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[scotto]

[Smitty]

I dig it

[WoodDuck]

[Tequila Cowboy]

fascinating

it really is great. I own it and watched again about a month ago.

[Smitty]

Never saw it...

[brettac1]

Yeah, definitely one of my favorites. Makes me miss good (really, great) Wilco so damn much.

[Steve French]

Picked up Anvil: The Story of Anvil not knowing anything about it other than some of you fine folk had seen it and liked it. I thought it was going to be a mockumentary (a la Spinal Tap) or if the band were serious the fimmakers set out to make them look like dicks.

Not so. Really liked it, liked the people, and the guy shooting it was obviously a fan. The special features where he plays drums is so cool.

Totally totally recommend this. Its fantastic.

[Beebs]

[blessedcurse]

Loved the book...how was the movie?

[Beebs]

Loved the book...how was the movie?

I'm a big fan of McCarthy and The Road and I think they did a really nice job. Wonderfully bleak. Made me feel cold, wet and hungry just watching it. Doesn't follow the book word for word, scene for scene and there's a few details that stood out in the book that I would have like to have seen included. There are also some things I am very thankful they left out. Overall, captures it as best as I think could be done.


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I expected it to be terrible and it was way worse. Impressively awful. I think I'm dumber for having sat through the first 45 minutes of it.

[Tequila Cowboy]

Someone gave me Holmes as a gift when I was home recuperating. I've never made it past the first thirty minutes. Dreadful.

[wrekkr]

this was intriguingly wtf weird!

i will drink your milkshake

[Tequila Cowboy]

I like that it doesn't pick sides in the Tweedy/Bennett conflict. Frankly, they both look bad

Mostly the film makes it look like these are two people who clearly shouldn't have been working together anymore. I really miss Jay. Talented guy.

[bovine knievel]

I like that it doesn't pick sides in the Tweedy/Bennett conflict. Frankly, they both look bad

Mostly the film makes it look like these are two people who clearly shouldn't have been working together anymore. I really miss Jay. Talented guy.

RIP Jay Bennett

[The Black Canary]

There were things about this movie that equated to the Nazi's, such as the pile of shoes, while they were at the house and then found who know what in the basement. As soon as I saw that pile of shoes, I knew what to expect.

But I must say, the scene at the beach towards the end, I had to do all I could to get from bursting out in tears!!!! The background of the film, the starkness, gave it so I do not know how to really say it other than it is just as powerful, if not more than any of the acting. Though it was done thoughtfully by all.

[Beebs]

Couldn't sleep last night. Thank god for that ridiculous channel that airs the most god awful movies from the 80's that no one would ever want to watch, but busts out a classic once in a while.

[Duke Silver]

Watched this last week. Liked it, but thought it could have been better. Didn't care for any of the Charlize Theron scenes. Thought the score was heavy handed and distracting at times. It felt like they were trying to find a happy medium between grim, gray art film and tear-jerking Oscar fodder, and didn't end up doing justice to either. Still, I liked it overall. The performances were good, loved the casting (especially Deadwood's Garrett Dillehunt, and Omar from The Wire), and there were some really memorable scenes. It just left me feeling a little cold.

[never going back]

New Moon

I'm getting psyched up for Eclipse and my Robert Pattinson fix on Wednesday night!

[The Black Canary]

the Charlize Theron scenes are what's preventing me from seeing it (as they weren't in the book, and I think the book was perfect as written)

Yes there really was not any reason to have those scenes, even if it were to give background info on what happened to bring them to where they were.

[Duke Silver]

the Charlize Theron scenes are what's preventing me from seeing it (as they weren't in the book, and I think the book was perfect as written)

Yes there really was not any reason to have those scenes, even if it were to give background info on what happened to bring them to where they were.

the beauty of the book is that they never DID tell you why they are where they are

Yep. The movie is ambiguous about it too, though. The Theron scenes are mostly there to tug at the heartstrings, I guess. Doesn't really work.

I think the first scene (pre-title credits) should have been Viggo teaching his son the proper way to shoot himself. Would have set the tone perfectly, IMO.

[Penny Lane]

i love Duke Silver. Great name!

[Flood18]

Anvil

[scotto]

Almodovar + Cruz = cinematic bliss.

[Duke Silver]

i love Duke Silver. Great name!

Ha, thanks. He's America's tour guide on the voyage to jazz.

[Tequila Cowboy]

Saw this last night. Completely stupid but absolutely hysterical. John Cusack is basically spoofing his eighties characters.

[dee dee]

[Tequila Cowboy]

pretty terrible

I agree, although I'm in the minority among people I know.

[brettac1]

[The Black Canary]

pretty terrible

thank you, I thought it would be

[Flood18]

Good Hair

The Chris Rock Documentary on the African American Hair Industry-Hilarious and absolutely fascinating.