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Adrien Brody's BLOOM gets a BROTHER in Ruffalo!!!

Rian Johnson by Franklin T Marmoset	Feb 14th, 2007 02:56:50 AM
I thought Brick was just okay, but it was one of those films that made me keen to see what the director did next, so I'm looking forward to this one. What's it about?
well shit by BadMrWonka	Feb 14th, 2007 02:56:57 AM
this looks good, I can't shit on it
even though... by BadMrWonka	Feb 14th, 2007 02:57:30 AM
I jsut lost $350 on fulltilt to morons.... FUCK!!!!
Saw Ruffalo in a play in LA by IndustryKiller!	Feb 14th, 2007 03:21:33 AM
A charity reading for Kenneth Lonnergan's This Is Our Youth. He played Warren for anyone familiar with the play and he was fucking dynamite. Ive been a fan of his in films a few years going back now but I think this play was the best work Ive ever see him him do. He originated the role some 10 years ago and it was just a staged reading but from his focus and obvious passion for the material he performned like he was doing it for the first time. He and Robert Downey Jr. were the stand outs in Zodiac, an otherwise bland film.
brick rocked by onefatman	Feb 14th, 2007 03:22:51 AM
my little socks off, washed them, hung them out on the line, got them back in, ironed them, folded them and then laid them on my bed so I could wear them again the next day.
The search on this site doesn't work at all by zekmoe	Feb 14th, 2007 05:30:26 AM
where is the adrian brody hulk thread? It's gone.
Brick by IForgotAbout19	Feb 14th, 2007 06:17:59 AM
Changed my life. Can't fucking wait for this thing. Ah, just like Sister Ray said.
Brody by a nose! by TomBodet	Feb 14th, 2007 09:42:16 AM
Sorry. Anyways. What's this one about again?
Adrien Brody starring in: A Nose w/ a View. by TomBodet	Feb 14th, 2007 04:10:14 PM
Remember that great scene from Roxanne w/ Steve Martin and the bar-room full of nose jokes? Dang that was funny. We need that in this and the Hulk.
yeah kip... by veenie	Feb 14th, 2007 05:19:33 PM
I'm sure if you had access to family money to make your movie you'd take the moral high ground. This guy used what he could get to make (imho) a great little movie that popped out of the thousand other no budget indies made with family money every year, I say good for him. Bitter much?
whah? by veenie	Feb 15th, 2007 12:41:16 AM
"There is no value in art created by rich people." Okay... forget the irony of claiming not to be bitter and typing that sentence in the same paragraph, that's just one of the weirder blanket statements about art I've ever read. Historically I think you're going to find yourself backed into a bit of a corner with that one - Mozart didn't exactly pull himself out of the gutter by his bootstraps. And Nabokov, Orson Welles... anyway, yeah, odd statement. You didn't like Brick, fine, not arguing that with you. I've read interviews where Johnson said his family financed the movie, I don't know Rian personally (I'm assuming you must?) and have no idea if he was living pre-Brick in a marble palace summoning name actors with a bell but I find it unlikely. As a filmmaker myself I just know it's a freakin Herculean task to get any movie made, it's never easy, I'm not sure why your panties are in such a twist about one guy doing it successfully.
Kip Kip Hooray by Shannon Whirry and the Bad Brains	Feb 15th, 2007 10:15:32 AM
Kip, your post was hilarious. "I am not a filmmaker," you say. You know what else you're not? A writer. What you do seem to be, most troublingly - judging from the fact that you reference some sort of employment in the editing field - is a grown adult. Presumably, one who actually holds human relationships (one must assume, of course, that Kip's nearest and dearest pass a rigorous screening process of their bank statements and credit histories). Regardless of the financial stuff ("There is no value in art created by rich people," you say, which at the very least reveals you to be profoundly ignorant of, oh, let's call it "world history"), your post is basically, at the heart of it, nothing more than the words "I didn't care for Brick" couched within an incredibly revealing psychological portrait of a confused, insecure person - and peppered with insults that you don't have the wherewithal to back up in any credible way. I do love the notion that, in the battery of evidence you present to discredit Brick and Rian Johnson, you offer up the fact that he used "a conceit" in his script. (I am having fun imagining some of your other 'thumbs down' reviews: "I hated ______. The director used NOUNS in that script!") The rest of the "big guns" you trot out - demanding that the filmmaker 'admit' to his financing sources - are rendered instantly irrelevant; as others have pointed out, Rian Johnson has been completely forthcoming in a number of interviews about where the money for the film came from and how fortunate he considers himself. Kip, I'm glad that you consider yourself 'happy,' but at the end of this shit-talking, I really hope that you (and maybe some of your "lots of friends in the movie biz") will reflect on why saying something like "rich people have nothing to say" does nothing except reveal you to be petty, simple, and even bizarrely self-destructive in the long haul. Good luck; honestly.
Shannon & the Bad Brains? by Macon Dead	Feb 15th, 2007 12:58:24 PM
I think I'm in love.

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