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| Syd |
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| I wonder if the reason Lisa's referred to as being beautiful is because everyone else looks like they're deformed. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:44 am |
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Syd wrote: I wonder if the reason Lisa's referred to as being beautiful is because everyone else looks like they're deformed.
Actually Mark is rather okay looking. Everyone else, you're right. But Lisa still looks awful even by comparison. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:45 am |
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| "Lisa, you're tearing me apart!" |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:57 am |
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Marc wrote: "Lisa, you're tearing me apart!"
Can't decide whether this line is more reminiscent of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause or Al Pacino in The Godfather Part 3. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:04 am |
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Billy,
I wonder how the cast and crew feel about the way the movie has been received. Director Tommy Wiseau, who seems certifiable, is enjoying the infamy. But, those poor "actors" must have been mortified at the L.A. premier of the film when the audience went apeshit. I've seen photos of the cast at the premier prior to the screening and they all have that hopeful look on their faces, expressions that I am sure changed rather quickly as the film unspooled.
During the making of the film, the crew (professionals) must have wondered what the fuck they were dealing with. Wiseau apparently had no idea how to direct the film and basically left it up to the pros on the set. There were alot of crew members who quit or were fired by the volatile Wiseau.
Wiseau spent $6 million making and promoting the film. It looks like it cost about $100 thousand. While Wiseau's past is shrouded in mystery, he is supposed to be extremely wealthy. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:09 am |
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| I watched Plan 9 recently and was completely underwhelmed. The graveyard scenes were dumb, hokey, lame, and blah. Like an Adam's Family drama in slow motion with no dialogue..... |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:35 am |
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Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) with Catherine Deneuve is a Hitchcockian rendition of a young woman's slow disintegration into psychosis. Very well done.
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:12 am |
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| REPULSION scared the shit out of me when I saw it in 1971. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:46 am |
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Marc I still have the VCR of Repulsion that you gave me. I'll get around to eventually. I think I have a VCR machine somewhere at home. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:04 am |
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Befade wrote: I watched Plan 9 recently and was completely underwhelmed. The graveyard scenes were dumb, hokey, lame, and blah. Like an Adam's Family drama in slow motion with no dialogue.....
Then skip The Room by all means.
NO. I take that back. I can see not getting Plan 9 and still getting The Room. The Room is much funnier and--believe it or not--much worse. |
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| billyweeds |
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Ghulam wrote: Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) with Catherine Deneuve is a Hitchcockian rendition of a young woman's slow disintegration into psychosis. Very well done.
The operative word for me is "slow." Though the movie is well photographed, it is agonizingly slow. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:36 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Marc wrote: "Lisa, you're tearing me apart!"
Can't decide whether this line is more reminiscent of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause or Al Pacino in The Godfather Part 3.
Or Timothy Spall in Secrets and Lies. |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:32 pm |
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Ghulam wrote: Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) with Catherine Deneuve is a Hitchcockian rendition of a young woman's slow disintegration into psychosis. Very well done.
Repulsion will be shown at the Rubin Museum of Art on December 11th (Password is still unkown). |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:44 pm |
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Hey, Romuald Et Juliette fans -
As it turns out I have to order a different DVD from amazon.co.uk for a gift (The Good, The Bad, The Weird). I would be willing to grab a copy for you and cover shipping - but you need to let me know ASAP. |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:54 pm |
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yambu wrote: Daff... I hadn't realized you were such a Bard guy.
yam - I studied in the Acting Shakespeare program at the Royal Academy back in the summer of '96 (that's where I know Maggie Gyllenhaal from), but I've always been a big Shakespeare fan, even before I'd decided to be an actor. I could go on about him for hours. But so can a lot of people, I suppose, which is why there are so many books written about him. I don't go see too many productions of his work because it's usually done so badly.
Syd wrote: The BBC did all of the Shakespearean plays, including the ones people try to forget. I particularly liked their version of Measure for Measure and the last part of Richard II.
Syd -Do you mean the 3 parts of Henry VI? They're very difficult to do. I liked how the BBC treated part one as something of a comedy. I also liked how they had the same actors play the same characters throughout the History plays. It gave a nice sense of continuity, paying off especially with Anthony Quayle as Falstaff. Of course it hurt when the casting was done badly.
Sadly, the BBC Shakespeare series veered back and forth between pretty good to mostly terrible. Quite often, even with good actors, there just wasn't anything going on. I think much of it was under-rehearsed. The BBC stipulation that it all be done in period garb, while good in some cases, like Hamlet, seems to have limited the imaginations in other plays.
Romeo and Juliet was a horror, with the title roles pathetically cast. I have to admit that I'd love to see it again, though, just to see the young actor who played Tybalt. I don't remember if he was any good, but he had a very distinctive voice that I never forgot. Years later an actor popped up with a very familiar sound. It kept bugging me, but I couldn't quite place it. Finally it hit me and I looked it up on the imdb and sure enough, there he was: Alan Rickman, practically straight out of RADA.
I liked the Antony & Cleopatra, mainly because of Colin Blakely, Ian "Chariots of Fire" Charleson, and the guys who played Enobarbus and Pompey. The Tempest and As You Like It were a snooze. Macbeth was pretty good, especially with Eric Porter in the title role. I'd be careful before checking out too many of the BBC plays. It can really bite you on the ass. |
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