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« Reply #165 on: February 23, 2012, 09:32:16 PM » |
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Different strokes, I guess. I saw it on HBO late one night and was spellbound. I remember signing on to my dial-up internet right afterward and ordering it from Amazon, for the new DVD player we just got. It was a very 1998 turn of events.
To me slam poetry is the worst thing that's ever happened. |
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« Reply #166 on: February 23, 2012, 09:42:39 PM » |
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Wow, you liked RONIN that much, sean?
Ronin is kind of awesome. I just caught it again this weekend on cable (it's kind of a perfect cable movie), so it might be a little boosted, but it's really tight. I had to go back because I realized I left off 'Life Is Beautiful' (I guess Wikipedia doesn't count that as a 1998 film?). EDIT: By the way, it's apparently 'Hellcab'. |
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« Reply #167 on: February 23, 2012, 09:53:44 PM » |
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I had to go back because I realized I left off 'Life Is Beautiful' (I guess Wikipedia doesn't count that as a 1998 film?).
You can't go by Wikipedia the same way you can't go by imdb. You almost always tun into trouble with foreign and small releases. anything that played at festivals will have a year ahead of what it is in the US. That Numbers page Wolfe linked is the most reliable, but it's still missing things. |
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« Reply #168 on: February 23, 2012, 09:57:14 PM » |
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Yeah, I'm cross-checking with the IMDb now, and I suddenly remembered that my least favorite movie of 1998 was 'Dog Park'. Completely blocked from my memory because Bruce McCulloch earned a lifetime pass with 'Shame-Based Man', but the lifetime pass requires a little Orwellian double-think in the wake of his film-directing career.
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« Reply #169 on: February 23, 2012, 10:13:40 PM » |
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For those who made lists: At which point in your list is "everything from this movie on I didn't like?" It is sometimes hard to tell.
I guess around 'Belly' for me. I had a lot more free time to watch movies on TV back then, so I was much less discerning. |
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« Reply #170 on: February 23, 2012, 10:26:46 PM » |
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To me slam poetry is the worst thing that's ever happened.
I do know what you mean; but he's amazing. And the movie is not really about a poetry meet. It is a young guy getting swallowed up and suddenly in jail. |
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« Reply #171 on: February 24, 2012, 03:20:38 AM » |
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Everything Gods & Monsters and above is great and everything Can't Hardly Wait and below is bad. Link for reference
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« Reply #172 on: February 24, 2012, 08:49:52 AM » |
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Only 80 pages in and this book is amazing.
"He seems to me an extremely unpleasant person. He and Marlon Brando, and several others, are on a little list I like to call 'Better not to make films at all than to make films with these people"- Truffaut on Beatty.
I told you! It's so great, and it gets better. The Ishtar debacle...everything. He's just such a blowhard! The stuff about Bulworth is pretty interesting too. MOVIES I AM A LITTLE SURPRISED I NEVER GOT AROUND TO SEEING:
Apt Pupil Me either. It's weird. I loved the King story (though I was very freaked out by it), it's a perfect cast, and I like Singer. I think at first I was too freaked out, then Renfro died and it was too depressing. We should watch it now. I'll let you know my review. |
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Steve Lilley
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« Reply #173 on: February 24, 2012, 09:10:38 AM » |
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It's good. It's not my favorite thing that Singer has done, but I wish he'd do more stuff in this vein. He's good at it.
It has its problems, though. There are a few sequences that are *weird*. But Ian McKellen does one of the creepiest/unsettling things I've ever seen anyone do in a movie. It still haunts me.
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« Reply #174 on: February 24, 2012, 09:13:19 AM » |
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Me either. It's weird. I loved the King story (though I was very freaked out by it), it's a perfect cast, and I like Singer. I think at first I was too freaked out, then Renfro died and it was too depressing.
We should watch it now. I'll let you know my review.
The novella is much better. The movie really misses something about the character of the kid. |
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« Reply #175 on: February 24, 2012, 09:18:56 AM » |
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It has its problems, though. There are a few sequences that are *weird*. But Ian McKellen does one of the creepiest/unsettling things I've ever seen anyone do in a movie. It still haunts me.
Which thing? It's been years and years since I've seen it, so I'm drawing a blank. |
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« Reply #176 on: February 24, 2012, 09:51:27 AM » |
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YELLOW-TEXT SPOILERS:
When Brad Renfro makes him salute while rotating in his Nazi uniform, and then he just keeps doing it over and over, and gets more and more intense each time until Brad Renfro yells at him to stop. The look on his face haunts my nightmares.
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« Reply #177 on: February 24, 2012, 09:56:29 AM » |
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...everything Can't Hardly Wait and below is bad.
There is a soft spot in my heart for CAN'T HARDLY WAIT. I could watch that movie on any given lazy afternoon. |
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« Reply #178 on: February 24, 2012, 10:11:56 AM » |
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I love it too. When I finally get a chance to do this list, it'll probably end up high on my list.
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« Reply #179 on: February 24, 2012, 10:16:14 AM » |
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Oh yeah, that was a creepy part, Steve.
I also love Can't Hardly Wait. The only time I ever became an emotional drunk was partially inspired by that movie.
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