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AICN-DOWNUNDER: Nottingham, Last King of Scotland, Miss Potter, Smokin' Aces

First. by Wolfman57	Feb 11th, 2007 01:02:31 AM
Yup, I'm a loser.
Bazura by Rasputin77	Feb 11th, 2007 02:52:01 AM
I enjoyed the Bazura project very much. Even laughed at the sketch at the beginning of the show. However, the set needs a bit of work. Blue velvet drapes as backdrop screams community television. That aside, well done. It's a nice little show you have. i hope there is a second season.
robin hood bad by monster man	Feb 11th, 2007 02:59:07 AM
what is the world coming to , i live in nottingham and at least we might get rid of all the robin hood crap around here if hes made bad, we could have the sheriff of nottingham tour instead , would probaly be more interesting.
Blue velvet by Latauro	Feb 11th, 2007 03:19:17 AM
Dude, you know how much blue velvet drapes would cost us? Way out of our budget constraints! That said, there will be a second season, and the blue drapes won't be there for it. Cheers to all for watching!
I get it! by BannedOnTheRun	Feb 11th, 2007 03:24:07 AM
"Or are they all rhetorical? No, they aren't. Or are they?" Just send me plane tickets to Australia and you can hear me laugh, live!
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Feb 11th, 2007 04:07:25 AM
Damn you Michael Bay
I love AICN down under by BadMrWonka	Feb 11th, 2007 04:10:03 AM
but my drunk friend is bothering me and distracting me from reading this shit...please call him...206-605-0502...his name is Josh...he's being a jerk, he deserves it... Latauro, congrats on your success, even if it takes away from your AICN posts...
Bazura Project . . . by onefatman	Feb 11th, 2007 07:05:42 AM
. . . is actually really funny. And practical! Well done Mr. Latauro. Oh and I haven't been paying much attention but have you mentioned the Nova Bong Joon-ho Q&A next Wednesday? If not http://www.cinemanova.com.au/e vents.html
Maid Marion and her Merry Men! by raw_bean	Feb 11th, 2007 09:23:10 AM
Awesome. My favourite Merry Man would have to be Rabies, shortly followed by Barrington, the rastafarian Merry Man played by Danny John-Jules (Cat from Red Dwarf).
Oh and Last King of Scotland rocks. by raw_bean	Feb 11th, 2007 09:23:33 AM
'Nuff said.
trash by BDT	Feb 11th, 2007 10:23:37 AM
did you know that the word for trash in Spanish (or rubbish as you folks Down Under call it) is Basura? Just wondering about the name of the show. I enjoyed the clips a lot ...thanks for posting. Also agree that Last King of Scotland is fabulous, although pretty hard to watch.
also, Latauro by BadMrWonka	Feb 11th, 2007 02:20:39 PM
I gotta disagree about Stranger Than Fiction. SPOILERS AHEAD I really thought the fact that it's sort of subdued and benign in terms of how far the premise is taken, is part of the payoff in the difficult choices at the end, both for the writer and the writee. (that looks like a typo, but it's not). if emma thompson's character had been even a little more malevolent with her power (and remember, she didn't know anything was out of the ordinary for half the film) then it wouldn't have seemed a stretch for her to write the ending where Ferrell's character dies. the fact that it is a stretch for her, even if she kills off all her other characters, is what makes it interesting, in my opinion. the question of who is in what world, how does this make sense, who is controlling what, etc. are incidental to the story. why would we want this to be "pushed farther", as you say? as much as I disagree with Roger Ebert (he liked Crash and the last Garfield movie, for fuck sake, and his fountain review was pretty shitty and condescending) I have to quote him here: ""Stranger Than Fiction" is a meditation on life, art and romance, and on the kinds of responsibility we have. Such an uncommonly intelligent film does not often get made. It could have pumped up its emotion to blockbuster level, but that would be false to the premise, which requires us to enter the lives of these specific quiet, sweet, worthy people. The ending is a compromise -- but it isn't the movie's compromise, it belongs entirely to the characters and is their decision."
Stranger, Smokin', trash by Latauro	Feb 11th, 2007 09:59:34 PM
I sort-of like that it held itself back for a bit, underplaying where it could easily have overplayed, but it's not enough for me. I didn't want Thompson's character to be malevolent; I wanted the movie itself to stretch the concept a bit. If you suddenly found that you were the character in a book, would you assume that the author was someone you might bump into on the street, or would you assume that your entire world was the construct of someone who doesn't live in it? If you discovered that everything you wrote happened to someone you just met, wouldn't you actually experiment with what you could do with him (solves world hunger, finds holy grail, grows fifty feet) rather than worry about having to rewrite the end of your book? The concept suggested SO much. The film covered a little bit. Fair point about the definition of "entertaining". I suppose, however, that watching someone be executed would be "entertaining" by this definition, but I'd hardly call it entertainment. But yeah, it's all about semantics. I probably could have picked another word. Basura does in fact mean trash in Spanishi: http://www.bazuraproject.com/f qa/2006/12/where_does_the_name _bazura_pro.php
Smokin' Aces was fun. by Serious Black	Feb 11th, 2007 10:26:18 PM
Creepy kid gets a boner. Guy sits on a chainsaw. Piven proves once again that he is the most unappreciated actor of our time. Not perfect by any stretch, but a sick gory mildly twisted good time.
smokin aces was horse shit by BadMrWonka	Feb 12th, 2007 07:30:26 PM
half spastic ridiculous action, half wannabe detective drama...but by splitting it down the middle, they de-balled both sides. the crazy stuff wasn't crazy or funny enough, it was just unbelievable and kinda weird. the detective story/mystery was so predictable, it made people in the theater laugh. if Carnahan had chosen one or the other, he might have been able to go over the top enough for the crazy stuff to really be fun. or subtle and dramatic enough for the detective stuff to be involving. but neither was the case. the movie was a train wreck. Latauro, I'll still argue that Stranger was not ABOUT the specifics of how, or why this situation arose. if it became slapsticky with thompson's control over ferrell, or too dark, it would have derailed it, in my opinion. and too many questions about how it works, what world is what, etc. would turn it into a sci-fi movie, or some sort of existential questioning. but it wasn't really abotu that. it was about sacrifice, and devotion, and all that. I just think you are looking at it as a movie that could have been, and might have also been good, but for what it actually is, and what the screenwriter was trying to get across, I think it succeeds perfectly.

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