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"I saw this one at the AFI Dallas festival. A documentary about people who are very serious about playing vintage video games. What makes it really interesting is the contrast between the record-holder in Donkey Kong and the new challenger. The guy who got the highest score ever in back in the eighties and has help it ever since is a controlling, preening type of guy who seems to think it’s still 1982. The challenger is much more sympathetic, although he, too, is quite obsessive. A good film and a crowd-pleaser. " [More]
A very good film
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"I saw this one at the AFI Dallas festival..The story of a young guy who has a very bad family environment, a medical condition and an attitude toward football, all of which serve to alienate him from his surroundings. He works at a gas station and helps out at an old movie theater. He tries to keep the bills paid at home, where he lives with his mother, but he doesn’t always succeed. Stephen Berra, a pro skateboarder writes and directs, and from what he said after the movie, you’ll be seeing more of his work. Mark Webber (Jesus’ Son, Broken Flowers) stars with Zooey Deschanel (Trillian in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) Harry Dean Stanton and Bill Paxton. Webber is very real and sympathetic and Zooey does a good job as the almost angelic and quite strange Frances. A moving, intimate film. " [More]
Not as funny or touching as it ...
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"I saw this one at the AFI Dallas festival. Most of the audience, including my wife, enjoyed this comedy-drama, but I didn't. It stars Lucas Haas (Brick, Alpha Dog), Molly Parker (Kissed, The Five Senses, Hollywoodland) and Adam Scott (First Snow, Art School Confidential). The director is Matt Bissonnette, who's married to Molly Parker. All three actors do a fine job in this movie about 3 friends, the marriage of two of them and infidelity involving the third. It all takes place at a lake house and it looks wonderful. The film wants to treat its subject as a comedy first and then a drama, and I thought it needed to be the other way around. " [More]
Some funny bits, it's OK
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"The making of this film was the subject of a class at Baylor University in Waco. This probably would have been a great class to be part of and the film looks very good for a school project. Unfortunately, I don't think there was a great film to be made from this script. There were some very funny bits, but just not enough of them to stretch out for a whole movie. It's a mockumentary about a man who thinks he's a messiah. Not THE Messiah, he thinks he's just here for the residents of his home town. The art direction added some funny touches. The characters ate from packages labeled Generic Cheese Snacks and Vomit Plopps. I liked the Warhol-styled Jesus poster on the messiah's wall- it was like the four different-colored Marilyns.The director, a professor at Baylor, was at the screening and mentioned that the relationship between the messiah and his brother is similar to that of the main characters in American Movie, a real documentary and a better film that this ... " [More]
Re: REMAKES & BOOK ADAPTATI ...
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"Yes, a great adaptation. This may be the role that John Hurt was born to play, although I guess that's a pretty bleak idea. The movie's tough for me to watch very often, but I manage it every 3 or 4 years. " [More]
The Departed - a scene that was ...
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"The Departed is a very good movie- I've seen it four times and I notice new things each time. One scene bothers me, though, and I'd like to get other people's thoughts about it. There's a scene in which Madolyn & Colin are in the new apartment & he sees the picture of her as a child. There's a knock on the door & she says "The movers are here". Later, Billy goes to Madolyn's house. Her furniture is there and Billy handles the same picture that we know has already been moved. If anyone has an explanation, I'd be interested. " [More]
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"Very good picks- especially HarryLime & SkyPilot. Here are a few more:"The Wind" by Cat Stevens in Rushmore. When this song played, I understood that Wes Anderson owes a lot to Hal Ashby. Maybe I was a little slow on the uptake, I wasn't sure what to make of the movie until then."Once I Was" by Tim Buckley, along with several other great songs, in Asby's "Coming Home"."TB Sheets" in Scorsese's "Bringing Out The Dead"."American Girl" by Tom Petty in "Silence of the Lambs". The movie kid of ruined that song for me. "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" in "The Deer Hunter". I don't really like the song, but it works so well in the movie. " [More]
I didn't love it at first
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"I grew up disliking the popular arts that my parent’s generation enjoyed. Country music and western movies were stupid. They were made by stupid people- the same people who allowed and supported the Vietnam war, the same people who didn’t care that we were going to destroy the planet either with bombs or pollution, the same people who oppressed Americans who looked or acted differently from them. The same people who wanted to send me off to war for no good reason. The art that I enjoyed was, I thought, new and different- a break from tradition, owing little to what came before. It was made by people like Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese, and Stanley Kubrick. But later I learned that Dylan borrowed heavily from old folk and blues songs in his lyrics and that he was an admirer of country singers like Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash. And that Martin Scorsese loved John Ford and The Searchers. I won’t go into all the reasons why this movie is great art, at least not r ... " [More]