movies

[Freed Roger]

I watched Grizzly Man -for the last time- and The Sting.

Werner Herzog is an odd fellow. The footage in Grizzly Man is incredibly beautiful but not enough to make up for Herzog's psychobabble analysis of Treadwell. The second, or is it third, time through I just couldn't enjoy how ridiculous it was focusing instead on the fact that this guy was completely unhinged and wondering what rotten and undiscovered thing happened to him as a child.

The Sting was really entertaining. If I were a chick I'd be Paul Newman over Robert Redford.

Old Werner is pretty damn good filmmaker, but he's pompous, not somebody I'd care to have a beer with, nor listen narrate a film. Interviews where he talks filmmaking are good, but him talking through a movie - not. Rescue Dawn was a very good movie, however Herzog in the DVD extras was too much.

You touch on the aspect of Grizzly Man that makes it interesting - the footage, and such rare personal insight into a person, albeit unstable one. Such as with the Into the Wild/Chris McCandless saga, I don't understand why so many people watch/judge like it is a court trial on their sanity.

Of course these are flawed characters, nevertheless ones with interesting stories, which we may be able to relate/appreciate in part.

[Radbird]

Finally saw The Fighter last night. Wow - what a great flick. Great performances all around, but Christian Bale was friggin' amazing.

[lukethedrifter]

I watched Grizzly Man -for the last time- and The Sting.

Werner Herzog is an odd fellow. The footage in Grizzly Man is incredibly beautiful but not enough to make up for Herzog's psychobabble analysis of Treadwell. The second, or is it third, time through I just couldn't enjoy how ridiculous it was focusing instead on the fact that this guy was completely unhinged and wondering what rotten and undiscovered thing happened to him as a child.

The Sting was really entertaining. If I were a chick I'd be Paul Newman over Robert Redford.

Old Werner is pretty damn good filmmaker, but he's pompous, not somebody I'd care to have a beer with, nor listen narrate a film. Interviews where he talks filmmaking are good, but him talking through a movie - not. Rescue Dawn was a very good movie, however Herzog in the DVD extras was too much.

You touch on the aspect of Grizzly Man that makes it interesting - the footage, and such rare personal insight into a person, albeit unstable one. Such as with the Into the Wild/Chris McCandless saga, I don't understand why so many people watch/judge like it is a court trial on their sanity.

Of course these are flawed characters, nevertheless ones with interesting stories, which we may be able to relate/appreciate in part.

I see McCandless and Treadwell as extremely dissimilar characters. I don't think Herzog got to the essence of Treadwell's personality at all really.

[Freed Roger]

Old Werner is pretty damn good filmmaker, but he's pompous, not somebody I'd care to have a beer with, nor listen narrate a film. Interviews where he talks filmmaking are good, but him talking through a movie - not. Rescue Dawn was a very good movie, however Herzog in the DVD extras was too much.

You touch on the aspect of Grizzly Man that makes it interesting - the footage, and such rare personal insight into a person, albeit unstable one. Such as with the Into the Wild/Chris McCandless saga, I don't understand why so many people watch/judge like it is a court trial on their sanity.
Of course these are flawed characters, nevertheless ones with interesting stories, which we may be able to relate/appreciate in part.

I see McCandless and Treadwell as extremely dissimilar characters. I don't think Herzog got to the essence of Treadwell's personality at all really.

Very diff characters yes, but more I'm referring to extreme reaction they draw from some "OMG, THEY ARE STUPID AND CRAZY!! THEY WANTED TO DIE AND ARE SELFISH AND THESE FILMS TRY TO MAKE THEM INTO HEROS AND SOLDIERS IN WAR ARE HEROS NOT THEM and anyone who rides their bike to Alaska deserves to die! etc etc etc"

Of course there is an opposite reaction which Treadwell and McCandless don't quite share, where some folks make McCandless into a cult hero-the Treadwell personna doesn't have that going on.

/I get this from reading IMDB forum-above summarizes the range of 5000 comments on said characters.

[go birds]

Went to rent The Fighter the other night but to our dismay it was already checked out, so we ended up with The Next 3 Days.

Surprisingly good movie.

[IMADreamer]

We watched "The Fighter" tonight. Good movie.

[JL21]

I finally watched "Some Like it Hot" and feel like a complete buffoon for waiting this long to watch "Some Like it Hot". Billy Wilder's screenwriting is phenomenal, the editing was spectacular, it was funny as hell, and Marilyn Monroe is (as always) hotter than a two-peckered billy goat.

I also watched "MacGruber" and laughed my ass off. I'm never eating celery again.

[jim]

I watched Winter's Bone last night and found yet another movie leaps and bounds better than the Kings Speech. ... seriously jl, McGruber was worth it? Alot of those movies just don't seem like they can keep you laughing the entire movie.

[JL21]

I watched Winter's Bone last night and found yet another movie leaps and bounds better than the Kings Speech. ... seriously jl, McGruber was worth it? Alot of those movies just don't seem like they can keep you laughing the entire movie.

It pokes a lot of fun at every horrible 80's action movie out there. And MacGyver. It's as juvenile as it gets but I thought it was hilarious.

[Maclowery]

Macgruber's sense of humor is really neat. It's not like a blatant slapstick like Super Troopers or something. Mostly you just gotta laugh at their perfect lampooning of 80s schlocky action. The first time I saw it, I was kind of disappointed because I didn't laugh out loud at much of it. Now I've seen it a few times and almost every scene cracks me up. I thought Ryan Philippe was uninteresting, whether it was the role or his fit for it, I don't know; every other character was entertaining.

Val Kilmer needs to embrace his over-acting/comedy abilities, a la Downey Jr and Baldwin. He's so funny in this and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.