Rainouts can be OK!
by SC on Apr 3, 2008 9:46 PM EDT
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You know how when a game got rained out back in the day, and they'd show a movie?
Well, since we're rained out and it's still only 9:30, let's talk recent movies you've seen.
American Gangster: A modern Scarface, I thought. Low on much of anything interesting, high on image-driven B.S. that makes people think it's a great movie. For a great story told at an epic pace, this sure drags and gets boring as all hell. Russell Crowe is a great actor and anyone that says differently is catty or weird, but Denzel Washington is kinda paint-by-numbers in this one and it just doesn't live up to any of my expectations, which were that it would be, you know, at least good. Instead it's sort of OK. I care not if I ever see this movie again. It'll be collecting dust on my shelf.
No Country for Old Men: It was good! I'm sure you needed me to tell you this. In fact, it was great. The best the Coens have done to date.
Mask: I love having my On Demand working again. HBO has this up. I'd never noticed that it's actually a really enjoyable, well-acted movie. I just always thought of it as "The Rocky Dennis movie, with Eric Stoltz having a screwed up dome." I hate Cher but she's good here. And Sam Elliott is an American treasure. MOUSTACHE RIDES.
Little Big League: Highly underrated baseball movie. Silly story but good baseball scenes and interesting characters. What more can I ask?
Smokey & The Bandit 3: My God.
Now if you know me, you know I love Smokey & The Bandit. For a movie of its nature, it's a stone cold classic. The sequel was, um, interesting. An elephant?
This one is preposterous. I had seen only parts of this, once, many years ago. I figured since I like 2 more now than I used to, maybe 3 would be worthwhile fun. Turns out it isn't. I hate everything about this movie. It's creepy, depressing, bizarre and just plain fuckin' weird. There wasn't a single funny moment in this movie. How this actually wound up getting made is beyond me.
Just make it an open thread for whatever, if you want. Nothin' better to do.
The Mariners come to town tomorrow, and I'll preview the Baysox, too. Norfolk's losing 9-2 in the eighth. Penn got shelled -- 4 1/3 IP, 10 H, 7 R, 6 ER, 3 K, 1 BB. The lineup was Redman (CF), Eider Torres (2B), Oscar Salazar (1B), Terrero (DH), Costanzo (3B), Roberson (RF), Heintz (C), Boucher (LF), Mike McCoy (SS).
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Sorry, dude
Caps were on. Won 4-1. Dammit, they MUST make the playoffs!
"I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves." - Major Leauge
by duck on Apr 3, 2008 9:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
the one thing that bothers me about the NHL
Besides the sissiness that took out fights for the most part, anyway...
How many legitimately bad teams are there? Four? The Oilers are 40-35-6 and in last place! This game is foreign to me. Last place teams are supposed to stink.
by SC on Apr 3, 2008 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Caps are in if they win saturday plus any of these scenarios
1) The Senators lose one of their final two games (Leafs, Bruins) in regulation or lose both in OT.
2) The Bruins lose one of their final two games (Senators, Sabres) in regulation or lose both in OT.
3) The Flyers lose one of their final games (Devils, Pens) in regulation or OT.
4) The 'Canes lose to the Panthers in regulation or OT.
5) If tomorrow's Bruins-Sens game ends in regulation, the most one of those teams can get is 94 points. The Caps hold the tiebreaker against both.
The playoffs need to happen for this team. This is much more fun winning with Ovechkin than it is with Jagr. What a diva.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
by jobe on Apr 4, 2008 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
movies
Go see my boy Daniel Plainview (my sig pic) from There Will Be Blood. That's the movie I saw aside from the movies that Showtime reruns constantly.
Wolf, wolf, wolf.
by birdman on Apr 3, 2008 9:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
LOL
That's the quote my buddy keeps spitting back at me. He also sent me this youtube video. Pretty amusing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HflLVEWbigI
Wolf, wolf, wolf.
by birdman on Apr 4, 2008 1:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Boogie Nights maybe my favorite movie ever
but PTA must learn how to end a movie. Magnolia was too long and so was There Will be Blood. Still, the only movie that I liked better in 2007 was Knocked Up.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
by jobe on Apr 4, 2008 12:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I haven't seen movies lately
But has anyone been watching John Adams? It has my total attention as far as TV these days. I think it's amazing.
