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"Woody Allen" might as well be "Alan Smithee" nowadays
by Dr Gonzo
Aug 18th, 2007
07:01:09 PM
Our only hope is that in one of the dozen movies he gets Scarlett Johanson in, he'll get her naked. The perv.
Match Point was essentially a remake
by Holodigm
Aug 18th, 2007
07:14:48 PM
Allen basically fleshed the Crimes part of Crimes and Misdemeanors out to a full movie, and then finally got himself a competent DP. kind of like how anything else was pretty much an Annie Hall update (but at least Match Point was good).
Hoping to see this at the Toronto Film Festival...
by DanielKurland
Aug 18th, 2007
07:43:07 PM
There's going to be a lot of good stuff there though...
Awesome!
by percifier
Aug 18th, 2007
07:54:02 PM
Match Point was awesome. Another hot movie from Woody!
Looking good.
by TattooedBillionaire
Aug 18th, 2007
08:01:24 PM
If it's anywhere near as good as Match Point, I will be a very happy man. I do agree, though, that Match Point is very similar to Crimes and Misdemeanors.
so here's what i understood...
by the_man_from_Rio
Aug 18th, 2007
08:05:33 PM
tom wilkinson is a crook and magregor is his kin, and farrell screws up and loses a lot of money, and then later they have to kill the director of a movie as a payback favor, not before cassandra's dream realizes itself, and SHE saves magregor. but then that's just how they cut the trailer...i heard woody allen's next movie is to take place is Spain, anyone know anything?
NO ONE predicted the ending to Match Point
by NoPIX
Aug 18th, 2007
08:07:23 PM
Say what you want, but it's damn fine film.
I wonder if he'll ever go back to wacky comedy?
by The Dum Guy
Aug 18th, 2007
08:07:39 PM
I'm thinking Bananas and Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex*, whatever became of that Woody Allen...

I still think he should have had a cameo in Casino Royale.
NoPIX
by The Dum Guy
Aug 18th, 2007
08:31:20 PM
Unless you read Harry's review for it and knew that "...what Jonathan Rhys Meyers does to Scarlet Johannson is going to make alot of people angry."
Holodgim
by Larry of Arabia
Aug 18th, 2007
09:14:56 PM
You really should see some more of his movies. The Purple Rose of Cairo, Zelig, Radio Days, Hannah and her Sisters, Sweet and Lowdown , and Broadway Danny Rose are nothing like Annie Hall or Crimes and Misdomenders. Since "What's Up Tiger Lilly?" in 1966 he's made about one movie a year. Of those at least 10 are classics. Every penny of the piddling little $10-15 million dollar budgets he now has I consider payment on serviced rendered. It's worth it simply because he is still capable of a "Match Point."
his new work..
by Lerkst
Aug 18th, 2007
10:01:26 PM
Allen is producing the best films of his career RIGHT NOW. Match Point was a re-birth for him, and Cassandra's Dream looks wild. I actually said 'whoa' after watching the trailer; for a WOODY ALLEN MOVIE. That is worth the price of admission right there.
Well, that wasn't what I expected. I really think
by GQtaste
Aug 18th, 2007
10:18:26 PM
he should stick to drama. A lot of his comedies have been stinkers the past ten years.
hey that does look good!
by occula
Aug 18th, 2007
10:21:33 PM
i'm glad woody's going this way. otherwise he'd be steadily retreading his old work and attempting former glory. well done him.
looks pretty good...I just I knew what was going on
by Datascream
Aug 18th, 2007
11:18:08 PM
seriously, in all that drama I still have no idea what the movie is about. Is it a caper, a chase drama, a crime drama...what is it? I think I missed the point somewhere.
I WISH I knew what was going on...
by Datascream
Aug 18th, 2007
11:19:13 PM
I hate it when I do that.
very confusing trailer
by Magic Rat
Aug 19th, 2007
12:21:12 AM
but Match Point was good, real good. So I'll give this a shot.
So Woody's making comedies again, then?
by BenBraddock
Aug 19th, 2007
01:57:48 AM
Cos that made me laugh! Sorry, but why cast Celts McGregor and Farrell then have them play Eastenders?! Cast Eastenders instead! Looks silly. Is Woody aiming to be Tinseltown's new Master of Suspense?
An Irishman & a Scotsman...
by Sagart1994
Aug 19th, 2007
03:17:13 AM
doing really bad cockney accents. Why not get Dick Van Dyke? Still, it's Woody, so I'll give it a go.
from the maker of match point and scoop
by in the future there wont be men and women only wankers
Aug 19th, 2007
04:53:35 AM
i love that. ps how can you have a bookend to one other film? that just means two bookends. tit.
Bad Accents, Bad Title, Bad Poster.
by biggerjohn
Aug 19th, 2007
05:04:50 AM
Oh and the trailer didn't look very good either. Woody's films that are 100% serious rerely work and this doesn't look like it'll change that. I'm still hoping that Scoop (when it gets a UK release) was better than people said (everybody dismissed it as a rehash of Manhatten Murder Mystery but that was a fucking awesome flick).
Anyone else wish he'd get back with Marshall Brickman?
by biggerjohn
Aug 19th, 2007
05:07:07 AM
Or at least stop churning out films and spend a little time trying to make each one, y'know, good.
Yes, Match Point was fantastic, but Scoop...
by DanielKurland
Aug 19th, 2007
07:42:51 AM
was pretty mediocre fare for Allen. I'm all for saying Allen has rejuvenated his career, but you can't overlook Scoop, and how it certainly wasn't an amazing comedy. I still say one of Allen's bests is "Love and Death" which NO ONE ever mentions, and it is so, so funny. That being said, it's really quite a shame that a director/writer who was synonomous with New York, has to now make films in England because the US won't give him funding. Ridiculous.
Woody Bangs Teenage Adopted Daughter?! He's Meshugana!
by LaserPants
Aug 19th, 2007
10:14:01 AM
Of all the asian sex slaves Allen could no doubt have purchased with his considerable wealth from any number modern day slaver-pirates currently operating in asia and eastern europe, Wood-yi decides to bang his own adopted daughter?! Oy vey! I guess his whole meshugana, neurotic schtick isn't a fake, then.
I can't wait to see this
by CherryValance
Aug 19th, 2007
11:56:13 AM
Even if Woody Allen wasn't the director there's no way I'd miss a McGregor/Farrell movie. Just think of the possibilities. :D

