 
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
|
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
64.186.238.210
Boring, boring, boring with morally bankrupt charactors that left you no one to like in even a small way.Couldn't even finish watching it.
Music is Emotion
Follow Ups:
...one of the best movies of the year and was surprised it wasn't nominated for Best Picture, even though some of the actors were. It was intense and had fairly realistic dialogue - like a stage play with just four characters. Even though it made you uncomfortable at times and some of the characters weren't particularly likeable - it was believable and moving - it made you think and feel. And it resonated with me for a couple of days afterward - which to me is the sign of a good film.Actually, I thought it was a better film than either Sideways or The Aviator and I liked both of those.
I too enjoyed this film. I think that this was Portman's best performance, requiring her to believably project a range of emotions, which still was able to do. This role estalblishes her as an actress with more to offer than a pretty face.I actually thought everyone in the film did a good job. Their roles are not the ones that require "great acting", but rather chemistry and competence, and they succeeded.
The film is not boring if one likes intelligently written dialog, which is increasingly rare in film. More and more filmgoers do not want to see a film which is mostly comprised of people talking. There are no explosions, no intrigue, no surprises, no exotoc locations. Just intelligent people taken over by their emotions, talking.
And the scene with Jude Law and Clive Owen on the computer was a hoot.
like two horny guys pretending to be something they're not on the web? Seemed pretty juvenile to me.As far as POrtman, I think she came off as juvenile as well. Like a 13 year old trying to be 30. In fact she acted older in the Professional- when she was 12.
Music is Emotion
I think that vulgarity can be written intelligently. It was crude. But very funny. When I say intelligently written, I mean the the dialog struck me as being authentic for the situation. Things that real people would say under the circumstances.Case in point: The scene where Owen and Roberts are in the aquarium. Typical convention would have them both confused, and drag the misunderstanding beyond all bounds of realism. I thought that the scene was handled very well. Two intelligent people getting to the core of the problem, so that the meeting did not become schtick.
I never thought Portman played thirteen. I thought she played her stated age. I do not think that she was trying to play thirty. She is in London, nowhere to live, no marketable skills, so she strips. I not claim to be an expert on the stipping industry, but it seems to me that there is more of a market for twenty year old strippers than thirty year old strippers. Where I thought that she did a good job was in the range of emotions that she was asked to convey. From desperate, to madly in love, to disappointed, to angry, to jealous. Her emotional arc was subtantially wider than any other actor in the film. I found her performance to be surprising, given that I have found most of her previous roles rather boring, and her earlier films purpose being to break her as the next big thing.
and I really liked the movie!! But then again I am twisted I suppose. I thought Natalie Portman was great..and "fell in love" with her.Loved the way the Larry got his girl back..
Loved the swearing as well. The UK is to swearing what America is to baseball ...they can hold their own WORLD SERIES..no one else is eligible. I find a lot of typical hollywood texts so unrealistic because of the lack of certain types of swearing. When Larry said now fuckoff and die! The words were ...realistic... even if the delivery was too premeditated...
Also the scene where she told him she did not love him anymore was ....ehm hard to describe...but I found excellent and simpley realistic..but never before seen in a movie. Whereas I do believe sometimes a conscious decision about loving someone is made. Although it was her instinct that told here...if he demands an answer to his question..I can't go on loving him.
What I am having trouble finishing is 7 Samurai, however much I am getting to like the characters!
All and all Closer is a movie I really liked.
To infinity and beyond!!!
Given the critical buildup I left feeling very disapointed.
:-)
That scene where Law was breaking down and Clive finally told him he indeed did pork Law's woman was so sublimely cruel it should be hung in the Louvre.
----------
General Sherman sucks.
Clive was in the original Londoen cast. Part of the reason for his greatness. Scene with him and Natalie at the strip club: hot and powerful. Clive and Jude on the laptops: hilarious. Oodlees more. Jude and Julia, however, were weak. I would have casted differently for those roles, but they did the best they could do.
I stayed through the whole movie . . . suffering is a better description.Both my wife and I--occasionally we agree--thought the movie was horrible. Not just bad, but horrible. I couldn't agree more with you. I didn't care about any of the lead characters . . .
townsend
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]