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| billyweeds |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Marj wrote: I'd love to go back and see the trailer for Chicago. Do you believe that was eight years ago?
Don't scare me with reality like that.
It's acfually only seven years ago. Chicago was released in very late 2002. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:24 pm |
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| Still, when I think of the time passage...brr... |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:28 pm |
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Lissa,
It's my experience that when a trailer is composed of a large number of very short clips from which you cannot figure out what action is going on except there is some sort of action going on, and filler shots featuring no one, then the ad is masking a failure. This trailer reminds me of the Phantom trailer specifically. I hope I turn out to be wrong. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:32 pm |
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Joe - this is the first of the Nine trailers, I believe. The film only gets released Christmas Day so it's way early. I have a feeling this is an introduction to the type of film Marshall's rolling out - and I hope you're wrong too...it looks good, and I want it to BE good.
Thing is, it's been successful on stage, so if Marshall follows his heart as he did with Chicago, we might have a hit to discuss come Boxing Day... |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:49 pm |
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| Well, I saw this trailer a few months ago, and they still haven't gone further. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:20 pm |
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So have I, which is not to say that a bad trailer doesn't necessarily indicate a bad movie.
This trailer does take advantage of how well we come to know Rob Marshall's work. What it doesn't do is excite us about the movie. And it needs to.
And Lissa, this is mid October. In film terms, Christmas Day is very near.
PS. I want Nine to be good too. I'm rooting for it. And honestly, I don't know if I'll ever feel the kind of excitement I felt before Chicago ever again. That may be a once in a lifetime deal. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:22 pm |
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It really was a wonderful surprise. Serendipity played a big part in the pleasure when that movie was released. It was "Am I really getting the chance to see a classic movie musical in first release? Wow!" It honestly felt historic to me.
What has me jaded since is the number of mediocre musicals released in its wake, including Bill Condon's Dreamgirls. Nor has Rob Marshall made a really good movie since. And Nine is a much trickier proposition than Chicago (among other reasons, Marshall is going up against Fellini as Hal Prince went up against Bergman when he filmed A Little Night Music: we saw how that turned out).
Still, I want it to be a good movie, too. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:28 pm |
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Marc wrote: Am I still the only forum member that has seen WERE THE WILD THINGS ARE?
Am I the only forum member that has seen IT MIGHT GET LOUD?
PS: It was a choice between the two movies. I went to see It Might Get Loud because I had a feeling it might not stay here another week. I was the only person in the theatre, so I may be right. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:41 pm |
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| I like Jack White, but have no interest in The Edge or Jimmy Page. IT MIGHT GET LOUD is barely a rental for me. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:01 pm |
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It Might Be Loud is a documentary that features Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White representing three generations of electric guitarists. Ostensibly, this gives us an outline of the history of the rock guitar, and there is a fair amount of archive footage, including Jimmy Page as a child playing skiffle. (We get to see Lonnie Donegan at this point.) Apparently Page was a bit of a child prodigy, which The Edge wasn't. He started developing his style in his teens, when he says, frankly, he was awful. White started filling up his room with musical equipment before he was ten, and was heavily influenced by old blues musicians.
Really, though, the movie is as much an excuse to hang out with the three musicians, hear a lot of their music, get some idea of how they got where they are now, and hear a few stories. Page has grown into a pleasant grandfatherly type, which makes me feel old. At one point, he starts playing "Whole Lotta Lovin'" and the other two just have to smile. The Edge is the mature, socially conscious musician, and shows how much of his sound comes not from the guitar itself, but delay effects to fill in notes he's actually not playing. Sometimes he seems almost a scientist. White is the brash kid (sometimes appearing with himself as a nine-year-old, which is a good trick), the youngest of ten kids from Detroit, playing with several bands I never heard of. He's looking forward to stealing tricks from his seniors.
The movie starts off with White taking a block of wood (2 by four, I think), attaching a string over a Coke bottle, and a spool of copper wire to speakers, and producing a one string electric guitar. Cool.
We get to see the rooms where U2 used to practice before they were any good, the various bands White was in, Page playing the guitar parts of "Stairway to Heaven" on a double-necked guitar, the only way he could reproduce on stage the sound from the album track. Naturally, we finally get to hear the three play together at the end.
All in all, a pleasant way to spend an hour and a half. Don't expect deep insight into the world of rock guitarists. I came out with a lot more respect for these three men. |
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Marc wrote: I like Jack White, but have no interest in The Edge or Jimmy Page. IT MIGHT GET LOUD is barely a rental for me.
I'd say a rental for anyone whose interested. It's not a must-see by any means. I went to see it because I don't see that many documentaries at the local theatre and I like to encourage them. Of course, since I was the only one there, it wasn't much encouragement. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:05 pm |
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Marc wrote: I like Jack White, but have no interest in The Edge or Jimmy Page.
This has got to be a minority opinion among rock people. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought Page and The Edge had much more cred than White. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:14 pm |
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Finally saw Julie & Julia and really enjoyed it. I found the critics' reaction to be very unfair toward the enchanting Amy Adams, who more than held up her half of the movie, along with the charming Chris Messina as her husband. Without Adams and Messina, there wouldn't be a movie despite the stalwart and highly entertaining Streep-Tucci twosome.
As for Nora Ephron, she's still no Francois Truffaut or even Rob Reiner, but it's her best work as a director--by far. |
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Quote: This has got to be a minority opinion among rock people. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought Page and The Edge had much more cred than White.
Depends on how old you are. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:04 pm |
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| For what it's worth, Hollywood already seems to believe that Nine is a lock for a Best Picture nomination and Daniel Day-Lewis is the favorite for Best Actor. This could, of course, be nothing more than a reprise of the pre-release hype for Dreamgirls, which all turned to dust once the mediocre movie opened. |
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