What's The Last Movie You’ve Seen?

[moevillini]

How was Christoph Waltz?

Did he kill Robert Pattinson for being a jew? Is his forehead scar healing nicely?

??? I'm not getting the references here. Reese Witherspoon was terrific, the guy who played Jacob was good but perhaps played the role a little too sappy for my tastes (though it was sort of a sappy type of role) and the guy who played the ringmaster (the husband to Reese aka Marlena) was great.

And I thought I was paying attention throughout the movie, but I missed any references to religion.

anyhow, I've been watching this one on and off for a couple days, about one of my sports heroes - good historical footage, both fight and non-fight related

I never knew Ernie Terrell was such a good singer!

 

[YB85]

??? I'm not getting the references here. Reese Witherspoon was terrific, the guy who played Jacob was good but perhaps played the role a little too sappy for my tastes (though it was sort of a sappy type of role) and the guy who played the ringmaster (the husband to Reese aka Marlena) was great.

And I thought I was paying attention throughout the movie, but I missed any references to religion.

anyhow, I've been watching this one on and off for a couple days, about one of my sports heroes - good historical footage, both fight and non-fight related

I never knew Ernie Terrell was such a good singer!

 

[moevillini]

well that explains it

 

[Scat]

What a horrid movie with retarded characters that fall for every ruse, trick and lie that Carrey's character floats out there. All the gay sex doesn't help the movie any either.

 

[The-Joker]

What a horrid movie with retarded characters that fall for every ruse, trick and lie that Carrey's character floats out there. All the gay sex doesn't help the movie any either.

Gay sex and retards...

I'm intrigued.

 

[Scat]

Gay sex and retards...

I'm intrigued.

These are a few of your favorite things?

 

[Boondocksaint27]

Twas as good as advertised

 

[sirkickyass]

What a horrid movie with retarded characters that fall for every ruse, trick and lie that Carrey's character floats out there.

This would be a valid criticism except .... wait for it ... all those things are based in fact and actually worked. Reading a lengthy Esquire piece on the guy reveals that almost all of things in the film, including the AIDS fake-out, actually happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Jay_Russell

https://www.scribd.com/doc/44574829/The-Great-Escapee

All the gay sex doesn't help the movie any either.

I sincerely hope you're kidding. For the record, it's this exact attitude that kept the movie from getting released for quite some time. Really sad.

It was the love story that inspired Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the screenwriting partners who gave the world Bad Santa, to write and direct a film about Russell. They pitched the story, says Requa, to a studio affiliated with the publisher of the 2003 nonfiction book about this con man.

"And that didn't go so well," he says. Adds Ficarra: "Their only comment was, 'Could Phillip be a girl?' "

Requa says he and Ficarra wanted to make a classic romantic comedy, but with two gay men in the kind of roles that Doris Day and the closeted Rock Hudson played in the 1950s.

"To say that the subject matter, the gay subject matter ... played no part in our distribution problems would be a lie," Requa says. "I mean, it did. We went with a distributor who was not one of the major independent distributors at Sundance because I believe that the larger distributors were afraid of it. Because it wasn't a gay message movie, and it was a frank depiction of gay life."

https://www.npr.org/2010/12/03/131783406/con-king-steven-russell-he-still-loves-phillip-morris


And yes, "I Love You Phillip Morris" was one of my top 10 films of 2010.

 

[sirkickyass]

 

[TroutBum]

^ Fail.

 

[default]

I saw Thor over the weekend. I thought it was not quite as good as Iron Man, but better than Iron Man 2 or either of the last two Hulk movies. It had a decent blend of comedy, action, over-the-top Marvel antics, and cheesy lines to appeal to a wide audience.

Avengers Assemble!!! My inner child geeked out.

 

[sirkickyass]

^ Fail.

Fixed.