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| Marc |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:32 am |
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Marc wrote: Billy, get over it.
Dargis's new and very negative review of Blue Is the Warmest Color is helping me get over it. I thought I was just about the only person (except for my wife, who agrees with me) who thinks BItWC is wildly overrated and not so hot. Manohla Dargis agrees! The Counselor is back on my list. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 6:42 am |
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| On Facebook, Marc has clarified the situation. It's the studio that's burying The Counselor, not the critics, whose reaction has been wildly mixed. Marc also notes that an audience of Austin hipsters (who one might suspect would be the perfect demographic for a film as layered and complex as this one) sat there in "bewildered silence." You can understand how a studio wouldn't throw a lot of publicity money away on a film it suspected was dead in the water from an audience-friendly point of view. The old saw goes "it's show business, not show art." Old and tired and infuriating as the phrase may be, it's still true. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:11 pm |
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| I had wondered about all the "Cormac is a novelist, but he can't write screenplays right," stuff that's being flung at TC. Some of his novels have a style that, to me, screams screenplay, so I'm thinking it can't be all that bad. |
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| mitty |
| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 1:49 am |
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Marc wrote: Ridley Scott's THE COUNSELOR is getting hammered by critics. Ignore them. This an engrossing and wonderfully dark mindfucker written by the stellar Cormac McCarthy.
I loved every twisted minute of it.
Ditto. We saw it last night. Thinking of seeing it again. That good. That intense, to say the very least. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:31 pm |
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Inside Llewyn Davis is a wonderful wonderful movie that you hate see end. It's full of one beautifully constructed scene after another with a superb acting and singing performance by Oscar Isaac.
If Isaac doesn't get an Oscar nom for best actor I'll eat my guitar. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 12:11 am |
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Marc wrote: Inside Llewyn Davis is a wonderful wonderful movie that you hate see end. It's full of one beautifully constructed scene after another with a superb acting and singing performance by Oscar Isaac.
If Isaac doesn't get an Oscar nom for best actor I'll eat my guitar.
Great, but did you see me in it? |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 1:43 am |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:26 am |
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Marc wrote: Billy,
in what scene?
I actually sent you a detailed message on FB about where to look. Guess you didn't get it. I'm sitting at a table behind where Oscar Isaac is talking with a guy at the front desk at the Merchant Marine union or whatever it is. I'm pretty close to the camera, Ethan gave me personal direction, and Joel told a friend of mine that he thinks I have a great look, so I'm hoping I made the final cut. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:12 am |
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| IMBd has you listed as Merchant Marine (uncredited), so it looks like you made the final cut. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:27 am |
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Syd wrote: IMBd has you listed as Merchant Marine (uncredited), so it looks like you made the final cut.
Syd--Thanks, but that doesn't mean anything. I put my name in there months ago. IMDB is like Wikipedia. If you're registered, you can change, add, delete, info. They have to check it out, but usually it works. Whether I end up making the cut is quite another story. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 2:35 am |
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Billy,
I don't remember the Facebook message. Sorry. I don't recall seeing you in the movie but that doesn't mean much. I'm definitely going to see it again.
You are prime Coen Brothers material. If they're smart they'll put you in a bigger role next time. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 5:53 am |
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Marc wrote: Billy,
I don't remember the Facebook message. Sorry. I don't recall seeing you in the movie but that doesn't mean much. I'm definitely going to see it again.
You are prime Coen Brothers material. If they're smart they'll put you in a bigger role next time.
That's what I'm hoping for. I dubbed Miller's Crossing and The Hudsucker Proxy and Joel is on record as saying he thinks I rock. So fingers are crossed and I'm tweeting the Coens these two videos.
www.tinyurl.com/k987ajr
www.tinyurl.com/lan5akb |
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| knox |
| Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 11:58 am |
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| Speaking of comedies (lame segue)....anyone seen "In a World," Lake Bell's directorial debut? Heard some good things, and the theme looks to be of interest to movie buffs. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:24 am |
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Knox -
I saw "In a World" last weekend and much enjoyed it. I should have reviewed it then, because the theme is VO artists, mixed in with a funny and offbeat romcom and a girl with a giant PITA of a father. I would put this on my list of best comedies of 2013, up there with We're the Millers.
This is an auteur effort (writes, directs, stars) from the improbably named Lake Bell (i'm going to take a WAG and say that's not her birth name?), ably supported by a great ensemble. Wiki or imdb this, and then go and see it! |
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