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Buck "Sweetie" McGuck Apprentice Guru
Posted 15 July 2006 09:37 AM

I'd want to see Miami Vice if it had some people I like playing the main characters. Michael Mann rules at violence but I don't like Jamie Foxx and the white guy looks like a tool.

In looking forward to Miami Vice, it's helps to remember Jamie Foxx's performances in Jarhead (2005), Ray (2004), and Collateral (2004), all considered solid character-driven performances. As for Colin Farrell, I'm one of those in the minority who found his performance in Alexander (2004) a very good one in a very good movie as well his character performance in Daredevil (2003) as Bullseye, even his performance in Phone Booth (2002) was particularly commendable considering the level of difficulty of the restrictive environment he had to act within.

I've got my fingers crossed for something more on the level of The New World or A Home at the End of the World from Colin Farrell.

With Miami Vice back in Michael Mann's hands after he's had the opportunity to create films like The Insider, Ali, and Collateral -- I think it's possible for this film to be a great summer action flick. He always manages to get amazing performances out of his actors, so I'm not nearly as worried about Foxx and Farrell as I am about the film's writing and effects.

Count me in as another one looking forward to MIAMI VICE. There is star wattage to spare in the pairing of Foxx & Farrell, but I'm a huge, huge Michael Mann fan and the fact that he is the director of the film is what gets me so excited. The summer is a dead period as far as film's in wide release go and this is the only big studio film other than the DEVIL WEARS PRADA (which is very good by the way) & the Ollie Stone film that I am looking forward to. Mann has a great visual sense. HEAT is far and away my favorite Mann film. I can only hope MV is half as good as HEAT.

I look forward to Scoop. Woody Allen is one of the brightest directors effectively using sarcasm and irony in comedies. I also want to see Marie Antionette. I love historical movies.

Apparently there's a Terry Gilliam movie, Tideland, coming out this year. Looks appropriately Gilliamesque.

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I'm chomping at the bit for THE BLACK DAHLIA, about the notorious 1940s era Los Angeles murder than has never been solved. My favorite director Brian DePalma is helming so I'm counting the days. It opens next month. I can't wait.

I agree, The Black Dahlia looks great. I just caught the preview this weekend, along with Hollywoodland, and think that the former is going to make the noir-ish Affleck flick look childish.

I also caught previews of The Departed and The Prestige and think they both look amazing, too. The trailer for All The King's Men, on the other hand, looks like a shameful attempt at buying an Oscar. I mean, the cast reads like the American Basketball Team circa 1994.

Have you all seen the new TV spots for Dreamgirls? I think it's up there as one of the best of the year...all of the shots in the trailer look beautiful.

The Last King of Scotland scheduled for limited release on September 27, 2006 is about a doctor who becomes the personal physician for the notorious Ida Amin of Uganda. It looks very compellingly powerful and raw and dark - but character rich. Starring Forrest Whittaker as well as Gillian Anderson (of the X-Files).

The Science of Sleep scheduled for release in Los Angeles and New York on September 22nd looks to be the 2006's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind version gone riot. Whether this surrealistic fantasy, dream, romantic drama can pull it off without going over the top remains to be seen.

I just saw a preview from Bug, a new William Friedkin movie starring Ashley Judd (and Harry Connick Jr.). I immediately assumed it would be a romantic comedy. Nope. It looks F'in scary. Seriously.

Now that we are moving into Autumn and Winter, there are many movies I am looking forward to, but one that stands out is The Fountain. It is written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and the story spans 1000 years. Looks good.

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PRG Posted 04 September 2006 09:04 AM
Now that we are moving into Autumn and Winter, there are many movies I am looking forward to, but one that stands out is The Fountain. It is written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and the story spans 1000 years. Looks good.

I'm making it a point to take a look at this movie. It sounds wonderfully different and looks serious and good so far.

Another that looks like it could be pretty hillarious is Running With Scissors. Good cast and a good story.

Borat: Cultural Learnings For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan trailer

Borat is one of the funniest characters ever. This will be the funniest movie ever.

You're right. This could very well be one of the funniest movies of all time. Can't wait.

September 22, 2006 (limited release) Renaissance, a sci-fi French film that appears to going for the hard-core slick crowd about futuristic corporate corruption and our egotistic need for eternal beauty.

September 22, 2006 (limited release) The Science of Sleep.

September 27, 2006 (limited release) The Last King of Scotland An Oscar contender movie depicting the despotic regime of Uganda's Idi Amin with Forest Whitaker in the starring role.

October 13, 2006 Man of the Year A timely Robbin Williams' political comedy about a talk show host running for office.

October 27, 2006 Babel A sleeper political drama set on the international stage but focusing on the blight of a couple in serious trouble.

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September 22, 2006 (limited release) The Science of Sleep.

I want to wait and read some reviews just in case, but with Michel Gondry directing, this one should be good.

I'm really looking forward to THE DEPARTED, Martin Scorsese's remake of a terrific Hong Kong film called INFERNAL AFFAIRS. Scorsese is back making a film in the crime genre, the genre in which he is most at home. And there is a to die for cast that includes Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DeCaprio, Marky Mark & Martin Sheen. It is also set in Boston, one of my favorite cities.

Another one with positive buzz (and Oscar possibilities) is FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS directed by Clint Eastwood, who is a roll with MYSTIC RIVER and MILLION DOLLAR BABY. This one is about the guys who rose that flag during WWII. But the film isn't jingo-istic, but supposedly a real interesting study of the guys who raised the flag.

The Departed trailer seems to recall the crisp, sharp, raw old-time crime thrillers of the seventies and eighties. It has the actors and the premise. So far the deliver looks good. It has all the makings of a fine movie.