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Shack
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Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 40553
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 Re: Silver Linings Playbook
Wow, this is really really great. SO impressed by David O. Russell here - really a masterclass in how to direct an actor/screenplay dominated film or romantic comedy. The editing, cinematography, timing, atmosphere, etc. was just impeccable to me, in addition to of course the acting directing.
Fantastic mix of a film that's enjoyable for surface reasons as a likeable, entertaining romance - but with real layers underneath. While the film is about Pat and Tiffany and their lost and trying to find their way arc, the thought put into the psychological mindset of the De Niro, Weaver, Pat's brother, Stiles & husband characters really stood out to me. While De Niro's fantastic performance got the most play, perhaps more brilliant was how it in very very little time and energy spent, manages to tell us a ton about the damage of the Weaver character (which would've played just as big a part as De Niro's OCD in passing on psychological damage to the next generation), as well as the uneasy tension of the Pat/brother and Tiffany/Stiles relationships, with the issues the brother and Stiles inherited at the same time as their siblings even if their lives are more normal on the surface. The intricately layered context of the world and people around Pat and Tiffany is what makes this film great to me. As Pat and Tiffany both owe much of their issues to context, but also have a large impact on the lives of the people around them
Fantastic dialog and back and forths of course. Cooper and Lawrence's characters of course though sell it by having great chemistry and just killing their performances. At the beginning I was a little underwhelmed by Lawrence, but everything from the diner blow-up scene on showed the brilliance of her character and performance, between what she shows on the surface and what is underneath
This movie uses SETTING beautifully. The repeated use of the house, the street, the yoga studio, the dance hall stood out to me as making the experience more cohesive and familiar
Really the best film of its kind in a while. Enjoyable, smart and excellently crafted film. One of the best of the year
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Gopher
You are waiting for a train
Joined: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:25 pm Posts: 995
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It's fine. But the ending is a lie. It loses its grimness and sobriety and descends into dance numbers and confessions of love. It didn't feel thematically congruous to me.
Still, gotta love Lawrence and Cooper.
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Sun Jan 13, 2013 12:16 pm |
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bl1222
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Joined: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:36 pm Posts: 3900
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Bradley Witherberry wrote: Wow - - what a great movie!
...and it was so, so close to being incredible...
...just a slightly bloated middle section blunted the cascading rhythms generated by this very sharp film. This otherwise exceptionally true told tale seemed to especially lose track of Bradley Cooper's character just past the halfway mark...
...however these are mere greedy wishes for perfection. Silver Linings Playbook is great! Jennifer Lawrence is such a star now. And I was blown away when I caught on to the rare appearance by Chris Tucker - only his third movie role in the past 15 years and it's a tiny gem! Bradley Cooper did fine, except where the script let him down as noted above. + De Niro!
...while director David O. Russell has yet to return to the rare altitude he achieved with his back-to-back masterpieces Three Kings & I ♥ Huckabees, he's definitely soaring in Silver Linings Playbook.
17 out of 5. I just saw it today and it was such an outstanding movie. Chris Tucker surprised me in this as he cracked me up in the beginning.
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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Gopher wrote: It's fine. But the ending is a lie. It loses its grimness and sobriety and descends into dance numbers and confessions of love. It didn't feel thematically congruous to me.
Still, gotta love Lawrence and Cooper. I think the ending fits perfectly with Bradley Cooper's rant earlier as to why a story can't just have a happy ending.
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BJ
Killing With Kindness
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:57 pm Posts: 25035 Location: Anchorage,Alaska
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BJs Grade:
A/A-
Very good, borderline excellent, Cooper, Lawrence, and De Niro were great, as was the entire supporting cast, Stiles and Tucker really had me rolling.
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Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:41 am |
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Mau
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Joined: Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:42 pm Posts: 16923 Location: Monterrey, Mexico
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I cant really say anyone stole the movie, the acting was top notch all across the board.
Also my third favorite film of the year
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Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:00 am |
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Magic Mike
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Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:53 am Posts: 35248 Location: Minnesota
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Absolutely loved it! It's very funny and I loved the pairing of Pat (Bradley Cooper) and Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence). It's refreshing seeing a romance between two characters with "issues." Yes it's been tackled before, but it's rare to see a more mainstream film take on that subject matter. And Cooper and Lawrence have great chemistry. Both performances are superb, though Lawrence pretty much steals the show. She's incredible here and deserves to win the Oscar. To be honest so does Cooper. He's never been better. Robert De Niro is also great. The best he's been in ages.
This is a real crowd-pleasing delight.
9/10 (A)
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Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:20 am |
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Magic Mike
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Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:53 am Posts: 35248 Location: Minnesota
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I hope this movie reminds people that Julia Stiles exists and she'll get more roles.
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Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:05 pm |
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Because there really aren't any other actors in Hollywood.
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Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:21 pm |
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Chippy
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm Posts: 63026 Location: Tonight... YOU!
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Bradley Cooper would be excited. And really, that's all that matters.
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Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:57 pm |
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Magic Mike
Wallflower
Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:53 am Posts: 35248 Location: Minnesota
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It's not like the other two front-runners would be exciting winners. I'd find this winning to be extremely satisfying.
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Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:00 am |
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Libs
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48678 Location: Arlington, VA
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Does anyone else hope Jacki Weaver's Oscar clip is just a compilation of her saying "crabby snacks and homemades"?
