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Re: Did Heath Ledger Base His Joker On Tom Waits?

Jett Loe — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:47:00 -0000

ha! :) my face would be red if it wasn't for this deep los angeles tan.

Re: Did Heath Ledger Base His Joker On Tom Waits?

Jett Loe — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:39:35 -0000

Well, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, since this was first noticed four years ago here: http://thefilmtalk.com/blog...

Re: Project Aims to Tell the "Untold" History of West Adams

Jett Loe — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:05:00 -0000

Yep, JH - that's the MAD MEN house! (aka The Stimson House: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... )

It came as a surprise to me too while I was out photographing for the video, (I'm the guy behind the Untold LA project :)

Jett

Re: The 48 Hour Film Festival

Jett Loe — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:17:23 -0000

I want to see the pic that bombed - maybe the audience just wasn't ready back in 2007!

Re: Fred Ward – Parallel Universe Star

Jett Loe — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:37:30 -0000

glad you agree Joel :)

Re: Thoughts on Winter’s Bone

Jett Loe — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:25:12 -0000

So the question becomes, with all that you've pointed out, why does the film feel contrived?

is it that no matter the fantastic work put in by folks John Hawkes and the solid direction by Debra Granik the film can't help but feel conventional and 'false' due to the standard narratives tricks such as a 'ticking clock' = the fews days left to save the house, etc?

Re: TFT 137 – INCEPTION / WINTER’S BONE

Jett Loe — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:15:27 -0000

feel free to expand on that ;)

Re: TRON Legacy trailer

Jett Loe — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:28:05 -0000

Re: "I don’t care how awful this movie could potentially be, I will be there." = do we have a word that can encapsulate this sentiment? 'cause it could come in handy for many, many pictures.

Re: TFT 137 – INCEPTION / WINTER’S BONE

Jett Loe — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:06:22 -0000

Cheers - will have to listen - as you know we're big fans of Mr. White 'round here :)

Re: TFT 135 – THE LAST AIRBENDER / THE KILLER INSIDE ME

Jett Loe — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:05:54 -0000

yes you're right of course - but i had seen the original EDGE OF DARKNESS and so my field of vision was clouded with sadness, a terrible terrible sadness at the missed potential - that being said even if you judged the remake of EDGE OF DARKNESS by itself it was still pretty crappy.

Re: TFT 136 – KNIGHT AND DAY / TOY STORY 3

Jett Loe — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:07:19 -0000

Glad you liked KNIGHT AND DAY - as we talked about on the show one of the running themes of the pic is that it's a star vehicle - brilliant, fun, engaging commercial action comedy that's as good, (as far less clunky actually), than CHARADE.

Re: First Thoughts on INCEPTION

Jett Loe — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:13:57 -0000

ha! that's gonna get a quote on tomorrow's show!

Re: Big Fan of Flavors.me

Jett Loe — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:12:25 -0000

thanks for the info friend :)

you know how much i was prepared to pay? $20.

cause really - it's not url in demand ya know?

Re: TFT 135 – THE LAST AIRBENDER / THE KILLER INSIDE ME

Jett Loe — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:35:17 -0000

yeah i saw the first episode - i don't have time now to watch, (huge backlog of screeners to see), but may revisit when i get the chance :)

Re: First Thoughts on INCEPTION

Jett Loe — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:47:42 -0000

Ya should have come over and said hi!

Re: TFT 135 – THE LAST AIRBENDER / THE KILLER INSIDE ME

Jett Loe — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:31:28 -0000

well to be fair to us we're really not a 'thumbs up / thumbs down' kinda show! ;)

but sorry your experience was unhappy - when you say "huge fan of the animated series" = that may have something to do with it - i'd never seen it, hence the ideas in the film were fresh and intriguing.

...and i guess i'd better not recommend INCEPTION to ya - those IMAX prices will kill ya!

Re: Why Did No One Tell Me About This? Orson Welles Did a Talk Show Pilot

Jett Loe — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:35:28 -0000

Here's the link to the Wiki article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

I don't know any more - but I have prob 20 books on Welles at home, (at am Cafe now typing this), and can look for more info later today or tomorrow

Re: Why Did No One Tell Me About This? Orson Welles Did a Talk Show Pilot

Jett Loe — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:24:17 -0000

We can dream Wes, we can dream.

Re: SEX AND THE CITY 2 as the Most Pro-Muslim Film of the Post 9/11 Era

Jett Loe — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:47:08 -0000

well...let's not go overboard here.

Re: SEX AND THE CITY 2 as the Most Pro-Muslim Film of the Post 9/11 Era

Jett Loe — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:39:52 -0000

I think you're on to something here - we should start a campaign!

Re: SEX AND THE CITY 2 as the Most Pro-Muslim Film of the Post 9/11 Era

Jett Loe — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:38:20 -0000

I've enjoyed watching Mark Kermode in the past, (we even posted his Transformers 2 review here on the site), but in regards to SATC2 he's just wrong.

He starts off by making a flippant comment re: the length of the film, that 2001 went from the birth of mankind to meeting extraterrestrials in the same time and what does SATC2 do in the same time, etc.? Well that's non-sensical - you could say that about any picture = in Jaws they only fight a fish, whereas in 2001 we go from the birth of mankind to.... etc.

He then goes on to completely misunderstand the picture - it seems he, like other critics is so blinded by a preconceived frame of what they think the picture is/who these characters are that they completely don't see what's in front of their face = in the Members Bonus episode i highlighted this fact with the "$22,000 hotel room" story in which a larger number of reviewers completely inverted the meaning of a scene.

sigh.

ok am done now.

Re: SEX AND THE CITY 2 as the Most Pro-Muslim Film of the Post 9/11 Era

Jett Loe — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:33:56 -0000

Well Gareth should be flattered is all I have to say - that and they should use the quote in the DVD release, (and include our review in the disc extras!)

Re: Why Do People Want to Ban This Critic From Rotten Tomatoes?

Jett Loe — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:24:31 -0000

I've already said a lot on the topic - but i'll say it again just for emphasis - if you listen to Armond's appearances on our show you'll hear a man that's passionate and good humored - he doesn't seem to be the 'contrarian' portrayed in all the 'haters gonna hate' posts - i'd ask folks who don't care for his work why they are so defensive about certain films - can it be they don't want to acknowledge that wer'e in a time of cultural decline in the west and that our popular culture just isn't very good?

(i reminded of this whenever i watch a film from the 70's - not CLASSICS mind you like Chinatown - but just middlebrow, ordinary pics - even the ordinary in 70's cinema is more invigorating, involving and full of life than today's pictures which seem to have been created by folks who spend the majority of their time staring into a rectangle: http://www.theonion.com/art...

Re: JOAN RIVERS – A PIECE OF WORK

Jett Loe — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:35:36 -0000

Yes, I'm afraid so Jesse.

Re: TFT 133 – THE A TEAM / Ask The Film Talk on Movie Titles

Jett Loe — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:45:14 -0000

I always wanted to play a character called 'The American'... so i'm a little down about that.