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Her opens Friday 1/10

zinzin
edited January 2014
Hey, those of us living in cities that are not Los Angeles can now see Her!

Tomorrow, Lloyd Cinemas, 6:45… Anyone interested?

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  • 000000
    IN
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Oh god, the part where he's spinning around is something I saw in so many film school films depicting "happy couple."
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    p.s. The couples never stayed happy for long. FILM!!
  • zinzin
    That's the conceit, right? That his relationship with the AI is comparable to, and can be depicted in the same ways as, relationships between people. Haven't seen the movie yet, obviously, but it sounds like an intentional visual reference.
  • 12341234
    I only see movie times at 10:00pm

    http://www.fandango.com/her_165414/movietimes?location=97214
  • zinzin
    Those are for today. Why is it playing today at 10 pm? I don't know.

    But try tomorrow: http://www.fandango.com/her_165414/movietimes?location=97214&date=1/10/2014
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    Because all movies coming out on Fridays now have midnight preview shows on late Thursday nights and in the last year or so the midnight shows have become 10pm shows, which is more convenient to most people.
  • zinzin
    Really ruins the purity of the concept.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    "That's the conceit, right? That his relationship with the AI is comparable to, and can be depicted in the same ways as, relationships between people. Haven't seen the movie yet, obviously, but it sounds like an intentional visual reference."

    Sure, I just have a gag reflex every time I see that shot. See also: a person with a briefcase being chased by other people, which was the plot of 25% of freshmen films.
  • 12341234
    Just bought my tix.

    SEE YOU THERE!
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    I saw this movie last night. Sorry, I didn't see it with you people but my basketball squad was playing their crosstown rivals.
    I thought it was really great.
    Really enjoyed it more than anything I've seen in a while.
    WHAT ABOUT YALL?
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    Also, if you've seen the movie then you need to read Claire's piece about it for Grantland:

    http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/96904/spike-jonzes-her-is-a-flowers-for-algernon-for-the-digital-age

    CLAIRE! She makes things better!
  • 000000
    I thought it was really great too! One sort of sad thing I was noticing, and I think Mike and Zin too, was how hardened we are to maudlin movies... like regularly tensing in anticipation of some silly romantic trope being trotted out then being SO RELIEVED when it didn't go there.

    I disliked the super sexy breathy Scarlet Jo voice. Between the two of them it was just like an ocean of mushy sounds washing over you.

    COOL OUTFITS! Cool job imagining a future that was accessible but obviously future despite being so retro. Nice color schemes. And Amy Adams, so cute!

    Claire's piece was awesome. I found no spelling or grammar errors. A+.
  • 12341234
    I, as one might expect, loved this movie. It is one of the few good science fiction films.

    What were the good science fiction films between Moon (2009) and Her (2013)?

    Maybe Upstream Color (2013) and I don't think many people liked Limitless (2011) as much as I did. I also like Melancholia (2011) and Robot and Frank (2012). To be fair, I have missed a lot of science fiction films. GATTACA (1997) was good too.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I hated Upstream Color.

    Not all of these are full sci-fi but here is a list of sci-fi or sci-fi-ish films I have loved:

    Gattaca, Blade Runner, Alien, 2001, Melancholia, Terminator 2, Metropolis (1927), The Matrix, the first half of AI, The Iron Giant, Children of Men, Repo Man, Abre Los Ojos, Barbarella, THX 1138, Clockwork Orange, The Box, Southland Tales, Road Warrior, Existenz, Donnie Darko, maybe 12 Monkeys?, V for Vendetta, James Whale's The Invisible Man, The Truman Show, The Fly, Flatliners!, City of Lost Children, The Cell, Idiocracy, Hanna, Cloud Atlas?, Looper, Safety Not Guaranteed sort of,

    do movies like 28 Days Later or The Host count? Monster movie I feel like is not sci-fi

    Gremlins

    Back to the Future

    Hot Tub Time Machine

    Real Genius

    Weird Science
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    BillMc and I tried to watch Melancholia last night and turned it off halfway through. I think maybe we just weren't in the mood. I would like to finish it.

    Also watched Upstream Color for the first time a few nights ago. Still trying to decide how I feel about that one. Overall I think I did not like, but I did appreciate many parts of it.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I am definitely an advocate for watching Melancholia to the end.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I love Melancholia SO much and I have NEVER been able to get into LvT before. That movie really puts its fingers on my particular philosophical profile. I think it's so beautiful. The whole slow-mo opening that shows you the entire plot of the film, and it's set to the prelude from Tristan und Isolde (opera preludes "show" you all the themes you're about to hear in the rest of the opera; and T&I depicts one of the most apocalyptic triumphant flaming female deaths in music history (the "love death")), is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in a movie I think. I also love the hateful way Beethoven is used as a cultural referent ("why don't we meet on the fucking toilet")

    I feel like Melancholia is what finally made LvT's whole schtick "click" for me. I always thought he was this misogynist hateful misanthrope but I actually think he's a feminist hateful misanthrope, which is very different.

    I feel like he's an Ingmar Bergman for our modern age. And it's interesting they are both scandinavian. Those scandis have the market cornered on atheistic misanthropy, it's awesome

    Upstream Color definitely had some cool stuff but ultimately I ended up feeling like it was silly
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    Upstream Color was so silly, I couldn't stop snorted and huffing at all of the silly things going on. I liked the vibe for awhile? Seemed like a waste of skill.

  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    yeah! good summation smello. seemed like it was going to be cool but then after awhile was like "....??" The pigs, the inscrutable story/dialogue, I don't know.

  • SchlabeSchlabe
    I liked Her, and also Upstream Color. I watched Dallas Buyers Club last night and bawled my eyes out. I am catching up on Oscar movies.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I want to see DBC!

    We saw American Hustle and thought it was so boring and half-assed and tepid. I was sad because I expected to like it!! And Gary was BEGGING for us to go see Anchorman 2 (his second time) instead and I was like "you are crazy, this movie is going to rule," and so I lost so much movie-choosing capital and now I am ashamed. We were like fighting over who would go get more beer and pizza in the middle of it (we both wanted to go)

    I never go to movies. I've missed so many. I want to see 12 Years a Slave, Anchorman 2, Llewyn Davis, Her, All is Lost, Enough Said, In A World, Philomena, Walter Mitty

    I prob won't ever see Wolf on Wall St until Gary and I watch it on Netflix when we want to get drunk and laugh at a movie (last week: Jack Reacher)

    Speaking of sad boys, did you know a new movie starring Russell Crowe, Emma Watson, and Jennifer Connelly is coming out called NOAH, a thrilling action-adventure based on the Old Testament tale, where like Russell Crowe stands manfully against a Perfect Storm-style wavy background and presumably does a lot of swinging-on-ropes-with-woman-in-one-arm and wrangling-vicious-tigers? Not sure I am ready cognitively to deal with such a thing. I wonder if they will include the part where Noah gets drunk and his son Ham (Logan Lerman) sees him naked and so all Ham's children are cursed to slavery forevermore and they became the Canaanites. A wonderful instructive story we can all learn a lot from


  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Yeah, apparently Bible movies are trending because some cable series got high ratings.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I was inspired by this thread to update my movie blog for the first time in ages:

    http://urbanhonking.com/isawthat/2014/01/15/jack-reacher-apotheosis-of-the-dude-dad-movie/
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100522205641AAGi9RT

    Actually it wasn't Noah it was Lot, great thread.
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