It's been a long time since a film has really suppressed my critical tendencies while watching, I was totally taken along.* Everyone was at least good, Baldwin and Wahlberg walk away with everything (Wahlberg's disastrous cop haircut should win some kind of award for punk bravery). And it felt like the whole thing was attempting, and succeeding to keep up a constant level of speed and forward motion just a little bit faster than is conventionally comfortable.
*Despite only sort of stepping outside the flow to think "wonder how much Nicholson is being restrained by Scorsese here, does he want to let loose with full on Joker bullshit even more, or waht?" and in a few moments during the Chinatown chase scene thinking "oooh lookit the NOIR FILMMAKING" with the two young male leads dressed the same, with identical shadows chasing each other on harshly-lit walls, Leonardo viewing his opposite through the oooh fractured reflection of a mirrored-windchime yeah yeah we get it.
+ the crowd I was with was really vocal and into it. after the final Cavalcade of Whackings (audience gasping increasingly heavily after each one) there was a guy near the back who had reached the end of his rope: lone exasperated voice: "oh come ON man!!" *big laff all around*
finally, I'd like to dedicate this thread to the woman in my life, Vera Farmiga. you are yoga flame for all time.
― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
VERY hot, despite not being conventionally good looking. (xpost)
I saw this last week -- really, really good. My wife wants to see it, but is kinda turned off by heavy violence.
Is Anthony Anderson the nu-Luis-Guzman?
― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Har har. Seriously, the weird thing is that I thought it was Maddern, the last name of a dude in my band (which combined with the first name makes it even weirder).
― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
I liked the movie despite the holes in the plot (literal and metaphorical.)
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We were saying afterward that we expected marky mark to go to the elevator where the doors would open up and alec baldwin would shoot him in the face. then baldwin goes back downstairs, goes to his car, gets shot in the face by governor of Massachussetts
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― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link