saw it all on showtime

[brisrealm]

alfie = eh, jude law is hot and all, but playing the casanova/schmuck that he's now painted out to be in real life made me care less for his woes and more for the michael caine original i have yet to see.  if you really REALLY want to see sienna miller's boobies, by all means, sit thru it for that, but i think you can get a pic of them faster and

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[zedsaid]

I couldn't agree with you less about Crash and Brokeback. Just because brokeback was slow and "understated"?

Crash was a melodrama, and a powerful one in my opinion. The juxtapositions of attitude in it were real, if convenient for the sake of story.

Brokeback was ok. But it wasn't powerfully entertaining.

Crash is imminently more re-watchable.

[brisrealm]

are you kidding me? i wanted to stab a fork in my eye after ludacris does the whole "the white man owes me b/c i'm black" speech and "look how that white woman is scared" before he goes over and actually rips off the scared white woman's car.

the whole movie is about feeding the stereotypes...

it's like the message was, "all of us are racist, ignorant assholes, so if you aren't now, just wait - you will be."

while both movies seem to proclaim that you struggle to be who you are in a world that may or may not agree with you, brokeback did a much better job of getting that across and humanizing its characters.

crash lost focus in its bid to wrap everything up in a tiny neat little package after it presented you with one stereotypical situation after another.

i thought don cheadle was the only character of merit in the entire thing, which is probably the reason he did it.

[zedsaid]

You think he would have stolen her car if she hadn't provoked him?

I think it's less about how "all of us are racist, ignorant assholes, so if you aren't now, just wait - you will be.", and more about how little we see of ourselves. That even if we don't see that we think that way, or are even capable of it, it's just a matter of being in the right place at the wrong time. And a lack of communication. If homeboy had just spoken up instead of reaching in his pocket when honky was already getting edgy...

And if you didn't thing the locksmith and his little girl were characters of merrit... i don't even know what to say. I thought that shit was tight.

I honestly didn't identify with the characters in Brokeback. I sat through the whole thing thinking "i don't get it." I understood the puking when they split. But making out in the street when they see eachother again, when they're so affraid of being "found out". I don't know, nothing with that movie fit. Over-rated.

[brisrealm]

You think he would have stolen her car if she hadn't provoked him?BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! wait, wait wait...gimme a second...BWAHAHAHAHAHA

[raeby]

Re: Upside of Anger

[brisrealm]

yeah, i was having problems with her being so angry and taking it out on her daughters but then guilt-tripping her daughters and trying to take them down her road.

zero interest in must love dogs:)

[oslowe]

Saw = Cube + Se7en - decent acting - competent direction + ridiculous production design

[brisrealm]

HAHAHA - yeah, like the "parking garage."

[sweetmelliemel]

While Crash tends to be over the top I still think it was well done and as a character piece I think it makes it's point. I think the point is to recognize that yes we are all a little racist but at the end of the day we all can also come together and realize that we're not all that different. The scene where Matt Damon's character has to save Thandi Newton and she is a wreck but has to give in to the rescue in order to survive was great. He is such an asshole but he is also the only one that can rescue her and he doesn't leave her behind. It in some way redeems him. Also the daughter buying the blanks redeems her father, and Sandra Bullock's character coming to the realization that her housekeeper is the best friend she's got redeems her. I think there is a lot of redemption going on in the movie, but what do I know I thought Brokeback Mountain was boring and slow and was riding too much on it's lovely scenery than it's story.

And really you watched Soul Plane. That is a free hour and 20 minutes I'm still trying to get back

[brisrealm]

matt dillon, not matt damon - don't insult matt damon! of course, all i can see or hear when i say matt damon is team america;)

maatt daaamon!

[sweetmelliemel]

Yeah I really fucked that one up! Grrr.

Yes Dillon. One of the Matt D's!

"This is your soul plane chauffeur Captain Antoine Mack speaking. Welcome aboard NWA flight 069 from the 310 to the 212. It's time to bust this coney y'all. In a hot second, I'll be hittin' them switches and gettin' this bitch pumpin' and jumpin'. So screw your sh*t on tight and enjoy the flight."

paraphrasing...

[brisrealm]

"hey, do you know how much 87 inch rims cost, man?"