Anticipating Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind

it has been discused, can't remember where.

And then there's Master Of Space And Time. I'm so into the future right now.

i have my doubts that 'master' will happen...

Um, exactly when is this film set? Does this place sell 8-tracks as well?

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This movie is going to be awesome. Has anybody seen it - or even a trailer for it - yet?

http://www.director-file.com/gondry/bekind-pic1.jpg

Hey, I didn't know Mos Def was in this - awesome!

I hated Science of Sleep, which was sad cause I really loved Eternal Sunshine.

The trailer's up on Yahoo. It looks absolutely brilliant:

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809761737/video/3631941/

Terribly choppy streaming. Boo yahoo.

Really? No problems at all when I watched it again two mins ago...am on a very fast connection though.

Poor streaming, shitty sound.

Ah, Melonie Diaz. Now we're talking!

that looks awesome. can't wait.

I LOL'd at Jack Black's Boyz N the Hood wig.

WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR HOOD

Hey, this movie was filmed in the shithole city that's right next to the even bigger shithole city I was born in. Gotta see that.

Science of Sleep was snorezville and Jack Black is hit-or-miss but still.... I have high hopes

traielr is very funny. the gag that they don't remember the movies properly is really good.

"when you're walking down the street... and you see a little ghost..."

Paul Dinello!

Looks very non-Gondry like (no evidence of whimsy or emoness) and amusing!

OMG

that keeps being in my head

"whatcha gonna do about ghostbuuuusters??"

however all the crowd protest scene stuff kinda portends a lousy last half

when is this out...?

Gondry and I have a mutual friend... last time I talked to him he told me Be Kind Rewind has a brief scene built around this kitchen cleaning tool I gave him. I can't wait to see if the scene made the final cut (he could also have just been fucking with me).

Also, Paul Dinello is in it? That is EXCELLENT news.

lol that is the most bizarre namedrop ever

I know. But I'm going to be really proud if my stainless-steel dish brush makes it onto the int'l screen as a symbol of modernity or whatever!

or as a light-saber

Paul Dinello is in the preview, looks like he's the bad guy government agent.

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Paul Dinello is in the preview, looks like he's the bad guy government agent.

-- n/a, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:17 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i wonder how much this movie will actually echo ghostbusters

this movie looks great.

why doesn't jb's magnetized head erase all the tapes that they make???

they shoot to dvd-r?

why does jack black have to be in this.

also the science of sleep was not snoresville, you fucks.

what year is this movie supposed to take place in? the most recent thing they feature is Rush Hour 2... were there still all-vhs stores in 2002? I can't remember.

xpost I have not yet seen a Gondry movie I didn't love at least a little.

i will still be doing this on december 21 but my god i hate jack black

what year is this movie supposed to take place in? the most recent thing they feature is Rush Hour 2... were there still all-vhs stores in 2002? I can't remember.

ned's kenan's just pointed out the one unbelievable thing in gondry's ouevre!

-- s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 00:47 (9 months ago) Link

there was a Time Before DVD, you know. I was there!

That time was not 2002.

hey guys guess what??

in a lot of little local-owned rental places, like the one obviously depicted in the trailer, there are STILL vhs cassette tapes available in them!!! i know this is amazing in this day and age, much like fax machines, but they are still there, existing, on shelves.

i mean, if realism is what you are looking for in your gondry films, that is.

Yes, Gondry needs to man up. That's what is needed.

i was amused by a bunch of stuff but the one part i really lold at was when they were breaking into the power plant and the cops came - lol camo

it was better than i thought - didnt go in expecting much tho

okay yeah "genre-excercise" is not quite the right phrase

lolz "romantic plot". Gondry's totally got some girl issues. It was like he included a woman in the script cuz he felt guilty about making a sausage-fest, and then decided to overcompensate by making her spout "y'all are sexist and don't appreciate me even though I'm smarter than you" sorta lines.

