Saw “The Good Shepard”. I thought it was pretty good, even though it was, according to actual CIA officials, grossly inaccurate.
you are the first one i know who didnt fall asleep during Good Shepard
Yeah, it was hella long (almost 3hrs), but I found it pretty interesting; WWII -> Cold War era is pertty interesting in terms of US policy and intel.
what??? hahaha i didnt fall asleep neither did anyone i know who saw it…i thought that movie was amazing…really well done imo…
im outi
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They are when its thrown around in place of actual critical analysis. Whenever “critics” find a movie that is slowpaced they say it has “pacing problems” never mind the fact that the movie could be building up into something (but this fact never gets brought up). Google “No Country for Old Men” + “pacing problems” and see how many people do that.
I’d love to read a review that uses both “pacing” and “uneven” accurately and fairly to describe a movie, instead of buzzwords thrown around to sound like they really broke the movie down. Even among the rottentomatoes Top Critics, some are either too lazy to write or too self-obsessed that they can’t place the movie in context outside of their prejudice for 2 hours while they write a summary cough Salon.com’s Andrew O’Hehir cough
EDIT:
My nominee for WORST ACTOR EVER and contender to Michael Rappaport’s throne for “Worst Actor underserving of high profile work he gets” aka “Actor with the greatest agent in history” category:
Thus proving that there are several critics who wrote that No Country for Old Men has pacing problems. Bravo.
Why complain about film reviewers who aren’t even real critics in the first place? David Denby is a film critic. Roger Ebert is a film critic. Paul Schrader is (was) a film critic. People like Andrew O’Hehir get put on film reviews after the editors are impressed with their writing in the astrology and celebrity birthday columns.
This, of course, does not invalidate their opinions on the pacing of NCfOM. You know, just sayin’.
So yeah is anybody else gonna see Kung Fu Panda this Friday?
Looks like another good one from Dreamworks.
sweet lordy I can’t stand David Denby
Is it because he bores you or because you disagree with him too often for your liking?
because I disagree with his opinion and reasoning too often, because I don’t like his face, because he is a moron (as illustrated in American Sucker), and because whatever talent he does have pales greatly in comparison to Anthony Lane
Anthony Lane is a bit of a douchebag. However, agreed re. Denby’s face, which is an exquisite example of the horrors that the human genome is capable of.
There is a NEW MOVIE called Fahrooze listed on Stephen Chow’s wikipedia page. No info after a google search. Any ideas what this is movie is?
EDIT: Someone negative repped me for this post…
man i didn’t know there was such a big 2nd hand market for laserdisc’s
i was looking to get rid of some of mine since i’m running out of room in my theater so i offered them for free on a msg board and got like 200 pm’s calling me an idiot cause i have some rare ones. armageddon, int he name of the father w/ddl, plesantville, hellraiser signed by barker, robinson caroso on mars, scream unrated, and a bunch of criterions. i still got dawn of the dead laserdisc sealed too
now i probably won’t sell them and instead just let them collect dust
Just watched Be Kind Rewind…it was excellent!
oh doesn’t it not come out until the 10th of june
today is only the 5th
how could you possibly not know those were worth money? what i mean is you seem to have a good knowledge of movie collectables…
is that really fair to compare the two?
LOTR had tons of CGI artists working on the movie
i didn’t know people still collected laser discs
i usually just buy i never sell [dont think i ever sold any DVD, VHS, or Blu Ray/HD DVD i owned] so i don’t pay attention to the value of things. plus i don’t really care about my collection like other people. most of them end up in the basement stacked up after i watch them
and when i buy i just buy on release day 90% of the time