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Hi lobo, will get it ASAP. Rager also says it's awesome and it's right up my alley.
TX for recommendation.
And you can confuse the hell out of me in one word!
Now I really don't know what "yeah" meant.
You can be so difficult.
Is that an "oh yeah" as in "I remember that incident"? I always get yeah and yea mixed up.
Saw Owning Mahoney. I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman but this movie depressed me. Yowza. If I were to be objective I'd give it 3 out of 5 - maybe!
Plot Outline: A bank manager (Hoffman) with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multi-million dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
Have seen a bunch of little movies lately that I've liked quite a bit:
Mountains of the Moon - Fascinating period piece (1850's) about a search for the source of the Nile. Some AMAZING scenes in this movie. 3.75 out of 5 pickles.
Dopamine - About the science of love and artificial intelligence - very low budget. Most interesting for me was that it endorsed a theory I've suspected for some time but that I won't go into. Ultimately, there is more to love than chems? Would be nice. 3.5 out of 5 pickles.
A bunch more but I'm pulling a blank now.
Hi OU.
Scientists discover 70 million year old T. rex soft tissue, perhaps even blood vessels and whole cells. Oh boy, this could be wild if they start messing around cloning the cells, but oh so cool.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683
Glad you liked it. I totally agree regarding the young girl. The funniest scene to me was when Sandler yelled for her to get out of the wind.
She must have royally pissed off somebody really freaky.
You know what, I do agree with you. I'll revise to 3.75, which I was going to give it anyway but felt stingy for some reason. Maybe lack of character depth? Would have to think about why it didn't get thrown into the great category. 4 to 5 is great.
An aside: Even my husband said last night, "I use the 4 star scale, hon" - lol!
There was some really superb stuff in that movie. If by the answering machine sequence you mean that woman in the background repeating herself in that annoying voice? That was hilarious. Husband and I were howling at that. For anyone who has worked in that environment, I can see it being a classic.
Two movies:
Birth - not well received, it seems. Only one review on jacket. I loved it. So many issues raised. Would ruin it if I said what they are, though. One, in particular, grabbed me hard. Slapped me in the face, really. Beautifully done movie. Great look. Gorgeous score. 4 out of 5. Not so light. Not for everyone - ha!
Office Space - Unexpectedly good. Not great, but good. 3.5 out of 5. Light entertainment.
Pot will not help you.
Thanks for the warning. I'll stay away.
P.S. Forget Henry Fool. I don't want to hear about it if you think it's totally whacked!!!
Thanks for the backup :)
Derf, it's unusual. It really is.
We have sort of agreed thus far on most things but I'm a tad concerned with Fool. Do me this favor, try this one. If you don't like it, I know how far afield you are willing to go. Good?
I definitely need more details! Wonder what those Ausies were thinking, anyway.
And it can't just be the Brits stealing the signs. They're just looking for anything to pin on them.
However, the humor of the article was not lost on me!
That having been said.... HI CHU!
Then see Henry Fool and Personal Velocity. She's great in both. A snit in Henry Fool - she's so good at that. Something tells me you will remain undaunted.
They're both worth seeing. Henry Fool is on my top 25 list, even!
String Theory anyone?
Was discussing M-Theory with my brother-in-law tonight. He told me a metaphor that changed my life so, what the hey, I'll post it. He was reading an inconsequential book in which a woman offers a perspective on dimensions that allowed me to let go of trying to conceive of how and why light can be observed as a wave or as a particle but not simultaneously.
She wrote: Imagine a spring, essentially a helix. Now, imagine a shadow cast by the spring onto a wall. It will look like a sine wave. However, look at it through the top. It looks like a donut. A person living in a two-dimensional world would never be able to imagine how the same object could be responsible for both observations, the wave and the donut. The information missing when going from three dimensions to two makes it inconceivable. If, as is proposed by M-Theory/String Theory, there are 11 dimensions... think of the information missing when going from 11 to 3 dimensions! Impossible situation. And while not an absolutely parallel comparison, our seemingly irreconcilable observations of subatomic particles become utterly conceivable.
I love my husband's bro so much! It is a life altering metaphor for me. A light went off. I can let go now.
I just love this damned analogy. Fookin Brilliant.
Ditto. Schmaltzy, too.
Okay, I'll grant you that. I didn't see it enough to have a completely valid opinion.
South Park rules.
You kill me, "the correct 4 pickle scale". That was worth lingering a bit longer for.
Really have to run for a bit but will catch up later.
See you soon.
I gathered. Even better!!
Hey, it's obvious that it was satire on political correctness. Hence, the comment on not letting such things fester. It served a purpose. Brilliant? Hmmm, a matter of taste, I suppose. What do you think South Park is, one of my favorite shows. However, the dankness of MWC was not pleasant for me. South Park rises to the challenge better, transcends depravity with far greater intelligence.
Brilliant satire? Brilliant? Seemed to take very easy shots at huge targets.
I was just heading out but had to respond to this.
