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Saw this for the first time two nights ago. It's amazing. Jennifer Lawrence is a marvelously understated actress, and this guy is fast becoming one of my favorite directors.
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oh how I hate this movie. This the best example of a movie crawling up its own asshole that I've ever seen. It creates this somewhat unbelievable world (which is OK, even though the world mainly has to do with debilitating social disorders...) and then doubles down on it over and over. It is very artificial, and emotionally unaffecting.
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As someone in a family that has been pretty brutally beaten down by these types of disorders, I found it to be pretty honest and realistic.
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So this movie's about wizards and shit, right?
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Lament wrote:As someone in a family that has been pretty brutally beaten down by these types of disorders, I found it to be pretty honest and realistic.

I have no personal experience with this, but I loved the emotional spaces it took me into
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A dance contest is a cure for anything.

It got a little ridiculous towards the end, but i liked it ok.
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I'm still looking forward to silver linings playbook 2: all sorts of terrible things happen to the ex-wife and everybody laughs about it.
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i thought It's Kind of a Funny Story was a better crazy-people-in-love film.
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I didn't care for Kate Winslet before Eternal Sunshine. I cery superficially fell in love with her during that movie. This movie is the second time that's happened. Jennifer Lawrence, in case it's not clear.
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The Argonaut wrote:oh how I hate this movie. This the best example of a movie crawling up its own asshole that I've ever seen. It creates this somewhat unbelievable world (which is OK, even though the world mainly has to do with debilitating social disorders...) and then doubles down on it over and over. It is very artificial, and emotionally unaffecting.
I don't know if it's deserving of this much hate, but I agree that it's kind of weak. Overall I'm not surprised it got the reaction it did; it's the kind of inoffensive and perfectly casted treatise on mental disorders that Hollywood churns out every few years and ends up in every newspaper critic's year-end list. David O. Russell has made two great movies, and I don't think this is one of them.
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The Argonaut wrote:oh how I hate this movie. This the best example of a movie crawling up its own asshole that I've ever seen. It creates this somewhat unbelievable world (which is OK, even though the world mainly has to do with debilitating social disorders...) and then doubles down on it over and over. It is very artificial, and emotionally unaffecting.
I don't know if it's deserving of this much hate, but I agree that it's kind of weak. Overall I'm not surprised it got the reaction it did; it's the kind of inoffensive and perfectly casted treatise on mental disorders that Hollywood churns out every few years and ends up in every newspaper critic's year-end list. David O. Russell has made two great movies, and I don't think this is one of them.
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Oh how I hate I heart huckabees.
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i didnt like it that much, even being a philly sports fan, but the part where he attacks the guy while led zeppelin is playing is fuckin intense, i love it. i cant listen to that song w/o thinking of this movie.
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The Argonaut wrote:Oh how I hate I heart huckabees.
It's a mess. I meant Three Kings and The Fighter. Love those movies a lot.

I'm looking forward to American Hustle, I really like what I've seen.
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This movie was remarkable in how few strong feelings it inspired in me. I didn't love it. I liked the comedy of finally seeing the dance at the end (though that's a page lifted straight from Little Miss Sunshine), but then it provided a pretty surface-level resolution of the plot, and the hand-tip of "From where I'm standing" tells the audience too much. But then I didn't hate it. Maybe that was just because of how much I enjoyed watched Jennifer Lawrence.

Honestly sometimes I forget that I saw this movie.
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O. Russell's Flirting with Disaster is great. Mary Tyler Moore is fucking hilarious in it.
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theplatypus wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:Oh how I hate I heart huckabees.
It's a mess. I meant Three Kings and The Fighter. Love those movies a lot.

I'm looking forward to American Hustle, I really like what I've seen.
Three Kings and the Fighter are great
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I do love The Fighter, but it's important to remember that David O was brought in on that movie pretty late in the game. That's as much a David O. Russell film as Spartacus is a Kubrick film. That's how I think of it at least.
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David O. sure turned his life & career around after that meltdown on Huckabees.
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