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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Aug 22, 2011 - 01:59pm PT
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August,
are you saying that in Heathers she stole the show?
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chez
Social climber
chicago ill
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Aug 22, 2011 - 02:01pm PT
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the supertopo WOS movie, where steve and mimi kick the mahoo out of mark and richard for their neverending nonsense!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 22, 2011 - 02:08pm PT
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It has been a while since I saw it but I want to mention Idi I Smotri.
If you want to see a different and extremely well made realistic warfilm. Go and see "Come and See" ("Idi I Smotri"), Elem Klimov 1985.
We are following a kid through the horrors of war and the kid being transformed physically and mentally through his experiences. The film is one of its kind, poetic, violent, surreal yet real, the white stork has taken to the ground following him home to his slaughtered family, a girl dancing, strong life, erotism and desperation in the same moves under the dark rainy sky where bombs have just fallen. The film is heartbraking in a realistic non-Hollywoomerican way. At times the camera is dwelling on faces and people where you can read the desperate change of emotion. Highly recommended.
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Aug 22, 2011 - 02:59pm PT
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anyone see "half nelson"? It was pretty good.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Aug 22, 2011 - 03:04pm PT
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Marlow... Thanks for that! I am not familiar with that film and have added it to the list to watch.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Aug 24, 2011 - 12:26am PT
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Just came across this Portal based sic-fi short. Pretty impressive!
PORTAL: No Escape
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Aug 24, 2011 - 12:28am PT
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Excalibur
been looking forward to it for weeks
btw, I'm looking forward to Pixar's Brave, though I'm not really a Pixar kind of guy
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Aug 24, 2011 - 10:14am PT
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Prince of the City-1982, dir., Sidney Lumet, starring Treat Wiliams
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Aug 24, 2011 - 11:05am PT
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Just finished Redford's latest, The Conspirator.
In one of the featurettes Redford said he didn't think that Americans knew the story behind the assassination, but I've read numerous books about it including Manhunt by Swanson, which was a best seller.
Still, it was a good film about allegiance and the foundation of civilian rights. Still, I was surprised that he did not use the last words of Mary Surrat (the first woman executed by the Federal government) despite having the accuracy of the umbrellas to keep the condemned from fainting in the extreme heat.
It should have also made clearer that her son was acquitted on the exact same evidence later due to remaining animosity.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 24, 2011 - 11:10am PT
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Roy Andersson's "You, the Living"
Dreams, a tuba, a drum, song and an electric gitar bringing light into the bleak poetic world of solitude together. An absurd film, all jazz, brilliantly composed. Makes me think of Kaurismäki, Beckett and Kafka. But with orginality and a twist: Where there are dreams there is hope. They all go on, in spite of, after all, because of. Don Quijote on the wall and Lethe being the end station. The name of the film borrowed from Goethe: "Be pleased then, you the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe’s ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot".
Enjoy!
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2011 - 01:12am PT
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Life During Wartime
pretty good so far
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2011 - 02:19am PT
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crap, wrong movie. I meant winter in wartime
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Mimi
climber
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Aug 26, 2011 - 02:42am PT
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Inception. Thought provoking movie. Very interesting.
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Josh Nash
Social climber
riverbank ca
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Aug 26, 2011 - 11:10am PT
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exit through the gift shop
A great watch on netflix. With a little bit of money, some vision, and a lot of hype you too can create art.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Aug 26, 2011 - 03:27pm PT
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On my way to the theatre to see Columbiana. Should be fantastic!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 26, 2011 - 03:47pm PT
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Apocalypse Now: Gardenias and the Ohio river
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9oBiD7-kAM&feature=player_detailpage
In my view this scene contains some of the best acting ever seen on screen.
Here is parts of the history behind:
"Apocalypse Now was shot in the Phillipines (most notably the Pagsanjan River and Hidden Valley Springs) and the shoot has become legendary for its length and difficulty; filming took so long, critics eventually began referring to it as "Apocalypse When?". The film went far over budget and over schedule for several reasons. A typhoon destroyed many of the sets, which had to be rebuilt at great expense. The Philippine Air Force helicopters used for shooting Col. Kilgore's attack on a Vietnamese village were constantly being called back by President Ferdinand Marcos to serve in actual combat against anti-government rebels.
Martin Sheen suffered a near-fatal heart attack during production and was suffering from alcoholism during the shoot. Sheen later revealed that the opening scene was completely improvised, that he had been drinking all day, his 36th birthday, before it was shot, and that he broke the mirror by accident. When he started bleeding, Coppola wanted to stop filming, but Sheen insisted that he continue. Watching the scene back, Sheen, said it was good to see where he'd come from knowing that he was never going to go back there again. It took Sheen weeks to recover and return to the set, during which time the film was in danger of being shut down. Being similar in appearance and voice, Joe Estevez, Sheen's brother, stood in for Sheen in some of the long shots and would later record some of the film's narration.
Marlon Brando appeared on set massively overweight, despite his character's description as sick and emaciated. He refused to learn his lines and had not read the book Heart of Darkness as Coppola had requested. The majority of Brando's dialogue had to be improvised, despite the short time during which the actor was available.
Coppola famously said of the shoot: "We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane." The director faced bankruptcy and financial ruin if the film was not finished or shut down; his personal investment and the bizarre circumstances of the production created immense personal pressure. According to Eleanor Coppola's 1991 documentary, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Coppola's marriage almost fell apart and the director suffered a nervous breakdown, including declaring to commit suicide three separate times through the making of the film."
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Aug 27, 2011 - 01:27am PT
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Columbiana was pretty good. Bathroom fight scene a bit too staged but the plot, acting, action, dialogue, and locations were all good.
I was surprised to see an action/shooting/killing/revenge pic like this try to stay within the PG13 rating... I understand it has a bigger audience and thus more rev source, but it just seems weird to see all the killing and have there be no blood and no swearing.
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Heeresbergführer
Mountain climber
Washington, DC
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Aug 27, 2011 - 12:28pm PT
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The 1957 remake of "A Farewell to Arms" with Rock Hudson. World War I Italian Alpini (mountain troops) in the Dolomites.
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Aug 27, 2011 - 05:41pm PT
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I just watched "the rainmaker" again, that is a pretty good movie!
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