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re: TulaneLSU's 2024 movie review thread: A Real Pain
Posted on 11/12/24 at 4:32 am to Thracken13
Posted on 11/12/24 at 4:32 am to Thracken13
Sadly he is. But his mom is very proud of his movie reviews so there’s that.
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Posted on 11/12/24 at 1:38 pm to Richleau
TulaneLSU - half the time I somewhat appreciate your posts even though the "mother" bit has been tiresome for a while, but you made a mess of this thread.
This post was edited on 11/12/24 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 11/12/24 at 1:56 pm to TulaneLSU
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Friend,
I hope you will consider doing your own movies review thread next year. The content of what was once a proud Arts Board has over the last decade decayed into a pop forum for politicized teens whose insights into film are as deep as a layer of a Pancho’s Mexican Buffet sopaipilla.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Short and sweet but this rivals your Justin Bieber review for your best post on here. You have seen a lot of crappy movies lately, yeesh.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 4:21 pm to msap9020
Fair enough, I’ll stay away from it.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 8:19 pm to TulaneLSU
No one can ever get the image out of their head of you dancing with Pre-teens while watching a Justin Bieber movie with your Mom (real or Psycho skeleton).... at this point, we don't know. It's nearly impossible to read what you write, in jest or not.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 10:23 pm to TulaneLSU
Gladiator II
Man can be motivated by the good and the bad. It seems most choose the easier of the two realms of motivation. Gladiator II pits the forces of those who are inspired by the hope of an idea versus those who are driven simply by revenge. From the distance of an audience two thousand years after the alleged incident, it is easy to say we too would choose the former rather than the latter. Sorrowfully, the reality is that most people and civilizations choose in the moment of hurt, loss, and pain to follow the darkness of revenge.
Tonight, as I waved AMC’s fan event Gladiator II foam hands, which smelled of the toxic chemicals at a Chinese factory producing cheap Christmas decorations for pagan Americans, I was harangued by several younger audience members who mocked my thumbs up call for forgiveness for all. Forgiveness, after all, is the Christian duty and prerogative, the act that unites us to the Christ who forgave those who attacked and crucified him.
And still, even those who act as though they are motivated by the good fail to bow at the feet of the one who taught us to forgive over and over. Paul says we are to forgive “one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” But Rome cannot stand because even those who fight for the idea of a Rome are, in the end, still motivated by demented notions of justice, which lack the forgiveness of Christ. Christianity did not bring down Rome, as some historians have argued. Christianity ultimately allowed Western civilization and Rome to flourish.
Gladiator II’s storyline is so reflective of the original that one could allege laziness on Ridley Scott’s part. There are numerous flashbacks to the original movie, but more than that, this story is so predicated on the original that it becomes predictable within the first thirty seconds. I had some hope that Maximus might reappear in a vision, not the Maximus of old but Maximus the Hut, to add something new and unexpected. But it was not to be. One of the few original scenes, that of a Colosseum filled like a tank at Sea World, though with great white sharks, is so preposterous even its novelty does not forgive its inclusion.
Viewers who enjoy huge scale fight scenes, as those in Braveheart and those who appreciate random quotes from The Aeneid[/b] and [i]Meditations will rave. And if you are to see it, like all movies, it should be seen on the silver screen. But for me, though I was entertained, I was not encouraged or moved to emotion or inspired. 6/10
Man can be motivated by the good and the bad. It seems most choose the easier of the two realms of motivation. Gladiator II pits the forces of those who are inspired by the hope of an idea versus those who are driven simply by revenge. From the distance of an audience two thousand years after the alleged incident, it is easy to say we too would choose the former rather than the latter. Sorrowfully, the reality is that most people and civilizations choose in the moment of hurt, loss, and pain to follow the darkness of revenge.
Tonight, as I waved AMC’s fan event Gladiator II foam hands, which smelled of the toxic chemicals at a Chinese factory producing cheap Christmas decorations for pagan Americans, I was harangued by several younger audience members who mocked my thumbs up call for forgiveness for all. Forgiveness, after all, is the Christian duty and prerogative, the act that unites us to the Christ who forgave those who attacked and crucified him.
And still, even those who act as though they are motivated by the good fail to bow at the feet of the one who taught us to forgive over and over. Paul says we are to forgive “one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” But Rome cannot stand because even those who fight for the idea of a Rome are, in the end, still motivated by demented notions of justice, which lack the forgiveness of Christ. Christianity did not bring down Rome, as some historians have argued. Christianity ultimately allowed Western civilization and Rome to flourish.
Gladiator II’s storyline is so reflective of the original that one could allege laziness on Ridley Scott’s part. There are numerous flashbacks to the original movie, but more than that, this story is so predicated on the original that it becomes predictable within the first thirty seconds. I had some hope that Maximus might reappear in a vision, not the Maximus of old but Maximus the Hut, to add something new and unexpected. But it was not to be. One of the few original scenes, that of a Colosseum filled like a tank at Sea World, though with great white sharks, is so preposterous even its novelty does not forgive its inclusion.
Viewers who enjoy huge scale fight scenes, as those in Braveheart and those who appreciate random quotes from The Aeneid[/b] and [i]Meditations will rave. And if you are to see it, like all movies, it should be seen on the silver screen. But for me, though I was entertained, I was not encouraged or moved to emotion or inspired. 6/10
This post was edited on 11/21/24 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 11/21/24 at 10:57 pm to TulaneLSU
You really are cluttering up the board with a lot of regurgitated crap. Who would honestly read all of this shtick? Oh wait let me guess…mother.
