i liked the chick he banged in the early part enough to find her name Diora Baird.Quote:
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i liked the chick he banged in the early part enough to find her name Diora Baird.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy
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Borat was funny, a little graphic in some areas, but I thought it was funny.
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i saw Casino Royale on Thanksgiving w/ the family (kind of a tradition). i'm not a big Bond fan and i've never really gone out of my way to watch the series. but, this was a real pleasant surprise for me. great action and a really neat look at "early" James Bond. he was really raw, with small glimpses of the smooth/polished Bond to come. i'm not sure how die hard Bond fans will accept the new guy, but as a stand alone flick, i highly recommend it.
The wife is trying to get me to see the Bond flick this afternoon, but it's just not my bag.
I'm leaning more towards the new Christopher Guest film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470765/
Glenn you may lose that battle. :sas:
you may have seen the Spiderman 3 trailer, but this one is a little bit different with a shot of Topher Grace turning into venom at the end.
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Anyone see that? The femalien n I are thinking about that, looks funny.
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Saw the Bond flick and it was "ehh" IMO.
When I get bored watching a movie I look for things to entertain myself.
The biggest thing here was the absurd amount of product placements.
Every gadget had the word "SONY" plastered all over it. It seemed like they went out of their way to work some of them in to the story.
The Ford logo was also very prominent on his car(s).
It was so bad that when he flipped his car, I knew he wouldn't be injured because the manufacturer probably wouldn't stand for it.
I also found it odd that this was a "prequel" but it was taking place in modern times. They probably can never do another Bond movie based in the 60's or 70's because a big part of the "mystique" of Bond (apparently, I'm not a fan) are the gadgets and the technology. If they were true to the era, the stuff wouldn't have any "wow" factor to it, it would just be laughable. In fact, that right there might be the main reason why the prequel doesn't take place in the past.
Also, his love interest was much better looking without makeup, bitch just slathered that stuff on.
The ending was completely predictable, but I won't spoil it here.
Ford's been trying to remind people that they own Aston-Martin and Ja-gu-ar (the Brits say it with three syllables), if those are the cars in question.
The wife rented Sliding Doors off Netflix and I found myself board to death and not wanting to study last night so I put it in.
It stars the ever unimpressive mother of Apple Paltrow doing a british accent in a movie staring her and a bunch of brits in England (oh, and Tom Cruise's wife in the movie The Firm is also in there).
The movie shows how Paltrow's character's life is different based on whether she catches her subway train or not (hence the title "sliding doors" in reference to the doors on the subway train). The movie shows both timelines (Paltrow's life had she caught the train and Paltrow's life had she missed it) concurrently, switching back and forth between the two.
The writer will tell you that the main plot of the movie is that Paltrow's boyfriend is cheating on her (the mistress is Tom Cruise's wife from the firm, who btw hasn't aged well IMO) and Paltrow, by making the train, comes home in time to catch them together and then start a life without him. In the timeline where she misses the train, she misses the encounter and remains oblivious to the affair for most of the movie.
The real tale however is that Paltrow's character is the victim of a horrible disease in which she must suffer the terrible fate of living with a large zit above her left eye for what appears to be a full year of her life. In one of the timelines Paltrow is fortunate enough to decide that bangs are the right choice for her and she hides this elephantiasis-like disfigurement from her limey compatriots. Her parallel counterpart however, chooses to cut her hair off and dye it blonde which, like milk on a hot day, is a bad choice. The director clearly made the right choice focusing on the disease rather than the boring, predictable, and almost stationary slow, parallel life story.
In the end, the Paltrow who made the train and found out about the affair, goes on to meet a new "bloke", who doesn't mind her disease, and they have a rather happy life that lasts only a year before Paltrow is hit by a van and dies (no joke). While the Paltrow who missed the train and doesn't find out about the affair until the end of the movie actually meets the same "wanker" her counterpart met and isn't killed by a delivery truck. Clearly the message of the film is the classic Aesop fable moral that cheating is just as good for the one who's cheated on as it is for the one who cheats.
Lots of people don't know this, but Fool and I used to be one and the same person until -very- recently.
Where we split was when Fool sat through all of Sliding Doors and wrote that superlative review, while I (mercifully) slept my way through it. The ever unimpressive daughter of Blythe Danner and her pretentious Brit thing caused the sliding door of my brain to shut off.
