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Like musicals or don't, Gershwin is one of the great composers of the 20th century. I would listen to my CD of his stuff which also includes Rhapsody in Blue any time. It's not background music though. You need to really listen to that shit. Incredible orchestral virtuosity and originality.

His impressionistic symphony, An American in Paris, came before this movie, and the movie was inspired by it and in part, built around it.



Those interpretive parts in particular - the melding of different kinds of pure inspiration - I just watch with my jaw dangling open in homosexual ecstasy.
 
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Like musicals or don't, Gershwin is one of the great composers of the 20th century. I would listen to my CD of his stuff which also includes Rhapsody in Blue any time. It's not background music though. You need to really listen to that shit. Incredible orchestral virtuosity and originality.
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He was phenomenal. Poor guy didn't even live to 40, and the history of music is worse off because of that.
 
Flight (2012) - Plane scene is quite something. Wow. The second act (drama about addiction) is also excellent. Acting is top-notch throughout. John Goodman is an hilarious drug dealer.

Enjoyed this from beginning to end. Yay degenerates. :guitar:

9.0 Matty Rains
 
Matty
Flight (2012) - Plane scene is quite something. Wow. The second act (drama about addiction) is also excellent. Acting is top-notch throughout. John Goodman is an hilarious drug dealer.

Enjoyed this from beginning to end. Yay degenerates. :guitar:

9.0 Matty Rains
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we watched Flight on Thursday night.

I was very happy with the first scene with total nudity from Nadine Velasquez from My Name is Earl fame and chicago native....

I really enjoyed the flight/crash plane scene as well. Do you think many long term alcoholics are that functional at .24 blood alcohol level? I wish there was an at home test, as I'm gonna try to get to .24 myself tonight and watch the documentary Bully
 
Kramer Vs Kramer (1979) - Former Best Picture winner that I noticed in my listings and decided to revisit.

Great movie IMO. Through a current-day lens, a lot of the points about divorce and the effect on children seem obvious but in its time it was ground-breaking. Regardless, it is well presented and moving - and always relevant -and a very absorbing watch for me start-to-finish.

The big controversy if you read the discussion boards is, should it have beaten Apocalypse Now for Best Pic?

I myself would have voted for Kramer vs Kramer.

8.4 out of 10



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I have not seen Django or Silver linings yet but I did see both Flight and The Master recently.

Flight was very good-I don't know why everyone was creaming themselves over it, but it is a good film. Denzel and Goodman are both great and the plot had enough hicupps to keep you interested. Again we have the protagonist who is an asshole and I am supposed to root for. In this case it does seem to work as he did save some lives and all but the farther the movie goes the more I don't give a shit what happens to him. I fell right into a case of the Muddy's there. The lines of coke prior to the hearing were a highlight for me. And John Goodman's character as previously mentioned by Matty.

7.7 Cougar Baits



The Master was poetic garbage and I'll explain why. I've got Paul Thomas Anderson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix and this is what I get? Some charade about a guy who puts his life and career on hold for a mildly retarded department store cameraman who gets drunk on paint thinner? Genius! His wife wants him to be successful and he wastes his time telling the drunk to walk from one end of the room to the other. I mean, don't get me wrong it had its high points like passing gas during the tense interview and the fingering of a sand vagina but come on. I expected way more here. More disappointment than anything. The individual performances were well executed and I liked the idea behind the story-it just never materialized.

6.8 Cougar Baits
 
Oh and I agree about Gershwin-I absolutely love An American In Paris which he actually came up with the idea for while listening to the sound of the many taxi horns, he even brought back Parisian taxi horns with him to New York before recording.

The movie Manhattan certainly benefits from an exuberant amount of Gershwin as seen below...Rhapsody in Blue here

 
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