What a weird movie, but eh? I kinda hated This is 40 because it wasn't very good. It wasn't funny, it wasn't moving and in typical Apatow fashion it was way too long. I'm not sure if it would help if he hired real actors to play the family, with the exception of Rudd.

This is 40 was the kinda sequel to Knocked Up right? I kinda hated Knocked Up so I avoided This is 40, I'm glad I did.

Uh, John Lithgow? Albert Brooks?

No, it was the material that was the problem. How do you shift the tone of the movie 90 minutes in like that? If it had actually been as funny as it was trying to be, it would have been REALLY annoying. As it was, it was just more mystification when they got all heavy on us toward the interminable end.

I swear to God, at one point I was really going through my memory to see when I had paused the film (I had not paused it once), so long had it run. Then I started to think maybe I was crazy, that I had started watching it an hour later than I had thought. Nope.

This is not Lawrence of Arabia, Judd. Come on. It's some whiny, juvenile, vapid 40 year olds, enjoying their infinite extended adolescences.

I think the Apatow template has had it's day in the sun and should just be left to die, no need to soil our somewhat fond memories of 40 year old virgin and a few others by continuing to beat the decaying horse.

I can barely believe he actually WROTE Walk Hard--The Dewey Cox Story, which was excellent. He has produced everything from true excellence (Superbad) to outright dreck (Year One).

I guess the new Ron Burgundy will define whether he's entirely done or not.

Ah yes the film was so boring I forgot Lithgow and Brooks were in the film.

I saw this at SXSW. I'm unable to articulate how I felt about it, but I still find myself thinking about it and need to see it again. It's a powerful, confusing, poetic experience. Kind of reminded me how I felt after seeing 2001 for the first time (but it's not really like 2001 at all). Carruth made the Lebron leap, IMO.

The Awakening - Ghost story that relies on creating a spooky atmosphere more than lots of jumping scare tactics (though there are a couple of those too). I would say that it's highly reminiscent of The Others. It's set in 1920s England and is the story of a woman who exposes fake psychics and seances. She is brought to a boarding school to help end the rumors of a ghost story after one boy ended up dead. I feel like it is one of those movies that requires rewatching just to see how cleverly they put all of the pieces together. I thought all of the actors were stellar, including Dominic West of McNulty-Wire fame. It's showing on Netflix Watch Instantly.

The Thin Red Line once again. Just the opening ten minutes are fabulous and it only gets better. It helps also to see it many times to figure out who is doing the voiceovers.

I thought Primer was excellent except for the irrelevant complexity the plot. But I am actually excited to see this.

The greatest insomnia cure ever devised.

Since I'm unable to determine if your comment is praising or insulting the movie, I'm going to have to assume the latter and suggest a mod issue a permaban

Nolte's performance in The Thin Red Line is possibly his best. It's amazingly underrated.

Hearing stuff like that gets me more excited. Due to the extremely limited release it will also be available on demand.

Yep. The part where he orders Elias Koteas to send his men up the hill and he refuses, the look on Notle's face is incredible. Great scene.

The Thin Red Line is one of the few films where I get a visceral reaction to anyone saying anything even remotely negative about it because it is so obviously great that you'd have to be lying or mentally ill not to love it.

I mean, good lord, it is absolutely packed with awesome scenes. When I watch it, I am reminded that there is a reason to exist. I am reminded that great art exists and that I want to exist in the same world with it.

I am so intransigent in this position, I feel irrational and unreasonable.

In my early days I thought "lol Nolte gonna Nolte." love his performance

+1 I find as I mature things make more sense. Like when Private Bell read a breakup letter from his wife. Since my first viewing I've loved and have been hurt. Now I'm married and cannot imagine the pain he felt. I get emotional just thinking about it.

I thought Nolte was really good in Who'll Stop the Rain (movie adaptation of the great book Dog Soldiers)

He was amazing in Affliction.

I love Malick but find TTRL his only bad film. It's a parody of Malick. Something SNL would make because it takes all the things that make Malick great and simply adds more and more and more like some kind of poorly conceived satire. More characters, more shots of nature, more existential angst.

I realize I am in a minority on this opinion, but so be it. Because I deeply love his other films I have watched TTRL several times but I can never get past it's pretension.

Unlike The Godfather, for which the joke was actually written, TTRL truely insists upon itself.

Now I know I am right.

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Paul Shrader is broke and groveling to investors and Lindsey Lohan to make movies.

WTF???!!!

Pay back is a bitch.

[see my avatar for why]

Nolte was also great in Farewell to the King