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Rewatched Dark Knight Rises tonight, man on a second viewing I was not impressed at all. The entire last 45 minutes of the film had me facepalming.

From what point did it all go down hill for you?

Well to be honest none of it was great, but pretty much from when his back got fixed onwards everything seemed so implausible

Agreed. I think that the issue is that the film just felt a bit....hollow? Not nearly enough Batman beating the hell out of people, and I felt that the Catwoman angle was just way too false. Bane was cool though and his voice was awesome, even if it did sound like the narrator from Diablo II.

"Stay awhile and listen"!

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I've just watched "The skin I live in". Not my style but it was really interesting and DISTURBING. It's a film that makes you question about sexual identity and how, unconsciously, we treat people according to a certain body putting the "person" itself, the personality, aside.

I really enjoyed it.

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Silver Linings Playbook - somewhere inbetween the full tilt march to the beat of your own drummer David O. Russell of Flirting with Disaster and the how to subvert what should be a conventional picture David O. Russell of The Fighter. And absolutely wonderful. Jennifer Lawrence is pretty much peerless in her age group, Bradley Cooper justifies his entire career and even Robert De Niro (!?) gives an engaged performance.

Flight - The best movie about addiciton a big studio has made since The Lost Weekend was released in the godamn 40s. Largely faultless and the best movie of Robert Zemeckis career.

Hitchcock - I said it would suck. I was right.

Anna Karenina - I thought it would be great. I was wrong.

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Flight - The best movie about addiciton a big studio has made since The Lost Weekend was released in the godamn 40s. Largely faultless and the best movie of Robert Zemeckis career.

Really? That wasn't the impression I got from the trailer at all. I'll have to go check it out if you liked it that much. :)

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Flight - The best movie about addiciton a big studio has made since The Lost Weekend was released in the godamn 40s. Largely faultless and the best movie of Robert Zemeckis career.

Really? That wasn't the impression I got from the trailer at all. I'll have to go check it out if you liked it that much. :)

I was pretty suprised too, but it brings the A game on all fronts. I could quibble about the ending, but I won't because I like the rest so much. As far as mainstream Oscar bait goes, I'd put this well above Argo,

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Angelica, curious as to your thoughts on Requiem for a Dream, don't think I've ever seen you talk about it.

I think it's very good. But also comically self-concious, pretentious and tends to be wildly overrated by the current generation of tyro film nerds, as most of Aronofsky's stuff is (the only film of his I love unreservedly is Black Swan, which I'm aware puts me in a minority).

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Central Park Five - Fascinating look at NY right before it it got 'Disneyized', and a disturbing portrait of the - 'justice' system, and lingering, not so latent racism.

Skyfall - Better than Quantum, not a patch on Casino Royale. Javier Bardem is sublime, bu Craig is already visibly losing interest in the role (not that I blame him), bring on Idris Elba.

Killing Them Softly - Perfectly good, but disappointing since Andrew Dominik first two films are sort of masterpieces. Absolute worst title change in recent memory too.

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Angelica, curious as to your thoughts on Requiem for a Dream, don't think I've ever seen you talk about it.

I think it's very good. But also comically self-concious, pretentious and tends to be wildly overrated by the current generation of tyro film nerds, as most of Aronofsky's stuff is (the only film of his I love unreservedly is Black Swan, which I'm aware puts me in a minority).

ASS TO ASS!!!

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Skyfall - Better than Quantum, not a patch on Casino Royale. Javier Bardem is sublime, bu Craig is already visibly losing interest in the role (not that I blame him), bring on Idris Elba.

:wub:

That would be amazing!

Craig seems to want to stay. At least from what I've seen in interviews and the fact he signed up for two more films.

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The Man Who Haunted Himself. An underrated, nearly forgotten film Roger Moore did before Bond. It's a pretty good thriller and Moore proves he can actually act. Glad to have tracked down a reasonably priced copy since the DVD has been out of print for ten years or so.

Skyfall - Better than Quantum, not a patch on Casino Royale. Javier Bardem is sublime, bu Craig is already visibly losing interest in the role (not that I blame him), bring on Idris Elba.

:wub:

That would be amazing!

Craig seems to want to stay. At least from what I've seen in interviews and the fact he signed up for two more films.

Indeed. I don't get the "Craig looks uninterested" in Skyfall. His performance reminded me of Connery's in Goldfinger - laid back but still a badass. I thought it looked like he was having fun. He looks tired for half the film, but I'm pretty sure that was intentional. He's supposed to look worn out until he cleans himself up.

His exact words were to the effect of: "I get a real kick out of doing these films and will keep doing them as long as they want me and the scripts continue to be good."

I don't think he's leaving anytime soon. Even there is truth to the Elba rumors, he'd be 46 at the youngest for his first film. Don't think they'd go that route.

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Angelica, curious as to your thoughts on Requiem for a Dream, don't think I've ever seen you talk about it.

I think it's very good. But also comically self-concious, pretentious and tends to be wildly overrated by the current generation of tyro film nerds, as most of Aronofsky's stuff is (the only film of his I love unreservedly is Black Swan, which I'm aware puts me in a minority).

ASS TO ASS!!!

:takethat:

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