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Re: Oh Wow, This KILLING THEM SOFTLY Clip Is Really Great

TheMarquis — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:07:20 -0000

You know you're in for a Boston crime movie when Slaine shows up.

Re: Film Crit Hulk Smash: NEVER HATE A MOVIE

TheMarquis — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:18:04 -0000

You know, I told Groucho for the longest time to get rid of the greasepaint. If he just grew a proper mustache, people could relate to him more. Sure, it was a silly affectation that worked incredibly well to add a dash of absurdity of his genuinely brilliant routines, but...you know... it was clearly just makeup.

Re: HBO Picks Up Aaron Sorkin’s New Untitled Pilot To Series

TheMarquis — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:21:22 -0000

I've read the script and all the hype is completely on target. It's so insanely sharp and poignant and goddamn smart and...well, Sorkin. I'm not totally sold on this being Greg Mottola's thing, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Re: ‘World War Z’ Plot Description Reveals Massive Change From The Book | /Film

TheMarquis — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:48:32 -0000

The original script, while filled with some camera hijinks I didn't much care for, was a decent step in the right direction. They created Pitt's character as a surrogate for Brooks, giving it all the throughline it needed-- A UN reporter documenting the war in its aftermath. Looking back on the War, and how it all crumbled and fell and all the blame pushed around afterward, lent the same kind of excited gravitas to the movie that the book had. You wanted to know not -that- somebody survived, but you needed to know -how-. I was excited for a rewrite.

But not this rewrite. It sounds much more generic than anything now, and has taken away all the unique touches that made WWZ so interesting in the first place.

Re: ‘Take Shelter’ Director Casts Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon in ‘Mud’ | /Film

TheMarquis — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:38:16 -0000

"Oh, no. It looks like I've gotten -mud- on myself..."

*majestically takes off shirt*
- Matthew McConaughey

Re: Paramount to Pick Up Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ | /Film

TheMarquis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:30:13 -0000

I got a like out of it. I'm ok with that.

And, just to clarify, I didn't switch the subject. I addressed your concern, and then continued a dialogue (using clever referential repetition!).

Re: Paramount to Pick Up Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ | /Film

TheMarquis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:57:39 -0000

No, I'm not seriously comparing asexual reproduction to sexual intercourse between close relatives. That's the point.

I feel bad that I even have to explain a joke to you, a guy who takes his anonymous self-important online identity far too seriously.

Re: Paramount to Pick Up Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ | /Film

TheMarquis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:34:19 -0000

If life spawned from a single cell (or group of related cells that achieved life), then everything on earth came about through massive "incest". Also, lots of movies are made about the Royal Family.

Re: Paramount to Pick Up Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ | /Film

TheMarquis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:48:52 -0000

Nooo. What Noah needs is Warner Brothers to swoop in and take it up.

Re: ‘Bellflower’ Trailer: A Real Look at the Sundance Buzz Film | /Film

TheMarquis — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:45:50 -0000

I saw this in Boston, and I liked it a lot. Some of the places this film goes are a little outside the norm (in different ways than to be expected), but there is a genuine sense of humor where there needs to be and a great sense of style and tone that--once you're on board-- works very well.

Re: ‘World War Z’ to Shoot in Glasgow This August | /Film

TheMarquis — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:39:31 -0000

I love his style. He's not particularly into the slash-slam-shakey-glimpse-of-legs-and-fists/greengrass action. What he does is effective. With this, he wouldn't be distracted by his own protracted dialogue, and he'd be able to focus on making the scene work. I'd also like to see how he would riff on action classics when zombies are thrown into the equation.

Other people I think would work (and are similarly impossible to lock down): Vaughn (the Hit Girl sequences in Kick-Ass), Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan), Abrams (LOST pilot), Brad Bird (Incredibles last half), Scorsese (Departed, Gangs of NY mob scenes), Blomkamp, or Cuaron (Children of Men's sense of place).

Re: Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’ Planned as Six-Season HBO Arc | /Film

TheMarquis — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:14:13 -0000

If we pretend that the WWZ and American Gods headlines are switched, will it happen in real life?

I'd much rather see an American Gods movie and six seasons of WWZ.

Re: Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’ Planned as Six-Season HBO Arc | /Film

TheMarquis — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:58:38 -0000

If it's filled with potential, couldn't that potential be realized in a television series?

