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| Cecile de France just swallowed gallons of ocean water |
The first movie begins in 2004 with Thailand's awful tsunami which killed thousands of people. It's a gripping horrific sequence that's well filmed though it risks easy ridicule with an extended shot of a teddy bear floating in the water. The terrifying waves sweep up Marie (Cecile de France), who happens to be a famous French journalist...
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If you saw the picture, what did you think of it? If you didn't, do you plan to?
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Yeah. Eastwood seems to be leaping into that problem these days. Changeling was 4 movies slammed together to the point of absolute incoherence.
"Clint Eastwood, now 80 years old, has never been more regular"
I hear it's because he switched to bran cereal after the series of recommendations that flooded in from test audiences for Gran Torino.
Saw it already, liked it very much, though i expect the "pro" camp to be pretty small on this one. The script is pretty undercooked conceptually, but neither the actors nor Eastwood try to overcompensate by going big or over the top, or really doing anything other than quietly playing the scenes for maximum emotional impact. I appreciate that, given how prone to histrionics these types of "dueling -storylines-converge!" movies generally are. The solid, unpretentious Eastwood approach - with a generous assist from the cast - brings it through.
You're 100% right about the score, though. He needs to step away from the keyboard.
Usually I end up seeing Eastwood films because they could be Oscar Contenders but luckily this one was dead on arrival in those terms, so I'll pass on seeing Hereafter.
So this one's a clunker, huh? That's kind of sad. I guess that I want all of these "prestige" movies to be great, so when they end up being mediocre, it's a big disappointment. But really I go into every film hoping that it's good or better. Oh well. I'll go watch The Social Network again.
I am always ready for a Clint Eastwood movie, since he is my favorite director, and he's my favorite director because I enjoy his movies even when they are uneven (Invictus) or bad (Blood Work, The Rookie...). Buy you already knew that.
LOVE THE CLINT
I think I love Eastwood because he is the only contemporary director that makes movies with that old Hollywood touch we see in movies by John Ford, Howard Hawks or John Huston, without being too referential (the Coens, Todd Haynes) or artsy (Malick - but I love him for other reasons).
I like the smell of his movies, their atmosphere, their class.
And sometimes all these things are put together in the right projects that fi exactly his vision of the world and his ethics and we get masterpieces like The Bridges of Madison County or Birr or A Perfect World or Million Dollar Baby.
Sometimes people say these are not masterpieces because they see some flaws, but making a masterpiece doesn't mean you are making a perfect movie. Art is a lot more subjective than that, "perfection".
cal -- i wholeheartedly agree that a masterpiece does not mean "without flaws" but of course i disagree that Eastwood makes masterpieces ... least of all several of them ;)
HEREAFTER is a great movie, Clint! We all need to see it. Life after death is my favorite topic. I've written best-sellers on the topic, including Simon & Schuster's "7
Steps to Heaven." Thanks again for a terrific movie. - Joyce www.JoyceKeller.com
This was a touching film. The connections were all at once here and there. A tremendous work. The glue between cultures was very tasteful.
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