Brothers (Jim Sheridan, 2009)

[Acapelli]

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[chrisnu]

I was wondering if this was an American remake of the previous film of the same name.

Bipolar trailer.

[Acapelli]

I was wondering if this was an American remake of the previous film of the same name.

Bipolar trailer.
looks like it is

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386342/

[transmogrifier]

Greatest achievement of that trailer: making Maguire not look boring.

Still, with Gyllenhaal, Portman and Maguire, there is still the faint whiff of high school play about it - they look like teenagers pretending to be adults.

[eternity]

Gyllenhaal and Maguire playing brothers...hah.

Post-traumatic Tobey is far too cute for its own good. That guy will never look a day over 20.

[B-side]

Gotta say, it looks very manipulative, but it suckered me in. The acting looks to be quite good. I've been waiting to see if Maguire could act at all. I guess this film may very well show us.

[Ezee E]

Gotta say, it looks very manipulative, but it suckered me in. The acting looks to be quite good. I've been waiting to see if Maguire could act at all. I guess this film may very well show us.
Wonder Boys?

[B-side]

Wonder Boys?

Haven't seen it.

[Ezee E]

Haven't seen it.
There's your proof.

Also, Pleasantville.

[B-side]

There's your proof.

Also, Pleasantville.

Hm. I remember kinda liking Pleasantville. I don't remember anything of Maguire's performance, though.

[Pop Trash]

There's your proof.

Also, Pleasantville.

The Ice Storm people! The Ice Storm. Love that movie.

[Grouchy]

I like In the Name of the Father very much but this movie has three of the most annoying actors on film history in the leads.

[Lasse]

The Danish original film is brilliant. That's all.

[thefourthwall]

I generally avoid Natalie Portman, but this seems intriguing.

[Amnesiac]

I saw the trailer for the first time before Tetro.


The acting looks to be quite good.

Indeed. I will see this.

[Ezee E]

Really looking forward to this after seeing a TV Spot. Guess I should've seen the trailer.

[Stay Puft]

this movie has three of the most annoying actors on film history in the leads

Three of the greatest actors of our generation, according to television ads!

I enjoyed the original Danish film. And it had Connie Nielsen and Ulrich Thomsen, who are all over Hollywood already anyways. I'll probably skip the remake. Feels like I'd just be trading a decent cast for a boring one (and like trans said, one that looks more like teens pretending to be adults).

[Raiders]

Have movies altered our perception of what 28 - 30 year-olds look like? They all look that age to me, but then again I am frequently mistaken for being younger than I am, so who knows. Still, I would rather have actors playing their age than 24 year-old Freddie Prinze Jr. playing a high-schooler.

[megladon8]

If the actors are 28-30, and are playing 28-30, doesn't saying "they look too young" make little sense?

Some people look younger, some people look older. I know people my age (early 20s) who could pass for late 30s already.

[MadMan]

The first half of the trailer appears to be decent. The second half, not so much. I'm really not sure I have any interest in this movie, and I would like to seek out the original first. Until I read this thread, I did not know that this was a remake.

[Dukefrukem]

Ummm this looks incredible.

[NickGlass]

C'mon, really? Obviously, reductive trailers such as this make films seem melodramatic and absurdly inauthentic, but if the scene where the child at the dinner table screams: "Your just mad because Mommy would rather sleepy with Uncle Tommy" actually exists in the final cut, I can't assume it will be anything other than unbearably laughable.

No thank you, this looks horrible.

[Henry Gale]

"Your just mad because Mommy would rather sleepy with Uncle Tommy" actually exists in the final cut, I can't assume it will be anything other than unbearably laughable.

Tobey's face absolutely sells this. I saw the trailer in the theatre and seemingly everyone just lost it right then.

I'd really like it to just be an awful trailer, because there are a few moments that look good in the first half.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Really looking forward to this after seeing a TV Spot. Guess I should've seen the trailer.

I've had the exact opposite reaction.

[number8]

Hey, the original is on Instant Watch.

[Skitch]

I have zero desire to see this. Looks like couple hours of misery.

[Henry Gale]

Not that it's the most valued source for opinions on movies, but Natalie Portman was on the Late Show last week and Dave would not stop going on about how much he adored this. He said it was maybe the finest film he had seen in the last 10, 20 years and that it's the sort of thing he thinks studios have forgotten how to make. I'm not quite sure that that's possible considering the way every bit of marketing has made the film seem, but I thought it was interesting because of how Letterman usually hates admitting he's seen guests' movies.

Even Natalie seemed a tad stunned.

[Adam]

Generally speaking, I like Tobey Maguire, but sometimes he just seems so miscast in things. I'm having a hard time thinking of any actor who stood out like a sore thumb as badly as he did in The Good German

[Spun Lepton]

Tonight's Lifetime Original movie ...

[Grouchy]

I saw the trailer for this in theaters the other day and I burst out laughing. Come on, it's a shitty soap opera. There's very little chance I'll ever see it.

[number8]

Interestingly, I've been hearing that the movie's crap outside of Maguire's performance.

[Pop Trash]

Interestingly, I've been hearing that the movie's crap outside of Maguire's performance.

I haven't seen the original, so don't know how it compares. This was mostly mediocre, flat, and meandering for the first half. It starts to come alive after (SPOILER here but it is in the trailers) Maguire's character comes back from Afghanistan and it mostly has to do with Maguire's rather intriguing, creepy performance (although it does go overboard into unintentional comedy when he destroys a kitchen). I will concede the movie isn't quite as predictable as I expected, but I doubt many will remember this a year from now.

EDIT: The little girl (named Bailee Madison) did an excellent job as well. Natalie Portman was OK but I never believed her as the long suffering military wife.

[Watashi]

I surprisingly liked this a lot. I knew I shouldn't have doubted Jim Sheridan. Once again, he gets great performances out of two little girls that acts genuine and as much needed comic reliefs in an otherwise tense film. It's sad that people are shoving this off after its tell-all trailer. Maguire has maybe two outburst scenes. It's a terrific, restrained, emotional performance.

[number8]

Once again, he gets great performances out of two little girls...

http://cm1.theinsider.com/thumbnail/400/606/cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/387/9/jake-gyllenhaal-persia-1.JPG

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ZP1S6Myct3U/SgUdOoL6BsI/AAAAAAAABtY/YHmgFWmgVNM/TobeyMaguire2.jpg

[Fezzik]

Every time I see the trailer, all I see is Peter Parker going apeshit.

It's like Spider-Man loses control after a Meth binge.

I can't help it.

[Morris Schæffer]

I didn't like the first hour. Predictable, dull, but things improved massively for me after Sam's return.

I guess McGuire kinda stunned me with a creepy performance. He's got that flicker in his eyes that really put me on edge throughout the entire second half.

Bravo to the kids also. They were excellent.

[**½]