so glad me not enjoying a finance film why because borrrring somehow seems to elevate me above appreciating genre fare
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
I liked Margin Call but the Spacey sequences with the dog and his boring personal life were unnecessary "character development.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
i think spacey is kindof dreamy im sorry hes never in anything anymore
― judith, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
in any event to me the distance between irons' reputation and irons in an actual crisis was sort of "the point" or "a point." like, of course this guy who (some of) the underlings lionize as a major player/genius/shark turns out to be just as in-over-his-head as everyone
― max max max max, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
It's Wednesday after Christmas and am watching Tuesday, After Christmas.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
My conclusions too but the dialogue given him during the first crisis meeting errs in making him too much a buffoon.
i read a review that said this was about how bankers are like real people too which made it sound totally awful
i think you might really like this? theres some neat stuff abt the importance of physical spaces and like insiders/outsiders that i can only half articulate and wasnt paying close enough to really 'get' but seemed... idk, 'composed' in a cool way? ugh
― well then (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
i think that's true but i also think it was a kinda cheap-in to a kind of lazy gravitas, inflating a character in an environment that's meant to be charged & barbed. tbh i think this is sort of a weird problem with a bunch of contemporary film; i remember in a single man colin firth kinda exists as a few temperamentally different, disparate guys that aren't either united by a common thread, or made to seem like conscious variants on a character. a lot of margin call felt kinda like bluster to me, like i can't really remember but i assume it was overscored & laden with this bossy post-glassian strident cello music, car window reflections &c&c&c&c&c
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
A Single Man had a lot of problems, the worst of which was that no one gave a shit about the novel.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
a single man is one of the best movies of the last five years, everything was a surface and discrete
― well then (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
firth was nothing but a series of forms, a placeholder in existence
idk i just got pissed off that the painting in julianne moore's apt turned out to be something tom ford painted himself and completely wrong and jarring
― judith, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
ASM insulted, in order (a) Isherwood (b) gay life, especially as conceived by Isherwood (c) set design (d) Julianne Moore
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
julianne moore brought it on herself
― judith, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah true. She's been unwatchable for a while.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah she was sorta gross in this but i didnt mind. i liked the set design as much as i liked the dead boyfriend's madras shorts which is a lot. i mean his house was like those high end magazine photo shoots of someone's impossibly packed suitcase (and why are you bringing a solid oak shoetree on vacation anyway?)
― well then (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i mean this was essentially a grace coddington photostory
― judith, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
The novel is all surface hiding depths, the movie is depth that isn't even good as surface.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't seen Margin Call, phaps bcz no one in my circle knew what the hell anyone was saying.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
Ever wanted to recommend a film you didn't like just for the transition into the end credits? Most of Brick from a few years ago drove me up the wall, but the song at the end, which came as a complete surprise, almost saved it.
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
hay just watched margin call thx 4 the recommend dudes p sweet - have to take issue w/the irons opinons itt - i dont think that he turned out to be a huge disappointment or appropriately idiotic or w/e - he was roughly as smart as everyone else which is to say smart but falible in the way humans are - if there was any sort of super human legend of his genius implied then of course he as human is not going to live up to it - i thought his character/acting was really good, cause what he had that no one else did, what you often see at the top of the totem pole is an element of inscrutability - that can sometimes be read as concealing ineptitude or shallowness, but the point is you can never quite tell, its an aspect of power - thought everyone else was good too, zachary quiznoses eyebrows were sculpted to a legit distracting extent tho
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
loved the conversation between a shaving mentalist and the grieving for his job junior analyst
youre going to fire me later arent you*non committal grunt*this is all i ever wanted to doreally?
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
i thought margin call was ok but it had problems, yeah
stanley tucci and kevin spacey were playing kinda the same character? and tucci seemed more interesting to me.
the frantic overnight investigation/preparation is done w/o any mention of government at all.
burying his dog was a lame scene, but the bit with spacey in the exec cafeteria, totally defeating, knowing he's chained to a rotting ship, was great
― slandblox goole, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
i saw the fincher 'dragon tattoo' which was not that great the more i think about it. it has an unbelievable 90s cgi bondage music video credit sequence that had me cracking up hard
― slandblox goole, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
tooch was great in margin call, but when has tooch ever not been great
― max max max max, Friday, 30 December 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
the frantic overnight investigation/preparation is done w/o any mention of government at all
someone says that they are doing this before the fed(s) can react and try to slow them
― Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
yup by noon the feds are gonna be all over our asses slowing us down
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
lol i guess i meant the bailouts that actually occurred
― slandblox goole, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think thats the next step if their plan doesnt work, they werent even thinking that far out
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
and obvs none of them want that as they were more in the bear/lehman mold of being hours from insolvency ie they were not gonna get bailed out, best they could hope for is their company gets bought for cents on the dollar w/the help of govt guarantees
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
btw re lamps comments abt physical space, when they were talking abt 'floors' were they talking abt trading floors, floors of a building, or BOTH
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah
loved demi moore btw
xp i kinda took it that 'floor' is sort of an abstract area almost? like 'world' or something. idk.
― slandblox goole, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
flooring me w/ these insights dudes
― Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
p sure they were talking abt trading floors but they did use elevators a lot too so idk
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
i guess there was a bit of a disconnect w/ the sudden firing preceding sthing which was otherwise indicated as a great revelation
― Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
yeah they never explained the opening masacre, guessing prob the company realized it wasnt in the greatest spot but more based on the general economy, then the big reveal was that they were in a terrible spot based on what they were doing particularly
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i suppose getting rid of risk management ppl in particular was supposed to convey 'institutional denial'
― Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah good call
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
this is a good film and movies movies movies movies readers who haven't been cajoled into seeing it by peer pressure alone, shd be mindful of seeing it just because it is a good film
― Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
havent watched it & am trying to avoid u guyz talking abt it but fyi u can "rent" it on amazon.com instant videos - four bucks
― j crunchwrap supreme, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
rewatched Late Spring last night with my roommate — I don't think he was impressed
― tanuki, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
suggest banshun?
― Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
wd
― tanuki, Friday, 30 December 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
just watched tree of life
― tanuki, Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
I watched it again a few days ago. I think it's officially my gf's favorite movie at this point.
― iatee, Saturday, 31 December 2011 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like it's probably one of the few movies that would be a deal-breaker for me trusting someone else's taste if they didn't like it.
― tanuki, Saturday, 31 December 2011 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
h8 that movie
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 31 December 2011 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
*breaks deal with cooper chucklebutt, wonders if God hears my anguished cries of loneliness*
― t. silaviver, Saturday, 31 December 2011 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
congrats, I'm really impressed by yr cynicism
― tanuki, Saturday, 31 December 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
its that movie thats cynical fwiw
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 31 December 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link