Jan. 10th, 2008

Overnight

Jan. 10th, 2008 12:30 am
lurkerwithout: (Puss in boots)
Troy Duffy was a young bouncer and rookie film maker. The documentary follows along as he attempts to get his movie (and a record with the band he fronted with his brother) even after burning his bridges with Miramax and Harvey Weinstein. Duffy thinks that he's the greatest thing to ever hit movies and music and doesn't understand why everyone in California isn't lining up to kiss his ass and beg for his work...

His movie, "Boondock Saints" is actually a favorite of mine. Not that its anything spectacular. But its a fun, quirky action pic about a pair of poor Boston brothers who become vigilantes. Kind of like if in "Good Will Hunting", Matt Damon and Ben Affleck went around killing Russian gangsters. But its nothing that was ever going to change cinema the way Duffy acts...

Maybe the Weinstein's had Duffy blacklisted. Or maybe enough people saw him as an arrogant ass, without the genius talent needed to get away with it...

Waitress

Jan. 10th, 2008 02:02 pm
lurkerwithout: (Puss in boots)
Probably the sweetest movie about unhappy marriages, unplanned pregnancies and adultery. With noteworthy acting from Keri Russel and Nate Fillon. An enjoyable if light movie, overshadowed by the tragic murder of its rookie director...
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Seen posted a few times, but most recently by [livejournal.com profile] scarcrest...

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