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[JL21]

but it also kinda broke my head.

This is exactly why I've avoided it. I'm all for head-breakers from time to time but just about every review I've read says that it's the head-breaker to end all head-breakers.

[clevername]

I loved it when I let myself just enjoy watching Hoffman be freaking awesome but was not happy in the second half when I tried to get what was going on clear in my head.

Kaufman definitely needs someone around to reel him in a bit at times.

[cardsfansince82]

Synecdoche, New York- I was digging it for the first hour or so and then it went downhill. Just tried to address to many topics using too many metaphors. It's the kind of movie you have to watch 5 times before you pick up on everything. But I wouldn't put that kind of effort in since I didn't like it all that much the first time through. It would have helped if subtitles worked on the DVD, which they didn't. I can't stand having to guess at dialogue. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was great as usual, though.

[heyzeus]

I loved it when I let myself just enjoy watching Hoffman be freaking awesome but was not happy in the second half when I tried to get what was going on clear in my head.

Kaufman definitely needs someone around to reel him in a bit at times.

exactly. He's absurdly clever, but I think he sacrifices the soul of his movie just so that he can make people say "wow, the interactions between the fake him and the real him are so complex I don't even understand what just happened!"

[Radbird]

Saw The Wrestler and Changeling the last 2 nights. Enjoyed both very much.

[cardsfansince82]

Stranded-Fantastic movie. Documentary 30 years later with all 16 survivors of the plane crash in the Andes that was the basis for the film Alive. They even took several of them on an expedition back to the actual spot of the crash. Obviously goes into much greater detail than the hollywood version. Very powerful stuff.

[Freed Roger]

Stranded-Fantastic movie. Documentary 30 years later with all 16 survivors of the plane crash in the Andes that was the basis for the film Alive. They even took several of them on an expedition back to the actual spot of the crash. Obviously goes into much greater detail than the hollywood version. Very powerful stuff.

Thanks for that info - queud it up.

Just finished this great movie. Omaha is correct- definitive noir.


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movie adaptation of short story by John Cheever. mixed reviews, but i like the short story/

[JL21]

I watched this last night:



It was gooder than hell.

[cpebbles]

Had the day off so I took in the matinee showing of Public Enemies this afternoon. A very competent movie, but don't go in thinking it's the frontrunner for best picture or you're probably going to be disappointed.

[SHOW]

It's basically a straightforward retelling of Dillinger's exploits in the public eye. I'm tempted to call it a simple biopic, but that doesn't strike me as accurate, since Dillinger is a fully-formed character throughout the movie and it only depicts his half-dozen or so most well-known exploits. The only departure from this is that to make him more sympathetic all the cops fit standard film archetypes and they fictionalize a romance based around one of his girlfriends. It's a fairly minor quibble in a well-made movie, but it's disappointing that they made so little out of a story with the potential for more. The public's fascination with bank robbers receives a few mentions, but you'd think something more could be made of that. I can't be the only one interested in the fact that the last time the government stood aside and let Wall Street bring down the economy, the public spent a half-decade worshiping men who gunned down police and federal agents. I'm certainly not complaining that they didn't club us over the head with allegory, but there is relevance to this Dillinger story and instead we get a simple dramatization.

[docellis]

Waltz with Bashir
I am sure it has been covered but I have to add...it was really, really good. Especially if you have any interest in middle east history, and I have to force this, the sound track is really really awesome - if you like the movie.