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by mattorama12
Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:43 pm
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Collateral (2004)
Replies: 5
Views: 4647

Re: Collateral (2004)

The question: Where did Miles learn to play? The musician answers that he learned at Juilliard. Cruise shoots him and explains that Davis dropped out of Juilliard to join Charlie Parker's band. Wait, what? Cruise is correct, but find me anybody moderately informed about jazz who doesn't know that M...
by mattorama12
Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Best romantic comedies (post-2000)?
Replies: 27
Views: 8452

Re: Best romantic comedies (post-2000)?

I like to think of Stewball as a kindly, slightly crazy uncle. That definitely fits. Anyway, back to the topic at hand, all this talk of Love Exposure has gotten me so curious that it's on its way to my mailbox now. I'm certainly no authority on romantic comedies, but I would submit Forgetting Sara...
by mattorama12
Wed Apr 24, 2013 5:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Best romantic comedies (post-2000)?
Replies: 27
Views: 8452

Re: Best romantic comedies (post-2000)?

Then what, he routes a minicam, with dicktaphone, up through his butt into his purple people eater? Finally, the bane of the porn industry, withdrawal for the cum shot, is solved. Pic in Pic tv sales will soar I'm sure. I haven't seen Love Exposure , but what you describe can be seen in Enter the V...
by mattorama12
Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:52 am
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Collateral (2004)
Replies: 5
Views: 4647

Re: Collateral (2004)

The idiocy begins in the first few frames. It's revealed that cab driver Max is black, which I had a good laugh at. See, I lived in LA County for 4 years and took multiple taxi rides during that time. The overwhelming majority of cab drivers were Armenian. Occasionally, one would get a Russian, Ind...
by mattorama12
Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Best romantic comedies (post-2000)?
Replies: 27
Views: 8452

Re: Best romantic comedies (post-2000)?

Then what, he routes a minicam, with dicktaphone, up through his butt into his purple people eater? Finally, the bane of the porn industry, withdrawal for the cum shot, is solved. Pic in Pic tv sales will soar I'm sure. I haven't seen Love Exposure , but what you describe can be seen in Enter the V...
by mattorama12
Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Recent scoring trends
Replies: 6
Views: 1719

Re: Recent scoring trends

I'll leave out the 1920s and earlier because I haven't seen enough to give any reliable statistical measure. 1930s - 6.31 (13) 1940s - 5.69 (16) 1950s - 5.94 (34) 1960s - 6.13 (32) 1970s - 7.00 (63) 1980s - 6.15 (137) 1990s - 5.36 (369) 2000s - 5.02 (605) 2010s - 6.23 (176) My rankings are much more...
by mattorama12
Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Informative Documentaries
Replies: 25
Views: 8090

Re: Informative Documentaries

Unfortunately, after completing many of them, I learn absolutely nothing new. Or, failing that, I don't learn anything that couldn't be gleaned in 5-10 minutes of reading articles on the Internet. This is definitely true, I'd say for every documentary I've ever seen (I can't comment on either The R...
by mattorama12
Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:42 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: Spring Breakers
Replies: 10
Views: 5196

Re: Spring Breakers

T and A, sure, but not just that. I mean that on some level, it seems like a stereotypical escapist movie. Good looking people, party music, beaches, guns, money, etc. A movie sort of like what I imagine 21 and Over was. But that was only the very surface level (and how it was marketed). Also, I'm s...
by mattorama12
Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:06 am
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Fred: The Movie (2010)
Replies: 11
Views: 4370

Re: Fred: The Movie (2010)

Although, I did just send away for "The Room" today, so maybe I'm just as guilty I understand the rationale behind watching an awful film that is unintentionally hilarious. After all, I have seen both "Plan 9 from Outer Space" as well as "Deadly Prey". However, in both...
by mattorama12
Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:01 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: Spring Breakers
Replies: 10
Views: 5196

Re: Spring Breakers

Some of the camera work at the beginning of the film (pre-Spring Break) was used so effectively that I've rarely felt so uncomfortable in a theater in my life. All of the scenes with the girls calling their parents/grandparents and talking about their experiences without even a trace of the irony of...