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08-04-2007, 18:08
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Finally got around to watching Miami Vice. As a big fan of Michael Mann, I can say it lives up to his standard. Breathtaking cinematography (as always). Quote:
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27-04-2007, 05:08
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incomputable
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Save the green planet This one Korean flick you have to see. Korean dude thinks his boss is an alien and tries to kill him. |
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03-05-2007, 02:54
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less bounce to the ounce
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I'm looking forward to this.  FFS! Fiddy has no more hip to the hop...
fun: HGC v.4 | twatting: @homegrownclone | fight: me | last.fm: DT New to interweb design? Your friends at dt could give a shyte. |
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17-05-2007, 23:33
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less bounce to the ounce
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The Last King of Scotland...FUCKING BRILLIANT & highly recommended. Run to see (well, rent) this one. Forest Whitaker's portrayal of Amin was beyond deserving of the Academy Award. FFS! Fiddy has no more hip to the hop...
fun: HGC v.4 | twatting: @homegrownclone | fight: me | last.fm: DT New to interweb design? Your friends at dt could give a shyte. |
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18-05-2007, 05:21
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The book's better. I went to Uganda not long after he 'reign' was over... fascinating country. |
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20-05-2007, 14:29
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Walking on a dream...
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28-05-2007, 08:41
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Walking on a dream...
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28-05-2007, 08:57
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Babel 1/10 Crash 9/10 |
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11-06-2007, 00:37
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Just saw Transamerica, which was excellent. A great performance by Felicity Huffman. Also watched Far From Heaven, which is also good. Quote:
Crash is for dumb people. It's "race relations for dummies". It was a heavy-handed, sappy, and manipulative - can you say Oscar material! Most of the time I spent watching Crash was like someone standing in front of me yelling "GET IT!? GET IT!?" Yes, I get it. Stereotypes are everywhere. No shit. It wasn't good, but it was certainly far from profound or truly insightful like so many people seem to think. Race really isn't a difficult subject as far as I'm concerned. While watching Babel, however, I didn't feel like someone was trying to smack me in the face with the Morality Brick of Racial Injustice. Quote:
Drawn from the biblical legend, the people are spread across the earth and made to speak different languages, which is where we get the "communicative difficulty" literary device (and the theme of the movie!). How was the Moroccan boy meant to make a Western audience feel superior? I can only understand that assessment as a kneejerk reaction. Its intent, if anything, was to demonstrate the common thread of human curiosity and mischief (basically, harmless childhood stuff - kids playing "doctor" and all that...plenty of Western children do that) that we all have regardless of culture. It's all about miscommunication - between a husband and wife, between Westerners/Moroccans, between a deaf Japanese girl and everyone around her, between Mexicans and Americans - a topic not as easy as race. Last edited by pgo : 11-06-2007 at 01:48. |
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