The Ides of March (Clooney/Gosling)

[Morris Schæffer]

Trailer

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50586

http://s3.amazonaws.com/coolproduction/ckeditor_assets/pictures/2684/original/ides.jpg?1311850772

[Irish]

Ides.

[Dukefrukem]

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[Pop Trash]

I predict I will like but not love this one: 7/10. I also predict Drive will be the best Ryan Gosling flick of 2011, but it will bomb at the box office.

[B-side]

Looks like an actor's showcase. I'll watch it.

[Winston*]

Crummy title.

[Irish]

It's gonna draw a small, small audience and I hope they didn't spend any money on this.

Clooney needs to take a survey course in cinema studies, then audit a polisci class and realize that Americans hate features that overtly mix politics with entertainment.

[Sven]

Clooney needs to take a survey course in cinema studies, then audit a polisci class and realize that Americans hate features that overtly mix politics with entertainment.

I think Clooney needs to make the movie he wants to make. Otherwise he gets testy and then people start disappearing.

[Raiders]

It's gonna draw a small, small audience and I hope they didn't spend any money on this.

Clooney needs to take a survey course in cinema studies, then audit a polisci class and realize that Americans hate features that overtly mix politics with entertainment.

I can't tell what you're referring to with regards to Clooney. I assume this is the box office we mean. In that case, Michael Clayton and Good Night, and Good Luck were moderately successful films based on their budgets. Syriana less so, but hardly a flop. Not sure Burn After Reading is "political" but I guess a little bit, and it was a big success. All of these films were well-received. He only co-wrote/directed one of those of course, but he's the draw as an actor, not behind the camera.

Not sure what the budget for this film is, but I imagine it will likely follow the script above.

[B-side]

The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martiae) is the name of 15 March in the Roman calendar, probably referring to the day of the full moon. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of the other months.[1] The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held. In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was killed in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was stabbed (23 times) to death in the Roman Senate led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus and 60 other co-conspirators.

On his way to the Theatre of Pompey (where he would be assassinated), Caesar visited a seer who had foretold that harm would come to him not later than the Ides of March. Caesar joked, "The ides of March are come", to which the seer replied "Ay, Caesar; but not gone."[2] This meeting is famously dramatized in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March".

Huh. Didn't know all this.

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Huh. Didn't know all this.

And here I thought they were being blatantly obvious with the title.

[Irish]

I can't tell what you're referring to with regards to Clooney.

I meant as a director, and mostly thinking about films that directly deal with politics (like Primary Colors, Wag the Dog, and The Contender).

That said, I had no idea GNGL was made for $7 mil. Wow.

[Watashi]

I remember tons of people walking out of The American pissed beyond belief demanding a refund. They automatically see Clooney and think it will be an Oceans movie.

I hope Clooney never has to pander to what his audience wants out of him.

[Kiusagi]

I'm surprised they gave Ryan Gosling top billing. I wonder if Clooney insisted on that.

[Mara]

Huh. Didn't know all this.

Really?

I go around warning people about the ides of March every March 15th. It's fun.

[transmogrifier]

I'm going to make a pledge from here on in to never watch a trailer* on the internet again - they just give too much away.

* except for big dumb summer events films, because who cares about the plot anyway

[B-side]

Really?

I go around warning people about the ides of March every March 15th. It's fun.

I'm embarrassingly ignorant when it comes to literature.

[Sxottlan]

This was good. Nothing particularly revelatory.

[MadMan]

I predict I will like but not love this one: 7/10. I also predict Drive will be the best Ryan Gosling flick of 2011, but it will bomb at the box office.I agree with all of this. Although granted I'll probably still give it a way too high rating, as I do with most movies, but still argue that Drive is much better. I'm just not really interested in Ides of March-perhaps I'm finally burned out on political thrillers/dramas. Or maybe I find actual regular politics way more interesting and amusing. The GOP field alone is ripe for comedy.