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Posted by satchmo on Fri Jan 28th at 7:03am 2005

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I just viewed "Closer" this afternoon. It's a relatively small film by Mike Nichols with Jude Law and Julia Roberts.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376541/

Nichols paints a pretty grim world where love is a game of deception and manipulation, and sex is wielded by the players as a weapon. It's no less merciless than a deathmatch arena, where the only redemption can be found in loneliness and isolation.

The title represents a playful twist to the story. Even though the main characters are physically intimate, they are impossibly distant emotionally. Set in central London, the backdrop is emphasized by a depressing grayish sky. Harsh lighting and cold warehouse-style sets reinforce the emotional desolation of the characters.

And fitting to the theme of treachery, the most seemingly vulnerable character turned out to be the deceiver, and the one you trust the most betrays you. At the end, no one is left unscathed and everyone is emotionally bereft.

I don't need to reiterate that the film is aimed towards a mature audience. Anyone who is into glitters and pyrotechnics will probably drift into a coma before the movie ends.


So...are you in a coma yet?
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Posted by Monqui on Fri Jan 28th at 7:04am 2005

I went to go see that movie when I was already kind of down- it almost made me lose my faith in humanity. I thought it was a good movie, in terms of scope and the situations that it was portraying, however. Very well filmed IMO. [addsig]



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Fri Jan 28th at 7:32am 2005

I still say that the writer of that movie got the name and was influenced by Nine Inch Nails - Closer. It just fits too perfectly... [addsig]



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Posted by TeamWolfguard on Fri Jan 28th at 2:52pm 2005

Best WWII move ever...

Kelly's Heros

Just watched it again last night. If you have not seen this fix that problem.






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Posted by ReNo on Sat Jan 29th at 12:54am 2005

Orph, I know you didn't say anything specifically about how good Cat Woman is as a film, but I get the feeling you are rating it higher than Hero. If thats the case, you have an extremely twisted take on movies my friend [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sat Jan 29th at 1:06am 2005

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Orph, I know you didn't say anything specifically about how good Cat Woman is as a film, but I get the feeling you are rating it higher than Hero. If thats the case, you have an extremely twisted take on movies my friend


Catwoman is pure s**t covered vomit. I don't understand how anyone can sit through that movie, not to mention twice. [addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Sat Jan 29th at 1:22am 2005

Something's wrong with me, or maybe something's wrong with everyone else. I like just about every movie i see. I look past even the most REPREHENSIBLE acting and get so immersed in the worst storylines that I really don't notice how bad they are, I just enjoy seeing the little people walk around on the screen. I have rarely if EVER started a movie and not finished it. Maybe about 5 or 6 times in my whole life, maybe less. I have stayed up til 4:00AM for some movies you wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. Mainly this is because I like SCIFI movies, and most of them are not the greatest caliber of film. You will rearely if ever see me bash a movie. If you do you KNOW it's bad.

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Posted by Crono on Sat Jan 29th at 1:41am 2005

Sorry, bad acting, shot set up, cinematography, producing, etc, Just make my skin boil. Production Value probably runs higher then anything else though, I'll give the same amount of effort that the film makers gave to the movie. Things like Catwoman just rub me the wrong way because they take a already well developed character and rape their story AND character development in the ass. But, seriously, there are movies that are painful to sit through. The Lost World is one of them *shudder*. [addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Sat Jan 29th at 1:54am 2005

You see, I didn't mind the lost world because I like Jeff Goldblum, and Dinosaurs. So I didn't mind the stupidity in the storyline. Some movies are so STUPID that i LOVE them. Like anything from Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Even without the commentary, i would love them because They are so ridiculous. I guess I almost always find something to like in a movie, whether it's a certain actor/actress, or some other obscure tie to the movie. I am less forgiving with games. Like some of those MOHAA expansion packs. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sat Jan 29th at 5:10am 2005

Except Spearhead was GOOD. And the Lost World raped the book, which was GOOD. They asked Crichton to write another book so they wouldn't follow it ... Not to mention The Lost World book BLEW AWAY the first book. [addsig]



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Posted by Finger on Sat Jan 29th at 5:26am 2005

Just got the special edition DVD of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', with Johnny Depp and Benecio DelTorro. Holy s**t, I love this film!

...and Cassius, you get big props for that avatar. You switched to it just about the time I got the dvd.





