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Quint doubles up on buddy flicks THE KITE RUNNER and THE BUCKET LIST!!!

cnks by The Dum Guy	Dec 7th, 2007 02:59:32 AM
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Speed racer trailer on youtube! by Gluecifer	Dec 7th, 2007 03:09:00 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =rrrIRcCbo9M
I liked the Bucket List more than Quint, apparently by Trader Groucho 2	Dec 7th, 2007 03:33:45 AM
It was charming and poignant. Kite Runner was amazing. Look for all kindsa Oscar nods for that one.
4th by Live.	Dec 7th, 2007 04:14:27 AM
Both these movies sound like snoozers.
Heaps of action and tons of comedy... by William Landis	Dec 7th, 2007 05:37:42 AM
make The Kite Runner pure entertainment! A movie that sizzles with charm. You'll have a renewed passion for life. The Kite Runner is a perfect teen dream. It has everything that makes a movie totally cool: laughs, adventure, spirit, hot music, drama and of course BRITNEY! Britney rocks! She is like a comet. A talent of her magnitude only comes around once in a lifetime and you can't take your eyes off her when she is on screen in this totally cool and delightfully hip movie.
Kite Runner by Omar B	Dec 7th, 2007 07:36:36 AM
I'm excited to see this, Forster is a pretty gifted and nuanced director who's gonna take Bond to the next level of awesome.
Rob Reiner, what happened to you?? by I am_NOTREAL	Dec 7th, 2007 07:46:36 AM
I watched The Story of Us not too long ago and it was just jaw-hit-the-floor bad. Fake scenes, fake dialogue, fake characters, contrivance after contrivance after contrivance. What a train wreck. Incredible that a once name-brand director would put his name on that and that generally smart actors like Willis and Pfeiffer would do it. Were his good films just luck? The Bucket List preview looked AWFULLY saccharine...when I saw it I just felt bad for once-great actors like Nicholson and Freeman who have to stoop to this level in the last part of their careers. Doesn't seem destined to reverse Reiner's slide.
i don't know what it is by filmcoyote	Dec 7th, 2007 08:02:20 AM
but i just can't get up any enthusiasm to see Kite Runner. When everyone was reading the book i picked it up a few times but just couldn't do it. The story just doesn't interest me. Film's the same. No matter all the good things i hear i just know i'll probably never see it. I've seen pretty much every possible awards contender for next year's Oscars but this is one i'll skip. And your man may be nominated for supporting but he'll have a hell of job matching the triumvirate of Javier Bardem, Casey Affleck and Hal Holbrook who all seem shoe-ins. With Paul Dano damn likely as well there might be a place at the table for him but you've gotta bet he won't get to carve. Seeing Bucket List tomorrow. Praying it's better than the drivel Reiner's been doling out lately. Hoping for About Schmidt Nicholson quality, worried i'm going to get Something's Gotta Give!
"The audience loved it". by Garbageman33	Dec 7th, 2007 08:02:25 AM
Oh, well, in that case it must be really good. I mean, it's not like audiences enjoy shit or anything.
Twenty Good Years vs The Bucket List by Series7	Dec 7th, 2007 08:39:50 AM
Man thats gotta be the fastest TV show to movie I've ever seen? I say Nicholson and Hanks should retire before the taint their career with movies for the sake of movies. Follow Paul Newman.
Marc Forster by Series7	Dec 7th, 2007 08:43:38 AM
is going to do Bond 22? Why? He is a boring movie director, I am not one to give up on movies but I fell asleep during Stranger then Fiction and was like ehhh I don't need to see all of it. I don't see him being an action man. Plus Martin Campbell has done the best 2 bonds of the series. He is in talks to do the Birds Remake? ehhh next to No Escape Martin Campbell is only ok outside of Bond. I guess Marc Forsters will focus on the boring aspects of being James Bond... like him sleeping at night.
Right, Garbageman... by Crimson King	Dec 7th, 2007 09:00:38 AM
The only good movies in the world are the movies everyone hates (excepts for the select, enlightened few such as yourself).
filmcoyote I know what you mean by Bloo	Dec 7th, 2007 10:07:39 AM
except for me it was when Angela's Ashes came out, I bought the book, tried reading it several times and despite everyone telling me how great and moving it was I couldn't get into it, tried watching the movie and yes it had some amazing performances but I just couldn't get into it. Anyways so I feel your...well maybe not pain, but I certainly know what you mean re: The Kite Runner
Easy there, Crimson by Garbageman33	Dec 7th, 2007 10:15:23 AM
I'm not being elitist (I'll leave that to Memories of Murder). I'm just saying we live in a world where I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry makes more than $100 million. Thereby proving you can't always trust the audiences.
so in other words by LegoKenobi	Dec 7th, 2007 10:20:40 AM
nicholson plays the same character he's played for the past decade or so. gotcha. talk about coasting!
the more crash bashing the better by PVIII	Dec 7th, 2007 10:23:12 AM
keep it coming. Every movie review should start with "I didn't want it to be another Crash..."
