Film: Closer

[CuriousCub]

Do you have any idea where you are? the largest drug fora on the whole web. haha, time ain't wasted when you're wasted all the time, Groove-pounder.

 

[kryalkastleE]

^^^ that's a great comment (though i prefer clive owen's 'fuck off and die' :D). yeah, it was a patrick farber play, i think? unless my brain's playing tricks on me again.

the fuck off and die comment is uber classic

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

I FINALLY got around to seeing this, and I liked it a lot, just like I thought I would.

I found it to be pretty realistic in a lot of ways. It isnt a bullshit happily ever after love story. I thought it was both well written and well performed. Sadly a lot of the scenes reminded me of my life. Especially when the guys in the film were demanding the women tell them the details of their sexual affairs. My ex did that a lot right after we were broken up.

 

[fizzygirl]

At least I guess it was realistic for someone....I've never known people to act as they did in that movie, and I'm starting to really appreciate that.

*pulls deja into her world o' good people*

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

^Ur lucky then. And yes pull me in! *goes*

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

golden globe nominated for best picture of the year?!

Sorry but I agree with that. I dont really see what sucked about this movie.

 

[CuriousCub]

^you probably haven't seen enough movies of this tripe then. *Comparatively*this movie is horrible.

 

[onetwothreefour]

^^^ right. i've seen nearly a thousand movies in 21 years, and about five hundred in the last two years, yet i adore this film.

does my numbers-based dick-sizing make my opinion, now, more valid than yours?

 

[Tanuki_23]

Its real good, the 4th person, whatever his name is, is the best in the movie, hes actually a real good actor. . .

 

[Tanuki_23]

^Compared to what movies . . .?

 

[wanderlust]

i have to say.... not as bad as i was expecting reading the first two pages of this

i have to agree with much of what 1234 said... it was a quaint film, cute in some ways, easily identifiable for me, the script was enjoyable and real... not bestly portrayed by law and sometimes the others, yet good.
each character was not a typical one way or the other (close to perfect or a slime) as many movies have
each had a basic human fallibility point that was portrayed genuinely (from my view). seriously who, after being cheated on, didnt want to know the answer to every one of those little questions? did you come? was he good? where? how long?? how did you do it? and so on... and you know why (we) i want to know... because i am insane!

 

[plazma]

Goddamn. I needed somewhere to vent about this fucking film. Glad I found somewhere to expel the bile, because it's been poisoning me since I went to see the thing after it was released. Thankfully I have broken up with the girl who dragged me off to see it, so I will never again be subjected to another POS of this magnitude. I've never seen a film which was so emotionaly bruising, revealed all of the characters to be selfish morons, and had so LITTLE to connect people to these dickheads and the way they rebound off one another.

I have no problem watching an emotionally bruising film, if there's some redemptive value in it, sadly this had LESS than no redemptive value and exists as a faux-arthouse shitfight with pretty faces. *edit* added bold for posner, and if I'm going to watch something emotionally bruising I'd prefer to see something similar to Bully (still my favourite Larry Clark film).

-plaz out-

 

[posner]

^
I'm sorry you felt that way because it is a good movie.

A faux arthouse shit fight? Maybe you should stick with something like the Lord of the Rings. You know, emotionally safe.

 

[L O V E L I F E]

I absolutely LOVED this movie.

Not quite as much as I loved Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (imo, one of the best acted movies of all time, with Burton's performance rivaling DeNiro's in II for sheer force), but I loved it nonetheless.

I love when a movie shows on-the-surface normal people behaving badly . . . it begs me to ask myself if I, on my worst days, could behave similarly.

I thought that the film did an excellent job of showing intelligent, beautiful people who let their respective (and slightly varied) insecurities get the better of them.

Law's character's struggled principally with greed, Owen's thirsted for power and revenge, Roberts' was mired in guilt and Portman's was the classic case of a beautiful woman who looked in the mirror each day, saw a gorgeous energetic well-meaning young lady staring back and couldn't quite figure out why she wasn't good enough.

I found the dialogue to be excellent, and the acting to be fantastic (particularly Owen's).

3.7 stars out of 4.0 on the LL-O-Meter.

Best movie I've seen since 25th Hour.

 

[fengtau]

I love romance movie....or chick flick, whatever you call it. So I think this will be a good one.

 

[onetwothreefour]

^^^ go have a read of the rest of this thread. closer isn't much of a soppy chick flick. more of an emotionally draining rip your heart out and stomp on it kind of movie

 

[CuriousCub]

ew, you put this on par with the 25th Hour? that's a damn shame. The acting in the 25th Hour makes Closer look like an early 90's, unedited episode of Bev Hills 90210. I just do not see how people think Closer is authentic at all. It's criminal to see stars get paid so much money for such shitty, just-left-drama school acting.

that's a pretty sensational description you gave, L O V E L I F E. Sounds like something i read in PEOPLE mag. On second thought, i think i did.

does it not bother anybody that these people get paid for doing nothing different than what you and your neighbors do everyday?
movies like this offend me so much because they so clearly represent how ordinary everything really is, how fake movies really are, how ordinary they the actors are, how nothing is truly different about them compared to the rest of us, yet they are getting paid to do it, to drink a glass of water and walk around aimlessly on film. While people sit there and pay to watch them do this! WTF. if you're going to charge us at least make it feel like we gained something from it.

 

[posner]

^

1. you read People magazine? You do have good taste.

2. Although your babble was not meant to infer such, it is precisely because the movie reflects events, situations, relationships that many of us have been a party to, accurately, that the movie is such a gem. Possibly it is that it has a play's feel to it that bothers you. If so, sorry...for you, I mean.

3. If you don't think the acting sans Natalie Portman was anything short of great, then I question your taste in movies.

 

[CuriousCub]

^portman is the biggest fucking yawn since roberts, ms. "i get 20 million a pic." typecasted as hell. all they do is play themselves and they as real life people are nothing to play up. two spoiled women in reality, playing two spoiled bitches in films. i can't stand either of them anymore. why do you guys pay to watch these people? if you're gonna watch anyone, someone to watch in Charlize Theron, at least she chooses films that make a difference or some impact on real life issues and doesn't brag about how good she is a'la portman.

haha, if you think reading PEOPLE is indicative of good taste, i question if you have any taste at all.

 

[Banquo]

It seems like this movie polarized people -- they either loved it or hated it. I thought it was just so-so. Julia Roberts was better than Natalie Portman in my opinion. Portman didn't sell her character well enough. She was so subtle that she wasn't believeable as a stripper and, instead, turned the part into a yawn (as Curious Cub said). Roberts, though, seemed like she fit her part well. And it's not that I don't like sad movies, Closer just wasn't very interesting at certain points. I liked how it created scenes where people had conversations and confrontations that most people wish they could have with former boyfriends and girlfriends in real life. In that sense, it was interesting...but it didn't have enough to be great.