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Movies and TV / Re: review: Good Night, and Good Luck
« on: October 28, 2005, 11:29:14 AM »
I see 42's point. In many cases, we would have given a bit more time to the set up of story, but since this is a movie wherin the basic setup is a matter of widley known history, I suppose we just assumed that people would know the basics. This may have been a mistake.

The plot of the movie is very starightforward: it's simply about Edward R. Murrow, a reporter for the CBS network, who did a series of editorial peices which challenged the bullying tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy. The story follows the airing of those peices and the fallout from them, both in terms of what McCarthy attempted to do in retaliation, and how the peices effected meaningful change.

I have no problem with someone disliking our reviews - I think it would be hypocritical for a critic to be unwilling to take criticism (say that three times fast.). But when you cover the fact that a movie is brilliantly acted, written and directed (and explaining what about the direction), to me the three most important aspects in any film, it's hard for me to understand where the complaint is coming from. Again, I feel that perhaps we assumed too much as far as public knowledge of the history of these events.




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Movies and TV / Re: review: North Country
« on: October 27, 2005, 07:31:08 PM »
Good point, Jeffe.

I agree with you on the idea that there are far too many preconceived ideas about what constitutes an "Oscar" performance.

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Movies and TV / Re: review: Good Night, and Good Luck
« on: October 27, 2005, 05:26:11 PM »
George Clooney is the artistic genius behind this movie. He put his heart and soul into, and tells a great story.
As a film maker, he is emerging as an interesting and brilliant new talent. Nowhere in there does the word "dreamy" come in.

I guess you read a different review that the one we wrote, because we talked about more than that.

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Movies and TV / Re: review: North Country
« on: October 27, 2005, 05:23:35 PM »
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in my defense i was saying she wasn't attractive as my opinion because many people were saying she was pretty.  I also thought this movie was interesting the first time i saw it when it was called disclosure.


Your point about what you said is well seen - you're saying that you were remarking on two seperate things, not saying that you didn't want to see it because you don't think she's pretty. Good point. I retract my statement.

I do, however, disagree with the comparison to "Disclosure." Just becasue there are two move that deal with the same issue doesn't mean that they are the same movie.

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Movies and TV / Re: review: North Country
« on: October 27, 2005, 03:44:38 PM »
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i don't really find charlize theron attractive anyway, but this movie doesn't look like something that interests me.  I might see it when it comes out on video, but a very big MIGHT.


And this one.

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Movies and TV / Re: review: North Country
« on: October 27, 2005, 03:44:18 PM »
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It was best said the other day someone needs to give the girl an oscar so she can start looking pretty again.


I was referring to remarks like this one.

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Movies and TV / Re: review: North Country
« on: October 27, 2005, 12:31:56 PM »
See, my point is that saying"I don't want to see a movie about sexual harassment and the degradation of women because I don't find the lead actress attractive" is a strong indicator that the attitudes portrayed in this movie are accurate.

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Movies and TV / Re: review: North Country
« on: October 26, 2005, 10:10:29 PM »
Everytime I finished one post, I would think of a new poitn I wanted to make.

Polygamy? I'm not even interested in marriage.

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Movies and TV / Re: review: North Country
« on: October 26, 2005, 03:45:59 AM »
As far as the issue of Charlize being pretty again, not only does she have "Aeon Flux," but she is doing a sequel to "The Italian Job," which, when you take out how gorgeous she was in it, was really just a two hour car commerical. She certainly hasn't given up the eye candy roles. I for one am glad that she is not pulling a Halle Berry and deciding that now that she has an Oscar, that means she's a superstar and she doesn't have to try to be a good actress anymore.

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Movies and TV / Re: review: North Country
« on: October 25, 2005, 11:58:07 PM »
The only thing that is unrealistic is the feeling that some of the legislation involved was already in place, do to the boneheaded choice to shift the time to '89 instead of '84, when this actually happened. As far as the behavior, it doesn't matter how much society as a whole pushes "PC" attitudes. People can still act like neandrathals, and unfortunatley, sometimes they do.

Honestly, I'll freely admit that my perspective on this movie was greatly influenced by the fact that it hit so close to home. My experiences with this issue changed my life and who I am, and this movie was truly hard to watch because of that.

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Movies and TV / Re: review: North Country
« on: October 25, 2005, 11:07:08 PM »
I'm saying that it's realistic according to my first hand experience as a whistleblower on a sexual harassment case last year, and was not in any rural area. People have no concept of just how bad these things can still get, and how emotionally damaging it can be. I've been there, I've seen it, I've lived through it, and this movie portarys it truthfully.

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Movies and TV / Re: review: North Country
« on: October 24, 2005, 10:02:21 PM »
Um . . . SHE already has an Oscar. And YOU need to see this movie.

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Movies and TV / Re: Blogging for Serenity
« on: October 06, 2005, 06:09:44 PM »
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I'm not really looking for comic relief there.  Just some less pretentious dialogue.


"Yousa point is well seen." Honestly, I like some of the pretentious dialogue in the "Star Wars" movies, but it can be a bit much.

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Movies and TV / Re: Blogging for Serenity
« on: October 04, 2005, 05:58:34 PM »
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I'd like to clarify that the editor identified by the handle "SE", is not me.

About Serenity:
On the whole I was disappointed.  I went in with high expectations, which probably exacerbated my  disappointment.  It was a decent piece of sci-fi.  The acting was great, the story only a little unfocused.  But it was too much an extended sitcom and too little a bigger, tighter, more serious work.

I don't think entire scenes were designed to support witty banter.  I do think entire scenes were wrecked by it.  Joss did a very good job of building up emotional tension.  Unfortunately, he'd immediately dissipate it all, uselessly, with overly cute and witty sitcomesque dialogue.  Many of the scenes he built up were worth far more than he got out of them by "going for the laugh."

Oh well.  We've had the two ends of the spectrum now.  Episode III, which took itself far too seriously, and Serenity, which didn't take itself seriously enough.  Maybe someone will start striking a good balance soon.

And finally, I'm disappointed by the "naughty bits" that were thrown in.  I'll not be letting my kids see the film until I'm comfortable explaining to them what Kaylee could possibly mean by battery operated widgets in her nether regions. And therefore won't be buying the DVD anytime soon. What a sad, forced, little bit of cheapness to have been thrown in.


Did you watch "Firefly"? Admittedly, the batteries line went pretty far, but their were entire epsidoes of "Firefly" about Inara's work as a companion that were worse. It's not something that I would have ever considered taking my kids to, if I had any.

Gotta disagree about Episode III taking itself too seriously. I don't see where there was room for comic releif in such a dismal story.

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Movies and TV / Re: Blogging for Serenity
« on: October 02, 2005, 02:40:41 AM »
And she was so incredible in "Fantastic Four." You almost believed that she was real instead of C.G.I.

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