https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg5zSVxx9JM

Everyone I know who's seen it loves it. Love these sorts of journalist procedurals.

but I'll watch this at some point.

Who's Rachel McAdams' agent? Rachel's been in a number of good roles lately. Good for her.

Son, the fact that the Catholic chruch is gonna get away with shit until the end of time is crazy.

During the credits, I kept thinking about this Ras Kass song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNjtD5GCD8k
"...It ain't baseball, America's favorite national pastime is white
Supremacy
Never seen a nigga granted clemency
My metaphors is meta-five
My styles go up in your raw dog little boy
You get fucked, like pedophiles
When it's all said and done I'mma retire to an island in the Caymans
Enslavin' caucasians livin' off your mama's life savings
I take it all in stride
Dennis Rodmans laced to the side
This nigga glide, like Clyde
My hands was tied
Silent cries screamed genocide
When two-thirds of the planet died in the end

The end justifies the means
The end is power
(Power) Power corrupts -- absolute power corrupts absolutely
Young black man, let us begin (2X)"

Saw it in Toronto early. missed the tiff premiere so caught it this saturday in a PACKED theatre (only theatre it was playing in in the city).

Truly a compelling couple hours. The subject matter speaks for itself, but the ensemble, the writing, directing, pacing, and most definitely the attention to 2001 business style, all pitch-perfect.

I expect noms for Keaton, Ruffalo, and Tucci. Man, Tucci...what a performance. that guy is the fucking best.

Affiliated with the Catholic church in the U.S. (United States Conference of Bishops), but a note, their reviews are basically meant for parents first and foremost, but they are written well and insightfully (especially John Mulderig) most of the time, with emphasis on a Catholic point of view obviously: http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/spotlight.cfm

Really liked that it wasn't sensational and just took a no-frills, gritty procedural approach.

Was genuinely enraged/disgusted/shaken/sad/proud at various times throughout the movie.

One of the better movies I've seen this year so far...

No bullshit, no unneeded drama, just the story and the work behind it. Ruffalo has got to get a nomination for this. He destroyed. The entire cast, special shout to Liev, came through and I walked away feeling like I went on a journey. Tied up with Sicario for me right now.

I left crying.

I feel like I should have been more angry, but I was more heartbroken.

I was astounded by how powerful this film was.

~ ~ ~
All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

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='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

Glad you enjoyed it!

I was certainly engrossed. I had to pee about halfway through and I just held it. LOL But the sadness stayed with me all day and overnight. :-(

~ ~ ~
All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

|\_/|
='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

Acting was superb, especially Mark Ruffalo.
Great to see Michael Keaton back and in action with such good films and roles these days.

2 related docs:

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2111478/

Secrets of the Vatican
free stream: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/secrets-of-the-vatican/

It's also on Netflix Instant.


Spotlight was very good.

Where've you been? Also, what have you liked this year? I miss your recommendations.

>Where've you been?

Lurkin'. I'll never stop checking the boards lest I miss out on gems like SAT scores in the Kobe post!

Did you see Macbeth yet?


>Also, what have you liked this year? I
>miss your recommendations.

Tentative top 10:

The Assassin (Hou)
Beasts of No Nation
White God (Mundruczo)
Carol
Mountains May Depart (Jia)
The Homesman
What We Do in the Shadows
A Most Violent Year
Results (Bujalski)
Max Mad

>Lurkin'. I'll never stop checking the boards lest I miss out
>on gems like SAT scores in the Kobe post!

As an SAT tutor, God, I would've loved to get in on that.

>
>Did you see Macbeth yet?

Uggggggh, not yet. I was hoping to ride my bike to Landmark and see it tonight, but it might rain. Hopefully this weekend or next week at latest. You like it?


>>Also, what have you liked this year? I
>>miss your recommendations.
>
>Tentative top 10:
>
>The Assassin (Hou)
>Beasts of No Nation
>White God (Mundruczo)
>Carol
>Mountains May Depart (Jia)
>The Homesman
>What We Do in the Shadows
>A Most Violent Year
>Results (Bujalski)
>Max Mad

Loved Most Violent Year and Homesman, though I'd put them as 2014 releases. Assassin, Beasts, Carol all high on my next-watch list. Shadows was *hilarious* and I'm pleased that director booked a high-profile Marvel gig as a result. Results I'm somewhat mixed on, but the performances are all aces. Mad Max is my favorite of the year, and I'll be stunned if anything beats it.

Don't get me wrong, it's a very good film and one that people should watch but part of me feels like The Spotlight team might not have been the best group to focus on here. For all of the talk of how difficult it would be to get this story, we didn't actually see many hurdles in their way. Even the judge ruled in their favor.

They also hinted at the fact that someone at the Globe had the info beforehand and buried it but they didn't make a big deal of it and even when Keaton admitted it was him, it was just kind of brushed off.

Which becomes more bothersome when you hear the actual guy also kind of blow it of:

"The Boston Herald also ran this story, and both papers buried it inside, about this one lawyer, Eric MacLeish who basically sent out a press release saying that he had found 20 priests in the archdiocese . Now, in truth, looking back on it and knowing Eric MacLeish, that was Eric MacLeish trying to get attention to himself so he could get more clients, which he did. We published this story and we buried it.

