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jeremy

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:34 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

Rod wrote:

My comments on Atonement will appear on Ferdy on Films...eventually...there's a backlog at the moment...

Tell Marilyn to pull her finger out.

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Syd

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:58 pm

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Hey, I liked her in Sky Captain. It was the eye patch that made the role.

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marantzo

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:02 pm

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I don`t know if you are kidding, Syd, I enjoyed the movie enough, but Jolie was comically bad.

Nancy

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:39 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 4607 Location: Norman, OK

marantzo wrote:

I don`t know if you are kidding, Syd, I enjoyed the movie enough, but Jolie was comically bad.

Syd's not kidding. He thinks Jolie is decorative enough that he will watch her in almost anything.

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Trish

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:52 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2438 Location: Massachusetts

Atonement is beautifully shot with some nice (but too brief) erotic moments between Knightly and MacAvoy, the Score is very nice also but is me or did the flick just putter out after MacAvoy's character is arrested. Something was off - which is too bad

There Will Be Blood is magnificent (mostly) except I felt like it went right off a cliff into the ridiculous in the last 1/2 hour - I guess I shouldn't be surprised with Paul Thomas Anderson - director of Magnolia, Boogie Nights and Punch Drunk Love at the helm- he does enjoy hysteria.

But That aside, definitely worth seeing, also beautifully shot (but with a score that did get overbearing at times - editing editing editing)

Daniel Day Lewis is one of the most breathtakingly brilliant actors of his generation - and I don't say that chiefly because of the visceral passion he brings to his performances - but in his quieter moments - when he communicates with a look, a gesture that is so right on - you know what he's thinking, feeling

but alas that last 1/2 hour of total madness disrupted my rave.

Paul Dano has a wonderfully interesting, cinematic face - BUT I didn't think he had the chops to carry off his character in a convincing way , I didn't buy him as a charismatic healer, he doesn't have the voice (at least not yet) - moments with his family and that dynamic did work, however, so it isn't a complete pan.

Playing against Day-Lewis is challenging to say the least, especially if you're a man and a young one. He'll blow you off the screen everytime.

I'm imagining now if a Ryan Gosling channeling his work in The Believer might have been able to pull it off , if he wasn't intimidated

mo_flixx

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:01 pm

Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 12533

Ghulam wrote:

I liked A Mighty Heart a tad more than Gromit did, but I found Angelina's feigned accent distracting and annoying.

It was extremely bad. I think that's why they threw in line about her mother being Cuban, because the accent wasn't really French.

I was puzzled that no one in Pakistan seemed to know that Pearl is a Jewish name...and chalked it up to their speaking Urdu.

Shocked

Trish

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:37 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2438 Location: Massachusetts

and Atonement wins the GG - very strange

But Good for Daniel Day Lewis and Julie Christie

inlareviewer

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:52 pm

Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 1949 Location: Lawrence, KS

Was logging back on to link the just announced full slate -- and a couple of other unanticipated upsets are relative doozies -- for anyone not online or watching in real time. Master Thespian and Prima Donna front-runners and primary threats are now official; otherwise it stands to be as wide-open a Racso slate as there's ever been. Moreover, if the strike goes through February, may just have to end the 2-year boycott of the Aclademy ceremony, since the press conference was ever so much more efficient, painless, dignified and free from alcohol breath, tee-hee. (That last is being sarcastic, sorta. Avoided the NBC coverage but the live press conference was essentially a debacle, including the spurious sight of Mary Hart being, um, "meaningful." In fact, just being Mary Hart. Then again, that just whets my desire to see how AMPAS copes if the strike's still afoot...)

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/env-2008-globesnomlist12dec12,0,4512887.htmlstory?coll=env-leftrail-awards

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Rod

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:56 pm

Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 2944 Location: Lithgow, Australia

Trish wrote:

Atonement wins the GG - very strange

Stranger than the banker who never wears a Mac in the pouring rain?

It's a pretty cool win, IMO.

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chillywilly

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:05 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 8251 Location: Salt Lake City

In the oddness that was the GG this year, yet not being 100% intimate with all of the details of demands the striking writers are asking for, I do have to say that I wish whoever is not giving in to their needs and demands, they really need to find a resolve... and soon. While the awards shows have gotten bloated and somewhat boring at times, I think they generate a level of excitement that really wasn't felt for the GG. If Oscar gets downgraded to a press event, I think the top execs and studio decision makers will start feeling the hurt, like the hundreds and thousands that are feeling it now (and have been for the last few months).

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jeremy

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:06 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

An almost complete shut-out for American films and actors in the big awards; only Depp and Sweeney Todd figured. That'll go down like a lead baloon in Hollywood, and I'm sure it won't be repeated at the Osacrs.

Marilyn

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:08 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 8210 Location: Skokie (not a bad movie, btw)

Rod's review of Atonement:

http://ferdyonfilms.com/2008/01/atonement-2007.php

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Ghulam

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:08 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 4742 Location: Upstate NY

mo_flixx wrote:

Ghulam wrote:

I liked A Mighty Heart a tad more than Gromit did, but I found Angelina's feigned accent distracting and annoying.

They would know only the most common Jewish names. Among Jews in my city, the most common names are David and Benjamin. The best known Indian Jew in the United States is Sofaer, who was I think an Assistant Secretary of State.

inlareviewer

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:15 pm

Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 1949 Location: Lawrence, KS

jeremy wrote:

I too doubt that Sweeney will get a Best Picture nod, Granted, the AMPAS nomination deadline was this weekend, so the Globules are moot in impacting that. However, nobody here in Beleaguered Industry Central is entirely on solid ground, no matter what their blogs or pull quotes or televised cocktail talk might suggest. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is annually the focalizer for where nominations might spread or swerve, it being a barometer of what Overseas Sales and Distributive Response may be, and Domestic's What Covers Costs and Profit Margin, Overseas is Where The Gravy Is. And that is something that more AMPAS members, across the board, are subliminally if not actively aware of than aren't. Yes, even some actor's branchers, tee-hee. And then, there's globalization, and then again, there's the strike. Hovering above, around, beyond and beneath all Buzz, increasingly since November, is the nervous admission, tacit or direct, that the strike has skewered Aclademy perspective beyond previous years; that Criticalities are not quite the divining rod they once were; that the usual indicators and campaign outlets are no longer in place/delayed beyond helpfulness to anyone but nominees after January 22; and that the late-entry screeners and distracted nature of Pretty Much Every Industry Professional in Hollywood have put Screenland Rule #1 (Nobody Knows Anything) in, as seldom, The Driver's Seat for the AMPAS shenanigans.

Besides, when The Bucket List can top Racso contenders at the B.O., it ain't over till The Skinny Lady Announces, and not even then. We shall see what a week from Tuesday, and then, what Feb. 24 brings, hopla.

Of course, there's only one awards feste that really matters. Bring on the Blanches.

Edited because, unlike the daily grind, I can correctify and modify.

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Nancy

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:29 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 4607 Location: Norman, OK

Although he didn't win, i was glad to see John C. Reilly get a GG mnomination for his outstanding performance in Walk Hard. He was Dewey Cox.

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