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Title: Nowhere Boy
Post by: JD on 10 Nov 2009, 16:44

John who? (http://www.youtube.com/user/tomleavy#p/u/0/Y6Km9L1Sqd0)

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: De_El on 10 Nov 2009, 18:07

Looks very "gentle drama." I'd be willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, if I could be convinced it wasn't boring.

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: JD on 10 Nov 2009, 20:40

I guess a hard drama would be Crash? I never really liked Crash

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: De_El on 10 Nov 2009, 22:03

Well yeah, Crash was terrible and weirdly exploitative.  I just mean that the conflict of the film seems to take place in a pretty small world, isn't life and death, doesn't concern any lofty concepts or violent crimes, etc. It's not necessarily a value judgement; it's just that a "gentle drama" as I think of it is sometimes in more danger of being boring than other kinds of films.

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: scarred on 10 Nov 2009, 23:17

Crash = Everybody Is Racist Especially When They Think They're Not In Fact That Is The Worst Way To Be Racist You Racist Pig Now Look You Just Shot A Black Guy Fuck You

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: JD on 10 Nov 2009, 23:40

 :-(

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: StaedlerMars on 11 Nov 2009, 02:28

Quote from: scarred on 10 Nov 2009, 23:17

Crash = Everybody Is Racist Especially When They Think They're Not In Fact That Is The Worst Way To Be Racist You Racist Pig Now Look You Just Shot A Black Guy Fuck You

Hey, that also sums up that 30 Rock episode I watched last night.

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: jhocking on 11 Nov 2009, 13:35

The difference is 30 Rock is intentionally ridikolus, whereas Crash is unintentionally (and thus painfully) ridikolus.

(the spelling is in homage to that episode of 30 Rock)

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: Scandanavian War Machine on 11 Nov 2009, 14:00

what the hell are you guys talking about

Crash is about people who get off on car wrecks and, if my memory serves, there is pretty much no racism in the movie whatsoever.


nevermind, there are apparently two movies called Crash

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: scarred on 11 Nov 2009, 14:02

Yeh, we're talking about the Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, not the one based on the J.G. Ballard book.

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: Inlander on 11 Nov 2009, 16:55

I thought Crash was about Academy Award voters being raging homophobes? Or was that just the subtext?

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: Alex C on 11 Nov 2009, 17:02

Crash is kinda like if a complete fucking moron watched "Do The Right Thing" and decided to make a movie.

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: knives on 11 Nov 2009, 23:21

While Haggis bashing is all good and fun I think the desecration of Lennon's corpse is at least as important and more topical. Looks like a boring Merchant-Ivory movie.

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: scarred on 11 Nov 2009, 23:26

At least they're treading less-common territory. Normally with a Lennon biopic you'd start with the Beatles at the height of their power and end with him getting gunned down. It's refreshing to see it from another perspective, at least conceptually.

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: JD on 11 Nov 2009, 23:58

Quote from: knives on 11 Nov 2009, 23:21

While Haggis bashing is all good and fun I think the desecration of Lennon's corpse is at least as important and more topical. Looks like a boring Merchant-Ivory movie.

Desecration?

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: Be My Head on 12 Nov 2009, 14:17

Quote from: knives on 11 Nov 2009, 23:21

I think the desecration of Lennon's corpse is at least as important and more topical.

I know, they inject it with all those preservatives and put it on display for people! Sick!

oh wait, never mind.

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: knives on 12 Nov 2009, 16:21

Quote from: Be My Head on 12 Nov 2009, 14:17

Quote from: knives on 11 Nov 2009, 23:21

I think the desecration of Lennon's corpse is at least as important and more topical.

I know, they inject it with all those preservatives and put it on display for people! Sick!

oh wait, never mind.

That would make for a funny visual actually.

Title: Re: Nowhere Boy
Post by: Surgoshan on 12 Nov 2009, 18:12

Quote from: Be My Head on 12 Nov 2009, 14:17

Quote from: knives on 11 Nov 2009, 23:21

I think the desecration of Lennon's corpse is at least as important and more topical.

I know, they inject it with all those preservatives and put it on display for people! Sick!

oh wait, never mind.

DONNY, YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT!