The Secret of the Wednesday’s Haul

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“We are uncool.” Untitled, the director’s cut of Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous, is one of those movies that just hit me in the gut every time I watch it. The thinly veiled autobiographical story of Crowe’s own youth shows a life that I think a lot of us would have [...]

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O.k.  I think I’ve figured out why The Dark Knight really works (and I apologize to any site that’s already posted this but I’ve been avoiding the net and Batman reactions this weekend.) The Joker is real. Yup, that’s it.  The Joker may be the first threat in a “comic book” movie that’s [...]

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I don’t know what it is but I think my tolerance for geek-like stuff is kind of low right now.  I can’t say I’m excited about Dark Knight.  I’m sure it’s a freaking fantastic film but I can’t say that the first movie is a great film.  I know I was really excited about Batman [...]

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Musing about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull earlier, I wondered if I was going to get another Raiders of the Lost Arc, a movie I love, or a Last Crusade, one I merely enjoy. Well, I guess the answer is that I’m going to prefer to remember the Indiana Jones [...]

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I’m going to cheat a bit this week. When I first started this little year-long project, my initial plan was to watch 52 movies and then write about them. But before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull comes out, I wanted to write a bit about the first three movies, [...]

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Welcome to the 21st century cartoon. Only know it’s a semi-live action/adventure movie.Let’s set up why this may be the perfect movie for me.Whenever I talk about the Wachowski brothers (or siblings or whatever they are now,) I always feel the need to throw up the preface that I actually like all three Matrix [...]

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(note: Yes, I’m far behind on these movie posts but May looks to be a month to catch up. Look for at least weekly movie talk beginning with this one. Hopefully I’ll even have a second one up this week.)“I’m not the hero type… Clearly.”Let’s talk a bit about what makes a [...]

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During the course of The Philadelphia Story, Tracy Lords (Katherine Hepburn) is given many titles and roles. First off, there’s her own last name- “Lords” and everything that it implies. She’s also called a “goddess,” “Justice with her shiny sword,” and even “virgin goddess.” Tracy has set up this image of herself [...]

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Over on the CGS forums, there’s talk about AFI’s Top 100 list and which movies everyone’s seen or haven’t seen. So, here’s my list (based of of the original AFI 100 list.) Anything struck out is what I’ve seen.
1 Citizen Kane 1941 2 Casablanca 1942 3 The Godfather 1972 4 Gone with the [...]

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So yesterday all the talk was about the Watchmen images that Zack Snyder posted online.

And there was plenty of discussion about the movies, everything ranging from comparing them to Batman & Robin to these are the coolest things ever. While I do expect Mr Freeze to almost show up somewhere in the [...]

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The day after the Oscars and the feeling that the top movies this year were too depressing, Wells writes this at Hollywood Elsewhere:
“movies are not supposed to be pills that you take to feel better. They’re not travelling carnivals with elephants and jugglers. They’re supposed to be aesthetic journeys and emotional hikes that get us [...]

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Have you heard the one about two hitmen who walk into a bar in Bruges, Belgium?

Well, that actually does happen in Martin McDonagh new movie In Bruges but it’s not the main point. Two hitmen, Ray (Collin Farrel) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are shipped off to Bruges after a botched hit for at least [...]

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Via Cinematical:

I am now officially excited.
More can be found at Yahoo.

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I wonder if Good Night, and Good Luck loses something if you’re not at a certain age. For me, the Red Scare and Senator Joe McCarthy were already a part of American history by the time I was reading the history books [...]

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From the New York Times:
“Roy Scheider, a stage actor with a background in the classics who became one of the leading figures in the American film renaissance of the 1970s, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, Ark. He was 75 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
Mr. Scheider had suffered from multiple myeloma for several [...]

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“I wish I could yodel.”
Forget whatever happened after 1978. Forget the arguing about rights to the music. Forget about most of the musicians spending the next 12 years touring still. Forget about the tragic death and suicide. At least, for the time being, forget about all of those. For one [...]

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If ever a movie deserved to be called “comic booky” with that meant in the pejorative, it’s got to be Smoking Aces, Joe Carnahan’s tribute to guns, violence and the ability to have a movie without an actual story. Somewhere in this mess of a movie is the unfulfilled promise of a story about [...]

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could swear I’ve watched My Neighbor Totoro before but honestly, I hardly remember any of it. The movie is about Satsuki and her younger sister Mei, just recently moved to the country with their father. Their mother is sick in a hospital that’s a 3 hour walk away. Their new neighbors [...]

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Note: 52 Movies is an attempt to watch and write about 52 movies in 52 weeks during 2008.
Before Sunrise is a movie that I should have seen over 10 years ago, when I was more contemporary with the 20-something main characters Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy,) when I was young, stupid and [...]

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My predictions/gut feelings are in bold for each category.
Best Motion Picture - Drama
American Gangster
Imagine Entertainment/Scott Free Productions; Universal Pictures
Atonement
Working Title Productions; Focus Features
Eastern Promises
Kudos Pictures – UK Serendipity Point Films – Canada A UK/Canada Co-Production; Focus Features
The Great Debaters
Harpo Films; The Weinstein Company/MGM
Michael Clayton
Clayton Productions LLC; Warner Bros. Pictures
No Country For Old Men
A Scott Rudin/Mike [...]

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Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with? (pics)created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Serenity (Firefly)
You like to live your own way and don’t enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you.

Serenity (Firefly)

100%

Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker’s Guide to [...]

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I think by now we all know that the writer’s strike is over disputes about additional revenue streams like DVD sales and online rebroadcasts. Well, the news today is saying that this week’s talks, which started off well, broke down today and it seems like the strike is here to stay.
So am I a [...]

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Which Chow Yun Fat Are You?

You are Mark Lee, amiable Triad enforcer from A Better Tomorrow. You’re still making your mark on the world, but are confident people will recognize your talent before long. You are eternally reliable, and would die for your friends.Take this quiz!

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