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2015 Mediocrities

11/15/2015

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Best Picture

Fargo
A Hijacking
The LEGO Movie
Pulp Fiction - Winner
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Best Director

Joel and Ethan Coen, Fargo
Alfonso Cuaron, Y Tu Mama Tambien
Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange - Winner
Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby
Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
Best Actor

Pilou Asbaek as Mikkel Hartmann, A Hijacking
Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis Bloom, Nightcrawler - Winner
Tom Hardy as Ivan Locke, Locke
William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard, Fargo
Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Best Actress

Essie Davis as Amelia, The Babadook
Adele Exarchopoulous as Adele, Blue is the Warmest Color
Mia Farrow as Rosemary Woodhouse, Rosemary's Baby
Brie Larson as Grace, Short Term 12
Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson, Fargo - Winner
Best Supporting Actor

Steve Buscemi as Carl Showalter, Fargo
John Cusack as Clem, Grand Piano
Abdihakin Asgar as Omar, A Hijacking
Will Ferrell as Lord Business, The LEGO Movie
Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winfield, Pulp Fiction - Winner
Donald Pleasance as Doc Tydon, Wake in Fright
Christopher Walken as Captain Koons, Pulp Fiction
Best Supporting Actress

Shirley MacLaine as Marjorie Nugent, Bernie
Edie McClurg as Grace, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Lea Seydoux as Emma, Blue is the Warmest Color - Winner
Tilda Swinton as Mason, Snowpiercer
Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace, Pulp Fiction
Best Line

"No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter," Alex, A Clockwork Orange
"Carlotta was the kind of town where they spell trouble T-R-U-B-I-L, and if you try to correct them, they'll kill you," Rigby, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid - Winner
"Pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the fucking car," The Wolf, Pulp Fiction
"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead," Butch, Pulp Fiction
"All the little devils are proud of hell," Doc Tydon, Wake in Fright
"Discontent is the luxury of the well-to-do," Doc Tydon, Wake in Fright
Best Scene

Adele and Thomas share a bus ride, Blue is the Warmest Color
Making a cup of java, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid - Winner
Marge breaks down the roadside crime scene, Fargo
Subway chase, The French Connection
Lou and Nina's dinner date, Nightcrawler
Vincent administers an adrenaline shot - Pulp Fiction
This Watch monologue - Pulp Fiction
Best Writing

Fargo
A Hijacking
The LEGO Movie
Pulp Fiction - Winner
Short Term 12
​Y Tu Mama Tambien
Best Jefe

Phil Crone
Jon Kissel - Winner
Sean Riley
Blair Setnor
​Shane Setnor
Worst Movie

The Big Empty - Winner
Explorers
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Top Secret!
Waking Life
Worst Jefe

Ashli Keller - Winner
Chris Cook
Drew Landry
Joe Setnor
Tom Topper
Worst Male Performance

Adam Beach as Randy, The Big Empty - Winner
Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers, Top Secret!
Quentin Tarantino as Chester, Four Rooms
Quentin Tarantino as Jimmy, Pulp Fiction
​Noah Wiseman as Samuel, The Babadook
Worst Female Performance

Joey Lauren Adams as Grace, The Big Empty
Rachel Leigh Cook as Ruthie, The Big Empty
Madonna as a witch, Four Rooms - Winner
Patricia Owens as Helene, The Fly
Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Best Review

Bobby on Blue is the Warmest Color
Lane on Nightcrawler
Lane on Rosemary's Baby
Lane on The Overnighters - Winner
Lane on Wake in Fright
Game Master

Phil Crone - Winner
Bryan Hartman
Jon Kissel
Sean Riley
Bobby Schmidt
Shane Setnor
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A Clockwork Orange

11/3/2015

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B
3.13

In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan.
Directed by Stanley Kubrik
Starring Malcolm McDowell

  • My empathetic side had no clue with whom to side - Bryan
  • A Clockwork Orange is a new shining example for me of direction elevating story - Sean
  • Clockwork Orange is foundationally ugly, but because of Kubrick, it's always interesting - Jon
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A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite movies of all time. I sort of wish I hadn't selected it, as I prefer to simply watch it than to write about it. But, I really do think it's a film that any movie enthusiast should experience at least once. 

