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[danfrank]

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) 8/10

This movie is entertaining as hell. Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson are terrific. Fred MacMurray isn't bad, but I kept thinking that some other actor might have given this material the extra punch to make it even more of a classic than it already is (if that's possible). Any thoughts on who?

[Zahveed]

Big Magilla, your disdain for Hawkins' performance in Happy-Go-Lucky has simply become tiresome (and is approaching ITALIANO-levels of repetition). I think it might have more to say about you as a person than about the actual quality of her work in the film that you keeping harping on it.

Thanks for my morning laugh.

Well, sorry but ya know, there it is. I think it's funny that you had Hawkins down in your pre-nomination 2008 Shouldabeens for Best Actress (even though you had already admitted to not liking her performance[?]), and then quickly revised her out of them once the actual nominations came out and she had been surprisingly passed over. That was my morning laugh!

What a joyous morning!



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[flipp525]

Farmiga won the British Independent Film Award over Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky, and yes, she's better.

Big Magilla, your disdain for Hawkins' performance in Happy-Go-Lucky has simply become tiresome (and is approaching ITALIANO-levels of repetition). I think it might have more to say about you as a person than about the actual quality of her work in the film that you keeping harping on it.

Thanks for my morning laugh.

Well, sorry but ya know, there it is. I think it's funny that you had Hawkins down in your pre-nomination 2008 Shouldabeens for Best Actress (even though you had already admitted to not liking her performance[?]), and then quickly revised her out of them once the actual nominations came out and she had been surprisingly passed over. That was my morning laugh!



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[flipp525]

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) - 7/10

Interesting biopic, but with some plot holes, specially for those that were not familiar with Loretta Lynn's story. Sissy Spacek deserved her oscar and I think Tommy Lee Jones also deserved a nomination.

Beverly D'Angelo was completely robbed of a nomination for her supporting performance as Patsy Cline.



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[Big Magilla]

Farmiga won the British Independent Film Award over Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky, and yes, she's better.

Big Magilla, your disdain for Hawkins' performance in Happy-Go-Lucky has simply become tiresome (and is approaching ITALIANO-levels of repetition). I think it might have more to say about you as a person than about the actual quality of her work in the film that you keeping harping on it.

Thanks for my morning laugh.



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[Eric]

To be fair to Magilla, I'm still not tired and will likely never tire of railing against the pile of shit that is Crash.

[flipp525]

Farmiga won the British Independent Film Award over Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky, and yes, she's better.

Big Magilla, your disdain for Hawkins' performance in Happy-Go-Lucky has simply become tiresome (and is approaching ITALIANO-levels of repetition). I think it might have more to say about you as a person than about the actual quality of her work in the film that you keeping harping on it.



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[Uri]

Farmiga won the British Independent Film Award over Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky, and yes, she's better.

Poor Sally Hawkins should have known better not to give her breakthrough performance in the year of the loveable, compassionate Nazis.

[mlrg]

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) - 7/10

Interesting biopic, but with some plot holes, specially for those that were not familiar with Loretta Lynn's story. Sissy Spacek deserved her oscar and I think Tommy Lee Jones also deserved a nomination.

[Precious Doll]

Last House on the Left (2009)- 5/10

One ex...ten...sive scene that admittedly enforces later events, but my girlfriend almost vomited right there in the theater. Other small events detract from the overall rating, but I have said often this is the genre that I am (disappointingly or justly) most lenient toward. I feel it began where The Strangers left off in a way it seemed was meant to be overtly so...

I originally had no intention of see this remake until I noticed that it was the second film from Greek director Dennis Iliadis. He made a film back in 2004 called Hardcore, a mediocre and very sordid film about two young women entering prostitution. The thing that I remember most about the film is that he filmed one particular sex scene to cleverly that I felt I was watching porno flick. Like the shower scene in Psycho you think you see more then you actually do. However I think what may have shocked me even more was that I wasn't watching this on a rented tape from the video store but had taped it off television.

[Precious Doll]

Lake City (2008) Hunter Hill & Perry Moore 6/10

Really could have done without the drug related subplot.