Formerly known as Javylicious.
by Stacey on Apr 3, 2008 10:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
only saw the first ep so far,
but it's racking up on the TiVo. I love it so far.
by zknower on Apr 3, 2008 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
pretty please...
read the book. david mcculloch is an awesome historian AND a damn fine writer. NOT A PLAGIARIST!
(i'm looking at you mr. ellis and ms. kearns-goodwin)
by j.q. higgins on Apr 4, 2008 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Best Coen Bros huh?
I don't know. No Country for Old Men was pretty fucking good to be sure. It was nice to see them finally wipe aside that smirky kinda tone they put on everything they do and just kick some ass for awhile. We all knew they had it in them, but it's like they play games with whether or not they take their own movies seriously, constantly flirting with sarcasm, genre stuff and being too cool for even themselves. It's been a successful formula to be sure - so you can't knock 'em. But it was getting really old - fortunately this movie was the antidote. Personally I really liked Barton Fink though. They got a lot of stuff just right with the tone in that one, for me at least.
Now, if there was actually an ending to No Country, it wouldn't even be close. But there's not. They build it up with one of the best movies you've ever seen, then they just yank the rug out, put in a scene with Tommy Lee & Javier that doesn't make sense. Then wrap a twisty tie loosely around what's left and send you on your way. Still it was a great movie.
by Jonny Pops on Apr 3, 2008 10:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
you'll think I'm weird
But Hudsucker Proxy is head and shoulders above the rest. It's one of the most perfect pieces of art ever made.
by zknower on Apr 3, 2008 11:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Agreed, ZK
Why people shit on Hudsucker is beyond me.
"You know? For kids!"
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women.
by Ghost of Floyd Rayford on Apr 4, 2008 8:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I need to see it again. It's been years. And it's good.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
by 2632 on Apr 4, 2008 9:17 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hated it!
And I was a big fan of theirs up until this movie. I actually drove 6 hours from the school I was attending at the time in PA to New York City to see the Hudsucker Proxy, as it was not playing anywhere closer. No lie. And I just could not get into it. I've never really cared for screwball stuff though.
No Country was actually the first movie of theirs I've liked since Hudsucker. And I've gone to see every single movie since then - not liking any of them - so I'm glad my devotion finally paid off.
by Jonny Pops on Apr 4, 2008 10:03 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Holy shit. Men on Film. Awesome.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
by 2632 on Apr 4, 2008 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Two snaps and a snap back.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
by 2632 on Apr 4, 2008 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No Country (*SPOILERS*, just a warning to those who haven't seen it)
I am going to jump out of my skin if I hear one more person complain about the ending of No Country for Old Men. It ends realistically (and exactly as it did in the book)...Josh Brolin dies for getting involved with something he never should have, Anton Chigurh kills Carla Jean and presumably keeps walking around killing everybody, and Tommy Lee Jones is just an old man who's completely mystified by this whole situation because he comes from simpler times, and isn't equipped emotionally to deal with shit like he's just seen, and where society is headed (hence the title). What do people want? To know what happened to the money? Tommy Lee to catch the bad guys? I don't get it.
by oriolez on Apr 4, 2008 8:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The problem isn't even (BIG SPOILER WARNING)
what happened. It's how they chose to present it. We spend so much time and invest so much in Llewelyn, only to get a long shot glimpse of his dead or dying body in the hotel room in El Paso. This is inexcusable. You cannot spend so much time on one character then just snip them off like that - so quickly in fact that a lot of people I know who saw the movie weren't even sure what had happened to him. Why not just show what happened? The violence up to that point had been masterful. Finish it off! Quit being too cool for your own movies!
The Anton Chigurh/Carla Jean thing was fine.
The Tommy Lee subplot was kind of a waste of time to be honest. He rambles on about the oldtimers and how things are fucked up nowadays, yada yada, like a Greek chorus with a Texas twang. It's a, well, not really interesting, but unique departure from the run of the mill, sure. But it doesn't really add much.
by Jonny Pops on Apr 4, 2008 9:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I gotta disagree here..(SPOILER WARNING)
to me, Tommy Lee Jones MADE that movie. His narrations, his monologues...classic. He can't deal with the way things are becoming, NOT because things are changing (remember his exchange with his wheelchair bound uncle? the country was always bad...) but simply because he is getting old. I personally did not mind at all not seeing the gunfight that killed Moss; I felt that it had more impact for Sheriff Bell to arrive there just that little bit too late to do anything about it.
The book is also excellent; I read it after seeing the movie.