I love the opening shot... just Alex with the menacing stare, with his three droogies and some Milk... laced with something or other to sharpen them up for a bit of the ultra-violence. It draws you in as the camera pans out. 


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The Fly (1958)

10/27/2015

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​C+
2.25

A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

Directed by Kurt Neumann
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Starring David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price​

  • You also can’t go wrong with Vincent Price - Cook
  • The Fly is in tow with expectations from the era.  How could women acting so flighty, be so mainstream? - Bryan
  • There's just so many small annoyances that add up to a trying experience - Jon
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I watched the 1986 remake of The Fly all the way through for the first time a year or so ago. I enjoyed it, but something felt off. After watching the 1958 original directed by Kurt Neumann, I realized that there was the story I was familiar with. FUN FACT: The Fly originated as a short story by George Langelaan and was first published in the June 1957 issue of Playboy.
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When I mention “the story” I was familiar with, the first thing that immediately pops in my head is one of the shorts from the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VIII, titled Fly vs. Fly. Here we get the teleporting disaster in which the scientist has the head of a fly and vice versa unlike the remake which shows Jeff Goldblum slowly body morph into a hybrid creature. The remake also adds the elements of a love story, which granted some are present in the original (there’s a happily-married couple with a son), but not to the extent of straying from the original source material.


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Rosemary's Baby

10/20/2015

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A-
3.50

A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences.

Directed by Roman Polanski
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Starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon

  • Polanski's direction is both precise when it needs to be, and chaotic when called for - Lane
  • I always wanted to know what was going to happen next and what each character was up to - Bryan
  • I think the final scene blows it - Jon
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Here are a few important dates in the history of women:
 
1960: The FDA approves the first oral contraception for sale in the US.
 
1963: The Equal Pay Act was signed into law by President Kennedy.
 
1965: The Supreme Court strikes down laws in Connecticut that restrict access to birth control for married couples.


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Broken Flowers

10/16/2015

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C+
2.17

An aging lothario attempts to determine which of his old flames sent him a letter about a son he didn't know about.

Directed by Jim Jarmusch
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Starring Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, and Jessica Lange

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  • It's an interesting enough tale, but the emotions are so low-key that I had a hard time hooking in - Jon
  • I felt like this movie suffered from some genre schizophrenia - Lane
  • I wanted to see more of the neighbor from the beginning - Cooker

Of the two Jim Jarmusch films I've seen (Ghost Dog, Only Lovers Left Alive), he's been locked in my estimation as a guy who knows how get whatever 'cool' is onscreen. Therefore, I was pretty surprised he started a film in a drab post office. Starring Bill Murray in sad, blase mode, Broken Flowers was not what I was expecting, but it is still an intriguing mystery.

Murray's Don Johnston is a lonely guy who can't sustain a relationship, idly living in his gray home until he gets a letter from a former girlfriend, saying that his son has run away, likely to find his father. Don didn't know he had a son in the first place, and spurred on by his nosy neighbor (Jeffrey Wright), he narrows the possibilities down to four women. Jarmusch follows Don as he travels from place to place, seeking to find the answer to this new question more out of curiosity and boredom than any paternal instinct. Each ex, well cast by middle-aged actresses like Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, and a near-unrecognizable Tilda Swinton, offers him little information and falls on the spectrum from accommodating to hateful. The value of Don's journey becomes less about answers and more about the act of doing anything at all. He goes from a character who doesn't give a shit in general to viewing every late-teenage boy as a what-if scenario.

It's an interesting-enough tale, but the emotions are so low-key that I had a hard time hooking in. I prefer Jarmusch when he's creating uber-mensch's, beings of myth that exist beyond normal human behavior. Don Johnston, an observer through and through, is in that ballpark, but without the indulgent camera work that accentuates the superhuman traits, it's just not as enthralling as urban ninjas or Moroccan vampires. 

​C+

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