tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post303909024571603700..comments2024-03-17T10:11:46.952-04:00Comments on Film Experience Blog: Now Playing: Misunderestimated W. Grizzly Bruce and Teenage Dakota... but Rachel is Still Not Getting MarriedNATHANIEL Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-9142672324572881152008-10-19T07:46:00.000-04:002008-10-19T07:46:00.000-04:00So "W." ended up being kinda awesome. Go Josh Bro...So "W." ended up being kinda awesome. Go Josh Brolin!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-79448594616107327572008-10-17T21:02:00.000-04:002008-10-17T21:02:00.000-04:00Apparently they were distributing Vicky Cristina B...Apparently they were distributing <I>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</I> all over the place, but kept the screen count the same. Like, it was playing in 600 cinemas one week and while it was still playing in 600 a week later it was playing in <I>difference cinemas</I> (or, at least, some). So they did add cinemas, they just counters the cinemas they were losing. Er, make sense?<BR/><BR/><I>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</I> is still a Woody Allen movie starring a bunch of people only film buffs seem to care much about (most are entirely unaware of the great strides Cruz has made in the past few years and so on).<BR/><BR/>I saw <I>The Duchess</I> last night (so that'd be Friday). Quite pleased. Nothing extraordinary like <I>Pride & Prejudice</I>, but it's still good. <BR/><BR/>I also watched <I>Deception</I> on DVD, which was so strange. For a while it felt like the sort of movie I expect to see pop up on tele at, like, 1am (which is when I turned the DVD on) and get sort of absorbing in the way that your attention and thoughts are skewed at 1am and watching a movie about Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor being involved in a sex club is indeed better than telemarketers or televangelists (aren't they the same thing? boom tish!) but then you realise that it's actually not very good at all. I was so confused as to why the New York City in this movie was so deserted. Like, where were all the people?! How bizarre. The end was ridiculous mind you. Really silly.Glennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08194113062830373898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-60135320626835155442008-10-17T20:48:00.000-04:002008-10-17T20:48:00.000-04:00lol that's why I put "review" in quotation marks! ...lol that's why I put "review" in quotation marks! I don't think I'll believe anything, though, until I hear what the critics have to say. Jeff Wells is obsessed with Fincher anway. =bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-61442772550585654832008-10-17T19:47:00.000-04:002008-10-17T19:47:00.000-04:00that's not a review! ;)but thanks for the heads up...that's not a review! ;)<BR/>but thanks for the heads up. <BR/><BR/>I love 'overheard' conversations.NATHANIEL Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-59748909750164698712008-10-17T18:22:00.000-04:002008-10-17T18:22:00.000-04:00New "review" of Benjamin Button (from HR, Jeff Wel...New "review" of Benjamin Button (from HR, Jeff Wells..)<BR/><BR/>http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/10/up_to_you.php <BR/><BR/>At Your Discretion <BR/>True story: a conversation among three or four guys with film-industry ties happened a couple of days ago in a major southern-region city. Included was a sound mixer who's been around a couple of decades and knows some formidable people. The subject was upcoming movies, and the sound mixer interjected at one point, "Guys, guys, I've seen the Best Picture Oscar winner, okay? And it's Benjamin Button." You've seen the whole thing? he was asked. "I've seen most of it and that's enough," he answered. "Forget it, it's over. It's an eight-hankie movie and it's going to win."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-29835723651101453272008-10-17T15:53:00.000-04:002008-10-17T15:53:00.000-04:00I may finally go see Appaloosa. I've been so busy....I may finally go see Appaloosa. I've been so busy. And I have The Visitor sitting at home, which I'm excited about. I totally intended to see it in the theater and go (I'm repeating myself) so busy.Deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05061313079120981794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-20560824688993617352008-10-17T15:43:00.000-04:002008-10-17T15:43:00.000-04:00I share your thoughts on VCB. I don't usually foll...I share your thoughts on VCB. I don't usually follow what's going on at US Box Office, but with all the buzz aroung VCB I was curious. I even thought VCB would be a great Woody Allen hit that would bring him back some audience love. And then I saw the number of screens... The first weeks its average per screen was as much as the movies in the first places! So I expected the wider<BR/>screening would put things in its right place, but alas it was so ridiculous. Are they afraid that if they show Woody Allen's pictures to a wider audience they might find people actually like them? I just don't understand it, but I give up.<BR/><BR/>And about sex (or the lack of it) comedies, I think that even though the truly American genre is supposed to be the western, the awful truth is that dog-themed movies (really, what's the big deal with dog movies?) and desperate teenagers looking for sex movies are the most productive entirely American genres, if you ask me. ;)<BR/><BR/>IggyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-34911085562730201292008-10-17T15:08:00.000-04:002008-10-17T15:08:00.000-04:00FINALLY, I am going to see "Blindness".FINALLY, I am going to see "Blindness".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-17930499454050152422008-10-17T14:21:00.000-04:002008-10-17T14:21:00.000-04:00my feelings exactly.my feelings exactly.NATHANIEL Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-8594988638377596212008-10-17T14:11:00.000-04:002008-10-17T14:11:00.000-04:00Nathaniel, what do you think of Brolin's chances f...Nathaniel, what do you think of Brolin's chances for W. (best actor)?<BR/><BR/>I have a feeling that if the category stays crowded, he'll get his dues for Milk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com