Also, as for Coen Brothers, I love all their work, but even though it may be a slight film compared to "No Country," I have to say my favorite is, hands down, "The Big Lebowski." I could watch that movie every week and not get tired of it, even with my smoking days a solid decade behind me.
by KenDixonFanClub on Apr 4, 2008 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Really?
I mean, seriously. You'd rather watch some Old Fogey futzing around about he's no damn good anymore than one of the best Hunter - Hunted chases in the history of cinema? I mean don't get me wrong, I believe you. I just don't understand why.
by Jonny Pops on Apr 4, 2008 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
because Tommy Lee Jones is an incredible actor
That's my answer, anyway, because I felt the same.
The character wasn't "no damn good" anymore, really, just not good enough. He wasn't incompetent. He was just a little too slow. It was his last failure, if you want to consider it as such. Llewelyn's failure to take anyone's advice was what got him killed. If you believe that right must always prevail, then yes, Tommy Lee's sheriff failed.
But who was really wrong?
by SC on Apr 4, 2008 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You guys are saying it.
So I gotta believe you.
I like Tommy Lee well enough, but honestly he just wasn't giving me the goods here. And I understand this whole "Well that wasn't the point of the movie" thing. But my beef is actually with "the point of the movie". When you got something cooking like they did with Josh Brolin & Javier, you need to let that thing ride - not dick around with some codger feelin' blue. That's my take on it.
by Jonny Pops on Apr 4, 2008 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm feellin' you here
This is the most constructive discussion about the ending I've had. You might be shocked at the amount of people that just don't have the tolerance for a non-tidy ending with fuckin' "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" playing over the credits.
by SC on Apr 4, 2008 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Another thing though
- and here's something I did not get - is what the hell happened when Tommy Lee goes back to the hotel and Anton is there - then's he not. POOF! He put the slip on him, or somethin'. From what I could saw, it just did not make sense from what they actually showed you. So there was either something figurative going on - or (and this happens a lot more often than you'd think) they didn't like what they shot and just cut some shit out. Now I know the end result - that Tommy Lee wasn't up to the job no more and (luckily) escaped with this life. But the actualy machinations of the scene itself remain foggy, at best. What's the take around here on this mysterious scene?
by Jonny Pops on Apr 4, 2008 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm not sure, but here's what I think..
Chigurh was quite possibly in the room, and simply slipped out. But it doesn't much matter if he is IN the room; he's probably in the area, and could end Sherrif Bell any time he wanted. Bell knows that. Knows that this guy could probably drop him at any second. The point is Bell forcing himself to confront that possibility. What I'm saying is I'm okay with and open to it being either figurative or literal; whether Chigurh is actually there or not, Bell thinks he is, and forces himself to confront him as much as possible in that moment. If Chigurh is in the room, why doesn't he waste the sherrif? Doesn't need to, I guess. The guy presents no impediment to him. As far as being able to enjoy the ambiguity of it, understand that you're talking to a poet/literature teacher, so I live in ambiguity...I am perfectly willing to accept that others don't like it as much as I do.
by KenDixonFanClub on Apr 4, 2008 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's a legitimate beef
I don't really feel the same way, but it's an understandable position.
Every day at my work, it seems like someone else comes in after watching this movie, and all they do is say "the ending sucked! what happens to the money? why wasn't there a showdown?", etc....that's what drives me nuts, because those people are missing the point.
by oriolez on Apr 4, 2008 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
so quickly in fact that a lot of people I know who saw the movie weren't even sure what had happened to him.
Who were these people?
The only lingering question I had in my head after the movie was, "Did Jack McCall/Francis Wolcott/Dr. Smith take over as Sheriff? That is aggravating."
by SC on Apr 4, 2008 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm almost certain he did...
...I figured that's why he was riding the white horse at the beginning. Little old-western style foreshadowing going on. Also, Garret Dillahunt is one hell of a versatile actor. And yeah, JP, I'll take the old fogey talking any day, if he's saying the things Tommy Lee Jones was saying, the way he was saying it. Just great.
by KenDixonFanClub on Apr 4, 2008 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I saw it.
I know a number of people who didn't - amongst them my brother and girlfriend. Both are at least reasonably intelligent - one went to Harvard, and both will, barring some unforeseen event have PhDs before all is said and done. I'm not sure what this means in regards to their movie viewing skills, but having run a number of test screenings for films in post-production in my time, I can tell you a lot of times people just don't get things - particularly if you just flash it by them real quick in a long shot as was the case here.
by Jonny Pops on Apr 4, 2008 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wasn't trying to call anyone stupid. I just wondered what percentage of people or what type of movie-watchers you knew were like, "Hey, what the fuck happened to Llewelyn?"
