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Tobey Maguire Goes a-Crusadin' for Gary Ross!

I like Gary Ross by SebastianHaff	Jul 21st, 2008 03:45:10 AM
Pleasantville is rad.
I like Gary Ross by SebastianHaff	Jul 21st, 2008 03:46:01 AM
Pleasantville is rad.
Nerds of Doom FTW! by Sherman_Lives	Jul 21st, 2008 03:48:07 AM
Let's hear it for Danny Strong making compelling historical dramas, while Adam Busch rocks out with Common Rotation and Tom Lenk apparently does sketch comedy in Hollywood. Always knew those nerds had potential.
...this is cool news? by Mike_D	Jul 21st, 2008 04:07:28 AM
l-a-m-e.
OK, I KNOW i just saw a reference to Thulsa Doom!!! by cornponious	Jul 21st, 2008 04:16:58 AM
I go and look at that pinup girl pic, and then I come back and it's GONE! WTF?
And now it's back. by cornponious	Jul 21st, 2008 04:18:02 AM
Ok, so I'll read it now.
But I can't read it. by cornponious	Jul 21st, 2008 04:18:57 AM
I'm not authorized to access that page.
Gary's not bad by JeremiahTheProphet	Jul 21st, 2008 04:20:15 AM
If done well, this could be interesting. But, alas, anything could be interesting if handled well, really.
Maguires by tomdolan04	Jul 21st, 2008 04:44:34 AM
earnest approach was good enough in Spidey 1 and 2, but he looked bored (as did everyone) in 3. Bar that I don't really rate him. I don't get the acclaim for Seabiscuit - it was a hackneyed piece of storytelling that looked like it should have been stashed away for a saturday afternoon made-for-tv piece of fluff.
Robotech by Dazzler69	Jul 21st, 2008 06:52:02 AM
Toby needs to work on Robotech instead!
Glenn Gary Glenn Ross is awesome! by TheNorthlander	Jul 21st, 2008 07:08:51 AM
What? oh nevermind.
I gathered the above article as "blah" by Damien Chowder	Jul 21st, 2008 08:33:05 AM
I didn't understand any of it...
If Tobey plays it as Spidey I'm in! by Rubiks Doob	Jul 21st, 2008 09:44:21 AM
Otherwise I'll wait for the DVD... not.
So its another black themed historical film by skimn	Jul 21st, 2008 10:55:57 AM
but seen through the eyes of a main white character ala all those South African films of the '80s. Oh how those white folk suffered fighting for the civil rights for his fellow (minority) man.
Stultifying by JackRabbitSlim	Jul 21st, 2008 10:57:36 AM
Wow - what's next - a movie about the Teapot Dome Scandal? Or how about the intricacies of the Lend-Lease Program? An impassioned debate set in 1975 over the need for School Buses to come to a complete stop 10 feet before every railroad crossing starring Joseph Gordon-Leavitt as the bright-eyed Harvard grad and Anthony Hopkins as the jaded jurist who has his faith in law rekindled? Booooring.
Ghosts of Mississippi is horrendous and offensive. by Rev. Slappy	Jul 21st, 2008 11:34:58 AM
It's probably the worst of the "whites are the real heroes of the civil rights era" Hollywood movies, and that's saying a lot. Instead of making a movie about Medgar Evers, they decided to make a movie about the white lawyer that prosecuted Evers' killer.
I'm glad they continue to cover civil rights struggle in movies. by tonytodd	Jul 21st, 2008 11:37:00 AM
...because it's sooooo relevant today with all the evil white people spending all their time trying to oppress blacks. I mean, it's still going on! White people don't spend any of their energy working, or trying support their families, or pursuing any goals or dreams. It's all directed towards oppressing blacks. We need to talk about this issue...FOREVER. Let's never let it die! I prefer more overt movies like the one where the evil white swim team tries to oppress the good black swim team. Or evil white basketball team tries to oppress the the good black basketball team. But I guess all these movies have to have one obligatory white person who comes to realize the evils of his ways for being white. I'm sure Spidey will be good at that role in this movie. Down with the white man!
Gary Ross also did Pleasantville, which I liked a lot. by Rev. Slappy	Jul 21st, 2008 11:37:23 AM
He wrote Big and Dave. Seabiscuit was a fantastic book, should have been a miniseries like Generation Kill, they had to leave out way too much information.
tonytodd by toadkillerdog	Jul 21st, 2008 11:58:35 AM
Are you familiar with the words 'of historical importance'?Are you familiar with any type of film depiction of historic events that occurred before you were born, that perhaps others of your generation or later generations are unfamiliar with? Does every picture made need to have a giant Robot Lion in it? Sorry TomBodet. Did you complain about the depiction of ancient Greeks in Troy? Do you think that any picture that accurately depicts events of the past regardless of who is comes out like a villain, is of no merit? Are you that threatened by a movie about desegregation, or any flick that shows the historical imbalance of power between the races - regardless of your own, I am sure, sterling interaction with all races?
Verhovens Crusades isnt... by judge dredds fresh undies	Jul 22nd, 2008 04:57:03 AM
Schwarzenegger owns the script, its his pet project. Maybe they will make it when he stops pissing about playing politician.

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