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W00tz0rs. One Hour Photo!

Postby postbagboy » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:41 pm

Has anyone seen One Hour Photo? This is the best movie of 2002. Though it has 2 nudity scenes (Not really gratutious), it's still a pretty good movie. It's about Sy Parrish (Robin Williams), this guy who works at this One Hour Photo place. He's really lonely and is obsessed with this family that he thinks has the perfect life. But then he finds out that it isn't as perfect as he thinks, and he slowly becomes insane. It's quite interesting.
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:46 pm

I'm curious about this movie but have never had the opportunity to watch it yet.

o_O I have a friend named Sy(Symon).
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Postby Orange Kitten » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:48 pm

postbagboy wrote:Has anyone seen One Hour Photo?


Haven't checked it out yet. I heard that Robbin William's character actually resembles him in real life in a way, being manic depressent and all. Saw the movie on the shelf in Blockbuster one day, glanced at it, thought "interesting", and moved on.
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Postby Straylight » Tue Nov 18, 2003 11:15 pm

That looks like quite a good film. I might check it out :)
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Postby shooraijin » Wed Nov 19, 2003 5:08 am

I saw it and it was very good (rather ... disturbing how well Robin Williams can play strange folks; he was a good sicko in Insomnia as well).

What really impressed me about the movie was the use of colour and costume, particularly Sy's white and blue motif. It also captured very well Sy's life and how, without giving away too much of the plot, he attempted to insinuate himself into a social world he himself had never been a part of. His scene at the end with "may I have my photographs?" was a strange, ethereal conclusion (especially since the photographs weren't of what you thought they were).

To people sensitive to such things, the R is largely language, except for some nudity in the photographs he develops, and a scene at the end with some violence and adult situations, so I'm not making a wide recommendation for everyone to see it. Still, it was well done.
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Postby true_noir_chloe » Wed Nov 19, 2003 10:11 am

I saw it a while ago. I had heard it was a really good movie. I agree with most of Shooraijin's comments. However, the hotel scene was sick and gratuitous. I literally felt sick inside watching and regretted renting it. Great twist at the end, but it deserved the "R" rating strongly for the hotel scene.

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Postby Tet-chan » Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:04 pm

is this movie out yet in DVD?
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Postby shooraijin » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:30 pm

Yes, it is.
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Postby postbagboy » Wed Nov 19, 2003 10:09 pm

true_noir_chloe wrote:I saw it a while ago. I had heard it was a really good movie. I agree with most of Shooraijin's comments. However, the hotel scene was sick and gratuitous.

Meh, I don't think it was. All because they have nudity/sex doesn't necessarily mean it's gratutious. I think someone like Sy WOULD have done that under the same circumstances, so it wasn't necessarily gratutious. It's gratutious when it doesn't have anything to do with the plot, just slapped in there because sex is cool nowadays (Matrix Reloaded, anyone?).
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Postby supa dupa ninja » Thu Nov 20, 2003 8:45 am

I've seen a couple nights ago...
and evangelion made a cameo in it...
well in action figure form anyway.
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Postby postbagboy » Mon Nov 24, 2003 12:48 am

supa dupa ninja wrote:I've seen a couple nights ago...
and evangelion made a cameo in it...
well in action figure form anyway.


Yeah, good to see some anime references in Western movies.
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