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| inlareviewer |
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Oh, willybeeds, am just tweaking you. If L.A. crix get it right, it's at least partly because, well, we're here in the thick of the Buzz and the screenings and the studios, so information/word-of-mouth tends to be more readily available.
Re: Crazy Heart, Uncle Kenneth goes so far as to invoke Oscar (which he rarely does) in his rave, and evidently Colin Farrell may be supphose fodder as well:
L.A. Times: Calendar: Film Review: 'Crazy Heart'
Kewl. For all my Clooney affection, it would be nice to have at least one upset on high this year; at any rate, a real bust-up between the gents could be suspenseful. ('Cause Firth's getting splendid notices/word of mouth as well, and might just be the Heartbreaking Dark Horse Spoiler twixt George's Really Good Year Front-Runner and Jeff's Career-Topping Sentimental Fave status).
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| Trish |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:50 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: STOP THE PRESSES!
All former assurances that George Clooney had the Best Actor Oscar sewed up must be revised. Crazy Heart, the Jeff Bridges vehicle that has been opening slowly and sort of under the radar, has now opened in NYC and gotten the kind of reviews that permit a Slumdog Millionaire-style takeover of the seemingly locked-in Clooney win. Bridges has been an "underappreciated" actor for decades (even though he's widely admired), and this may be his year.
ZACHAREK gave it a very sweet review: http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/crazy_heart/index.html on Salon |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:52 pm |
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Invictus is a nice enough slice of history movie about how Nelson Mandela used the South African rugby team, the Springboks, to give both blacks and whites a team to root for. The kicker is that the Springboks were the white folk's team (they have only one black player) and were viewed by most of the blacks as a symbol of apartheid.
The movie has some major problems. Freeman's Mandela has a tendency to sound like he's hit the quotable quotes a bit too often. He's really the only well-developed character. And it keeps building you up for an assassination attempt that never comes.
Morgan Freeman was the obvious choice to play Nelson Mandela, and he does a fine job, with a probable Oscar nomination and possible win in his future. The most effective scene is when Damon visits' Mandela's cell (the real cell) and tries to imagine what it must have been like to spend decades there and come out preaching a message of reconciliation. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:11 pm |
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| Someone tell me why I have absolutely no interest in watching Morgan Freeman recycle several other of his saint-type performances in another Clint Eastwood moving tableau? Oh, I just answered my own question. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:19 pm |
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| Invictus sounds noble. I hate noble. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:30 pm |
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whiskeypriest wrote: Invictus sounds noble. I hate noble.
Whiskey also answered my question.
I also loathe the poem "Invictus."
"My head is bloody but unbowed." Yecch. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:39 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: whiskeypriest wrote: Invictus sounds noble. I hate noble.
Whiskey also answered my question.
I also loathe the poem "Invictus."
"My head is bloody but unbowed." Yecch.
YES!!!!!!!! I have always hated that poem. Self congratulating crap.
Dark is the night that covers me,
Black as the pitch from pole to pole,
I thank whatever God there be,
For my unconquerable soul.
(Probably some mistakes there, but YECCH, indeed!)
When we were taught this poem in Junior High, High School, I don't remember which, I couldn't believe that it was supposed to be a wonderful poem. It's in a class with Trees, though Trees is so goofily bad that it should have a midnight showing. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:48 pm |
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| It seems the previews for Nine were not misleading. The early reviews range from mediocre to...wait for it...brutal. It's a real bomb. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:49 pm |
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| Too bad. Maybe he should have tried Grand Hotel, instead. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:54 pm |
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| All I could find online was the negative Hollywood Reporter piece. But that trashes Chicago, too, so is hard to trust. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:55 pm |
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Here's the entirety of the dreaded Invictus by William Ernest Henley (who?).
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:24 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: All I could find online was the negative Hollywood Reporter piece. But that trashes Chicago, too, so is hard to trust.
The Village Voice: "A zero."
Time Out New York: "A dud."
28% on Rotten Tomatoes.
There's a critic who says: "Nine is the movie that the detractors of Chicago accused it of being." |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:26 pm |
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Quote: Here's the entirety of the dreaded Invictus by William Ernest Henley (who?).
He was Joyce Kilmer's great uncle. I'm sure you know this, but he was blind. No Homer. Hey, he had to do something, he couldn't go to movies. He wrote a poem.
I like my version of the first verse better.  |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:33 pm |
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Yeah, what is it with Nine? It got a ton of nominations in some awards institute or other. I thought I remembered it on here, mentioned that it had been trashed by the critics. With the films this year having confusing similar titles I figured it must be a different movie they were nominating or awarding or whatever. I saw the whole main cast this morning on CNN and they were talking like it was a masterwork.
One of them was asked, "What are you going to do next?" What an opening, but the guy didn't say Ten, he said he was going to take it easy with his family or something. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:04 pm |
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whiskeypriest wrote: Invictus sounds noble. I hate noble.
It's noble. He also reads Invictus in the background of the jail scene. |
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