I thought it worked quite well, but then I'm someone who has a tendency to pay abnormal attention to stuff I'm watching, to the point where I really, really, I mean REALLY hate if anyone distracts me while I'm watching a movie. It's kind of obnoxious, really, but it's just how I'm wired, I suppose.
I can see how someone would've missed it, or been unsure of what they saw.
by SC on Apr 4, 2008 11:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The final word on No Country For Old Men
It sucked.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
by jobe on Apr 5, 2008 12:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Classic O's
MASN decided to show Game 1 of the 1996 ALDS vs Cleveland instead of a movie. It was quite the trip down memory lane. David Wells started for us on a beautiful October afternoon at the Yard. The lineup was:
Brady Anderson CF
Kevin Seitzer 3B
Robbie Alomar 2B
Raffy 1B
Bobby Bonilla RF
Cal SS
Ed-die (he had just hit his 500th HR) DH
BJ Surhoff LF
Chris Hoiles C
This was a few days after Robbie had spit on umpire Hirschbeck, and the umps had threatened to strike for the playoffs unless Robbie were suspended (Jon Miller called the game on ESPN and reminded me of all the controversy).
I have to admit that I am proud to be from the city where our sports stars spit on umps and kill people (Ray-Ray), and where our actors have served time for manslaughter (Snoop from the Wire).
by Cockeysville Rec Council on Apr 4, 2008 12:41 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Oops
I meant our old friend Todd Zeile at 3B, batting second for us. Seitzer was on the Indians, who by the way had a loaded team talent-wise. Albert Belle, Manny Ramirez, Jeff Kent, Jim Thome, Julio Franco, Kenny Lofton, Sandy Alomar Jr.. And best of all, Paul Shuey.
by Cockeysville Rec Council on Apr 4, 2008 12:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
and Brian Giles and Richie Sexson on the bench I believe
MASN, as much as it helps out Peter A. it really stepped up with the classic Orioles games. It's pretty ridiculous when they show "classic" National's games. Would classic Expos games, (not that there were many) be so much to ask for. Between Gary Carter, Andre Dawson, Larry Walker, Pedro Martinez, Youppi and Vladimir Guerrero, there are some pretty great moments hidden in there.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
by jobe on Apr 4, 2008 1:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ooooh. I have that game on DVD.
The cast of characters in that series is amazing. Cal, EDDIE, Manny pre-dreds, frickin' David Wells, JIM THOME, Julian Fucking Tavarez...
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
by 2632 on Apr 4, 2008 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sweeney Todd
It must be musical week in my house. We watched Sweeney Todd Wednesday, which is great, by the way. And I think we have Once cued up for tonight.
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women.
by Ghost of Floyd Rayford on Apr 4, 2008 8:03 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I Drink Your Milkshake
If you've seen There Will Be Blood, you'll get a huge kick out of this skit from SNL:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/10232/saturday-night-live-milkshakes
by Gibbons is Jay on Apr 4, 2008 8:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I actually enjoyed American Gangster.
Good story-telling and Russell Crowe did great in a role I thought he was actually sorta mis-cast for.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
by 2632 on Apr 4, 2008 9:22 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
What would Aubrey Huff Watch?
I hardly ever get out to the theater because there's so few movies I'm willing to spend $10.00 on, and even fewer that my wife and I can agree on.
So, my wife was away a few weekends ago and I was stuck home with bronchitis, so I decided to follow the simple movie-picking rule "What Would Aubrey Huff Watch?"
Of course, the answer is cheesy sci-fi and horror movies and stupid comedies that his wife would hate:
"The Tommyknockers" -- Hey, it was free on-demand. A comically bad 2-part miniseries of Stephen King's novel. Jimmy Smits is in it, and he completely overacts the part of the novel's recovering alcoholic hero.
"Children of Men" -- I had read that this was really good, and on a bunch of top 10 lists of sci-fi movies. I thought it was pretty boring, actually. It tried to be really epic and stuff, but I kept waiting for Snake Plissken to show up.
"Sunshine" -- Another post-apocalyptic (or immediately pre-apocalyptic sci-fi film that I think I was the first person to ever rent at the local video store. My expectations for this one were lower, but I liked it. I thought the acting was good, the concept was interesting (more about the psychological effects of being isolated than about fighting sci-fi bad guys).
"Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" -- Stupid (on purpose), but I laughed. I apologize to no one.
My wife and I just saw "National Treasure". It's not good, by any stretch, and with all the Da Vinci Code knockoff books out there it's kind of cliche, but we were entertained. Nicholas Cage's dorkiness sort of works to his advantage for his role, and there were scenes about breaking into stuff in historic Philadelphia, which was fun since we were going there in a few weeks.
I do also want to rent "No Country", "TWBB", "American Gangster" and other actual good movies, too. We're usually renting movies on Friday nights though, and the last thing I'm usually in the mood for after a long week of work is a movie that makes me think too much.
by BrianS on Apr 4, 2008 9:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
then do American Gangster
You don't need to think at all.
by SC on Apr 4, 2008 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You didn't like Children of Men?
Oh man, I thought it was fantastic.....Cuaron really added this crazy sense of immediacy with his super long shaky camera shots, like when the car first gets attacked by the rioters, or when Clive and the mom are running through the battlefield.
Oh well...
by Chanumas on Apr 4, 2008 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm with you.
I loved it. I actually thought it was the best film of at least the past 10 years, probably more.
by Jonny Pops on Apr 4, 2008 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Awful...worst crap ever.
No, I'm kidding.
I just started a long post about why I didn't like the move, but in the process that I probably need to watch it again because it turns out that probably the thing i would have wanted in the movie was there and I missed it. Cinematography was excellent, I agree, and I think Cauron did a great job with kind of the "run-down future look".
Mostly, I would have liked a little more backstory on the characters and timeline leading up to when the plot took place, but in checking a plot summary it looked like it had more of that than I caught on to. For example, why was Clive so well connected that he could get the travel passes, why all the in-fighting between the resistance factions?
I'm usually pretty observant about stuff (I'm using my obsession over the details of Lost to prove this to myself), so I think this is one where I just caught a movie that was too serious for how awake I was when I watched it. I watched "Sunshine" right after this, and I think it has a less-complicated backstory and it's definately not as subtle.
There's a ton of movies I want to see that I've kind of been avoiding because I know that I'm not in the mood for them or awake enough at the time, so I think I just caught this at the wrong time.
by BrianS on Apr 4, 2008 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Clive Owen's character's cousin
was the Minister of Culture in the UK, and ran the Ark of the Arts in Battersea Power Station in London. The guy he goes to visit when he enters into the "Green Zone" as I'll call it, where the Upper Class live.
This is ostensibly why Jules goes to Theo for the transit papers, because he's politically connected through his family.
The infighting within the Fishes is never explained in the movie other than that they seem to fall into the typical hawk/dove pattern.
by Jonny Pops on Apr 4, 2008 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Seeing it on Christmas day
when it came out in America, I have never been so into a movie ever. It's still like that when I watched it again a couple of weeks ago on dvd. Pretty incredible, and right up there with Boogie Nights as my favorite movie.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
by jobe on Apr 6, 2008 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Saw Gon Baby Gone recently
It was good. Not great - but good. Amy Ryan was amazing.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
by 2632 on Apr 4, 2008 9:50 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Not as good as Mystic River
...but better than the other recent flicks from the "Greek tragedy in shitty Southie neighborhood" genre. ( The Departed, Monument Ave., Southie)
GBG was based on a Dennis Lehane story as was Mystic River. Lehane also wrote for The Wire.
Amy Ryan is the best thing aboot the GBG, but you also get Titus Welliver and his remarkable moustache.
by typozzz on Apr 4, 2008 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mystic River gave me gas
What did Marcia Gay-Harden get an Oscar nom for? Crying?
by SC on Apr 4, 2008 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Who else here is tired
of movies set in Boston?
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
by jobe on Apr 6, 2008 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The most recent movie I saw was Little Children
Gotta give props to Jackie Earl Hailey for that one. Whoda thought the kid from the Bad News Bears could portray uber-creepy yet simultaneously sympathetic so well?
Plus, it had the VERY yummy duo of Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connely
by Chanumas on Apr 4, 2008 10:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
God
I hated this movie. This was a gf pick right here (my gf always picks awful movies - it's like an ongoing joke in our relationship since she always hates everything she pcks as much as I do.) That dude was uber-creepy though. No denying that.
by Jonny Pops on Apr 4, 2008 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Haven't seen it..
...but heard good things about "Kelly Leak" in it...and I'm looking forward to his performance as Rohrschach in Watchmen next year.
by KenDixonFanClub on Apr 4, 2008 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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