Edgy MD
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The most gratifying part of the whole subforum is sticking through the bad with him and so being the first in line to share the good.
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I know I put up a thread about this film a while back. I loved it. Like The Station Agent, it's about accidental family happening to broken people. Like The Station Agent, he coaxes a star turn from a career character actor. I almost wouldn't want to tell anybody the plot points because it's just a delight to see it unfold in ways that would seem contrived if you saw it coming but is absolutely honest when it happens.
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I thought it looked far less stupid than the last trailer, and I'm thinking maybe they got feedback on the tone of that one and it informed how they should go forward.
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Add "Attending a private screening of Thor" to euphemisms for sex.
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Yeah, but it was perfectly autobiographical --- a song about the allure of selling out by a guy cashing in big playing a caricature of his act on the Vegas circuit and coked to the gills. And as pretty much his last hit and his biggest one, a song about the upside and downside of selling out became one of the most perfect examples of the upside and downside of selling out. Amazin.
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Johnny Churchmouse is off to a good start again, back in the pen again, giving up one run in his first four innings and walking away with a win at St. Lucie. Clocking in at 6'3" and 235, he's as big as a church. Like Scott Hairston, he's got a footballer's neck.
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The Wiz is crazy. Cassting a mid-30s Diana Ross as the sweet young innocent fantasy voyager is a tough enough row to hoe, but finding a way to balance Lumet's 1970s urban realism with the surreal fantasy of a Wizard of Oz musical adaptation is a whole tough field. But it's not without it's graces and it's surprisingly watchable to me. Re: Sidney Lumet at Shea. That would be great, but that's the sort of mindfulness I would hardly expect of any team's PR department, and the Mets (they invited Pete Best to come by Shea on the anniversary of the first Beatles concert) are probably as good as most.
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Vic Sage wrote: � The Morning After (1986) � 30 years after her dad got an Oscar nom working with Lumet, Jane Fonda got one for de-glamming as an alchie in this decent, but unexceptional, thriller. She retired (for a while) after this one. Sydney did not.) That's casting. We're making a film about a blackout alcoholic. Let's cast the woman who is worldwide known to be the healthiest female on the planet. Vic Sage wrote: � A Stranger Among Us (1992) � this Hasidic take on WITNESS was a disaster.) It's like he asked himself, "What's the greatest challenge a director of actors can give himself? Melanie Griffith, undercover cop. No, wait. Melanie Griffith, undercover cop among the Hasidim. There we go."
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Maybe, as far as a corner-turning milepost, this is the A-ball equivelent of Dickey's near-perfect game last season.
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Also worth considering: There's Pacino (a fine actor), Pacino with DePalma (a cartoon), and Pacino with Lumet (a revelation).
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Those eyebrows look projectable.
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Also popping to mind is The Main Event (1979), Tough Enough (1983), and Homeboy (1988). Requiem for a Heavyweight is a tough thing to watch, because I'm so used to Jackie Gleason having a great big heart underneath all his assholish bluster, you keep looking for it in this movie too, only to find out that he's barely got any humanity at all.
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I gave it 2.5. If I could edit that vote. I'd probably drop a half a star due to ghastly geriatric sex jokes. Who does the polling that produces the data that says America can't get enough geriatric sex humor?
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i think that's the cloudy plan. But I suspect some in the organization haven't completely written off shortstop, suspecting (with good reason) that there'll be an opening there shortly.
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Wish somebody asked him what position PDP sees him at, because he better get there soon.
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Pants.
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So yeah, as my description implies, but the marketing does not, this film opens with some pretty violent tsunami footage. All tsunami-weary folks may wish to steer clear.
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We didn't get far either.
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We also get the fantasy --- amid all the gripping realism ---of white dudes tough enough to hang in there in a sport dominated by men of color.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: How is it they keep making boxing movies... ? Because unlike MLB, Hollywood doesn't do mandatory steroid tests, and giving your top actors a chance to show off their 'roidy torsos by getting topless and sweaty and bloody is money in the bank.
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You folks got to include an option for half a star. You've just got to.
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Who is Harry Nillson -and why is everybody talkin about him?
Edgy MD replied to a topic in Film Review Forum
I have no problem with calling a CD an album. Or a digital package of downloadable songs for that matter. Anybody who corrects you on this should be avoided. -
Vic Sage wrote: probably my least favorite of the Cameron Crowe ouevre ... Then you've wisely spared yourself an evening with Elizabethtown.
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Yeah, but other than that, it was a turd. I gave it 4.5.
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One and a half from me. I just can't believe they can't frame the decision of young Winona's life as a choice between two equally contemptable, equally self-interested assholes --- each bent on exploiting and consuming whatever spirit she has left. That's the choice Gen-Xers have? Between giving your sex to corporate douchebags or Byronic ones? Women of earth, there's a third way!
