August Rush
August Rush
#1August Rush
Posted: 2/1/08 at 11:34pmHas anyone seen this film? Is it any count? It is playing at the dollar theatre and my friends and I are thinking about seeing it this weekend.
#2re: August Rush
Posted: 2/1/08 at 11:42pmhttps://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=947558
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#2re: August Rush
Posted: 2/1/08 at 11:48pm
He's talking about the film AUGUST RUSH, not rush for the play AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.
Regarding the film: It's really bad, Really, really bad. And too bad because I love Keri Russell, Freddie Highmore and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. But the screenplay just needed a ton of rewrites to come even close to being decent.
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#3re: August Rush
Posted: 2/1/08 at 11:52pmI loved this movie but I can't recommend it, as I was the only one in the theatre who wasn't laughing or groaning at the screen. I just couldn't hate a movie about a child musical genius. It has a sweet, 80's-era Spielberg glow to it in some scenes, but the script is laughable and full of contrivances--as soon as a scene begins, you know exactly where it's going. The cast certainly couldn't be better, though, especially the little Afro-American gospel-singing girl whom August meets in a church.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#4re: August Rush
Posted: 2/1/08 at 11:54pm
He's talking about the film AUGUST RUSH, not rush for the play AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
That made me laugh pretty hard.
#5re: August Rush
Posted: 2/1/08 at 11:54pmDid Foster even read the original message?
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#6re: August Rush
Posted: 2/1/08 at 11:55pmIt was a joke, people.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#7re: August Rush
Posted: 2/2/08 at 12:06am
Suuuuuuuuuure.
You just wanted to snap at somebody.
I see how you are!
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"Writing is like prostitution. First, you do it for love, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money." ~ Moliere
#8re: August Rush
Posted: 2/2/08 at 12:52amI wasn't such a fan of the movie, but loved the soundtrack. Or perhaps I just loved that Rhys-Meyers is hot, Irish, and can sing...
Call the understudy / I can't go on tonight / I'm drinking with my buddy / I'm getting good and tight / Before they raise the curtain I'll be higher than a kite / So call the understudy
I can't go on tonight
#9re: August Rush
Posted: 2/2/08 at 10:26amI hear egg is a good moisturizer, Foster.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10re: August Rush
Posted: 2/3/08 at 9:24pmI remember when I saw the trailer that all enthusiasm for the film evaporated when Robin Williams appeared onscreen, you could just feel the entire audience simultaneously lose interest.
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