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Quint is in on the ASSASSINATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I just got out of the 8:30am press screening (damn these early mornings!) of ASSASSINATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT, starring Reece Thompson, Mischa Barton and Bruce Willis.
Reece Thompson was the lead in one of my favorite Sundance ’07 flicks, ROCKET SCIENCE that got a limited release later in the year. He plays the geek really well because he’s not really playing the stereotypical nerd in both ROCKET SCIENCE and ASSASSINATION. He’s shy, awkward, but not Napoleon Dynamite or Booger or anything.
In this film he’s a high school newspaper nerd. I’m very familiar with that world and was very much like a fat version of Thompson’s character in the movie. He’s young (everybody thinks he’s a freshman, but he’s a sophomore), he does his own thing, much to the chagrin of the hot editor-in-chief, who he has a little thing for (check, check and check).
Anyway, ASSASSINATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT is a comedy set in a Catholic School. In this case, it’s like mixing THE MALTESE FALCON and ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN and setting it within the world of a Catholic School filled with crazy people.
The craziest might be Bruce Willis, who is the gum-hating Gulf War Vet who might just beat the shit out of his students… and he makes them sing songs about America. You can tell he came in for a few days to do his work, but they pepper him throughout and he’s great.
But not as great as Josh Pais in the bit part of the goofy Spanish teacher. He speaks in a light, effeminate way, always asking for his students to speak to him in Espanol… which of course they never do.
The main thrust of the story is a nerdy high school newspaper writer, who is obsessed with Woodward and Bernstein, is tasked with doing a profile of the student body president, the popular jock Paul Moore (played by Patrick Taylor). As the writer, Bobby Funke (pronounced Funk, but everybody calls him Funky… at some point he just gives up correcting everybody), delves into Moore he finds conspiracy.
The SATs are stolen and Funke is tasked to find out who dun it… by the President’s girlfriend, the hot and popular girl (Barton).
Barton is beautiful, of course, and is totally this movie’s femme fatale. And Mr. Skin better upgrade their servers for the bathtub scene…
If I had any complaint about the film it would be that it seems to be trying really, really hard to be BRICK, but a little less dark. At least that was my worry during the first reel, but thankfully the film finds its own voice as it goes along.
Good stuff here.
-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com
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Really???
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Second
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GREAT SUCCESS. I don't expect anything from this movie, but will see it.
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Because that movie is really good, and really under rated.
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Jan 22, 2008 2:52:04 PM CST
MISCHA BARTON?!??!? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by sovikos
NO WHY CAN'T THIS BITCH JUST GO AWAY FOREVER! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! SPARE US FROM SEEING YOUR UGLY MUG & BODY OF A 13 YEAR OLD KID!
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Ugh!
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that better be as promising as you're implying Quint...
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Oliver Stone to make prequel chronicling the student body president's rise to power from the 7th grade through his election in junior year.
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Where is her hand in that image?
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I just couldn't make it through Brick. Maybe it was too mannered for my taste. Looks like another Alpha Dog, a decent flick that doesn't make much of a ripple. Do they pay Bruce in a box of Cuban cigars for these roles?
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too skinny!!!
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CNN just flashed that Heath Ledger was found dead. This is awful, sad news.
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Apparently Heath Ledger was found dead.... developing...
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joker is dead!!! just saw on CNN
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Holy shit again, Batman! This is really bad. I mean, Renfro I can understand, but this is just one of those things that blindsides you.
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Sad news.
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Heath Ledgers dead. NO. This fucking sucks.
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Or is it more viral marketing?
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FUCK!!!!!!!
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is going to have the same weight watching it as The Crow did. That one was upsetting. So much for a fun summer movie, eh?
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Heath Ledger has died.
The Australian born actor was just 28.
He was found dead in a downtown Manhattan residence, an NYPD spokesperson says.
WOW..... this is the sux -
Wonder what happened???
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YOU WILL BE SORELY MISSED...
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Wish it were a joke. This is tragic.
