So Marty doesn't get all his thunder stolen out of his thread, here's a thread for Charlie Kaufman's directorial. As a reminder, the cast list looks a little something like this:
Michelle Williams
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Emily Watson
Catherine Keener
Hope Davis
Samantha Morton
Dianne Wiest
And it's in post-production with an ambiguous 2008 release date. Hurray!
I hope the movie ends up being better than the screenplay. I understand that it's senseless, more or less, to judge a movie by its screenplay, and screenplay reviewers are pretty annoying. And I'm certainly no expert. But if I were a producer and was given the Synecdoche screenplay, I would've thrown it against the wall, into the wastebasket (which I would place right underneath where I would throw it against the wall).
Plus, no more PSH please. He was the best dumpy loser 'til Giamatti came around, sure, but he completely lost me the moment he started whining about his bowel movements in Cold Mountain (a motif, coincidentally, central to Synecdoche). Now I can barely tolerate his slovenly presence.
Still, he was pretty awesome in Punch-Drunk Love.
I'm as curious to see what kind of directorial vision Kaufman is going to make apart from Gondry and Jonze as I am to see how Jonze works without Kaufman. I've read a couple of Kaufman's unproduced screenplays (his pilot script for "Rambling Pants" was amazing), but have always felt that having the right director behind the material was always crucial.
Aww... I like PSH.
You and half the world, for some reason. To which I say "Psh!"Quoting Sycophant (view post)
Yeah, Hoffman rocks.
You've read the screenplay for this, iosos?
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/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
Yessir.
It has to be done...
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Has anyone ever told you you're insane? PSH is one of the greatest actors we have. To just brush him off that way is crazy! I didn't even know he was in Cold Mountain.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
Yessir.
It's not so unorthodox to dislike Hoffman. I noted a bit of a backlash brewing last year, especially between the Slant and RS crowds.
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
Oh snap! He's becoming too popular! Ditch the guy!
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
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I sort of eagerly await this. Although I want a trailer. Soon.
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Eff trailers. I wanna go into this one (and most any film anymore) thoroughly blind.
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