Comments on: Open Thread Thursday http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/07/02/open-thread-thursday-2/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:05:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jmf http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/07/02/open-thread-thursday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-525778 jmf Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:53:46 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/?p=173830#comment-525778 Hey! Back off the January man! Sure the leaps in logic were across Grand Canyon-ish chasms, but still... several fantastic scenes - we watched this just the other night and the scene with Stiger and Aiello (when Stiger's character is forcing Kline's on the police) is a beautifully written and evocatively acted moment. Aiello's character is well-thought out (perhaps by Aiello) and comes across as a half-hearted bully, always trying to force his way but never fully committing to it in contrast to Stiger's red-hot, full-throated rage. It's an terrific scene - and character portrayal - of power. Kline's chess-playing (my analogy) and 'beta' mindset contrasts wonderfully with these strong characters. Great movie, in my opinion. Witty and very well developed. Caveats of course about logic leaps and leaps into bed. Hey!
Back off the January man!
Sure the leaps in logic were across Grand Canyon-ish chasms, but still… several fantastic scenes – we watched this just the other night and the scene with Stiger and Aiello (when Stiger's character is forcing Kline's on the police) is a beautifully written and evocatively acted moment. Aiello's character is well-thought out (perhaps by Aiello) and comes across as a half-hearted bully, always trying to force his way but never fully committing to it in contrast to Stiger's red-hot, full-throated rage.
It's an terrific scene – and character portrayal – of power. Kline's chess-playing (my analogy) and 'beta' mindset contrasts wonderfully with these strong characters.
Great movie, in my opinion. Witty and very well developed.
Caveats of course about logic leaps and leaps into bed.

]]> By: Redhawke http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/07/02/open-thread-thursday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-521350 Redhawke Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:32:44 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/?p=173830#comment-521350 PART 2 Almost as bad was the character development. Kline and Mastrantonio's alleged "relationship" is beyond contrived. In their first scene together, I remember thinking, of Kline's "seduction" of Mastrantonio, "ther is no way this would ever work on a human being." Sure enough, abrupt cut to the very next scene of them in bed together, in flagrante delicto. Such a scene has been used since, to lesser or greater effect, but in no movie to my memory has so little chemistry been shown to lead up to a relationship, much less a sexual one.____Gee, watch me go on. It's as if I hold a personal grudge against this movie (I do. This was the first movie I saw to have such a A-list cast to deliver such Z-list performance. It clearly scarred me for life). PART 2

Almost as bad was the character development. Kline and Mastrantonio's alleged "relationship" is beyond contrived. In their first scene together, I remember thinking, of Kline's "seduction" of Mastrantonio, "ther is no way this would ever work on a human being." Sure enough, abrupt cut to the very next scene of them in bed together, in flagrante delicto. Such a scene has been used since, to lesser or greater effect, but in no movie to my memory has so little chemistry been shown to lead up to a relationship, much less a sexual one.____Gee, watch me go on. It's as if I hold a personal grudge against this movie (I do. This was the first movie I saw to have such a A-list cast to deliver such Z-list performance. It clearly scarred me for life).

]]> By: Redhawke http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/07/02/open-thread-thursday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-521346 Redhawke Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:31:27 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/?p=173830#comment-521346 Saw this movie at college, with free tickets (they were doing a promotional viewing), so I was only out the time I spent watching this movie...and almost twenty years later, I still want them back. I recall this movie not merely for the (already-mentioned) anti-climactic ending, but the disconnect between it and the almost "Batman-esque" convolusions to the serial killer's modus operandi. At one point Kline's detective figures out, ... ... ____SPOILER ALERT____ ... ... solely by looking at pictures of the buildings in which the killings occurred, that <i>the pattern of windows forms a musical staff, and the killings the notes to "Calendar Girl!"</i> PART 1... Saw this movie at college, with free tickets (they were doing a promotional viewing), so I was only out the time I spent watching this movie…and almost twenty years later, I still want them back. I recall this movie not merely for the (already-mentioned) anti-climactic ending, but the disconnect between it and the almost "Batman-esque" convolusions to the serial killer's modus operandi. At one point Kline's detective figures out,
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solely by looking at pictures of the buildings in which the killings occurred, that the pattern of windows forms a musical staff, and the killings the notes to "Calendar Girl!"

PART 1…

]]> By: Kit http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/07/02/open-thread-thursday-2/comment-page-1/#comment-518942 Kit Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:03:19 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/?p=173830#comment-518942 Susan Sarandon can kiss my left foot..Somebody should name HER celebutard of the century, right along with that cretin Tim what's his face. Barf O Rama! Susan Sarandon can kiss my left foot..Somebody should name HER celebutard of the century, right along with that cretin Tim what's his face. Barf O Rama!

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