My husband came home last week with a movie called A Home at the End of the World. He picked it up - looked good to him..... and it was really, really great out of the gate and throughout, but with a hitch. At one point there was a scene that started making him a tad uncomfortable. He looked at me, and I knew what he was feeling. I looked at him. He winced. Yup, homosexual kid discovering something. We get gay movies at times. I guess a guy has to be prepared, though (not so if it's about women, surprisingly!). We started cracking up because he was squirming in his seat, though he is no homophobe. I said, "you didn't know?". "No", he said. At any rate, it progresses into a really lovely film. It's about a guy who loses everyone he loves and is emotionally adrift. About building an unconventional family. Actually, it was about a lovely human being. About a young man to whom love and loved ones was everything. When you have love in your life it's easy to forget how imperative an emotion it is to being a complete human being.
I recommend the movie. Not a great one, but I give it 3.75 out of 5. I simply adored Colin Farrell as the mature Bobby Morrow but even moreso, Erik Smith as the adolescent Bobby. His performance was incredibly moving. That kid could break your heart with a smile. He is a master of nuance.
Great reply, Lobo!!! And you have good instincts to switch while you're ahead :) ... before burnout.
Oh, you are so going to love that movie - Sweet Hereafter. And The Ice Storm. Did you see that one?! That also is in my top 25. A must, must see, both of them.
I'll now write about Primer and another movie I saw a few days ago.........
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lobo, have you seen The Sweet Hereafter? If not, you must.
Kids, when I saw it, would have given it a 4.75 out of 5. I'm really not averse to films dark in mood or appearance. Surely you, too, reach a saturation point at times regarding certain things, no? I was so avid a viewer of that genre of film that I one day felt the stuff effecting me negatively. It pooled into a black swamp in my innards. Like too many light hearted, sweet movies might start to rot your teeth after awhile. That is my only personal aversion to dark films. That doesn't blind me to their artistic value, though, whatever it may be. I'm not going to like a movie just because it's dark and filled with angst. That is not enough to make a movie great. Many people, in my opinion, equate ugliness and angst to art. It is a common error, in my opinion, to which I am not predisposed.
There has been this pop saturation of gratuitous bleakness, too, that I find unpleasant. An example would be Married with Children - a show I saw only a few times. In doses, it's good, removes the taboo of uttering the underbelly of existence so that it can't fester there, but how often do I want to be reminded of life's ugliness? This, I cannot embrace. Anyway, enough of that. Excuse my verbosity.
My morning rant - LOL!!!!!!!!! Ah, now, for coffee!
P.S. Felt I never made that clear regarding the genre way back when, hence, this tome! So sorry.
Saw Bully last week, was is need of something more upbeat but I have to admit, the acting was amazing, really good movie if you're not in the dumps. Very much like Kids. I'll give it a 3.75 out of 5.
Saw Slums of Beverly Hills for the second time! Something wrong with my brain. Even read the blurb and rented it again forgetting I'd seen it ages ago. Lead actress, Lyonne, was terrific. Tomei's acting vacillated between bugging me a bit (though she looked great) and being engaging. Her dancing was great. Tomei is not one of my favorite actresses. She was, however, perfect in My Cousin Vinny. Pesci was perfection incarnate.
Kevin Corrigan is great in everything. He was HILARIOUS in Walking and Talking. I'll give Beverly Hills same rating as Bully, though I enjoyed it more.
The Sweet Hereafter is in my top 25, Raz. You have great taste :)
I will go with your rating, too.
hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
My alias was carefully chosen to keep the bar low, ergo. That talent of which you speak... I'm a natural born bumbler.
P.S. So didn't mean to imply that I'm popular! The inbox thing. I'm a bad housekeeper.
I have so many posts in my inbox I have to think to scroll down to see if someone has spoken to me publicly. I must be some kind of pariah. Doesn't happen all that often.
Now that you mention it, I have this sense that I did hear that. I will look into it. Saw a great Bergman not too long ago. Hmmm, what was the name, the one with the girl going crazy on the Island. Frigging amazing. Smiles of a Summer's Night (title?) is one of my favorites. Wild Strawberries. God, I love that guy's movies.
Yeah, I gave up caviar and vintage port a while ago.
There is no accounting for taste. That's what I think.
Glad you reminded me, I've been meaning to put it back down in the queue and it was @#!. I have a pretty good idea by clips I've seen, relies heavily on visuals like City of Lost Children, or in the same vein. I am in need of some serious feel good input at the moment. Great visuals are not going to cut it. So, tx for reminder or that would have been hanging around for weeks like the last two I got.
P.S.
I meant poll, of course :)
not pole :(
Did you see Six Degrees of Separation? She looked kind of weird (bad face lift or something) but I loved her in that. I like her.
Running out now, as usual, but had to comment on her, I like her but don't watch TV so I've not seen The West Wing. Don't cry now, I know you'll miss me - ha!
:)
morning!
Hollywood is pretty stupid. Lobo put up a pole I didn't take yet, if it's still there. If I recall, a Godfather question is in it? Or a sequel question at least. The Godfather II is a rare sequel better than the original, IMO.