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| bartist |
 Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:35 pm |
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Quote: He stepped down as producer of the Oscar telecast Tuesday after making a series of ill-judged remarks in recent days, including saying "rehearsal is for fags" and discussing his sex life with Howard Stern.
He sounds rather conflicted.  |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:27 pm |
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| I haven't heard the broadcast. "Rehearsals are for fags" is a statement that could either infuriate me or crack me up, depending on context. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:17 am |
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I was really looking forward to J. Edgar, but I just read a review of it and a bunch of other comments and was very disappointed. It seems like Eastwood treats JEH with kid gloves. I thought this had to be about what a dangerous pig he turned out to be, but I was wrong. Eastwood tends to never be a hard hitter. I'll wait for the next JEH biopic.
The review of Jack and Jill has the header: "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch this pail of sewage." Guess what the review was like. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:40 am |
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Quote: The review of Jack and Jill has the header: "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch this pail of sewage." Guess what the review was like.
"A worthy offering in the eco-thriller genre....brilliantly exposes the dark underbelly of waste management." |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:11 pm |
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| I generally dislike Eastwood's movies--sometimes slightly, often intensely. I am definitely going to see J. Edgar--I have a freebie--but am lowering my expectations from low to lower. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:27 pm |
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| The review I read wasn't a pan, but it certainly wasn't a rave either. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:36 pm |
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"Melancholia," is the opener that looks most interesting...a couple of reviewers saying that Von Trier finally got one right -- a psychological existential drama employing a Solaris-type sci-fi device. Scott Tobias praises it....
http://www.avclub.com/articles/melancholia,64921/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=channel_film
Not excited by Eastwood movies, either. Once in a while, I enjoy him taking his time with a story, but he kind of lost me after that one with the codger and the old car in crumbling Detroit. There was a self-indulgence there that made me wonder if he was needing to retire.
And trying to wrap my head around a movie called Immortals that stars Mickey Rourke as an....immortal. No, my head won't wrap that far. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:40 pm |
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| Agree about Melancholia. I'm indifferent to Eastwood as a director. And to DiCapprio as an actor (though I still remember his amazing performance in Gilbert Grape). |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:56 pm |
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| DiCaprio has never particularly rung my chimes, even when he's good--as he often is. I fail to see the "greatness" so frequently attributed to this very competent actor. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:44 pm |
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| I only saw it in Gilbert Grape, the reason being that he didn't just do the technical "retarded person" characteristics that earn accolades. Artie was a fully developed character, and his mental handicap was just a (big) aspect of his personhood. And considering how young DiCaprio was at the time, it made the achievement even more impressive. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:58 am |
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Jack and Jill is getting predictably terrible reviews with the sole exception of the apparently amazing cameo performance by Al Pacino, which strangely sounds worth the price of admission all by itself. Pacino plays "himself"--that is, the caricature of himself that has become the standard Pacino description, the "hoo-hah" dude in full flower. It's reportedly side-splitting. However, sounds like a rental.
Quote from the San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle:
Jack and Jill shamelessly and effectively references Pacino's films, including all three Godfather movies. It also gives him a line that's the funniest in the movie, though on the night I saw it no one laughed. Maybe no one ever will laugh, but look for it: At one point, Pacino is talking about birds and says, "I used to raise pigeons ... Oh, wait, no, that was Brando." There's a whole world of madness in that line. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:12 am |
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| Yeah, I meant to mention that. The review here did say there was one good thing in the movie. Pacino playing it straight and his exchange with Depp made him laugh. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:50 am |
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| Just had a bunch of people with guns walk past my house. And several hundred people without guns and a couple of marching bands. The Norman High and OU Bands looked really good. This was the first Veteran's Day parade in Norman since 1944, which really astonishes me. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:01 pm |
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It's also International Corduroy Day. A bigger event than usual this year.
(11-11-11)
Nice intro sentence, Syd. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:56 am |
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Jack & Jill is Sandler playing twins? BIG PASS
J Edgar Hoover is Eastwood directed? Pass
too bad I wouldn't mind a film on Hoover, especially since post 9/11 it's a Hooverian country ... |
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