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by cagedwisdom
Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:31 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Replies: 13
Views: 7931

Re: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Meaningful in that there are two engaging stories in the film. The telling of the story and the story itself, neither of which could really exist without the other and both of which can influence how the other is interpreted. Essentially, it's Tom Wilkinson telling the story of an aging Zero telling...
by cagedwisdom
Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:42 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Replies: 13
Views: 7931

Re: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

A magnified footnote is a decent description, really it's just flavor text. But a lot of what the film is about the origins of stories, how they are told and experienced - Tom Wilkinson more or less spells this out in the very first scene. If you imagine the narration as a written story I don't thin...
by cagedwisdom
Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:13 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Replies: 13
Views: 7931

Re: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Well, it is the most distinctive feature of her appearance, thus probably a pretty big part of how the narrator remembers her, and a natural thing for him to include to someone when telling the story of her.
by cagedwisdom
Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:35 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Increased Actors Per Film
Replies: 19
Views: 10823

Re: Increased Actors Per Film

The Grand Budapest Hotel has a cast of at least 18 noteworthy names. That's just at first glance. So I would say more than 12 actors is needed.
by cagedwisdom
Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:32 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Tumblr-like follow function
Replies: 4
Views: 1728

Re: Tumblr-like follow function

I think this request pertains specifically to users who write reviews you want to follow. For me, the recent Kumpel activity only contains half ratings with reviews, because not all my kumpels write reviews and certainly not all write reviews every time they rate a film.
by cagedwisdom
Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:27 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: Dallas Buyers Club
Replies: 24
Views: 13656

Re: Dallas Buyers Club

This forum really needs Pickpocket to be around more. A much more entertaining dynamic!
by cagedwisdom
Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:21 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Replies: 13
Views: 7931

Re: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

And would someone pleeeeze tell me what a port-wine stain in the shape of Mexico has to do with anything. Can't be illustrative, descriptive language? He's simply describing what his old flame was like which is perfectly natural in the context, particularly the way the story is told. Why would it h...
by cagedwisdom
Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:42 pm
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Ellen Page comes out...
Replies: 57
Views: 32768

Re: Ellen Page comes out...

These forums do suck.

Anyway. I really don't care either way, but I was completely sure everyone knew Page was a lesbian already. I thought she came out years ago. So this is kind of surprising news to me, to be honest.
by cagedwisdom
Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:06 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: How is the score/tier/import from imdb system working?
Replies: 18
Views: 10686

Re: How is the score/tier/import from imdb system working?

But if you already have ratings on criticker it imports 1 to tier 1, 2 to tier 2, etc. This sounds pretty flawed, and entirely contrary to the way Criticker handles tiers. 1/10 or 3/10 should still translate to 10/100 or 30/100. I understand that this may cause problems for people who only use say ...
by cagedwisdom
Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Watching a movie with a ranking desision in mind
Replies: 14
Views: 5012

Re: Watching a movie with a ranking desision in mind

ShogunRua wrote:often verbalizing my like for a movies makes me appreciate it even more.


I've experienced this many times as well.