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| billyweeds |
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Don't quite know what you're getting at--that Mel Gibson is starring in a movie at all, that it's "Jodie Foster's Beaver," or that it's a wild premise. In any case, initial reviews for the film range from good to excellent, and in particular for Gibson's acting. Don't count him out yet. |
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| Shane |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:51 am |
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carrobin wrote: I just typed Kuwait instead of Libya. Must have been something in my mind that connected Kadafy and Kabul with other Ks.
Thank Gawd! I was certain we had started getting involved with another 'double-header' war. Go twice and stay for the next fifty years!! |
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| Shane |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:53 am |
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billyweeds wrote:
Don't quite know what you're getting at--that Mel Gibson is starring in a movie at all, that it's "Jodie Foster's Beaver," or that it's a wild premise. In any case, initial reviews for the film range from good to excellent, and in particular for Gibson's acting. Don't count him out yet.
I don't think I would ever count him out in acting, especially in over-the-top roles, I just wouldn't sit in the same room with him. Same goes for others. Acting doesn't excuse poor behavior. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:06 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Avoiding the wrong words here will be a close shave.
When Jody Foster offers you a good part, how can you refuse? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:33 am |
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Shane wrote: billyweeds wrote:
Don't quite know what you're getting at--that Mel Gibson is starring in a movie at all, that it's "Jodie Foster's Beaver," or that it's a wild premise. In any case, initial reviews for the film range from good to excellent, and in particular for Gibson's acting. Don't count him out yet.
I don't think I would ever count him out in acting, especially in over-the-top roles, I just wouldn't sit in the same room with him. Same goes for others. Acting doesn't excuse poor behavior.
Couldn't agree more, but neither should poor behavior infringe on one's appreciation of the poor-behaver's skill in other areas.
Leni Riefenstahl, for instance, was one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of movies, though almost certainly a Nazi.
Walt Disney, Bing Crosby, John Wayne, Elvis Costello, Peter Townshend, Maurice Chevalier, Ginger Rogers, Patricia Heaton...I could go on all day. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:24 pm |
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Patricia Heaton??
I must have missed something in the tabloid universe. I often do.
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:02 pm |
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bartist wrote: Patricia Heaton??
I must have missed something in the tabloid universe. I often do.
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:06 pm |
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knox wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: Avoiding the wrong words here will be a close shave.
When Jody Foster offers you a good part, how can you refuse?
True. But that trailer doesn't pass the smell test. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:07 pm |
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| You guys crack me up. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:11 pm |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:24 pm |
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billy - All I'm getting at is that the movie looks astonishingly bad, bad on an astronomical scale. If it turns out to be good, well then they should fire whoever made the trailer. I mean, it's just cringe-worthy (sp?).
whiskeypriest wrote: Though I guess technically, he meant he wasn't Gay unless you had $1500.00 and a video camera,
Maybe he was what they call "Gay For Pay", á la Peter North or Johnnie "Wadd" Holmes. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:48 pm |
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| Completely agree with Daffy. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:18 am |
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| The Beaver screened here in Austin at SXSW a few weeks ago and was a critical hit with a very skeptical audience. Gibson and Foster have made a very good film. Be prepared to be surprised. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:48 am |
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| Not the first time a bad trailer promo'd a good movie. One of the many virtues of DVD, over the old VHS, was that it started making the trailers for the featured film available and you could see right away how misleading they could be. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:59 am |
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| I still remember seeing the trailer for "The Graduate" and thinking it was boring. Luckily I ended up seeing it anyway. Interestingly, I saw the trailer for "Duet for One" before seeing the film, and there was a scene in the trailer in which Alan Bates and Julie Andrews were having a great laugh over something--but it didn't appear in the movie at all; the film itself was tense and grim. (That's what based-on-a-true-story means, no doubt.) |
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