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Post by ripetebook on Dec 18, 2014 19:03:54 GMT -6
Saw review of DVD...stars listed as fey...Bateman. And olyphant. All were great. Yahoo.
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Post by Dolphin on Dec 26, 2014 17:39:56 GMT -6
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Post by mondayschild on Dec 27, 2014 17:09:45 GMT -6
Couldn't agree more with this writer's opinion of Timothy's performance. Just wish we could have seen a bit more of the late night meeting with Wendy. They looked at each other so tenderly. So sad, and I think we all felt it.
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Post by mare27 on Dec 27, 2014 20:35:30 GMT -6
Couldn't agree more with this writer's opinion of Timothy's performance. Just wish we could have seen a bit more of the late night meeting with Wendy. They looked at each other so tenderly. So sad, and I think we all felt it. I agree completely! I was so wishing for that swimming pool scene from the book.
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Post by mare27 on Dec 29, 2014 20:51:52 GMT -6
DGA.org/events Look at this site for an interview with director Shawn Levy, moderated by Jason Bateman, about 1/2 hour long. Behind the scenes stories. TO not mentioned specifically, but all the cast is praised. nice to listen to and watch.
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Post by Dolphin on Dec 31, 2014 22:48:03 GMT -6
DGA.org/events Look at this site for an interview with director Shawn Levy, moderated by Jason Bateman, about 1/2 hour long. Behind the scenes stories. TO not mentioned specifically, but all the cast is praised. nice to listen to and watch. Here's the link. Go down to all the clips and find the one that say "Full Interview" . . . www.dga.org/Events/2014/Nov2014/ThisIsWhereILeaveYou-QnA.aspx
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Post by ripetebook on Jun 22, 2015 22:07:21 GMT -6
Finally on a free week of HBO got to see this one and I loved it...thought TO was great...the scene where Tina fey walks out of horry's house...thought maybe a cut sex scene was there?
Vulture is doing their 2015 awards.so far we got "most quotable show!!!!!" Real complimentary!!!! Really!
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Post by mare27 on Jun 22, 2015 22:29:02 GMT -6
Finally on a free week of HBO got to see this one and I loved it...thought TO was great...the scene where Tina fey walks out of horry's house...thought maybe a cut sex scene was there? In the book, if I remember correctly, there was just the discussion between Tina Fey's character and her brother, about her being with Horry...no actual scene...so I didn't expect to see that in the film...However, in the book, there was also a very nice scene of Tina falling into the pool and Horry jumping in to rescue her and then playing with her children in the pool...I was so hoping that that would be in the movie...but no. I really liked a lot of things about this film, had a great cast and a nice mix of drama and comedy. I am surprised it did not get more attention than it did. I own the DVD and have watched it several times.
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Post by ripetebook on Jun 23, 2015 11:13:12 GMT -6
Heads up...Chris provanzano has been hired by AMC to do "justice" to another elmore character novel...Gunsights set in 1893. Do we dare hope TO gets tapped for a role? ?
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Post by siss13 on Jun 23, 2015 12:08:38 GMT -6
I just read that a few minutes ago. I have not read the book, but if Timothy stars, hopefully it will be a totally different character than Raylan.
And I watched TIWILY again this weekend on HBO. Timothy really did well in that role. I would like to see him in more character driven roles like Horry.
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Post by squeegee on Jul 1, 2015 4:59:11 GMT -6
I just watched the movie and I'd like to give my opinion while it's fresh in my mind. Disclaimer: I have not read the book!
I thought it was a decent film, with good performances and an ok script. That being said I felt as if I had see it before. If I give it a bit of thought I can probably come up with 30 or more films in the past decade alone that were made from the exact same recipe. Of course, they can be done well or badly. Some have high calibre stars like August, Osage County, some have a handful of TV actors, some are somewhere in between. Some have more or less inventive individual storylines, but essentially they're the same. Not that that's a bad thing, but I wouldn't pay any money to see another one of those "person comes home to family, ordinary tragedies are revealed, everyone leaves" films. I watched it online, enjoyed it, probably not gonna watch it again. I actually agree with some reviewers that were mentioned about Wendy and Horry's story being the most interesting, and I'm not saying that because of TO. I think I actually had a little tear in my eye at some point. I think I would rather have seen a movie with a focus on them, but then maybe part of the power of the storyline was that it was peripheral, somehow that makes it even more tragic, don't you think? I actually want to draw a specific parellel to August, Osage County, because I thought the most interesting storyline there was the Ivy/Little Charles one, and that was equally sidelined. (This makes me sound like I only want to see tragic romances haha, but that's not true). I have looked for fanfiction on both couples, but no such luck.
Well, I give it 3/5 stars.
Other observations: - I can't stand Adam Driver, I'm not sure if that is because of his role in Girls and I my inability to separate him from the role or if it's just him - that long hair is not a good look for TO
And can somebody explain the "grandfathered in" phrase to me? I'm not a native speaker and I'm not sure I understand its meaning. Thank you!
