Big Magilla wrote:And I'm sick of hearing what a great musical All That Jazz was. It was a piece of shit.
God, I hated that movie. Excruciating to sit through.
I love Johnny Carson's name for it: "All That Ego"
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Big Magilla wrote:And I'm sick of hearing what a great musical All That Jazz was. It was a piece of shit.
I've had bad vibes about this film for a while now and will probably not like it much but I still want to see it for myself.Damien wrote:If there's a big musical film coming out at year's end and Tom O'Neil isn't insisting it's the front-runner, then Nine must really be bad. He made the push for Sweeney Todd two years ago.Big Magilla wrote:Have you been following Tom O'Neil? He's been predicting an Inglourious Basterds win for over a month now. He may have the last laugh after all, though I doubt it.
By the way, there's a devastating review of Nine in this week's Village Voice:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-12....-s-nine
If there's a big musical film coming out at year's end and Tom O'Neil isn't insisting it's the front-runner, then Nine must really be bad. He made the push for Sweeney Todd two years ago.Big Magilla wrote:Have you been following Tom O'Neil? He's been predicting an Inglourious Basterds win for over a month now. He may have the last laugh after all, though I doubt it.
I had never heard that Spencer Tracy quote before, but it is poignant (though not totally accurate, as he did The Devil At 4 O'Clock and How The West Was Won in between his 4 Kramer pictures, and he probably wouldn't even make it into my top 25 greatest American actors).Mister Tee wrote:And it's worth noting that Streep's work these days tends to be more in films like Julia or It's Complicated (or, god help us, Mamma Mia!). In her first years on film, she worked with Oscar legends (Allen, Cimino, Benton, Nichols) or overseas auteurs (Reisz, Schepisi, Babenco), but these days, it's mostly Frankel and Ephron and Meyers. (It recalls Spencer Tracy's lament in the 60s -- If I'm the greatest American actor, howcome only Stanley Kramer'll hire me?) Julie and Julia is what Streep DOES these days. So I can live with a win there.
Mister Tee wrote:dws' observation, that Hurt Locker never even got to his neck of the woods, is obviously valid, and I know it's frustrating for people who don't live near major urban centers to have to wait, sometimes in vain, for touted films to show up (my brother lives in Memphis and is constantly complaining there's nothing to see).
This is undoubtedly another case of "old timer thinks things were better in his day", but I think the primary reason many films peter out is the rushed release pattern. Back in the 70s, Carnal Knowledge would open in the major cities in June, and not hit "the neighborhoods" till Christmas -- and by then, awareness of the film would be fairly universal, so the film would be widely attended. Many of the great hit movies of that era -- MASH, Last Picture Show, Ameerican Graffiti, Cuckoo's Nest -- might have withered quickly if they were subjected to the same "wide or out in 4 weeks" method under which baically all films are released today.Okri wrote:I think movie studios often do a poor job getting those films out to an audience. Children of Men will forever remain the example I cite. Now, I'm not on the Rosenbaum-led "give Hou a Hollywood marketing budget and watch the cash roll in" train, but I do think that some of these films that underperform could do much better with a smarter release. Or at least I hope that's the case. .
ITALIANO wrote:And of course even that OTHER great American actress won Oscars late in her career for so-so performances.