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Do don't drugs, kids. Mmmmkay?
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RIP Heath. It looks like he overdosed. What a shame.
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I hope it wasn't some suicide or drug related tragedy of a tortured soul. Not to be callous, but does anyone know if the finished all the principle shooting for DK?
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he was a good actor
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I saw myself in you as Ennis Del Mar, may your passing be swift. May what grace has given me, pass unto you.
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there goes batman 3
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I didn't like all his choices but he always seemed like a sincere person and actor. I just cannot believe it. whatever the reason it is a loss.
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Heath is gone. Unfuckingbelieveable!! Damn this is sad news, not just for us bat fans who were looking forward to seeing his joker, but hollywood in general. aside frome brokeback, which i haven't seen, Heath was a damn good actor. Shame to see him go.
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he was great.
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no!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Just heard about Ledger!
Fuck! Major bummer! I was just starting to like him!
Sorry to see ya go buddy!
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HOLY HELL
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Jan 22, 2008 4:08:25 PM CST
what is it with actors and harrliquen makeup dying prematurly?
by stalkeye
first Brandon Lee now Heath? But at least brandon did'nt do drugs.
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to have her father taken away at such a young age. Such a promising talent taken away by some fucking drugs.
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That's some terrible news. Everything I've seen and heard about TDK Heath gave a performance too great for words. Now this. Just terrible.
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I have no idea what Heath Ledger was like as a person but as an actor he was really making great strides. His work of recent years was really impressive and the commitment to playing the Joker was encouraging even before I saw the trailer. Just awful.
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when they report on this.
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sleeping pills. Maybe it was a suicide. This is just very troubling right now. Aside from being excited about the Joker, Ledger was one heck of an actor. He was one of those guys that inhabited the roles that he played, kinda like the way Val Kilmer used to back in the day. I was always curious about the next thing he'd do. Perhaps the Joker will be his greatest creation yet.
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His body found near pills.
FTA:
He was pronounced dead at 3:26 p.m. in his downtown Manhattan residence by his housekeeper, who discovered him in cardiac arrest and called 911, an NYPD spokesperson says. He was apparently scheduled to have a massage in his apartment this afternoon.
Sources tell CBS 2's Scott Weinberger the death may be drug-related and that there were pills scattered around the room.
Ledger had recently separated from his wife, actress Michelle Williams. The couple have one daughter, Matilda.
This is sad, I hope they didn't have a big fight and he killed himself over her . Heath was in the midst of filming "The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus." Poor Terry G can't get a break
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wow..can't believe it...RIP Heath
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Im at a complete loss for words. My thoughts and condolences are with his family.
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Poor Terry G indeed.
This is just awful. Talk about out of nowhere!
I don't want to sound calloused but what happens to Dark Knight? I hope it's just delayed or something. -
You sick fuckers-someone has just lost their young life.Regardless of how it happened,mobies are not important,so fuck Batman,and any talk of sequels.You cunts.
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...principal photography on DK but had yet to complete reshoots that might be required later. I have a feeling they might spend a few more million to achieve the "Oliver Reed" CGI effects needed to make the final print seemless. It's just so sad though. Although we'll have all of his great performances to cherish, we'll forever what 'might have been'. He was one of the actors I was looking forward to watching for quite some time.
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.i'm very angry
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the Electric Bugaloo
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Shocked.
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woow
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so fucking stupid...so fucking stupid. can't believe it.
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Police report he may have overdosed on sleepin pills.The poor sod may have had depression for allwe know.
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It's been a bad week for young actors. Such a shock.
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and not Britney Spears. Why must God take all the good ones?
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Well?
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Jan 23, 2008 8:50:17 AM CST
ASSASSINATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT BY THE COWARD ROBERT FO
by messi
Had to do it. FUCK! HEATH!!!!
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That's what it said when the film was announced. Fuck! Heath!!!
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Quint doesn't live in the real world. plus he says "yeah" alot. HEATH!
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