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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #640 on: March 04, 2011, 08:03:33 PM »

Earthsea is the first Ghibli movie I didn't make an effort to go see in the theater since Disney started doing their thang. Less because of the universal flak it's gotten, and more because I found the Earthsea books to be really boring. I'll probably give this a rent when it hits, just to see.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #641 on: March 04, 2011, 10:48:50 PM »

It's out on Tuesday.

Again, it's still not very good. It's definitely not something I'd watch more than once. It's just not as horrible as you've heard.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #642 on: March 09, 2011, 07:52:34 AM »

Summer Wars gets better with every viewing.

Also: hot damn is it one good-looking movie.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #643 on: March 12, 2011, 05:55:47 AM »

The Princess and the Frog has a ton of complaints you can level against it (did it really never occur to her to just fucking ask for the money?) but it was way better than I was expecting.  I wish I hadn't blown it off for so long.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #644 on: March 12, 2011, 08:47:42 AM »

it's thoroughly okay.

I just watched Tangled though and basically had the same reaction you just had to Froggy Went A Courtin'.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #645 on: March 21, 2011, 05:31:14 AM »

I find it interesting that The Big Lebowski often claims the top of people's Favorite Coen Brothers Film list, but Barton Fink rarely gets discussed.

Barton Fink has all of the things that make a Coen film a Coen film. Surreal atmosphere, black comedy and some gruesome violence. It's also ambiguous and terrifying in equal shades.

The basic story centers around Broadway playwright Barton Fink, played by John Tuttoro, whose latest play is a big enough success to land him a studio picture job writing movies. When he gets to Hollywood, he's put up in a creepy, seemingly empty hotel. The hotel almost becomes a character of its own, with wallpaper oozing puss and peeling down the walls, neighbors having sex that sounds like a mixture of raucous joy and hollow sadness. And he ends up next to Charlie Meadows, played by John Goodman, a travelling insurance salesman.

After speaking with the loud execs at the movie studio, Barton is assigned to writing a wrasslin' picture for a b-movie actor. But he finds himself unable to write anything, so he consults a William Fauklner-esque man named William Mayhew, a delirious southern drunk who wiles away his time drinking instead of writing, and his beautiful secretary named Audrey, played by Judy Davis. Eventually Barton tries to strike up a relationship with Audrey, and from there things start going insane for Barton.

I won't discuss the film too much, because the more you go in cold the better the overall experience will be. But I will mention one of the final scenes, which is probably one of the best John Goodman scenes ever. Obviously spoilers from here on out.

[spoiler]Towards the end of the film, Charlie is revealed to be a serial killer named Mad Man Mundt who kills young women and takes off their heads. After two detectives interrogate Barton about Charlie in his hotel room, the elevator opens the gates to hell and Charlie charges down the hallways amidst hellfire, screaming and wielding a shotgun. It's a brilliant, powerful scene that is nightmarish and crazy all in equal measures[/spoiler]

SPOILER BELOW

Barton Fink - The Life Of The Mind (Extended)


Barton Fink, really, should be a more widely celebrated Coen film. Goodman is better than this than in any other film I've seen him in, the writing is mysterious, tight, comical and horrific, and there's enough depth to plumb, even if you just casually read the epic Wikipedia article.

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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #646 on: March 21, 2011, 02:34:35 PM »

I don't think The Big Lebowski is popular because of its depth.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #647 on: March 21, 2011, 02:54:17 PM »

Well, that's just like, your opinion, man.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #648 on: March 24, 2011, 08:36:32 PM »

This might also belong in Coming Soon since I think it's getting a theatrical release in small doses (it's playing as a midnight in a couple of weeks at my old job) but I Saw the Devil is p. recommended if you went through Chan-Wook Park's Vengeance trilogy and are looking for another Korean revenge flick you bloodthirsty monster.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #649 on: March 28, 2011, 11:28:22 AM »

I liked Shutter Island up until it blew its load with the single most obvious, cliched plot twist ever that neatly ties up the whole story in a nice little bow.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #650 on: March 28, 2011, 01:59:56 PM »

Why, did the guy who thought he was visiting the asylum turn out to be crazy after all? Because that's probably the most obvious way to do it.

It worked in [spoiler]One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.[/spoiler]
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #651 on: March 29, 2011, 08:08:26 PM »

It worked in [spoiler]One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.[/spoiler]
Wait what?
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #652 on: April 04, 2011, 07:21:22 AM »

Hot dang is Scott Pilgrim a good flick. Enjoyed every moment.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #653 on: April 04, 2011, 02:52:48 PM »

Hot dang is Scott Pilgrim a good flick. Enjoyed every moment.
This is very much true.

If there are actually people still on the edge for seeing it, as a comic fag I was 100% okay with it. I honestly can't think of a single thing that annoyed me.
It worked in [spoiler]One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.[/spoiler]
Wait what?

Back to this, last night a friend used the same comparison and I feel like I'm missing something because that's not close to how I would describe the ending to Cuckoo's Nest.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #654 on: April 04, 2011, 03:12:48 PM »

It worked in [spoiler]One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.[/spoiler]
Wait what?

Back to this, last night a friend used the same comparison and I feel like I'm missing something because that's not close to how I would describe the ending to Cuckoo's Nest.


I was referring to the interpretation that McMurphy was, in fact, insane. It's probably not so much a twist as it is a slow realization that there's something wrong with him. I don't know if that is a popular hypothesis or not, but I've heard it from other people, so maybe.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #655 on: April 04, 2011, 06:27:25 PM »

Well, a completely sane person wouldn't be on trial in the first place (supposedly), but I think the crux of the movie is that [spoiler]the institution managed to turn him into what they wanted him to be[/spoiler].
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #657 on: April 14, 2011, 06:15:56 PM »

Zoinks.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #658 on: April 14, 2011, 06:16:56 PM »

... Guild?
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #659 on: April 14, 2011, 06:20:45 PM »

No, I'm not called Guild.

Maybe.  :whoops:
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