Saw this morning that Inside Llewyn Davis is up on Amazon Prime (it's still Lovefilm to me) in the UK, so, that's pretty neat. Been wanting to watch that for ages now.
But I have read a few of the other reviews and that kind of reads like "I hate this guy so fucking much" more than an actual review of the film in light of the other reviews (It has a 92% on RT)
Snowpiercer on blu ray next week. Think I'll buy it unseen.
I liked it a lot, but there are a ton of people who didn't and I can't really say they are wrong about it. There are a lot of things in the movie that just work for some people and not others.
We saw This Is Where I Leave You last week. Despite some absolutely hilarious scenes between Jason Bateman and Tina Fey, it was probably the most terrifically sexist (towards BOTH genders, mind you) film I've seen in decades.
it is definitely falling out of tradition in the general high school curriculum, but the traditional high school english senior for decades was forced to memorize the first 18 lines.
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I actually did not read Canterbury Tales at ALL during high school.
it is definitely falling out of tradition in the general high school curriculum, but the traditional high school english senior for decades was forced to memorize the first 18 lines.
I was in AP English throughout High School and we never touched the Canterbury Tales.
i think we spent like 3 weeks on just the chanticleer story
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In my 11th or 12th AP English we did Canterbury Tales, but we split into groups and each group presented a project based on one of the tales. Naturally, I learned basically nothing about any of the Tales.
my group made an entirely incomprehensible video project for the Pardoner's Tale involving legos and like a dance montage intro that got us a passing grade against all odds
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We read the first page of the prologue in Middle English
And then read excerpts
But I'm a big ol' nerd who actually owns a copy of the Canterbury Tales still
Yeah sorry what I meant was he overestimated the amount of people who read the Canterbury Tales in high school and actually remember anything outside of the basic plot
Canterbury Tales is an important work, but I think it's better for high school students to be reading Dickens or Shakespeare in class. Easier to decipher and more easily applicable/relate-able for students. (Shakespeare's stuff especially. Dude knew how to write characters you can empathize with.)
Since we are already talking about books, my sister texted by twin brother and me to ask for a book recommendation for 5 major books that she's missed or put off reading. She listed a few that she already had on the list and my brother and I both texted back "Ulysses"
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I never read the Canterbury Tales in high school.
I guess I would have if I had done AP English but I did College English instead...
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oh and movies i guess: I watched two movies on a plane the other day
EDGE OF TOMORROW: fun movie! I give it 0 planes, which means i would even watch it while not on a plane. not that i'll probably ever watch it again, as the nature of the movie made me feel like i've already seen it 15 times. but in a good way! great performances by CRUISE, BLUNT, and even EDGE. i do wish it'd gone for an R, though. the bloodlessness of the conflict colored it all as a bit less traumatic than maybe i thought it should feel, and--slightly related--the movie flirted with an interest in Cruise's desensitization to the proceedings but never really allowed it to creep in as much as I thought it could've/should've. Which is fine for a popcorn real-life speedrun movie, really, but I saw capacity and tone for more than just popcorn. the abstract physicality of the mimics was a minor sticking point in the visuals department, but the human side of the combat was great.
NEED FOR SPEED: this movie is too long! but it's actually a decent Fast&Furious-alike. The main characters are all immense fuckin dorks, but, given enough time, end up pretty lovable for their unwavering, brotastic camaraderie. None of them are super distinct and the one that is marked for death is so marked for death, but they're not the worst (despite the unremarked-on horrendousness of their gleefully reckless driving at all times). Imogen Poots was my fave, despite her cliched introduction as The Girl, but does well enough in the role and the movie at least lets her have fun. Michael Keaton shows up via webcam to be a weirdo and I kinda liked it. The bloated length also allows some kinda interesting (a charitable adjective, but for the unambitious mold I'll go with it) pacing, in that the inciting incident of the movie's main plot takes up the first 30 minutes or something instead of being the pre-credits prologue you think it'd be. I was tired by the time of the last race, but up til that point the car stuff was pretty good.
