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Bebpo

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I just saw Brick
« on: January 22, 2009, 02:41:21 AM »
Why didn't it win every award ever!?!?!

Since it wasn't even nominated for best picture at the Oscars I'm done with the Oscars.  They've lost all credit with me.


Seriously, it was like watching Mamet at his best...and then it was better!  I neeeeeeeeeed this on Blu-ray  :gloomy
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Mupepe

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2009, 02:43:15 AM »
i'm so behind.  the name sounds familiar, but i can't for the life of me think of what it's about at all.  i have been going to the theater like twice a week for the last 2 months though!
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TVC15

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2009, 02:43:35 AM »
The shitty overwrought dialogue killed it for me.  I love myself some Chandler and I love noir, but it just didn't fit in a modern high school setting.  I'm not even sure why the director thought it was a good idea.  Pretty crap film.  If this got you going, just watch some noir.
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Vizzys

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2009, 02:58:59 AM »
I liked it
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Reb

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2009, 03:10:05 AM »
It's good innit?
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Barry Egan

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2009, 08:35:36 AM »
as having not watched much noir in my life, I thought this movie was really really awesome. 
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Great Rumbler

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2009, 10:14:05 AM »
Quote from: TVC 15 on January 22, 2009, 02:43:35 AM
The shitty overwrought dialogue killed it for me.  I love myself some Chandler and I love noir, but it just didn't fit in a modern high school setting.  I'm not even sure why the director thought it was a good idea.  Pretty crap film.  If this got you going, just watch some noir.

Wasn't that kind of the point?  ???
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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2009, 10:40:52 AM »
That's a fairly extreme example. Taking the defining characteristics of one setting and genre and putting them directly into another setting and genre is not uncommon in the movie industry.
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Solo

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2009, 10:40:57 AM »
Hated it. Neat concept, terrible execution.
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TakingBackSunday

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2009, 10:46:59 AM »
I love Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but that's about all I liked about it.
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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2009, 10:50:29 AM »
Quote from: jarosh on January 22, 2009, 10:47:35 AM
"i didn't like this movie because i had to look at a gaping asshole for 2 hours."

doesn't sound silly to me.

But wouldn't you know going in that that's all it was? So why would you still watch it unless that was something that appealed to you?
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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2009, 10:58:29 AM »
Quote from: jarosh on January 22, 2009, 10:56:27 AM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 22, 2009, 10:50:29 AM
Quote from: jarosh on January 22, 2009, 10:47:35 AM
"i didn't like this movie because i had to look at a gaping asshole for 2 hours."

doesn't sound silly to me.

But wouldn't you know going in that that's all it was? So why would you still watch it unless that was something that appealed to you?
i just explained that in the part you didn't quote. of course the asshole analogy was silly. i was just being stupid.

i said that i found the idea intriguing (UNLIKE the idea in my analogy). of course you still never know exactly what you're signing up for. i found the idea of "short cuts about racism in l.a." appealing too. but i almost puked during crash.

Okay, I get what you're saying now.
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tehjaybo

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2009, 11:19:36 AM »
Watched it.  Hated it.  Hit Bloodwake because he made me sit through it.
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Robo

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2009, 02:51:15 PM »
I think Warhol may have made that movie.
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Bloodwake

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Re: I just saw Brick
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2009, 04:11:38 PM »
It was good, but yeah, it's definitely something I wouldn't watch more than once.
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