I did read it, still gonna see it
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
this was pretty enjoyable. lack of Jack Black bjs didn't bother me.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
bernie owns
― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
weak tea
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I enjoyed it. I like movies where the surrounding community is as much a central part of the narrative as the main characters
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
keeping Bernie offscreen wd've been better.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
so I lost my hopes that Bernie would be uproarious but uneven like I Love You, Philip Morris in the first ten minutes.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ethan-Hawke-Julie-Delpy-Shooting-Sequel-Sunrise-Sunset-31409.html
We’re also doing a follow-up to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, so that will be fun. We’re going to shoot that this summer,” Hawke reveals. “I’ve gotten into trouble, so I’m sworn to secrecy [about where it will take place]. The biggest change between this one and the last one is the Internet. The first time we did it, we didn’t have any pressure; nobody gave a shit.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
omg I hope for good things, I love those 2 movies!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
When I heard they were doing Before Sunset, I thought, "that is a TERRIBLE idea."
I feel the same way now, despite really loving Before Sunset.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
Finally saw Bernie. Thought it fantastic, but that's perhaps owed to, you know, the TEXAS thing. He didn't get talked up as much as Black did, but McConaughey absolutely NAILED the lifelong small-time/big ideas Texan Politico ("Let me show you what I like to call my 'Wheel of MIS-Fortune'."), from the hand movements down to the cowboy hat and half-full bottle of Big Red on the table in the courtroom (that part I guess was really up the props department).
Was moved by the dedication to Lou Perryman and Eagle Pennell at the end of the credits.
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
i was crestfallen to find out at the end that Rick Dial had died
― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
bernie was great. i thought shirley maclaine was just fantastic (jack black too, but her performance was so smart). especially after how much i disliked her on downton abbey.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 22 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
i loved this. Morbs is probably right in that it does deflate a little. for that happened after the murder.
townspeople the real star (and maybe even subject) of the film, which almost reads like an ethnography of small town east texas. particularly loved the sense in which it was obvious (to me anyway) that many of the interviewees were cutting up not only for the camera but for each other--you get the sense this kind of performance in front the community is a part (and pleasure) of daily life in a town like that. this is like sitting in church and listening to gossip. Bernie is a hero because he played that game, because he performed so well. the "reality" of what he did is incidental.
― ryan, Thursday, 20 December 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
*for me that happened after the murder.
― ryan, Thursday, 20 December 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
I just watched Bernie, that shit was great!
― "poop floats" starring sandra buttock (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 20 December 2012 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
Me too! McConaughey /is/ Texas as much as any of the folksy old people.
― mh, Friday, 21 December 2012 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, totally.
― ryan, Friday, 21 December 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
Before Midnight getting rapturous reviews.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
This guy disagreess: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/21/before-midnight-first-look-review
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
the film it most closely resembles is not either of its predecessors but Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy, an ironic, metatextual take on cinematic love stories that somehow, and most unfortunately, feels much more genuine than this.
Somehow this doesn't dampen my enthusiasm.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
uh ya haha
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
end of cinema
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
go back to bed
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
xp sign of enema
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.gossippando.it/wp-content//2013/01/EthanHawke-platinato-prima-dopo-NY.jpg
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, November 21, 2012 6:01 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
but w-w-wait-- she didn't do anything. she just held fast to the same constipated expression, staring out blanky through soulless botox eyes. it was a non-performance, like she was kind of animal or something.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 25 May 2013 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
i don't have any problems w/ the conception of bernie, i just thought it fell down in the execution, like everybody was half-asleep. was kind of sloppy visually too, he gets that way sometimes (some scenes from the otherwise good school of rock are like the most awkwardly framed/edited things i've seen by a director i admire).
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 25 May 2013 05:55 (eleven years ago) link
come on she did more than just stare! (i can't remember any specific things she did now, but i thought she was great!)
