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I watched 127 Hours last night. In case you don't know, It's about Aron Ralston and his amazing survival story about being trapped in a Utah canyon. He was pinned by a boulder and a wall and the only way out was to sever his forearm.
Wow, what a movie! My initial assumption was, "how can they make a movie about a guy stuck in a wash without screwing it up?" Man, was I wrong. James Franco did a good job of putting you there, in Aron's place. The flashbacks his character had were pretty surreal and hard to watch at times. Trying to imagine being in that situation was hard to stomach. Could I amputate my arm like he did? It's hard to answer that not being in that situation, but the movie sure puts you there. Checking out IMDB on the flick I saw this piece Quote:
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01-17-2011, 08:35 AM | #6108 | |
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01-17-2011, 09:04 AM | #6109 | |
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I've seen the other movies you mentioned too. Black Swan wasn't quite my cup of tea with the whole ballet thing but since Darren Arnofsky was directing it I knew it was going to have some twists I couldn't fathom missing without at least a look at the film. I don't know much about the Ballet "Swan Lake" but I found the movie helped explain it. The plot of the ballet seemed to mirror her real life, great writing. I've also enjoyed his past movies, "PI" and "Requiem for a Dream". Both these films are in my collection and were very visual and engrossing. The Fighter was more than I expected too. I thought, "o boy, another boxing movie. He wins in the end, I know where this is going" Yet Christian Bales performance is what made the difference to me. He played such a ****ed up charater flawlessly, he should be nominated for Best Supporting Actor with his role of Dicky. True Grit was a fun movie, I like most of the Coen brothers stuff and was not disappointed. I've never seen the John Wayne version nor read the book so I didn't know much going in. The 14yo girl playing Mattie was excellent, I hope she gets some good roles in the future. Jeff Bridges can play a drunk pretty well Seeing him stoned and burnt out in "The Big Lebowski" to a egotistical, fall down drunk was funny. I saw a post for "A Serious Man"(Coen movie I havn't heard about) and decided to check it out. I was impressed with it. The Coen brothers sure can make their dark comedies pretty damn funny. The Academy is going to have alot of hard decisions coming up with the nominees, and eventually winners, of the top awards this year. Such a good year for movies! |
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01-17-2011, 09:12 AM | #6110 | |
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Boyle knows what he's doing. And cutting that tendon was chilling.
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01-17-2011, 11:48 PM | #6111 |
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Just watched "The Others."
Pretty creepy. Check it out. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1109257-others/
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01-18-2011, 01:21 PM | #6112 |
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127 hours.
Great flick. Cried like a bitch.
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01-18-2011, 02:30 PM | #6113 | |
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01-18-2011, 02:37 PM | #6114 |
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Just watched 310 to Yuma over the weekend. Completely awesome. Best western I've seen since Tombstone.
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01-18-2011, 04:47 PM | #6115 |
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We saw The Dilemma this weekend. Real funny, IMO.
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01-18-2011, 06:07 PM | #6116 |
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Finally watched both Robocop and Universal Soldier last night. I'd never seen an unedited version of Robocop. I will give Verhoeven credit for making the violence uncomfortable, simply because of the sadistic nature of the characters perpetrating it. I say that as someone who loves Hard Boiled and Equilibrium.
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01-18-2011, 11:03 PM | #6118 |
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01-19-2011, 12:51 AM | #6119 | |
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Why'd he stop making movies? Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct (which I finally saw a year ago), Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Hollow Man....all awesome. I think I'm gonna check out some of his early work. Flesh + Blood sounds like a PV film.
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01-20-2011, 05:50 PM | #6120 |
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