The latest show: The Film Talk – Part 75 – Brüno / Public Enemies, Part 2
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haven't made it thru the whole podcast yet, but felt compelled to say, “exactly!!!” to jett's bruno review! just had a very VERY similar conversation with my own Belfast-ian best friend ;) – he sees no merit or worth in anything that sacsha barron cohen does (except his attack on the NI politicians as ali g). I do NOT think ur reading too much jett into it, cuz i saw/felt the same things! EVERYone was in on the joke…and that's the joke, or statement, rather.
now on to the Public Enemies review…. :D
I only listened to the podcast yesterday, but had to laugh at talk of a rift. …It's IMPOSSIBLE for two couples to go away together without deep-rooted problems surfacing that would never come to the fore otherwise. What happens on holidays/vacation stays there. I agree -there is no rift. Just don't go away together again. Not with the women at least. ;)
Haven't seen either of the above yet, but my favourite Michael Mann movie is Collateral. It's about the only one I like a lot in fact. It's also possibly his most disliked for some reason (before Miami Vice came out anyway, but I didn't see that either). From the sounds of it Public Enemies shares a certain cold aesthetic with Collateral (?) so I could well like it a lot. …Although the whole “serious men with guns” is such a bore nowadays.
There's a movement in videogame circles called Bring Back Blue Skies in Games (or something like that). I think it's time a similar movement was begun for movies. Time for movies that don't involve guns and murder and angry young men acting like stereotypical angry young men and the baddie being killed in the end (I keep waiting for someone to go to jail in these movies- a daring move I say!) and the world being a particularly glum place except for “one man” who uses his violent angry young man ways to save the rest of us.
*YAWN*
Maybe you could run a competition for the best name for such a movement?
Love the podcast and it's interesting the way perspectives changed from the first take you had on Public Enemies and how your opinions evolved. That's a grear film.
Offtopic: I was discussing with my boss, here at work, about how Mann did use wisely the digital cameras while making the movie. He wasn't really satisfied with the image quality until I mention the fact that they used the F23 Sony Camera for most of the film and we actually have a similar model (F21 I believe) at work. Guess we can give a great use to that kind of equipment.
Love the podcast and it's interesting the way perspectives changed from the first take you had on Public Enemies and how your opinions evolved. That's a grear film.
Offtopic: I was discussing with my boss, here at work, about how Mann did use wisely the digital cameras while making the movie. He wasn't really satisfied with the image quality until I mention the fact that they used the F23 Sony Camera for most of the film and we actually have a similar model (F21 I believe) at work. Guess we can give a great use to that kind of equipment.
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