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| I really like Million Dollar Baby and Letters from Iwo Jima. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:07 am |
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| I've never seen an Eastwood-directed movie. If I did, it would be Play Misty For Me on Billy's recommendation. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:21 am |
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Unforgiven is pretty good.
Pale Rider seemed rather familiar, but is solid enough. The Bridges of Madison County is well done. Million Dollar Baby was a huge turnoff.
I can't remember if I've played Misty, though I must've.
I've avoided Torino.
Clint's films seem rather workmanlike to me. Well-crafted but sort of constrained. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:33 am |
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| I Love You Phillip Morris is a hilarious Jim Carrey movie. So, why hasn't it been released in the USA when it opened a year ago in the United Kingdom? Oh, it's about faggots, that explains it. The fact that it's funny, well-acted and emotionally engaging doesn't really matter. It's about faggots. Can't have that. Can we? America ain't ready for a queer rom com starring a major star of kiddie movies. Well, thanks Jim for trying. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:41 am |
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I liked Skeletons enough to watch the cast interviews and deleted scenes before retiring the disc.
The best deleted scene has some In Bruges style dialogue.
One of the main characters is asked why he hasn't married.
"I have very specific taste in women," he replies.
"I'm only attracted to a certain type of woman."
"What sort of type?"
"Cat-faced women from the 1940's." (pause) "Like Lauren Bacall."
Funny. And then they bat the implications of this around a little.
It's a well done scene but it extends the ending too long, so they cut it for brevity. But that's a funny line. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:48 am |
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I agree with Marc about Phillip Morris. And on the reason for its non-release. Though why being about faggots should preclude its release is sort of a mystery. Gayness is a big selling point these days, on TV even.
Saw Jackass 3D and had a semi-blast. About half of it is gruesomely awesome and disgustingly hilarious. The cast even makes itself puke, a lot, and over and over. There's a sketch with a port-a-potty and another with a sweatsuit that are about as nauseating as something can be. But memorable, that's for sure. The other half of the movie is boring and dull. The 3D effects come and go, and sometimes they're effective. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:53 am |
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| Last I heard, "I Love You Philip Morris" is scheduled for release here in December. Of course it's been "scheduled for release" at various times over the past year and a half. My theory is that Jim Carrey is considered a draw for kids, and Hollywood distributors (who are actually pretty conservative) are afraid that the film will be avoided by mainstream moviegoers and that they'll be accused of enticing children into homosexuality. (I can see our wannabe gov Paladino gearing up for the tirade now.) |
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| Syd |
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carrobin wrote: Last I heard, "I Love You Philip Morris" is scheduled for release here in December. Of course it's been "scheduled for release" at various times over the past year and a half. My theory is that Jim Carrey is considered a draw for kids, and Hollywood distributors (who are actually pretty conservative) are afraid that the film will be avoided by mainstream moviegoers and that they'll be accused of enticing children into homosexuality. (I can see our wannabe gov Paladino gearing up for the tirade now.)
Looks like Cuomo's going to win, though I have a soft spot for Jimmy McMillan and the Rent is Too Damn High Party. They have a Senate candidate, too.
EDIT: Cuomo's leading by 20-30% in all the polls. |
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| Of course the funniest thing about McMillan of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party is that he pays no rent--reportedly, he helps his landlord with chores and gets his apartment free. (That doesn't make him wrong--the rents in NYC have been too damn high for at least the past 20 years.) |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:40 am |
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http://www.imdb.com/news/ni5081600/
Let me see if I have this right: the cast and crew of Hangover had no problem working with Mike Tyson, an abusive rapist who once bit off someone's ear, but they can't bear a cameo from a guy who gets drunk and yells nasty stuff. (???) |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:41 pm |
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Watched the HBO film You Don't Know Jack. Very good mainstream film-making. Fine cast. Al Pacino really looks the part and part of the fun was noticing when Pacino disappears into Kevorkian and when bits of Pacino come through. John Goodman plays his friend/helper. Susan Sarandon is very good as a friend. I also liked the final female judge a lot, but unsure who that was. Good casting at every turn.