THE KITE RUNNER & ATONEMENT by LoneGun	Dec 7th, 2007 11:25:56 AM
It would have been more interesting to pair these two films together in a review, since they both deal with protagonists who carry a burden of childhood guilt into adulthood. Both stories are about people who take a lifetime to atone for their mistakes, and both movies are based on phenomenal bestsellers. I haven't seen THE KITE RUNNER yet, still waiting for it to open in my town, but I found the book to be a real page-turner. I told my sister about it, and she had the book read in less than three days. I'm really looking forward to this movie.
"Doubles Up" on kid rape is a horrible headline, guys. by AdrianVeidt	Dec 7th, 2007 11:33:50 AM
Seriously. Sick.
the closest I've ever been... by kaspianwithak	Dec 7th, 2007 11:40:21 AM
to FIRST. 20th aint too bad right?
"They had it all. They had each other. They had cancer." by IAmMrMonkey!	Dec 7th, 2007 11:44:55 AM
The Bucket List. The feelgood movie of 2007.
If there was a male equivilant to the Lifetime Channel by skimn	Dec 7th, 2007 12:05:44 PM
sort of like Oxygen, maybe called Testoren, it sounds like The Bucket List would play on a 24 hour loop.
"Cars 2" trailer at SuperHeroHype.com by SimpleSandwiches	Dec 7th, 2007 12:12:12 PM
I mean, the trailer for "Speed Racer".... The races look like Pixatr shite.
Agree with you on Bucket List... by Executor	Dec 7th, 2007 12:43:10 PM
Wanted to say something positive, since I disagreed whole-heartedly with you on your last review (Atonement). And the sad thing is, Rob Reiner has potential. The 20 minute Q & A with him after the movie was funnier than anything he's done in 10 years. Why can't he translate that funny to film anymore? What happens to these filmmakers (like Copolla...I hear his new one is horrible.)
Dear Ndugu, by The Winged Doucheman	Dec 7th, 2007 01:50:05 PM
Is there a naked Kathy Bates in Bucket List? I needed a bucket after I saw that shit.
Kite Runner was a Surprisingly Good Read by DKT	Dec 7th, 2007 02:02:42 PM
I wasn't sure I was going to like the Kite Runner when I first read it because it had been so over-hyped. But the novel was incredibly well-written, an emotionally charged page-turner. I'm glad to hear the movie seems to be of the same caliber.
skimn by Bloo	Dec 7th, 2007 03:13:00 PM
if there was said channel, Brian's Song would be on alot otoo, not the original but the made for TV ABC remake, which sadly I own on DVD because I thought it was the original
Kite Runner: The Book! by maxwell's hammer	Dec 7th, 2007 03:16:33 PM
I read the Kite Runner a few years ago as part of a reading group, and we were pretty uniform in our dislike of the book. I've nothing against the story itself, but the writing was so incredibly heavy-handed. It felt like the kind of book people would read who don't actually like to read, but who want to impress people by reading anyway. I hope the movie finds a more effective way to tell what we all agreed could have been a great story.
...and for reference... by maxwell's hammer	Dec 7th, 2007 03:21:52 PM
other books our group read and enjoyed: The Poisonwood Bible, A Seperate Peace, The Namesake, and The Stone Raft.
Bloo by skimn	Dec 7th, 2007 03:41:52 PM
..and any sports movie where the underdog emerges the winner..oh wait..thats EVERY sports movie...
So, Freeman and Nicholson are playing themselves... again. by El Scorcho	Dec 7th, 2007 03:58:12 PM
Rob Reiner CAN be an alright filmmaker, but he is a fuckwad of a man. I don't smoke, but if I ever meet him I plan on starting right there and then.
Shalit sez: "Best anal rape since Ned Beatty!" by la_sith	Dec 7th, 2007 04:01:57 PM
"Take a buddy along for the ride!"
I misread 'move' as 'movie' by ImFixingtoDie	Dec 7th, 2007 04:46:36 PM
"Because of a movie when I was 13 I lost track with most of them". I just had an image in my head of Quint's friends all telling him that SILVER BULLET was awful and him being like "Fuck these people" and never speaking to them again.
