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Jack and Rose are back together... not for TITANIC 2, but for Sam Mendes' REVOLUTIONARY ROAD!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Looks like fate (and Sam Mendes) have put Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet back together in the upcoming REVOLUTIONARY ROAD.
The flick is set up at Dreamworks, the studio that gave Mendes his start with AMERICAN BEAUTY. It's based on a 1961 novel by Richard Yates, focusing on a suburban family in the early '50s. The husband and wife struggle to keep their dreams and individuality alive. Seeing the fight being lost causes a great rift in this family, causing things to spin out of control.
Sounds like perfect fit for the actors and director. Mendes definitely gets the dysfunctional suburban family dynamic and DiCaprio and Winslet work very well together. They've both grown immensely since TITANIC, so it'll be really intriguing to see how that dynamic has shifted. I'm very excited about this project.
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Not a part 2
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Sounds like box office gold to me too.
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Mar 23, 2007 8:29:16 AM CDT
So this is "American Beauty",but set in an earlier era?
by excaliburffolkes
Once was enough.
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i look forward to anything this fella does. he's brings something fresh to the table. a true artist of our time. american beauty and road to perdition were crated by a true craftsman. okay, they had flaws but on the whole i liked them. jarhead saw the pieces start to come apart. the critics lapped it up like nobodies business, but it werent all that. it'll be good to see brit beauty winslet and craprio together too.
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"American Beauty" was marred by its overly smug tone and the overly smug performance of the overly smug Kevin Spacey. This smugness is mostly due to its screenplay, by Alan Ball, who never met a cliche he didn't like (even though I love Six Feet Under, the episodes written and directed by him are the most heavy-handed of the series). "Revolutionary Road" is one of my favorite novels, and, while hard-hitting and tragic, has none of the contrivances and stereotypical characters that made "Beauty" so irritating. I hope Mendes does it justice.
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But with different themes and ideas.
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Gylenhall returns home to find that life in the suburbs working a desk job is also completely unsatisfying and requires little to no intelligence.
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American Beauty and Road to Perdition were amazing films. Jarhead was 5 steps backward.
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Co-staring Ben Stiller.
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This is the perfect movie for Julianne Moore.
and someone else. But I'll withold judgment. Such a great novel. -
Someone's got a fetish for roads.
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Mar 23, 2007 10:24:28 AM CDT
The novel is great. Richard Yates is an amazing writer.
by lovecraftfan
Please don't mess this up.
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if he hadnt had made that steaming turkey microwaved shit i'd say this was a, how you yanks say a home run slam dunk. i guess everyones allowed a misstep. he made a good descision knocking off winslet and chaining her though. shes too fit
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No tits, guns, robots, Zombies or Jackie Chan then no see movie.
I hate Di Caprio, he is such a little bitch. At least he is sticking to something he can carry off, a dysfunctional nobody. He can't do anything else well. -
...because sam mendes is back, thats why its cool news, pal. he's dusting off the flecks of birdshit that was jarhead to embarking on something hopefully half descent.................i hate dicraprio too. he made me so fucking angry in blood diamond i chucked my bong at the telly and smashed it. thats the second telly i've fucked up with this temper shit. luckily it was just my probation officer's telly. pissed off about my bong tho.
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For those who haven't read any Richard Yates novels I would certainly recommend this, which even he conceded was probably his best, but also The Easter Parade.
I can't believe the cast and director this has -- this should be fantastic. Directors like Todd Field and writers like Alan Ball owe a bit of their success to the writing of Richard Yates, which they crib from a lot in their own work, so this is a nice way of it coming back around, I guess. -
And what is the deal with dry cleaning? And airline food...
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"Sounds somewhat like 'Far From Heaven'
But with different themes and ideas."
Yeah, other than those little things, they're exactly same.
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You stupid dildo: http://tinyurl.com/3yozwm
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...I'm really excited for this one. I hope they do another one some years down the road. I loves me some Kate Winslet, though. She just keeps getting better.
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Aaaahahahaahhahahaa!! I didn't want to laugh. But "you stupid dildo" was just too much.
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Cool.
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it really is a schleppy movie. No insult to Schleppy the Monkey intended, of course.
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I'm sure Shadow got the message.
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Would it have a CPU or something?
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