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Patrick · **Joined:** Sun Dec 26, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 7941

monsieur verdoux finally finished

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039631/

highly affecting movie

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 27988

Dreww wrote:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/disney-invites-you-to-experience-the-magic-of-igno,102805/
Please note that this the the AV Club, not the Onion.

OK just saw this. Second screen stuff is bad enough with fucking TV shows but in a goddamn movie theater? Fucking hell what a shitty idea. The piece nails the ridiculousness of this of course but let's stop catering to the fucking attentionspanless twats out there before our entire culture becomes hopelessly and irrevocably degraded

Adequate Gatsby · **Posted:** Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:57 pm

Do you think a film is bad if hours or days after someone viewed it that can pick apart the plot and realize that a lot of it probably doesn't hole up to scrutiny? Films like Inception or Skyfall probably can't hold up to picking apart the plot yet at the time of viewing them I was sucked into them and was able to suspend my disbelief through their entirety. Does all good art have to be great all the time or by drawing you into its world, no matter how unbelievable, and making you forget anything else is that itself good art?

Dreww · **Posted:** Sat Sep 21, 2013 12:31 am

Criticizing a film based on plot holes is often ridiculous if the film is more concerned with other things. Films are symbolic/perceptual experiences, not logical games.

Adequate Gatsby · **Posted:** Sat Sep 21, 2013 1:06 am

Yes, but are Hollywood blockbusters concerned with other things?

Dreww · **Posted:** Sat Sep 21, 2013 1:37 am

Yes. They are often concerned with questions of morality, patterns of emotion, and politics, to name just a few.

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:11 pm **Posts:** 27988

Dreww wrote:

Criticizing a film based on plot holes is often ridiculous if the film is more concerned with other things. Films are symbolic/perceptual experiences, not logical games.

In my experience plot holes matter only to the extent the story is the focus or to the extent the plot holes interfere with the movies other things.

pink · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:42 pm **Posts:** 8450

Dreww · **Posted:** Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:38 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WAXQJyxCo[/youtube]
AAAAAAAAHHHHHH I want this to come out sooner than it is.

Dreww · **Posted:** Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:34 pm

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ ... s-20131002
Yay more mini-studios shifting from indie/arthouse to genre fare, that's exactly what we need. *suicide.gif*

pink · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:42 pm **Posts:** 8450

Dreww wrote:

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH I want this to come out sooner than it is.

I remember watching that movie in high school. Zizek is always entertaining.

Dreww · **Posted:** Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:46 pm

This is the sequel to that movie.

Zach · **Posted:** Thu Oct 03, 2013 11:06 pm

pink wrote:

Dreww · **Posted:** Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:42 pm

Heads up Russian Ark is being rereleased (!?) so if you want to see it on the big screen check your local listings in the coming weeks to see if it hits your area. I know it's playing here tomorrow and Wednesday.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:11 am **Posts:** 6217

"no nearby showtimes" :clashwho:

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