also I realize Canadians are raised differently, but I didn't know "a kid's film" could include a scene where members of the ensemble betting $5 on who will ball the theatre company's secretary first. (Though this certainly would've improved the last half of Up.)
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess I'm a good kid, then! It doesn't work on as many levels as Topsy-Turvy, tho it was also shot by Dick Pope, but I was generally delighted. McKay's turn works in similar fashion as Streep's Julia Child, and Efron is good.
Recognized the Norman Lloyd character right away (tho the actor looks like Larry Fine), cuz I saw Lloyd describing his '37 role as Cinna the poet at the Film Forum a year ago!
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 30, 2009 7:09 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i meant it in a good way!
― who sharted?! (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean it is based on a kid's book
― who sharted?! (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
also ya, as kids we were raised to bet on adults' sexual peccadilloes... sort of an ol'-fashioned way to pass the time during those cold winters
and you had to do it in english AND in french
― max, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
*makes poutine joke*
― who sharted?! (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
well, I'm guessing quite a few changes were made in the adaptation then. This is to some degree a horny 1930s teenager movie.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a young man coming-of-age movie—he's like 18, but as a 12-year-old i would have loooooooooved this so much
― who sharted?! (s1ocki), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
There was a guy in front of me last night who laughed at EVERYTHING... shots of the marquee, Brutus's orations, you name it.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
also, I did not recognize any of the 4 company logos that preceded the credits, I guess that's why I didn't get any info about screenings.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/06/richard-linklater-says-dazed-confused.html#more
depressing, the two fallen-through films sound awesome
didn't know M&OW didn't really open in the US. played multiplexes here.
― sites.younglife.org:8080 (history mayne), Saturday, 12 June 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
when's subUrbia coming out on dvd?
― Sunny came home with emissions (Stevie D), Saturday, 12 June 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
when the economy picks up.
― Ned Rag & the Evil Olive Gardens (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 27 December 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Texas true-crime black comedy... "Jack Black as a gay mortician" does something to my kishkes, but we'll see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEs7l6JTAc4
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 April 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
nephew of the murder victim seems OK with it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/how-my-aunt-marge-ended-up-in-the-deep-freeze.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
I guess Shirley MacLaine playing a high-maintenance Texas dame who gets offed could've been titled Debra Winger's Revenge.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
I think I read somewhere that Linklater is related to Marge, too?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
dunno, i'm seeing this tnite so trying not to read too much
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
i keep being ABOUT to rent me & orson welles ten i spot something else.... i guess i can't work up much enthusiasm about it? but i'd like to see. and this new one.
no way is D&C his best film BTW. oh well.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
So I'm in the minority so far, but after 20 cute minutes Bernie deflates like a balloon. Jack Black doesn't have to do any *actual* gay stuff besides mince, and sing "76 Trombones."
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
A roundup:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/richard-linklater-and-bernie
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
curious what gay things Morbz wanted to see Jack Black do
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
haha damn, all kinds of gay stuff, probably.
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
Well, if they worked, the film could've made the next horror poll.
xp
Point is the character apparently had tons of sex with local men, something that's only referred to comically by McConaughey's asshat DA. If yer gonna tell a story, tell it. OTOH, singing showtunes is much more reliably audience-friendly.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
ah well ok that makes sense
still wanna see this tho. bummed it isn't opening in SF just yet
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
on a related Jack Black genital note, my friend Jim did the new Tenacious D album cover art (likely NSFW, tho Jay Leno held it up the other night):
http://www.toogoodforradio.com/comedy/stream-tenacious-ds-new-song-album-out-in-may/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
a new Tenacious D album is really not something that needed to happen
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
seeing Bernie tonight
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
shoulda read me, I am absolved
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
I did read it, still gonna see it
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:09 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
bernie owns
― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
weak tea
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:12 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
keeping Bernie offscreen wd've been better.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:21 (eleven 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