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Dragon seeing some great movies. I'm jelly. And I may be thee biggest PTA fan on the board and am saddened by his demise of sorts. I gotta think dude does some crazy drugs and it makes me wish I took him in my death pool.
 
QSH I watched Gone Girl on the plane today (sitting in the Munich airport waiting on connecting flight) on your recommendation. Maybe we have different taste in movies. I didn't really care for it. Especially the ending. I'm not a happy ending kind of guy necessarily but that one was a real stinker. Is there a sequel coming? It is based on a book right? Might have to read it. I did like the way they took you through the story changing the way you think about all the characters. For a while it was a fairly smart whodunit, but the ending was just hollow.
 
Wild - Was pretty average imo. It needed to focus on something and it didn't it just kind of rolled along with things happening sometimes and sometimes nothing happening. Didn't focus on her journey up the coast, didn't really focus on her relationship with her mother, didn't go over the lessons she supposedly learned during her journey. She hikes, meets people, things happen, she thinks back to her mom, she hikes, meets more people, then gets to the end. The point of the book was that she was so devastated about the loss of her mom that she lost herself and she needed to do this hike to get back to her. The movie touches on a bunch of things, most seemingly unimportant, and then it just ends. Worth seeing, but certainly not Oscar worthy.
 
LogGrad98 said:
QSH I watched Gone Girl on the plane today (sitting in the Munich airport waiting on connecting flight) on your recommendation. Maybe we have different taste in movies. I didn't really care for it. Especially the ending. I'm not a happy ending kind of guy necessarily but that one was a real stinker. Is there a sequel coming? It is based on a book right? Might have to read it. I did like the way they took you through the story changing the way you think about all the characters. For a while it was a fairly smart whodunit, but the ending was just hollow.
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I didn't recommend the movie, did I? it was okay. I really pushed the book on people.
 
Beer said:
Wild - Was pretty average imo. It needed to focus on something and it didn't it just kind of rolled along with things happening sometimes and sometimes nothing happening. Didn't focus on her journey up the coast, didn't really focus on her relationship with her mother, didn't go over the lessons she supposedly learned during her journey. She hikes, meets people, things happen, she thinks back to her mom, she hikes, meets more people, then gets to the end. The point of the book was that she was so devastated about the loss of her mom that she lost herself and she needed to do this hike to get back to her. The movie touches on a bunch of things, most seemingly unimportant, and then it just ends. Worth seeing, but certainly not Oscar worthy.
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But how did Reese look naked?
 
QuinSnydersHair said:
Any idea if they're re-airing it? If so, when?
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This sounds like an opportunity for you to check your local listings.

QuinSnydersHair said:
Dragon seeing some great movies. I'm jelly. And I may be thee biggest PTA fan on the board and am saddened by his demise of sorts. I gotta think dude does some crazy drugs and it makes me wish I took him in my death pool.
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I think PTA's drug for a number of years has been Maya Rudolph. It's clear that he is no longer interested in making movies that feel like Magnolia or Boogie Nights. For a time he was the only challenger to Tarantino for "Best Director making a debut in the 90s." Without having seen Inherent Vice yet it seems clear that Tarantino stands alone at this point.

Beer said:
Wild - Was pretty average imo. It needed to focus on something and it didn't it just kind of rolled along with things happening sometimes and sometimes nothing happening. Didn't focus on her journey up the coast, didn't really focus on her relationship with her mother, didn't go over the lessons she supposedly learned during her journey. She hikes, meets people, things happen, she thinks back to her mom, she hikes, meets more people, then gets to the end. The point of the book was that she was so devastated about the loss of her mom that she lost herself and she needed to do this hike to get back to her. The movie touches on a bunch of things, most seemingly unimportant, and then it just ends. Worth seeing, but certainly not Oscar worthy.
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My wife refers to this movie as "Eat Pray Hike." Makes me laugh every time.
 
Over the Christmas break we saw Unbroken and Interstellar.

Unbroken we really liked, however my husband (who has read the book) thought they could have done more with it. Made both of us cry. Still, if the movie gets more people to read the book and know what this guy went through, then it's worth it. Pretty incredible, inspiring story, and incredible that Louie just died earlier this year at 97.

Interstellar was good, but I felt almost the same coming out of there as I did after we saw Inception. I liked it, and some parts were pretty riveting, but other parts were like "wait, what just happened?" Anne Hathaway, IMO, wasn't that good in it, but Matthew McConaughey has been good in everything I recall seeing him in. It's 3 hours long - maybe a little too long.
 
prodigy said:
So I watched Inherent Vice and VINYL & spycam warned that it was hard to follow. Yeah I would have to agree with that, you can just sit there wondering what the hell is going on with these characters with no explanation given. This is a big drop down from what I expect from a great director. It's too bad because there are some great moments, unfortunately wasted when the end product is rather underwhelming.
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QuinSnydersHair said:
Dragon seeing some great movies. I'm jelly. And I may be thee biggest PTA fan on the board and am saddened by his demise of sorts. I gotta think dude does some crazy drugs and it makes me wish I took him in my death pool.
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It's just not your traditional narrative film. The book, from what I read, is the same way.

This reminds me a bit of Nicholas Winding Refn. Drive quickly became a cult classic, so everyone was super excited for Only God Forgives. Then tons of people hated it. Because it's more surreal, and experimental; not easily interpretable, and therefore, seemingly meaningless.

These are "art films". Their artistic merits don't necessarily come from the narrative, per se, which is hard for a lot of people to understand. Attempting to comprehend these films the way you would with most other movies just doesn't work. It's like trying to read an abstract poem the same way you would a novel. They're very different forms of expression--even if they both are forms of literature--and thus, require different modes of analysis.
 
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