tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783999774913801222024-03-13T19:03:47.652-07:00Movie Reviews by FAQsAn easy guide to picking a flickElisabeth Smitheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853890394428403371noreply@blogger.comBlogger530125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-76809439788889470702011-12-26T22:18:00.001-08:002011-12-26T22:47:46.591-08:00We Bought a Zoo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eScigLtzTwo/TvlpTS79fYI/AAAAAAAAAAo/NM0WI5ITI8k/s1600/we-bought-a-zoo-movie-trailer-and-photos-with-matt-damon-29ba9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eScigLtzTwo/TvlpTS79fYI/AAAAAAAAAAo/NM0WI5ITI8k/s320/we-bought-a-zoo-movie-trailer-and-photos-with-matt-damon-29ba9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690695384381095298" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br /><br />A: After the death of his wife, Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) feels the need to move himself and his kids out of town to escape all the memories of her, but the house he falls in love with happens to also be a zoo.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br /><br />A: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Colin Ford, Maggie Elizabeth, Jones, Angus Macfadyen, Elle Fanning, Patrick Fugit, John Michael Higgins, Carla Gallo, J.B. Smoove, Stephanie Szostak, Kym Whitley<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br /><br />A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_green.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_green.png" border="0" /></a>Go! This is the "family film" version of The Descendants, and between you and me, it's a lot more pleasant to watch.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br /><br />A: More than The Descendants.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br /><br />A: More than The Descendants.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br /><br />A: Less than The Descendants, but that wouldn't be the case if I were the boss of all things buzz.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br /><br />A: Matt Damon is always good-- if we don't count that moment when he smiles a little too hard at Scarlett Johansson, who is usually bad, but bucks that trend in this one-- if we don't count that moment when she stares a little too hard at Matt Damon. But the true breakouts here are the kids, Colin Ford, who shows some real acting chops at the ripe young age of 14, and Maggie Elizabeth Jones who may actually be as cute as Drew Barrymore was as a kid.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br /><br />A: My only gripe about the directing is actually about the acting. Both John Michael Higgins and Angus Macfadyen seems to be in a much broader and over the top movie than the rest of the cast, who played it real. I would let it slide with a lesser director, but Cameron Crowe, you're better than that.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br /><br />A: Nothing in the script is particularly brilliant, but you still let the occasional cheesy or improbable line of dialogue slide because the story is so damn sweet.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br /><br />A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STXvAhrVP0U" target="new"><u>We Bought a Zoo Trailer</u></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://moviereviewfaqs.blogspot.com/"><u>Back To Top</u></a></span><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" target="_blank"><img alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button" src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" border="0" height="16" width="125" /></a>Elisabeth Smitheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853890394428403371noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-12527302875425439992011-12-23T10:35:00.000-08:002011-12-23T11:13:41.728-08:00Albert Nobbs<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V7ko8J3PjGs/TvTRMPVu51I/AAAAAAAAAAc/p6JVfCyu_3g/s1600/Albert-Nobbs-screen-cap.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V7ko8J3PjGs/TvTRMPVu51I/AAAAAAAAAAc/p6JVfCyu_3g/s320/Albert-Nobbs-screen-cap.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689402237482100562" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br /><br />A: In the late 19th century, a woman (Glenn Close) dresses as a man to work as a waiter, as he saves for his dream.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br /><br />A: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Janet McTeer, Aaron Johnson, Brendan Gleeson, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Pauline Collins, Bronagh Gallagher, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Light<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br /><br />A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" border="0" /></a>Proceed with Caution. I kept waiting to find out why this person was dressing as a man, and when it finally arrived, I didn't buy it. So ultimately, I had a hard time relating to what the film was supposed to be about.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br /><br />A: If you watch the trailer you might... Funnily enough, the very same jokes in the actual film aren't nearly as funny.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br /><br />A: You will definitely feel for this gentlefemme, as he tries to court a bratty young golddigger-- really a bronzedigger, considering our hero's financial means-- but your confusion about what he/she actually hopes to accomplish emotionally from marrying another woman will prevent you from actually caring to see him/her succeed. I mean, he's not even a lesbian!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br /><br />A: This is one of those films that people will think they should see for the performances. Unless you're studying acting, you should never see films for the performances.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br /><br />A: The women dressed as men will undoubtedly get some acclaim as they take on the male physicality with precision and consistency, which especially comes through when they don dresses. Even so, Glenn Close does herself the disfavor of proving that she's much more attractive as a man, while Janet McTeer looks unmistakably like a woman (albeit a butch one) from the first time she appears on the screen to the moment when she reveals her gigantic breasts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br /><br />A: I've enjoyed Rodrigo Garcia's work in the past, and his directing hasn't faltered. But the one difference between this and his previous projects is that he didn't write this one. So I guess he should take the fact that I enjoyed this film less than his others as a compliment.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br /><br />A: I know it's based on book, but it was hard enough to buy that one woman was dressed as a man, so when we find out there are two women dressing as men, it's super unbelievable-- unless this was a common occurrence of the times, in which case you, the writer, should make a point of explaining that. The way it is now, it seems highly coincidental and not very well justified.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br /><br />A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ini59bYhaUY" target="new"><u>Albert Nobbs Trailer</u></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://moviereviewfaqs.blogspot.com/"><u>Back To Top</u></a></span><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" target="_blank"><img alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button" src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" border="0" height="16" width="125" /></a>Elisabeth Smitheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853890394428403371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-48653345350993898022011-12-19T19:57:00.000-08:002011-12-21T08:36:54.763-08:00The Sitter<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9bQxnbjjK58/TvAgQI-wgdI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/Aaqz2s8Ip4A/s1600/WEB-the-sitter0_1350926cl-8.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9bQxnbjjK58/TvAgQI-wgdI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/Aaqz2s8Ip4A/s320/WEB-the-sitter0_1350926cl-8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688081791029641682" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br /><br />A: An aimless slacker (Jonah Hill) gets stuck babysitting three difficult kids (Max Records, Landry Bender, Kevin Rodriguez) on the night when the girl he's trying to sleep with (Ari Graynor) gives him his big chance.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br /><br />A: Jonah Hill, Max Records, Landry Bender, Kevin Hernandez, Ari Graynor, Sam Rockwell, J.B. Smoove, Kylie Bunbury, Erin Daniels, D.W. Moffett, Jessica Hecht, Bruce Altman, Samiri Wiley, Cliff "Method Man" Smith, Sean Patrick Doyle, Alex Wolff, Jack Krizmanich, Grace Aronds, Jane Aronds<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br /><br />A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_green.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_green.png" border="0" /></a>Go! Yes, it's R-rated and shows children swearing, stealing, blowing things up, and partying with dangerous grown-ups until the wee hours of the night, but isn't that what's great about it?!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br /><br />A: The laughs aren't non-stop, but when they come they are subtle and clever, and generally make you happy you're there.