And he never adopted her. Gee whiz, get it right. She was Mia's daughter, not his. If anything Soon Yi's the slut for stealing her mother's boyfriend.
Oh! So He Merely Banged His Wife's Teenage Daughter
by LaserPants
Aug 19th, 2007
01:34:13 PM
"Oy gevalt!" says an anthopamorphized common human decency advocate.

No, but seriously, no reflection on the mans' work (I love Polanski's films even though he's a creepy molester too), which is often brilliant, but he's a pervy creep in his personal life which is really none of my concern, but, whatevah; this is the innernets after all, and apparently, this kind of stuff is what the innernets was designed for in addition to porn: Bitching, muck-raking, kneejerk social-satire, criticism of varying degrees of quality and substance, hardcore porn, amateur videos of teenagers singing their favorite pop songs poorly, and free mp3s. Also porn, did I mention porn? Theres this one site called "underage teenage asian daughters of celebrities and their creepy mother's famous boyfriend.com" that really brings it Manhattan style what with the statuatory rape and the Gershwin all up in yr faceplate, brainpan, grill.
Cassandra's Dream
by GavinVanDraven
Aug 19th, 2007
02:18:07 PM
IN MY PANTS!
Farrell says
by emeraldboy
Aug 19th, 2007
04:49:27 PM
Rip off your shirt there and show us your nellies
Cut and paste McGregor's scenes from "The Pillow Book"
by cyclo
Aug 19th, 2007
07:53:40 PM
Save Woody (no pun intended) time, cut cost. Box office will be the same either way.
Lightning in a bottle
by Gozu
Aug 19th, 2007
10:01:19 PM
Basically, "Match Point" was a success and Woody Allen wants to recapture that success. Also, fuck "Annie Hall." "Sleeper," "Bananas," and "Love and Death" are where it's at.
Looks good, but...
by MaxTheSilent
Aug 19th, 2007
10:48:56 PM
...who's idea was that ridiculous music?
IAmMrMonkey!
by RobFromBackEast
Aug 20th, 2007
04:13:03 AM
You are a fucking tool. Are you honestly saying that Orlando fuckin Bloom and countless other no talent arseclowns are better actors than Farrell? Farrell is a fine actor - he just shot up the superstardom ladder too quickly. Again, you are a tool. Tool i tells you. This looks cool by the by
Yeah! I'm with RobFromBackEast!
by Jakes Nel
Aug 20th, 2007
07:23:26 AM
Farrell rules! Tigerland! Miami Vice! The New World! Uhm... Daredevil! no. Plus, the man wiped the floor with Tom Cruise. P.S. I'm really glad for Woody. He finally has the chance to make some serious films again. After Interiors and September, I thought he'd never do another drama. Turns out he's really good at it. Not Bergman, but hey...
Velvet Goldmine
by yodalovesyou
Aug 20th, 2007
08:53:56 AM
...Is the only movie you can see where Obi-Wan Kenobi gives Batman a good shafting with his lightsabre!
Gozu
by secretcylon
Aug 20th, 2007
12:07:56 PM
Bananas is my favorite Woody Allen movie.
Actually, Laserpants...
by aikimoe
Aug 20th, 2007
12:26:23 PM
...he merely banged his girlfriend's daughter, who was 19 or 20 at the time. Still not cool (he admits it was a mistake), but they have been married for 10 years, had two kids, and seem to be happy, so it's certainly not a typical "creepy" story. I think most great artists have had difficulties being responsible in the their private lives. Except, of course, Jimmy Stewart. That man was a saint!
Scotsman, Irishman and...Englishman?
by JohnnyOClock
Aug 20th, 2007
03:50:50 PM
As well as the two celtic cockneys, Tom Wilkinson seems to have forgotten where he's from. He's done so many English-tainted Americans he now can't help but do an American-tainted Englishman. Is he secretly Canadian? The trailer was too long, the music was generic, but the talent on show was undeniable.
RE: aikimoe
by RyaSKre
Aug 20th, 2007
07:39:33 PM
The only thing I disagree with about your statement is the part where you say he admitted it was a mistake. Actually, he has said that Mia discovering their relationship was the best thing that has ever happened to him. It ended his very unhealthy relationship with Mia (seriously, I wouldn't have been able to stay with her as long as he did) and led to his marriage to the love of his life. Also, anyone who is surprised by anything Woody does in his personal life has just not seen his films, or just does not get it!
intriguing
by PeteBogs
Aug 20th, 2007
07:47:11 PM
my two favorite actors working with WA in a movie that doesn't look like WA... getting out of NY and going overseas was the best thing to happen to WA's work in years... he seems newly inspired, and is making better films... Match Point was excellent, and Scoop not too bad... looking forward to this one...
RyaSKre
by aikimoe
Aug 21st, 2007
12:27:08 PM
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that he thought being with Soon-Yi was a mistake. In an interview I saw with him, he said he should have ended his relationship with Mia and started his relationship with Soon-Yi in a different way, which sounds reasonable.
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