Revolutionary Road

[thepaulo]

I'm starting to feel a little better with the help of friends....
There are still a few Oscar possibilities I want to explore
Kate Winselt, her husband Sam Mendes and leonardo Dicaprio....
very promising and of corse the buzz is the Winslet is also a strong contender for The Reader.

[WampusCrandle]

hey paul-o, good to hear you are feelin' better. I can't wait to see this movie. the entire movie was filmed in my home town, Darien CT, and Rowayton CT, and it was really great to see a movie being made in front of your eyes. every morning i awoke to my street covered with classic cars from the 40s and 50s. and to see DiCaprio and Winslet everyday was wild. they were great to the town, and i got to see them act outside, it was wild. it looks like oscar gold to me!

[Gerald]

I bet Leo and Kate both get their well-deserved first Oscar statuettes for this. Unless Frank Langella totally knocks his Nixon portrayal out of the park which is a possibility that would be foolish to rule out. BA should be Kate's to lose though.

[hammersavage]

Winslet my split her own vote with 'The Reader'. And I can't seeing Leo winning for this with real dramatic stretches like Mickey Rourke and Richard Jenkins.

So blessed that two of my 5 fav directors (Fincher and Mendes) release flicks the same time. Oscar season, geh geh geh.

[donnie_darko]

i really have never understood why leonardo dicaprio gets so much praise.

i just dont see it.

is it cause he played a retard so damn well?

[hammersavage]

This Boys Life, Basketball Diaries, Gilbert Grape, Titanic, Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can.

The guy is solid to fantastic in almost all of his films and clearly pics quality flicks.

[thepaulo]

The button thread gor derailed a bit b6 RR....
Revolutionaty Road is a brutal, unhappy experience about people sufficated by limited experiences of their lives.

[KnoxHarrington]

It just seems to be going down very familiar territory to me. Wow, a movie about how married life in the suburbs is suffocating and false? Haven't seen that before!

I mean, that's probably unfair as hell, but I do think we've been here before.

[thepaulo]

I agree the suburban nightmare has been covered for decades....(after all Sam Mendez's most famous film American Beauty did it)
Haven't read the Richard Yates novel butI would like to know more about the Kate Winslet character

[grlNIN]

It may be trite now but the novel was written in a time where these experiences were starting to become more prominent undertones in American families' lives.

Not to mention the ending, which i won't give away. Again, for that time to be written about-not even just the final thought of it but the dialogue of the idea itself was unheard of.

[hammersavage]

I agree the suburban nightmare has been covered for decades....

It has Paul. But for some reason this genre really sticks with me.

I love Little Children, In The Bedroom, The Ice Storm, Snow Angels, American Beauty. Any more suggestions?

I know it exists but I love just seeing the underbelly of the American suburb. I look forward to this movie because it explores that area and is a period piece and has Kate and Leo and was directed by one of my favorite directors. I've heard mixed things but I'm not sure how this film won't work.

[RoseBlood]

It has Paul. But for some reason this genre really sticks with me.

I know it exists but I love just seeing the underbelly of the American suburb. I look forward to this movie because it explores that area and is a period piece and has Kate and Leo and was directed by one of my favorite directors. I've heard mixed things but I'm not sure how this film won't work.
No matter how often it's been done before, I usally look forward to this genre too. If done well, they make for great character development.

I love Little Children In The Bedroom
If there is a God, he will make this your MOD QUOTE. :devil2:

[yojimbo7248]

I ended up hating this movie more than I thought I would. I have never liked DiCaprio and only like Winslet in Spotless Mind so I didn't have high hopes that this would be my favorite movie. It was, however, really horrible. It had every 1950's Connecticut suburb cliches done with ponderous, pretentious, and predictable music and editing. I kept thinking about how much better Far From Heaven was at telling a story about a marriage in the same time and place. I also thought Mad Men did it better in season one.

[RoseBlood]

I ended up hating this movie more than I thought I would. I have never liked DiCaprio and only like Winslet in Spotless Mind so I didn't have high hopes that this would be my favorite movie. It was, however, really horrible. It had every 1950's Connecticut suburb cliches done with ponderous, pretentious, and predictable music and editing. I kept thinking about how much better Far From Heaven was at telling a story about a marriage in the same time and place. I also thought Mad Men did it better in season one.
I could never expect this movie to compare with Far From Heaven. I agree, it told a story about a troubled marriage during the 50's without falling into any pretentious or cliched traps.

[hammersavage]

If there is a God, he will make this your MOD QUOTE. :devil2:

You're turning into quite the underappreciated poster young lady. Good call.

I ended up hating this movie more than I thought I would. I have never liked DiCaprio and only like Winslet in Spotless Mind so I didn't have high hopes that this would be my favorite movie.

How can you not like Leo and only Kate in Spotless Mind? Actors of their generation.

[hammersavage]

Gotta disagree with yojimbo here. I thought this film was outstanding. The acting is brutal (I mean that in the best way). I Heath Ledger didn't die, Michael Shannon would be a lock for best supporting. He was fabulous.

Like I said, I'm a fan of the genre and Mendes is a god to me so I may be biased but the tone really struck a chord with me.

[ChrisBrown]

I was biased going into the movie since I don't like either of the leads. I probably didn't give it a fair shot and I completely understand how people would like it.

[ChrisBrown]

this is yojimbo, by the way. I use the account with my real name when I am responding from iPhone.

[hammersavage]

I was biased going into the movie since I don't like either of the leads. I probably didn't give it a fair shot and I completely understand how people would like it.

