda Cardellini appear at the end. I had no idea she was in this movie.

I agree - not Ang Lee's best, but nicely shot anyway.

Dunno. Ledger really reached further than anyone else as far I could figure.
Especially as someone who was battling with his own feelings.
I always liked Williams but I kind of expected something more. Instead I just saw her get shocked and then turn on him in rage and never directly confront the situation.

This was a pleasant surprise. I had put off watching it because One Hour Photo was such a disappointment, but this is one of the few roles that Robin Williams really disappears into. The premise is some pretty worthwhile sci fi, and the rest of the cast rounds it out nicely.

When is it safe for us to start making Emma Watson appreciation threads?

She's infintiely hotter than Lindsay Lohan was 2-3 years ago, or whenever the heyday of the Lohan/Hilary Duff theads was. Plus, I don't see her growing up into unattractive white trash like they eventually did.

maybe after she gets her braces off

Her braces ARE off.






And so is her training bra.

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Oh....maybe not the training bra

Let me know when her panties are off too.

Also, let me know when my sense of right and wrong is off.

Showed much promise in the first half but ends pointlessly.

Some freak has already made a "Countdown 'til Emma's legal" web site. (it wa'rn't me!). IMO, she was cuter with her hair all tousled. Anyone got a scoop on the next HP movie? I'm working my way into Order of The Phoenix again, and I'm remembering now how angst-sy this particular installment is.

EDIT: for you pervs (SFW), also has link to Fleur DelaCouer nude scenes.

For those interested in my earlier query about the next Harry Potter movie, all details seem to be at www.veritaserum.com

She's 17 in less than a year so she's pretty close. I'm sure she'll be appearing in the same tabloids that demand the names of paedophiles be published before too long.

Cool movie. The part where the guys shot each other was awesome.

i predicted every single scene in this movie and enjoyed myself doing it. however, i am ashamed to say that i watched it.

The red X strikes again. Aquamarine? I hadn't even heard of this?

It has Jojo... must be a classic...........

Right.

Emma Watson countdown, hot. Less than two years!

screw the countdown, she's hot now.

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So here's the thing with comedies, for the most part--they're not as funny when you watch them alone. I'm looking to watching this a second time with, say, my lunatic brothers, and expect to laugh much much harder.

My main hang on this is that it's ridiculously short, clocking in at just about 60 minutes. But she's brilliant, even when she's just manaically vulgar, which is a good trick.

This is a pretty powerful and effective little film, with fully realized compelling characters and a refreshing (and unexpected) dollop of humor that humanizes the whole affair. Paul Haggis needs to get strapped into a chair, have his eyes pinned open and watch this a good 100 times or so. Will figure prominently in my 2005 re-assessment. Highly recommended.