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Posted by wil5on on Sat Jan 29th at 5:30am 2005

I'm much like Nickelplate, I just dont see badness in movies. Its rare that I can see something wrong with a movie without someone pointing it out to me. Apart from movies like Plan 9 from Outer Space, where the badness is the best part [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sat Jan 29th at 5:31am 2005

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Just got the special edition DVD of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', with Johnny Depp and Benecio DelTorro. Holy s**t, I love this film!
...and Cassius, you get big props for that avatar. You switched to it just about the time I got the dvd.


All those here are over $30. How much did you pay? [addsig]



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Posted by Finger on Sat Jan 29th at 6:35am 2005

It was a gift , so free for me. But I've seen it priced around $30 here too, which is why I didn't own it before.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 29th at 8:34am 2005

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Orph, I know you didn't say anything specifically about how good Cat Woman is as a film, but I get the feeling you are rating it higher than Hero. If thats the case, you have an extremely twisted take on movies my friend

i lost faith in most of the members here, when they claimed Ben Stiller could act.

if nothing else is true, we all must accept that our opinions of movies are never going to mesh well. basically because none of us seems consistent in our likes or dislikes.

catwoman, was it great? nope. but it was far from s**t as well. it was on par with at least 90% of all the other movies that attempted to capture a comic book persona.

damned few movies do this well, so all you can really do is rate each of them against the other attempts to do it. apparently making movies based on comics is not easy, as most flop.

besides Duncan, most if not all the movies i post, someone has a complaint about my preference

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Posted by Crono on Sat Jan 29th at 9:05am 2005

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it was on par with at least 90% of all the other movies that attempted to capture a comic book persona.
damned few movies do this well, so all you can really do is rate each of them against the other attempts to do it. apparently making movies based on comics is not easy, as most flop.
besides Duncan, most if not all the movies i post, someone has a complaint about my preference


What ... the ... f**k.

Have you been living in a ditch? Or did you just NEVER pick up any comic that any of the movies were based on?

I'm sorry, no. You're flat out wrong here. There is such thing as going out of the way to make something s**tty. It would be fairly simple and easy to have constructed an awesome plot for a Catwoman film. EASY. There's so much material to borrow from. I can pretty much guarantee that that trash was made because some prick said, "Hey, let's rape this character's story line".

I don't even want to hear "we have different tastes" from you. It doesn't make sense that you'd push aside something that was made with, practically, blood and sweat for something that was made for the sole purpose of getting horny guys in a theater seat.

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Posted by Cash Car Star on Sat Jan 29th at 9:31am 2005

? quoting Orpheus

if nothing else is true, we all must accept that our opinions of movies are never going to mesh well. basically because none of us seems consistent in our likes or dislikes.

I would disagree. I have found that you are consistently my polaric opposite in movie preferences. If you look back at this thread I don't think you'd find a single movie we agree on.





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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Sat Jan 29th at 10:57am 2005

Watched 'Walking Tall' last night. Entertaining, though the best bit was Johnny Knoxville's laugh I'd be interested to see how much remains from the original version and its sequels.

My sister rented 'The Bourne Supremacy' so i'll be watching that tonight - though I was a little unsure as to whether I liked the 'Bourne Identity'. We'll have to see if the sequel is more accessible plot-wise as I didn't have a sodding clue what went off before! One minute he's floating in the ocean, and next thing you know he's visited half the planet...oh, and kicked a few peoples faces in

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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 29th at 1:47pm 2005

crono... be quiet a second. apparently text failed me again. i was not comparing hero to catwoman. i was comparing catwoman to all the other comic book movies/films/TV shows.

i have seen nearly all of them ever made, and damned few compare to the books. you can argue till you are blue i don't care, but comic books rarely translate to the big screen, and do it well.

if you like, we can make a list of successful ones, cause it will defiantly be a short one.

cash, what i mean is, take me for instance, my likes do not follow a path, they are all over the charts. same with crono and adam and reno. we all like movies that seem to not have anything in common with each other. if i were to post "field of dreams" i could guess that only i would like it, but i could not guess for certain who would dislike it. make sense now?

crono again. hero sucked owl s**t.. end of story.

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Posted by Leperous on Sat Jan 29th at 2:03pm 2005

Hero and the like are different from the big-guns-and-shooting nonsense that you usually get, so it's not surprising that some people don't like it, fair enough.

But please, there's a difference between spotting whether a film is good or not, and whether you liked it- I know classical music is good music, but I still hate it; I know that BASEketball is a terrible film but I watched it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Though I haven't seen Catwoman, I still think you are insane if you're saying it's a better film than Hero- fine, you didn't like it, but it's still better in every way possible except for the particular bits which pull your chain






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