Best Films of 2015

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JO753

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 1:09 PM

Well, he'z ded now, so that problem iz solved. He will never bother you agen.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

http://www.nooalf.com

SECOND

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 3:59 PM

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Originally posted by JO753:
Well, he'z ded now, so that problem iz solved. He will never bother you agen.

Roger Ebert said to Jim Carrey about Ace Ventura, "One critic felt that you had no talent at all and should never be in another movie. I didn't feel that way. I said I hated the movie, too, but that you'd done good work in the past, and I was sure you'd do good work again in the future."

This was Carrey's opening to say, "Gee! Thanks a whole lot!" But he sighed. "Yeah, some of the reviews were pretty brutal. You know what? Some of the worst ones came in a couple of days before the movie opened and I thought, well, this is keeping my feet on the ground."

Carrey agreed with Ebert that humor is not debatable. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view. And if you're not laughing, nobody can explain what's funny. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/jim-carrey-laughs-in-face-of-success

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, July 23, 2015 4:15 AM

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Roger Ebert said to Jim Carrey about Ace Ventura, "One critic felt that you had no talent at all and should never be in another movie. I didn't feel that way. I said I hated the movie, too, but that you'd done good work in the past, and I was sure you'd do good work again in the future."

This was Carrey's opening to say, "Gee! Thanks a whole lot!" But he sighed. "Yeah, some of the reviews were pretty brutal. You know what? Some of the worst ones came in a couple of days before the movie opened and I thought, well, this is keeping my feet on the ground."

I wonder if Carrey thought this helped his career.
He had done Ace, and had finished or was finishing The Mask, and was in negotiations for Dumb and Dumber, which Steve Martin and Martin Short had already turned down for that role. Not being a Martin, they offered him something like 350,000 and he said no, he wanted 400K. That was before Ace was released, and maybe the New Line exec thought they had him over a barrel. Then Ace was released, and was a runaway hit. The studio tried to get him for the 400K, and he said no. Carrey ended up getting 7 million.
I wondered at that time if that exec still had a job, given the $6,650,000 bite he forced the studio to take. Now I wonder if Carrey credits those bad reviews for helping to bump up his price.

http://www.businessinsider.com/dumb-and-dumber-jim-carrey-jeff-daniels
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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, July 29, 2015 6:46 AM

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I would consider this film for Best of the Year, it is in my Top 5.

Ex Machina: Loved the tone and pace of the film, a real Indie work of art. Oscar Isaac was slimy and conniving as the modern-day Frankenstein. But for my money Alicia Vikander as Ava, stole the movie. She was brilliant. Childlike, manipulative and calculating; conveying emotion and emotionless almost simultaneously. Truly an underrated and unknown performance - until now. Very little in this movie is predictable, it felt like a Twilight Zone story to the 10th Power, the film moved quite well and had a solid storyline. Dr. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) would be proud.

SGG

Not predictable? Have you seen Blade Runner?
Why do you think Ex Machina was copyrighted in 2013 yet only released now?

I am wondering if the copyright I saw in the quick credit roll was for the studio logo, instead of the film itself.

Anyhow, I really hope Alicia Vikander has a breakout performance in Man from UNCLE. She looks great in the trailer. She might have one of those timeless beauty qualities, able to play the future in Ex-Machina and the 60's in MfU and maybe many other time periods. I wonder if she would be bad-a$$ in some medieval or combat flik?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, July 30, 2015 4:27 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
I would consider this film for Best of the Year, it is in my Top 5.

Ex Machina: Loved the tone and pace of the film, a real Indie work of art. Oscar Isaac was slimy and conniving as the modern-day Frankenstein. But for my money Alicia Vikander as Ava, stole the movie. She was brilliant. Childlike, manipulative and calculating; conveying emotion and emotionless almost simultaneously. Truly an underrated and unknown performance - until now. Very little in this movie is predictable, it felt like a Twilight Zone story to the 10th Power, the film moved quite well and had a solid storyline. Dr. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) would be proud.

