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One Spy Considers Himself Lucky To Have Seen THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD!

Brad Pitt for Best Actor by CarmillaVonDoom	Sep 17th, 2007 06:27:20 PM
Start the campaign early....
Oscar Push? by MCVamp	Sep 17th, 2007 06:40:55 PM
Okay, but it will be tough to beat out: Nicolas Cage--GHOST RIDER; Ice Cube--ARE WE DONE YET?; Larry the Cable Guy--DELTA FARCE; Kevin James--I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY; and my current 2-1 pick, Cuba Gooding Jr--DADDY DAY CAMP. HA! Good luck Mr. Pitt. Stock up on tissues, loser!
are you kidding? by harold_maude	Sep 17th, 2007 06:42:14 PM
shouldn't a best actor award go to a best actor? just because he can play one type of character does not make him the best actor. he is limited and downright terrible in most of his movies, yes brilliant in 12 monkeys but that doesn't make him great, although the movie was. a best actor nod should go to people who prove time and again how awesome they are, not to someone who now and then proves they might have some skill, come on 7 years in tibet, a river runs through it, good grief. also there is a difference between a good actor and a performance that was so expertly pieced together by the editor.
harold_maude you couldn't be more wrong... by Sidius	Sep 17th, 2007 06:57:16 PM
Your criteria for awarding Academy Awards is exactly what is wrong with the Oscars today. The Oscar is not meant to be a lifetime achievement award for your entire body of work (there's separate award for that). It's supposed to be an award for your performance in one film in that single year. All your performances up to that point aren't being judged. Just because you go onto have an awful career after you win (Cuba Gooding and Marissa Tomei I'm looking at you) doesn't mean that for that one instant you didn't earn the award. By your rationale no first time actor should ever be considered. It's the reason it took Martin Scorcese so long to win one and it appears that it'll be the reason Brad Pitt won't win one till he has one foot in the grave.
so much for a true account eh? by HypeEndsHere	Sep 17th, 2007 08:18:07 PM
calling the man that blew away the biggest scumfuck in american history (present administration excepted) a coward is pure bullshit. read, people. READ.
Actually, I was kidding by CarmillaVonDoom	Sep 17th, 2007 09:20:55 PM
Just trying to get in the way of 1st posters. :^)
Looking forward to this one by PotSmokinAlien	Sep 17th, 2007 09:55:26 PM
westerns are the Batman of the american movie scene---- you can't get em to come out and save society unless they are really needed. SERAPHIM FALLS was fucked but well intentioned, 3:10 TO YUMA blew my ass away and i am all set for this shit to be the meditative character piece that convinces hollywood that now is the time to finance this kind of thoughtful shit. Seriously Motherfucks--- just think of them all as really loose remakes of UNFORGIVEN. and ask no more questions until awards time rolls around.
Saw it last night, too by slone13	Sep 17th, 2007 10:12:44 PM
Loved it. Very slow movie, but I wasn't bored once. Truly great performances. Affleck's portrayal of Ford is so creepy at times.
Potsmokinalien by Trader Groucho 2	Sep 17th, 2007 10:15:40 PM
I wish TAOJJBTCRF was the meditative character study that you're pinin' after. Given the length of the film and the relative parsity of dialogue, you should certainly have no problem finding time to meditate while you're watching this.
Potsmokinalien by Trader Groucho 2	Sep 17th, 2007 10:17:48 PM
I wish TAOJJBTCRF was the meditative character study that you're pinin' after. Given the length of the film and the relative parsity of dialogue, you should certainly have no problem finding time to meditate while you're watching this.
cant wait for this one by movieman742	Sep 17th, 2007 11:38:25 PM
Ive been waiting for this movie for at least a year before it was pushed back and delayed tons. Sounds like a kind of movie ill love. Hope it gets wide release.
Mori, please also give analysis to 3:10 to Yuma film by BDuncan	Sep 18th, 2007 02:41:40 AM
Mori, it will be great reading your analysis of this film and please also give analysis to the 3:10 to Yuma film.
PLANT!!!!!! by moon.moth	Sep 18th, 2007 07:57:50 AM
Why did you bother to print this 'announcement'? Its obviously a marketing plant designed to deflect attention away from Brad Pitt who most aicn readers would avoid. I liked Chopper and I think this could be a cool movie but you guys need to weed this kind of s**t out.
