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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« on: December 14, 2012, 06:34:39 pm »
I actually deleted it off my queue when I was done, which I very rarely do.  I'm sure it's overshadowed by the fact that I'm working on my own abuse story (fiction, lemme clear that part up right away) that's so freakin' insane to me I doubt anyone would actually film it or buy the book.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« on: December 14, 2012, 06:07:38 pm »
Okay, "Mommie Dearest:"

Holy cow.  Holy freaking cow.  This was nuts.  Just over the top crazy.  It's actually listed on Netflix as "campy," which I'm sure the poor woman who actually LIVED through the experience really appreciates that and the fact that one part of it ("wire hangers") became a joke.  Or maybe it's a Mel Brooks thing where she gets power over it by belittling it.

And I should say while I am thinking about her, I didn't like her character.  At ALL.  And while they avoided the trap of her being too big of a woobie or just "pity me, my life is terrible," I wasn't exactly rooting for her, she was just the butt monkey.  Seeing her get yelled at is why we payed our ticket prices, right?  There was no build-up to her, or any sense of an "I will overcome this" or anything-- she's never really ABLE to shake off Joan's hold on her, nor does she win out at the end.  That SUCKS.  I know it's based on a real story and they did avoid falling into that trap but there wasn't any satisfying conclusion to the story.

Half of the dialogue in the movie wasn't even dialogue but insane, indecipherable cries.  From BOTH main actresses.  I feel like the daughter should have gone arch as well, that set should have had big gaping holes at the end from both women's insane overacting.  Or maybe more of a mental chess game like "Apt Pupil."

There was a call-ahead early on about Joan being unable to have children and I'm AMAZED that they didn't slip in the line "maybe God doesn't WANT you to have children."  There's also the scene after the swimming race where Joan beats her kid (before beating beating her) telling her that she'll always win because she's bigger and I SO wanted her to throw in "I'm big and you're small and I'm right and you're wrong and there's nothing you can do about it!"

And when the daughter (I can't remember her name! Which is NOT a good sign) is forced to clean the bathroom in the dead of night (which stuck in my mind because I had written a similar scene), I was first expecting Joan to make her eat off it, as the cliche goes, but when she's scrubbing, her younger brother Christopher (who disappears after that for about the ENTIRE length of the movie) steps in and she says "she'll kill you if she sees you."  Why doesn't she DO something about it?  And how come we don't see anything about the abuse HE suffered or enabled or anything?

We really should have seen more of the enabling that Joan gets, there was that scene where the interviewer walks in on an abuse scene... did she give them a pass in the press or call them out on it?  We had all those reporters and photographers fawning over her, you could have explored that a little more, after all, the daughter wasn't just in an abusive household, she was in an Old Hollywood Abuse House which is a whole different and fascinating animal.

And I'm amazed that the daughter didn't know about Joan getting drunk until she was an adult... I'd have thought it would be the first thing she'd know about.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: Mad Men (Season 1 - 2007)
« on: December 14, 2012, 05:41:44 pm »
Here we go.  Watching, I realized how terrible her delivery is for all her lines.  I think Betty Draper might be the only role she's good at, because she's meant to be disaffected and flat and frightening to the children (she made the little kid actors cry at least once during filming)


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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« on: December 14, 2012, 05:39:42 pm »
Neumie needs everything to be perfect first!

Actually, I forgot, I'll come up with something in a few.  Hold on.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« on: December 14, 2012, 05:20:30 pm »
Wow, they make those ratings BIG on the UK box... I remember when it was just a little triangle.

That creepy CGI Christmas Carol is on... not going to sit through the whole thing because it's so slick and lifeless... everything's so perfect there's no chance of surprise, you know?  No one in the background to catch your eye or the camera lingering in the wrong place... and while I do love animated films, motion capture (with the exception of Avatar) sucks, because it's basically watching actors wear suits of themselves while the camera gets in unrealistically close.  And the mouth movements... good god.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: Mad Men (Season 1 - 2007)
« on: December 14, 2012, 01:55:08 am »
Watching Love Actually and this is my first time recognizing that one of the girls fawning over Colin is January Jones, and its' strange seeing her so young (and Chip, she's there right next to Elisha Cuthbert!  Gotta like that!)