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br /><br />A: It made me sad that there weren't more people in the theater. Mostly because there would have been a lot more laughs if there were.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br /><br />A: Best Commercial Comedy that Nobody Decided to See.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br /><br />A: Most of the laughs wouldn't be there if it weren't for the actors' awkward delivery. Jonah Hill is known for this style of acting, but Erin Daniels, in the small role of the mom, does a great job of laughing awkwardly at her own weird dialogue, too.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br /><br />A: David Gordon Greene has done bigger movies and smaller movies, and he seems absolutely comfortable at any level.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br /><br />A: Okay, so it's not the most original or artistic thing you've ever seen, but it captures the fish-out-of water comedy caper genre at least as well as Date Night did. And frankly, after sitting through several weeks of mediocre to bad awards contenders, this kind of improbably fun ride is a welcome relief.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br /><br />A: <a href="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-sitter/51470/trailers" target="new"><u>The Sitter Trailer</u></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://moviereviewfaqs.blogspot.com/"><u>Back To Top</u></a></span><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" target="_blank"><img alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button" src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" border="0" height="16" width="125" /></a>Elisabeth Smitheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853890394428403371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-73209480794855005342011-12-16T22:34:00.000-08:002011-12-17T10:40:42.335-08:00War Horse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: A boy and his horse are separated during World War I, and we follow the horse's journey through the war.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson, Niels Arestrup, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Bnedict Cumberbatch, Celine Buckens, Toby Kebbell, Patrick Kennedy, Leonard Carow, David Kross, Matt Milne, Robert Emms, Eddie Marsan<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_red.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_red.png" /></a>Stop! I can see the little old church ladies now, watching this movie on TV and then telling their grandchildren, "Oh, wasn't that a nice picture?" They are the only ones who feel that way.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: I laughed several times at how ridiculously improbable every other beat in the movie was-- starting with the way the boy acquires the horse. Any decent screenwriter knows that you can't have more than one coincidence in a script. This movie is built around them.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: Horse lovers might, but I'd like to prevent that by reminding them that horses don't really think like humans do. That's just a movie device.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: I think it's time to give Spielberg the Lifetime Achievement Award, because based on the movies I've seen in the last two nights, he has clearly passed his peak.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: People regularly have giant reactions to absolutely nothing; reactions that last longer than the final shot in a soap opera scene. How do I know this style is outdated? All of the soap operas just got cancelled.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: It's 2 1/2 hours of melodramatic acting with melodramatic music, shot in exteriors that are lit like they are on a sound stage from the 1950s. Need I say more?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: There is one good scene in the entire movie, and I'd seen that one done before too. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRf3SfeMRD4" target="new"><u>War Horse Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-42919289258379242932011-12-15T22:40:00.000-08:002011-12-15T22:40:59.436-08:00The Adventures of Tintin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: Based on a combination of stories from the Belgian comic books, a young journalist named Tintin buys a model ship from a flea market, and suddenly people are trying to kill him and steal the ship, which leads him on a journalistic adventure to find out what is so special about this little ship.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Toby Jones, Cary Elwes, Daniel Mays, Mackenzie Crook, Gad Elmaleh, Tony Curran, Kim Stengal, Enn Reitel, Joe Starr<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. I spent most of the movie wondering who the target audience was supposed to be. If it's supposed to be for grown-ups, then making it live-action would've made the action-adventure parts more exciting. And if it's supposed to be for little boys, then why is one of the main characters a drunk?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: For once I can say, I preferred the book. I remember reading these as a kid, and I remember them being funny-- especially those twin cops Thomson and Thompson. Even with one of my favorite comedy teams (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) in the roles, this is not.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: I felt like crying for poor little Tintin because the way they animated it, he looks about 14, so when he gets lost at sea and then lands in a foreign country without his mommy and daddy, I worry. Turns out-- and I had to have this explained to me-- that he's in his low twenties. I'm not a fan of the look they chose for him. He doesn't look old enough to be a journalist, and more importantly, he doesn't look like Tintin. It's animated! You could've made him look exactly like he does in the books.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: The Award for 2011 goes to Belgium! Between this and The Smurfs, Belgium is really positioning itself this year to look like more than just the European Canada.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Once again, my favorite actor is the dog. But in comparison to the live-action dog in The Artist, who I've heard has people campaigning for his eligibility in the Best Supporting Actor category, this dog is nothing more than a drawing.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: The choice to do this animated originally made sense to me, because the comic book lends itself to animation. But the choice to do the animation using motion capture, so that the characters end up looking semi-human, without looking anything like their drawn counter-parts mind-boggles me. Now that I've seen it, I think they should've gone with live-action -- which was Spielberg's first instinct, once again proving the point that you should always listen to your gut.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: Tintin is such a goody-two-shoes, that his character is boring, and never gives you any sense that he might mess up, or not figure something out. In other words, there's no suspense. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is there anything else worth mentioning about the movie? </span><br />
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A: Spielberg isn't the only master of his craft to deliver less than stellar results here, composer John Williams also creates a score that is beneath him. The music itself is fun and light, and would probably make good listening if you were sitting around in your library smoking your pipe, but put up against this movie, it just feels wrong. In the opening credits for example, twice as much action is in the music than in the images on the screen. And in the rest, it would've served the movie to have music creating a greater sense of suspense in the parts when the story did not. It's cheating, but it's exactly what makes renowned composers like John Williams so great at their jobs.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW6TkX1YOK8" target="new"><u>The Adventures of Tintin Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-16476460464404236202011-12-12T22:24:00.000-08:002011-12-13T11:56:53.904-08:00The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: Based on the book of the same name, this remake of the movie of the same name that came out two years ago, retells the Swedish story of a defamed journalist and his assistant (Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara) who try to solve the mystery of a teenage millionaire's untimely death in the 1960s-- only this time, it's American-style!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson, Geraldine James, Goran Visnjic, Donald Sumpter, Ulf Friberg<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_green.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_green.png" /></a>Go! I was lucky enough to have missed the first version of this movie as well as the book, so I got to enjoy this clever thriller as if for the first time, because it was my first time. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: Bizarrely, yes, about three times.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: It's pretty cold, but there is one part that will break your heart.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: Clearly David Fincher and Trent Reznor are trying for a two-peat, and I think they have a chance.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: It was a big deal when they cast Rooney Mara (best known as the girl who dumps Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network creating the impetus for him to start The Facebook) in the part of Lisbeth Salander. Well, she lives up to the hype. Then again, I never saw Noomi Rapace in the part, so for all I know she's just imitating the original performance.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: There's a reason David Fincher is considered the David Fincher of movie directing. He brings movement and artistry to scenes that would be stagnant in a lesser director's hands. With him, you can see where the script stops and the vision begins. And yet he does it all without drawing attention to his own work-- which may be what I respect most about his style.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: A good story is a good story in any language. The people who read the book thought so. The people who saw the Swedish movie thought so. And the people who see this version will think so, too.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is there anything else worth mentioning about the movie? </span><br />
