movies

[MrSaigon]

I watched a couple nominees. Argo is great. I like the balance of caper/political flick. If I was Ben Affleck, my next movie would be Daredevil 2, just to give everyone and their 'what a turnaround!' narrative the finger.

Silver Linings Playbook was pretty good. I felt like the last third didn't quite mesh with the first two though. I think our society will be a better place when we can talk about anxiety and depression like sore knees and a chest cold, so I'm grateful for the movie, even if I didn't like it as much as I wanted to.

[go birds]

Compliance is a really, really good movie, and is pretty much guaranteed to make you feel uncomfortable. I can't imagine a movie like that getting an Oscar nomination but it deserves one.

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Just watched this. Great movie. It's definitely unsettling and it's truly disturbing how naive people can be.

Here is the event it's based off of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_sear ... C_incident

What's more: I was sitting around with the family tonight and we were talking about movies and i was like "i heard Compliance is pretty good" so my step-brother pulled up the trailer on apple tv and everyone was like "this looks good, we'll check it out".


..........yeaaaaaa........

[MrCrowesGarden]

Compliance is a really, really good movie, and is pretty much guaranteed to make you feel uncomfortable. I can't imagine a movie like that getting an Oscar nomination but it deserves one.

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Just watched this. Great movie. It's definitely unsettling and it's truly disturbing how naive people can be.

Here is the event it's based off of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_sear ... C_incident

What's more: I was sitting around with the family tonight and we were talking about movies and i was like "i heard Compliance is pretty good" so my step-brother pulled up the trailer on apple tv and everyone was like "this looks good, we'll check it out".


..........yeaaaaaa........

I had seen the trailer posted earlier, but never got around to watching it until this morning. Law & Order SVU used this event as the basis for a conformity episode with Robin Williams guest starring.

I know both the show and Williams have their detractors here, but it was actually pretty good.

[Vidor]

If I was Ben Affleck, my next movie would be Daredevil 2, just to give everyone and their 'what a turnaround!' narrative the finger.

"Gigli 2: It's Pronounced Gee-Lee, Dammit"

[stlouie_lipp]

Argo was awesome

Just saw and I must agree. Perfect mix of humor and suspense.

[JoeMcKim]

Of all the movies did before his re-emergence that's similar to the movies he's doing nowadays is Changing Lanes. That movie doesn't fit in with most of the crap he was doing back then.

[pioneer98]

Sorry to keep coming back to Cloud Atlas, but I have to point out that it's going to turn a profit. It has had very good word of mouth overseas. It opened in China last week and was #1, beating Skyfall. It has now covered its' production costs, and hasn't opened yet in much of Europe (UK, France, Spain, others). It might be able to shed the "flop" label soon.

Meanwhile in America, Seth MacFarlane was nominated for more awards than Cloud Atlas, and the ad blitz for Fast & Furious 6 has begun.

Cloud Atlas floats atop the Chinese box office

BEIJING, January 5, 2013 – American audiences were considerably overwhelmed by the slew of films released in last year’s record breaking domestic box office. From Oscar nominees like Lincoln to blockbusters like The Avengers, the clutter and noise from these films and their marketing machines drowned out one of the quieter yet more significant films released in 2012, Cloud Atlas.

In China, however, Cloud Atlas is on top of the Mainland and Hong Kong box offices, beating out other Hollywood and Chinese blockbusters and charming critics nationwide.

The October release date for Cloud Atlas in the United States was sandwiched between the big-budget summer and award season winter. Though ticket sales during this period are generally expected to yield low numbers, Cloud Atlas’s barely 27 million USD lifetime domestic gross was surprising. Further releases oversea with emphasis on the Russian market, where it performed unexpectedly well, brought its worldwide box office up to 85 million USD to date and though an improvement, the heavyset budget and marketing costs are holding the film’s profits below water.

The January 31st release date in the Chinese mainland coincides with the spring festival holiday; a release slot coveted by both foreign and domestic studios, therein pitting Cloud Atlas against a number of competitors including Skyfall, a film that grossed more than ten times the amount of Cloud Atlas internationally.

Against the odds, the Wachowskis' film toppled all competitors both domestic and abroad. Chinese critics praise for the film seems almost religious. “Profound”, “thought provoking” and a “masterpiece of metaphors” are mere drops in the ocean of admiration that hail from the world’s most populous nation. In just four days of release the film has grossed 75,000,000 RMB, just over 12,000,000 USD, even with 40 minutes of film cut by government censors.

Over 10,000,000 USD of Chinese financing came from the company Dreams of Dragons. Executive producer Philip Lee has been building bridges between Hollywood and China for over a decade with films that include, the Oscar winning Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Forbidden Kingdom and The Dark Knight.

Overlooked and underrated, Cloud Atlas is overdue and well deserving of its new foreign found success and praise. The film curves the lenses of reality and wraps them around themes and concepts that are nearly impossible to explain, less etch into a two hour screenplay. Ambitious to say the least Could Atlas artfully and responsibly translates these lofty concepts in a language that speaks to the traditional nation. Far different than anything before released in China, the film has struck a chord with Chinese movie goers and its success in China proves that “all boundaries are conventions”.

[ghostrunner]

Also popular in China:

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/ ... taste.html

Not sayin'/just sayin'.


(also not making a comment on Cloud Atlas - haven't seen it yet)

[Vidor]

1922 Kodak color test footage

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/20 ... amera.html

[Freed Roger]

1922 Kodak color test footage

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/20 ... amera.html

Cool stuff. The red haired lady from 2 min on with the precursor to the Duck Lips.