im not in the habit of anticipating movies but i am anticipating sofia coppola's somewhere starring steven dorff, hotel rooms and dreamy retro pop music

ya

srsly weak premise for a film

YOURE a seriously weak premise for a film.

just wish she would make a sci fi r something

― plax (ico), Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:41 (1 month ago)

this could be interesting

YOU could be interesting!

lol

ha

lil hat tip for omar

it won the Golden Lion.

yeah, it looks lie a bucnh of cliches

it does. but done well, these are the types of cliches that get to me. and while i assume it's all emotionally manipulative, sophia coppala's no hack, and i think she'll handle this well.

based on the trailer alone, i want to see this.

I still can't get over casting Dorff.

^^^^ lol srsly

s.cop should probably just make trailers imo

1`i know the name steven dorff, but i can't recall what he's been in before this.

The first Blade movie and Britney's most wtf video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YzabSdk7ZA&ob=av2e

the only reason this movie won the venice film festival (if the underwhelming reviews are correct, and i believe they are) is Tarantino's previous friendship with Coppola.

see also: giving the Cannes prize to Micahel Moore for his less than mediocre film back then..

Tarantino accused of favouritism

so i wasnt the only one who thought about it..

this is pretty disappointing. she's making overtures towards slower cinema & uses music diegetically and much more interestingly, but it's pretty underwhelming, straightforward, one note. think a lot of the criticism will focus around her syndication of themes she already explored in LIT -- superficiality of celebrity and ludicrousness of other cultures when unsubtitled

it's okay, though.

im anticipating this sucking

― ultra nate dogg (history mayne), Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:06 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark

i'm guessing Dorff will never surpass his performance as Candy Darling

dud dud dud dud dud dud dud dud

Never thought I'd look back with fondness on Marie Antoinette but there we are.

One ILX-baiting scene involves two strippers doing a tennis-themed number on hotel room tension poles to "1 Thing."

suddenly, getting a copy of this in the mail feels less special.

I hated Antoinette, a lot.

Dunst then Dorff, wtf.

First tough rule of for your consideration screeners: many of them are, once you set aside the buzz, crap.

wow. awful.

this still looks like total fun comfort food to me but it's hilarious that it beat hellman, gallo, bing, etc.

comfort food for the rear segment of the centipede

Quietus bit http://thequietus.com/articles/05418-sofia-coppola-s-somewhere

it's not good.

my screening had excitable kids who were chatting for the first 15 mins until someone told them to shut up, but after about 45 minutes we had lost pretty much everyone. conversations going on all over the room at normal volume. pretty unusual for germany tbh.

approx how many mins is michelle monaghan on screen?

disappointed u withstood 15 mins of insensate doggerel w/out telling the swine to stfu or otherwise hardsonning them

and that's just the film amirite

approx how many mins is michelle monaghan on screen?

90 seconds, maybe? She has literally two lines. This was really, really awful. A third of the theater walked out, which I haven't seen in a while (it took about 35 minutes, but once one couple broke the seal, it was on). Dorff is not to blame; he was fine - it's just got nothing happening in it whatsoever.

isn't she trying for a 'nothing all that much happens' kinda film? [via ozu, et al]

Did she namecheck Ozu? Jesus. I guess there are different degrees of 'nothing all that much happens,' but really, nothing all that much happens in ANY way.

Quick question for anyone else who has seen it (SPOILERS, I suppose):
Did the chit-chat from Chris Pontius (the 'Jackass' guy) to Elle Fanning strike anyone else as slightly creepy/inappropriate?

not really. pontius was supposed to be her uncle, right?

how does this compare to the other 'nothing happening' film coming out (the one with michelle williams and ryan gosling)?

YES.

great, Martina dyke jokes to an 11-year-old

xp

Blue Valentine has its problems but is way better.

also, plenty happens in it!

The promise of "nothing happens" usually pulls me into even the worst of movies.

Like, I want to see that Filipino one about the kidnapped people in the back of a truck in real time, despite the unanimous worst-Cannes-entry-ever, just because, you know, nothing happens.

Kinatay, that's the one. Ebert wrote:
For at least 45 minutes, maybe an hour, maybe an eternity, Mendoza gives us Queasy-Cam shots, filmed at night in very low light, of the interior and exterior of the van as they drive a long distance outside Manila to a remote house.

I've hated pretty much everything S. Coppola has done but this was a new level of pretentious nothing. Pontius did creep me out and i believe he was meant to be like the Dorff's childhood friend not his brother.

The promise of "nothing happens" usually pulls me into even the worst of movies.

^^^this

"Sofia Coppola is the authentic Little Focker."

- Armond otm

this was hardly as bad as reviews and word of mouth made it seems. yeah she seems to like to make movies about bored rich people. but it looked good and elle fanning was great. it was hardly 'without a story' as Id read; if anything it was too deliberate and predictable. but I thought it was fine. not great, but you know, it was ok.

the scene with the rubber mold on his head was the best

The biggest thing that bothered me about this movie is that I could never figure out what level of a movie star he is. Feted in Italy for his movies with Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, and Al Pacino -- but I don't get the impression that he's like Brad Pitt-famous or anything.

I guess I didn't notice it being creepy, as mentioned above, but it wouldn't surprise me.

The skating routine wouldn't be creepy except for the fact that it comes not long after two other long scenes in which dude passively, distractedly gazes upon slender long-legged young women in short skirts moving about in a stylized, choreographed fashion.

The only good part of this was the replication of Italian tv, and the tagline for his movie, "HOW FAR WOULD YOU DO?" Other than that, dud.

i liked this....could watch dozens of movies w/ people driving around california/nevada in a turquoise&pink washed out business class chillwave colourset, somnolent drifting with occasional disquieting moments

3 Women?

The only good part of this was the replication of Italian tv

S Coppola really thinks foreigners are weird eh?

this thread is a great compendium of terrible ilx film criticism but the best part has to be all the people who have never met an 11-year old and think that the elle fanning character is "precocious"