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A: I'm assuming there will be two more parts, as with the Swedish version, but I'm still waiting to find out the significance of the Dragon Tattoo.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVLvMg62RPA" target="new"><u>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trailer</u></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) experiments with a lot of bad ideas as he (along with Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel)) develop what has become modern-day psychoanalysis.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Sarah Gadon, Vincent Cassel<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. The subject matter is interesting, although when you look at the questionable mental stability of the people who pioneered the modern psychology movement, you will also want to proceed with caution when it comes to getting professional help. But the love story is disgusting and unromantic, partly due to its content, but even more-so due to a performance that makes you want to turn the movie off every time you are subjected to it. Stay tuned to find out whose...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: It's funny how men can find any ridiculous, convoluted reason to justify adultery... especially Austrian men played by French men, making no effort to hide their French accents.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: Every time Kiera Knightley uttered a word in her terrible Russian accent I wanted to cry myself all the way out of the theater. Stay tuned for a more in depth analysis of why and how she's awful...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: Michael Fassbender won an acting award from the National Board of Review, but I didn't think this role involved all that much. Meanwhile Viggo Mortensen got 3rd Place Best Supporting Actor from the New York Film Critics Circle, but I think anyone who gives Viggo Mortensen 3rd place in anything acting-related can't really be taken seriously.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: If you've ever hated Keira Knightley because she's beautiful, now you can hate her because she's ugly, too. Her performance as a mental patient is cringe-inducing. It reminds me of an aspiring actress desperate to prove she can make it by taking on an character that's way out of her league, and then trying too hard to give it interesting quirks and mannerisms until you feel sorry for her, because you know her dreams of stardom will never see the light of day. I have never personally had anything against Keira Knightley, but after watching the film, I happened upon a sexy perfume commercial she stars in, and I couldn't even watch that because I still felt so embarrassed for her.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: David Cronenberg cast Kiera Knightley in this role, so that's a fail.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: In a lot of ways it's hard to tell if the script was any good, as you watch Kiera Knightley butcher it. The scenes she's not in are passable, and sometimes even intellectually stimulating. But most of those are talking head conversations that make it all too clear that this movie was derived from a play.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=664eq7BXQcM" target="new"><u>A Dangerous Method Trailer</u></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: A young boy (Thomas Horn) struggles to get over the senseless death of his father in 9/11.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow, Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Zoe Caldwell<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. Every step of this movie is totally contrived. Does some of it work? Sure. But the set-ups and pay-offs are so in your face that you may be too annoyed to enjoy any of it.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: They say that comedy equals tragedy plus time, so is 9/11 funny yet?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: It will try to make you cry by any means possible, throwing crap at the wall until something sticks. It's as if the writer were sitting on your shoulder like a little devil saying, "Oh, death didn't get you? Try alienation... Oh, that didn't work either? But remember 9/11, that was awful, right?... Still nothing? But he's a little boy, and he's hurting, and he misses his daddy!... What are you some cold heartless monster?" To which I reply, "I wasn't until I met you, so I guess you bring that out in me... we should probably break up now."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: Boy am I getting sick of all these wanna-be Oscar movies that are trying
so hard to be important that they neglect the basics, like being
entertaining and seeming effortless.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Don't be fooled, neither Tom Hanks nor Sandra Bullock is in the movie for more than 10 minutes, so I hope you like kid actors who aren't particularly cute or charming!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: The imagery is consistently well thought out, and many of the shots demonstrate a strong voice. Also, the art is impressive, but I don't believe for one second that a 10 year old could have made any of it.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: The friend I saw it with really liked the strong sense of community that the movie suggests exists-- even though we both agree that it's a lie, because the people in your neighborhood don't really hang out with Mr. Rogers, which is why they're not all that friendly or generous with their time. But the fundamental issue with the script is that when you try this hard to matter and be about heart-string issues that I'm supposed to naturally be moved by, I feel manipulated. And when I feel manipulated, I start to discredit you, even in the areas where you succeeded.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqfA1BocV44" target="new"><u>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-18156044311344966952011-12-06T21:09:00.001-08:002011-12-09T00:04:01.980-08:00Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: Based on a book by John Le Carre, this story chronicles the uncovering of whether or not there is a double agent at the highest levels of British Intelligence who is working for the Russians.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, John Hurt, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Stephen Graham, Kathy Burke, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Peter Kalloy Molnar, Konstantin Kahabenskiy<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. Bring your intellect, your patience, and try to have read the book 5 or 6 times already if you plan on understanding anything that goes on in this spy thriller.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: Yes, but mostly at your own thoughts about how confused you are.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: Yes, because the above noted thoughts of confusion will probably lead you directly to thoughts about how dumb you must be. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: This definitely gets the award for Fastest Movie to Put Me Out. I was snoozing before the opening credits came on, and leading up to this point, I had not had a very hard day.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: All of these top notch actors have very little to do that's challenging. Sure one or two of them cries here and there, but mostly they all just stand around looking like tough-guys who can keep a secret or two.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: It's a beautifully shot movie, but as it goes back and forth between the past (1950s) and the present (1970s), it's not always clear which one we're in.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: Mostly incomprehensible. Assuming that the book makes enough sense to have become a best-seller, which in turn would have attracted a film company who wants to capitalize on that by making it into a movie, I would venture to say that the screenwriter didn't dumb it down enough.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is there anything else worth mentioning about the movie? </span><br />
