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| Joe Vitus |
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| I'm not interested in going into all the details. There were plenty of articles about it when it came out. From the first screening people were saying "this looks staged" and the makers were defensive. I think it's a fake. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:06 pm |
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| I wouldn't be at all surprised if Ewan McGregor is gay, because I liked him so much in "Ghost Writer"--and most guys I really like are gay. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:33 pm |
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| I don't care if he's gay or not, unless he wants to get together. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:06 pm |
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Sorry, Joe. I have pretty good gaydar and based solely on that I'd have to say E.M. Isn't. Of course for your sake, I hope I'm wrong.
Betsy, Gary, I offer my sincere condolences regarding your ear infections. I know they're no fun. There is something going around here that a lot of us can't shake, or maybe it just keeps whopping us again, but my patience is wearing very thin!!! |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:53 pm |
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| I'd be satisfied just to meet a gay guy who looked like him. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:52 pm |
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| Gary - feel better. If the ears give you any more trouble, ginger helps the vestibular system. A while back, when I first started having inner ear problems, I looked up some information at NASA on dealing with zero-gee sickness, and found that the tricks astronauts use were some help to me. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 7:46 pm |
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One's immediate reactions to I Love You, Phillip Morris are here:
Current Film Talk: Posted, Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:45 pm
Both actors are swirling amid the crazed pre-Blanche juggle/sift -- it remains to be seen if they'll make the cut. Awful lotta good actor-ing this last annum. Sidebar: The reason Mr. Carrey and McGregor are out of the AMPAS loop appears to be partly, as feared, due to the film having gotten a British release before its U.S. one, partly because it hasn't exactly done big biz or gotten raves here. That's a shame.
Elsewhere, True Grit Redux won the weekend box office over Wittle Schlockers (the first non-Tucson tragedy wire news I've had time to digest in the last overstretched 24 hours). Candles lit. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:49 pm |
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| Some in Hollywod seem to be under the misapprehension that if one star is good then more must be better. Unfortunately, in a film like Little Fockers, the result of all this star packing is a soul-sucking black hole. What little merit this film is unable to escape the event horizon. The sucking is so bad that watching it can actually strip you of the esteem you hold for actors from their previous work. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 12:22 am |
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A weird and total blindside occurred as I watched the original True Grit on AMC. 1) I realized it wasn't bad at all. 2) I preferred it to the remake.
Not only is the 1969 version of the story more coherently told, it's far more entertaining and better played by John Wayne and Kim Darby than by their current counterparts Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld. Glen Campbell is so lame in the original that Matt Damon is superior, but that doesn't make up for the rest. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:35 am |
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Seeing True Grit in the early seventies, I was wowed by its realism and daring revisonism; or so it seemed to a boy brought up on TV showings of classic Westerns, and who had only heard snippets of conversations about not for children films such as The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, The Wild Bunch, Soldier Blue, McCabe & Mrs Miller and El Topo.. ANd it would never have occured to me that those nice girls in pretty dresses who worked in saloons might actually be...prostitutes.
I came across True Grit again a few years ago, but didn't have the energy to see it through. It felt hoary and venerable rather than fun and interesting. But, reading Billy's comments, perhaps my unsophisticated judgement wasn't so off kilter after all. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 5:02 am |
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| The Coen brothers True Grit is not only the biggest moneymaker of their career, it's own its way to being one of the biggest boxoffice smashes of 2010. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:29 am |
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I told you the original True Grit was pretty good.
Wayne is in fine form, really living into the character.
And Darby just chugs along, clashes with Wayne, and convinces. I thought some of the studio shots looked weak next to the location work. Glen Campbell is a bit lame, but I liked the way the film opens with him singing the title song.
Duvall is real good, would have liked to have seen more of him and his men. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:13 am |
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I too enjoyed the title song and Campbell's rendition (I always loved his records). It's the epitome of the "title song" dictated by a title, but it's really pretty fun.
Some day, little girl,
The shadows will leave your face,
The day you have won
Your fight to get justice done....
The pain of it
Will ease a bit...
When you find a man with true grit.
WE HAVE A TITLE SONG! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:52 am |
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Finally saw Toy Story 3. Wow. One of the best animated films I've ever seen. The best in my opinion since 1991's Beauty and the Beast. TS3 is like a full-length version of "When She Loved Me," the heartbreaking song from TS2, which singlehandedly pushed that sequel way past the (IMO) somewhat meh original.
This is riveting stuff from beginning to end, and even the chase sequence (usually the buzz-killer for me in everything from Wall-E to TS2 to Ratatouille) is organic and for once not overlong.
I loved this movie. Instantly it's a Blanche nominee for Best Picture. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:00 am |
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Don't know why I haven't seen TS3 yet.
I saw other people watching it on an airplane but I didn't want to subject a good film to those little screens.
I'll have to look for the deeveedee.
Switching back, I really liked the Mattie capture scene in the Wayne True Grit. It was done really well, starting with her innocently going off to find water to wash up with. It kept twisting in ways I didn't expect. |
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