I'll throw in a screencap tomorrow.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: Boardwalk Empire (Season 1 - 2010)
« on: December 14, 2012, 01:08:21 am »
Which is why Tarantino expects his career to end with TV.  Having said that, I do love me some spectacle and a movie can always leave you wanting more in ways a TV show can't.

Tomorrow I'll see if I can find my Boardwalk Empire notes, I remember making a list of trope/cliches for HBO series... they have their own rules (like no teasers, famous songs for opening themes, etc) but I don't remember what all they are because it was so long since I made them.  I haven't added season two to my queue yet (many many more shows to watch)

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: Boardwalk Empire (Season 1 - 2010)
« on: December 13, 2012, 11:25:20 pm »
The headshot in the first episode (I think it was the first episode) was unbelievably cool.

I totally dig the show, I love that we can spend so much more time in that world than we ever could with a movie and live and breathe in it, you know?  We can see all this rich detail and so on and I also love binge-watching so I can just drown in it, it's great.

I didn't know it was a true story either... I also didn't realize that Kelly MacDonald was in it either, I adore her (and true to HBO shows... which I think should have their own cliche list), the most famous woman on the show doesn't appear ****.  At least not yet (as far as I know).

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
« on: December 13, 2012, 09:10:08 pm »
I'm not saying the motivation of KB3 and IJ4 would be the same, I'm saying that the visual and stylistic difference between KB1+2 to 3 would be very similar to the visual difference between IJ3 + 4.  Quentin Tarantino couldn't make a movie like he did in 2003 because he's not the same person or artist that he was in 2003.  And to be fair, he could do a story about Nikki but it shouldn't BE Kill Bill 3, it should be a spin-off or independently-identified flick to avoid that comparison.  And while he may want to do the movie and have the actress (which I DO think is cool), there's no guarantee that girl would be any good in the role.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
« on: December 13, 2012, 08:35:11 pm »
Well, what was left unsaid with the "Whole Bloody" thing?  Outside of the little girl after the Vivica A Fox fight, what more territory could you REALLY go into?

And besides, I think Tarantino has grown as a director so much so since coming up with KB that a new one, by the time he made it, wouldn't fit in, it would stick out like the fourth Indiana Jones movie.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
« on: December 13, 2012, 08:15:19 pm »
It took me a long time to realize that Kill Bill is a rampage happening through a movie theater.  Each of the DIVAS has basically gone into a different movie (as if they are actors), and the Bride is jumping from screen to screen-- and basically every genre-- in order to track them down and kill them.

The thing you bring up about directors getting further away from the things that got them noticed, when they were unknown they had little resources to make their flicks, ergo they had to rely more strongly on certain things like heavy dialogue and so on than they do now that they have budgets.  I certainly don't think Tarantino has slipped at all-- in fact, Kill Bill seems like the first movie in a series that seems like the thing he was BORN to make.  At least, that's how I see it.


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Now Playing: Movies / Re: Man Of Steel (2013)
« on: December 11, 2012, 10:54:41 pm »
I think you can go into some deep territory without losing the wide-spread appeal.  And the Christopher Reeve one is old, it's old and obsolete and while it's got some fun elements to it, you can see through every effect.

I'm all for a different approach, I'm just saying that the number of her films you can take your kids to is getting fewer and fewer... I'm sure it's one of the reasons that the Avengers did so well, kids could watch that easily, it was light, Superman should be light.  Star Trek was one of those great movie series (the old ones) where kids were safe to see it but it would go into deep drama and intellectual territory.

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Music / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: December 11, 2012, 09:23:32 pm »
I've never even SEEN 20K in my life.

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Now Playing: Movies / Re: Man Of Steel (2013)
« on: December 11, 2012, 09:07:43 pm »
It's very cool, it's got that "based on a true story" heavy gravitas and all that, and while it looks like it might be beautifully shot, I don't expect to have an ounce of fun at this flick.  Which seems to be a big thing for a Superman movie.  Shouldn't it be for kids of all ages?  I mean, I like the more adult Batman and so on, but Superman should be total four-quadrant everyone's welcome type flick.

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Music / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: December 11, 2012, 08:56:20 pm »
Might lose a bit of cool cred for this one but this has been in my head for days.


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