It's probably somewhere in the middle between us then, haha

[Gerald]

I'm still bitter that Greg "Opie" Hughes spoiled the ending of this on last Monday's broadcast. I'm sorry that I don't live in a market where this opened in December and subsequently expanded to 30 more screens. It's only on two screens where I live and the closest one is 45 minutes away. Hopefully the quality of how the story's told will compensate for my knowledge of how it's going to conclude. I'll just have to pretend that I've already read the book.

[Philip]

As long boring and drawn out as it is, you spend the entire movie feeling out the characters, deciding whether you care about them or not, like you're stuck in the first five minutes. Very disappointing.

[Friday]

I have to watch this one again.

The characters are so complex within their somewhat cliche simplicity... which I think is perfect for the time period. And while the underscoring, especially at the end, took me a little bit too close to American Beauty, I still found myself fully lost in their world in that last 45 minutes.

It always takes me about 15 minutes or so to let myself let go and accept Leo DiCaprio in a new role, but once I did... I really believed him.

I can nitpick on some minor things, but all in all i appreciated this film. But, like I said, I do want to see it again.

[antifaith]

This is one of the few films I will have seen at the theatre this year. I went right away. I was so looking forward to it. I got pretty much what I expected. It was very "actory." For that reason, I assume not very many ppl will be interested in it.

I got what I expected from Kate. I got prolly more than I expected from Leo. I was happy with his performance. It's prolly the only thing I commented on afterwards cuz I hadn't seen any of his last several films. It was almost like I was relieved (that he pulled it off) cuz I wasn't sure what to expect from him.

I was shocked to see that Michael Shannon was up for supporting actor for his role. It was obvious to me that it was partially luck as he got all the best/most fun dialogue (tho I'm not insulting his performance which was bravura). One of my favorite memories of seeing the film was during one of Shannon's scenes when his character's rant had gone so far that my roommate yelled out, "Jesus Christ!" We loved that guy.

The only bad part of the night was when the usher-like guy came in before the film & after telling us the conduct rules n such, repeatedly referred to it as Titanic 2 at which time we were arguing back & forth with me saying "no it's not...." Right before we'd gone in, the dude had been saying just how much he was looking forward to the Watchmen movie. Ass.

[QUOTE=hammersavage;2055918]I love Little Children, In The Bedroom

Todd Field. I can only hope each film he directs gets progressively more impressive. I was so looking forward to In The Bedroom which, imo, was totally overhyped/could be compared to a Lifetime movie (My favorite scene was an early one when Tomei was rolling around in the grass. Not to say the rest of the film was shit but for some reason that really meant something to me.). Note that I'm a huge fan of all the people associated with that film. It's fairly difficult for me to confess my disappointment with it. Little Children was prolly twice as good. I've been pulling for Field "from day one." He's one of a few indie actors/directors that I've gone out of my way to make it a point to watch his every move (altho after looking at imdb, it looks like I might be skipping his next one). I really like & respect the guy & only hope the best for him.

[llc]

Saw the movie this week and liked it but found the main characters to be pretty annoying. The Whealers aren't victims, they're just sort of smug and elitist.
I wanted more scenes with the neighbors.

One note of importance, Leo needs to stop imitating his former costars. He worked with DeNiro, he uses his voice. He worked with Nicholson, he uses his voice. It is distracting and makes it obvious that he is not in the same league as Kate Winslet.

As for other movies suburban movies that fall into this category, I would have to throw into the mix "The Secret Lives of Dentists", "Ice Storm", "Safety of Objects", "King of the Corner", and the French films "Stolen Kisses" and "Bed and Board" (the sequels to "400 Blows").

""Metroland" is good (with full frontal nudity from Batman's Christian Bale) but inspired by French films like "Stolen Kisses" and "Bed and Board".

And to show my complete stupidity, "She's Having a Baby". It is stupid and very 80s but I did cry when I saw it and it was made in my neighborhood (the same place Jay and Silent Bob went is search of in "Dogma".)

[thepaulo]

Saw the movie this week and liked it but found the main characters to be pretty annoying. The Whealers aren't victims, they're just sort of smug and elitist.
I wanted more scenes with the neighbors.

One note of importance, Leo needs to stop imitating his former costars. He worked with DeNiro, he uses his voice. He worked with Nicholson, he uses his voice. It is distracting and makes it obvious that he is not in the same league as Kate Winslet.

As for other movies suburban movies that fall into this category, I would have to throw into the mix "The Secret Lives of Dentists", "Ice Storm", "Safety of Objects", "King of the Corner", and the French films "Stolen Kisses" and "Bed and Board" (the sequels to "400 Blows").

""Metroland" is good (with full frontal nudity from Batman's Christian Bale) but inspired by French films like "Stolen Kisses" and "Bed and Board".


And to show my complete stupidity, "She's Having a Baby". It is stupid and very 80s but I did cry when I saw it and it was made in my neighborhood (the same place Jay and Silent Bob went is search of in "Dogma".)

Have you seen the Swimmer with Burt Lancaster?

[llc]

I saw it in High school after reading the Short Story and liked it but should watch it again since I always like Burt Lancaster in movies.

Sweet Smell of Success and Local Hero are probably my favorite films by him, but The Hallelujah Trail is one of my all time favorite guilty pleasure movies and he is laugh out loud funny in it.

[thepaulo]

I saw it in High school after reading the Short Story and liked it but should watch it again since I always like Burt Lancaster in movies.

Sweet Smell of Success and Local Hero are probably my favorite films by him, but The Hallelujah Trail is one of my all time favorite guilty pleasure movies and he is laugh out loud funny in it.


Local Hero is in my top five....Sweet Smell of Success is brilliant