― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
??? Weird. I'm sure very few 14-year-old girls actually saw "Brick."
I'm going to get my car's oil changed now. Bye.
― n/a (n/a), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Do you mean the Hemingway or the Anais Nin?
― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
the dialog was rediculous, reminded me of heathers. i'm sure 14 year old girls across the country thought it was the best movie ever.
Uh, you're kidding, right?
The dialogue was ridiculous in the sense that you get the impression that Rian Johnson just wanted to have fun with all that hard-boiled noir patter (totally unrealistic), but I think that that actually makes it kind of abstruse and somewhat of an impediment toward 14-year-old girls loving it. They might love Joseph Gordon-Levitt, though, and I don't entirely blame them. Emilie de Ravin and Nora Zehetner are pretty easy on the eyes, too.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Uh... 14 year old girls thought it was weird and had no idea what was going on or why. and the dialogue was pulp detective story patter from the 30's. Only ridiculous if you've never seen a Bogart movie.
― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
long time favorite of mine. love it.
i formed this opinion based partially on news from an acquaintence who works at a local video retailer. the more i thought about it the more it made sense.
― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I thought Brick was wonderful, but I might be biased because of the cuet boyz.
― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
[in my best gene siskle voice]
two thumbs down, WAY DOWN, for brick.
― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't mind awards shows. I think they can be pretty fun if you have a posse together to watch them. Mostly I like the Oscars because they introduce me to movies I might need to check out. Also, I like seeing what everyone wears. There, I said it.
― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
But your second sentence contradicts your first. You thought that movie was about teenagers? It wasn't.
― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link
this is the second time (at least) that you've written this today and have been incorrect both times.
― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I am going to rassle you to the ground when I get out there.
Winning an Oscar may now be even worse than winning a Grammy.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
A. MEN. Cf. Sharon Stone talking about taking long baths and sobbing for days after filming Basic Instinct. And it is the self-awed way actors say these things! Like they're talking about having just come out of Auschwitz or something. Have a really strong emotional reaction, transform yourself into a character for months, be traumatized, but be aware that I want to see a moving performance IN the movie, not when you talk ABOUT it, when it is just gross.
― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link
*Pretty much the only year-end list/awards/whatever I can stomach, if only for roffles.
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Many of the big-studio movies that come out every December are made with that as a major consideration. Why else would The Horse Whisperer have been made? Also the 3 Anthony Minghella films before this last one.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't understand why actors do things like pick up a new drug or gain a bunch of weight so that they can seem more realistic playing their part (ie: drug addict or fat person I suppose, ha ha). It's called ACTING. Otherwise, studio execs would just hire actual junkies/ obese people.
― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
"I dunno." -- Armando
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I was thinking about this as I went to lunch just now, and actually, I think this is a huge part of what makes the Oscars so interesting to me. In the absence of any objective means by which to compare one work of art with another, Oscar winners are determined by a weird conglomeration of racial/sexual politics, Hollywood liberal guilt, studio campaigning, notions of who "deserves" to win based on past performances, the momentum accrued through the precursor awards (the December critics' awards shape the race in much the same way that the New Hampshire and Iowa primaries prefigure a political party's nominees), and other sundry factors. Watching all this play out I find to be pretty compelling.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess maybe what I meant to say is that people don't talk INTELLIGENTLY about acting.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Little kernel of salty honey (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link
HI DERE, Laurence Olivier to Dustin Hoffman on the set of Marathon Man.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
When I said you were a snob, that was a descriptive statement, not a pejorative one. Think of a better word ("cinephile"?) and I'll use it.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey, do you want Y: The Last Man back? There's no reason for me to have them, except for a hazy memory I have of you telling me to keep them. But they're yours, and I'm not likely to re-read them or anything.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― lavender mofo (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
I am thinking of staying near Wrigley Field not Uptown this summer.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― lavender mofo (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
http://hamtramckstar.com/media/blogs/hs/Paczki-sm.jpg
I've had TWO today. Good thing I'm going to the gym tonight.
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link