Anders wrote:Cameron Crowe’s got Say Anything and Almost Famous as well, and the time period had The Commitments and That Thing You Do.
Commitments was 1990/91. Wouldn’t put it in this category at all. Fucking Hilarious and touching film but again, the book was better. One of the funniest films ever made I’d say
That’s silly, The Commitments and Singles were basically filmed and released around the same time. Certainly filmed in the the same year.
Anders wrote:Cameron Crowe’s got Say Anything and Almost Famous as well, and the time period had The Commitments and That Thing You Do.
Commitments was 1990/91. Wouldn’t put it in this category at all. Fucking Hilarious and touching film but again, the book was better. One of the funniest films ever made I’d say
That’s silly, The Commitments and Singles were basically filmed and released around the same time. Certainly filmed in the the same year.
Trainspotting is from 1996.
What I mean is commitments in no way was part of that genre or time. It predates it by a long way. It wasn’t contrived to co opt youth culture. We didn’t have any. We didn’t have mtv until after it’s released. And the book was published 1988/89 I think. Singles very definitely co opted a youth movement / marketing agenda.
My point about trainspotting is it was a fairly accurate look at drug use junkies and dance culture. Nothing really touches it or tries to from other countries around the time.
Anders wrote:Cameron Crowe’s got Say Anything and Almost Famous as well, and the time period had The Commitments and That Thing You Do.
Commitments was 1990/91. Wouldn’t put it in this category at all. Fucking Hilarious and touching film but again, the book was better. One of the funniest films ever made I’d say
That’s silly, The Commitments and Singles were basically filmed and released around the same time. Certainly filmed in the the same year.
Trainspotting is from 1996.
What I mean is commitments in no way was part of that genre or time. It predates it by a long way. It wasn’t contrived to co opt youth culture. We didn’t have any. We didn’t have mtv until after it’s released. And the book was published 1988/89 I think. Singles very definitely co opted a youth movement / marketing agenda.
My point about trainspotting is it was a fairly accurate look at drug use junkies and dance culture. Nothing really touches it or tries to from other countries around the time.
I saw both Singles and The Commitments in 1992. Loved both. We had MTV here for years and years before both. Don’t really see what that’s got to do with it.
Singles was written and made before the Seattle music scene had really blown up, and Pearl Jam and Cornell were happy to have their roles in the movie. Cameron Crowe was also a very sincere music journalist. I can see nothing bad about the movie.
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I couldn’t really follow anything that was happening in High Flying Bird, but I sure loved watching Soderbergh work. There’s a fascinating rhythm and flow to how he assembles the dialogue scenes. The 90 minutes just flew by.
Watching Long Kiss Goodnight. Barely fair, more middling. Kind of bad writing but oh hey it's set around Christmas, what a surprise! I told my son that there's a person out there who likes Christmas more than him.
One good line though: Sam Jackson puts his revolver in his pocket and she asks why not in his pants. He says, "What and shoot my dick off?" and her response is "Oh so you're a sharpshooter now."
bune wrote:Watching Long Kiss Goodnight. Barely fair, more middling. Kind of bad writing but oh hey it's set around Christmas, what a surprise! I told my son that there's a person out there who likes Christmas more than him.
One good line though: Sam Jackson puts his revolver in his pocket and she asks why not in his pants. He says, "What and shoot my dick off?" and her response is "Oh so you're a sharpshooter now."
LoathedVermin72 wrote:I couldn’t really follow anything that was happening in High Flying Bird, but I sure loved watching Soderbergh work. There’s a fascinating rhythm and flow to how he assembles the dialogue scenes. The 90 minutes just flew by.
yeah, me too. Story wise, i wasnt even interested on whatever they were saying. But damn, looks amazing and im blown away with the production.
bune wrote:Watching Long Kiss Goodnight. Barely fair, more middling. Kind of bad writing but oh hey it's set around Christmas, what a surprise! I told my son that there's a person out there who likes Christmas more than him.
One good line though: Sam Jackson puts his revolver in his pocket and she asks why not in his pants. He says, "What and shoot my dick off?" and her response is "Oh so you're a sharpshooter now."
bune wrote:Watching Long Kiss Goodnight. Barely fair, more middling. Kind of bad writing but oh hey it's set around Christmas, what a surprise! I told my son that there's a person out there who likes Christmas more than him.
One good line though: Sam Jackson puts his revolver in his pocket and she asks why not in his pants. He says, "What and shoot my dick off?" and her response is "Oh so you're a sharpshooter now."
bune wrote:Watching Long Kiss Goodnight. Barely fair, more middling. Kind of bad writing but oh hey it's set around Christmas, what a surprise! I told my son that there's a person out there who likes Christmas more than him.
One good line though: Sam Jackson puts his revolver in his pocket and she asks why not in his pants. He says, "What and shoot my dick off?" and her response is "Oh so you're a sharpshooter now."
wikipedia wrote:Production
In an early cut Mitch Henessey dies, but in a test screening an audience member shouted "You can't kill Sam Jackson!" and Harlin changed the final cut so that his character survives.
bune wrote:Watching Long Kiss Goodnight. Barely fair, more middling. Kind of bad writing but oh hey it's set around Christmas, what a surprise! I told my son that there's a person out there who likes Christmas more than him.
One good line though: Sam Jackson puts his revolver in his pocket and she asks why not in his pants. He says, "What and shoot my dick off?" and her response is "Oh so you're a sharpshooter now."
I'm looking forward to watching the new Ted Bundy biopic starring Zac Effron, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. It just came to Netflix today! I feel this role is perfect for Mr. Zac, of whom I'm typically not very fond. I will probably watch it tonight or tomorrow.
