#1
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:35pm
A really well-done satire. You should definitely see it if you have the chance.
#2
Posted: 3/26/06 at 4:00pm
Everything I've heard about this film has been positive. Looking forward to seeing it.
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#3
Posted: 3/26/06 at 8:43pm
Me too, it looked quite good from the previews I saw.
#4
Posted: 3/26/06 at 8:56pm
I'm definitely looking forward to seeing this. Hmmm, maybe next week sometime. I was hoping to catch it while I was home this past week, but it was nowhere to be found at the local theaters.
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
#5
Posted: 3/26/06 at 9:01pm
I saw it last week and absolutely loved it. It differs quite a bit from the novel it's based on, but the majority of the changes serve to make the story more realistic and funny without being wacky in the way that the end of the novel was. My only major issue with the film is that Katie Holmes was seriously miscast in her role.
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms
#6
Posted: 3/26/06 at 9:18pm
Loved it. Best movie I've seen in the past several months. Great work by all, including Holmes. Aaron Eckhart (so far, my only candidate for Best Actor) and Rob Lowe were the standouts.
#7
Posted: 4/3/06 at 3:02am
I loved this movie.
I wish the part of the journalist was played by someone else...I just don't think Katie Holmes is a good actress. She's always exactly the same.
Definitely loved Eckhart, though.
I wish the part of the journalist was played by someone else...I just don't think Katie Holmes is a good actress. She's always exactly the same.
Definitely loved Eckhart, though.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#8
Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:30pm
The book was laugh out loud funny. (people looking at you strangely on the subway) Looking forward to seeing the film.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#9
Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:54pm
Okay, since no one else has said it, I've got to make sure people don't expect too much of this film.
While I went in and was entertained, this film CERTAINLY is not anything you go to if you want to learn anything about humanity, history, or...well...anything. This film is 100% about getting a good laugh about two dimensional representations of "spin".
Not a BAD film per se (certainly better than most of this years studio drop offs), but definately not going to be in my top ten of this year.
While I went in and was entertained, this film CERTAINLY is not anything you go to if you want to learn anything about humanity, history, or...well...anything. This film is 100% about getting a good laugh about two dimensional representations of "spin".
Not a BAD film per se (certainly better than most of this years studio drop offs), but definately not going to be in my top ten of this year.
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
#10
Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:55pm
SUCH A FUNNY MOVIE!!!
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#12
Posted: 4/15/06 at 11:09pm
I didn't think Katie Holmes was miscast - I thought she was fine.
It's a good movie - lots of laughs.
It's a good movie - lots of laughs.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#13
Posted: 4/15/06 at 11:10pm
i loved it.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#14
Posted: 4/15/06 at 11:16pm
I saw this last night and loved it. It was really funny. I loved Rob Lowe's character. I was actually laughing out loud so many times in the movie.
#15
Posted: 4/15/06 at 11:17pm
I wouldn't call Katie Holmes miscast, either; she just seemed a little too naive for the part. *MINI-SPOILER* I didn't believe her as a seductress at all.
Maggie Gyllenhaal would have been perfect for the role.
Maggie Gyllenhaal would have been perfect for the role.
#16
Posted: 4/15/06 at 11:45pm
I can't wait to see it, oh look at all the good reviews =)
#17
Posted: 4/16/06 at 1:02am
Saw it tonight. This movie was hilarious. Eckhart hasn't been so perfectly cast since IN THE COMPANY OF MEN.
#18
Posted: 4/16/06 at 6:41am
..and he's yummy. Loved him in Erin Brockovitch.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#19
Posted: 4/23/06 at 9:21am
i just saw this and thought it was absolutely fantastic... my one problem though was Katie Holmes, i really don't think she is that great of an actress
#20
Posted: 4/23/06 at 11:36am
Anyone know how big the kid's role is in this movie? The actor's name is Cameron Bright. (Photo above) I was one of his studio teachers when he was shooting the film, and I'm curious to see how it came out. (I'm not a certified studio teacher or anything, but a friend of mine is, and she had the film subcontract me to tutor him in French, as he's Canadian, and it's a required class there, and my friend doesn't speak it at all. It was a really fun experience.)
Anyway, does he have a significant role? Just wondering...
#21
Posted: 4/23/06 at 11:39am
Yes, he probably the second biggest role in the movie
#22
Posted: 4/23/06 at 11:43am
Oh! Cool! I should probably make a point to go see it, then. =)
He was a nice kid. I worked with him for about 6 weeks, I guess...
Thanks, Caitie!
He was a nice kid. I worked with him for about 6 weeks, I guess...
Thanks, Caitie!
#23
Posted: 4/23/06 at 11:48am
No problem! And I thought he was really good too 
#24
Posted: 4/23/06 at 11:53am
I saw this movie last night, and I couldn't stop laughing! The humor was witty and smart, not dumb like in a lot of recent comedies.
"A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing." - Thomas Jefferson
