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Also, I should watch Pi again. I saw it forever ago and mostly remember that it was kind of disturbing but also interesting and intriguing. Requiem was just disturbing. I almost certainly didn't pick the right setting to watch it in, but I'm also not sure how to feel about a movie that I never want to watch again (although it was certainly exciting and beautiful at times).
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it was like a c plus and that was all the cinematography and hugh jackson. the story was ludicrous and the editing terrible. i was pretty disappointed. i mean compared to Black Swan and Requim its garbage, while the wrestler and PI are both much better films.
Here's my thoughts:
The movie seems like a series of allegories. That might not be the perfect word, but the 3 time periods aren't real events. They're all dream-dioramas, until the very ending which I kind of love. Even the present-day scenes are dreams - it's unreasonably unlikely that he would be a master-scientist working on an incredible-breakthrough treatment that would magically save his wife's life. None of it is really happening, he just wishes it could be. The end is the only scene which is set in reality. The entire rest of the film is Jackman's possibly-subconscious or extra-dimensional fantasy dreams about life and death - a visual representation of him dealing with the death of his wife.
I'm not trying to say that's how it really is or that that's a particularly valid interpretation, it's just how I saw it.
And the cinematography is really wild and unique. I think the scene where his future-orb-spaceship reaches the golden star is probably the most visually beautiful scene I've ever seen. Aranofsky just went for total glitz and glamour and ostentation and completely nailed it, not only in that shot but throughout all 3 periods. It's sort of self-indulgent, but it's so ****ing pretty. What I'm saying is I'd probably give it more than a C+ overall just for the cinematography alone, it's so good, and also you should watch it again.
Here's an interesting article about how DA created the visual effects. It's almost all organic, almost no CGI. There are some very minor spoilers in the article BigD, but way less than you would get from a 30 second trailer or a review, but if you want to go into the movie totally cold you shouldn't read it. You should watch it soon so I can hear what you think.
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I have not seen the movie, so please don't go into specific detail without spoilers. It's a movie I've heard such radically different opinions on, by people who's opinion I value. I really want to see it.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on The Fountain after you see it.
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the fountain is EASILY his worst movie.
What makes you say that? I think it's visually stunning, just an absolute knockout (and not just in the future scenes), and I also think it's fun, moving at times. quirky, intriguing, and open to wide interpretation and discussion, which is often enjoyable.
You should probably watch it again if you really didn't like it, unless you just think that his worst movie is still like an A-.
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Speaking of upcoming biblical movies, what do y'all think about Aronofsky's upcoming movie 'Noah'? I'm a little skeptical from the trailer, and if it were some lesser director I'd probably scoff at it, but Aronofsky will probably hit a grand slam cuz he's kind of brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OSaJE2rqxU
On a related note I re-watched his 'The Fountain' not that long ago. It's extraordinary. Pretty easily my favorite of his.
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I'd probably go with Harper simply because I like him the best so it would be fun to follow him day to day, and it's really a coin toss with all 4 of those guys for who will have the best season.
Harper
Hanley
Cano
Braun
But that's just the list of who I like best.
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That's a great article. Also we do get some decent discussions in the specific threads like True Detective and Game of Thrones, when they're on. Frankly though this forum lives and dies with JJJ. I think he knows how important he is, which is why he keeps coming back.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is an awesome movie.
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Pretty uneventful episode, although now we're all set up for the last 2, which I'm super looking forward to.
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I liked how Glenn's plan was to put on a body-armor suit and just run out into a throng of zombies, get totally surrounded by them and overtaken, hope that none of them bothered to gnaw at his juicy unprotected kneck, and then apparently call upon previously-unknown reserves of strength and break through them and just whatever his way out of there.
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Ok one more, I just had a thought and maybe it's stupid but maybe the reason MM investigated the missing girl with no apparent connection to the case (where they ended up finding the twig sculpture in the yard at her uncle's house), and the reason he's been investigating it on his own the last decade, is that his daughter didn't really die in a car crash. It obviously would have been widely known among the police if she'd been kidnapped and never found or something so I don't think it's that, but maybe there's a personal connection with her, more than just a surrogate connection.
