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I got nowhere else to post this: I saw Sophie's Choice for the first time (have heard so often about it featuring "the greatest performance by an actress OF ALL TIME" that it's been an itch I've been meaning to scratch for a while). I of course have known all about THE CHOICE for years and years from the movie's reputation and footprint in pop culture... But MAN, nothing really prepares you for it, does it? It might be the most upsetting movie scene I've ever seen as an adult. The rest of the movie I found uneven: great performances (and yeah, Streep as Sophie is a contender, for sure), generally well-made and directed, but overlong and the Holocaust flashbacks in the second half are so heavy they render the rest of the movie almost inconsequential. An interesting thing for me to discover was that "Sophie's choice" is actually a twist: the movie seems to want the viewer to think the title refers to her having to choose between two men, but then at the end it drops the bomb. Also, I've always thought of Peter MacNicol as "that guy from Ghostbusters II" ("Eets Vigo!!" "I am drippings with goo", etc.), he really surprised me here.
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TrixRabbi posted:I always felt like Eisenberg was a poor man's Michael Cera and have kind of resented that he's gone on to huge fame while Cera is sort of fading away. But I haven't seen The Double or Night Moves yet so I'll reserve final judgment until then. The Social Network put Eisenberg way ahead of Cera in terms of "deserving success," frankly. I don't think Cera has ever knocked out a performance that good (although him in This Is The End is amazing).
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 20:24 |
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TrixRabbi posted:I always felt like Eisenberg was a poor man's Michael Cera and have kind of resented that he's gone on to huge fame while Cera is sort of fading away. But I haven't seen The Double or Night Moves yet so I'll reserve final judgment until then. This is really the stupidest hangup people have about Eisenberg. Him and Cera are actually not much alike, even in similar roles. Eisenberg may play nerdy types, but his characters are always a lot more outgoing and brash than Cera's used to be. Like, try imagining Michael Cera making the wise-rear end quips in Zombieland. Also, Eisenberg just owns everything in The Social Network. He plays a dick. not a shy dude. Cera is starting to play more dicks, so perhaps he is the poor-man's Jesse Eisenberg.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 20:25 |
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DetoxP posted:The Social Network put Eisenberg way ahead of Cera in terms of "deserving success," frankly. I don't think Cera has ever knocked out a performance that good (although him in This Is The End is amazing). I'm pretty sure Eisenberg in the Social Network is better than every Michael Cera performance combined. Incidentally, you guys reminded me of Arrested Development Season 4 and I wish you hadn't.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 20:27 |
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The comparison between Eisenberg and Cera is like the comparison between a dork and a geek. The two are different, though they often overlap, but if you show me a person, I could tell you exactly which one of the two they are. The other day at work, me and my coworkers came up with the conclusion that Shia LeBeouf is what happens when Michael Cera characters don't get laid throughout their early twenties. Shia is at his peak when playing a character who represents impotence or absence of a sort of manhood. The best examples of this are Nymphomaniac and (of course) the Transformers movies.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 20:34 |
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so peaking of...was Magic Magic any good?
