I've said some mean things about Bogdanovitch over the years, but Robin's story makes me regret every one of them.
I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?
Angel ,'Sleeper'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Hayden - Mar 30, 2007 7:19:14 pm PDT #8054 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Frankenbuddha - Mar 31, 2007 4:26:09 pm PDT #8055 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Just watched some of the CHILDREN OF MEN extras on the DVD, and apart from showing how the mind-boggling car sequence was done (and how the actors managed to do what they did, both outside and inside the car, still astonishes me), they also showed how elaborate the effects were for a sequence that never pinged me as difficult...until they showed how difficult it was - namely the sequence where the baby is born. I was so into the movie at that point that I didn't even stop to think how they achieved that moment. That's some good moviemaking there, I tell you what.
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2007 5:10:27 pm PDT #8056 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Saw Shooter last night. It was pretty much what we went for--gunmanship and action. A lot of explosions considering the gunheavy premise, but what can you do? I managed to spot at least one gun error, my companion more (but that's kinda his job), but it was decent fun.
Some medical "whuzzat?" happening there, but Wahlberg is nice and sulky and Michael Pena does a good job with his role too. Danny Glover does a good creepy. The women aren't...well, they aren't too developed. They support the action. That's their gig.
Volans - Mar 31, 2007 10:15:32 pm PDT #8057 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I'm pretty sure I chose my college solely because Real Genius was filmed there.
Finally watched Casino Royale. That was both a good and bad movie.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 01, 2007 1:21:59 am PDT #8058 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I saw The Host today. It was interesting, but I can't rave about it like I've seen some reviewers do. The authorities, Korean AND American, seemed too cartoonish for the rest of the movie to me.
DebetEsse - Apr 01, 2007 9:56:59 am PDT #8059 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Once again, I need the hivemind. I've done some googling, but I wanted to verify.
Given that it's a fictionalization, are there any historical...inaccuracies, if you will, in Judgment at Nuremburg? Not that these specific things happened, but that things didn't happen like that?
My TiVo suggested it to me, and it seems like a good place to start my classroom library.
Scrappy - Apr 01, 2007 8:50:11 pm PDT #8060 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Just saw The Lookout, and recommend it highly. Very well written and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is amazing and nuanced. All the actors are great, really. It's a character study disguised as a caper film and succeeds on both counts.
Theodosia - Apr 02, 2007 2:46:51 am PDT #8061 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
JG-L rocked on Third Rock from the Sun as a mature and wise scientist having to assume the persona of a teenager, so I'm not surprised he's moved on to better things.
esse - Apr 02, 2007 2:48:42 am PDT #8062 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Salon has a really insightful intewview with him regarding The Lookout and his career: [link]
He's becoming a favorite of the indie circuit for his willingness to take on darker and conflicted characters. Not bad for a guy who cut his teeth on Angels in the Outfield.
Beverly - Apr 02, 2007 5:40:07 am PDT #8063 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I had seen Gordon-Levitt as a child actor, was most familiar with him for a Lifetime movie about a child who divorced his neglectful parents to stay with an adoptive or foster family. But he absolutely blew me away in the first few episodes of first season Third Rock. Amid all the buffoonery of the adults, somehow this kid seemed to embody the mature and wise scientist Theo notes above. He didn't parody it, he didn't overplay it. In quiet minutes between himself and Lithgow, he simply was this wise elder.
Of course he played human puberty for laughs, but it was the "old soul" business that got me. Similar to Christian Bale, actually.