Bonus: Here's a link to the Monolithed version of the 'Snowmen' trailer. Awful family fare is transformed into unnerving weirdness about strange children driven to make snowmen. It's actually kind of great.
Monday, September 19, 2011
You're an A-1 nutboy, and Grissom knows it.
On this week's podcast we discuss the new Ryan Gosling film, 'Drive'. Bear Trap took in a showing this weekend and drones on and on about it. Seriously, check it out. A certain Best Supporting Actor for a Dramatic Series Emmy win by a certain Mr. Dinklage is discussed and lauded. We also discuss 'Thor' and the trailers for 'Rum Diary', 'J. Edgar', and 'Snowmen'. Also: Monolith tells a joke. This is where the fun starts.
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Check out these girls who know someone who is SNOWMEN. Even they don't seem excited:
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Anyway, welcome to the Ryan Gosling fan club, Crane. It's real humid in here. Hope you brought a fan. But seriously, DRIVE was pretty darn impressive. Does it have anything to say about anything relevant to the world we live in? Not really but it sure is cool. Like Peter, I struggled with BRONSON but really loved the style of this one. How impressive was that elevator scene? I need to see VALHALLA RISING and the PUSHER series is supposed to be really good as well. Seems like a unique director.
Thank you for correctly pointing out to Peter that RUM DIARY takes place in Puerto Rico (was shot there, too) not Cuba. I think it's definitely supposed to be the 60's or 70's, but wow does it not feel that way in places.
J. Edgar...yeah, I don't know. I'm much more excited about the prospect of DiCaprio being in Quentin Tarantino's new movie.
Crane, you gotta see THE STATION AGENT. That director (Thomas McCarthy) is great. Also did THE VISITOR and WIN WIN. Annnnnd his art director? Why none other than one John Paino. Remember him?
Drive was great -- it's been sticking with me all this week. I keep flashing on the last scene between Albert Brooks and Brian Cranston. Both great actors who are both great in this, but Albert Brooks's handling of that scene was so interesting and nuanced. I hope he starts doing a lot of work the way Richard Jenkins has. If he does, I also hope Brooks stays away from some of the stuff Jenkins hasn't (Hall Pass for one). BTW, I picked up the novel in B&N the other night and just flipping through, I think the main character is only referred to as 'Driver' throughout. Kind of interesting, and would help explain where the decision to make him more-or-less anonymous came from.
ReplyDeleteYeah there is something vaguely anachronistic about the Rum Diary trailer -- can't pinpoint it. Could they have played fast and loose with the fashion of the era to make them look more cool?
Yeah, J. Edgar. I guess there are definite advantages to being a) a legend, and b) a not infrequent winner of Oscars, as studios will ignore your last few expensive flops and give you a shitton of money to make a 16-year old looking boy-man into an unconvincing 60-year old. And I am stoked about the new Tarantino Western. Costner and DiCaprio as some sick-twist bad guys? Sounds good to me.
Hell yeah John Paino! From the compellingly named short film, "Shift"! What a nice guy. Glad to see he's still at it and doing well.
There was a pretty good interview with Refn on The Treatment (you can find the podcast on iTunes if you didn't hear it). That's a unique dude. Sometimes you want to tell him to blow it out his ass, but he also has some smart stuff to say. And yeah, Drive was pretty impressive, for sure. I could stand to see more stuff like that. I heard the movie and the novel are very different.
ReplyDeleteJ. Edgar - I don't know, there's just nearly nothing about that story that makes me want to watch it. I'm pretty sure that if someone who seemed more J. Edgar-ish was in it, that wouldn't change my viewpoint. I wish Eastwood would can the big epic and/or important social crap and just do something fun. Then again, once I'm 80-whatever, maybe I won't want to think about frivolous stuff anymore. But man... I hope not.
Good work again, dudes. Trailer suggestions for next week: the different Muppets trailers, 1911, maybe Extremely Loud Incredibly Close. And did you already do Real Steel?
I think Eastwood, who will live forever by the way (and I don't mean that to jinx him, but I actually think he'll be directing into his 90's), cranks out a bunch of misfires for every good movie he turns out. His last good one was Gran Torino, and before that Mystic River. Both were flawed but generally strong. I think this looks to be one of his misfires.
ReplyDeleteReal Steel looks good -- the trailers for that have been great. We recorded the latest one right when you posted up this comment, so we'll prolly take a look at these next week.