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Re: SPC's Daily Movie Thread [Re: clock_of_omens]
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Super (2010) stars Rainn Wilson as a man whose wife, played by Liv Tyler, leaves him after she gets back on drugs after being sober for a long time. Kevin Bacon plays the dude she leaves Wilson for. He is inspired by a ridiculous christian super hero show to dress in a costume and fight crime. He quickly goes off the rails. Along the way, he meets Ellen page who wants to be his sidekick and who is seemingly psychotic.

Everyone in the movie is really good. Wilson plays both the sad-sack and the unhinged vigilante dides of his character really well. Bacon plays the totally douchey but also kind of charming drug dealer well. Page nails her character's crazy outbursts. Nathan Fillian is hilarious as the christian super hero. Also Bubbles from the wire is there in a small part. The movie is really funny, but it also highlights the ridiculousness of putting on a costume and going out to "fight crime." Overall I thought the movie was really good.




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We watched Modern Times one night and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? the next night, so I saw some similarities in the themes presented in the two movies.


Modern Times (1936) stars Charlie Chaplin as his famous Tramp character. This time The Tramp is working in a factory where he tightens bolts at an assembly line. He has a nervous breakdown and is sent to a mental hospital. Later he is sent to jail, and at one point he meets a girl played by Paulette Goddard. They decide to live together to help support each other, but things just don't seem to ever go right for them.

The two leads were really great. This movie is really funny. Pretty much every scene has some kind of comedy bit, and they are all funny. A couple of my favorites were the part where he accidentally sprinkles cocaine on his food while in jail and his song and dance number toward the end.

The movie also has a serious message about the plight of the working class. It is set during the great depression, and the two main characters are both just trying to get by. Goddard has to steal food to support herself. Chaplin spends the whole movie trying to get and keep a job. The movie explores this theme through comedy, and as such it has an optimistic ending. I thought the movie was great.




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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) is a movie about a dance marathon and the people who participate in it. Robert (Micheal Sarrazin) comes into the dance hall one day while walking along the beach. He sees contestants lined up. Gloria's (Jane Fonda) partner is rejected because of a cough he has, so the DJ calls Robert over and asks him to be Gloria's partner. He accepts, even though he had no intention of entering the contest. Alice (Susannah York) and her partner are actors who are trying to use  the contest to get noticed by Hollywood talent scouts. Sailor (Red Buttons) is an older man who has competed in many dance marathons. James (Bruce Dern) is in the contest partnered with his pregnant wife.

I thought the technical aspects of the movie were really good. The music was good. The cinematography/lighting were good as well, especially in the derby scenes. The spotlights shining on the character's faces while they are running around the floor make them look like corpses. It really accentuates how messed up the entire situation is.

Everyone in the movie was really good. Jane Fonda was especially great. Her character was extremely cynical and pretty depressed, and she nails it. Her line delivery is great. Her attitude is perfectly encapsulated by an exchange she has in line with Sailor:

Sailor: If you think about it, cattle ain't got it much worse than us.
Gloria: They got it better. There's always somebody feeding them.
Sailor: Sure, stuffing them up good for the slaughter pen. Right down the chute and some big dumb bullhorn is standing there with a sledge hammer. Voomp.
Sailor: But they don't know it's gonna happen. That puts them one up on us don't it?

This movie is also set during the depression, and it explores some of the same themes as Modern Times. The difference is that this movie is a tragedy and much more pessimistic. The fact that all these people would be willing to take part in this marathon, which lasts months, says a lot about how desperate they are to make any amount of money, in this case $1500. Throughout the movie, these characters are beaten down physically and emotionally. The dance contest represents life in a microcosm. These working class people do the same thing day after day, working for a pittance while rich people sit in the stands and watch, throwing out pennies if they feel entertained. Gloria finds out the truth behind the competition: the people running the contest keep a running tab of all the food and stuff the contestants consume, and the winning couple has this money taken out of their prize. This drives Gloria over the edge and she leaves the competition with her partner.  The ending to this one is just about the exact opposite to that of Modern Times. It is cynical and pessimistic. It also has IMO one of the best uses of the title as dialogue in a movie. It ties the title, the opening scene, and Robert and Gloria's lives together in a really great way. Then it shows the dance competition still going on, and drives home the competition as life theme. Overall I thought the movie was great.




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I really like Super. Last night we watched Atlantic City. The story is mostly a drug pushing romance sort, where the main character, a washed up wise guy in Atlantic City is accidentally bequethed with a few thousand dollars of coke, and a bit of baby laxitive to streach it out.

The acting was pretty good, and it was shot very well. I loved getting a feeling for the decaying city, and that was a few decades ago.

Defenately worth a watch


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As SPC said Atlantic City (1980) is about a man named Lou (Burt Lancaster) who lives next door to a woman named Sally (Susan Sarandon). He has a crush on her, and he watches her through his window while she is rubbing herself with lemon juice. Her husband and sister, whom her husband left her for, show up in town with a bunch of coke he stole in Philly. He attempts to make contacts to sell it, but word gets back to the original owners, and they come after him. Lou ends up with the coke and sells it. He then develops a relationship with Sally.

Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon are both good. Robert Joy was good as Dave, Sally's husband. His character was a total tool and idiot, and he played it well.

