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Speaking of films I watched that thing on Saturday night... fuck it... what's it called? Paul Hogan is in it. He plays an outback guy who goes to New York with a journalist. God what was that called?
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are we done with TMO now then? I think we've building up to that joke for about 9 years, but we've finally got there. Been a good ride. What next though? Where do we go from here?
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Just watched In the Valley of Elah. As a movie a bit of a plodder, but another excellent performance from Tommy Lee Jones. Similar to his No Country performance. He's got this... unbearable vulnerability. A hard-ass who's past it. I think maybe I find this particularly affecting because he reminds me of my Dad. He's still got the drive, the passion, the menace, he just doesn't have the wherewithal anymore. Everything's just beyond his grasp. He has things to do, reasons to live, but the whiff of the grave is not far off. It's fucking sad, but Jones seems to push that right up into the lens.
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There's this guy at work (I'm pretty certain that he's trying to bum me) who keeps bringing DVDs in for me to watch. Out of politeness, I feel that I have to watch them. The problem is, the last two films that he lent me were fucking shit: Shoot 'Em Up and some 'wacky' English film about crown green bowling, the title of which, regrettably, escapes me.
Today, he's left American Gangster on my desk. Is it worth investing nearly three hours of my evening into watching it, or should I politely give it back to him and tell him that I'm not interested in starting a relationship with him?
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quote:Originally posted by Zygote: Today, he's left American Gangster on my desk. Is it worth investing nearly three hours of my evening into watching it, or should I politely give it back to him and tell him that I'm not interested in starting a relationship with him?
Take the DVD home and keep forgetting to bring it back, for at least three months. Then return it it with a hairy toffee stuck to the cover, coffee spilled on the booklet insert thing, crayon scrawled all over the plastic box and marmite smeared across the disc itself (both sides).
He'll probably stop wasting time lending you stuff and you can get straight down to the bumming.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: American Gangster's pretty good. Bit heavy going but I thought it was pretty much worth the time spent watching it.
substitute 'American Gangster' for 'bumming' and 'watching' for 'doing' and maybe your work colleague's intention may not seem so bad.
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In Search of a Midnight Kiss, or similar title. Lovely romantic independent romance, filmed on tiny budget in downtown LA. Funny and touching, without being sickly. Contains amusing masturbation incident, but not in an American Pie manner.
Killer of Sheep Lo fi film made in the 70s for less than $10,000. Maker couldn't release it as he couldn't afford the music rights to the soundtrack. Now acknowledged to be one of the best 100 films ever made. On at BFI, which also has the advantage of serving pints of sausage rolls.
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: Take the DVD home and keep forgetting to bring it back, for at least three months.
I did this (for about a month, however) with the last two films but this just led to him coming up to my desk every single day, asking if I'd watched them yet. This is obviously not good, so I'll probably just watch it tonight and 'accidentally' return it to him with a hardcore, all-woman porno enclosed.
I feel guilty for speaking this way about the guy, but he's in an 'emo' band and continually bangs on about "deals in Japan" and "a new music video he's in", which never seem to materialise. He's also got the gayest hairstyle you could imagine, which makes him look like a Thundercat and it probably doesn't reflect very highly on me having him coming over to my desk every day. I think I should leave. Once I've taken this DVD home first of course. Ha!
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Went to see Wall-E yesterday and it was just unbelievably good. The reviews had been crazily gushing, as they always bare for Pixar movies, but Wall-E still caught me by suprise with its originality and invention and intelligence. I can't recommend it highly enough - the whole time I was watching it I felt like my was being dazzled on two completely different levels - on the one hand enthralled by the ridiculously charming and affecting characters and on the other, consistently amazed at the film on the level of craft. There's incredibe cinema in this film, and sequences that had me tearing up not because of sentimental button pushing, but out of sheer jubilant beauty. Incredible.
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A reviewer on the Tv yesterday said that it was a good film, but that the first 20 minutes were what make it really worth seeing. She reckoned it was the most beautiful twenty minutes she had seen. Now you've made me more than ever determined to get Mr Sam to take me. So far he is resisting.
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quote:Originally posted by sam: A reviewer on the Tv yesterday said that it was a good film, but that the first 20 minutes were what make it really worth seeing. She reckoned it was the most beautiful twenty minutes she had seen. Now you've made me more than ever determined to get Mr Sam to take me. So far he is resisting.
Yeah, the first act is the boldest, most unusual part of the film, but it's pretty dazzling from start to finish. I think there's a sense that because the first half hour is so poetic and affecting, that when the human characters and dialogue are introduced it almost feels like an intrusion. So the criticism that the first chunk is better than the rest keeps coming up, but really it's all pretty amazing. My absolute favourite moment - a joyful dance through space aided by a fire extinguisher - came well into the supposedly inferior second half of the movie. The whole film is amazing, just that the opening section is more amazing.
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