I was told by friends who saw it that The Savages was good but...dark and depressing.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Scrappy - Jan 17, 2008 12:21:39 pm PST #3378 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Gris - Jan 17, 2008 12:22:48 pm PST #3379 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Darn it! Why are no Oscar contenders ever HAPPY?
I think I'm gonna see it anyway. As long as it's not about obnoxious teenagers, I guess I don't mind it being depressing.
erikaj - Jan 17, 2008 12:30:54 pm PST #3380 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, once in a while they are. But it's been a while.
Polter-Cow - Jan 17, 2008 12:33:29 pm PST #3381 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Little Miss Sunshine was mostly happy.
And so is Juno, mostly.
Gris - Jan 17, 2008 5:25:30 pm PST #3382 of 10000
Hey. New board.
True, but I don't think Juno is a real contender for the best picture.
I was pretty much "eh" on The Savages. Its a dry indie film of the type that is pretty overdone these days. Lots of slightly off-kilter shots of people looking blank or worried or confused, set to extremely low-key acoustic singer/songwriter music and occasional score that's heavy on the whimsy. I didn't really care about any of the characters at all. And the only moment I really enjoyed is entirely attributable to Kurt Weill.
I felt much the same about The Squid and the Whale, but at least it had that awesomely weird kid.
Stephanie - Jan 18, 2008 2:03:23 am PST #3383 of 10000
Trust my rage
I have a question about Juno.
I read a few adoption related blogs and those people all, like every single one, hated the movie and thought it was deceptive and did a real disservice to pregnant teenagers. But everyone everywhere else, here, for example, has seemed to really enjoy the movie - thought is was great, in fact.
ANyway, I'm just curious about how two groups of people could have such a different reaction to the same movie. I'd like to see it but not if I'm going to hate it, you know?
Jesse - Jan 18, 2008 2:39:43 am PST #3384 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm sure it was completely unrealistic about adoption, but I would imagine it was unrealistic in the way that almost anything in a movie was unrealistic.
sj - Jan 18, 2008 3:00:31 am PST #3385 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I read a few adoption related blogs and those people all, like every single one, hated the movie and thought it was deceptive and did a real disservice to pregnant teenagers. But everyone everywhere else, here, for example, has seemed to really enjoy the movie - thought is was great, in fact.
That's interesting. My aunt, who adopted two children, absolutely loved the movie. What specifically did they find deceptive?
I'm sure it was completely unrealistic about adoption, but I would imagine it was unrealistic in the way that almost anything in a movie was unrealistic.
I agree with this.
Jesse - Jan 18, 2008 3:02:52 am PST #3386 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, thank goodness. I was afraid I hadn't made any sense at all! But you know that things in movies are always less boring than things in real life, so I don't really think you can do adoption with a phone call and a handshake (which is essentially how it was portrayed in Juno), but the real life stuff is probably much more tedious to watch.
sj - Jan 18, 2008 3:06:29 am PST #3387 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
so I don't really think you can do adoption with a phone call and a handshake (which is essentially how it was portrayed in Juno), but the real life stuff is probably much more tedious to watch.
I can handwave all of that away with the presence of the lawyer in the scene, assuming their is more tedious legal stuff that happened off-screen.