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The Dissolve says BIRDMAN is pretty much completely awful, and it reveals just how much of a pretentious fraud Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu truly is
This is possibly the angriest review of a movie I've read on the Dissolve yet that doesn't have Adam Sandler in it
But I have read a few of the other reviews and that kind of reads like "I hate this guy so fucking much" more than an actual review of the film in light of the other reviews (It has a 92% on RT)
http://www.avclub.com/article/nyff-2014-birdman-closes-fest-edward-snowden-suppl-210381 here ya go
hasn't everyone already done this
Oh man, there's a great anecdote down in the comments from Mike D'Angelo, about Harmony Korine being a shit writer in college
It tickled me pink, I tell you what
I think I was still in control when I did it
I liked it a lot, but there are a ton of people who didn't and I can't really say they are wrong about it. There are a lot of things in the movie that just work for some people and not others.
Good lord, please don't see it.
"IRIS IN: on the anus of a goat" has confirmed pretty much everything I suspected about Harmony Korine
Now this movie was on Tv the other day at work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U36W5658MDw
Out of curiousity I went to IMDB
It's got the main plot and like 3 or 4 sub plots and it was horrible!
Thank you for posting this, I was going to get around to berating Mr G for leaving that out of the OP later
Here is The Dissolve's review
But that's not the important part
Here is The Dissolve's extra section where they spoil the two twists of the movie, which are...
which are...
just read it
Steam
it is definitely falling out of tradition in the general high school curriculum, but the traditional high school english senior for decades was forced to memorize the first 18 lines.
Steam
That was simultaneously the only good part of that movie and also completely worth the cost of admission.
SPAAAAAAAAAAAARKS
This might beat (Safe Haven spoilers)
Probably not though, that was the most bullshit insane one
Oh ho, The Best Of Me.
Mr Sparks, how very clever.
Oh Jesus
I had not caught that
I was in AP English throughout High School and we never touched the Canterbury Tales.
You are like the nerdiest Sleeper Agent
You're just a weird sleeper agent whose activation is impossible to work into a conversation
But when it does work
watch out
i think we spent like 3 weeks on just the chanticleer story
my group made an entirely incomprehensible video project for the Pardoner's Tale involving legos and like a dance montage intro that got us a passing grade against all odds
And then read excerpts
But I'm a big ol' nerd who actually owns a copy of the Canterbury Tales still
And I would probably not recognize that quote
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Nerdiest Twin moment.
I guess I would have if I had done AP English but I did College English instead...
EDGE OF TOMORROW: fun movie! I give it 0 planes, which means i would even watch it while not on a plane. not that i'll probably ever watch it again, as the nature of the movie made me feel like i've already seen it 15 times. but in a good way! great performances by CRUISE, BLUNT, and even EDGE. i do wish it'd gone for an R, though. the bloodlessness of the conflict colored it all as a bit less traumatic than maybe i thought it should feel, and--slightly related--the movie flirted with an interest in Cruise's desensitization to the proceedings but never really allowed it to creep in as much as I thought it could've/should've. Which is fine for a popcorn real-life speedrun movie, really, but I saw capacity and tone for more than just popcorn. the abstract physicality of the mimics was a minor sticking point in the visuals department, but the human side of the combat was great.
NEED FOR SPEED: this movie is too long! but it's actually a decent Fast&Furious-alike. The main characters are all immense fuckin dorks, but, given enough time, end up pretty lovable for their unwavering, brotastic camaraderie. None of them are super distinct and the one that is marked for death is so marked for death, but they're not the worst (despite the unremarked-on horrendousness of their gleefully reckless driving at all times). Imogen Poots was my fave, despite her cliched introduction as The Girl, but does well enough in the role and the movie at least lets her have fun. Michael Keaton shows up via webcam to be a weirdo and I kinda liked it. The bloated length also allows some kinda interesting (a charitable adjective, but for the unambitious mold I'll go with it) pacing, in that the inciting incident of the movie's main plot takes up the first 30 minutes or something instead of being the pre-credits prologue you think it'd be. I was tired by the time of the last race, but up til that point the car stuff was pretty good.