Beltmann Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 How great is the dish washer scene? My jaw was on the floor when that ended. That's the moment I was totally won over. After that, I was willing to forgive the movie's occasional excesses. They are a small price to pay for the movie's other rewards. Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 The Wrestler was fuckin' great!It was. I'll never watch it again, though, just because I couldn't handle the hardcore scene w/ the broken glass and staple gun. Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Oddly enough I'm on the last episode of Season 2. I have a love/hate thing going with the show. It can be funny and witty, but also cliched and ridiculous. Thankfully there's enough good stuff going on to keep me watching--the parade of sundry beautiful women doesn't hurt the cause either of course. You summed this up perfectly for me. At times it's flat out annoying but there is some funny dialogue and moments that really make me laugh and keep me going back. And boobs, always the boobs. Link to post Share on other sites
dylan_1 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Sopranos re-runs on A&E...good stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Runaway Jim Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 Link to post Share on other sites
GtrPlyr Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 Funny, inspiring and moving. Highly recommended. I must admit that some of the parts where Lips is working in the catering job looked like outtakes from The Wrestler. There were also a few Spinal Tapian moments. The fact that they're getting big gigs and appearing on late night shows now makes this the ultimate "Rocky" of the music world. Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I'll echo GtrPlyr's comments: Funny, inspiring, moving. Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 This should get the taste left by that awful game outta my mouth. Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Streamed "The Mission of Burma Story: Not a Photograph" on Netflix the other night. Recommended Link to post Share on other sites
GtrPlyr Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 ^^ I enjoyed that one too. Watched this one last night: Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Speed Racer Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 That's the moment I was totally won over. After that, I was willing to forgive the movie's occasional excesses. They are a small price to pay for the movie's other rewards. Rachel Getting Married was, quite easily, the worst film I have ever seen in my life. I never thought I would have been able to make that statement so confidently, but here I am. I still don't know if I mean that it terms of its quality or how it made me feel. The whole family was toxic and sick, the wedding was simply atrocious, and every single character came across as completely shallow and two-dimensional. That last part, I'm pretty sure, is one of the flaws of the film and its cast, and not a result of the storyline portraying them as such. Ah! I remember now! The plotline about Kym killing her brother was completely unnecessary, and was used as a crutch, in my opinion. Families wrought by addiction can experience an extraordinary amount of loss, anger, sadness and blame even without the loss of an additional life; that plotline felt engineered to conjur the emotion that they couldn't seem to convey based on Kym's illness alone. When I realized how much that bothered me, it also occured to me how that much more of the chaos seemed orchestrated to make the film seem more "emotionally busy." I guess the film was a six-piece Wilco when I think a four-piece Wilco would have conveyed as much emotion that much stronger. That was two hours of my life I will never get back, as far as I'm concerned. I still can't believe I bothered to finish it after the horrible portrayal of the meeting she went to. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Runaway Jim Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 That review of Rachel Getting Married makes me want to see it now. I haven't seen it yet, despite numerous great reviews from friends. It just hasn't interested me. But now that I have a conflicting review, I need to see it. I watched Year One. It was funny but very stupid. Bascially, exactly what I though it would be. David Cross was hilarious. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Speed Racer Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 If you're dying halfway through and wonder if it will get better - it won't. Just stop. Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 If you're dying halfway through and wonder if it will get better - it won't. Just stop. You have just confirmed my opinion that I have no desire to see that movie. Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Rachel Getting Married was, quite easily, the worst film I have ever seen in my life.Well, I guess we were bound to disagree about something eventually! Just finished watching the new The Last House on the Left, which is abominable. I'm actually not a fan of the Wes Craven version, either, but the original take, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, is one of my all-time favorite movies. Link to post Share on other sites
Calexico Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Also, Californication is bloody great. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Runaway Jim Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Enjoyed this one a lot. Funny with a few really great, tender moments. Link to post Share on other sites
mpolak21 Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Possibly the funniest thing that's ever been on North American television. Perry Como Still AliveLewis Sings Dylan\Leave it To Beaver: 25th AnniversaryBattle of the PBS Network StarsRide Like The Wind --Mike Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I watched Volume 1 of that last week, recovering from knee surgery, on percosets...maybe the best stuff ever, yeah. Not very often you can say that every regular cast member of a show is a comic genius, but can say it for that. Link to post Share on other sites
mpolak21 Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I watched Volume 1 of that last week, recovering from knee surgery, on percosets...maybe the best stuff ever, yeah. Not very often you can say that every regular cast member of a show is a comic genius, but can say it for that. I just about lost it during the "Bing" Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "Gerry Todd" video, anytime Moranis did Woody Allen, and naturally during Polynesiantown. --Mike Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I rented it because I woke up from surgery with the setting of Polynesiantown in my head. Moranis' Woody Allen is absolutely uncanny.Just watched your link to Ride Like The Wind - hadn't seen that in forever. The Yacht Rock guys owe their whole shtick to that skit. Link to post Share on other sites
mpolak21 Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I rented it because I woke up from surgery with the setting of Polynesiantown in my head. Moranis' Woody Allen is absolutely uncanny.Just watched your link to Ride Like The Wind - hadn't seen that in forever. The Yacht Rock guys owe their whole shtick to that skit. Yeah, Yacht Rock actually built an entire episode around that sketch, I think it was the Toto one, but it's been awhile since I've watched those. --Mike Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I am a huge Coen Brothers fan, and I have to say I enjoyed as much or more on the first watch as I have anything they've ever put out. There's a scene in this movie I laughed at harder than almost anything else I've ever seen in a movie (up there with Owen Wilson's "Eli Cash" reading in Tenenbaums and Woody Allen's "I happen to have Marshall Mcluhan right here.") So yeah, go see this movie.Saw this last night, and my first impression is that A Serious Man is one of their stronger works, but I want to think about it some more. I enjoyed it immensely, but it remains slightly enigmatic. I saw the movie with a friend, and afterwards we had a good discussion about the act-of-God ending, but the more fruitful conversation revolved around this question: The movie is clearly about Larry, but why is his son emphasized in a way that his daughter is not? And why is Uncle Arthur emphasized in a way that the wife, Judith, is not? [MINOR SPOILER ALER] I pointed out that the opening sequence shows a boy with a transistor radio in his ear, then cuts away to a middle-aged man having his ear examined by a physician, which suggests that the boy has grown into a man with hearing loss. Soon, though, we see that is not the case, which begs the question: Why did the Coens momentarily deceive us? I think it has something to do with how the son is the father and the father is the son. (This is reinforced when Larry later indulges in some pot, which happens to be one of his son's favorite pastimes. Other connections exist, too.) Anyway, the tone is certainly consistent, weird, and fascinating. And I think I know which joke got you going, because there was one particular joke that had me gasping with laughter, too! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Speed Racer Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Shout out to St. Olaf, which provided its old Science Center for classroom space in A Serious Man. Link to post Share on other sites
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