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Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:09 pm
by Norah
This has been getting a lot of press in Boston this week and everyone is saying it's fantastic.



http://artery.wbur.org/2015/10/29/spotl ... n-premiere

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:13 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Really looking forward to this. Love Tom McCarthy (hoping The Cobbler was an inexplicable misstep).

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:13 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:14 pm
by LoathedVermin72
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:14 pm
by Strat
Seacrest in

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:15 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:16 pm
by Strat
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:18 pm
by Rangi Guy
This looks good!

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:21 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
No, I'm not Catholic.

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:24 pm
by Strat
i think im going on a star wars only diet from here until December 25

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:30 pm
by LoathedVermin72
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
No, I'm not Catholic.
the implications of this post are unsettling

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:30 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Strat wrote:i think im going on a star wars only diet from here until December 25
that sounds unhealthy

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:32 pm
by Strat
Im just kidding. My internet is back so tonight im on the horror train again.

Also, on topic: Im going to see this film at some point in the future.

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:35 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
No, I'm not Catholic.
the implications of this post are unsettling
I just meant, ah, nevermind.

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:37 pm
by doug rr
Spoiler: show
the kid gets it in the end

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:42 pm
by LoathedVermin72
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
No, I'm not Catholic.
the implications of this post are unsettling
I just meant, ah, nevermind.
rank the things you like to diddle

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:42 pm
by BurtReynolds
Eat Fresh

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Thu October 29, 2015 8:46 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
No, I'm not Catholic.
the implications of this post are unsettling
I just meant, ah, nevermind.
rank the things you like to diddle
Tom Brady
Brad Pitt
myself

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Sat November 21, 2015 7:13 pm
by LoathedVermin72
This was good. Fantastic, subtle performance by Schreiber. Ruffalo was also great (as always), even if he just reprised his role from The Normal Heart. I do think the movie never quite found the appropriate tone; I like McCarthy a lot, but I think this material needed someone to elevate it to a level of existential dread, closer to something like All the President's Men. Not sure who that would be, though. Howard Shore's lightweight score also felt out of place and distracting. But, still, overall, very good. Some excellent stretches of dialogue.

Re: Movie: Spotlight

Posted: Sat November 21, 2015 7:56 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.