Posts by Thomas J.

Hatred? True Lies comes to mind. I hate the stereotyping and even more so the fact that the movie makes light of it. It sort of epitomizes why radicals don't like the U.S. It's mean spirited and hurtful on many levels but doesn't...

Thanks for the news about Steve's passing.  Sad to hear it, but I have a lot of great memories of his show.  I listened to it religiously from about 1998 - 2005.  As I moved away from the area and his hours got later and...

My DRAGONHEART dvd doesn't play anymore. "Disc is unreadable" type of error. Those original Universal DVDs seem to be the biggest culprits.

Quote: Originally Posted by Adam_S I never really got caught up in the mystery in the first place. :shrug: Neither did Antonioni

Quote: Originally Posted by rich_d Nor do I find great architecture empty but rather open Ok, then let's roll with that. The ending is "open" rather than "empty" -- ergo the open ending. Since when is that a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Adam_S faceticiousness on. So, I was trying to avoid saying Eclipse was kind of an empty movie and then Thomas tells me that's the point. That its very emptiness is proof of it's artistic...

Quote: Originally Posted by Adam_S it is...empty That's the point. You're looking the point in the mouth and not even recognizing it as such (!??!) As for it being vapid, the construction of the ending is not,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mario Gauci 03/21/08: THE ROUND-UP (Miklos Jancso`, 1965) I have made of this most notable of Hungarian films a personal holy grail ever since I laid eyes on an illustrated two-page spread...

Quote: Originally Posted by Martin Teller I don't mind the silents... or rather, I'm somewhat indifferent towards them. I got the Chaplin Collection Volume 2 from the library so that I could watch Verdoux for this thread,...

I was really underwhelmed by ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL. It's just not sophisticated. Plus I hate the fact that, once again, the "other" can't speak the language of the film fluently. That directorial shortcut drives me up the wall,...