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A: I just realized that reading the Wikipedia page is a great help in understanding this story. They explain all the "inside lingo" that you're supposed to understand without ever having it explained to you. Perhaps read that before you go see this. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker,_Tailor,_Soldier,_Spy" target="new"><u>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Wikipedia Page</u></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aco15ScXCwA" target="new"><u>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-7710949107198052612011-12-05T21:40:00.001-08:002011-12-05T22:21:33.722-08:00The Artist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: It's a silent film about a silent film star (Jean Dujardin) struggling with the concept that audiences want actors to talk in movies now.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle, Beth Grant, Ed Lauter, Joel Murray, Malcolm McDowell, Ken Davitian, and Uggie the dog.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_green.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_green.png" /></a>Go! I'm pretty sure this is what a masterpiece looks like.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: The biggest laughs are at sounds.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: This happy little silent film actually gets about as depressing as depressing can be, at one point.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: It's the sleeper hit of the season, so it's already surprised Americans with several come-from-behind wins, and I suspect it will continue to do so, as it's about the most original film I've seen in my lifetime. But I also hope that Award-givers won't forget to recognize the score, since it is one of the main communicators in this dialogue-less film.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: The actors are as adorable as a kitten. Especially the dog.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: All while paying homage to the black & white film era, director Michael Hazanavicius, keeps the camera moving in a modern way and finds places to exhibit his artistry as a film composition expert.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: It functions on so many levels at once that it's hard to imagine that there is one.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is there anything else worth mentioning about the movie? </span><br />
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A: How is it possible that in 2011, I've just seen back to back movies where a silent film star, depressed about talkies, burns all of his work?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixqr8D7J_Kc" target="new"><u>The Artist Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-88337476683942243732011-12-03T18:00:00.001-08:002011-12-06T14:19:54.651-08:00Hugo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: An orphan boy, who lives in a Paris train station (Asa Butterfield), fixes clocks and forms relationships with the other train station dwellers in his effort to figure out how he fits into the machine.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Asa Butterfielld, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Ray Winstone, Jude Law, Frances de la Tour, Richard Griffiths<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_green.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_green.png" /></a>Go! This movie is an instant classic... Which isn't to say that it's not slow and boring at times.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: Sacha Baron Cohen has a small part, and he smiles funny.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: Once I was done dozing off, I did get around to crying a little.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: I would hope so, it's some of the most interesting directing and cinematography I've seen all year. In fact, I might even give an award to the 2nd unit director.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: This Ben Kingsley guy is going places-- I mean, Asa Butterfield, right, he's the newcomer.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: You spend most of the time wondering how they gave it that look. This is a beautiful film, and for once, I didn't even mind the 3D. In fact, because the film is about the evolution of filmmaking in some ways, this was the first time it actually felt justified. That said, the pacing is really slow for the first half, and that's not the script's fault.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: It gets around to making some interesting points by the end, but let's not give it any Awards. Agreed?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR-kP-olcpM" target="new"><u>Hugo Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-87828631680006481962011-12-01T23:18:00.001-08:002011-12-02T10:01:12.135-08:00I Melt With You<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: 4 44-year-old guys (Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, & Christian McKay) reunite every year for one of their birthdays and take more drugs than seems humanly possible, as they work out their lives. Let me tell you something about the number 4, in China, it's considered such bad luck, that the elevators don't have any floors with the number 4 in them. Yes, this does mean that if you live on the 50th floor of a building, your direct downstairs neighbors live on the 39th floor.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay, Carla Gugino, Tom Bower, Arielle Kebbel, Zander Eckhouse, Abhi Sinha, Sasha Grey, Joe Reegan, August Emerson, Rebecca Creskoff, Melora Hardin, Shane Roney<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed wit Caution. This movie is love it or hate it. Personally, I did both.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: If you are paying very close attention.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: There is a butt-load of crying in it, but will you relate? That depends on how much you hate yourself and why.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: Surprisingly it's not yet. And oddly, this is one overly-arty and borderline boring indy film that I would've voted for in a few categories-- particularly directing.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Christian McKay often seems to be in a much more melodramatic film than the others. Jeremy Piven has moments where you begin to see his range, and others where you wonder if he'll ever be anyone besides Ari Gold again. And Rob Lowe... Is it just me, or is he getting hotter with age. I never went for him as a kid (I was a rebel), but now, his face is practically inhuman.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: Mark Pellington directs this film as an independent film should be directed. He shows individuality and a style all his own, without coming off deliberately pretentious. His shots are unpredictable and often have you wondering why he chose to shoot from a certain angle, but strangely, this time the thought is never accompanied by a feeling of anger.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: I knew where this film was going to go about 30 minutes in, but it is such a strange place to go that I remained intrigued about how it would manage to go there. Ultimately the characters' actions as a group are completely unjustifiable, despite the fact that their actions as indivuals make perfect sense. I have you intrigued, don't I?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is there anything else worth mentioning about the movie? </span><br />
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A: The soundtrack wants me to comment about it, but I'm not going to.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTGC5Ot23KU" target="new"><u>I Melt With You</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-7442496683537249282011-12-01T11:53:00.001-08:002011-12-01T12:10:31.907-08:00The Muppets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(Guest Review by Russ) <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"></span> When a greedy oil tycoon (Chris Cooper) threatens to take over the old Muppet Show Theater, Kermit the Frog teams up with two human fans (Jason Segal and Amy Adams) to reunite the old Muppet gang and put on a show to save the theater.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Jason Segal, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones, Alan Arkin, Jack Black, Jim Parsons, Sarah Silverman, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Gonzo, Beaker, Swedish Chef, Scooter, Miss Poogy
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. It’s a Disney-fied version of the Muppets and if you enjoyed the old Muppet Show there are a few moments in this movie that will remind you of the off-beat wackiness of that show’s best moments. Short of that, this version of The Muppets skews more “kiddie” and simplistic than past Muppet versions. The Toy Story short that screens first will remind you of how well Pixar has created ‘kid films’ that appeal equally to adults. Unfortunately, it makes us acutely aware of how much The Muppets does not walk that line.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: It’s not bust-out-loud laugh inducing, but there are some good chuckles here and there. I do seem to recall Miss Piggy being funnier than she is in this movie though.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: I’m pretty sure it wanted to and it tries really hard. But the only thing that effort elicited in me was a discussion with my friend afterwards about past films that have made us cry. (My top #1: Rudy.)