It was a better place when you were banned
It was a better place when you were banned
Posted on 11/21/24 at 11:02 pm to TulaneLSU
quote:who would bring children to witness gladiators? Besides the Romans of course
I was harangued by several younger audience members who mocked my thumbs up call for forgiveness for all. Forgiveness, after all, is the Christian duty and prerogative, the act that unites us to the Christ who forgave those who attacked and crucified him
Posted on 11/22/24 at 4:02 am to Bayouboogaloocrew
quote:
cluttering up the board
How is he cluttering up the board by keeping his reviews in one thread?
TulaneLSU is the least of this board’s problems.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 4:59 am to Bayouboogaloocrew
quote:
It was a better place when you were banned
I couldn’t disagree with you more.
Posted on 11/22/24 at 8:33 am to TulaneLSU
I've gotten to where I read all of your reviews, whether I'm seeing the movie or not. I'm a Christian so I can appreciate some religious undertones in a review but I'm struggling to see where your movie review is in your Gladiator II post.
Hopefully going to see it Saturday.
Hopefully going to see it Saturday.
Posted on 12/4/24 at 3:24 pm to TulaneLSU
A Real Pain
The greatest of all American writers, Norman Maclean, once wrote, “ We can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.” This Anselmian thought gets to the heart of this surprisingly touching and piercing short film that is in the running for 2024’s TulaneLSU Movie Awards in the dramatic division.
Those who love or have loved someone who has been pulled away or under by the current of depression or drink or drug or depravity or desultoriness will feel a real pain inA Real Pain. These people often have great charisma and a gift to connect with others. They “light up the room.” They pull you into their warm embraces.
Because you know them so well, you can see through their masks and see their pain. You reach out to help them. You try to slap sense into them. They want your love but only at a distance. And then, for whatever reason we simply cannot understand, they push you away.
Daniel Radcliffe steals the show, giving the best performance of his career, surpassing Swiss Army Man. Radcliffe’s blithesome and buoyant mask, which hides interior torment and anguish, calls to mind that of Del Griffith in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Meanwhile Jesse Eisenberg has not been this perfectly awkward and conflicted since his masterful performance in The Social Network. There is real chemistry between the two and the director makes it the focus, to the edification of the viewer.
While we get to go on a tour of Poland, which is initially hilarious, what sticks with the viewer is not the stories of the concentration camps. It is the relationship between these two, who like so many of us, do not know how to communicate with each other. We are beings in need of community and communion, yet something, call it Sin, as the Church Fathers and Mothers do, or the Shadow, as did Jung or cognitive dissonance or existential guilt as the psychologists say, separates us.
A Real Pain leaves us with much reflection, but ultimately, sadness reigns. Such is the life and relationships without God who binds all together. We are on this enlightened journey together, given so much knowledge and information. And the one thing, the One, who can make it all come together is nowhere in the picture. The chasm, the separation that we all experience needs a bridge. God through Christ Jesus is that bridge, and for those who believe, nothing shall be able to separate us from Christ’s love. Those who live with the pain of a lost loved one take heart in this faith. 8/10
The greatest of all American writers, Norman Maclean, once wrote, “ We can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.” This Anselmian thought gets to the heart of this surprisingly touching and piercing short film that is in the running for 2024’s TulaneLSU Movie Awards in the dramatic division.
Those who love or have loved someone who has been pulled away or under by the current of depression or drink or drug or depravity or desultoriness will feel a real pain inA Real Pain. These people often have great charisma and a gift to connect with others. They “light up the room.” They pull you into their warm embraces.
Because you know them so well, you can see through their masks and see their pain. You reach out to help them. You try to slap sense into them. They want your love but only at a distance. And then, for whatever reason we simply cannot understand, they push you away.
Daniel Radcliffe steals the show, giving the best performance of his career, surpassing Swiss Army Man. Radcliffe’s blithesome and buoyant mask, which hides interior torment and anguish, calls to mind that of Del Griffith in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Meanwhile Jesse Eisenberg has not been this perfectly awkward and conflicted since his masterful performance in The Social Network. There is real chemistry between the two and the director makes it the focus, to the edification of the viewer.
While we get to go on a tour of Poland, which is initially hilarious, what sticks with the viewer is not the stories of the concentration camps. It is the relationship between these two, who like so many of us, do not know how to communicate with each other. We are beings in need of community and communion, yet something, call it Sin, as the Church Fathers and Mothers do, or the Shadow, as did Jung or cognitive dissonance or existential guilt as the psychologists say, separates us.
A Real Pain leaves us with much reflection, but ultimately, sadness reigns. Such is the life and relationships without God who binds all together. We are on this enlightened journey together, given so much knowledge and information. And the one thing, the One, who can make it all come together is nowhere in the picture. The chasm, the separation that we all experience needs a bridge. God through Christ Jesus is that bridge, and for those who believe, nothing shall be able to separate us from Christ’s love. Those who live with the pain of a lost loved one take heart in this faith. 8/10
This post was edited on 12/4/24 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 12/9/24 at 3:35 am to TulaneLSU
Watched Daddio yesterday.
Thanks for that.
Thanks for that.
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Posted on 1/7/25 at 9:22 am to TulaneLSU
quote:
A Real Pain
quote:
Daniel Radcliffe steals the show
Posted on 1/31/25 at 12:58 pm to TulaneLSU
quote:
Daniel Radcliffe steals the show, giving the best performance of his career, surpassing Swiss Army Man.
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