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| Befade |
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Quote: Both served to wash the rather bitter taste of a very bad day from my mouth.
Rod............sorry about your very bad day.......as you age, you'll have fewer and fewer of these. I continue to be impressed with the range of your movie viewing and the number of films you see. (Doesn't anything bore you?) |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:06 pm |
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TRUST THE MAN
Has anyone besides me seen this? It's not a very good film by Julianne Moore's husband Bart Freundlich. But I'll see anything with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup was interesting.
It's a film that tries to continue the Woody Allen tradition of Manhattan, Annie Hall, etc........ NYC people in relationships that do or don't work out. But Woody makes Manhattan a character in his films and uses music that takes you back in time to a quainter Manhattan. Freundlich just doesn't do this. SPOILER And the two couples he focuses on resolve their problems to provide a happy ending that is pretty meaningless. The dialogue, too doesn't have the clever subtlety of Allens.
Lesson..........Woody Allen stands alone, DO NOT attempt to imitate. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:39 pm |
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Befade wrote: TRUST THE MAN
Has anyone besides me seen this? It's not a very good film by Julianne Moore's husband Bart Freundlich. But I'll see anything with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup was interesting.
It's a film that tries to continue the Woody Allen tradition of Manhattan, Annie Hall, etc........ NYC people in relationships that do or don't work out. But Woody makes Manhattan a character in his films and uses music that takes you back in time to a quainter Manhattan. Freundlich just doesn't do this. SPOILER And the two couples he focuses on resolve their problems to provide a happy ending that is pretty meaningless. The dialogue, too doesn't have the clever subtlety of Allens.
Lesson..........Woody Allen stands alone, DO NOT attempt to imitate.
I would disagree to this extent: When Harry Met Sally... was a riff on Woody Allen that worked better than all but a couple of Allen flicks. I have Trust the Man in my netflix queue because of the cast. I don't expect much from it. But Woody is not sacrosanct, and Harry/Sally proves it. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:52 pm |
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| Well............I do remember the deli scene......but not sure about Manhattan being a character.....Then there's Sleepless in Seattle with the Empire State Building and You've Got Mail. Did Woody ever use Meg Ryan? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:31 pm |
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Befade wrote: Well............I do remember the deli scene......but not sure about Manhattan being a character.....Then there's Sleepless in Seattle with the Empire State Building and You've Got Mail. Did Woody ever use Meg Ryan?
Sleepless in Seattle is to When Harry Met Sally... as Hollywood Ending is to Manhattan. In other words, it stinks. Nora Ephron (the director) (SIS) v. (the early, talented) Rob Reiner (WHMS), do the math.
And, yes, Manhattan was definitely a character in WHMS. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:14 pm |
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Befade wrote: (Doesn't anything bore you?)
Queues at the post office; listening to my mother talk about feeding the dogs; listening to poetry about the environment; listening to TV journalists talk about anything; listening to Crazy Dave singing "Turbo Lover" on a Thursday night (this has to be heard to be believed); novels by Jonathan Franzen; The Strokes' second album; novels by Patrick White; George W. Bush speaking; John Howard speaking...I could go on. 
I would have thought my relatively high number of grouchy trash jobs lately would have confirmed that many films that rub me the wrong way.
But if you mean types of film or specific genres, no, I'm gaining ever more omnivorous tastes. Generally I've been preferring older films lately because the sloppiness with which recent ones have been put together has been irritating me to the point of disgust. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:55 am |
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Befade,
"TRUST THE MAN
Has anyone besides me seen this? It's not a very good film by Julianne Moore's husband Bart Freundlich. But I'll see anything with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup was interesting."
I agree about Gyllenhall, which is why "Sherrybaby" is my next Netflix rental, but haven't seen TTM, mainly because Manhattan relationship films aren't my thing. I don't know what my "thing" is, but I do know what it isn't.
I'm ending Netflix this month, BTW, not because it's lousy -- it's pretty decent, actually -- but because I discovered I horribly missed the whole roaming-the-video-store process. There's one local store that will order the obscure titles, so I'm going to pay the extra bucks just to walk up and down the racks and peek at women's calves and so forth.
Marc was right, there should be a Nerd Forum! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:04 am |
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Any fan of Maggie Gyllenhaal should not under any circumstance miss The Great New Wonderful. This movie contains what is IMO her very best performance to date. The movie is also quite, quite marvelous. Don't know whether it's available yet on DVD. Will check forthwith.
P.S. It is available. Must be seen. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:50 am |
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| Does anyone know when THE GOOD GERMAN will be out on DVD? I finally came across a review (dreadful) which led me to believe that its DVD release will be sometime soon. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:38 pm |
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Quote: I would disagree to this extent: When Harry Met Sally... was a riff on Woody Allen that worked better than all but a couple of Allen flicks. I have Trust the Man in my netflix queue because of the cast. I don't expect much from it. But Woody is not sacrosanct, and Harry/Sally proves it.
Here's a very interesting bit in relation to Woody Allen.....Chris Rock was just on Charlie Rose talking about his new film, I think I Love my Wife (which might be worth seeing.....based on a French film......Cleo in the Afternoon). Chris Rock aspires to make films like Woody Allen! Who would have thought?
And what Billy do you think about Meg Ryan in a Woody Allen movie.......a good idea? |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:46 pm |
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And what Billy do you think about Meg Ryan in a Woody Allen movie.......a good idea?
I think it's a good idea. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:06 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Quote:
And what Billy do you think about Meg Ryan in a Woody Allen movie.......a good idea?
I think it's a good idea.
Except that now she is playing mothers and has had extensive facial surgery, rendering her borderline unrecognizable. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:11 pm |
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| Yeah, I think I've seen her picture. She has some emotional issues. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:48 pm |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:51 pm |
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| I don't. That's the problem. When I act like a prick, I can't say that I have an emotional problem. It just makes me look, well, like a prick. |
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