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Best line -- "Don't tell him he's Jewish; he loves Christmas."
I love this type of film; the get up there on your high horse and risk what you personally value to fight against the powerful, corrupt, immoral bastards who've been trampling all over you from their own high horses. My only complaint was that it seemed a little too impersonal, a little too matter of fact, and because I already know the outcome of the story, like Titanic, the "stakes" were never all that high because I knew that eventually they'd eventually sink the boat (get to the scene where Larry Welch asks McCarthy "have you no decency?" I also disliked the casting of Ray Wise as Don Hollenbeck. Ray Wise always plays a bad guy that you enjoy hating; I saw the actor, not the character and I just couldn't dredge up any sympathy for him. I also felt like I ought to take a shower afterward: all the smoking going on in the film was historically accurate, but I could just imagine the reek!
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On top of the usual ticket price and snacks, we look at about a $6 per hour babysitting fee, so when we got to the Guild in Menlo, a quaint little art house we like to go to because it's never crowded, and missed the last tickets by two people, we knew if we were to go to the next show, it would cost us another $12-18. We were there, so we went for it.
Now I don't like Clooney. Didn't like him in ER, didn't like him as Batman, didn't like him in Ocean's 11 or 12 or whatever. I did like him as Dapper Dan, but I think that's about the Coen Brothers.
The flim, while topical, didn't really go anywhere for me. It didn't tell me anything I didn't know and none of the characters really engaged me. There was this template structure with the jazz singer that came off as very contrived very quickly for me. The actors all turned in decent performances, but there jsut wasn't enough behind it all to keep my interest. The whole 'shot in B&W' seemed more about not making the extensive B&W footage appear too gray than really using stark lights and shadows. And nobody, not one of those performers could work a cigarette. It's a great prop - they all knew that in the '50's, but not anymore apparently.
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If you don't like an actors entire body of work, why did you spend money going to see a film that he is not only in, but directed as well? That is exactly why god invented Netflix. Or am I missing something here?
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He also wrote it. don't forget that part.
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Stacy's night to choose
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When does the girl get to choose? Oh, that's right. You're married.
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That's why we have separate movie nights. One for "The Boys" and one for "us" (read "her").
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It's quite expensive for us to see movies now because we have to factor in another $6 an hour for babysitting. Accordingly, we take turns, but we go out so infrequently that we often forget whose turn it is. Anyway, I'm ahead now since Stacy liked Mirrormask and neither of us were that impressed by Good Night and Good Luck, so the next pick is mine and I have a little leeway...
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Seems like there's almost always something we can both agree on. If there's ever anything Greg really wants to see and I'm not interested, well, I travel a lot, so he can always catch it while I'm gone. If Netflix sends a DVD that's not my cup of tea, well, that's why God invented books, right? I can't think of a movie that I really wanted to see that he didn't... but if I did, I'd see it while I'm on the road. I'm sure there must have been one at some point, but nothing that stands out in memory.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
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The only thing we can agree on is what not to see. Honestly, given the cost of movie outings, and the hassle, we often select our movies by the theater now. We hate the hustle of the nearby 21 screen multiplex, so we usually opt for the little art houses, like the ones in Palo Alto and Menlo Park. That's what motivated us seeing this movie more than anything else, really.
As for 'boys films', that's what DOOM gatherings are for, eh?
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