Movie Review: Closer
Mike Nichols - Director
Even with an all star cast, it still sucks.
Patrick Marber - Author/Screenwriter
Natalie Portman - Alice
Jude Law - Dan
Julia Roberts - Anna
Clive Owen - Larry
Nick Hobbs - Taxi Driver
Colin Stinton - Customs Officer
There were however three redeeming moments in the movie.
1. The scene where Larry and Dan are chatting with each other in the cybersex chatroom.
2. The scene where Larry finally gets Anna to confess how great of a lover Dan is and then he tells her thank you and to fuck off.
and finally...
3. The point when I left the theater with my wife and she said "I wanna fuck." Apperantly she found the film erotic. Though I would hardly bill it as a chick flick. More like a shit flick. But hey, if it gets ya laid, more power to it.
Closer scores 1 wombat out of 4
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One of things I'm always aware of when watching movies is the dialogue: Do the characters speak the way real people speak day to day or so their words sound fabricated? The delivery is also important, of course.
Is swearing in British different in some way? British isn't like German or Japanese, right?
not exactly... for example... where i would say "fuck", nine times out of ten they would say "wank". the words are different. if someone told me to "wank off", i probably would care less becuase it doesn't really mean anything here. where as if someone told me to "fuck off", i might get offended. its like when people used to make up swear words in elementary school. its kind of hard to find something offensive if you have no idea what it means.
NC 17 is MORE restrictive than Rated R, silly. Other than, I agree (as you already know).
really? i didnt know that... i always thought nc-17 meant you had to be 17 to watch and r meant you had to be 18. learn something new everyday...
The NC stands for No Children. No Children under 17 allowed, period. Parent or no.
i did not know that... i always figured it was for negative content or something rediculous like that. so basically its an x movie you can show in theaters?
That is correct. You almost never see NC-17 films in theatres - they aren't profitable. I only ever recall one suck film being in theatres in our area. It was called Crash, a film about people who have a car crash fetish. I think it was in town for about a week.
Did you know that Midnight Cowboy was the only X rated movie ever to win a Best Picture Academy Award?
True, but TONS of X rated movies win GOLDEN GLOBES every year!
Hmmm.. that joke sounded a lot funnier in my head than on paper.
I chuckled!
"Bad Education" got the dreaded NC 17 rating and I can't wait to see it, since it has GAEL GARCIA BERNAL (mmmmmmm!). Of course I've heard that it's an excellent film about stuff. And it has GAEL GARCIA BERNAL (mmmmmmm!).
wasnt strip tease the first to recieve nc-17?
i actually wanted to see crash. i was gonna rent it but i could never remember what it was called. sounded like a fun fetish to have. two things i really enjoy anyways... car crashes and sex... both together would be a high flying adenaline pumping tongue splitting adventure.
I've seen it in part. Crash was a lot like what I think Lost in Translation would be. That is a poor score on the Jimbob movie rating system.
I never saw the beginning, but the middle was a bit senseless. A random flow of this and that not really ever gaining any plot momentum in any dicernable direction. They like crashing cars and looking at crashed cars and reading about cars that crashed and then fucking soon after because twisted metal and broken glass is really erotic apparently. I like it, I break it, but I don't need it to be complete. These guys did, or no erection.
I think the Jimbob shallow un-cultured movie system might make an interesting post. Maybe I'll do a couple reviews.
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