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review: North Country
« on: October 24, 2005, 01:25:34 PM »
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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2005, 02:06:14 PM »
It was best said the other day someone needs to give the girl an oscar so she can start looking pretty again.
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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #2 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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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2005, 08:52:09 AM »
Yes but her first Oscar was for her acting ability not so she could look pretty again.
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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2005, 02:44:43 PM »
I find it funny that our reviewers talked about how realistic the abuse in this film was compared to Eric Snider who said it was so unrealistic it was laughable.  From what he lists happens in the movie I have a hard time believing it's possible myself, especially in the PC 90s.
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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2005, 05:45:37 PM »
Except that the movie takes place in the un-PC 80s, in a small mining town in the midwest. Sounds believable to me.
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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2005, 06:19:56 PM »
and I heard an interview from the actual women involved and they pretty much said the movie is tame compared to what they went through.
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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2005, 07:31:44 PM »
Many of the reviewers on RT that don't like the movie are saying that it isn't brutal as it should be.
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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #8 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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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #9 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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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #10 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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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2005, 12:34:14 PM »
I've been trying to come up with an intelligent response to this thread, but I can't.  All I have is: do you think that she's interested in polygamy?  Because, well, I am.
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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2005, 12:49:33 PM »
I think Patrick is interested in polygamy, because he posted three times in a row. Just one is enough for most people, you know.
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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2005, 02:49:33 PM »
I'm with Fell on this one.
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Re: review: North Country
« Reply #14 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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