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wwwowww.

― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

yeah she was hot

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

she's awesome in 'running scared'.

― bohren un der club of gear, Monday, 16 October 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, I guess.

Did anyone catch what her character's last name was in the movie?

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Greene.

(j/k)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the movie despite the holes in the plot (literal and metaphorical.)

***SPOILER ALERT*** ***SPOILER ALERT*** ***SPOILER ALERT***
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
***SPOILER ALERT*** ***SPOILER ALERT*** ***SPOILER ALERT***

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 16 October 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha, ~~and the governor could get shot by his new shrink.~~

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

(what was in the envelope?)

― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Monday, 16 October 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

haha u guys in love w/marilyn manson

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 16 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

the envelope contained an explanation for the edification marky mark.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 16 October 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

THAT'S who she looked like! That was bugging me. (xp)

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 October 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

(of)

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 16 October 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

And Martin Scorsese sure does love that "Gimme Shelter" song.

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 16 October 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

this is the best movie that Anthony Anderson has been in.

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/23/57/38m.jpg

― grady (grady), Monday, 16 October 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

the envelope contained an explanation for the edification marky mark.

a-ha.

― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Monday, 16 October 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

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