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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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We meet in DOOMCom normally, and we're going to Loews Boston Common. |
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hankr is 100% sold to a law firm for the low starting price of $160k/year, his soul, and his free time annex ghost
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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So about what time should I be back in DOOMCom to meetup? |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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7:15? 7:30? |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Best movie ever. |
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lizakova is shinying up her life. Kitty Guardian
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Washington Post wrote: | Every few years Hollywood feels a compulsive need to blow up New York. Blasting the head off the Statue of Liberty, reducing the Brooklyn Bridge to rubble and turning Midtown into a moonscape is all done, of course, in good fun.
Whether one finds "Cloverfield" fun, however, may depend on one's susceptibility to cerebral hemorrhage. The conceit in this Drew Goddard-scripted, Matt Reeves-directed and J.J. ("Lost") Abrams-produced thriller is that the entire attack on and destruction of the city is seen through the viewfinder of a Manhattan partygoer's video camera.
The lumbering-yet-slithering 90-foot tadpole stomping around America's most valuable real estate is a pretty great effect. Our hero, as such, is Rob (Michael Stahl-David), who's being given a going-away party before his new job in Japan starts. Apparently miffed about not having been invited to the soiree, the monster starts lobbing bombs around Lower Manhattan.
Having become, by default, the party's camera guy, the thick-witted Hud (T.J. Miller) ranks among the greatest war photographers in history. At no time -- not in the darkest subway tunnels of New York, not in an out-of-control helicopter -- does he fail to keep an image on the screen.
"Cloverfield" may be a product that can be most comfortably viewed on the smallest screen. If people are going to watch movies on an iPhone, the reasoning may go, give them movies that look as if they were shot on an iPhone. Projected on a building-size screen, "Cloverfield" is a relentless, I-thought-my-eyeballs-were-bleeding exercise in visual disorientation.
So what does "Cloverfield" offer?
Bad taste? Dialogue that consists largely of OH MY GOD!!? The anti-cinematic aesthetic that is coming to govern our visual lives? All of the above, plus another slimy monster, engaged in an extreme makeover of Manhattan. |
I completely agree with the I-thought-my-eyeballs-were-bleeding part. |
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estick is Eraser-mad. Very Jewish
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:12 am Post subject: |
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I give it a solid 'B'. |
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jaster is back in black Mod Emperor of Dune
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:08 am Post subject: |
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Washington Post wrote: | The anti-cinematic aesthetic that is coming to govern our visual lives? |
The Washington Post has really become quite shallow and pedantic. _________________ When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot |
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rehughes is hustlin' The Guy You Meet on the Internet
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:52 am Post subject: |
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Indeed. I give this movie a B. Would watch again. |
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mchicken is dejected. Cover of Rush's Seminal Album
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:20 am Post subject: |
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I don't understand that comment about the visuals hurting your eyes. I really was not bothered by it in the least. |
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lugo is unable to remember his password. Such an Aries
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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jaster wrote: | Washington Post wrote: | The anti-cinematic aesthetic that is coming to govern our visual lives? |
The Washington Post has really become quite shallow and pedantic. |
Wow. Someone needs to teach the Washington Post that a new and entertaining presentation of an old idea is in fact better than a boring presentation of an old idea. |
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