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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #25250 on: January 08, 2010, 04:27:51 PM »
Fargo

Third viewing. IT GOT ME. BIG TIME. I had a wonderful feeling this might happen. Wow this is awesome! Even after two viewings this was still hovering around 'pretty good.' I must be growing up.  :P

That Mike Yanagita scene is probably the best thing ever.

yep pretty much!
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #25251 on: January 08, 2010, 06:10:55 PM »
Youth in Revolt



This movie is a total disaster. It has no idea what it is trying to be. One minute it is trying to be American Pie and the next Observe and Report. I can safely say it has the worst writing I have seen on film in years. Not a single character is believable and not a single line of dialogue has ever, could ever, or will ever be uttered in the real world. I mean, we all know 16 year olds who continually quote Camus, right? Right? Awful! Every action in the film exists solely because the writer thought it was cool. Not one scene feels even slightly real.

P.S. Note to the art directors, don't dress everyone in 1960's clothing and have them drive 1960's cars and in every way make the film look like it was set in the 1960's then have them talk about modern music and cell phones.

P.P.S. Note to Micheal Cera, please stop acting right now. You are the most one-note actor to ever grace the screen and that note was not all that interesting the first time, let alone the 15th. I wish I were good at video editing because I honestly think I could splice scenes of his acting from this movie into any of his other random movies and it would be undetectable.

Grade: F

And we have an early front runner for worst of 2010!

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #25252 on: January 08, 2010, 06:17:43 PM »
Ouch...
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #25253 on: January 08, 2010, 06:34:13 PM »
Naked
Dir. Mike Leigh
DoP Dick Pope

  And the Jeremy subplot was something I never truly got. 


Jeremy is who Johnny could become. Note their similar names, and how they both treat women. The whole film is about this unstable guy trying to hold on to his ideals in a world become more and more materialist and individualist, post-Thatcher, post-Reagen. The last scene is Mike Leigh's version of a happy ending.

One of the most bizarre and brilliant black comedies ever made. Maybe the best film of the 90's, for my money.

OK,so I totally got that, but who cares?

Who cares about the themes of the movie? Mike Leigh, probably.
I do too actually. 'Who care?' What's that supposed to mean?
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #25254 on: January 08, 2010, 06:35:45 PM »
Youth in Revolt

Interesting. I wonder if this film would speak to me...nah.
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #25255 on: January 08, 2010, 06:37:06 PM »
Youth in Revolt

Interesting. I wonder if this film would speak to me...nah.

I would be surprised if you liked it 'noke. I actually thought of you while watching it thinking you could be a smart enough 16 year old to quote Camus, but I am sure you would be much more convincing than Cera.  ;D

FLY, I am sure, will declare it the best movie of the last 10 years. :D

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #25256 on: January 08, 2010, 07:17:57 PM »
Youth in Revolt

Interesting. I wonder if this film would speak to me...nah.

I would be surprised if you liked it 'noke. I actually thought of you while watching it thinking you could be a smart enough 16 year old to quote Camus, but I am sure you would be much more convincing than Cera.  ;D

FLY, I am sure, will declare it the best movie of the last 10 years. :D

I wonder if we can somehow hide this from him...
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #25257 on: January 08, 2010, 07:26:27 PM »
Youth in Revolt

Interesting. I wonder if this film would speak to me...nah.

I would be surprised if you liked it 'noke. I actually thought of you while watching it thinking you could be a smart enough 16 year old to quote Camus, but I am sure you would be much more convincing than Cera.  ;D

FLY, I am sure, will declare it the best movie of the last 10 years. :D

I wonder if we can somehow hide this from him...

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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #25258 on: January 08, 2010, 07:44:46 PM »
Youth in Revolt

Grade: F

And we have an early front runner for worst of 2010!
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Re: Write about the last movie you watched
« Reply #25259 on: January 08, 2010, 07:49:11 PM »
I always thought, if my life were a film, it would be one that examines the complexities of S&M relationships.

So this would be a cross between Closer and Hellraiser?
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