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: I can’t think of a single one unless some union gives them out for puppeteering: The Puppet Union?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: I can’t stand Jason Segal so it’s unfortunate he’s the main human driving this story. Amy Adams is normally great in most films she’s in, but sort of wasted here. Thankfully more screen time is given to the Muppets than any human and they all act as well as you remember any Muppet acting. Back to Jason Segal though: one of the best things about the Muppets was their interaction with human guest stars on their show. To that end, I wish they had a more interesting – or funnier – human at the center of this story. Jack Black would have been much better, because all his scenes with the Muppets are way funnier than Jason’s.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: I didn’t really notice it much in either a good way or bad, so I guess it disappeared enough and got out of the way enough to be considered… “meh.”<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: The general idea of the story is spot on because it calls for the Muppets to reunite and put their show on again. And the Muppet Show was a truly great show. The problem is it takes a little too long to get there and everything leading up to it isn’t very funny. Or, well, not as funny as the actual show. There’s also a big deal made out of the basic plot points, which really dumbs down the movie in a needless way. Lastly, most of the original songs aren’t very good; although a barbershop quartet rendition of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit captures the irreverent brilliance of what the old Muppet Show was like on a weekly basis.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4YhbpuGdwQ" target="new"><u>The Muppets Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-46837701233020066822011-11-22T21:58:00.001-08:002011-12-01T12:10:40.377-08:00Young Adult<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: A Young Adult novelist, who used to be popular in high school (Charlize Theron) and hasn't evolved since then at all, returns to her home town 20 years later to try to nab her high school boyfriend (Patrick Wilson) who just had a baby with his wife (Elizabeth Reaser).<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe, Hettienne Park, Brian McElhane, Jill Eikenberry<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. While the dialogue reminds us why we fell in love with Diablo Cody, and the pacing reminds us why Jason Reitman's films so far have been 3 for 3, the story itself is fairly unimportant in every way possible.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: If you like dark and dry, this will have you laughing in that way that only dark and dry can-- silently, so that nobody can hear how f'd up you are.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: Possibly at the sex scene at the end. It is consensual and at the same time extremely sad.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: In yet another one-man show character story, Charlize is aiming at Oscar number two. I'd nominate her.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Patrick Wilson, in a role that looks like nothing, is the one I was most impressed with. There is a deceptive simplicity to his role, so don't be deceived.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: There's no question that Jason Reitman is one of the most significant rising directors of his generation. That remains true in this, his least entertaining movie to date.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: The point of the script is that nobody cares about pretty girls anymore. The problem with the script is that nobody cares about pretty girls anymore.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar_-v7dEEoo" target="new"><u>Young Adult Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-87957872037546151852011-11-21T21:55:00.001-08:002011-11-23T19:39:44.684-08:00Rampart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: A very dark cop (Woody Harrelson) gets involved in some dark cop business, and before long his life and his state of mind get even darker than the darkness they began in.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Brie Larson, Ben Foster, Ned Beatty, Cynthia Nixon, Anna Heche, Sammy Boyarski, Ice Cube, Steve Buscemi, Jon Bernthal, Stella Schnabel, Jon Foster, Robert Wisdom<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. It's just another character story with not much story-story to it, but there's no denying that this character is interesting-- at least so long as there's a screen standing between us, and keeping him at a safe distance away from my scorn.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: One guy talks about a barrel of monkeys, and monkeys are always funny.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: It's too cold for tears, but it could freeze your heart.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: Woody Harrelson is certainly in the running for the Oscar with this one-man-show of a film, and Oren Moverman has a good chance at an Indy Spirit Award for his directing.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Supporting Woody you'll find a plethora of A-level pros who never bomb, including Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, and Ben Foster. You'll also find a breakout performance by the youthful Brie Larson.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: Very hand-held and indy, but deliberate in an interesting and often original way. Oren Moverman makes particularly daring choices when it comes to his high and low angles.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: There are moments of intrigue, but you sort of know the whole time that it's not really going to lead to anything, and after about an hour and a half, it starts to feel extraneous, and you start to feel like if you got up and left you wouldn't really miss anything. You'd be right.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpte72HaLRE" target="new"><u>Rampart Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-18133463227807062932011-11-20T22:22:00.001-08:002011-11-23T19:39:05.121-08:00The Twilight Sage: Breaking Dawn - Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: Bella and Edward (Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson-- like you don't know) get married and defy all possibility when she gets pregnant from his demon seed, which threatens to kill her.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Gil Birmingham, Sarah Clarke, Booboo Stewart, Alex Rice, Chaske Spencer, Kiowa Gordon, Julia Jones, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Anna Kendrick, Christian Serratos, Justin Chon, Michael Welch, Michael Sheen, Mia Meastro, Maggie Grace, MyAnna Buring, Casey LaBow, Jamie Campbell Bower, Christian Camargo, Mackenzie Foy<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. This movie is very weird, and the only reason you should see it is if you're a Die-hard Twihard, and you're going to see it anyway. According to this weekend's box-office, that description accounts for a butt-load of you.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: Well it starts with a human marrying a vampire, followed by some teenie-porn, and finally concludes with what I'm pretty sure is a form of pedophilia between a half human-half werewolf and a half vampire-half baby, so yeah, it's just all very, very weird.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: "Everybody cries at weddings," one of Bella's cheesier lines, turns out to be kinda true.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: I'll tell you what it won't be up for, Make-up, special effects, screenplay, directing, cinematography... The clothes are pretty good-- mostly at the weddings.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Some of the lines are so bad, that I could actually hear the actors' inner struggle to get them out. And that's why I have the utmost respect for these actors, especially Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, who have pauses and stares that make you keenly aware that this series could not have worked with anybody else in those roles. Taylor Lautner still can't act.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: Bill Condon is a great director, but there's no way to know that from watching this film. Most disappointing for me are the warmer colors used in the cinematography, which are completely inconsistent with the look and tone of the first 3 movies in the series. Even TV shows manage to look the same from week to week, and they sometimes have over 100 different episodes, using up to 50 different directors.