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Wow... the Coen's BURN AFTER READING just keeps getting cooler and cooler!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I've been posting a lot about the upcoming Coen Brothers flick, BURN AFTER READING and have raved about the filmmakers. Joel and Ethan Coen are two of my favorite filmmakers and this project keeps getting cooler.
In the "dark screwball comedy" already are George Clooney (who works very well with the Bros), Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand (a surprise choice... heh). Announced this very morning as joining that cast John Malkovich... not just joining, but starring in the damn thing.
They've released that Malkovich will be the lead, a CIA agent who loses the only copy of his memoir and is desperately trying to track it down, McDormand plays his wife and Clooney is an assassin. Pitt will be... someone... doing something, probably more than a little silly. More to come soon, I'm sure.
Can't wait for this one!
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first beeyatch.....
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and its deuces!!!!
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... You bastard.
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sounds like it should be cool
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Did I travel 10 years back in time?
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Malkovich may have been in some dogs, but two of his more recent films (Ripley's Game and Color Me Kubrick) have been pretty darn good.
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the gym where the disk is lost or something.
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Yeah im there
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This is shaping up to be awesome. Come on Coens, get back to greatness. I really need to see No Country For Old Men, wish I was going to be in Cannes.
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for those Malkovich screaming sessions, when he demands Script Changes. I hate malkovich. He ruined Hitchikers.
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Was malkovichs best performance. since being John Malkovich. whatever happened to that Ripley film, which was supposed to be released and then shelved, then it was finished. then a distributer was found and then nothing. That was around the time when this was really good and when it did news.....sigh and harry did articles about films.
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How you can single out Malkovich is beyond me. This is definitely cool news to learn he'll be working with the Coens. When I heard the rest of the casting I wasn't giving much of a shit. They need to move on to new actors. Except for John Goodman, who they could cast in every damn role if they wanted.
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he had maybe 2 minutes of screen time in the entire film. Marmot's right: the Hitchhikers' film flaws extended far beyond his brief cameo. I like the idea of the Coen bros directing Malkovich in a black comedy. Should be da bomb.
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the Hitchikers universe. AS an avid reader of Hitchikers and someone had been dying to see the film for a very long time. the introduction of his character, ruined the film for me. that is my personal opinion and only that. John goodman is the finest american actor of his generation. Why he doesnt get more work is beyond me. I am a huge fan of his. I thought he was great in the borrowers. I thought he was great in Roseanne, He was the only reason I watched that program. but I never could have imagined what a truly great actor he was untill i saw barton fink. WOW.
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. . . The Big Lebowski, and O Brother Where Art Thou.
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than another Coen bros film that might be as good as Fargo/Millers Crossing/The Big Lebowski....? Well, maybe another Tarantino film as good as Pulp Fiction....
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Pitt plays Chad.
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Sure, there's lots of foul language in movies these days but it's rare that any of it is beautiful. My head often aches when i leave s cinema due to the inane nature of the dialogue. No such problems in a Coen's movie. Can't wait to have my melon tickled by some Coenified lingo. . . . . .oh and anyone who thinks the Hitchhikers movie was ruined by anything other than the total ineptitude of the screen writers and directors is the kind of person that would say a shit pie is ruined cause it has some piss on it.
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great choice for Coens, Im looking forward to this...---here are some pictures from No Country for Old Men http://www.cinempire.com/multimedia/filmid4103/index.html
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http://www.cinempire.com/multimedia/filmid4103/index.html
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Nice point about the language of the Coens. Nic Cage's narration in Raising Arizona is some of their greatest ever. "Hi's womb was rocky soil, where my seed could find no purchase..." (paraphrased, which I realize defeats the purpose.)
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...as colematthews pointed out... is comedy gold. I am not a huge Nick Cage fan but I love him in "Raising Arizona" ("I'll just be takin' them huggies."). If anyone ever gets curious about what Wile E. Coyote might look like in live-action, watch the beating Cage's H.I. McDunaugh takes from Randall "Tex" Cobb.
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was tired BB Thorton in Man who wasnt there. Its also my favorite Coen movie, though Big Lebowski is most funny
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HI had a womb.
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"The doctor told us that Ed's insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."
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Cool for the sake of being cool is not cool.
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became too mainstream. Look at their earlier work and it has the vibe of independece about. I even loved Hudsucker which the media hate for being too mainstream. They when they became Mainstream the critics said they lost their independence.
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did. That film got them the industry recognition that was coming to them for so long. MIller's Crossing was thier masterpiece. in the 1990's There a list of movies which were deliberately put up by the academy to shot down, I can think of three La Confidential, Millers Crossing and Fargo. Fargo is a great film but maybe not if you live in North Dakota. People may slate Macy for doing wild hogs. But is gift for comic timing is amazing. I love the original lady killers and when I heard the coens weres making a big budget remake with hanks. I sincerely hope they come back to thier indi roots with this film but I fear not but it sounds good.
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I love all the coens early work. I remember as a kid seeing rasing about three or 4 times. I loved Cage's ineptitude in that movie. Very funny but also very touching. If there was any actor who should play lecter is peter Stomare. at least that is the way he acted in constatine.
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I love all the coens early work. I remember as a kid seeing rasing about three or 4 times. I loved Cage's ineptitude in that movie. Very funny but also very touching. If there was any actor who should play lecter is peter Stomare. at least that is the way he acted in constatine.
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I would love to see him in something really goofy and fun.
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he wanted to shoot George Galloway, for fucks sake!how someone can be in so many weird and great movies, and be so conservative politically, is beyond me...
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...was in fact created by Douglas Adams. He was working on the script of the movie right up until he died. Everything new in the movie was either directly written by Adams, or put together from the notes on his hard drive, which he left to the producers of the film when he passed away. Personally, I loved the film, and I thought it was perfectly in line with the spirit of Douglas Adams. Like all the various forms of H2G2 (radio play, BBC show, books, video game), it was familiar, but completely its own creature. That is one of my favorite things about the story; that Adams hated telling the same story twice, and deliberately added and removed things for each version.
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Movie overload. I can't wait to see this.
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i guess im the only person who doesnt like the coen brothers.
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Wow - a good actor - and you dont know what hes really like - maybe i'm a little crazy but ... isnt that the point of acting? And I'm curious - by exactly whose standards, besides sloppily-fellating Coen Bros apologists, would the execrable Intolerable Cruelty be 5 star? These caveats - "Well, if anyone else but Laurence Olivier was acting in Clash of the Titans..." - are shit. EVERY director and actor fucks up at least once (exception being Charles Laughton - and that pansy-ass directed only one)
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That's all a Coen movie needs to guarantee MY ass in a seat.
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... a couple of months ago. Film is called Disgrace. Based on J.M. Coetzee's novel (he won a Nobel Prize and two Booker awards, by the way).
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Seriously, it should be Coens' BURN AFTER READING. Why does everybody fuck that up?
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said if he ever met he would shoot him in the head. I cant remember who it was. Some english journalist bob fisk. Fisk memoir is supposedly a really magnificent read. He talks about his dad who was a soldier. the didnt get on but this book is a tribute to him and the courage of those fought and died in all wars.
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BadMrWonka ... wanting to shoot George Galloway doesn't make you a "right wing wacko". What's that make Alec Baldwin? At least JM didn't go on Letterman and yell that we ought to go to GG's house and kill him and his family. Remember when Galloway said in that GQ interview it would be "morally justified" to bomb Tony Blair to bits? Galloway is a complete ponce.
Let's get back to show biz. It says on CHUD that John Malkovich now wants to punch BadMrWonka.
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