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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Nearly caught up on these Sundance reviews.
I’m not well read on Michael Chabon. He’s one of those authors I keep meaning to just dive into whole-hog and I keep getting distracted by other books and graphic novels.
So I can’t write this review as someone who knows the novel. I can’t compare the two, but I can tell you that I greatly enjoyed this film and it hit close to home on a lot of levels.
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. THE LAST WORD was one of those “maybe” choices at Sundance this year. I liked the cast… Wes Bentley, Ray Romano and Winona Ryder… and I liked the premise (man makes a living writing suicide notes for depressed individuals who want their last words to be poetic), but I had already been burned by SUNSHINE CLEANERS. That was a great premise (a pair of sisters start a crime scene clean-up service) and a great cast (Alan Arkin, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt), but turned out to be a severely flawed movie.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Overall, the sense I’m getting from Sundance veterans is that it was a mild-mannered year. There were several good films, but there were very few films that have everyone hooting and hollering. There were no insane megabuck deals this year. And with the festival pretty much over, running at half-energy at this point, all that’s really left is to get in as many last-minute films as possible. Thankfully, Grib’s still up there, and still sending in review.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Normally I’d at least throw in a few paragraph breaks, but I like the way this guy’s one solid paragraph sort of imparts his enthusiasm for the entire experience. Like he just couldn’t wait to tell us.
And I love his nickname. Made me laugh. Because I am evidently thirteen years old.
Check it out:
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
That is the worst punctuation in the history of intentionally overbearing AICN punctuation. Thank you.
I’m glad to see Kraken contributing his own thoughts on the Sundance stuff he’s seeing as Quint’s wingman. And, yes, by “wingman,” I mean “scat bottom.”
This one sounds crazy. I like crazy. I am curious to see this for myself:
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Grib’s working hard up there in Park City, and the first review he’s got for us today is for THE LAST WORD, a film I haven’t heard much about so far:
Hey Harry,
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
The reason I personally love going to a festival is because I love the way you gets films colliding, totally different types of movies that you’d otherwise never see in the same day or even the same week. This is what I try to do here at my house by putting in so many random titles... I try to create those opportunities for happy strange thematic accidents.
Thanks for more reviews, guys. Keep it up:
Harry and crew,
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
We’ve got so many Sundance reviews today you’re going to feel like you’re there. This is the first of them, and this guy’s seen a whole fistful of films for you:
Dear Harry, Quint, and the AICN Nation,
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Father Death is an old timey Sundance spy, a guy who’s been sending in reports since at least the year 2000. He’s back today with a report on two films he’s seen so far this year, and he’s thrown in a couple of pictures. It cracks me up that he didn’t recognize the “mysterious guy” he photographed in the third picture below, but I’m sure you guys will tell him who it is.
Good stuff, Father Death, and keep it up!
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I like Chabon, but I don't think he writes books that are particularly well-suited to screenplay adaptation. I don't think he thinks in terms of movies. He's a novelist... and that's as it should be. He doesn't write his books thinking about the eventual Hollywood sale... or at least, that's not how his books feel to me.
Anyway... did this attempt to bring this early book of his to life work? Here's our first answer from Sundance:
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
So we just premiered the new red-banded trailer for this one (and I’m sorry that the age verification thing pissed off or annoyed so many of you... it was required by the studio before the site could go live), and now we’ve got a reaction from someone who has laid eyes on the remake:
Hey Harry,
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I saw this one here in LA, and I’ll hold my personal review until closer to release. For now, let’s hear from someone who saw it in the thin mountain air of Utah last night:
Harry and Co.,
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. This week I head out to Sundance for my second year running. I had a blast last year and this year looks to be even busier, if that’s possible. I’ll be headed to Park City with Rav and Kraken in tow. Rav’ll be helping me cover the films like he did last year and Kraken will be taking some pics and even dipping his tentacles into his own self-generated inkwell when he sees a flick that gets his scales all shivery.
Below you’ll find a preview written by Rav and myself. Rav will be in red and I’ll be in black.
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