Re: ‘World War Z’ to Shoot in Glasgow This August | /Film

TheMarquis — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:24:23 -0000

I'm really not a fan of Marc Forster's work, and I really don't think he's suited to do this movie.

What I'd really like to see is WWZ made as a quasi-anthology. Give Forster the straight interviewer stuff. Give QT the Battle of Yonkers. Give Danny Boyle the stuff that happens in the Indian bay. Give Ang Lee the China/Paitent Zero stuff. I'd love to see Fincher or Blomkamp take the Redeker Plan/South Africa situation.

Each part of the world and each story would be unique, and would tell a more compelling story about how the world was changed, and how different people experienced the war. Forster (or even just one director, but especially Forster) I feel would whitewash this story into a very monotone prodution.

Re: Barry Sonnenfeld Gets In On “Versus” Craze, Mashes Dinosaurs And Aliens

TheMarquis — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:39:15 -0000

It's disappointing that -- when there's so much young, new talent out there-- that these old, past-their-prime directors are still getting work.

Re: Parody Trailers: ‘The Oscar-Winning Boston Movie’ and ‘Riverdale’

TheMarquis — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:16:20 -0000

"Storm's comin'" -- love it.

Re: ‘Hop’ Trailer

TheMarquis — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:58:16 -0000

I would assume that "tradition" and "doing it" refer to being the Easter Bunny, delivering eggs and candy and whatnot, on Easter. So by talking about one, you automatically include the other.

It's akin to saying Santa has been giving gifts on Christmas for 4000 years.

Re: ‘Hop’ Trailer

TheMarquis — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:34:05 -0000

Wait. "4000 years of tradition"?

"Easter" has only been around for 2000 years. Y'know. When Jesus died.

Re: Boston: The Brattle Theater Was Attacked! How You Can Help

TheMarquis — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:01:57 -0000

The Brattle is a fantastic theater, and it has my full support. Boston! Rally and help out!

Re: Welcome to Badass Digest

TheMarquis — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:34:52 -0000

Extraordinarily excited for this.

Re: David Fincher Adds Christopher Plummer to ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’

TheMarquis — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:31:12 -0000

Not quite the physical type established previously, but I'd rather like to see Paul Giamatti as Bjurman.

Re: Werner Herzog: Plans Desert Epic and Prison Film; Answers Fan and Press Questions via YouTube

TheMarquis — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:24:35 -0000

At first, my mind interpreted this as "Herzog Plans Dessert Epic", and I was beyond excited. Now I'm just regular excited.

Re: Rob Zombie to Remake The Blob

TheMarquis — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:26:15 -0000

I think it's funny that there are film fans and then there are morons that want to be considered a critic because they are offended when people take offense to what they like. Considering that you call Zombie's work "the best work out there", that fully encompasses you into the same category you denounce: Armchair Critics. I'm intrigued by the fact that you say I do not know enough to be a critic, but you offer a counter basis with the vaguest terms possible: "gore", "color palette", and the disturbingly broad-stroked "lighting". If you could provide a reasonable explanation and/or comment on how the "lighting" of a Zombie film "touches your button", then I'm game to listen. If you lack the ability, then you seem to be a person who "does not know how to" critique or praise a film to the standards you set everyone else up to. Instead, you just dump loathing vitriol on 10-month-old posts because it "makes you look above and beyond the rest of us true film fans."

Directly to your criticisms-- Is feeling a different mood in each scene good? I'd call it uneven. Is there a direction to those mood swings? Are those moods even the right moods that we as, as viewers, should be feeling during this piece of work? Your praise and adoration also lacks focus and true drive, much like Zombie's movies.

I am honest about Rob Zombie being a true visionary, and the honest truth is that I don't believe he is. And what's more, I offer that honest opinion with a public face, instead of hiding in the anonymous corners of the internet.

So, until you grow up and offer your unveiled opinion-- and until you mature and stop undercutting all your arguments by using the word "dickhole" in your posts-- I suggest you know what you're talking about and think things thorough before you post even more ignorant and haphazard rubbish on the web.

Re: Benjamin Walker Cast as Beast in X-Men: First Class

TheMarquis — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:36:57 -0000

Not for nothing, but Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is an amazing show. If you're in the NYC area, stop by the Public before it closes.

Re: LOST Series Finale - What Did You Think?

TheMarquis — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:23:36 -0000

I loved it for the most part. But what irks me is that it seems to be that most of the finale is an end to a single plotline in the sixth season, not an end to six seasons of plotlines.