When we started our investigation eight years later, that clip didn’t surface. None of us remembered it. Back in 1993 I think I had been metro editor for about a month when that story ran. I had no memory of it, although I actually think I was on a golf vacation"

You'd like to think that the decision not to investigate the story then would be one of life great regrets but instead he's basically blaming the lawyer and copping pleas for why he didn't follow up on it.

For me, the heart wrenching moment was watching Rachel McAdam's nana reading the story.

Still, it was a very good movie, with great performances, and is definitely high on my must see list but it might just be Top 10 instead of Top 5.

had me interested the whole way through.

the theater experience was a little weird though. i think this guy in the row in front of me had simple/mild tourettes. his tick was laughing. he was laughing at nearly every damn thing in the movie and this movie damn sure is not a comedy.

Loved it, did not disappoint...the end credits listing every location of reported catholic church abuse got me teary eyed

Loved that the screener showed that nobody is the lead actor or actress. True ensemble with amazing performances.

GODDAMN.

The writing.

The performances.

Holy shit.

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(C)Keith Murray, "

Your endorsement is like the kiss of death on the Academy, no offense OE.

I mean, can anything rival the brilliance and beauty
of dumb, clumsy race doo doo?

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

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I still remember seeing Crash in, like, March of that year. My friend and I literally made fun of it the entire time. It was everything bad in a faux-deep indie film that you could imagine.

And then it somehow won Oscars. We were horrified.

But I am admittedly a sucker for stories about long-form journalism.

Ruffallo got a lot of the showier moments, but I was blown away by Rachel McAdams in this.

Insane. Great movie, glad it won the critics' choice best picture at least because it'll be a looooongshot for the Oscar I'm thinking.

Eeriest, most disturbing scene is when McAdams goes to that priest's house and he admits it willingly.

.... but since The Big Short won the Producer's Guild Award tonight, I'm thinking it's the clear favorite now.

>.... but since The Big Short won the Producer's Guild Award
>tonight, I'm thinking it's the clear favorite now.


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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

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That'd be the best two way race in some time.

Of course, the third contender in there is The Revenant. Which... I didn't like as much.

But if The Big Short wins SAG Ensemble, it's a wrap. I think there have been, like, two movies ever that have won both PGA and SAG and not won Best Pic.

Best portrayal of a real news room I've ever seen.

I was raised catholic in the Boston area, was well aware of the scandal, and my jaw kept dropping anyway. It's extremely tough to keep a talky movie that mostly takes place in offices interesting, but I was fascinated by all of it. The hush hush nature of old-school Boston catholics is something I'm very familiar with and it exposed that perfectly without even casting judgment. Really great stuff.

everyone brought it.

closing credits were depressing.

*spoiler*

the scene exposing robby's culpability by burying the story/names that macleish had sent him years earlier was quite the bookend.. basically multiple parties enabled the catholic church, even those whom the public ostensibly counts on to be the watchdogs of such manipulative acts against those impressionable.

also, 9/11 killing some of their momentum. damn.

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"There is much temptation to use what has worked before,
even when it may exceed its effective scope."

"Roll me further bitch"

I enjoyed MM more than Spotlight.

I thought that MM was overrated though I enjoyed it. Maybe I just don't get "action" movies as much as others do. It just seemed overrated and not worthy of the consideration for Best Picture in any of the awards given during the past season.


Spotlight was on another level in my opinion. In fact, I would go with either Spotlight or The Big Short for Best Picture.

I agree with him. Mad Max was the best movie I saw last year.

That having been said, I'm happy any time a movie I think is very good wins the Oscar, and Spotlight is very good. So I'm happy.

>Mad Max was the best movie I saw last year.

i enjoyed Spotlight but don't really want to see it again.

Spotlight tugged at the heart strings (though maybe not as much for me as others b/c i'm not Catholic or from Boston) and told an 'important' story (which was exposed in mainstream news many years ago so the impact is a bit muted now). Spotlight was nice but about as engrossing as a good Podcast or a Netflix documentary. i was definitely into it but the filmmakers didn't do as much w/the medium as the MM filmmakers did.

but MM did MORE w/the possibilities of movie making. the visuals were stunning. the audio was great. the fact that it was made w/little or no CGI is impressive. it was movie-making on a GRAND scale. watching it was exhilarating. i saw it in a packed theater and all/most of us were real revved up - the audience reaction was loud and great. i got all the way into it. oh - and outside of the effects stuff...MM introduced me to a hero i don't think i've seen in a major motion picture - a woman, who's a lesbian, and disabled. and she fucking kicked ass through the entire movie to the point where she even SAVED the titular character who would normally be set up as the main hero. it flipped the standard Hollywood convention in that regard.

IMO MM is the greater cinematic achievement. it's the better movie and IMO was more deserving of the win for Best Picture.

does the film explicitly state that furiosa is a lesbian, or is that just an assumption on your part?

i'm not sure about it. in the weeks since i saw the movie i concluded she's a lesbian but now i don't remember why/how i reached that conclusion. lol

important subject and very well done.

Ruffalo was incredible IMO

as were Keaten and McAdams

for as dialogue driven as the film is, it was so damn engaging.

what the Catholic church tried to cover up is a damn shame and it's a deep injustice that no one has gone to jail

and

Mad Max, Beats of No Nation, Big Short, Ex Machina, and Creed were all better IMO

caught it last night. loved it. such clean, streamlined direction and screenwriting. great great performances across the board. this was a winner in every facet.

mad max was better imo but I'm not mad at the Oscar win at all. absolutely deserving.