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[dreaMaker]

Just give Manoel Oliveira a fucking honorary Oscar. At 101 he's premiering a new film in a couple of weeks and has already another one in the works.

Does he ACTUALLY stand around a set and direct himself?? Hard to believe.

Have you ever seen a picture of him? He looks younger than Clint Eastwood

My God.. This man looks great at his age..

[mlrg]

I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira) - 7/10

Just give Manoel Oliveira a fucking honorary Oscar. At 101 he's premiering a new film in a couple of weeks and has already another one in the works.

Does he ACTUALLY stand around a set and direct himself?? Hard to believe.

Have you ever seen a picture of him? He looks younger than Clint Eastwood

[jack]

Avatar - 9/10

Maybe the most enjoyable experience I've ever had in a movie theatre. Also, it's total boxoffice worldwide is currently $1,602,168,000. That's only $241 million off Titanic's worldwide total... I think we have a new champion.

Also, if you've yet to see it you don't need to see it in 3D. In fact, don't. Avatar is a very vibrant and colourful film. Due to the 3D glasses there's around 20-25% colour-loss.

[Damien]

I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira) - 7/10

Just give Manoel Oliveira a fucking honorary Oscar. At 101 he's premiering a new film in a couple of weeks and has already another one in the works.

And how many Academy members have even heard of de Oliveira? I'd say about 3 percent.

[Reza]

I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira) - 7/10

Just give Manoel Oliveira a fucking honorary Oscar. At 101 he's premiering a new film in a couple of weeks and has already another one in the works.

Does he ACTUALLY stand around a set and direct himself?? Hard to believe.

[Okri]

Which one? I haven't seen The Brothers Bloom.

My bad. When Precious Doll gave the film 1/10 and Sabin reacted with mock horror, you said something like "that seems about right" - so I assumed you agreed with Precious Doll and had seen the movie.

I'm with Sabin on this one. I think the Johnson film is marvelous. I don't even mind the third act. And Weisz' final lines.... oh, they are beautiful.



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[mlrg]

I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira) - 7/10

Just give Manoel Oliveira a fucking honorary Oscar. At 101 he's premiering a new film in a couple of weeks and has already another one in the works.

[anonymous1980]

I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira) - 7/10

[dreaMaker]

Be Cool (F. Gary Gray, 2005)

2/10

Why, oh, why did I waste 2 hrs of my life?

[Sabin]

In trying to come up with a specific quotation in which to begin discussion on The Brothers Bloom, I feel surrounded by a chorus of crickets at every try. re: names, situations, dialogue, I don't really know what to tell you. None of these things bothered me outside of the ending which reeks of a recut third act. I think this is a masterful production: the throwaway gags, the lilting score, the deadpan deliveries, all working in conjunction with an incredibly moving theme. Perhaps the cynic in me is easy prey for movies about rebirth, but that's what it is. It's an incredibly touching story about a cad of a brother who is trying to make amends for manipulating his brother into a "written" life and tries to write him a better one as a parting gift. Because the plot of The Brothers Bloom is a little freewheeling (intentionally for fooling Penelope) and the third act implies a lot off-screen, The Brothers Bloom feels more like the outline of a con movie rather than a true blue one...which actually I don't mind. The arc of the narrative is defined by characters rejuvenating their relationships with brother, girlfriend, job, etc. There's a lot more going on in The Brothers Bloom besides whimsy for whimsy's sake!

Brody seems caught in a hangdog recursive loop, but Rachel Weisz (an actress that I've tried awfully hard to like in other films) gives the best performance of her career in The Brothers Bloom.

[abcinyvr]

Crazy Heart
7/10

I would prefer Colin Firth to get the Oscar, but I certainly will not gripe about Bridges winning.

[Eric]

Which one? I haven't seen The Brothers Bloom.

[Okri]

Eric and Big Magilla agree on a movie. Very weird.

[Big Magilla]

The Brothers Bloom (2009) Rian Johnson 2/10

I watched this on Sabin's recommendation. His review from back in May convinced me to see this even though I was not a fan of Johnson's earlier work, the high school noir, Brick.

I liked this even less. The film is pure whimsy. The problem is that whimsy is a delicate thing. If you're going to make a film built on, you have to have material that will sustain it. I Married a Witch and The Luck of the Irish are examples of classic films that had material strong enough to do so, as are most of Wes Anderson's films, particularly Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, but not this.

Nothing in it makes sense, from the inane dialogue to the absurd situations to the ridiculously named characters (the younger brother is simply called Bloom, which one assumes is his surname, while the older brother actually has a first name).

I'll stop short of saying Adrien Brody and Rachel Weitz should give back their Oscars, but they're fast becoming the winners with the most career killing follow-ups since F. Murray Abraham and Mercedes Ruehl.

[Big Magilla]

This time around it was the underwhelming sadness that permeates the entire film.

I'm guessing you meant either underlying or overwhelming.

Thank you. I meant underlying.