SGG

Not predictable? Have you seen Blade Runner?
Why do you think Ex Machina was copyrighted in 2013 yet only released now?

I am wondering if the copyright I saw in the quick credit roll was for the studio logo, instead of the film itself.

Anyhow, I really hope Alicia Vikander has a breakout performance in Man from UNCLE. She looks great in the trailer. She might have one of those timeless beauty qualities, able to play the future in Ex-Machina and the 60's in MfU and maybe many other time periods. I wonder if she would be bad-a$$ in some medieval or combat flik?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1

Every time I see that trailer scene with her behind walking away, it reminds me of Yanet Garcia.

JO753

Thursday, August 13, 2015 2:07 PM

Just saw Ex Machina. Great movie. A good companion movie to AI.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, August 16, 2015 12:51 AM

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Originally posted by JO753:
Just saw Ex Machina. Great movie. A good companion movie to AI.

I thought AI pales greatly - just by being in the same post.

I would consider EM a good companion piece to Imitation Game, Blade Runner, which both had vastly larger budgets, and high-voltage stars.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, August 16, 2015 1:00 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
I would consider this film for Best of the Year, it is in my Top 5.

Ex Machina: Loved the tone and pace of the film, a real Indie work of art. Oscar Isaac was slimy and conniving as the modern-day Frankenstein. But for my money Alicia Vikander as Ava, stole the movie. She was brilliant. Childlike, manipulative and calculating; conveying emotion and emotionless almost simultaneously. Truly an underrated and unknown performance - until now. Very little in this movie is predictable, it felt like a Twilight Zone story to the 10th Power, the film moved quite well and had a solid storyline. Dr. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) would be proud.

SGG

Not predictable? Have you seen Blade Runner?

Anyhow, I really hope Alicia Vikander has a breakout performance in Man from UNCLE. She looks great in the trailer. She might have one of those timeless beauty qualities, able to play the future in Ex-Machina and the 60's in MfU and maybe many other time periods. I wonder if she would be bad-a$$ in some medieval or combat flik?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1

Well, not medieval or combat, but she is slated for more likely butt-kicking with the untitled Bourne film. starts shooting next month.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4196776/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1

With 4 more of her films out this year, she might get more attention. Getting a nomination for Burnt might work. Danish Girl will likely get a lot of attention from Redmayne's role - assuming he is not as bad as Jupiter Ascending. So she could get a nomination for that as well.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, March 20, 2016 3:40 AM

I didn't get an chance to wrap this up last year.

How many would agree that Ex-Machina was the best film of the year for 2015?
I was happy to see Alicia win an Oscar, albeit not for this role.
Also, regarding discussion of this film, did anybody consider that Caleb's memories of events prior to his arrival at the facility could have been implanted? Also, I just remembered that his unfruitful attempts to cut or blemish his finger with a razor blade could have been a dream or delusion. Now that I have typed that, I notice his reality test was with a razor BLADE, and the turing test was also used in BLADErunner.

Also, I still include Woman in Gold.
I don't think I have seen Predestination yet.

Any other films that you all feel were, or competed for the Best?

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 4:20 AM

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The only two I've seen this year that I'm anxious to see again are Ex_Machina and Predestination. I hated Jupiter Ascending, was just meh on Age of Ultron, and haven't seen that many others yet.

Predestination? Filmed April/May 2013 and not released until Jan 2015.
What drew you to this? Why did you want to see it a second time? Was it the Heinlein connection? You had already read the story? Some sort of Hawke fan?
Although I do enjoy the work of Emma Stone, I was not thrilled to see the same character look like her and also Leonardo Dicaprio. I thought the crude repetition of the obvious, half hour later in the film, a bit tedious.
Perhaps the director thought himself too clever or the audience too dense?

I do have one question about it, perhaps I missed the answer due to boredom. Who did the bomb that killed over 10K? was it already set, or was it by a copycat? What?

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