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| Harry |
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billyweeds wrote: I'll be really interested in Tim's reaction to All the King's Men. I haven't seen it, so for all I know Sean Penn is great in it, but in terms of critical reaction he's been receiving what are arguably the worst reviews of his entire career (with the possible exception of Shanghai Surprise).
Heaven forbid that you should see a movie before reading the reviews!
How would you know whether or not to like it? |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:24 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: I'll be really interested in Tim's reaction to All the King's Men. I haven't seen it, so for all I know Sean Penn is great in it, but in terms of critical reaction he's been receiving what are arguably the worst reviews of his entire career (with the possible exception of Shanghai Surprise).
To be scrupulously honest, most of the bad reviews blame it on Penn's egregious miscasting--which was obvious to me even before seeing the disastrous trailer.
With Penn, I have a hard time with most of the serious movies he's been in, with the exception of I Am Sam. I didn't think his performance in Mystic River was deserving of an Oscar (Tim Robbins was more convicing in his role).
Given that, I wasn't planning on going to see ATKM.
The film I am waiting for is The Depareted, mostly because it's a Scorsese, but also to see how well the A-list cast goes together. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:27 pm |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:34 am |
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| I'm thinkin' that The Science of Sleep might be worth a run into the city tomorrow... |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:37 am |
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I agree with Chilly about ATKM (a no-see, no-rental lock) and The Departed, a first-showing-first-day-of-the-run salivation-starter.
I agree with Chilly about almost everything, though, so what else is new? |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:55 am |
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Syd wrote: I'm getting really interested in Stranger than Fiction.
I saw the commercial for Science of Sleep and frankly, I found even that unnaturally disturbing. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:50 pm |
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| Just saw Fearless, supposedly Jet Li's last martial arts film. It was a very interesting story and very well done except that it dove into a pool of melodrama by the end which was uneccessary, by at least not a fatal. A movie based on fact that takes place between 1880-1910 in China. It's a poignant tale and as usual for a film with this pedigree, lovely to look at. It is also a very good little history lesson about China in those times and the culture of the city life and then the rural life. There are a number of unbelievable battles of course, but my favourite is one between O'Brien, the 'strongest man in the world' and Li's character. O'Brien is a huge, muscular specimen and the fight is very entertaining. The movie itself is very entertaining and I recommend it. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:02 am |
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Fearless received a ton of publicity here in China. The director, Ronny Yu, was on TV alot. The film was very successful in Hong Kong and I think won an award there, but I'm not sure about that.
I haven't seen it as I'm not much into martial arts films. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:42 am |
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| Jesus Camp, a documentary about creationists and other Bible belt creeps and the way they indoctrinate children, sucks. Too bad, because the idea behind it could have made an interesting film. The movie that exists is very limited in scope, mostly centering around one woman who founded this summer brainwashing camp. Then every once in a while we are treated to the "sane" talk of a radio call-in host who opposes the creationists. It's as if the filmmakers didn't trust us to understand. The movie is a loser. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:03 am |
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| Somewhat sorry to hear that, as the word-of-mouth seemed good. Thanks for saving me ten bucks. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:51 am |
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Silents Info:
Not sure where to post this, but this year's Pordenone Silent Film Festival is featuring a bit on magic in cinema (sort of a la The Illusionist), with some clips of Harry Houdini performing. Houdini apparently spent some time in movies doing stunts, outside of his regular stage act.
http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/edizione2006/edizione2006_frameset.html
Wow, there's a Tod Browning film (The Show) in there as well. That'd definitely be worth catching. It'd be interesting to compare that to The Illusionist (which was solid enough, but whose main twist has been done elsewhere and a little better, IMO). |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:17 am |
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Science of Sleep sounds interesting.
But I just watched the trailer, and was left underwhelmed. The dialogue seemed very banal. But it's supposed to be a very visual film, full of dreamlike images. I'll give it a go when it comes around. Gondry sounds a bit like the new Terry Gilliam, unless I'm misreading things. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:23 pm |
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| My reaction, too. He sounds very like Gilliam -- nonlinear in approaching narrative, someone who'd rather be an artist who happens to use photographic film. Maybe the dialog seemed banal because Gondry is one of those Warhol-type artists who has so many brain cells tied up with visual revelation and suggestion and so on that there's not much left for making verbal sense. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:23 pm |
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| ALL THE KING'S MEN is a major bomb. It did less than $4 million on its opening weekend. Sean Penn has no boxoffice draw. Of course, shitty reviews didn't help. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:25 pm |
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| It looked like a misconceived project, but I'm still surprised it did that badly. The previews didn't look good, either. It looked miscast, although Broderick Crawford made the role so thoroughly his, it's hard to imagine anyone else in the part. |
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