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: It starts with a wedding and then strains to have anything to talk about for the next two hours, proving why movies are supposed to end with weddings. There is some very strange and illogical drama around the now-defunct love-triangle-- which no longer makes any sense because Bella has already made a firm decision-- at the wedding. The author tries her damnedest to find reasons to keep Taylor Lautner involved, but they all ring false. And then there's some drama about whether or not Bella will survive her pregnancy, which is also kind of spoiled by the fact that the title includes the phrase "Part 1."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-1/10036838/trailers" target="new"><u>The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1</u></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: When a group of high-rise employees lose their pension to a Ponzi scheme that one of their tenants got them involved in, they hatch a plan to rob the money back from the white collar criminal.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck, Michael Pena, Gabourey Sidibe, Tea Leoni, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nina Arianda, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Juan Carlos Hernandez, <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_green.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_green.png" /></a>Go! It doesn't suck. And at this point, that's good enough for me!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: It's more of a light-hearted heist movie than a comedy, so don't be surprised if you don't laugh as much as you would in another Ben Stiller comedy. And by another Ben Stiller comedy, I mean Zoolander, because let's be honest, most of the rest of them aren't all that funny.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: There's one part where Alan Alda explains why he (as a rich man) matters more than they do (as average incomed people). That's sad because rich people really think this way, and they're wrong. The only time they matter anymore than the rest of us is when they're giving their money away for a good cause. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: No, but speaking of awards, don't you think it's interesting that after the Oscar Awards producer, Brett Ratner, who happens to be the director of this movie made a homophobic slur, that caused him to resign, which caused the host, Eddie Murphy, who happens to be the star of this movie, to drop out, that Brian Grazer, who happens to be the producer of this movie quickly stepped in to replace Brett Ratner as the Producer of the Oscars. No one has mentioned this, but here's my analysis of why Brian Grazer suddenly decided that he had to take on this thankless job: P.R. emergency. Grazer, who I'm assuming never really wanted the job of producing the Oscars, is taking a bullet for the team, so that this movie, and his company, Imagine, don't continue to get the bad rap that started when Vince Vaughn had a similar debacle due to what some called a "slur" in the trailer for The Dilemma, and has been followed up with a series of high-profile flops, including Cowboys & Aliens. Tower Heist is the first Imagine movie in some time to make any money, and Grazer has no choice but to save its face, by tying a positive image to someone involved with the movie (himself). The happiest news, though, is that he somehow landed the best Oscar host of all time, Billy Crystal. And by "somehow," I'm sure I mean, "Paying him way more money than anyone has ever been offered to host the Oscars before." (Disclaimer: The above paragraph is all hearsay, made up by me... But think about it.)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Ben Stiller isn't annoying, even one single time. Eddie Murphy is funny for the first time since Beverly Hills Cop II, and Michael Pena is quickly making his way to the top of my hilarious actors' list.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: Everyone thinks Brett Ratner is a really funny guy, because he bangs all those chicks on Entourage and looks like an older Jonah Hill, but most of his movies are much more serious than you remember (see: The Family Man.)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: The script had me wondering how they were gonna pull things off, and even sometimes thinking they were clever in the way they did it. All that, while being simple enough to make screenwriting look easy-- which is one of the hardest things to do when you're writing a script.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/tower-heist/52240/trailers" target="new"><u>Tower Heist Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-67788836151965860612011-11-14T21:48:00.001-08:002011-11-15T10:18:31.149-08:00A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: Harold & Kumar (John Cho & Kal Penn) are no longer friends because Harold is married and has decided that Kumar's friendship is trouble. Now Harold needs to find a 12 foot Christmas tree to appease his father-in-law (Danny Trejo), and Kumar still loves him enough to help him, despite the fact that Harold has become a stuck-up douchebag.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Kal Penn, John Cho, Danny Trejo, Thomas Lennon, Amir Blumenfeld, Paula Garces, Elias Koteas, Jordan Hinson, Patton Oswalt, Bobby Lee, Ashley Coss, Chloe Coss, Hannah Coss, RZA, Da'Vone McDonald, Yasen Peyankov, John Hoogenakker, Eddie Kaye Thomas, David Krumholtz, Neil Patrick Harris, Daneel Ackles, Bennett Saltzman, Jake M. Johnson, Richard Riehle<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. It's wacky, but not in a clever way. The most interesting thing is the weird ways in which they attempt to use the 3D psychedelically. But I still hate 3D. First it makes me dizzy, and then it puts me to sleep.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: The funniest parts are around a baby's first drug trips, so that's bound to be really unfunny to parents-- mostly because parents have no sense of humor about how kids do the darndest things!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: Actually, it is sort of depressing at the beginning, when you see these two best friends who no longer talk. Why do people who get married think they're so much better than those who don't? Have they forgotten that over 50% of marriages end in divorce? Do they think they're unsusceptible to that statistic? Seriously married people, get off your high horses, and respect those people who were there for you when you were just a lonely loser, you may need them again sooner than you think.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: Despite Your Highness's best efforts, this one takes the award for longest penis.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Even after his hiatus to work in the White House, Kal Penn has not forgotten how to act and be charming. A few others start to break out in some of the miniscule roles, allowing you to picture them in bigger parts in future movies, including Jake Johnson of The New Girl, Bobby Lee of Mad TV, and Amir Blumenfeld of pretty much nothing.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: The 3D effects are noticeable, especially when you consider that Todd Strauss-Schluson is essentially a first time feature director. Aside from those, it could have been directed by anybody.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: I just wish that Harold & Kumar had rekindled their friendship earlier on, because while the plot is clearly meant to be about the rekindling, the script is missing the love that used to be the reason Harold would put up with or go along with all of Kumar's hijinks. Without the love, it's just one character annoying another, and that's not funny. It's sad.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/a-very-harold-and-kumar-christmas-3d/53535/trailers" target="new"><u>A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas</u></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: The history of J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) forming the FBI.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Judy Dench, Josh Lucas, Ed Westwick, Josh Hamilton, Jessica Hecht, Denis O'hare, Stephen Root, Damon Herriman<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_red.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_red.png" /></a>Stop! Technically this movie is stunning, but it has no hook, no stakes, and nothing that pulls you through it besides your deep-seeded love of J. Edgar Hoover-- a man who pretty much nobody loved.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: The guy behind me laughed awkwardly when Leonardo said, "I love you." You never want that. He was right. It was funny.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: It's sad that my favorite part of the movie was when they said J. Edgar was dead, because I figured the movie would be over soon. It's sadder that the movie still went on for another 10 minutes after that.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: I usually don't like for awful movies to get any awards, but in this case it really deserves several, in particular for Cinematography, Make-up, and Leo's performance.