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quote: Originally posted by bman: And Monsoon Wedding is one of the few films I could watch over and over again....
Agreed - exactly and approximately.
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| Posts: 2704 | Location: South Florida | Registered: Dec 30, 2002 |    |
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considering defiance today. the only other choice at my local that i haven't seen yet but feel i should is benjamin button. dunno why but i am just not too motivated on that one.
----------------------------- "religion ='s thought disorder" - sigmund freud
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| Posts: 6357 | Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn | Registered: Nov 20, 2002 |    |
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quote: dunno why but i am just not too motivated on that one
'cause at nearly 3 hours, you know that you'll need to pee before it finishes and you might miss something important. Better to watch it at home where you can pause and pee.
------------------- Go Bruins!! Go Tigers!! Go Pistons!! Go Lions!!
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| Posts: 8836 | Location: Ottawa, Ontario | Registered: Jan 07, 2002 |    |
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quote: Originally posted by indybob: quote: Originally posted by wine+art: quote: Originally posted by KSC02:
What was your take on this movie, w+a?
Thumbs up.  As a purely unsolicited opinion K, I'm sure glad that I did not see any sort of preview prior to seeing this last year. I saw the preview a month later, and was floored with how much of the story's hook it gave away. Hate it when trailers do this. . .
True. However, I was a little uneasy about the underlying subject matter of it all. Yep, life is unfair for his deported friend, how he was treated and then deported. How his mother dealt with it all and the relationship between the characters. So much was set up on a t-ball stand, ready to bat out a some real moral. Some answer. And then.... nothing... movie over. O.Kayyyyy. Interesting movie. Just felt they really dropped the ball on this one. Took it to the 10 yard line and laid an egg. Just me?
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| Posts: 7208 | Location: Montreal, QC | Registered: Feb 17, 2007 |    |
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i'm not as old as board-o, i can go 3 hours(take that how you want...).  quote: Originally posted by bman: 'cause at nearly 3 hours, you know that you'll need to pee before it finishes and you might miss something important. Better to watch it at home where you can pause and pee.
----------------------------- "religion ='s thought disorder" - sigmund freud
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| Posts: 6357 | Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn | Registered: Nov 20, 2002 |    |
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quote: Originally posted by KSC02:
Yep, life is unfair for his deported friend, how he was treated and then deported.
Well, so much for those that have not seen the movie. K, the movie was not about Tarek Khalil, not in the least. It was about Walter Vale, and him taking off his uniform that life had dressed him in so many years ago. The conformity of his life had left his soul devoid of all vigor, courage and resolve. Tarek was simply the color purple that makes black, look blacker.
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| Posts: 13530 | Location: Dallas TX. | Registered: Feb 21, 2005 |    |
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Bold Lies. I'm not sure whether Dicaprio is just coming of age or he's being (recently) directed by some great men, i.e. Scorsese, Scott, Speilberg, but he's turing out to be a pretty good actor.
______________________________ Leave the gun...take the cannoli.
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| Posts: 1988 | Location: Canada | Registered: Jan 17, 2006 |    |
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quote: Originally posted by Mezzo Litro: Bold Lies.
I'm not sure whether Dicaprio is just coming of age or he's being (recently) directed by some great men, i.e. Scorsese, Scott, Speilberg, but he's turing out to be a pretty good actor.
He's always had the talent - I mean look at his roles when he was a teenager - A Boy's Life, What's Eating Gilbert Grape -
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| Posts: 2704 | Location: South Florida | Registered: Dec 30, 2002 |    |
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quote: Originally posted by wine+art: Eyes Wide Shut.
w+a, I'm curious what you thought of this?
*********** "I was thinking how nothing lasts. And what a shame that is." --Benjamin Button
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| Posts: 3717 | Location: Everett, WA | Registered: Mar 08, 2002 |    |
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| Posts: 6357 | Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn | Registered: Nov 20, 2002 |    |
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Manos: The Hands of Fate. No stars.
-IB
"Wine only turns into alcohol if you let it sit."---Lindsay Bluth
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| Posts: 6256 | Location: Naptown | Registered: Nov 24, 2006 |    |
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quote: Originally posted by wine+art: quote: Originally posted by KSC02:
Yep, life is unfair for his deported friend, how he was treated and then deported.
Well, so much for those that have not seen the movie.
True that.  My apologies.
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| Posts: 7208 | Location: Montreal, QC | Registered: Feb 17, 2007 |    |
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quote: Originally posted by wine+art: [QUOTE]Originally posted by KSC02: K, the movie was not about Tarek Khalil, not in the least. It was about Walter Vale, and him taking off his uniform that life had dressed him in so many years ago. The conformity of his life had left his soul devoid of all vigor, courage and resolve.
Tarek was simply the color purple that makes black, look blacker.
Fair statement indeed.
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| Posts: 7208 | Location: Montreal, QC | Registered: Feb 17, 2007 |    |
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Bottle Shock.
-------------------- "One may dislike carrots, spinach, beetroot, or the skin on hot milk. But not wine. It is like hating the air that one breathes, since each is equally indispensable."
Marcel Ayme`
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| Posts: 6957 | Location: The Left Coast | Registered: Dec 01, 2001 |    |
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Haven't read it.
-------------------- "One may dislike carrots, spinach, beetroot, or the skin on hot milk. But not wine. It is like hating the air that one breathes, since each is equally indispensable."
Marcel Ayme`
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| Posts: 6957 | Location: The Left Coast | Registered: Dec 01, 2001 |    |
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quote: Originally posted by indybob: Manos: The Hands of Fate. No stars.
This was only palatable when seen through the MST3K filter. 
*********** "I was thinking how nothing lasts. And what a shame that is." --Benjamin Button
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| Posts: 3717 | Location: Everett, WA | Registered: Mar 08, 2002 |    |
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quote: Originally posted by duck833: Bottle Shock also
I thought the trailer looked dreadful... was I wrong?
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| Posts: 13530 | Location: Dallas TX. | Registered: Feb 21, 2005 |    |
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