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Just as your Netflix queue finally catches up on the spate of locally-produced films (Prairie Home, Factotum, North Country, and soon Al Franken: God Spoke) along comes Aurora Borealis to remind you yet again how good we had it with the Coen brothers. Though the maudlin trailer is essentially plotless, here's the story: a lifelong Minnesota slacker (Joshua Jackson from Dawson's Creek) is afraid to leave his quaint Happy Days life, despite the endearing chiding of his girlfriend (Juliette Lewis) and the crazy prattle of his grandfather (Donald Sutherland). Few have reviewed the film yet, but Variety gives it a thumbs down, though they probably can't appreciate scenes shot in the sculpture garden like we can. Best line: "Go Vikings!"
Sutherland will get the Oscar!
It couldn't possibly be worse than Milwaukee, Minnesota.
I am always happy to see Nurse Ratched in a movie. I met Louis Fletcher a few times, and she's really a lovely woman.
The film looks totally boring, though. Spoonbridge?
Always thought Juliette Lewis was kinda hot. Maybe I'll go.
You mean to tell me that my Pacey was right here in the Cities and no one told me?!? Oh, the agony. sigh
I always thought that Juliette Lewis looked kinda like Tom Hanks kid sister. Yuck.
So you never developed a crush on a guy's kid sister?
She's not so big a star that maybe she would spend time with a regular guy. A nice dinner, couple glasses of wine, maybe I could make her laugh.
Aurora Borealis won Best Film at the 2005 Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival, and it was an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival. I've been eagerly waiting to see it for almost two years now. Cheers to a young local writer making a movie and getting a chance to work with the likes of Sutherland, Lewis, Fletcher, and Jackson. What an amazing accomplishment.
I always thought Juliette Lewis was hot until Dudeman ruined it for me.
What the hell does he know?
I'm a big Pacey guy. He's got menace and charm. He's the rich man's Zach Braff.
So I read the Variety review. It ain't no "thumbs down" like you said. And "maudlin" trailer? Why, because there aren't any car chases or monsters being blown up or naked girls?
How much story development did you expect from a trailer - the ones done for simple minds who need the whole movie explained before they see it?
Another "Minnesota movie" that takes place during the winter with people wearing parkas and drinking in hokey bars? Sounds trite to me...
Juliette Lewis has the extreme misfortune of looking a great deal like her dad. And yet, I could just gobble her up. Go figure.
Another "Minnesota movie" that takes place during the winter with people wearing parkas and drinking in hokey bars? Sounds trite to me...
I've lived in Minnesota for thirteen years, and every winter I see Minnesotans bundle up in their parkas and go to divey neighborhood bars to drink the cold away. It's not trite, it's just what people do here.
Unbelievable. People are defending this trailer? Minnesotans really are over-sensitive. C'mon, it looks like a made-for-cable Zach Braff movie. It's an easy joke. It even has the bed-wetting Shins-knock-off soundtrack thing going. Is it just because it was written by "one of us" and set in the sculpture garden that you're defending such a heinously manipulative chick flick? What's wrong with you people?
On the other hand, I did enjoy Beautiful Girls, and that was trite and maudlin too. It did have a pubescent Natalie Portman going for it though.
But what about Juliette Lewis, Steve. Hot or not?
If you're into a kooky chick with a misshapen head who has a body like a 12-year-old boy, then Juliette Lewis is waaaaayyy hot. I do give her sextra credit for embracing her, ahem, unique appearance.
I was mistaken...as I look @ the 2nd photo, she's shaped more like a 14-year-old boy.
g rote seems to know a lot about prepubescent boys.
All I say is I thought she was rather attractive, now I think I'm getting getting some amateur psychoanalysis.
Local hipsters are always willing to trash the shit out of anything that might make it from here to the national scene. God forbid the Twin Cities might actually achieve some national stature as an arts or artist-producing community, rather than some piss-poor provincial xenophobic backwater nowhere.
The Sculpture Garden is beautiful; although Spoonbridge is not the best work there, it's an icon of Minneapolis. And Juliette Lewis is attractive, just in a really weird way.
Juliette Lewis isn't exactly hot or pretty or even sexy. She's one thing: fuckable. And that's better than all the above anyway.
And why the fuck am I a hipster for calling out the huge sucking sound that movie makes? "Piss-poor provincial xenophobic backwater nowhere" -- that's practically the message of this movie itself! You wanna get pissed off? Then check out this clip, which is all about whack provincial bullshit.
God forbid, indeed.
I agree with Rex. Fuckable. Naughty. Trashy. Like a meth-whore without the dental issues. Well, she does have some dental issues. But she's a movie star, so you're pretty sure she's not really a meth whore. Just a crazy scientologist that's suppressing a sex addiction with all that L. Ron mumbo-jumbo. Yeah, I'm pretty into Juliette Lewis.
"Rusty, let's go find your sister!"
And I wish I was a hipster. And I wish Josh Jackson would've had a more awesome career instead of having to do indie weepies with Juliette Lewis shot guerilla-style in the sculpture garden. C'mon, Pacey Witter is one of the all time greats. Right up there with Dylan McKay. Or Ryan Atwood.
cmon...you're only pissed because they lifted your inner dialogue in re moving to Seattle.
Rex, that clip is the best thing I've ever seen. JUST chew up the scenery, young Joshua!
I think this movie is making Rex guilty about leaving for Seattle.
I've totally changed my mind about AuroraB. Two words, people: PAY. CEE.
I've watched that clip again. Complete genius. Who would want to move to San Diego? Definitely not "Duncan." Awesome. When is this shit out on netflix again?
i'm kinda new here, but i believe the colloquialism is "Skol Vikings"
Bah. Juliette Lewis is who you get if you can't afford Uma Thurman.
"Piss-poor provincial xenophobic backwater nowhere" -"
Sounds like home to me.
Skol Vikings!
Uma Thurman is who you get if you can't afford Gisele Bundchen
"Just a crazy scientologist that's suppressing a sex addiction with all that L. Ron mumbo-jumbo. Yeah, I'm pretty into Juliette Lewis."
Everyone here is an amateur shrink.
That's why the advice is free, Rat. If your life needs correction don't follow my direction.
I find it odd that Juliette Lewis was making Natural Born Killers the same year Josh Jackson was making Mighty Ducks 2.
Point?
No, thank you.
It's never that anything legitimately sucks, is it? It's always that we're some mean old hipsters who want to keep everybody down.
I think it's because there is radiation that come out of my white belt that makes me hate success.
Maudlin?
Pronvincial?
Indie-lite?
You ain't seen nothin' yet!
Ahahahahahahahahahahhahhahahahhahaha!
Skip this and rent "Me You and Everyone you Know"
This is the best indie movie that has come out in years!
I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats, I will see it again and again!
I hated all of the adult characters in Me, You, and Everyone We Know; they were annoying. The kids, on the other hand, were great.
))---->((
"Me You and Everyone you Know" was entertaining, that little kid was a laugh riot.
Back and forth.
Forever.
The aging grandparent thing made me go emo over the trailer. Geez.
looks as tacky as untamed heart. that was a movie that stuck to the roof of your mouth and when you tried to unglue it, you accidentally scraped a layer of flesh, leaving a searing pain that you can't but help tongue.
Back & Forth Forever
In deed
On a flight a while back I saw this terrible movie Shadows in the Sun that had Joshua Jackson in it. Claire Forlani (from Mallrats) was in it too. It's like seven degrees of Minnesota movies, sorta.
Which of these movies will be twice as boring and syrupy as the other? I hope I never find out.
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