I don't know why Fool and I exist simultaneously in the same universe. Perhaps it's because neither of us is a bottle blonde with a massive zit. I don't question fate, though, as long as no one makes my copy suffer through another Paltrow chick flick.
so you guys are Tyler Durton and jack's raging shit?[smilie=jefffoster.:
I like to do my movie reviews BEFORE I see the movie. This way, I'll save myself alot of money by not seeing it at a theatre (If I give it a bad review), and subsequently save over $5700.00 by not buying junk food at the concession booth.
Which brings me to Apocolypto:
Apparently, Mel Gibson has taken time off from Nazi Drill Camp to make another movie. This one looks bad, and I can sum it up in two words:
Loin Cloths.
It's bad enough that the movie won't be starring Scarlett Johannson and Beyonce, but apparently its going to feature alot of guys running around in:
LOIN CLOTHS.
Now, I guess it's about the Rain Forrest, or saving the planet or some such shit, but again, we don't all have to be wearing LOIN CLOTHS while saving the planet now do we?
I'm going to have to give this one the old "Thimbs Down" for thinking that I need to see a bunch of guys running around in LOIN CLOTHS and giving their "undercarriage", as Austin Powers would say, "A bit of a how's your father".
^this guy is good
Hope he doesn't get an ego.
Apocolypto looks like shit
Good Night, and Good Luck--8/10
Amazing performances from Strathairn and Clooney, and great use of real footage. Watched this with someone who vividly remembered the Communist witch hunt and she loved it. My biggest complaint: it ended so fucking abruptly that it wasn't even funny, really.
As a feature to the WTF Forum, I have been asked (by my wife so she won't have to talk to me) to review another movie.
This one's a bit older, but no less poignant than something that was just released today.
I'm going to take a look at "Flight Plan", starring Jodie Foster.
First of all, it's a very old plot format: Character wakes up, life is completely changed, no record of his existence, yet in the end, he proves to the world that (unfortunately in most cases), he does in fact exist.
In this case, Jodie Foster's daughter is missing on a flight. That's right. Her daughter has disappeared from a luxury jumbo jet, and not only can no one find her, but they have no record of the kid being on the plane.
Now, in most cases, a kid missing on a flight just means some peace and quiet, and no one really would complain, but here, Jodie Foster won't give up.
Enough about the plot. I'm here to discuss the acting and the writing.
In particular, I want to discuss the considerable thespian talents of the little girl who played Jodie Foster's daughter, and the fellow who wrote the movie.
The girl was brilliant. She slept through nearly the entire movie. I have seen acting before. Even wonderful acting: I've seen Fred Willard. But this performance moved me to tears. She slept. And slept. And then slept some more. If I didn't know better, I would have sworn I was watching Laurence Olivier or Robert DuVall at their best.
I say give this kid the Oscar for Best Supporting Performance by a Female.
Now to the writing. What can I say?
No kid I have to pretend is cute; no stiff reading cue cards in a flat monotone that rivals the best math teachers I had in high school. Nope.
In a move of sheer screenwriting genius, the writer (don't know his name, but I'm sure he has a long career ahead of him after this masterpiece), he has the main child character not only sleeping, but OFF SCREEN for the majority of the movie. Alexander Payne, eat your heart out.
I give this one a THUMBS UP, even though Foster finds her kid and the bad guy gets blown up.
Borat is the most funniest movie i have seen all year.
Not goign to give anything away but damn it is very funny
De Ja Vu -- Good until they needed to wrap up the ending.....plot had more holes in it than wiffle ball
I also recently saw Clerks II for the first time and I gotta say, I was disappointed. I just didn't laugh that much...too much emotional touchy feely talk. The Lord of the Rings vs Star Wars debate was great though.
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New Transformers Preview and Somehow I'm impressed. I think Spielberg has Michael Bay on a short leash to keep him from fucking it up. Has an Independence Day feel to it though.
the departed- maybe the best movie i've seen in 10 years +.
Old School--10/10
One of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. Trumped 40YOV in my mind, and I've been wrestling with the question, "Is it funnier than Anchorman?", an argument where I am getting nowhere.
Still, fucking great movie. Set the tone well with the wedding sequence, and was a crackup the rest of the time.
Have you seen Infernal Affairs, the Hong Kong movie(s) that it's based upon? There's actually three Infernal Affairs movies, and it was billed to me as the HK equivalent of the Godfather. But when I rented it, I got maybe 20 minutes in, fell asleep, accidentally sealed it in the return envelope rather than try to rewatch (again, I was tired), and hadn't thought about it since.Quote:
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As for other movies I've seen recently... hmmm... Love, Actually and How The Grinch Stole Christmas cartoon are perennial Christmas favorites to me. I got the 14-disc Superman set, but that's too big a bundle to tackle here and I don't even really have all of it yet -- WB screwed up the packaging. Most of what I've seen is concert stuff and DVDs of good TV programming.