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Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:01 pm |
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Julius Pepperwood
Ex-Cop, Ex-Marine
Joined: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:47 pm Posts: 370
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That'd be cute. Most of her scenes are pretty short though and when she is featured in a long scene, she's usually silent in the background or saying "I don't get it. I don't understand."
They can also use the events leading up to her getting decked by Bradley Cooper. I think I read on an interview that she didn't use a double for that.
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Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:10 pm |
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Libs
Sbil
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48678 Location: Arlington, VA
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I know most people found Weaver's nomination sort of baffling but I think it was a nice choice. I wouldn't give her an Oscar for the performance, but she is a true supporting actress in the film. You can always feel her character in the background reacting to something and get a sense of her as a person/mother/wife/etc.
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Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:16 pm |
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Julius Pepperwood
Ex-Cop, Ex-Marine
Joined: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:47 pm Posts: 370
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I would like some of those crabby snacks and homemades though. Looked delicious. They could show up on the Oscar menu, since they do like to incorporate references from nominated films on there. Bradley Cooper's mother is as tiny as Jacki Weaver: 
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movies35
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Joined: Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:53 pm Posts: 8627 Location: Syracuse, NY
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Libs wrote: Does anyone else hope Jacki Weaver's Oscar clip is just a compilation of her saying "crabby snacks and homemades"? Haha, that would be great.  I say that to my boyfriend all the time when I'm cooking now.  I watched this for a fourth time yesterday, this time with my Grandma. She enjoyed it, but didn't understand the hype around it.
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movies35
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Joined: Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:53 pm Posts: 8627 Location: Syracuse, NY
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She just said it on Leno.  
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Gopher
You are waiting for a train
Joined: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:25 pm Posts: 995
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Dr. Lecter wrote: Gopher wrote: It's fine. But the ending is a lie. It loses its grimness and sobriety and descends into dance numbers and confessions of love. It didn't feel thematically congruous to me.
Still, gotta love Lawrence and Cooper. I think the ending fits perfectly with Bradley Cooper's rant earlier as to why a story can't just have a happy ending. But the film is highly critical of the character at that point. I felt like the whole tone of the movie chaged when Lawrence started reading off football stats. It stopped being about real people and descended into movie-ness. If that was the point, then okay, but it still feels dishonest in a cathartic sense.
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Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:56 am |
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Libs
Sbil
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48678 Location: Arlington, VA
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Gopher wrote: Dr. Lecter wrote: Gopher wrote: It's fine. But the ending is a lie. It loses its grimness and sobriety and descends into dance numbers and confessions of love. It didn't feel thematically congruous to me.
Still, gotta love Lawrence and Cooper. I think the ending fits perfectly with Bradley Cooper's rant earlier as to why a story can't just have a happy ending. But the film is highly critical of the character at that point. I felt like the whole tone of the movie chaged when Lawrence started reading off football stats. It stopped being about real people and descended into movie-ness. If that was the point, then okay, but it still feels dishonest in a cathartic sense. I don't think the film is ever critical of Pat. In fact, I'd say it's the opposite, even from the beginning. It's more reflective of a comment on how he's struggling without medication and a sense of balance in life right after getting out of the hospital.
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Dr. Lecter
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Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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What Libs said. I think it is rather the first part that you are reading more into 
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Gopher
You are waiting for a train
Joined: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:25 pm Posts: 995
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I'm not sure I can explain why the movie didn't really work for me (even though I still mostly liked it). But I'll try-
Cooper is indeed great, Lawrence is as good as ever, and David O. Russell brings something to the material and the ensemble that's better than your average Oscar bait. It's a grim, sobering film that uses the dangerous realities of these illnesses in a purposeful and effective way. But it does NOT position itself as a movie about finding love. Maybe that's why I think SLP cops out. It stopped telling believable stories and dissolves into dance numbers, confessions of love, and a glorious, Wayne's World magic happy ending for everyone involved. It stops being about real people and becomes escapism. Thematically it just doesn't make sense... the ending's an entire 'silver lining' when the rest of the movie based happiness in the grim reality of life. The movie never comments on that, besides the Farewell to Arms "why can't there be happy endings?" scene, which doesn't touch on why endings like Farewell to Arms DO make sense and would have in fact suited Cooper's arc in the film. By the last 30 minutes the mentally ill characters seemed to turn back into the movie stars that play them. The film gives the illusion of seriousness and danger while remaining intellectually comforting. So I don't really know what the movie was supposed to be.
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MadGez
Dont Mess with the Gez
Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:54 am Posts: 23367 Location: Melbourne Australia
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Absolutely loved this film. Favorite of the year so far.
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torrino
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Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:52 pm Posts: 16020
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Finally saw this. Maybe my favorite of the year, as well.
The psychiatrist bothered me -- drinking with your patients? giving concrete advice to your patients? In fact, we probably could have done without his character. Maybe Pat just has a thought in one of his 3 am insomniac sessions that he needed to help Tiffany's crazy. But ok.
Still, I don't usually tear up...and I did here. Ish.
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Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:13 pm |
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Libs
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48678 Location: Arlington, VA
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I'll probably end up seeing this in theaters before the Oscars for a third time, which is really really rare for me. I picked up a lot of details about it the second time I didn't fully appreciate the first time.
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Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:33 pm |
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torrino wrote: Still, I don't usually tear up...and I did here. Ish. At which scene?
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