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 20:55 |
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I read a thing about a film called After Life, a Japanese film on AVclub. What can you guys tell me about it? It sounds really sweet and uplifting while avoiding schmaltz.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I read a thing about a film called After Life, a Japanese film on AVclub. What can you guys tell me about it? Kore-eda film. I saw it years ago, I think right after it came out on home video, but I don't remember a lot about it except that its sense of place was striking and it was pretty unlike anything I'd seen before, especially wrt depictions of heaven. It's pretty low key yeah.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 20:58 |
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zVxTeflon posted:so peaking of...was Magic Magic any good? I thought so.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 21:05 |
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Jesse Eisenberg was the one and only thing I liked about Now You See Me. He plays a pretty effective dick.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 21:16 |
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CloseFriend posted:
This is how I felt about it.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 21:33 |
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CloseFriend posted:Jesse Eisenberg was the one and only thing I liked about Now You See Me. He plays a pretty effective dick. God, that movie... what a waste of a great cast. They had Elias Koteas and gave him like two scenes! In flashback! Elias Koteas should be in everything is what I'm saying.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 21:34 |
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I liked Davey Franco and Mark Ruffalo. And Tyler's score. I dunno. I kinda liked that movie. But I watched it at home for free with no expectations. I think that's a really good way to watch a film. It's how I watched Enemy. I had no loving idea what the movie was about, so it was a completely cold, creepy experience.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 21:35 |
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zVxTeflon posted:so peaking of...was Magic Magic any good? The mirror scene with McConaughey teaching the new kid how to captivate an audience is one of the best scenes about performance I can remember. The rest of the movie is pretty good as well. Edit: also Jesse Eisnenberg would have surpassed Cera with just his early performances from Roger Dodger and Squid and the Whale. No need to even bring up him crushing it in The Social Network. Voodoofly fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jul 2, 2014 |
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Voodoofly posted:The mirror scene with McConaughey teaching the new kid how to captivate an audience is one of the best scenes about performance I can remember. The rest of the movie is pretty good as well. Wrong movie, although it would have been hilarious if Cera was The Kid in Magic Mike.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 21:45 |
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Voodoofly posted:Edit: also Jesse Eisnenberg would have surpassed Cera with just his early performances from Roger Dodger and Squid and the Whale. No need to even bring up him crushing it in The Social Network. Yeah, I love Cera, but Eisenberg has put in some next-level work. He's pitch perfect in Squid and the Whale.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 21:47 |
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Yoshifan823 posted:The other day at work, me and my coworkers came up with the conclusion that Shia LeBeouf is what happens when Michael Cera characters don't get laid throughout their early twenties. Shia is at his peak when playing a character who represents impotence or absence of a sort of manhood. The best examples of this are Nymphomaniac and (of course) the Transformers movies. I think Shia LaBeouf is what happens when you put a person with undiagnosed bi-polar disorder under intense amount of stress. He's really going off the rails in a Daniel Johnston/Britney Spears kind of way.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 21:47 |
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Oh, I noticed there's links to blogs and such at the top of the thread and that I write stuff about movies too! I write for smugfilm.com. My latest article actually got linked on one or two other sites, which is pretty loving cool for me. The guy who runs the site edits all the articles for style so the most eloquent parts probably aren't me. I've barely written anything because of University poo poo, but I've started on some new ones now.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 21:57 |
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Michael Cera is great when he's playing a wet sock, but he doesn't have the focused intensity Eisenberg does.zVxTeflon posted:so peaking of...was Magic Magic any good? I liked it more in retrospect than while watching it, but the turn it takes is really interesting. It's also probably one of the few times a misleading trailer has ever been beneficial.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 22:31 |
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Slice of life: season 2 of Drunk History is back now, and it's already back to greatness.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 22:35 |
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Hitler saying "Uh oh spaghetti-ohs" was pretty drat great.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 22:40 |
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Hewlett posted:Slice of life: season 2 of Drunk History is back now, and it's already back to greatness.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 22:47 |
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That is the second best Weird Al cameo I've ever seen.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 22:50 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Wrong movie, although it would have been hilarious if Cera was The Kid in Magic Mike. I had to go back read that original post like ten times before my brain allowed me to see Magic Magic instead of Magic Mike. I even googled "Magic Mike" thinking maybe I was just remembering the name of the Soderbergh movie wrong. I do agree Cera would have been hilarious in that role, though.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 22:54 |
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Finally. I've been waiting for him to parody Bowie for years.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 23:00 |
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Voodoofly posted:I had to go back read that original post like ten times before my brain allowed me to see Magic Magic instead of Magic Mike. I even googled "Magic Mike" thinking maybe I was just remembering the name of the Soderbergh movie wrong. In fact, how much better would it be if it were Cera?
