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  January 20, 2011 at 11:31 PM, said ...

  I'm from a place near Barcelona and I can assure you that Barcelona is a fucking disgusting place to which I only go to intoxicate myself with alcohol and buy stuff. Don't believe what Woody Allen and the Tourism Department tells you.

• January 01, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Anita L Thomas said ...

  Thanks John P., That 10 minute film really blew me away. Then, I just had to watch all of them, of course. I would like to see Biuitful, but not many venues for foreign films in Cleveland, guess I'll just wait for the DVD. The first movie I saw Javier Bardem in was Dance With The Devil. Wasn't the best movie, but he just captivated me. I was surprised to find out he's Spanish as he seemed to have a kind-of Mexican/Mayan look look to him.

  Wouldn't Clive Owen have made an awesome James Bond? He didn't want to get stuck on a 4 or 5 movie deal. Daniel Craig was a very excellent choice.                                   

  
  
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  January 01, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Tifa-the-Strange said ...

  I saw this film months ago in Mexico and thought it was good :)

• January 01, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Fred M. Hung said ...

  Best Inarritu film is below.  It was a 10 min feature he did for BMW films.  Check it out before you watch Biutiful.  The man has an interesting style.

   

  
  
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  January 01, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Travon Wimberly said ...

  Looks interesting but not my cup of tea (im British now?) anyway maybe its just my generation or something..... awesome review

• December 31, 2010 at 11:32 PM, MisterKeitel said ...

  Wow!  What is it about these misery-saturated, Oscar-bait, Citizen Kane-clones that so hypnotizes professional critics?If it's got an actor, where they are made to look really ugly, given a shitty life where nothing goes right, and they die at the end, then you guys will just LOVE it.  Is it that you guys have to see so many movies, you're so constantly bombarded with movies that these super-sad, love-lorn, can't possibly end well movies turn out to be something you can't resist?  I man, I have a real life, my life is already filled with struggle, failure, misery, depression, so I don't need to see more of it the movies.  I like to see Batman kicking ass!  I like to see Meg Ryan have rom-com adventures!  I like Sauran to get vanquished!  The nerd to get the beauty queen and for the end to be an Happily Ever After!  Anything else, I don't want to pay for.

  
  
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  December 31, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Mekklesack said ...

  My last movie will be a remake of "The Stuff," where (in a desperate cash-grab) I play Chocolate Chip Charlie... Yeah...

• December 31, 2010 at 9:43 AM, ruben richardson said ...

  man the trailer alone seems heavy

  
  
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  December 31, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Dr. Detfink said ...

  True, most films set in Barcelona always tend to favor the tourist flavor of romance and cuisine. I can definitely say from personal experience there is an authentic seedy side to Barcelona that any traveler can see. Not the kind of city you want to be drunk and wandering around the blind turns in the Gothic district or even on the Ramblas after 4am. However, that is a part of its charm where on one side you'll see the Catalans partying and living out loud and on the other side of the street Prostitutes and old women peeing in the streets.

   

  Great review fellas. Bardem is definitely the man. :)

• December 31, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Clifton Holliday said ...

  @ martinF5

  Wong Chia Chi's Theme

  by Alexandre Desplat

  lol Thank Sound Hound App

  
  
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  December 30, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Frank Martinez said ...

  what's the song that plays out @ the end of the review? I've been trying to find it.

• December 30, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Saul Uribe said ...

  you guys keep mentioning Del Toro as spanish dude, he is mexican... just saying, so is Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, they just work with spanish actors a lot.

  
  
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  December 30, 2010 at 9:32 PM, said ...

  cool

• December 30, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Paradox said ...

  If it weren't for spill I wouldn't even know about this movie.  Thank God for Spill.

  
  
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  December 30, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Anita L Thomas said ...

  I agree the trailer didn't show very much, could be confusing but, the Revue explained the movie and made me want to see it.

• December 30, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Kevin Carollo said ...

  I was confused by the trailer, and not even the fun Inception intriguing kind of way.  Probably won't even netflix this.  The music reminds me of Princess Mononoke for some reason...

  
  
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  December 30, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Anita L Thomas said ...

  @The CynicalReaper, totally agree with your point of view, I also have not seen this, but I WILL, I'm a houge Bardem fan. To me it seams like they're trying to show whats in his head as he approaches death. And European sentiments are strongly connected with the supernatural, especially Latinos,at least the ones I know. You said it more eloquently than I ever could.

• December 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, said ...

  Uh...Okay, from the point of view of someone who's hearing about this flick from just this review alone, never saw the movie, I think you guys might be completely oblivious to the fact that this movie might be primarily driven by metaphor.

  The "see the dead" moments got me thinking this when you were describing them and how fleeting and few they are with no ultimate plot twist or something (doesn't really go anywhere). You never said the story acknowledges his ability to see the dead (like a character or the protagonist stating it or the spirits effect the environment in some way). These eerie moments could just be the visual representations of his anxiety towards his encroaching death.

  But what really made this idea stand out was when you talked about the weird strip club. I've never heard of a club like that, and even if there was really one like it, for it to be in this movie really points to this being a serious art-house piece driven by a basic "day in the life" (as you already acknowledged) and given soul through its use of metaphor. Titty-head strippers (fake titty-heads, but still) = Lust or desire maybe. Crawling ghost freaks = anxiety/fear of his coming doomsday.

  Just saying that the points of "this didn't go anywhere" are easily explained why when you point to all those unique but fleeting things just serving as metaphors. Remember, I didn't see the movie. Just going on what you guys were saying and didn't say in this review.

  
  
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  December 30, 2010 at 1:28 PM, said ...

  I thought this movie would be a drama about some dyslectic guy, a la Rainman, but no.

• December 30, 2010 at 7:32 AM, said ...

  From the director of Babel? pass.

   

  I thank Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty for my ability to spell beautiful correctly.

  
  
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  December 30, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Adam Baker said ...

  Ok total animation geek mode for a moment. There actually is a Rainbow Brite movie. It's called Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer and surprisingly it's not that bad.

• December 30, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Justin Via said ...

  

  
  
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  December 30, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Nick Miracle said ...

  THANK YOU SO MUCH, LEON.

   

  i hate that fucking song, too

• December 30, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Evan Nash said ...

  Hey! Michael Sheen was one of the best parts of the Underworld movies!!

  
  
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  December 30, 2010 at 6:15 AM, MikeOxbigg said ...

  New spill record:

  0:03 into the review I burst out laughing.

  
  Seriously that was unexpected. I had to take the headphones off and compose myself after Leon's singing intro. Holy shit.

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