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| billyweeds |
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| There's quite a disparity between the critical community and the critics on this board about Get Him to the Greek. The mainstream seems to love it; the reaction here is mixed at best. My instinct is to go with Third Eye; therefore maybe it's a rental rather than a theater visit. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:41 am |
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Watched as much as I could bear of the unwatchable Jennifer Aniston-Gerard Butler "romantic" "comedy" The Bounty Hunter last night. Why did I watch, you will ask. Two reasons: a friend had a DVD copy and I worked as an extra on the movie and wanted to see whether I was visible. I am, and feel unclean as a result. However--whew!--you never see my face. I am a shock of white hair and a pair of suspendered jeans walking down the steps of the courthouse in lower Manhattan, inches away from Aniston.
She and Butler display no chemistry with each other and no discernible talent even though both have done good work--well, at least she has--in the past. The movie is a catastrophe. Not one single funny moment in the half-hour I made it through. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:44 am |
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| I have a hard time watching Jennifer Aniston in anything. Whether she gives a good performance or not. I just don't like her. I had the same reaction to Joan Crawford. Maybe not in Grand Hotel, but that's it. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:09 am |
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marantzo wrote: I have a hard time watching Jennifer Aniston in anything. Whether she gives a good performance or not. I just don't like her. I had the same reaction to Joan Crawford. Maybe not in Grand Hotel, but that's it.
As a palliative you might try Friends With Money, in which the direction of Nicole Holofcener and the acting partnership with the likes of Catherine Keener and Frances McDormand seem to have combined to give Aniston added chops. Maybe you still won't like her, but the movie is really good anyway. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:47 am |
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| Although I wasn't really a "Friends" fan, I like Jennifer Aniston well enough. But I've noticed a trend of popular female stars (like her and J.Lo and Queen Latifa lately) being paired with much-lesser-known male actors, some of whom I've never heard of. No doubt it's partly due to more established male stars refusing to take roles that could be seen as secondary to the female, and probably the financial aspect of paying them less as well, but when I look at those old TCM movies (e.g., Gable and Tracy and Loy and Lamarr all in one great flick!) it makes me wonder if great multi-star movies are a thing of the past. (Especially since the newer films that do include several equal stars--such as "It's Complicated"--often fall short of being great.) |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 12:25 pm |
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| Of course you realize that it was the studio system back then and they could put some of their top stars, male and female, together in movie. Now with top stars getting 20 million and up, putting two of them together is a big chunch of scratch. Three or four together is really risky in a financial sense. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:22 pm |
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Douglas was also recently in The King of California, with the young actress who starred in Across the Universe -- he plays a man released from a mental hospital who comes home, and believes there is Spanish treasure buried under the house. It's also on my list to see.
Not exactly Tracy and Hepburn, but didn't Aniston and Vince Vaughn do some kind of romcom together recently? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:27 pm |
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| The Breakup. Never saw it. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 2:16 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Of course you realize that it was the studio system back then and they could put some of their top stars, male and female, together in movie. Now with top stars getting 20 million and up, putting two of them together is a big chunch of scratch. Three or four together is really risky in a financial sense.
And then there's the Ocean's 11 series. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:46 pm |
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| Yes, I know all about the studio system, and it seems a bit bizarre that icons like Gable, Tracy, Grant, Monroe, et al. never made anything close to the big bucks hauled in by the likes of Matthew McConaghey today. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 4:37 pm |
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Quote: There's quite a disparity between the critical community and the critics on this board about Get Him to the Greek. The mainstream seems to love it; the reaction here is mixed at best. My instinct is to go with Third Eye; therefore maybe it's a rental rather than a theater visit.
go see it. My opinion is the only one that counts. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 4:58 pm |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 5:59 pm |
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Marc wrote: Quote: There's quite a disparity between the critical community and the critics on this board about Get Him to the Greek. The mainstream seems to love it; the reaction here is mixed at best. My instinct is to go with Third Eye; therefore maybe it's a rental rather than a theater visit.
go see it. My opinion is the only one that counts.
You liked it? What did you think about Hangover? And how did you think Get Him to the Greek compared?
Not that it's showing here now, but with any luck I should be able to catch some movies I've missed, in Atlanta. I'm going stir crazy in this lovely place. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 7:27 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Lorne, was the theatre chain Famous Players?
No, not that big. It's the Guzzo movie theatre chain which, I think, is strictly in Montreal and surrounding areas. It's a pretty cushy, top-of-the-line chain, and the owner, Vince Guzzo, is a stand-up guy. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 7:31 pm |
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| Gary - When you mentioned Jennifer Anniston my first thought was, "The Breakup", which I really liked. In fact, I think she's a better actress than she is a celebrity. What that means is if producers could get past her tabloid persona as the sad, jilted woman, and try her in a different role, I think she would pleasantly surprise a lot of people. |
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