I didn't like some of the tight close-ups or a couple of jittery montages. It's a little odd how the characters all just pop in and slowly we learn who they are or what they are like. It's like everything is happening already and we are just catching up. Maybe it's to draw a parallel with the way the terminally ill enter Kevorkian's life(?)
I did think they missed a chance mid-film to have a loved one talk to us/Kevorkian/the video camera in depth and directly when one of the patients is barely able to communicate and his wife has to translate the few sounds he makes.
It's interesting to "know Jack" and get a feel for how all of this unfolded. Also worth it for Pacino and Sarandon. This was directed by Barry Levinson. Seems it was on HBO in April. Did anyone see this? |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:37 am |
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| Saw The Company Men tonight. It's topical, somewhat bleak, a bit funny and beautifully acted by Chris Cooper, Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones. It's gonna be a tough sell. Anyone want to see a drama about people losing their jobs in 2010? |
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Just got back from I Love You, Phillip Morris (courtesy of the Baroque Violinist and LAFCA in-roads), It absolutely slew me, as unexpected and disarming an American film as I've seen in awhile. Unless its 2009 British release butts up against the Byzantine rules for awards from that, um, film society, its December 3 release stateside ought to guarantee Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor Master Thespian and Supphose Actor noms, respectively. It's not merely that, to my mind, Mr. Carrey has but once hitherto -- in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- reached quite such simultaneously invested, hilarious/touching and uncalculated heights/depths (apart from the variety of mannerisms his con-artist character Steven Jay Russell affects). Nor is it just that the perfectly attuned-to-co-star Mr. McGregor has perhaps never yet reached quite such simultaneously invested, hilarious/touching and uncalculated heights/depths (and makes a delectable bottle-blonde, to boot), which is saying something. Or even that the scenario presents an improbable true story in precisely the straight-faced, matter-of-fact means and manner required to not only suspend our disbelief but allow us to forget that This Really Happened (even with the opening credits' delicious wink to just that), and get swept up in the story. Heck, it's not even that it's very funny; sometimes outrageously, at other times slyer and dryer than Renoir on cognac, pitch-black at the climax, always from situational/character truth. What distinguishes this movie for me is how co-authors/directors Glenn Ficara and John Requa never lose sight of what is at the heart of their narrative -- a quietly convincing, unconventional, unpredictable love story between a crook and a schnook. That they happen to be two men who meet in prison is at once beside and entirely the point. Some delectable throwaway motivic nods to other analogous films, from Brokeback Mountain to Catch Me If You Can to (blatantly at the denouement) Shawshank Redemption; a wonderfully un-starry surrounding cast, Leslie Mann as Russell's wife and Rodrigo Santoro as his first boy friend in particular, but pretty much everyone; and some plus-perfect technical elements. People who avoid it because it concerns two dudes in love are short-changing themselves. Instantly one of this (or any) year's most original and, despite its central romantic-nutbar thrust, categorically uncategorizable cinematic achievements.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:54 am |
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billyweeds wrote: This is more "forthcoming film," but whatever.
I saw I Love You Phillip Morris, which is consistently interesting and features an excellent performance by Jim Carrey but whose story is a little too wild and woolly to be completely satisfying as an emotional journey.
It's apparently the almost completely true story of Steven Russell (Carrey), a closeted gay man who comes out and then falls in love with a fellow jail inmate. A preternaturally gifted con man, Russell goes through all manner of weird and unexpected contortions to keep his love alive and close. It would be unfair and require all manner of spoiler alerts to blow the details (they are genuinely surprising and sometimes very funny), but suffice it to say that in this case truth is indeed stranger than fiction but dramatically not quite as cathartic. The story takes some fantastic turns but not all of them are believable, no matter that they actually happened.
See it for Carrey's extremely honest and credible performance (one of his very best) and nice supporting work by Ewan McGregor as the titular lover. Release is slated for December 3.
This was my original review. I agree with inla about Carrey's performance, somewhat less so about McGregor's, but the movie is really excellent (with my "believability" caveat) and I hope he's right about its Oscar chances. |
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