Upside Down Johnson by HypeEndsHere	Sep 18th, 2007 08:07:19 AM
guess you're new around here. 1st, i wasn't calling you anything horrible. unless you are a member of the current administration. 2nd, explain how "cow·ard /ˈkaʊərd/ –noun 1. a person who lacks courage in facing danger, difficulty, opposition, pain, etc.; a timid or easily intimidated person" applies to Robert Ford. if it helps, call me an idiot a few times while doing it. (it would be nice if you didn't because i think you're better than that) your pal, Hype PS, i avidly read the dictionary following your post. SPOILER - the zebra did it.
Blate a plant by DannyOcean01	Sep 19th, 2007 08:23:38 AM
You can accept someone being enthusiastic about a film, but when you describe some random crew as the best crew to have for a Western you know someone's not paying attention to anything but a plant.
THE NEW WESTERN by Johnny California	Sep 24th, 2007 01:52:18 PM
If you liked Malik's The New World, you'll probably like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. It's a very slow paced view of Jesse James' last year from his final train robbery (the last time he sees his brother Frank) to his death at the hands of Robert Ford, possibly Jesse's greatest admirer (with friends like those...). Pitt brought both Jesse James' charisma, villainy and psychopathy into clear focus - he really is the best physical actor since Steve Mcqueen. Jesse James is a self-admitted bad man, a kook in many ways and he is a rash, impulsive killer who makes everyone in the room very nervous even while he charms them. However, really the movie belongs to Robert Ford played extremely well by Casey Affleck whose normally known for fairly innocuous roles providing comic relief as sidekicks. This must've been perfect practice because Robert Ford's greatest desire is for he and his brother (Rockwell) to become sidekicks to Frank and Jesse. Events, as they do, conspire to thwart Bob's desires from the outset as they first join Jesse and Frank for the last caper of the James' Gang's career at the Blue Cut train robbery. From then on, Jesse who at first takes Bob under his wing, then antagonizes the young sycophant so much that something nasty starts to turn inside the young man's belly. Part of this may be due to the fact that Jesse is a dark and nasty man himself. During their first conversation after the robbery, the dialogue between Jesse and Bob matches Hansen's novel almost word for word except for one essential line -when Bob reads Jesse a particularly flattering passage from an newspaper article praising the outlaw, Jesse responds, "I'm a bad man, Bob, not Jesus Christ." No one is completely good or evil in the movie, but Jesse is the most violently brutal and his paranoid suspicion of betrayel at the hands of one of his cohorts leads him to make snap life or death decisions. One particular scene points out this combination of sadism, suspicion and insanity as he beats a young boy he suspects knows the whereabouts of a known traitor in the gang. He holds his hand over the boys mouth so he can continue beating and tormenting the child. He doesn't so much want to find the traitor as he wants to take out the anger, confusion and frustration growing inside him on some innocent victim. Jesse James is a bad man, and Robert Ford's problem is that he wants to be Jesse, but as Frank James (Sam Shepard) points out from the beginning, "You don't have the ingredients." Jesse James is close to Ang Lee's Ride With The Devil that details the lives of similar men at the end of the Civil War - heck, even Outlaw Josey Wales is a romantic view of the same group of men - but the quality of the acting in Jesse James takes this to a much deeper, more personal and unexpected place. These men are ill cultured and craven pretenders to culture and class, ill-informed scientists and dime-store theologians and cowardly heroic outlaws - in short, they are Americans. Sam Rockwell has been overlooked for another understated but crucial performance as the somewhat brain-addled but mostly sympathetic brother Charley Ford. In the novel, the essential ignorance and brutality of the Ford brothers is made much clearer. These are boys who tortured cats for kicks; Bob even shot a cow for kicking him in the shins during a milking. Even without the various details of their past lives, it's clear that these two young men are representative of the time in the reconstruction following the Civil War and leading to the settlement of the West. At the same time, this is really a "Midwestern" set mostly in the distances between Kentucky and Missouri. Only the brief chaos after the Civil War allowed former Confederate irregulars (murderous guerilla fighters) to pursue any sort of "career" as outlaws. Jesse and Frank left the war and chose a lifestyle that they knew would be short-lived, and unlike the vast majority of their confederates, they were lucky enough to stay alive to the end of the Time of the Outlaws. Like most Americans, the Fords were followers who thought that they could follow their heroes footsteps into the future. In the end, Robert Ford followed Jesse James into a dead end where he provided the final punctuation to the lifestyle he so admired and desired.

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