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 23:56 |
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I was forced to watch Rio and the whole time I was just thinking how much Michael Cera was phoning in his vocal performance. Michael Cera is not in Rio. Rio's human art design is so loving bland, I confused like three fat guys with each other because they look exactly the same. Seeing the lovely CGI film Free Birds along side it did not help because it had basically the same design and was an even worse movie. The Lego Movie showed us how inventive and interesting CG kids movies can be framed. There is no excuse for the sitcom talking heads bullshit. e: and Rio has songs with the lyrics "Romance and danger/Dance with a stranger" and saying a woman's body language as interpreted by a man trumps the woman literally saying she hates you. This happens in a dance club. Great message guys. ee: Jemaine Clement was a sole bright spot, but I could have done without the bargain bin 'Toxic Love'. But when you've got Clement you might as well put his voice to work. Dissapointed Owl fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Jul 3, 2014 |
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I was forced to watch Rio and the whole time I was just thinking how much Michael Cera was phoning in his vocal performance. Oh boo loving hoo. I had to watch that movie like, 4 times a day when I worked at Blockbuster.
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axleblaze posted:That is the second best Weird Al cameo I've ever seen. The first best better be Naked Gun.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:The first best better be Naked Gun. Nope, sorry, it was Children's Hospital. To be fair, the cameo he had there was one of the weirdest, most clever cameos I've ever seen.
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 00:24 |
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Yoshifan823 posted:Oh boo loving hoo. I had to watch that movie like, 4 times a day when I worked at Blockbuster. we can chill in my gazebo, gazebo
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Yoshifan823 posted:Oh boo loving hoo. I had to watch that movie like, 4 times a day when I worked at Blockbuster. I spent about seven months with A Bugs Life projected across 30-40 televisions on non-stop repeat while working at Sears in high school. gently caress that movie forever.
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 00:33 |
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axleblaze posted:Nope, sorry, it was Children's Hospital. To be fair, the cameo he had there was one of the weirdest, most clever cameos I've ever seen. I still haven't watched that show but I refuse to believe the scene in question tops this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqg-YZhr3bA
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I still haven't watched that show but I refuse to believe the scene in question tops this. I'm not saying that's not a great scene, but the one in Children's Hospital is just so odd and unexpected. To spoil it, there's an episode where one of the characters reveals that she is going out with Weird Al, who in the episode is played by Judah Friedlander wearing a "Weird Al" hat. While that's kind of funny, what really makes it work is later in the episode there's a flashback where the younger versions of one of the characters inexplicably is played without comment by the actual Weird Al. It was just such a weird, absurd joke that I haven't really seen done before.
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 00:38 |
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Btdurbs I'm now starting King Kong Escapes wherein King Kong fights Mechanikong.
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 00:41 |
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I am very sad about soccer Was there a conversation about soccer movies here? Because the World Cup got me in the mood to watch some, but they all seem to be a) about hooligans, b) coming-of-age girls' stories (which are actually the best of the lot), or c) literal FIFA propaganda. I don't know if there are some other high quality films that I'm missing? (And yes, I know about The Two Escobars)
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 01:45 |
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Victory, starring Michael Caine, Pele and Sly Stallone.
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 01:47 |
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So I just watched Virtuosity for the first time. Is any movie quote more quintessentially 1990s than "I'm a fifty terabyte self-evolving neural network double backflip off the high platform. I'm not a swan dive." ? Those are totally words that come out of Russell Crowe's mouth in this movie. Watch this movie.
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# ? Jul 3, 2014 01:56 |
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GonSmithe posted:Jesus Christ the 30 minutes of Tammy I've been watching are some of the least funny and least entertaining 30 minutes of my life. I'm sorry to whoever has to review this for CR. It's...yeah, the whole thing is just loving dire. Tammy is basically Tommy Boy minus any sense of ambition or humor, and that's being pretty generous to Tommy Boy. I just...ugh. gently caress.
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Virtuosity owns and is also dope.
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