The Good Shepherd

[Cruel_Sandwich]

The Good Shepherd#1

Posted: 12/22/06 at 1:14pm

Opens today! Cannot wait to see it.

[SueleenGay]

re: The Good Shepherd#2

Posted: 12/22/06 at 1:38pm

I heard it was a snooze fest by someone I respect. The Dull Shepherd is more like it.

PEACE.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: The Good Shepherd#2

Posted: 12/22/06 at 1:46pm

Oooooooo! Burn!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: The Good Shepherd#3

Posted: 12/22/06 at 1:47pm

If you had said "The Bad Shepherd", I think I would have heard Robert DeNiro falling over in shock at such a well-timed quip.

[StageManager2]

re: The Good Shepherd#4

Posted: 12/22/06 at 1:53pm

Sueleen is not good with puns.

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

[shiksa_goddess]

re: The Good Shepherd#5

Posted: 12/22/06 at 2:10pm

I'm torn on the movie. It looks good in previews and has a great cast, but I know that the previews can make anything look good. Oh well, John Hill and Michael Arden along with other theater performers are in it.

[SueleenGay]

re: The Good Shepherd#6

Posted: 12/22/06 at 2:11pm

Nah, I thought "The Bad Shepherd" was a little too obvious. Besides she didn't say it was BAD, just DULL.

PEACE.

[Garland Grrrl]

re: The Good Shepherd#7

Posted: 12/22/06 at 2:31pm

Shut up bitches -- unlike you, I actually saw it and it was brilliant.

Mind is Mantra.

Updated On: 12/22/06 at 02:31 PM

[SueleenGay]

re: The Good Shepherd#8

Posted: 12/22/06 at 2:40pm

I'm glad you liked it Grrrrl, I wasn't saying I thought it was bad, I was just passing on the comments of someone I respect. Unlike some, I don't review things I haven't seen. And speaking of Bitches, that is a cute picture of Rex.

PEACE.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: The Good Shepherd#9

Posted: 12/22/06 at 2:47pm

How does the preview make it look anti-good?

[shiksa_goddess]

re: The Good Shepherd#10

Posted: 12/22/06 at 2:53pm

What? I didn't say the previews made it look bad. I said previews can make anything look good.

[Garland Grrrl]

re: The Good Shepherd#11

Posted: 12/22/06 at 3:16pm

Rex is a big ol' bitch and I love him. I'm not even sure I care about what he thinks, I just rubberneck his reviews like the proverbial trainwreck.
I will say that the film is long -- and parts could be cut but there is tension and a great feeling of unease throughout the story. Who can you trust? What is really going on? The performances are uniformly fine -- especially Michael Gambon, Turturro, Tammy Blanchard and Deniro himself. It's not a Bond film and that may turn people off. It is a film about secrets and trust -- and fathers and sons.

Mind is Mantra.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: The Good Shepherd#12

Posted: 12/22/06 at 4:06pm

How was Joe Pesci's cameo?

[MargoChanning]

re: The Good Shepherd#13

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:20pm

The preview made it look interesting, but it only scores a 65 at Metacritic and a 52 at Rotten Tomatoes. From the reviews it sounds overlong and sluggishly paced.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: The Good Shepherd#14

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:37pm

But...sluggishly paced can be koo?

[SNAFU]

re: The Good Shepherd#15

Posted: 12/22/06 at 7:08pm

When 4 of the 5 rave quotes they use on the television commercial come from Larry King, need one really wonder?

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

[Rathnait62]

re: The Good Shepherd#16

Posted: 12/22/06 at 7:12pm

I heard that Broadway's own Ann Hampton Callaway is in it!

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[ClumsyDude15]

re: The Good Shepherd#17

Posted: 12/22/06 at 8:10pm

Isn't Jenn Gambatese in it?

Whose she play?

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: The Good Shepherd#18

Posted: 12/25/06 at 9:51pm

Saw it today.

Brilliant film, albeit a little too long.

I think the most ingenious thing about THE GOOD SHEPHERD is that DeNiro uses the CIA as a metaphor as a means of exploring the differences between intellect and emotion. You think the movie is being cold and distant but (Not to give anything away) that is not the case.

[Jon]

re: The Good Shepherd#19

Posted: 12/26/06 at 3:01pm

I'm confused. Isn't there a family film with Matt Damon and George Clooney called THE GOOD GERMAN SHEPHERD?

[blueflame]

re: The Good Shepherd#20

Posted: 12/26/06 at 3:12pm

I think Rex Reed recently commented on his confusion of these two titles...

"You can't just leave a meringue once you start it!"

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: The Good Shepherd#21

Posted: 12/26/06 at 4:45pm

I forgot to talk about how awesome the audience was.

(MAJOR SPOILER WARNING!!!!!!!!)






My theatre was like a tent revival meeting. As the studio logo came on, someone hooted causing the entire audience to applaud wildly.

- John Turturro got the most laughs by far. Everything that came out of his mouth elicted laughter so loud you could barely hear the next twelve lines.

- BIG applause when Matt Damon gave the boy on the bus change for a dollar

- People began crying...hard...when Damon's son peed his pants on Santa

- The audience got SO involved with the fights between Jolie and Damon. ("Tell 'im, sister!", "Oh no he didn't!", etc.)

- LOUD gasps when Michael Gambon's character was killed

- Applause when Robert DeNiro appeared onscreen

And then...

- HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE standing ovation when Joe Pesci appeared onscreen. Unfortunately, the standing ovation lasted so long that we missed his entire performance.

Anyone have similar experiences?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: The Good Shepherd#22

Posted: 12/26/06 at 6:06pm

I had such high hopes for this film being a major fan of Matt Damon's work, but I thought it was such a dull boring movie. I thought it was slow-paced and not too well-directed. Angelina Jolie's role was not half as interesting as it could have been, actually, that is how I felt about the whole movie. It seems it could have been great with a better screenplay and much better editing, but it ended up being quite disappointing.
Gypsy's Tammy Blanchard is in the movie and has quite a nice role.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[LaurenB]

re: The Good Shepherd#23

Posted: 12/26/06 at 10:39pm

Did anyone else think the son's lips were botoxed?

[JamesMacon]

re: The Good Shepherd#24

Posted: 12/27/06 at 12:09am

It was good, but I also thought it was too long.