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Zaz
Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre
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Oct '98
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3/5 12:06pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Pedro Almodovar-Penelope Cruz
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Next: Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe
Two good movies: "Gladiator" and "American Gangster" and two coming up: "Body of Lies" and "Nottingham".
They seem to like each other and do good work together. So far.
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Chancellor_Ewok
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Date Posted:
3/5 12:10pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe
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Nottingham
Ridley Scott+Russell Crowe+Robin Hood movie=EPIC WIN!
This should be interesting. The last time anyone made a serious Robin Hood movie was Kevin Costner's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and that was almost 20 years ago. I will be interested in seeing what Crowe and Scott have in store for us.
If Kingdom of Heaven is any indication, this will be a great movie.
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3/5 4:09pm
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Ridley Scott's movies bore me. Yes, that includes Gladiator and Gangster. I thought both of them were mediocre.
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3/5 4:16pm
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I liked Gladiator, but American Gangster was mediocre and the less said about A Good Year, the better.
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Chancellor_Ewok
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Reynar_Tedros posted:
Ridley Scott's movies bore me. Yes, that includes Gladiator and Gangster. I thought both of them were mediocre.
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe
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Ridley must have the patience of Job to put up with Russell Crowe's mood swings. Even for a temperamental artist, he seems to cause a lot of trouble. But apparently they've reached some kind of a truce and they seem to work well together. I've enjoyed their films.
Scott's track record speaks for itself, it has variety, art, and commercial appeal. The only film of his I haven't liked recently is Hannibal.
Talk about range: Alien, Blackhawk Down, Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, Kingdom of Heaven. Wow.
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Jango10
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3/5 5:38pm
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Nottingham is supposed to put a different spin on the Robin Hood story isn't it? Isn't the Sheriff supposed to be the good guy or something? Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors. Gladiator is overrated, but Black Hawk Down and Kingdom of Heaven (DC) are, IMO, masterpieces.
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Chancellor_Ewok
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3/5 5:44pm
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Jango10 posted:
Nottingham is supposed to put a different spin on the Robin Hood story isn't it? Isn't the Sheriff supposed to be the good guy or something?
I hadn't heard that, but that would be an interesting twist on the Robin Hood mythos.
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3/5 6:51pm
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JohnWesleyDowney posted:
Scott's track record speaks for itself, it has variety, art, and commercial appeal. The only film of his I haven't liked recently is Hannibal.
I'm probably alone in thinking this, but I think Scott did a good job with Hannibal. After reading the novel, I just couldn't figure out how any director, not even Jonathan Demme, could have pulled off the same material on screen and hope for a hit. Too many scenes that probably riled the readers and definitely would have been "epic fail" had they been filmed and shown to test audiences. But I think that Scott & his team worked out a more credible solution within the storyline that makes Hannibal work as a film apart from the source novel. Given the refusals of Demme & Jodi Foster to work on the film, Scott was facing an uphill battle from day one, yet made the film work well. Not as well as Silence fo the Lambs, but it works. That alone deserves praise, IMO.
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Zaz
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3/5 11:10pm
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Now that I would like to see...ye sheriff as the hero...
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He directed Thelma & Louise? I liked that one.
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Zaz
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3/6 8:05am
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Next: Wes Anderson/Owen Wilson
I am a non-admirer of both these two. Anderson's smug tweeness sets my teeth on edge; he's like an even *more* sophormoric Woody Allen, and that's plenty too much. Wilson's flip, glib persona also makes me want to kick him.
The films: "Bottle Rocket", "The Royal Tenebaums", "The Life Aquatic" and "The Darjeeling Ltd."
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Zaz
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3/7 8:15am
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Wes Anderson/Owen Wilson
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Next: David Cronenberg/Viggo Mortensen
Just two movies, "A History of Violence" and "Eastern Promises", but they have essentially revived Mortensen's career after a hiatus at the end of the LOTR. Mortensen had a 'best Actor' nom last year, too.
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3/7 8:44am
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As much as I like Mortensen and as great as he was in both films, I just couldn't sit through either one honestly.
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Not seen Eastern Promises, but A History of Violence was pretty good. Not fun exactly, but good.
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