This is a crime movie, but the focus is more on the two main characters and their relationship than it is the crime. The drug dealing mainly serves as the background on which the real story develops. Lou used to be a small time associate of some mob people, and he has delusions of grandeur; he's always bragging about his time with them. The past is a big theme in this movie. Lou is obsessed with the past. He uses the drugs as a way to reclaim some of his former glory. There is a hilariously ironic scene in which Lou meets one of his former friends, who now works as a bathroom attendant. The friend relates a story from the old days and Lou says "Buddy, you're really stuck in the past." Sally's past comes back to haunt her in the form of her husband, which sets the whole plot in motion. Lou's obsession with the past and his need for glory are his downfall. Maybe the last shot gives the past a little hope, considering how hilariously ineffectual the wrecking ball was against the building.




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Half Nelson (2006) stars Ryan Gosling as a history teacher/basketball who is addicted to cocaine/crack and Shareeka Epps as Drey, one of his students. One day she walks in on him smoking crack. Over the course of the movie, they develop a friendship. Ryan Gosling and Shareeka Epps were both good and I liked the friendship. It was portrayed well. The music by Broken Social Scene was good. I didn't particularly like the cinematography; it was weird in some places, especially the crack smoking scene.

SPC said yesterday that he though Gosling's character was pretentious, but I didn't see that at all. He didn't have any delusions that he was going to change the lives of all his students. He didn't pretend he was anything, he was just a somewhat messed up dude who was trying to do whatever he could. The scene where he confronts the drug dealer wasn't even pretentious. The drug dealer says something like "oh shes supposed to be alright because she has a white friend like you to show her the right way" or something like that and Gosling says "I don't know." He's not acting like he has all the answers. Also In regards to the eastern philosophy thing, he barely said anything about it, and it was essentially a rant against absolutism. 




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24 Hour Party People (2002) tells the true story of Tony Wilson and Factory Records. It stars Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson. One day he sees The Sex Pistols in Manchester and it changes his life. He decides that he wants to get into the music business, so he buys a club for bands to play at. The then starts Factory Records. Steve Coogan is really good in the main role. I really liked the first part of the movie. The music was good and the story was cool. After Ian Curtis dies, the movie goes a bit downhill. It was still pretty good, but it kind of meandered and the music was way worse. The documentary style cinematography worked for the movie. The breaking of the fourth wall was done well too. Also there was a hilarious scene in which Coogan is arguing with another person about some music producers and he says "You're just fucking wrong." Also there is a scene with a sheep duck, i.e. a duck leading sheep around. The movie is worth watching for that alone.




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Roma (1972) is a movie directed by Federico Fellini that presents his vision of Rome. The movie has a really loose narrative thread, but mostly it's about Fellini's vision of the city. At the beginning, a young Fellini is learning about Rome in school. Later he travels to the city as a young man aound the start of WWII. Even later, Fellini is a documentary filmmmaker making a movie about Rome. It jumps back and forth between these three timelines and presents vignettes of impressions and memories Fellini has of the city.

The cinematography in the movie is beautiful, as usual for Fellini. His later movies have some of my favorite cinematography in cinema. I love the way his camera sweeps around and over scenes. He presents some amazing images. A lot of times there are strange little touches in his images that I love. For example, there is a shot of a car with some people making out in it and off to the side of the shot there is a bush that moves in a really strange way. Also the section set in the old ladies villa is filled with strange images. In one shot, there is a line of people in profile and one of the dudes is lookinhlg toward the camera with the strangest face. There are some great shots of really creepy paintings being hoisted up. They are on chains, so they cast shadows on the walls. This also brings up another great technical aspect: the sound design. In this scene the chains are creaking and it adds to the creepy atmosphere. Also the sound of wind is really prominent in a few scenes and it really adds to the strange atmosphere. Ditto the sound a cutting machine makes during the subway scene which sound is totally weird, and I can't even describe it. I also thought the music was great, especially the opening credits music and the music during the "fashion show."

I liked all the vignettes, but there were a few that I liked more than the others. One was the scene where the film crew enters Rome and drives through traffic. It starts to rain and the traffic starts to get worse. There were a lot of great shots of Roman architecture and toward the end of the scene, there are some shots of people in cars and other stuff through windows streaked with rain that I really liked. A somewhat similar scene closes the movie in which a pack of motorcycles ride through the streets. There are more shots of Roman architecture that are really great. I love the way the camera moves in this scene. It gets progressively darker as night falls, and there were some shots of shadows from statues moving huge across the entire face of buildings.

My favorite two sequences were the aforementioned subway and old lady's villa scene. In the subway scene, the film crew go through the tunnels with a guide who explains that they are always getting caught up with finfing historical objects. They detect a large open area and they dig through the wall. Inside is a 2000 year old roman house with perfectly preserved frescos on the wall. What happens next is practically heartbreaking. The villa scene starts with the old lady and the paintings. Then a bunch of religious people show up including preists. Pretty much out of nowhere a stage opens and there is an ecclesiastical fashion show. Preists and nuns walk and rollerskate along the catwalk dressed in the most ridiculous clothing. This scene was completely bizzare.

The movie is about Fellini as much as anything else. This Rome never existed exactly as shown, but this is how Fellini sees it. The move was alternately strange and beautiful and funny. I thought it was really great.




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