Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Alex

Just keep in mind that the movie (and play) tweaked that drama of it all.

Well, I've not seen the film, but in the clips I've seen, I can't even understand Langella through his Nixonian accent. It sounds like Martian to me.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Ok - I think the fictional character of Frost should interview a fictional character of Bush that actually admits wrongdoing. I'd at least leave the theater satisfied.

You want a Bush interview that follows the standard expert-over-his-head storyline where the interviewer's cockiness leads him to assume he can just breeze in and excel but early setbacks show him that the world is not necessarily his oyster and he'll need to buckle down and work hard to win [the big game | get the part in the play | ace the interview | win the advertising account | win the love of the woman in his life]?

Seriously though, while I'd love to see extremely long form interviews, unfortunately I don't think the environment exists any longer where it is remotely feasible. At most an hour of Dateline. Bush doesn't need money (and I think Frost paying Bush for an interview would be a much bigger ethics scandal than it was then).

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

Bush doesn't need money (and I think Frost paying Bush for an interview would be a much bigger ethics scandal than it was then).

What about the Ex-Pres World Tour Until Incapacitation, complete with highly paid speaking gigs? Seems the same to me...

[bewitched]

Dear Movie Gods,

Please, please, please make Clive Owen's next movie, The International, be (at least) decent viewing. Please don't make me sit through another big pile of crap of a movie just for the 1 1/2 hours of Clive yumminess. I mean, look at him
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Shouldn't there be a rule about just how crappy of a movie someone that beautiful can star in? I'm not asking for much. It doesn't have to be Oscar caliber or anything, just watchable.

I've spent 30+ years of my life as a Cubs fan, give me something here. Please.

Thanks.
Whitney

[Deebs]

Originally Posted by bewitched

Dear Movie Gods,

Please, please, please make Clive Owen's next movie, The International, be (at least) decent viewing. Please don't make me sit through another big pile of crap of a movie just for the 1 1/2 hours of Clive yumminess. I mean, look at him
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Shouldn't there be a rule about just how crappy of a movie someone that beautiful can star in? I'm not asking for much. It doesn't have to be Oscar caliber or anything, just watchable.

I've spent 30+ years of my life as a Cubs fan, give me something here. Please.

Thanks.
Whitney

Dear Whitney,

The movie gods care not what you say. They do not listen! They do not respond to us, no matter how we beseech them. I have tried, believe me. Take Colin Firth, for example. For every one fabulous thing he's done (Pride & Prejudice, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Love Actually, The Importance of Being Earnest) he has done something twice as horrible to go with it. And I have sat through every stinking one of them: Nanny McPhee, which I must admit I did like a little -- do not judge me -- Hope Springs (Heather Graham!!), What a Girl Wants, The Last Legion... I finally stopped. I have not seen Mamma Mia!. Can you blame me? I could not stand to watch. Jude Law is another case in point. From Cold Mountain to Alfie? Wait, I can't lie. I would watch Jude Law in just about anything.

Still, I say that the movie gods just don't care what we say.

Love,
Deebs

[Capt Jack]

was it really necessary to remake Friday the 13th? Not like theres going to be a 'surprise' ending.

as much as I love a good horror flick, I have huge doubts this will be anything but another suck-your-wallet-dry ripoff of someone elses ideas

feh.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Deebs

Dear Whitney,

The movie gods care not what you say. They do not listen! They do not respond to us, no matter how we beseech them. I have tried, believe me. Take Colin Firth, for example. For every one fabulous thing he's done (Pride & Prejudice, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Love Actually, The Importance of Being Earnest) he has done something twice as horrible to go with it. And I have sat through every stinking one of them: Nanny McPhee, which I must admit I did like a little -- do not judge me -- Hope Springs (Heather Graham!!), What a Girl Wants, The Last Legion... I finally stopped. I have not seen Mamma Mia!. Can you blame me? I could not stand to watch. Jude Law is another case in point. From Cold Mountain to Alfie? Wait, I can't lie. I would watch Jude Law in just about anything.

Still, I say that the movie gods just don't care what we say.

Love,
Deebs

Okay, I like Nanny McPhee a bit, too. It was filled with too many fine actor people not to like it.

You're right, the movie gods do not care.

[Gemini Cricket]

I hear there is talk of making a remake of Poltergeist. My question is: why?

[innerSpaceman]

Hahaha, I think they should start remaking films that were released only two years ago.

That could be quite a gimmick for the first few of those!

[Alex]

26 year gap? Slackers.

Cecille B. DeMille did The Squaw Man three times in 18 years. And Leo McCarey only waited 18 years before remaking Love Affair as An Affair to Remember.