ThomasC

Yes.

Nick Sievers

Me too, i'm not as articulate as most of you guys with the reviews so i'm content with just reading what you guys have to say.

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Bob Turnbull

And I'm not as articulate as Nick, so I'll just say "What he said..."

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Ted Lee

what the other guys said...

i do appreciate your comments though guys. you often give me ideas to put into my netflix queue.

i've posted a few times in the 'expanding horizons' thread though...does that count?

this is my dvd collection. there are many like it, but this is my own ...

Brook K

Agreed Michael, I was disappointed too and agree with much of what you said. Coming off Casa de Los Babys I'd hoped for better, but this will make 2 Sayles films in a row I won't be buying on DVD.

I'm going to make an effort to be more active and post some reviews in the next couple of days. I just finished two work projects so hopefully I'll get a bit of a break. Besides, after all the hype and talk, a review of The Brown Bunny is pretty much an obligation.

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Early Spring - B+ / Witness for the Prosecution - B
There Was a Father - A- / The Battle of the River Plate - B
In Bruges - B / My Blueberry Nights - C+
WALL*E - A- / Presto - B+

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Nick Sievers

After all the controversy surrounding The Brown Bunny i'm actually glad to see some positive reactions on the forum. I belong to that small group here that love Gallo's Buffalo '66. I look forward to a review Brook.

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Michael Reuben

Me too. My wife and I still talk about our plans to span the years together.

I'll be interested in your thoughts on Brown Bunny, Brook. We all have other demands on our attention; during the early summer, I barely posted here at all (three guesses what I was doing instead). But I happened to look at some of the threads from prior years, and I was startled to see how many more participants this thread used to have.

M.

“They’ll just take some stinkeroo movie or some songwriter’s catalog, throw it onstage and call it a show.” -- Zeus, Xanadu (the musical)

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Edwin Pereyra

The thread is definitely being read based on the daily changes in the view count. As to the posting activity, you are right, Michael. I would like to see more activity on that side, as well. But the 2004 Film list thread has performed in the same fashion. There were a lot of posts in prior years but this year, it has trickled, as well.

~Edwin

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Ted Todorov

Yes, I'm reading -- I posted (relatively) recently, but it was about Before Sunset and it had it's own thread, so I posted there. BTW: Best American film of 2004 -- run, don't walk to see it!

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Lew Crippen

Put me down as another reader and non-poster. My excuse is that I’ve not had quite as much chance to see some of these movies when the first appeared as I did last year, and consequently I have avoided writing something like, I agree with Edwin—or Michael—or Jason.

Also this year (for some reason) a lot of the smaller films seem to have developed their own threads—which is, I think a good thing.

But to show that I am not a complete slacker, I’ll post some comments on a film my wife and I saw this last weekend.

¡Time is not my master!

Michael Reuben

Yes and no. Those separate threads often show very little activity and quickly sink from view. The advantage of this annual thread is that it manages to stay in active view, even if just a few people post to it regularly.

I've gone back and forth on the approach but have finally decided that, if it's a limited-release film, I'm posting my comments here. One can always post links.

M.

“They’ll just take some stinkeroo movie or some songwriter’s catalog, throw it onstage and call it a show.” -- Zeus, Xanadu (the musical)

"What kind of movies would there be if everyone in them had to do what we thought they should do?" -- Roger Ebert

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Lew Crippen

It is my job to keep smut out of England—and this is smut.



Says a customs official to Adam Symes the protagonist of Bright Young Things director and screenwriter Stephen Fry’s adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel, Vile Bodies. This scene, as the one copy of Symes’ novel for which he has already received an advance is confiscated servers as both a contrast to the never-ending party of the English upper classes between the wars and as a device to disallow Symes’ to marry his girlfriend, as he has not money nor his book.

The plot then follows the fortunes of Adam Symes as chance gives him money and he carelessly throws it away and as his romance ebbs and flows. All set in the frenetic social whirl, that he both chronicles and (with great humore0 embellishes and invents for the readers of a society gossip column that he is forced to write to make ends meet.

All the while he attends one party after another, each a bit more decadent than the one before—and each where a bit more champagne and cocaine consumed than the day before.

Along the way there is an incredible amount of humor as each scene and party is a bit funnier than the one before. Early on for example, the partier par excellance, Agatha (Fenella Woolgar) becomes inadvertently responsible for the forced resignation of the Prime Minister. She is also one of the many causalities of the lifestyle led but remains, to the end dedicated to good times as she manages to have a party even in an asylum.

Fry, in his first directorial effort manages the laughs very well indeed. But this would not be enough by itself to recommend the film. As one would expect from the source (Waugh), there is an edge and a price to be paid.

Both Waugh and Fry have great sympathy for their flawed characters—and the coming war allows at least two to redeem themselves.

Highly recommended for those who like period pieces. Or for those who want sorrow wrapped in a gaudy package.

¡Time is not my master!