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: From the first off-screen line, Leo blows your mind with his talent. And because I like to say it first, I'm predicting him for the win, despite the terribleness of the movie and that false and hoaky moment when he says, "I love you." Armie Hammer will probably get nominated, too-- because he deserves it-- but he's not a sure thing for the win.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: The visuals are superb across the board, but why this boring piece of... history had to be 2 hours and 17 minutes, I'll never know. Then again, in history's defense, I'm sure this story was much more interesting than this movie makes it seem.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: If you haven't figured it out by now, I thought the script gave me a lot of time to think about all things I need to get done for the shoot I have tomorrow. So that was good.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://jedgarmovie.warnerbros.com/index.html" target="new"><u>J. Edgar Trailer</u></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: A semi-closeted teenage African-American lesbian comes of age.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell, Sahra Mellesse, Zabryna Guevara, Kim Sykes<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. You've seen one lesbian coming of age film, you've seen them all.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: I laughed in my head when I realized that I spent the first 10 minutes of the movie trying to decide whether the main characters were women or men. It was a seriously heated debate in there!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: Going in I thought this would be this year's Precious. But it's like a Disney Channel movie in comparison, breaking almost no new ground... Except maybe uncovering how women make themselves look like men.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: It won Cinematography at Sundance, which is especially surprising when you consider that all the out of focus shots were the one thing in this film that kept me annoyed throughout... Then again, most of what Sundance likes tends to annoy me, so I don't really know why I'm surprised.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: It is good to see Kim Wayans-- and in a dramatic role, no less! I worked with her on a sit-com, back in the day, and I always thought she was one of the most under-rated talents I had ever come across.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: The odd choices about where to center the focus in many shots is clearly deliberate and artistic, but it doesn't work. It's distracting and looks like a mistake.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: For a film getting so much attention, it's surprising how little feels original about it. I mean, who hasn't already seen at least one movie where the Black husband is a cheater, the teenage girl hates her mother, and the mother is a homophobe?<br />
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<b>Q: Is there anything else worth mentioning about the movie?</b><br />
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A: Warning: despite the scary title, this is NOT a horror film or a video game.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwYtHVlQN9c" target="new"><u>Pariah Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-68224606458281115182011-11-03T22:17:00.000-07:002011-11-11T00:18:25.932-08:00Son of No One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: Told between flashbacks to 1986 and present day 2002, a boy, who is now a cop (Channing Tatum) must deal with the on-going repercussions of having accidentally murdered 2 people in the tenement he grew up in.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Channing Tatum, Jake Cherry, Al Pacino, James Ransone, Brian Gilbert, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes, Tracy Morgan, Juliette Binoche, Lemon Anderson, Ursula Parker, Simone Jones, Peter Tambakis, Karen Christie-Ward, Decorte Snipes, Marilyn dobrin, Johnnie Mae, Roger Guenveur Smith, Michael Rivera<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_red.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_red.png" /></a>Stop! Either everyone in my audience was an idiot or the film didn't make any sense.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: The funniest part to me were the multiple conversations in the bathroom afterwards as people tried to figure out what they just saw.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: Sure, maybe if you use the time to think about something sad. Like a clown.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: Ursula Parker, a young blonde child, who looks like a cross between a young Elle and Dakota Fanning, will likely win All the Roles the Fanning Girls have Grown Too Old to Play.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Tracy Morgan will surprise you in this dramatic role-- mostly in that he can do it at all. Al Pacino is strong and charismatic, despite the fact that his character motivations in pretty much all of his scenes are both unclear and illogical. And Katie Holmes will impress you with the fact that she's not totally lame. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: Just about the same as in Dito Montiel's previous film, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: The whole story revolves around the mystique of figuring out who the mystery person is who is writing notes in 2002 about the forgotten murders of 1986, and all you can think is, "Who could possibly care about the 16 year old murder of two insane drug addicts who left no loved ones behind?' Then at the end you find out, and you still don't care.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HAlGXbZoVk" target="new"><u>Son of No One</u></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: A man's wife goes into a coma, and that's when he (George Clooney) finds out she was cheating on him. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Nick Krause, Amara Miller, Robert Forster, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. It's called The Descendants but it should have been called, "Come Visit My Dead Wife in the Hospital," because that's the majority of what happens in the movie.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: Yes, but not as much as you have in past Alexander Payne films. So don't go in expecting Election or Sideways.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: Right when I thought I couldn't care less, Judy Greer had me holding back tears so I wouldn't embarrass myself by crying.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: There is buzz, but most of it is from before anyone saw the movie.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: I don't like George Clooney as an actor, he just doesn't jump off the screen. But the 3 kids are amazing! I predict much work in the future for Amara Miller, Nick Krause, and Shailene Woodley-- who just today came out as one of <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/next-gen-2011-hollywood-rising-stars-255512/group/Agents" target="new"><u>Hollywood Reporter's 35 power people under 35.</u></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: Alexander Payne goes to great lengths to show us the ugly underbelly of the West-Coast's favorite vacation spot, Hawaii. If this was supposed to draw tourism to the area (which is Hawaii's #1 industry), then I'm sorry to say that I'll soon be checking out Tahiti.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: There is some interesting dialogue here and there, especially out of the mouths of babes, but the story of the land buyout isn't executed in a compelling manner, and the dying wife starts to feel like she's not even there. Sometimes, in the midst of all the characters' depression, I couldn't even remember what they were so depressed about. Maybe it would've been different if we'd gotten to know the wife a little bit before the coma.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is there anything else worth mentioning about the movie? </span><br />