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i was amused by a bunch of stuff but the one part i really lold at was when they were breaking into the power plant and the cops came - lol camo

this was really really funny and I appreciated it cuz in the previous scene I was thinking "what the fuck is wrong with Jack Black's face? Is he burned, or in blackface or what...?"

the moustache bit was pretty funny I thought

yes exactly xp

I had the misfortune to watch Jack Black in this and Margot at the Wedding this weekend.

though he was alright in this.

this is a minstrel show

you should swede margot at the wedding!

omg yesssss

that scene at the end where hes all blubbering and spazzing

s1ocki too wrong about this

no.

someone was trying to sell me on this tonight at a party
i was full of turkey
so i said okay,
maybe

turkey is the correct word here.

this movie is so weird.

this was alright, better than the science of sleeeeeeeep at least.

i don't think gondry will ever make a movie as good as eternal sunshine again but that's totally okay - just bring on the visual gags and try not to overdo the whimsy.

jackblack's character's decision to darken his skin to play fats waller may be the weirdest/dumbest thing about it (would've thought he would've known not to)

i liked this about as much as Eternal Sunshine (and it was maybe funnier). wasn't sure about the ending at first but i like the merging of fiction/reality for the Passaic people - gimmicky but it works.

it's weird and flawed but i like it

i couldn't watch this movie. so bad

interesting divergence of opinions here!

I have problems with Eternal Sunshine and kinda hated Science of Sleep...but I adored this. I liked the cast, it's OTT without trying too hard, and it's funny without being jokey. and that gag with the brick and the windows brought down the house with the group i saw it with.

I don't really have a problem with the ending, since it sorta struck me as a fable/wish-fulfillment...and I liked the actors/characters enough to find it very nice. and it's clear that they demolish the building anyway.

and sort of a nice "response" to Science of Sleep since it shows image/fantasy making as a collective enterprise rather than the province of the lonely and desperate.

one day im gonna alternamom out so hard w/this movie

how funny/interesting it would be to have your first exposure of 2001 or Ghostbusters through this movie...

10%

hahaha....yes everyone knows you hate this movie!

Gondry is a visual genius, no question, but this came across as an empty exercise in formalism - without the sort of heart and soul that, ironically, the movie wanted to address.

^^Yes, I'm a bitter fan.

this was good enough for me

so much better than at least 3 of the films that will be Oscar nominated

such trivial garbage

don't worry, soon enough Jack Black will take his place in the hallowed pantheon of Dead Fat Actors

― Shakey Mo Collier

such trivial garbage

you're thinking of those apatow films you enjoyed

lets not do that

this film is fun

Ugh, this is fucking baaaad. Gondry has no business directing feature length films.

yeah i saw this a wk or 2 ago and i hated it so much and read this thread in disbelief

yeah this sucked

nah it was good

I dislike gondry, liked this movie

did I say tht already?

Don't have much to add that hasn't already been said. Weightless and empty pretty much nail it. The whole thing just sort of floated by. Lots of hollow sentiment. I didn't care about or believe the characters or situations. Mos Def was super bland, don't get the praise here at all. And what was up with the "Keep Jerry Out" thing? The general dopiness of the characters wasn't endearing but kind of fucking annoying and inconsistent.

Guess it comes down to the fact that whole thing is basically a pretty flimsy excuse for Gondry to indulge his Gondryisms and I'm not particularly charmed by his cute and "clever" faux-naive whimsical shtick in the first place, so yeah, Massive Dud.

did gondry fuck slockis girl or something?? cant imagine hating this movie that much!!

caught like 3/4s of this on tv and i thought it was pretty fun!!!

should have been way more sweded movies way less fats waller obviously

it was cute when the girl snuck the Lion King tape into their stack

this movie is ass... but funny enough as a matter of fact gondry did once hit on a friend of mine's gf... TRUE STORY

badass

i liked this up till the lame-o ending. definitely needed more sweding.

don't worry, soon enough Jack Black will take his place in the hallowed pantheon of Dead Fat Actors

― Shakey Mo Collier

― velko, Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:27 PM

i sort of assumed when it came out on dvd one of the features would be a sweded version, way to miss a golden opportunity geniuses

No, that would have been shit.