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Do. Not. Waste. Your. Time.

Loved this movie. Saw it when it came out back in '91. Immediately bought the soundtrack and I still listen to it often.

Saw this Saturday night. Excellent movie, Day-Lewis absolutely earned his Oscar. The guy is amazing. For a 2 & 1/2 hour movie there is maybe one or two scenes that drag. But that's a minor complaint. To watch this character evolve from a driven, ruthless intelliegent businessman into what he does eventually become is riveting. The acting is great, the cinematography is great. Just a top-notch movie. Go see it. Just make sure the theatre you see it in has comfortable seats.

You are so right and I am wrong. I guess the present-day spin on it confoosed me.

I'm certain that I used to know Ironman's origin when I was younger but the fact that he was never my favorite character combined with my advancing age have muddled that memory. That being said, the origin shown in this preview of the movie is completely different. I remember Tony Stark as a humanitarian Industrialist. Playboy sure but one with a social conscience. His creating the Ironman suit had a great deal to do with a degenerative heart condition and I recall that the suit was sort of like a superpowered iron lung. Robert Downey Jrs. Stark seems to be quite the badass motherfucker that builds Ironman as a way to escape terrorists and then probably fuck their shit up. The trailer does look pretty good though.

Yeah - I never really got the whole Napoleon Dyn-o-mite thing. Kinda like the lovely horse that went over my head too.

This is the case of a good movie getting continuous good feedback that just snowballed. By the time people actually get around to seeing it, they expect so much more from it. Its a really good, entertaining little flick - but thats all it is.

themetfairy wrote: ...but in my opinion it's better than any of the Best Picture nominees. Wow, really?

Damone sure thought he was hip and cool.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: ... thiswas really a well-written movie, or whether the character Juno was just an artificial amalgam of specific "ironic cool" code and cliches that couldn't possibly belong to an actual 16-year-old Do these ideas have to be independent of each other? Can't the 'ironic cool' also be well-written? Suro the Juno character was a reach - I've never met a 16 year-old girl cool enough to make me leave my wife and reassesss the last (almost) 30 years of my life, but it was a movie. A 'real' wise-ass 16 year-old wouldn't give you much a story would she? Look at the crap on MTV when they follow these kids around with cameras for whatever semi-reality show they're filming. These kids aren't interesting. They don't know anything and their opinions are either non-existent, ill-informed or just naive. I liked this movie because it was well written and the entire cast was great. 1982 prom theme for me was 'Breaking Away' by Al Jareau. It dovetailed nicely with a senior class theme of 'Break On Through in '82! I'm sure I've got my button around here somewhere...

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Didn't see this, but sounds dreadful. Is what I'm thinking.

Saw it last night. Wife and I liked it a lot. Gave it 8 stars. Not just Ellen Page, but the entire cast was stellar. Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, J.K. Simmons and the actress that played the step-mother. 'Dream big Bren!'

AG/DC wrote: Yeah, well I'd rather such movies not be snarky shots at stupid small town yokels getting what they probably deserve anyway, and get pitched with the tragic gravitas of a cinematic attack on Gotham You've got a lot of conditions. I haven't seen it but aren't the disaffected utes in Cloverdale pretty stupid in their own right?

...if it happens to latte-sucking Manhattanites I'd take offense to that if I still lived in Manhattan. Sometimes, like in CLOVERFIELD, the disaster is from a monster, alien, supernatural being or giant robot: Godzilla (98) Ghostbusters I, II Independence Day Beast From 20,000 fathoms Deadly Mantis King Kong (33, 76, 05) Sky captain & the world of tomorrow Sometimes, like in I AM LEGEND, we bring our doom upon ourselves: The Siege Escape From NY Gangs of NY Daylight World Trade Center 16 Blocks Daybreak Sometimes, its a result of natural disaster: Day After Tomorrow Armageddon Deep Impact Deluge (1933) and superheroes are constantly doing damage to NYC: Daredevil Fantastic 4 Men In Black Spider-man Superman X-Men, and My Super ex-Girlfriend not to mention such other NY disasters as "Hercules in NY" and "Can't Stop the Music"! Do you have some kind of cinematic almanac lying around or do you just grab this stuff off the top of your head? Give me an early sixties movie set in bucolic small-town America, where Johnny and his Chevy lead the resistance as the front lines for the the fight for the salvation of humanity is... right here in Greenfield Bluff! Close enough?

Because the bialys are better here?

I don't know what Mellencamp is talking about - I thought this movie blew chunks. Saw it in the theatres a while back. Agree that the actor who played the dad was excellent but Kal Penn as the son is seriously miscast (and by the way, is just not a terribly good actor) and the story is just so much tripe. My wife read and loved the book and was similarly disappointed. BOO!-lywood.

Vic Sage wrote: But the script and the storytelling left alot to be desired, dontcha think? I suppose, but I don't ever expect much in those areas when going to a movie of this type anyway so... What could really be done to improve the script? He was the only guy in the movie for 90% of it. The fact that there even WAS dialogue was a feat. The story was a bit choppy but again, I was mostly focused on the pictures.

Yup. I agree. The anti-Semite made a very good movie. Lot's of blood, gore and action.

I'm embarassed to say that I liked it. The zombies scared the shit out of my 10 year old and his 13 year old cousin. I liked the story and the shots of an abandoned, overgrown Manhattan were cool.

I like Kevin McKidd as Thor.

Edgy DC wrote: There should be an Eric Roberts Film Festival. I'd go.

I liked 'Star 80'.

"She wants the 'P' in the 'V'!" Saw it Friday night - liked it. A lot.