I'm sure others have had that thought.
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So I re-watched the first episode and either I didn't watch very closely the first time, or it's just so dense that there are too many connections and minor characters and notable lines to pick up on all of them, or maybe a little of both.
One thing I didn't remember was that Tuttle was the cousin of the governor. I also completely missed MM's line to Brother Mouzone near the end: "I bet you wanna hear the hero shot huh? The place we carried the kids out?" Mouzone says, "Eventually, sure." Also maybe some more meta shit, describing it as "the hero shot."
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One other thing somebody else pointed out that I thought was interesting was that during the interrogation/debriefing MM knew that anything he said after he started drinking would be inadmissible, and that's why he requested the beer. Although that might not have any real significance.
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How did he end up investigating the school building in the first place? I forget what its significance is.
I really need to rewatch the whole series so far before seeing the last 3 episodes.
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I think I'll be pretty disappointed if it turns out that Woody (or MM, but more likely Woody) was a bad guy all along - not necessarily the killer but at least complicit or something. This show seems a lot smarter than to have a Shocking Twist! like that. It seems very likely that the daughter is tied to all of this somehow though, otherwise it's just a character-building tangent and with only 3 episodes to go there seems little point in that. In fact the whole subplot with Woody's marital problems is pretty unnecessary to the story unless it eventually ties in to the case.
Also, what do we think MM has in his storage unit?
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Also, The King In Yellow (via Hank's link) is available for free Kindle download from Amazon.
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Wait, did I miss Tuttle's 2010 murder?
Mouzone and his partner finally got interesting.
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1) book four only has stuff going on in the southern 7 kingdoms. No dany. No north. No wall. Most of the plotlines I care about aren't even in the book
That was what I guessed from the chapter titles, but I was also a little afraid that he'd killed off like everybody worthwhile. At least that's not the case, but it's definitely disappointing to know cuz I get kinda bored already at some of the repetitive intrigue involving lesser characters.
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One good thing about the way they are chapterized is that it seems to me you might be able to easily skip over or skim over the parts and characters that aren't that interesting, but that might not be very fulfilling either.
You guys have read all 5 books so far?
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Aren't the chapter titles just character names?
Yeah but it's a spoiler in a sense because you see who the major characters are gonna be and you might notice some omissions as well. They also weren't what I was expecting them to be, which maybe gets to your point about the series going off the rail after book 3. Disappointing to hear, but I'm not totally shocked. I heard him say somewhere that he had to whittle his last book down from 1800 pages, which is a little insane and which explains some of why he doesn't just bang them out.
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Another, even better trailer for season 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ZNaLQD60Y
You'll see.
I'm not quite sure what you meant by this, but maybe you shouldn't tell me. I adored the first book, and the second one which I'm halfway through is great too although a little slower at times (but having seen the show I also know it's gonna pick up). Little Finger often bores me, on the show too, but at least on the show he's surrounded by titties. But Arya just gave Jaqen her first name, and their relationship is one of the highlights of the whole series.
Mild book spoilers, in case others are planning to read them:
The first season followed the first book almost exactly, with very few significant differences or even significant scenes completely missing that I can remember. The main one I can think of is the white walkers coming alive at Castle Black. That didn't happen on the show, did it? The 2nd book has more differences so far, and frankly now I kind of wish I'd read the books before seeing the show. I'm gonna try and get up to date and ahead of the show before watching season 4. The show is still on book 3 to some extent, right? Also I accidentally saw some spoilers for book 4 (some chapter titles) but tried as hard as I could to forget them.
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I bet Phillip Seymour Hoffman wins the tribute segment.
I think he may not even get a mention. If I recall from the past, I think the tributes are for the year 2013, so he would be honored at the 2015 Oscars, having died in 2014. If so it will certainly be confusing as people wonder why they skipped him. Maybe they've amended that by now though.
