Carnage

[redmustang]

Posted: 9/1/11 at 5:25pm

Anyone else think this movie looks juicy?

[redmustang]

Posted: 9/3/11 at 5:27pm

Apparently, not.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/3/11 at 5:41pm

I do. I can not wait to see it and early buzz is VERY GOOD! Love the cast. Director. Story. Everything about this film should be good.

"Screening on the same day as 'W.E.' and smelling like roses by comparison was Roman Polanski's 'Carnage,' an acidic comedy based on Yasmina Reza's 2006 play "God of Carnage,' with the director replacing the original and acclaimed Broadway cast (Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden) with Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly and Kate Winslet.

Guy Lodge of In Contention thought that Waltz steals the show (others went for Foster), but concluded that Polanski fell short by remaining too tied to a play that is dark fun but narrow in focus. 'Swift and savage and so sparing in generosity that it risks selling its smart world view a little short, the ample pleasures of 'Carnage' are those of its source, but it might have found more of its own.'

Elsewhere, the Playlist called 'Carnage' 'a film of very little ambition, a minor entry in the director's canon,' while David Gritten's report for Thompson on Hollywood concluded, 'It's well acted and giddily enjoyable, if slightly less so once the characters start to analyze their descent into barbarism.'


At a Venice press conference, the actors were reportedly effusive in their praise of Polanski, with Winslet even admitting to some fright: 'We were working with the great Roman Polanski. We are only human beings and we are still perfectly capable of being terrified, whoever we are.'

But the consensus it's solid, it's nasty, it's fast (78 minutes) and you never forget that it's a play is not, let's face it, the stuff that Best Picture dreams are made of.'

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/idUS417394958520110902

[strummergirl]

Posted: 9/3/11 at 7:56pm

The trailer really sold me but I know a lot of people who do not like it because a.) issues with Polanski and b.) they thought the trailer gave the movie off as a carbon copy of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (but reading romantico's link it appears that Polanski stuck to the source material).

[romantico]

Posted: 9/3/11 at 8:01pm

I had read that Polanski worked with Yasmina Reza Plus Yasmina was very interested in Polanski doing this.All four actors look great in this. Its a very short film so I am guessing the time will fly by.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/4/11 at 1:45am

I guess the title change is part of the secular humanist war on Christmas? Support it all you want, you atheists. Burn in hell.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/4/11 at 8:21am

78 minutes?