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 25 May 2013 07:31 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno. it struck me as the one of the least expressive performances i'd seen.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 25 May 2013 08:12 (eleven years ago) link
Bernie was a nothing.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 May 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
i didnt think maclaine was that good either... it didnt help that the movie only wanted to see her character one way, but her sourpuss act didnt do a lot for me
the star of the movie was the guy in the diner talking about the different regions of texas, and how he wouldnt trust the rednecks in the next county over to mow his lawn. that guy was perfect
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 25 May 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
^^Sonny Davis! He was in a bunch of stuff back in the day--the early Eagle Pennell films, Melvin and Howard, Roadie, Fast Times At Ridgemont High (he's the guy that get Reinhold fired at the burger place)...
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 May 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWHHQ3Rz534
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 May 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit that guy was a fuckin actor? i thought he was a real guy from the town!
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 25 May 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah he was awesome. I wasn't sure if he was an actor or not either
― Number None, Saturday, 25 May 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
haha I guess I'm not surprised since he seemed a little TOO perfect. The bit where he says people tend to forget about the panhandle, and then he promptly forgets about it, is when I knew I'd love the movie.
― ryan, Saturday, 25 May 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
― Number None, Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that was probably the most interesting thing about this movie, the way it blurred the distinction b/t documentary and fiction.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 26 May 2013 10:39 (eleven years ago) link
the actual character at the heart of the movie was just null. the film couldn't seem to decide if we were seeing him "through" the eyes of the townspeople exclusively or if we were going to get a bit of privileged access into his own feelings. it ended up being a little of both, and for the me that way it kind of indifferently switched among these vantages made the film seem kind of lazy and ineffectual to me.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 26 May 2013 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
i thought it was pretty consistent in keeping Bernie a bit opaque--at what point do we get privileged access to his feelings?
― ryan, Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
well we get some private moments IIRC, like him breaking down after the murder, no? or him complaining about ol' miss botox? i just remember a few points where the "as seen through others" thing is just kind of violated. i mean if i thought linklater was managing these changes in tone and perspective in some organized way, i could have gone with it. but it just felt kind of sloppy.
i admit i'm running on imperfect memories here since i saw it a while ago (when it was in theaters) and it didn't leave a strong impression.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 26 May 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's fair enough. i guess i chose to interpret those moments as more like a "negative" correlative in the sense that they show Bernie is maintaining a facade but they don't give us much insight into what's behind it. hell, even the murder shows that maybe Bernie doesn't understand himself very well.
― ryan, Sunday, 26 May 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
I watched this last night, sparked primarily by all the interesting back-and-forth here. I agree with something from almost everyone...It's a conceptual rather than a lived film, and more often than not, there's a limit to how much I like such films. (I prefer the messiness of School of Rock, in other words--lots of exceptions, of course.) So it was always a little off for me, even though it held my interest the whole way. I agree with a lot of what amateurist wrote above, although I did admire Maclaine's performance (but can see where someone else wouldn't). McConaughey was excellent, and thanks for pointing out the Fast Times guy--would never have realized it was him.
― clemenza, Monday, 3 June 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
i had a dream that i was watching before midnight last night and the film started with a sort of wacky, bright green-and-yellow animated logo announcing it was "the latest in the BEFORE series!"
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the movie, but the weakest part of it (as the real Danny Buck Davidson pointed out) is that it's entirely too sympathetic to Bernie (although maybe that's because it was impossible to find anyone with anyone nice to say about the widow MacLaine, but since a lot of the talking head people are actors I don't see where that would be an impediment). Bernie might really have been the harmless, generous naif that the movie makes him out to be, but he still committed a pretty horrific crime and the Fargo-esque way it plays in the film diminished that.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
i will say that matthew mackonaheyhey was amazing in "bernie"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
just saw "mud" too so he's on my mind (btw i didn't love that one--have we discussed it on ILX?)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.slashfilm.com/ethan-hawke-says-richard-linklaters-truly-original-film-boyhood-to-play-in-2014/
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/65465202
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/double-play-james-benning-richard-624076
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Thursday, 19 September 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Boyhood, the film shot over 11 years, is playing Sundance.
http://www.sundance.org/press-center/release/2014-sundance-film-festival-will-preview-boyhood-from-richard-linklater/
http://filmmakermagazine.com/83405-sundance-adds-richard-linklaters-boyhood-to-2014-slate/#.UtVn_PRDtyw
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link