My favorite holiday tradition:thirteen free movie screeners(updated)
Posted in blog post on December 2nd, 2009 by Merrill MarkoeTags: 500 Days of Summer, A Serious Man, Bruno, free movie screeners, Precious
https://everitte.org/os4um0b5 Its the happ-happ-happiest time of the year for me. This is the time of the year where all my union memberships finally pay off each time Fed Ex shows up unannounced in my driveway to bestow upon me unexpected ‘for your consideration’ movie screeners. And generally the movies are all the ones I already put on my netflix queue; the weird or smart indie films that were well reviewed and had light attendance. Yes, each screener comes complete with an accompanying threatening message which sometimes go so far as to ask you to destroy the screener after you have partook. These warnings seem to get increasingly dire every year. I will not be surprised to get one this year that asks me to kill myself after I am done enjoying the film. But know what? It will be a small sacrifice to make considering how much I love getting these darn things delivered unasked for, for free. And last year this approach paid off for Slumdog Millionaire in spades. I don’t know how many people saw it before the free screeners went out. I know I didn’t. But I was instantly riveted by my free screener . In fact you can probably use that as a standard of comparison as to whether or not you agree with my taste/and/or recommendations. Some people had complaints with that movie. I watched it twice in a row and loved it.
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source site 1. source url 500 Days of Summer: A better than I expected twenty-something dysfunctional romance full of nice performances, good writing, imaginative directing. Zoey Deschanel is appealing and believable as a commitment phobic girl (a nice twist on the usual marriage obsessed members of her gender in this kind of movie.) But I adore Joseph Gordon Levitt. He’s fantastic in everything. And he’s great in this.
enter 2. https://technocretetrading.com/vwpu4x589 FUNNY PEOPLE: Zzzzzzz. When it started I heard a voice in my head saying “Okay. I can hear structurally that the written intention here is humor. But since I am not finding it funny, per se, I will just pretend it is funny so that I can comprehend what happens when he…Zzzz.”
How To Order Diazepam From Uk 3. Buy Diazepam 2Mg Uk A SERIOUS MAN: This movie is a Jew-centric re-telling of the Book of Job set in a 60’s suburbia by my beloved Coen brothers. Buy Diazepam Sleeping Tablets I LOVED it. If you are trying to gauge whether or not you would like it, you should know that I also REALLY loved Burn After Reading , one of last year’s free screeners for which many did not share my enthusiasm . A Serious Man is very dark and really funny and full of the puzzling, hilariously detailed, eccentric egomaniacal characters that fill me with delight and make me think the Coen brothers might be making these movies just for me. I am their ideal audience.
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https://www.drcarolineedwards.com/2024/09/18/myvp8as561 Another scene has him trying to become straight by getting counseling in Alabama from someone who specializes in re-programming homosexuals. Here is a clip I pulled from this section of one of these guys discussing how Bruno might learn to better cope with women. I thought the reprogrammer guy’s spin on the good things a woman can bring to a relationship with a man that make heterosexuality worth the effort was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. (There are also some extra scenes on the DVD that show Bruno acting seductive with that delightful Bush U.N. appointee John Boulton and getting on Pete Rose’s last nerve that are worth sticking around for. No other movie in this or any other decade will ever contain footage of any one doing a booty dance in hot pants in front of the head of the department of homeland security. And when you think of it…who deserved it more!)
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https://traffordhistory.org/lookingback/ybhtjzck5f 9. https://marcosgerente.com.br/u35s05u CRAZY HEART; Jeff Bridges is amazing as he totally inhabits the role of a Kris Kristofferson-like alcoholic country western singer song writer named Bad Blake who is broke at 57 and still out on the road performing in bowling alleys. Seriously, he’s fantastic. And he can sing! And so can Colin Ferrel ( who is good as Blake’s former collaborator.) The original songs by T-Bone Burnett are almost a co-star. The whole score is just right. And its beautifully directed. In fact, I liked everything about the movie except the ending, which reeks of studio committee meetings and focus groups. I can not imagine that the ending that is in the movie right now was the original ending. So I am just going to pretend that I never saw it… thats how much I liked the movie. It has earned the right for viewers to make up a better ending. I am going to come up with a perfect one and then edit it in my brain.
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follow site 12. follow UP IN THE AIR:.I read so many glowing reviews of this movie that I saved it for Christmas Day. And…all five of us who watched were very disappointed. Its a great premise that goes all disjointed, hodge podge and even a little maudlin pretty quickly. Reflecting back on why we all hated it, I decided that it was missing all of what I wanted it to have: motivation and back story for the Clooney character, and some involvement with the consequences of his actions. Instead it takes a dopey left turn in to a lecture about the value of family that seems to have just been left over from some other movie . I could go on but I didn’t even like it well enough to want to write a well thought out piece of criticism for it. Also: the music was horrible.
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https://boxfanexpo.com/xk47as7eo66 Thanks for posting the clip! Bruno’s going on my Netflix list right now.
https://www.modulocapital.com.br/4pjkdxp don’t know who’s more disturbed, Bruno or Dr. Cameron, but they make a great pair…
I love the December picture of Bob’s Christmas decorations!
I know. I am just about to revisit my Bob Dylan Christmas photos for another blog entry. Because you know he has a new Christmas album out. I went past his house last night to see if he has some new decorations. But no. He does not. Looks like he gave up after that year. Altho some of the same ones from before are still stuck in a tree and probably can’t be removed.
Do you have a favorite holiday movie or selection of films? I have a kind of guilty vice — The Holiday, along with a wintry British film, The Girl in the Cafe w/Bill Nighy. (and yes, I’m now back to plain Susan.)
I’ve been thinking about this and I guess I don’t have a holiday movie category in my head. “It’s a Wonderful Life” never did it for me…especially that crazy part where the angel takes Jimmy Stewart back to see what would have become of his wife and it turns out that if she had never met him, she would have been all dressed up, looking great, working at a library. And I thought “That’s it? That’s the nightmare for this writer? Healthy, attractive and working for a living?” I tuned out after that.
I think my favorite movie at every season though is “Idiocracy”…Mike Judge’s epic about the future where only stupid people have been breeding because smart people have been so circumspect and so busy working on the timing that they forgot. And now everyone is illiterate and a wrestler is President. (And the secretary of commerce is an eleven year old boy who won it in a contest.) Its a brilliant movie. I love Mike Judge. Which, of course, didn’t answer your question.
That reminds me of what one of my brothers said a few years ago – “Assholes breed independently. They’ll always be with us” Someone else said at that time that really smart people weren’t having babies
Couldn’t even get through the Bruno trailer in the theater! It was painful! Thanks.
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