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A: People dress funny in Hawaii. I guess the cost of getting a fashion magazine across all that ocean is just too high.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWHNXJ1K4yA" target="new"><u>The Descendants Trailer</u></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-578399977491380122.post-58983019023359003072011-10-30T23:06:00.000-07:002011-11-02T08:54:51.109-07:00In Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: In a world where time is literally money, which when you run out of it you die, Justin Timberlake is given a hundred years by a suicidal man, which he uses to infiltrate the rich neighborhood, before being accused of stealing the time, at which point he kidnaps the richest man's daughter (Amanda Seyfried), and goes on the lam, while giving every hour he can back to the poor people in his ghetto neighborhood.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki, Matt Bomer, Collins Pennie, Toby Hemingway, Yaya DeCosta, Brendan Miller, Ethan Peck<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. A really interesting premise gets lost inside of what becomes a never ending chase scene.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: The only joke I remember is Amanda Seyfried accidentally firing off a gun-- haha, somebody got shot.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: A lot of main characters die at the beginning, middle, and end, so-- no.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: When I was at Comic Con, the preview for this movie was By Far the Best Preview I Saw in Hall H... Which makes it that much more disappointing that the film didn't live up to its promise.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Justin Timberlake plays a character called Will Salas, but he might as well have been called Justin Timberlake because you never stop thinking you're watching Justin Timberlake. Amanda Seyfried is cute and strong as always. And how is Cillian Murphy not a bigger star by now?... Oh, yeah, because 50% of the roles he picks are cross-dressers. At least he recognizes that he looks hot as a woman.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: The... Pace.... In... Certain... Sections.... Is... Sooooooo... Slowwww... That... I... Started... To... Fall... Aslee--zz-zz-zz...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: The story starts out interesting, as you learn about the whats, hows, and whys of this world, which aims to parallel the division of wealth in our own society between the 1% and the 99%. Then Justin Timberlake is given a whole lot of time, which he wants to use to bring down the 1% by giving it back to the 99%. But when he gets accused of stealing that time, the script goes in a direction that doesn't take advantage of the interesting dynamic that has been set up. The minute police take all his time, and he goes on the run. I would've liked to see this premise go in more of a "clever mind game" direction, and less in a "who can run the fastest" direction.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/now/52770/trailers" target="new"><u>In Time Trailer</u></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: You can take the girl out of the cult, but you can't take the cult out of the girl.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia, Louisa Krause, Brady Corbet, Julia Garner, Christopher Abbott<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. Interesting subject matter. Interesting character study. I have no idea what I was supposed to think happened at the end.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: It was developed at the Sundance Institute, so I'll give you one guess, and the answer isn't "yes."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: It's more likely to cause the deep pondering of questions like: "Why do people fall for cults?" "How do they find them?" And, "How are they so easily brainwashed?"... I guess my parents were too loving for me to ever understand the answers to questions like these.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: Director Sean Durkin won his category at Sundance, and it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, but lost out to the previous movie I saw, Like Crazy. Still, even the nomination looks a little bit like self-nepotism. If you develop a movie, is it really fair to nominate yourself for a prize?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Elizabeth Olsen gives a star making performance, but I knew that before I even saw the movie because of all the press and hype that's been surrounding her since last January. What I didn't know is that she would be so interesting, that I would find myself struggling with how exactly she's related to her sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: Despite Sundance nominating itself for prizes, Sean Durkin actually does deserve recognition. He seamlessly shifts between the past at the cult and the present at a Lake House, using color schemes and clever editing that has your brain working just the right amount throughout, as you try to keep up with where each scene is taking place.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: Mostly, I just wish I understood what I was supposed to take from it.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/martha-marcy-may-marlene/10050554/trailers" target="new"><u>Martha Marcy May Marlene Trailer</u></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: What’s the movie about?</span><br />
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A: An American boy (Anton Yelchin) falls in love with a British student (Felicity Jones), and before they know it they become star-crossed by immigration problems, when she can't get back into the country. Stuck in a long distance relationship that can only exist on her side of the pond, they must now decide if it is worth it or not to give up on the love of their lives.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who’s in the movie?</span><br />
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A: Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston, Oliver Muirhead, Finola Hughes, Ben York Jones, Chris Messina, Jamie Thomas King, Amanda Carlin<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this movie worth the price of admission?</span><br />
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A: <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/?action=view&current=traffic_light_yellow.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd294/sorgenm/traffic_light_yellow.png" /></a>Proceed with Caution. I am torn between my respect for the art that they attempted to create and my feeling that the end result is rather trite.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me laugh?</span><br />
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A: The entire movie is improvised. It turns out that the word "improv" isn't always followed by "comedy."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie make me cry?</span><br />
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A: It's been so long since I was in love with anybody, that I can't personally relate to these emotions. Maybe you could be the judge and get back to me. Thanks!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Will this movie be up for any awards?</span><br />
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A: So far it has won every award it's been nominated for, which includes 2 prizes each for the lead actors, Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones, as well as the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, which only re-iterates how little I understand about what that high mountains altitude can do to your taste in movies. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Acting?</span><br />
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A: Improvisation always makes the actors look good. How can you not be in the moment when you don't have to memorize other people's words and say them back as if they are your own? When you improvise, the words are your own. So all you're doing is having a made up conversation, like when you were 4.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the Directing?</span><br />
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A: The directing is intimate and interesting, but the credit clearly belongs as much to the cinematographer and the editor in this case, as it does to the director, because when it's all improvised, the camera guy has to figure it all out on the fly, and the editor has to take those 70 hours of footage and turn them into something cohesive... Kind of like on a reality show.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How is the story/script?</span><br />
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A: The couple meets when she leaves a four page love letter on his car windshield, which we never get to read or hear. Their love develops through a series of shots of them writing silly notes to each other, which we never get to see. Many other standard moments are left out, too, like their first kiss, and any clue as to <i>why</i> they like each other. Apparently the script was a 50 page detailed outline, with character back-stories, emotions, and beginnings, middles, and ends to each scene, but no dialogue whatsoever. Again, I am torn between my respect for the risks the filmmakers took in doing it this way, and my feelings for how the story turned out.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Where can I see the trailer? </span><br />
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A: <a href="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/like-crazy/52843/trailers" target="new"><u>Like Crazy Trailer</u></a><br />
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