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| 4. | Re: Precious "it's anything but... | December 17th 2009, 04:23 GMT |
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here... efilmcritic.com agrees with you. It's oscar wannabee time and I won't be able to continue this conversation for at least two weeks.
and it's not about being in a good place. It was about her standing up for herself. End of our argument. |
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| 2. | Re: Precious "it's anything but... | December 15th 2009, 03:40 GMT |
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The New York Film Critics Online awarded Mo'Nique Best Supporting Actress honors at (our) annual meeting this year.
So did the NY Film Critics Circle, which is a more mainstream group of critics. You are reading this site, "anonymous," so we're the only awards that count [but members include the online critics for MTV and Rolling Stone and mainstream heavyhitters like Rex Reed -- ask your parents or grandparents -- who also trek the online spaceways.] And... sometimes a film succeeds because it evokes an emotional response, just as it did with you for all the wrong reasons. As I've written before, in Precious an abused kid overcomes. Abuse. Aids. The crowd in our screening cheered when she finally stood up for herself. BTW, AIDS is not a certain death sentence now, as it was in the mid-80s. That doesn't help any of the actors I knew who had it then and I don't hang with that crowd anymore so I'm no current expert. "The Plague" hasn't spread to the straight community (that includes Cranky) with the same virulence that it had in the gay group. Lucky us... be safe. Use condoms cc |
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| 2. | Re: Precious Stinks | December 6th 2009, 02:43 GMT |
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"Mutha1"'s name is Eugene, which I know because he emailed me directly with the same questions. SPOILER ALERT: While I try not to spill specific plot points, there are certain ideas from the film mentioned below that you won't want to know about if you haven't seen the film but intend to. My Response:
"Sorry you missed the point. "Precious" is about, to use the vernacular, an abused kidlet learning to grow a pair. Despite your hating it, I can only report that, in a packed screening room here in New York, when the character 'Precious' finally spoke up for herself, the whole room cheered. It wasn't just me that thought the film rocked . . . and that cheer was an appropriate reaction to what is, for this film, a happy ending. As for "every negative stereotype about black people that there is," I absolutely disagree. That the characters are, essentially, 'angry poor people' is not a stereotype. That said anger leads to abuse isn't a stereotype either. It may be an overused plot device -- we'll not argue that -- but, again, the eventual response to the abuse is the kicker of the film. As for critical praise, the film has a 91% positive rating at http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/precious/ [and you can use that link to compare the multitude of opinions] Not that we're about to make a direct comparison but even films like "Casablanca" and "Citizen Kane" got their share of negative reviews. [We apologize for arguing like a film student. Sometimes it's appropriate.] cranky |
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| 5. | Re: Alternative critics | December 3rd 2009, 05:14 GMT |
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I'm not going anywhere... I've just had to cut back on seeing certain films that, given 15 years of reviewing, the readers of this site don't show much interest in. For the most part that means foreign language films and documentaries.
I'm still watching them. When there is something really worth mentioning -- like John Woo's Red Cliff -- we will. But all those things that looks like ads don't generate a penny unless you click and buy something. Simply put, we're going broke. If each reader donated the equivalent of one movie ticket, we'd have enough cash on hand to go another fifteen years or more. We'd have to beg mightily to get even a portion of the potential cash that would bring and Cranky's mom didn't raise a beggar. As to your other question, the best reference is the site rottentomatoes.com, which links a multitude of critics' sites with positive and negative reactions handily designated by... well, yeah, a tomato. Rotten or otherwise. But hey..... you know what would make a great Christmas or Chanukah present? Yeah, a one movie ticket donation. Beg beg beg. That's the last of that <g>. cc |
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| 4. | Re: Please explain "STAY"! | November 18th 2005, 04:34 GMT |
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IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN "STAY," DON'T READ THIS FIRST!
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. The entire film, from the opening to the surprise end, is all the death throes fantasy of "Henry," seen through most of the film as the new patient of shrink Ewan MacGregor. The established relationship with artist Naomi Watts doesn't even exist in "reality" until after Henry dies and the doc (Ewan) asks the artist (Naomi) to have a cup of coffee. Every character you see in the film is present (in "reality") at the accident scene. |
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| 2. | Re: Please explain "STAY"! | November 4th 2005, 17:04 GMT |
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wait one more week (for the hinterlands) and we'll clear it all up.
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| 3. | Re: ads before movies INSULT | August 24th 2005, 19:43 GMT |
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Ads before movies have been going on so long (and are so annoying) that NY passed a law mandating that theaters post the ACCURATE start times for motion picture features.
A great idea, except for the fact that the poor suckers who get seated early spend the first five or ten minutes of the feature being bothered by nitwits asking "Is that seat free?" That's one of the reasons we started this site with the dollar rating. Sometimes it's worth the grimace to bear the ads. Most of the time, no, but some of the time, you gotta do what you gotta do -- which now means bearing both the ads and the nitwits. Considering what (we) pay for a seat, yes, the ads are a royal pain. Then again, is anyone going to complain 'cuz audiences cheer and scream at things like Star Wars and any good 'n' bloody horrorflick? Let us know cc |
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