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« Reply #1225 on: January 18, 2008, 06:43:56 AM »

Mulholland Dr.

A very aesthetic and artsy thriller/horror, abeit one without a clear plot. What remains of the plot moves slowly at times and it is too long. I would say overrated, but the originality aspect was certainly intruiging.

It does have a fairly clear plot. Ok, not exactly clear, but there is a story there (about the girl murdering her lesbian lover out of jealousy and then trying to run away from the fact by making up some fantasy).

Source?

... Ah, I have just read an explanation on the internet that fits it together... for the most part.

I will confess that that particular twist was hard for me to see because I was more involved in the plotline and attracted to the characters in the 'dream' plot myself!

I was actually quite proud of "getting" that plot. I'm usually not super-great with these things and most Lynch movies are completely incomprehensible (like Inland Empire) but this one I actually had pretty much in the bag at the end of it.
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« Reply #1226 on: January 18, 2008, 06:47:32 AM »

Seeing There Will Be Blood is one of the first things I plan to do after moving to Minneapolis.

For me: Storytelling. I actually liked this one more than Happiness, which most people don't. The plot setup was kind of weird though, what's the point of two completely unrelated stories just back to back?

Storytelling and Happiness are about equal to me. My favourite part of the first is when the jewish mom calls them all Holocaust survivors. In the second I've seldom laughed so hard like when the fat woman says "I'm a very passionate woman" while gulping down a huge pile of ice-cream and telling how she's killed and cut up some guy.

And of course, one cannot beat the exchange
"I'm not laughing AT you, I'm laughing WITH you"
"...but I'm not laughing"

Oh, and There Will Be Blood is a movie I'm really excited about.
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« Reply #1227 on: January 18, 2008, 12:34:38 PM »

The Simpsons Movie

I'd been meaning to watch this for a while. It was very stupid (in a funny way). Itchy/Hillary '08!
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« Reply #1228 on: January 18, 2008, 04:33:47 PM »

No Country for Old Men

Javier Bardem > You.
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« Reply #1229 on: January 18, 2008, 04:36:10 PM »

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

Pretty good, I preferred it to the first one, altough it was not much better.

The Simpsons Movie

I'd been meaning to watch this for a while. It was very stupid (in a funny way). Itchy/Hillary '08!

I LOVE that movie.  It was the funniest film I had ever seen, I saw it three times the first day it came out.
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« Reply #1230 on: January 18, 2008, 04:38:05 PM »

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

Pretty good, I preferred it to the first one, altough it was not much better.

The Simpsons Movie

I'd been meaning to watch this for a while. It was very stupid (in a funny way). Itchy/Hillary '08!

I LOVE that movie.  It was the funniest film I had ever seen, I saw it three times the first day it came out.

You stayed in the theater for 6 hours?
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« Reply #1231 on: January 18, 2008, 04:41:56 PM »

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

Pretty good, I preferred it to the first one, altough it was not much better.

The Simpsons Movie

I'd been meaning to watch this for a while. It was very stupid (in a funny way). Itchy/Hillary '08!

I LOVE that movie.  It was the funniest film I had ever seen, I saw it three times the first day it came out.

You stayed in the theater for 6 hours?

Nah, different times, and I saw it at two different places.
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« Reply #1232 on: January 18, 2008, 04:43:25 PM »

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

Pretty good, I preferred it to the first one, altough it was not much better.

The Simpsons Movie

I'd been meaning to watch this for a while. It was very stupid (in a funny way). Itchy/Hillary '08!

I LOVE that movie.  It was the funniest film I had ever seen, I saw it three times the first day it came out.

You stayed in the theater for 6 hours?

Nah, different times, and I saw it at two different places.

So you had to pay for it twice?

[points finger at you]

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« Reply #1233 on: January 18, 2008, 05:24:42 PM »

To Catch a Thief

Classic Hitchcock.
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« Reply #1234 on: January 18, 2008, 05:48:39 PM »

I just saw Juno at the theater this Wednesday.  I'd been meaning to see it for a couple weeks now, and this was the first time the show wasn't sold out.

It was better than I expected.  And Jason Bateman made me feel really, really, really uncomfortable.
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« Reply #1235 on: January 18, 2008, 05:55:41 PM »

No Country for Old Men

Javier Bardem > You.

That was a brilliant film. I wouldn't mind seeing that film again.
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« Reply #1236 on: January 19, 2008, 12:15:27 AM »

Cloverfield

holy sh**t, that was intense.
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« Reply #1237 on: January 19, 2008, 12:54:34 AM »

No Country for Old Men

Javier Bardem > You.

What? That's exactly the type of movie you'd rail against. The epitome of nihilistic violence.
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« Reply #1238 on: January 19, 2008, 12:55:08 AM »

Cloverfield

holy sh**t, that was intense.

What'd the monster look like?
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« Reply #1239 on: January 19, 2008, 12:57:07 AM »


Kinda reptilian.


GO SEE CLOVERFIELD.  IT'S CRAZY, IT'S INTENSE, BUT IT'S GOOD.
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« Reply #1240 on: January 19, 2008, 07:00:38 AM »

No Country for Old Men

Javier Bardem > You.

What? That's exactly the type of movie you'd rail against. The epitome of nihilistic violence.

