Mr. Spinnington
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I know it's a bit early to decide, but I'm making plans for the weekend but I only have enough cash for one film : [
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
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Ocean's Twelve or Finding Neverland?
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The Interrobanger
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Finding Neverland for sure.
Ocean's Twelve is just more mainstream hollywood trash.
Ocean's Twelve is just more mainstream hollywood trash.
Well I didn't really like Ocean's 11, but Finding Neverland was an overly-sappy-actors'-looking-for-an-Academy-award-music-swelling-in-the-appropriate-spots kind of movie...and wow, me and my g/f were laughing at all the "tragedies" during it... maybe because we're horrible people, or I'm going with, because it was attempting to be an extremely manipulative movie that just didn't work for us.
Mr. Spinnington
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Well, I was going to see Finding Neverland originally, because it looks so damn good.
Then I found out Ocean's Twelve is released this weekend : /
Then I found out Ocean's Twelve is released this weekend : /
I'm going to bump this thread instead of creating a new one, and quote this post because it's the only one on the board I can find that I agree with regarding Finding Neverland. I just rented it, and I can't believe how much people loved this movie. I thought it was indeed the epitome of the "overly-sappy-actors'-looking-for-an-Academy-award-music-swelling-in-the-appropriate-spots" Hollywood movie, and I haven't felt that way this much about a movie since Big Fish. Maybe I would have found it more interesting if the premise behind how he was inspired to make the story Peter Pan were based more on fact. But I thought it was one big predictably emotionally manipulative, sappy movie, and after it was over I felt I just sat through something contrived to make me weep at a string of formulaic "emotional" scenes. Bleh. Please tell me I'm not the only one who feels this way about this movie (aside from Smidget). Everyone has said it's such a touching, heart-warming movie, and I feel like some sort of soulless, black-hearted curmudgeon for feeling this way about the movie. But fuck that......it sucked. am i rite?Smidget said:
galeninjapan
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Finding neverland was an excellent movie that was based on a play. It didnt feel like a reach for oscars at all.
themadcowtipper
Smells faintly of rancid stilton.
Yes lets bump threads from Months ago
Finding Neverland deals with death and dying and I think deals with it well. If it was trying to be sappy it would have the kid ignore his mother's situation and be obliviously happy, instead of the reality where kids often know something is wrong and adults tell them otherwise.
Haven't seen Ocean's Twelve yet, but more on (current) topic, I watched Finding Neverland last night and was very impressed.
I can't say I found it manipulative, only that I felt a strong current of melancholy (even at the bright times) throughout much of the movie. There are plenty of movies where I feel as though the directors are trying to stir up false emotion that doesn't exist in the script or the acting. I didn't feel that here.
I can't say I found it manipulative, only that I felt a strong current of melancholy (even at the bright times) throughout much of the movie. There are plenty of movies where I feel as though the directors are trying to stir up false emotion that doesn't exist in the script or the acting. I didn't feel that here.
tsp_gatmog
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i had to do it
Son of Godzilla
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They are both pretty horrible. I'd go with Oceans though, it's a slightly more tolerable brand of horror.
Cerebral Palsy
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I wouldn't buy either of them.
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