Just Passion.Originally Posted by dlong5665
Meanwhile up to 93 % with 7.8 rating on Tomatoes.
Just Passion.
Meanwhile up to 93 % with 7.8 rating on Tomatoes.
Spielberg vs. the Industry. Who Will Win In The End?
Spielberg lost.
http://www.broadway.com/buzz/165264/...ven-spielberg/
“I haven’t told this to anyone, but I’m already working on a new script for [Spielberg],” Kushner said in an interview in the magazine's November 9 issue. “So we’ll be talking all the time again. I just started on it a couple of weeks ago.” Kushner also wrote the screenplay for Speilberg's 2005 film Munich. The movie was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
So has Kushner become Spielberg’s favorite screenwriter? “He has other go-to guys,” he said. “But I like working with him and I think he likes the difficulties that working with me presents.” Although Kushner is having success as a screenwriter, he admits he’s set in his playwriting ways. “I take a long time, and I can’t do it until I’m ready to do it, and I’m not an experienced screenwriter, and I’m too old at this point to learn how to start being one. I want to be a playwright. That’s what I am.”
Yay!
Very positive review from Kirk Honeycutt:
http://honeycuttshollywood.com/lincoln-film-review/
I bet it is that Moses thing!
Rex Reed continues to hate life and logs Lincoln's first yellow review on Metacritic (50)
Down to 82 in Metacritic with Rex Reed's review.
Up to 94 with 8. rating with 2 new reviews in Rotten.
Spielberg vs. the Industry. Who Will Win In The End?
Spielberg lost.
Holy shit. He gave War Horse 4/4. Color me surprised.
"I'm a firm believer in karma, and I think this situation is a huge learning lesson for me.
To grow and expand as a spiritual human being. I want to lead a country one day for all I know".
He hates Lincoln the man, thinking him an unfairly praised racist. Those sorta of people are always gonna be impossible to please unless Lincoln is made to be a villain.
Rex Reed killed Rotten Tomatoes score: down to 90 % with 7.7 av. rating.
Spielberg vs. the Industry. Who Will Win In The End?
Spielberg lost.
They still haven't published Ehrenstein's negative/mixed review yet, have they? Negative opinions won't be few.
Last edited by Shy_Hallaman; 11-07-2012 at 10:18 AM.
Haven't yet. Yeah...negative reviews will be enough like Cole Smithey's and Rex Reed's.
Spielberg vs. the Industry. Who Will Win In The End?
Spielberg lost.
Just noticed that:
Excerpt fro Rex Reed's review:Bravo, Rex Reed. You don't even know William Seward was Secretary of State not VICE PRESIDENT to troll with creditibility.Instead of concentrating on Lincoln and the war that divided a nation, the movie stays off the battlefield and focuses on the internecine shenanigans behind closed doors on Capitol Hill—the House debate, the ranting and shouting, the insults in both aisles of Congress, the arguments defending and denouncing blacks. Instead of action, we get intellectual ideas set forth while storming around conference tables behind the scenes of history. Ugly sets make 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue look like a rooming house. The sun never shines in 1865. Instead, garish lighting filters through dirty windows into dark rooms that look like the inside of a Hershey syrup can. Into this matte-finish gloom marches a cumbrous crowd of expensive-dress extras, most of whom Mr. Kushner never bothers to identify. Oh, look, it’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Lincoln’s oldest son Robert, a rebellious college student who defies his parents’ wishes (every family has one). And there’s David Strathairn as Vice President William Seward. Here comes John Hawkes as a lobbyist, and an unidentifiable James Spader. Who is he playing? He’s gone before we get to know him. The ensemble enters through one door and exits through another: Jared Harris as General Ulysses S. Grant, and Jackie Earle Haley, Hal Holbrook, Tim Blake Nelson, Joseph Cross and a cast of hundreds playing senators, soldiers and servants. Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling in the Kennedy dynasty, is listed in the credits as “Woman Shouter.” It’s that kind of movie. An endurance test with guest stars.
Spielberg vs. the Industry. Who Will Win In The End?