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I've been waiting for brvheart to make his annual Oscars thread, but it seems like it wasn't gonna happen so I made it myself. Nominees:
Best Picture
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
June Squibb (Nebraska)
Best Animated Feature
The Croods (Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Kristine Belson)
Despicable Me 2 (Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri)
Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner, Didier Brunner)
Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki)
Best Cinematography
The Grandmaster (Philippe Le Sourd)
Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel)
Nebraska (Phedon Papamichael)
Prisoners (Roger A. Deakins)
Best Costume Design
American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson)
The Grandmaster (William Chang Suk Ping)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)
The Invisible Woman (Michael O'Connor)
12 Years a Slave (Patricia Norris)
Best Director
American Hustle (David O. Russell)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
Best Documentary Feature
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen)
Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher)
Dirty Wars (Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill)
The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer)
20 Feet from Stardom (Nominees to be determined)
Best Documentary Short
CaveDigger (Jeffrey Karoff)
Facing Fear (Jason Cohen)
Karama Has No Walls (Sara Ishaq)
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed)
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (Edgar Barens)
Best Film Editing
American Hustle (Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten)
Captain Phillips (Christopher Rouse)
Dallas Buyers Club (John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger)
12 Years a Slave (Joe Walker)
Best Foreign Language Film
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Stephen Prouty)
The Lone Ranger (Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny)
Best Original Score
The Book Thief (John Williams)
Gravity (Steven Price)
Her (William Butler, Owen Pallett)
Philomena (Alexandre Desplat)
Saving Mr. Banks (Thomas Newman)
Best Original Song
"Happy" (Despicable Me 2)
"Let It Go" (Frozen)
"The Moon Song" (Her)
"Ordinary Love" (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)
Best Production Design
American Hustle (Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler)
Gravity (Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn)
Her (K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena)
12 Years a Slave (Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker)
Best Animated Short Film
Feral (Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden)
Get a Horse! (Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim)
Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares)
Possessions (Shuhei Morita)
Room on the Broom (Max Lang, Jan Lachauer)
Best Live Action Short Film
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) (Esteban Crespo)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) (Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras)
Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson)
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) (Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari)
The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill, Baldwin Li)
Best Sound Editing
All Is Lost (Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns)
Captain Phillips (Oliver Tarney)
Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Brent Burge, Chris Ward)
Lone Survivor (Wylie Stateman)
Best Sound Mixing
Captain Phillips (Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro)
Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland)
Lone Survivor (Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow)
Best Visual Effects
Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds)
Iron Man 3 (Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick)
The Lone Ranger (Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier)
Star Trek Into Darkness (Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke)
Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)
Philomena (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)
12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Terence Winter)
Best Original Screenplay
American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
Dallas Buyers Club (Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack)
Her (Spike Jonze)
Nebraska (Bob Nelson)
I've only seen a few of the nominated films, but here are some predictions anyway:
Best Picture - 12 Years A Slave
Best Actor - Matthew McConaughey
Best Actress - Cate Blanchett
Best Supporting Actor - Jared Leto
Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Lawrence
Best Director - Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
Best Adapted Screenplay - Captain Phillips
Best Original Screenplay - Her
Best Visual Effects - Gravity
Best Cinematography - Gravity
I haven't even seen 12 Years yet, so I'm just basing that one off the hype. I also haven't seen American Hustle yet, but I heard that Lawrence was outstanding, and even though she just won one I think it's between her and Lupita Nyong'o for this one. Since I haven't seen either movie, I'm basically just guessing there.
All my other predictions are from films I've seen so I'm probably pretty biased towards them, but I'm hoping to see a few others before Oscar night.
Anyway, who do y'all think will win? Who do y'all think should win?
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Oh, I wasn't saying that at all. In fact, I think it's spectacular that they made it look like it was one shot when it wasn't.
Yeah yeah I was agreeing with you. The shot itself is of course incredible but the stitching is also incredible - there's no obvious spot where I can see where it was done, even when I look for it.
Apparently they did build in a potential cut in the True Detective shot - where the camera pans up to the helicopter was a purposeful potential hidden cut, but they didn't need it, it was actually all one shot.
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