Meathead needs to stop making movies by Osmosis Jones	Dec 7th, 2007 10:01:07 PM
Dude hasn't made a watchable film in TWELVE YEARS.
Maxwell's Hammer - re: Kite Runner: the Book! by LoneGun	Dec 8th, 2007 03:06:19 AM
Personally, I love to read. I think it is one of the great personal activities an individual can truly treasure and enjoy. Right now, I'm on Irene Nemirovsky's wartime epic, SUITE FRANCAISE. Speaking for myself, I didn't read THE KITE RUNNER because I was looking to impress people. Originally, I had no interest in the book, until my father approached me with it. Both he and my mother had read it and loved it. (They are both voracious readers.) Khaled Hosseini's narrative thread captivated and resonated with me on a deeply personal note from the first page of the novel to the last. What you and your reading group thought was "incredibly heavy-handed" I found brisk, compelling and very easy to read. True, the story has very serious events that play out and have "heavy" emotional consequences, but this is the story of a lives being shattered and of one man trying to repair his soul. It's not really meant to be taken lightly. I've spoken to some other people who've read THE KITE RUNNER, co-workers and friends, and we're "pretty uniform" in our LOVE of the book. By the way, of the other books you and your reading group have read, I've only actually read A SEPARATE PEACE. I thought it was one of the most self-important pieces of crap I've ever slogged through.
what does "on the nose" mean? by WWBD	Dec 8th, 2007 12:02:32 PM
I've heard it used negatively before, but it also has a very positive connotation. If someone is doing something well, they're doing it "on the nose." I suppose this is one of them Janusian words. Could someone tell me what it means in a film context? Also, what does calling a film "precious" mean? That's another word that can be positive or negative.
"on the nose" by LoneGun	Dec 8th, 2007 01:25:34 PM
I consulted three different dictionaries on this and found the same thing in each one. "On the nose" is an informal expression, North American slang meaning "precisely", "exactly". For example, "It began to rain at four on the nose, delaying the tennis match." Another similar expression is "on the button". It appears that some people use the expression to describe someone as being correct about something - "Jackman is right on the nose in his assessment about the ending of that film." Whether this is actually a proper use of the expression "on the nose" is not clear to me.
what does "precious" mean? by WWBD	Dec 8th, 2007 05:56:26 PM
LoneGun, but what's the NEGATIVE connotation of on the nose? My guess is it's something like "obvious", since it's, you know, right there in your face if it's on the nose. So what does calling a movie or a moment "precious" mean?
LoneGun by maxwell's hammer	Dec 9th, 2007 12:29:13 PM
To each his own, I say. I, like you, didn't read the book to impress anyone...our group thought it would be an interesting next novel for discussion. I understand that it dealt with serious events and all that, but I think where you found it 'easy to read', we found that it was overly obvious in its presentation...it lacked subtly. Of all the books we read, it was one of the few on which we had a unanimous opinion. And just so you know, we were very mixed on "A Seperate Peace". I was in the minority on that one (I may have been overstating when I implied the whole group enjoyed it). i liked it whereas several people in the group didn't. The other book we had a unanimous opinion on, btw, was "The Poisonwood Bible", which i was a bit wary of in the beginning, but eventually fell head-over-heels for.
maxwell's hammer - the books we read by LoneGun	Dec 9th, 2007 09:01:03 PM
I'll look for "The Poisonwood Bible" if that 's one you'd recommend, because I am looking for good books, and while we don't see eye-to-eye on those other two, maybe we will on this one. I don't know if you've read "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, but it's a novel I checked out last summer, very provocative and apocalyptic in its scope. From one reader to another, I would recommend that one. I was quite blown away. Anyway, nice to know another book reader on this site.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by GenreBoy	Dec 9th, 2007 10:09:38 PM
Is the new book by the author of Kite Runner. I loved it. It felt honest and true and is honest that for someone people they only see the ugliness this world has to offer and yet, knowing that are able to do what others wouldnt be able to.
Saramago by maxwell's hammer	Dec 10th, 2007 11:48:41 AM
I read "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" a few years ago (strangely enough, after one of my middle school English students did a report about him), and fell in love with his style. 'Blindness' soon followed (and its sequel, 'Seeing'). I've tried to read at least one of his novels a year. I think 'Gospel' might have been my favorite so far, although 'Blindness' is pretty amazing. Its such a clean, sharply written book...like a laser beam.
Right on, m.h. by LoneGun	Dec 10th, 2007 12:26:38 PM
I've heard good things about Saramago's "The Cave", as well. I'll check out the others. GenreBoy, "A Thousand Splendid Suns" will probably be my next read.

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