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« on: January 03, 2008, 09:47:50 PM » |
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Due out Jan 11 - kinda looking forward to this one - I may actually go to the movies for the first time in about 2 years!
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"I could not help concluding that this man felt the most supreme pleasure while he was driven on so fast and so smoothly by the sea…" 40.58°, -73.70°
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Bubba
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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2008, 09:59:40 AM » |
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Are you serious? Have you read any reviews of this movie? Funny story. My wife and I were driving out to Rock for a party recently and as we emerge from the midtown tunnel onto the LIE, she sees a giant billboard for that movie, featuring the smarmy, smiling mugs of Nicholson and Freeman. "What a couple of assholes," she says. This is funny, because she rarely curses. "I mean, brown trout, who wants to see those two jerks pretend to be friends for two hours? Can you imagine anybody wanting to see that movie?" Different strokes, I guess. Have you seen No Country for Old Men? That seems like a better way to spend two hours and ten bucks. This is one of the funnier movie reviews I've read recently: Times review of Bucket List by Stephen Holden |
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2008, 10:50:10 AM » |
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awesome review!
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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2008, 11:26:52 AM » |
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Didn't they just make this movie a year or two ago with Queen Latifa?
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Mims
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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2008, 11:50:41 AM » |
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i know a handful of people that saw an advanced screening of it (courtesy of some guy on the subway) and they actually kinda liked it.
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Bubba
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2008, 11:58:14 AM » |
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awesome review!
Right? I liked this line: "On the sexual front, the happily married Carter [Freeman] demurs when opportunity presents itself. But nothing has ever prevented Edward [nicholson], who has been married and divorced four times, from pursuing continuous novelty. The movie mercifully spares us the spectacle of Mr. Nicholson, whalelike at 70, in full rutting mode." |
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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2008, 01:06:20 PM » |
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I go to the movies a lot. I've been forced to see this trailer so many times I think I can quote the movie by now. I know the plot, and I know exactly what's going to happen. Why do I need to see the movie?
Sorry, that was just my rant based on having seen the trailer so many times. It's been run before every movie I've seen since early November.
The movie itself looked ok. I did want to see it when I first saw the trailer, but now I'm not so sure lol
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SeaCliff
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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2008, 10:49:41 PM » |
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Hey, Jack Nicholson makes me laugh...and that's what I usually go to the movies for. Even if I rarely ever get there. I'm not expecting it to win Best anything, just looking for a couple of laughs from a familiar actor in a campy role. What can I say, I'm easily amused.  Now what I'd really like is something new in the style and genre of the Monty Python classics.. |
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« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2008, 12:35:40 AM » |
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Just saw it.... It wasn't great but it wasn't bad, somewhat amusing, story was weak
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« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2008, 12:42:31 PM » |
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Hey, Jack Nicholson makes me laugh...and that's what I usually go to the movies for. Even if I rarely ever get there. I'm not expecting it to win Best anything, just looking for a couple of laughs from a familiar actor in a campy role. What can I say, I'm easily amused. Now what I'd really like is something new in the style and genre of the Monty Python classics.. Seacliff, sometimes my favorite movies are ones that were panned by the critics Go see it and have fun!  |
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Mims
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« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2008, 09:49:11 AM » |
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« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2008, 04:22:17 PM » |
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I saw it, and goddammit, I liked it. I must admit that the movie's main flaw is this For all the kindly gravity he puts into the role, Mr. Freeman cannot begin to make you believe that a quiet family man like Carter would abandon his loyal wife (Beverly Todd) during his final months of life to go on a spree with a rascally egomaniac. I don’t imagine Mr. Freeman believes it either.
Jack Nicholson carries this movie, seriously. . . |
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