Uh.. No.
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« Reply #1241 on: January 19, 2008, 05:05:07 PM »

Thanks for the Cloverfield recommendations.

I absolutely LOVE horror movies.  Can't get anyone to go with me, though!  The wife went with me to see The Mist (or whatever it was called) but that was because it was my birthday. 
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« Reply #1242 on: January 19, 2008, 05:09:17 PM »

No Country for Old Men

Javier Bardem > You.

What? That's exactly the type of movie you'd rail against. The epitome of nihilistic violence.

Uh.. No.

Then what the hell was it? I didn't see it as much different from Sin City or whatever.
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« Reply #1243 on: January 19, 2008, 05:32:50 PM »

No Country for Old Men

Javier Bardem > You.

What? That's exactly the type of movie you'd rail against. The epitome of nihilistic violence.

Uh.. No.

Then what the hell was it? I didn't see it as much different from Sin City or whatever.

The difference is that No Country... is an actual film, while Sin City is not.
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« Reply #1244 on: January 19, 2008, 05:39:33 PM »

No Country for Old Men

Javier Bardem > You.

What? That's exactly the type of movie you'd rail against. The epitome of nihilistic violence.

Uh.. No.

Then what the hell was it? I didn't see it as much different from Sin City or whatever.

Then you must have been watching a different film with the same name. (or maybe not, I might just have a dislike of hip comic book nihilism, which I don't think No country was. I never felt it was celebrating its characters - plus Anton Chigurh was too much of an ubermensch to be a true Nihilist anyway.) Oh and what Andrew said.

Anyway as I am on a Coens Binge I finally got around to seeing Fargo after it being on my "to watch" list for years and years. Not quite the masterpiece some people claim it is - I think imo that No country... is better and goes too much on the whole "OMG MINNESOTA ACCENTS LOL!111" approach. Memorable enough ending with the woodchipper and all, though the whole tone of the film seemed to shift uneasily in the last 20mins though it did too in No Country aswell. It is not a bad film, but it is far from my favourite Coens (that is a battle between O Brother..., Blood Simple and o\c The Big Lebowski)  never mind being one of the best of the 90s as the critics maintain
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« Reply #1245 on: January 19, 2008, 05:52:34 PM »

The whole point of NCFOM (and if you haven't seen it yet and don't want to read any spoilers don't read any further) isn't about the drug money or even Chigurgh but rather Tommy Lee Jones's character deciding to retire. The story is his basically just his view of the incident that finally did it, he doesn't play a huge role in the actual story but that's not really the point. After viewing the true evil in Chigurgh he comes to the conclusion that the world has developed so far into evil and wickedness that it's not worth fighting for anymore, basically what the title means (No World For Old Men would probably be more accurate though I understand it's taken from a poem or something). That sounds like a nihilistic viewpoint to me. Oh and it's violent and bloody. Just not as cartoonish as Sin City.

You know a paper comparing the meaning of the endings of NCFOM and Se7en would be something really interesting to write for a film class or something. Similar themes but completely different conclusions (and endings too in the characters in question, Tommy Lee Jones in NCFOM and Morgan Freeman in Se7en)
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« Reply #1246 on: January 19, 2008, 06:10:29 PM »

The Title is taken from W.B Yeats poem Sailing to Byzantium.

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Ah exactly (Though it must be said I preferred the bits with Moss\Chigurh than with Jones' annoying pseudo-philosophizing..) the film does not celebrate nihilism nor does it overbear it (In seemed it Se7en for every few minutes there is someone - usually the Morgan Friedman character - going on about how corrupt the world is.) and the Lee Jones character is not a nihilist but rather regrets what he sees as its coming (or is it..? That's what the scene at the end with his grandfather(?) was all about..)

I suspect that Cormac McCarthy is a strong moralist; but not neccesarily in the "conservative" way (which is what I bracket myself.

You also should perhaps understand that often with films the intellectualizing comes later, my gut reaction being the most important. And my gut told me "NCFOM" is rather good, though is let down in parts and that Sin City was the worst type of Nihilistic dreck.

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It is semi-Cartoonish I think, Chigurh is obviously such an embodiment of evil (especially with his ridiculous oxygen tank-like weapon) that is impossible to take all his action seriously. Remember the scene where he blew up the car. Chigurh is just the ultimate egoist, a metaphor really.

In the Sin City there was no point other than showing some cool graphics to a bunch of unfortunate nerds with nice close-ups with the sex and violence while a character in the background tells us that it is 'bad' and the world is 'rotten'.

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Agree. Though I don't think Se7en is an awful film; just overrated. And I don't think NCFOM is a great film, just pretty good better than most around recently (it is imaginative for one thing... something neither Se7en or Sin City were imo.)
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« Reply #1247 on: January 20, 2008, 01:49:27 AM »

Lars and the Real Girl.

Very funny poignant movie. It was actually surprisingly clean, considering the basic plot. This could've probably have been PG if it weren't for the whole fact it's about a sex doll in the first place.
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« Reply #1248 on: January 20, 2008, 02:39:09 PM »

American History X
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« Reply #1249 on: January 20, 2008, 05:04:46 PM »

The Naked Gun (1988) & Borat (2006)

Two of the funniest films I have ever seen in my life.

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