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| Befade |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:11 pm |
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It's rare to find myself validated so quickly.
There aren't many rules in filmmaking, but I think "if you're brother-in-law and close friend is having a mental breakdown, you don't exploit it for documentary fodder" is a pretty consistent one. Had someone like Phoenix really been breaking down, so many handlers/family/friends would have been containing him and shielding him from the press and public it isn't funny.
Won't be watching Letterman, myself, but I hope it's entertaining. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:30 am |
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The user review on the main page of imdb is pretty amusing -- guy seems to have taken the film seriously.
Affleck is a vegan, I notice in his bio -- no doubt, a bond with the Phoenix family, all raised vegan.
Can't wait to see this. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:48 am |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:44 am |
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| Jack Goes Boating is a feature directed by and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. It's like the recreation of Marty, the 1955 Oscarwinner starring Ernest Borgnine as one of the "little people" of the world, a Bronx butcher who finds love. Borgnine was better cast. Hoffman, as a chauffeur who finds love, lets the acting seams show. Amy Ryan, however, is marvelous as his vis-a-vis, a mortuary assistant. It's all very well done and somewhat unexciting. Hoffman the director has a future. The movie is a respectable work. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:52 am |
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That's Norman Mailer's son, Stephen, as the happy husband.
Is there some way to get imdb to load its older-style (and less bandwidth) page?? Argh. Not crazy about the new format. |
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| knox |
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| If you don't register, you're stuck with the new format. (I don't register) If you do, you can [reportedly] go to User Preferences and click on "Display full credits (title pages)" and it will give you the older "combined" page. No idea if this works. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:38 pm |
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Okay, I can see the physical resemblance, and I'll buy that Cohen's flamboyance might nicely recreate Mercury's rock-star posing. But what about the voice? Standards are high after the recent Ray Charles and Johnny Cash, and the semi-recent Jim Morrison, were recreated with amazing authenticity. Hard to go back to lip-synching. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:27 pm |
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| How about his height? He'll have to stand in a hole. I'm guessing he'll lip sync. I hope so, anyway. |
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| Syd |
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| The only time I've heard Cohen sing was in Sweeney Todd and I can't remember what he sounded like. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:46 pm |
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Greenberg didn't do it at all for me. It felt false at all times, and I perceived it as a script being acted out. The writing just seemed so obvious and baldly poking through, both dialogue and plot. A few scenes felt like they were still being worked on, like it was an actors studio or rehearsal. The back-stories were rather forced and contrived ... same with the forward-stories now that I think of it. Are there really people who interact anything like these people?
Stiller is fine enough and Greta Gerwig is pretty likable, but Noah Baumbach still has a clunky forced style, where dialogue and plot periodically becomes mechanical and creaky. Not sure why but the indie music cues mildly bothered me throughout.
I had planned to pass this along to my sister and nieces, as one of the few recent films to balance the old films I'm sending them. But I don't think they'd be interested in this in the least. They'll have to make due with Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog and Avatar. (The old films they are getting: Bigger Than Life, Pickup on South St., Bonnie & Clyde, I am Waiting & Cruel Gun Story). Oh, I also have Sita for them, so they don't need Greenberg's surly, unleavened Woody Allen for a new, presumably unfunny, generation. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:08 pm |
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Liked Greenberg very, very much.
And loved Easy A, the brand new teen comedy which transcends its genre and becomes a witty delight for all ages. It's a semi-updating of The Scarlet Letter with a sparkling performance in the leading role by Emma Stone, previously a supporting actress but now a full-fledged star with a sterling talent for comedy. She's given stalwart support by hunk Penn Badgley, funny Amanda Bynes, and a great adult cast including Thomas Haden Church, Lisa Kudrow, Patricia Clarkson, and Stanley Tucci.
Forget the high-school genre and the far-fetched plot and just enjoy. This one is a real winner. |
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| Befade |
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Quote: That's Norman Mailer's son, Stephen, as the happy husband.
In the Hoffman film? His son John Buffalo is in the new Wall Street. (I'm very knowledgeable because I just read A Ticket to the Circus.........a WONDERFUL memoir by Mailer's wife of 30+ years, Norris Church Mailer.) |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:36 am |
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Yes, in Jack Goes Boating. I will look for Norris's memoir.
I liked the supercute Emma Stone in Zombieland, and look forward to Easy A, with it's amazing cast and the (cough) THC content. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:56 pm |
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bartist wrote: Yes, in Jack Goes Boating. I will look for Norris's memoir.
I liked the supercute Emma Stone in Zombieland, and look forward to Easy A, with it's amazing cast and the (cough) THC content.
There's very little if any THC goin' on in this remarkably moralistic comedy. Only the parents smoke. |
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