'War Stories'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I would love to read your diss
You're certainly welcome to. Oddly enough, I just pulled my two copies out of a box last week. I think I'm finally at a place where I can think about reworking it into a book. And I actually would like a lay person's opinion about what's interesting or not.
Except for the chapter on trade negotiations, I think it's a fairly easy read.
I was just blabbing to someone about the awesomeness of Asterix et Obelix, which made me think of you.
The movies, or the books?
The movies, or the books?
The animated movies, which got me in to the books when I was a kid. I haven't seen the live-action, and don't particularly want to. But I'd like to re-read the books and re-watch the animations, because I'm sure I'd get a lot more of the jokes now.
I think I'm finally at a place where I can think about reworking it into a book. And I actually would like a lay person's opinion about what's interesting or not.
Also, I'd love to help, then.
I've only read the books. I have a bunch, but only in the original French.
I do want to see the live action. They are hugely popular, but don't seem to make it across the pond.
Sean,
ah, interesting. I think the ending is one of the things that bothered me a whole lot. It just seemed so fucking over the top.
It just seemed so fucking over the top.
It was ridiculously over the top. I won't deny that. But I read it as a little bitter and cynical.
okay, now for the white font:
it would have worked better for me as "bitter and cynical" if the characterizations had been better. The wife was just so awful. Her acting seemed flat and her motivations were beyond puzzling. So the whole movie felt really off to me. I liked Allen and Ejiofor's acting was good, but I'm not sure anyone else's was.
That just reads like Mamet's typical preferred style of acting and directing to me, though. Especially from his women.
do you think? I really liked House of Games and some of the other films (have not been brave enough to see Oleanna so I just wasn't thrilled here.
do you think? I really liked House of Games and some of the other films (have not been brave enough to see Oleanna so I just wasn't thrilled here.
I love House of Games, and I'll concede easily that Lindsay Crouse kicks Rebecca Pidgeon's acting ass, but I thought Redbelt was fluid and animated compared to The Spanish Prisoner (which I also love).
Really, though? Mamet's best non-stage stuff for me is The Unit (though that's a very collaborative endeavor, I'm sure).