Ohhh... I finally got to see Lathe Of Heaven, the first movie PBS ever made. If you're big into 1970s pre-Star Wars era sci-fi, Soylent Green and Logan's Run and whatnot, you're into psychological stuff and character studies kinda like Donnie Darko, and don't mind cheap (but not distractingly cheesy) special effects, you'll appreciate this. It's far better than the remake in 2002.
I saw the movie with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson...the museum movie.
Stupidest movie ever with so many famous actors.
I dont even know how its number 1 in the box office...nor do i know why i watched it
^ THAT is the greatest movie clip i've ever seen. :)
where did you get that?
I assumed it was a home movie.
Pursuit of Happyness: 7.5/10
Pretty much what I expected. Not my type of movie but good either way. Will Smith is becoming one of my fav actors because five minutes into a movie I always forget its him (not counting movies like I Robot). He plays the part perfectly in Happyness and should win something.
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it has to be porno. home movie with quality like that isn't likely. [smilie=jefffoster.:
In my last movie review, I praised the acting and directing of "Flight Plan" for keeping children the FUCK out of the movie.
Well, you are probably wondering, "I wonder what kind of child actors Zip likes--I mean, besides unemployed ones"
Well, I like children who are ready for the real world. I like kids who you can look in the eye and say something like "Shut up you worthless fuck, and change back to the Porn channel". OR, better yet, and I think you all know where I'm going with this one: "I tell you what. You dig a hole, and I'll go get me another beer". Writing that good can only be the product of the genius of Will Ferrell, and baby, we're talking TALADEGA NIGHTS!!!
Except for the glaring absence of Fred Willard, this movie has to rate a ten on a scale of 1-10 (ten being the best, one being the worst).
This movie is what the term "Great Experience" once meant to Hollywood.
Swearing kids. Anybody can swear. But good swearing takes talent. If a kid can say something like, "Shut up you old fart, or I'll shove your fucking dentures up your goddamm ass", what can stop him later in life? Any little shit fourth grade wimp can blurt out, "Fuck, hell. Damn Bitch-ass". Sorry, unless that kid possesses some other talent, like, say, belching the alphabet, he's lost, and he might as well be shipped off to the Gulag.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention Ferrell's brave stand on the issue of homosexuality. It is about time we were presented with good, strong images of homosexual love in cinema, not some lame cop out that makes gay men look cheesy like the farcical "Brokeback Mountain". Unlike that sham, Ferrell shows us a brave race car driving French faggot and his American lover, and when we can see a gay man in the macho world of Car Racing, instead of the stereotypical realm of sheep humpers, then I know we've made a step in the right direction.
As a total counterpoint to Zip, I'd recommend watching Little Miss Sunshine:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0449059/
This movie seriously rocks, even though it stars one of those kid actors that usually make me throw the remote at the TV. It does a neat job of balancing drama and comedy. Steve Carell plays a gay guy which plays into a funny joke or two, but without fixating on it. And, if you want some good swearing, Alan Arkin kicks ass, but in a feisty old-guy way. Imagine crossing the types of serious movies Bill Murray makes these days with Chevy Chase's Vacation.
It was a nice way to get my mind off the past couple Pistons losses.
The wife and I rented My Super Ex-Girlfriend yesterday. WASTE OF TIME. That movie was terrible. It was so slow and boring. Too bad it wasn't someone hotter than Uma Thurman too (never been a big fan of hers), although the girl from scary movie wasn't bad looking (if you ignore her face).
Just saw a french action movie by Luc Besson called District B13.
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It was much better than I expected. Its like a french Jackie Chan/Tony Jaa movie. The stunts were ridiculously acrobatic and entertaining. the story was mediocre, which is better than the stories on those tony jaa movies. More than watchable all the way around.
Synopsis.
background on the chick that stars in the movie.Quote:
In 2010, the dangerous districts in the periphery of Paris are surrounded by walls, and the dwellers do not have school, hospital and even police in the area, which are ruled by drug lords. In the 13th District, Leito is a honest man that lives in a clean building and does not permit drug dealers nearby his neighborhood. When he destroys one million Euros in heroin of Taha Bemamud, the criminal abducts Leito's sister Lola and the corrupt police arrests Leito. Six months later, the tough and honest Capt. Damien Tomaso is assigned to find and deactivate a stolen bomb that might destroy the 13th District and the two million dwellers. Together with Leito, they have to face the gang of Taha and disclose a despicable secret behind the robbery of the bomb.
