Films/DVD Asylum

Black Swan

71.108.155.64

tunenut

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After making a movie set in the collegial, warm world of pro wrestling, Aronofsky has veered into the world of dark blood sports that is ballet. This movie starts innocently enough. Like any other dance or sports movie, there are people putting in huge efforts in a competitive arena where only the few can win. it looks like it might just be the prototypical story of an artist's travails. Somewhere in the middle it becomes something else entirely. Suffice it to say, a woman in the audience actually screamed at one point. It becomes very tense indeed. It's kind of creaky melodrama, but boy, is it good creaky melodrama. And Natalie Portman shows as much commitment in her way as Micky Rourke did in The Wrestler.

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looks like drama queen chick flick territory any way you slice it NT - Jazz Inmate 20:18:37 12/13/10 (8)
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
- Obama should issue an Executive Order prohibiting Portman from acting - Victor Khomenko 06:16:58 12/14/10 (7)
  She did one wonderful role, at the age of 13... and it's been all downhill from there.
  
  Someone has to tell her to get real job... after all, she's got good education... she would probably make a nice secretary.
  - "...she would probably make a nice secretary." - rditmars 13:27:05 12/15/10 (3)
    As "nice" as Maggie Gyllenhaal?
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    "We are as gods and might as well get good at it." - Stewart Brand
    - "This one's for 'V for Vendetta' (WHACK!); this one - tinear 08:32:48 12/16/10 (0)
      for 'Closer' (WHACK!); this one for 'Cold Mountain' (WHACK!)".... and on and on. Yeah, I could enjoy being her "boss." I bet she even mumbles when she yells.
    - Now that was a GOOD movie. * - mr grits 14:17:43 12/15/10 (1)
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      Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
      - Loved the scene where he opened her belly with a letter knife... - Victor Khomenko 14:32:05 12/15/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Now that was a GOOD movie. * posted by mr grits on December 15, 2010 at 14:17:43
        
        Oops... wrong film! :)
  - I'd rather be water-boarded than watch a Portman film. nt - tinear 17:29:04 12/14/10 (0)
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  - Someone must have beat him to it. Didn't you see the Star Wars prequels? - Dalton 13:50:45 12/14/10 (1)
    Already she wasn't acting.
    - Nobody is guilty of acting in those prequels. * - mr grits 19:51:46 12/14/10 (0)
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      Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
RE: Black Swan - mr grits 16:02:08 12/13/10 (3)
Well, hope Netflix gets it soon. Here at the plantation we didn't even get "Fair Game". We'll have no left-wingness around here, bubba!

Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
- it's opening wide this weekend - tunenut 18:27:07 12/13/10 (2)
  Newspaper today said it made over 3 million in 90 theaters, looking to be a possible breakout "art" film, opening all over Friday. I don't know where you live, but I expect it'll be there.
  - I'll keep my fingers crossed.....disappointed "Fair Game" didn't make it. * - mr grits 18:31:48 12/13/10 (1)
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    Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
    - Are you being disingenuous? "Fair Game" is the Valerie Plame saga. A Nixon-like - tinear 08:35:41 12/15/10 (0)
      moment in our very recent history. It opened here and disappeared like lightning before I could see it.

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