Has anyone seen Mr Brooks ? The reviews are so very mixed I don't know what to tell the guests when they ask if they should see it.
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He turned it down because there weren't enough women in the cast for him to knock about.
That's the part he couldn't understand.
"What do ya mean she 'won't go'? You're her father! If she were my girl, I'd slap her ass all the way to the Gray Havens."
I saw it. It was entertaining, though Captain Logic is not driving that tugboat.
Costner is actually quite good. William Hurt is amazing. Demi Moore - and, really, her entire storyline - is pretty forgettable.
It's really not the cop/bad guy cat and mouse flick it's being marketed as, and the plot doesn't hang together very well. But the heart of the story is the stuff going on in whacked-out Kevin Costner's crazy head, and he and Hurt really sell the characters.
Thanks, brenda. That's very helpful.
One of John Sayles big rewrite jobs was on Apollo 13, for Ron Howard.
Which is funny, because most of the dialog is taken directly from transcripts of the communications between the capsule and ground control, and from Jim Lovell's book "Lost Moon," (later renamed "Apollo 13," so they could republish as a movie tie-in). I would be very interested to read the various iterations of that script.
I always liked the stuff happening in Houston, from the challenge of getting the square filter to fit into the round hole, to the exchange between a few of the NASA guys in mid-crisis:
What time is it?
Four.
Is that a.m. or p.m.?
A.m. Very, very a.m.
Ed Harris made a great Gene Krantz.
Gene Krantz is himself a very entertaining crotchety old fart.
You know, Apollo 13 was a really good movie. It made you feel the tension the entire time, and you were right there with the characters trying to figure out how to solve problem after problem, amazed at the ingenuity.