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Fat Lou posted:You MIGHT want to offer more time for writing the essays. I say this only because of my experience from running the Subtext Game. Yeah, school's just starting up again too which severely cuts into my time even if it is just 800-3000 words. I'm also in tentatively.
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It's also worth mentioning that it was their follow-up to the Palme d'or winning Barton Fink, another film about a character who feels he can change the world with his art but finds that the industry will only strangle him.
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Alright, if nobody else is going to do it, I'd like to tackle Battleship. While it's been discussed repetitively in CineD, I'm sure most other people, film buffs included, still view it as a dumb blockbuster based on a board game. There seemed to be a lot of misconceptions about Battleship before it even got to theaters. Many people I've talked to mistakenly thought it was a Michael Bay film, despite him having absolutely nothing to do with the film. What do these misconceptions say about the almost homogenized style of many modern mainstream action-adventure films? Then of course there is the "based off of a board game" angle that turned many people off. But I'd also like to use Battleship as a jumping point for how action films can still make poignant statements while fitting into the "summer movie" mold. Battleship tactfully handles the subject of xenophobia in a discreet yet powerful manner, subverting the idea of evil aliens that is often purported by classic alien invasion films. By treating it's alien "bad guys" with respect it manages to reveal the dangerous way Americans view outsiders and satirize it.
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Sep 3, 2013 04:36
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Egbert Souse posted:I'd like to contribute one... Man, it seems weird to me that Hugo lost so much money. It seemed like it was in theaters for four months at least.
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I'm considering maybe switching gears to do Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
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Sep 4, 2013 22:37
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So my schedule this semester is pretty tightly packed. I'm not sure if I'll be able to do this. Sorry 
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Nothing will ever top Keanu dropping a steaming pile on the 1993 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. The movie is completely fantastic except for Keanu. Coppola's Dracula has other issues but Keanu is probably the worst thing about that film too, living up to every "watching Keanu Reeves is like watching a block of wood" cliche.
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