I know it would've still been a fairly standard indie without that subplot, but it would've been so much better. There was plenty of good material they could have expanded without that subplot. When they included the chase sequence through the corn field towards the end (with one character showing up out of nowhere to save the day) my heart fell. The drug subplot almost singlehandedly sank the movie for me, and probably would have with an actress I like less in the lead role.

Rebecca Romijn's character didn't come out of nowhere She was alerted to possible trouble at Spacek's farm by the gas station owner (Keith Carradine). Of course one could argue that she did show up at the gas station out of nowhere.

A bigger gaffe for me was the scene in which Troy Garity's character wakes up after spending the night in Keith Carradine's garage for no apparent reason and then goes to an AA meeting. Carradine later tells Spacek that Garity spent the night in his garage after his AA meeting.

I don't know, without the drug subplot it might have been nothing more than a nice Hallmark movie but they could have ended it with Dave Matthews telling Garity the score had been settled.

It's not a perfect movie but Spacek is wonderful and the rest of the cast is good.

I really thought the film would be terrible and only bought the DVD because I am a big Sissy Spacek fan. I was surprised it was quiet watchable and had little touches that impressed me. For example we never find out what happened to Spacek's husband and I like that because we didn't need to know. Also a couple of scenes with interaction between character that we see though glass or at a distance so we don't know what is actually being said.

Ironically the 'chasing through the cornfields' climax reminded me of a scene from one of Spacek's earliest screen appearance, Prime Cut.



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[Big Magilla]

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Mark Herman) 7/10

An almost genteel Holocaust movie that plays like a hybrid of The Mortal Storm and Life Is Beautiful. It's early in the war and the horrors of Auschwitz aren't generally known yet, not even to the wife of the commandant and certainly not to her impressionable 8 year-old son. Things are going to change.

Asa Butterfield is a find as the kid who develops an unlikely friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the fence. David Thewlis is the commandant and Vera Farmiga is his wife. Rupert Friend is the menacing young Nazi officer who serves as the family chauffeur. Interestingly Butterfield will play the younger version of Friend in The Kid, the biopic about Britain's Kevin Lewis. It may make an interesting double bill some day, but I digress.

Farmiga won the British Independent Film Award over Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky, and yes, she's better.



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[FilmFan720]

Last House on the Left (2009)- 5/10

One ex...ten...sive scene that admittedly enforces later events, but my girlfriend almost vomited right there in the theater. Other small events detract from the overall rating, but I have said often this is the genre that I am (disappointingly or justly) most lenient toward. I feel it began where The Strangers left off in a way it seemed was meant to be overtly so...

Have you seen the original? Because it is still riveting and frightening and disturbing. I feel the necessity of this remake is nil.



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[Bog]

Last House on the Left (2009)- 5/10

One ex...ten...sive scene that admittedly enforces later events, but my girlfriend almost vomited right there in the theater. Other small events detract from the overall rating, but I have said often this is the genre that I am (disappointingly or justly) most lenient toward. I feel it began where The Strangers left off in a way it seemed was meant to be overtly so...

[Big Magilla]

Lake City (2008) Hunter Hill & Perry Moore 6/10

Really could have done without the drug related subplot.

I know it would've still been a fairly standard indie without that subplot, but it would've been so much better. There was plenty of good material they could have expanded without that subplot. When they included the chase sequence through the corn field towards the end (with one character showing up out of nowhere to save the day) my heart fell. The drug subplot almost singlehandedly sank the movie for me, and probably would have with an actress I like less in the lead role.

Rebecca Romijn's character didn't come out of nowhere She was alerted to possible trouble at Spacek's farm by the gas station owner (Keith Carradine). Of course one could argue that she did show up at the gas station out of nowhere.

A bigger gaffe for me was the scene in which Troy Garity's character wakes up after spending the night in Keith Carradine's garage for no apparent reason and then goes to an AA meeting. Carradine later tells Spacek that Garity spent the night in his garage after his AA meeting.

I don't know, without the drug subplot it might have been nothing more than a nice Hallmark movie but they could have ended it with Dave Matthews telling Garity the score had been settled.

It's not a perfect movie but Spacek is wonderful and the rest of the cast is good.



Edited By Big Magilla on 1241619778