'Heart Of Gold'
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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).
I think it may have replaced Glengarry Glen Ross as my favorite Mamet movie.
This almost makes me not want to watch it. I can see that GGR is a great film but I did not enjoy watching it at all. I was most glad I had seen it when I went to see a comic who made a joke about "Glengarry Glen Preschool" ABC! Always! Be! Coloring!
Lindsay Crouse kicks Rebecca Pidgeon's acting ass
Has Rebecca Pidgeon done any acting outside of Mamet films?
My favorite Mamet outside the theatre is The Verdict. Mamet writes silence better than anyone!
The previews for "Eagle Eye" (the one with the woman's voice on all the phones) amuse me. As if technical systems would be that reliable.
Yeah, it's kind of like the computer hoodoo from that internet killer movie with Diane Lane last year where the guy was able to take over her car remotely. "OMG! The call is coming from inside your glove compartment!"
I may be able to buy flawless worldwide realtime computer tracking if the setting involves the supercomputers from The Matrix, but in the real world AT&T can't figure out that I moved last November despite me calling to inform them multiple times.
The Americans and the French create great cinema because they were the two countries that led the invention of cinema.
England has great theater because it's the country that invented modern theater.
Agreed. And America (specifically, New York) has great musical theater for much the same reason (though the British have contributed some success in that field too).