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theplatypus wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:critics were calling Cohen a genius for basically a candid camera show making fun of hicks. I giggled a few times but I never understood why he was so big. probably one of the most overrated people in Hollywood.
I think the Borat clips in the Ali G show, and then the movie, were pretty great. I think the shtick is at its best when it highlights the absurdity of Western social customs, not when it's just being over-the-top gross and weird. I haven't liked anything else he's done.
did you like the rest of Ali G?
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Bird (1988) is on TCM tonight! I've been waiting forever to see it!
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dkfan9 wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:critics were calling Cohen a genius for basically a candid camera show making fun of hicks. I giggled a few times but I never understood why he was so big. probably one of the most overrated people in Hollywood.
I think the Borat clips in the Ali G show, and then the movie, were pretty great. I think the shtick is at its best when it highlights the absurdity of Western social customs, not when it's just being over-the-top gross and weird. I haven't liked anything else he's done.
did you like the rest of Ali G?
i think bruno was almost as funny as borat
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Brick.

Not really my thing.
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durdencommatyler wrote:Brick.

Not really my thing.
i love it. Have to re watch it....have you seen Looper?
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durdencommatyler wrote:Brick.

Not really my thing.
Nor was it mine.
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After Earth is getting awful reviews. It gives me great pleasure to watch the Smith family fail in the movies. But not Shyamalan. I always liked him. That's sad.
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Harry Lime wrote:After Earth is getting awful reviews. It gives me great pleasure to watch the Smith family fail in the movies. But not Shyamalan. I always liked him. That's sad.
i hate will smith, jada pinket fuuuck she is awful...and their kid? he used to rap with justin bieber....my god.

Shyamalan....Its been so long since i liked or care about his movies.
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Harry Lime wrote:After Earth is getting awful reviews. It gives me great pleasure to watch the Smith family fail in the movies. But not Shyamalan. I always liked him. That's sad.
There are reports that a large percentage of those negative reviews come from confused moviegoers who thought they had purchased tickets to the third installment of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise series.
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it's a Shayamalanaman movie? I'm out.
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BurtReynolds wrote:it's a Shayamalanaman movie? I'm out.
they did a good job of hiding this
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Harry Lime wrote:After Earth is getting awful reviews. It gives me great pleasure to watch the Smith family fail in the movies. But not Shyamalan. I always liked him. That's sad.
I'm the opposite. Shyamalan is terrible. Smith is a good actor when he's not doing his action star thing.
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turned2black wrote:
Harry Lime wrote:After Earth is getting awful reviews. It gives me great pleasure to watch the Smith family fail in the movies. But not Shyamalan. I always liked him. That's sad.
I'm the opposite. Shyamalan is terrible. Smith is a good actor when he's not doing his action star thing.
Why Smith passed on Django:

"Django wasn't the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character [Christoph Waltz's Oscar-winning King Schultz] was the lead!" Smith told Entertainment Weekly. "I was like 'No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy!"

Good. Didn't want him in it anyway. And how self centered is that statement? Can't ruin his movie star hero image.
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Actually, he's right. That's a pretty big structural problem with Tarantino's script. http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact ... ted-django#

(and while it's unlikely that structural problems were the main motivation behind his "I need to kill the bad guy" comment, it does raise an interesting point about the bizarre choices made in that script)
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probs watch "The Comedy" tonight

what am I in for?
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theplatypus wrote:Speaking of movies named after songs, how did you guys feel about Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz"?
A fucking gem.

Wow...
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VinylGuy wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Brick.

Not really my thing.
i love it. Have to re watch it....have you seen Looper?
I have not seen Looper. But I really want to.
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I didn't have a big problem with Django not killing DiCaprio, so Will is probably still wrong, but when and how he died was a big problem for me.
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theplatypus wrote:Actually, he's right. That's a pretty big structural problem with Tarantino's script. http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact ... ted-django#

(and while it's unlikely that structural problems were the main motivation behind his "I need to kill the bad guy" comment, it does raise an interesting point about the bizarre choices made in that script)

Maybe. But in the end Schultz killing Candie was the more poetic choice.
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Dev wrote:probs watch "The Comedy" tonight

what am I in for?
Not exactly sure what to make of that.
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