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Post by ripetebook on Jul 1, 2015 11:18:14 GMT -6
It would like if they passed a law to have elevators in any two story building but your building was done decades ago you are grandfathered in...meaning you don't need to install that elevator! Does that help?
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Post by squeegee on Jul 1, 2015 16:07:21 GMT -6
It would like if they passed a law to have elevators in any two story building but your building was done decades ago you are grandfathered in...meaning you don't need to install that elevator! Does that help? Oh, as in "this rule doesn't apply to you"? So in connection to Horry it means that their affair isn't adultery? Got it. Learn something new every day ... thank you. (I thought something completely different and you'd never stop laughing if I told you.)
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Post by mare27 on Jul 1, 2015 19:18:46 GMT -6
I just watched the movie and I'd like to give my opinion while it's fresh in my mind. Disclaimer: I have not read the book! I thought it was a decent film, with good performances and an ok script. That being said I felt as if I had see it before. If I give it a bit of thought I can probably come up with 30 or more films in the past decade alone that were made from the exact same recipe. Of course, they can be done well or badly. Some have high calibre stars like August, Osage County, some have a handful of TV actors, some are somewhere in between. Some have more or less inventive individual storylines, but essentially they're the same. Not that that's a bad thing, but I wouldn't pay any money to see another one of those "person comes home to family, ordinary tragedies are revealed, everyone leaves" films. I watched it online, enjoyed it, probably not gonna watch it again. I actually agree with some reviewers that were mentioned about Wendy and Horry's story being the most interesting, and I'm not saying that because of TO. I think I actually had a little tear in my eye at some point. I think I would rather have seen a movie with a focus on them, but then maybe part of the power of the storyline was that it was peripheral, somehow that makes it even more tragic, don't you think? I actually want to draw a specific parellel to August, Osage County, because I thought the most interesting storyline there was the Ivy/Little Charles one, and that was equally sidelined. (This makes me sound like I only want to see tragic romances haha, but that's not true). I have looked for fanfiction on both couples, but no such luck. Well, I give it 3/5 stars. Other observations: - I can't stand Adam Driver, I'm not sure if that is because of his role in Girls and I my inability to separate him from the role or if it's just him - that long hair is not a good look for TO And can somebody explain the "grandfathered in" phrase to me? I'm not a native speaker and I'm not sure I understand its meaning. Thank you! This is one of the reasons I like this site so much, love to read these kinds of posts! I appreciate your post about this film...I liked it a lot. I read the book first, so came to the film from a different view. I thought Jonathan Tropper is a good story teller and I think he writes with a film version in mind. In the book the character of Horry actually had a bigger role and a few significant scenes that were not a part of the film. They were so well written that I had no trouble picturing the cast in those scenes, even tho never filmed. I think the death of a family member and the reaction of all those around him/her is a universal situation, everyone can relate in some fashion...it's made for drama, it's life. No wonder there are a lot of films with this theme... I prefer this kind of drama much more than blockbuster special effects movies. I want to see stories about people, that I can relate to in some small way. ( I saw "August Osage Iowa" before I saw TIWILY, and I have to say I hated it, for the most part...I liked one or two of Meryl Streep's scenes, not the screaming ones, and I liked the Margo Martindale/Chris Cooper parts, they are both so good...hated Julia Roberts in this. Most of it to me was just dark and depressing and violent. It would never have occurred to me to compare these two films, other than the father dying at the beginning of the story....totally different animals, I think.) Back to TIWILY, I loved the job Jason Bateman did with the main character. He usually plays a smart ass in anything I have seen, and I thought he was believable and likable in this...Tina Fey was wonderful, especially talking about Horry...I didn't know she could do drama...she and Bateman made a good sister/brother pair... I know a lot of the reviews focused on Adam Driver, this guy stole the film, I read somewhere...BS! I did not care for him at all, he was the weak link, I think, in this family drama...There was also a much bigger conflict between Jason Bateman's character and his older brother, in the book, which they chose to eliminate from the film. That was a loss, I think. Anyway, a story of a family, of loss, of dreams, of new life, of assorted relationships, with laughter and tears...what's not to like? I liked that the ending was not all wrapped up in a bow, all situations resolved. You could film this family again five years later, and I bet I would still find it compelling. I was interested because of TO's casting, but I liked it a lot for other reasons as well. My two cents... Have a great evening!
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Post by superglue on May 13, 2016 8:39:45 GMT -6
It would like if they passed a law to have elevators in any two story building but your building was done decades ago you are grandfathered in...meaning you don't need to install that elevator! Does that help? Oh, as in "this rule doesn't apply to you"? So in connection to Horry it means that their affair isn't adultery? Got it. Learn something new every day ... thank you. (I thought something completely different and you'd never stop laughing if I told you.) this is an old post, but for anyone else wondering, the specific phrase is the "grandfather clause" - and has evolved to the verb "grandfathered in." It's a good term to know, especially for ESL people! "A grandfather clause (or grandfather policy) is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clauseSo basically she was saying that since she met Horry first before her husband (and presumably slept with him long before), it wasn't adultery.
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