Spielberg lost.
OMG, that clearly means his opinion is wrong!
LMAO at Lincolnmania. Like, who knew Lincoln was an actress deep down?
Funny TLJ clip
Spielberg vs. the Industry. Who Will Win In The End?
Spielberg lost.
Eternal has a sound advice in his signature. Take it.
I have already directed his siggie at him, you're two weeks too late for that joke.
Nitpicking things like having a character's name opr proffession mixed, at every critic that gives a bad review to a film you haven't seen but are anticipating a lot, is one of the clearest signs of deranged trolls. That's what every Portmaniac did to critics that didn't like Black Swan. "OMG, he said Tchaikovski instead of Tchaikovsky! He's such a bad critic!" LOL. That IS trolling.
It'd be one thing if he was a foreign reviewer, but it kind of unforgivable that Reed made that error. It's kind of like when I destroyed a girl in a discussion in college when she quoted from the Declaration of Independence, but said it was the Constitution. The entire lecture hall got dead silent when I pointed this out. The merits, whatever they may have been, were forgotten as everyone went slack jawed at the ownage.
I didn't use that example to pump myself up, just to show that it sorta matters that you get details like that right.
There's a lot wrong with Reed's review that doesn't have to do with that mistake though.
(BTW - he also says that Mrs Lincoln is grieving over her favorite son killed in battle. Willie tied of a fever and was a child. Another huge factual error. I suppose he could mean she was grieving for Robert who was TRYING to enlist because she thought he'd be killed...but that was a very poor way to write it)
Last edited by CMJ; 11-07-2012 at 01:11 PM.
Charlie McCollum's 4/4 star review added to Rotten Tomatoes:
http://www.mercurynews.com/movies-dv...oln?source=rss
Nypost.com stuff:
Daniel Day-Lewis as Abe Lincoln in “Lincoln” (Friday)
Sara Stewart: The most method-y of Method actors takes on the most iconic American president. If anyone can cleanse our memory of Abe Lincoln as a vampire hunter — from this summer’s action-flick dud — and restore the Great Emancipator’s dignity, it’s D-Day.
APDaniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in the film "Lincoln."Kyle Smith: D-Day is one of the finest actors alive, and he won’t miss a chance to make the original Log Cabin Republican as fresh as a shiny new penny.
Lou Lumenick: I’ve seen this. Day-Lewis is wonderful, and sometimes surprisingly funny, as the folksy, angst-ridden Great Emancipator. But Tommy Lee Jones, as an abolitionist congressman, steals the picture.
Overall critic reaction: 4 stars
Last edited by Eternal; 11-07-2012 at 02:35 PM.
Spielberg vs. the Industry. Who Will Win In The End?
Spielberg lost.
Village Voice review by Chris Packham. Positive.
Christy Lemire's review is barely positive. 3/4, but she didn't seem to like it to much.
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/11/06...remendous.htmlThis is a movie that's easier to admire than love; it's impressive but not exactly moving."
"I'm a firm believer in karma, and I think this situation is a huge learning lesson for me.
To grow and expand as a spiritual human being. I want to lead a country one day for all I know".
I don't really think making a small factual mistake on supporting character's occupation destroys a credibility of a review. Thematic misunderstanding or major plot point I would concede. I think Reed is a tool in general but it's not that mistake which makes his opinions irrelevant to be.
Lol, talking about factual mistakes at school. In high school literature class we had to do a verbal project on one of 4 world class literature pieces and a girl who was sort of my friend made hers as a group discussion on how Franz Kafka wrote The Trial as an allegory to Nazis rise to power in Germany. I had to remind her that he wrote the book 15 years before the Nazis came to power. I felt like a bitch for massively embarrassing her in front of the class but the teacher didn't say anything about her error and I just couldn't let it slip and have a half an hour discussion with the class based on something that couldn't be true. I mean one could talk about the similarities between the state control in Trial and Nazi Germany but saying that Kafka wrote the book as an allegory and thinly veiled criticism against natzism is just projecting something into the book that isn't really there.
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