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Old 02-12-2011, 04:17 PM   #1171
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Wait a dagnabbed minute. WTF? How'd you guys gain a half-hour and change on me?
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Old 02-12-2011, 05:07 PM   #1172
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Old 02-16-2011, 10:00 AM   #1173
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I just saw Catfish, an independent documentary about an internet romance. It was surprisingly good. I recommend it.

Guy takes a picture that gets published in a paper. A bit later, he receives a painting in the mail of his picture, done by a little girl halfway across the country. It's a pretty good painting. He starts up a correspondence with this talented little kid, her mom, and ultimately her much older sister, who is his age. He falls in love with the older sister online.

The documentary follows this online romance and him finding inconsistencies in what he's hearing from this woman he's come to love, and it follows him ultimately going to meet her to find out what's real, and what's not.

His roommates are filmmakers who film everything, so they had already filmed a lot of footage of these events long before they realized there was a real story here and they decided to make it into a documentary.
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Old 02-17-2011, 09:50 AM   #1174
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Old 02-17-2011, 10:47 AM   #1175
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The Social Network - Hated the music tracts that played way too loudly over dialog, but I loved watching Jessie Eisenberg.

The Kids are Alright - Annette Bening is so cute! She really needs to do more.

Wallstreet - This could have been a perfect vehicle for Shia LaBeouf - unfortunately this movie sucked. Every Minute.

DONT RENT THE EXPENDABLES! Instead, rent The A Team. It succeeds in having much more fun.
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Old 02-19-2011, 05:36 PM   #1176
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Bootleg of "True Grit" w/Jeff Bridges

Waaaaaaaaaaay too many lines repeated verbatim from the original. Nobody repeats The Duke. Not even The Dude.

IMHO Barry Pepper as Lucky Ned Pepper was the best performance in the film.

The entire piece struck me several times as a showcase for Hailee Steinfeld, who was just okay.

A couple scenes not in the original, a couple scenes omitted from the original...

A solid 7.9 IF you can avoid the comparisons to the original. Not easy.


ETA: Oh, the voices in this movie...comically over the top. Very out of place, especially Josh Brolin. It's almost like they were fooling around between takes, and then they printed the outtakes instead of the good takes. Very detracting from the film. These dialog coaches should never work again.
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Old 02-19-2011, 05:42 PM   #1177
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And what was with the refusal to use contractions?
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Old 02-19-2011, 08:42 PM   #1178
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Bootleg of "True Grit" w/Jeff Bridges

Waaaaaaaaaaay too many lines repeated verbatim from the original. Nobody repeats The Duke. Not even The Dude.
Were they lines from the book?
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Old 02-20-2011, 12:29 AM   #1179
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We watched Robert Altman's Gosford Park last night, and I highly recommend it. Classic "group of rich people come to a dinner party, one is killed and everyone's a suspect" kind of storyline, set in 1930s Britain. The characterization is excellent, the dry humor made me laugh out loud several times, and the plot still manages to have a nice twist even though the genre has you looking for one at every turn.
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Old 02-20-2011, 09:29 AM   #1180
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Ross Noble in concert

Here's the first 9 minutes of this particular concert. I went to see this guy live a few years ago. Very strange mind. Very, very strange. His act is primarily an ad libbed stream of consciousness. He has a few set topics in mind at the start and then riffs off what he gets from the audience. He's desribed the planning for his show as 'about four words on a scrap of paper'.

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Old 02-20-2011, 10:44 PM   #1181
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Just watched Red. Great movie, but I have a question. SPOILER ALERT!










I don't understand the twist at the end. why would that guy order the hits? I'm going to watch it again and see if I can figure it out.
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Old 02-22-2011, 01:58 PM   #1182
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I've never seen West Wing, but I ran across this today. It's an excellent reply to those fundamentalists that like to pick and choose from the old testament.

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Old 02-22-2011, 02:37 PM   #1183
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My husband was raised a Christian and spent much of his youth going to bible study classes. Today he is an avowed atheist and loves to use his knowledge of the bible in just the same way. He is actually quite appalled at how much many Christians don't know about the bible and the history of their religion.
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Old 02-22-2011, 02:49 PM   #1184
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He is actually quite appalled at how much many Christians don't know about the bible and the history of their religion.
Yup.

I'm Christian. But my own experience shows that most Christians only know a few bible verses. Most have not read any significant portion of the Bible. Even fewer have any notion of the historical context of the period.
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Old 02-22-2011, 11:45 PM   #1185
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I've never seen West Wing, but I ran across this today. It's an excellent reply to those fundamentalists that like to pick and choose from the old testament.
I was actually extremely disappointed in that episode. It's a nice little writeup, to be sure... but it had been an internet forward going around for years at that point. I had to have seen it in my inbox a half-dozen times before the episode aired. Down to quotes and everything, like the phrasing of the "am I morally obligated to kill him myself" and "what would a good price for her be" lines. Like I said, it's a good bit. But professional writers shouldn't be plagiarizing internet forwards, IMHO.
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