MCMikeNamara

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Re: Transformers Advanced Scree ...
By MCMikeNamara in Filmspotting
"Since you're going to select your invitee at random, I will not bore you with my "Why I Deserve It" Essay and just hope that randomness is on my side. That said, nostalgia and Michael Bay phobia be damned, I'm prepared to love this movie or hate it on its own merits and will surely enjoy the experience either way. " [More]

Once

Once
By MCMikeNamara in MCMikeNamara Blog
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"All of my instincts tell me not to hype Once because it's the kind of small film that may crumble under the weight of someone's high expectations, but as its characters might say in a charming Irish brogue or beautiful Czech sneer, fuck all that. Every review I've read has contained some variation of the phrase "This is the musical for people who hate musicals" but more accurately, I'll say this is the musical for people who generally hate musicals because they so desperately want to love musicals. (In case you don't know, that's me.) It's 'gritty' and 'realistic' but also an amazing fairy tale. It's 88 minutes that capture more truth and pain about love and the creative process than any movie I've maybe ever seen, yet it's a fantasy anyone with a soul hopes might happen to them. To say much more would cheapen it. See this movie. " [More]

Marie Antoinette

Re: Filmspotting #161: Waitress ...
By MCMikeNamara in Filmspotting
"So I held off on seeing 28 Weeks Later last week because of your split decision on it. I now realize I was wrong as I tune in today and hear Sam -- whom I tend to be more in agreement with -- COMPLETELY miss the train on Double Indemnity. Like Adam, I fell I can't even begin to respond. If someone asks the stupid question "What's your favorite movie?", I always give this one as my answer, so I'm obviously biased. But still, I want to respect Sam's opinion -- I like to think that his expectations were just set way too high, and am going to let this be a lesson for me to try to find films long before I start hearing about them in order to avoid this problem. But I must defend Fred McMurrary. Like Peter Parker as Venom, Walter Neff works as a character because he's such a schmuck but he thinks he's a bad-ass. He's an insurance agent, not a hardboiled P.I. The fact that the chemistry between he and Barbara Stanwyck works despite the fact that he's gettin ... " [More]