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Dany Verissimo
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Dany Verissimo
Born June 27, 1982
Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Notable roles Lola in Banlieue 13
Dany Verissimo (born Dany Malalatiana Terence Petit on June 27, 1982 in France, porn actress name Ally Mac Tyana) is an actress and an ex-pornographic actress and model.
Although Verissimo grew up in Vitry-sur-Seine, France, she did much travelling during her youth -- given that her father was the financial director of Air France. At 17, she eventually was kicked out of her mother's house because of a misunderstanding with her new stepfather and attempted to pursue a career as a film actress. After many deceptions and not enough money to afford an Actor's famous school she entered the French porn industry when she was 18 and a half. Thereafter, she began her sixteen month stint in the industry, mainly in the form of a pornographic model during 2001 and 2002. During this time, she called herself "Ally Mac Tyana", which was a spin on the name Ally McBeal, during her work on the 2001 television series XX elles. She left the porn industry just after she got married.
Finally, she landed a role as Lola in 2004's Banlieue 13, role made for her by Luc Besson himself.
After a painful divorce in 2005, she still pursues her career as an actress and model : she recently landed role as Belkis in C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle the latest film directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet which was shown out of competition at the Venice Film Festival in September 2006.
In May 2006, in the ELLE magazine for the Special Cannes Edition she was recognized as one of the new upcoming actresses.
Heh -- I just saw it over the weekend myself. I liked it a little more than you did, but only a little. It's a great concept, but a so-so execution at best. A comic-book-savvy director like Robert Rodriguez or Kevin Smith would've made it kickass. Perhaps just someone from Sex In The City-land who could do neurotic couplings better, turned it into something like the Luna Brothers' Ultra comic, would've made it work better. I dunno. It's not totally horrible, and maybe I have a slightly higher impression of Uma than you do, but it's not "must watch" by any means.Quote:
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For hottie superbabes and a better movie, definitely go with Sky High.
The beginning was fine, but I guess I was let down because the movie claimed to be laugh out loud funny. There were only a handful of jokes in the movie. I thought the concept was good, but it should have been funny. I also thought the shark scene was pretty lame (it looked totally fabricated and unrealistic, because it is). They would have been better served to have her get "revenge" in some more realistic and funny manner.
I just watched "An Inconvenient Truth" last night. I think this movie is a MUST SEE. I'm sure a lot of people will not watch it because they don't like Al Gore, but that would be a huge mistake. Like him or not as a politician, he is a good speaker in this movie and a very intellegent guy. The movie is basically about Global Warming, and the statistics, graphs, pictures, etc are mind blowing really. Anyone that doesn't watch this because of Gore is basically being ignorant. I believed in global warming before seeing this, but the acceleration that is taking place even staggers the scientists studying this stuff. There is one scene were Gore talks about losing the election and how it changed his life (from running for office to focusing on helping the earth), but there really isn't any other politics involved. He doesn't refer to any party affiliations or anything.
Heck, even if you already believe it's a problem, you can learn a lot and see cool images of the earth from space, etc. There are actually a couple funny parts too.
Yeah, I definitely think this is a problem, and when it came out I was a bit peaved of all the people rejecting it solely based on Al Gore.
I split the Global Warming conversation off into a new thread so we can keep this thread mostly about reviews:
http://www.wtfdetroit.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8102
Watching Blood Diamond thanks to Glenn[smilie=blaha.gif]
Amazing movie, one of the better RECENT movies I have seen. I love the story line and the acting that is done by Leanardo DiCaprio and http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.ya...dicaprio14.jpg
There's one bad side to this and it's romance. Fuck the romance it doesnt fit in this movie although it isn't a big factor in the movie, i just dont like it.
Cross, I agree with you. I can't see the sparks between Leonardo and the other guy in your picture there. That guy was good in Gladiator, I'll admit, but I can't picture a romance between him and DiCaprio. It might have been more appropriate for the makers of Gladiator to have a romance between him and Russell Crowe's character. I mean, with it being about Rome and all, and who knows, in a period piece, the spirit might have swept over the cast, and a romance between Crowe and that guy wouldn't have even been acting! And, at least there it wouldn't be gratuitous. But, as we saw with Titanic, apparently you can't make a movie with DiCaprio unless he's making love to someone.
But HEY! Who am I to judge, Hollywood had success with Brokeback Mountain, so if it works, I guess they'll go with a tried and true formula.