Violent Delights

I didn't really like Burn After Reading, but I like the Coen's in general

TPF1138

It's not their best work, but it's fun, and I thing Kip would dig it.

sara12

‘Boyhood’s Richard Linklater Frontrunner To Helm Jennifer Lawrence In ‘The Rosie Project’ | Deadline

J-LawForever

Oh, Boyhood.

But i'm willing to give it a shot for Jen.

But that means this has a great chance of getting made with Jen and him,

TPF1138

Now I'm on board with this project.

I'm a huge fan of Linklater, so even just the fact that it gives her the opportunity to develop a working relationship with him, is enough of a reason for this to happen as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks for the very pleasing news, sara. Hopefully this comes together.

J-LawForever

I did like The Bad News Bears remake and School of Rock.

I just did not care about BOYHOOD one bit! God, I never hated a movie so much.

Hopefully he doesn't cast Ethan Hawke. Otherwise things would be awkward on set. I mean especially after he trashed her earlier this year during the Oscar push for BOYHOOD.

TPF1138

Love Boyhood, and I mean love. Bad News Bears and School of Rock I would describe as his lesser pictures. I like them both, but next to Slacker, Dazed and Confused, A Scanner Darkly (probably the best Philip K. Dick adaptation), Boyhood, and the Before Sunrise trilogy, they nearly look like the work of a different director.



Bet they wouldn't.

Hawke's wasn't exactly a personal attack anyway. He used her as an example to mount a ham-fisted, and frankly unfounded argument, simply because she's the hot young actress of the moment. It might just as easily have been another hot young star, but Jennifer's who sprung to mind. It was a little whine, nothing more. One day working with her would soon show him that she was the wrong example to pick, and he'd be singing her praises come press time, just the same as anyone else who's worked with her.

J-LawForever

BOYHOOD was the only movie I was physically anger at. I wanted to punch the movie square in the face. Especially with that kid. God, don't get me started on him. I was just waiting for something to happen! 3 hours of nothingness! It was like watching someone's boring home videos growing up.

if I wanted to do that. I would watch my own.


Yeah, because he's far too old. The character is in their mid 30's He's far older. But he do that to suck up I'm sure. I mean saying how great she was at what he said.

TPF1138

To each his own, but I always hear folks talking about how they want character driven films. Well Boyhood is a character driven film. That's all it's about. Character.

But most people don't want character driven films, they want plot driven films with compelling characters. Boyhood has no plot, or the barest sliver of a plot, and behaves like a series of vignettes. Intersections in real time, as it were, tracking one human life as it evolves and matures, which has the effect of revealing how we all evolve and mature. I found that deeply moving, and engaging.


I haven't read the book yet, but i doubt there's a role for him anyway.

J-LawForever

Passengers is something I call Character Driven and I loved that script. You actually care for the characters there.

Boyhood is just about a mopey kid who sits around going this sucks. While having different events happening. None of which he does much in. Or I'm so hipster I'm gonna stay in the dark room and develop my pictures. You don't care about any of the characters. Especially the main character. He seems like one of the most unlikeable main characters in a movie ever.

Glad that Birdman won.


Hopefully not. The only sort likable character I liked in Boyhood was the dad. and i'm not a big Hawke fan. But I did like Sinister. But not cause of him.

sunworshipper

The only males roles that come to mind Don, his womanizing former college buddy Gene, and Rosie's estranged father.

I don't know a lot about Linklater films. I've just not seen many. The only ones I've seen are Dazed and Confused and School of Rock, both of which I liked.

"Look into your heart." "What heart?" Miller's Crossing is one of my favorite films of all time. Hudsucker is funny. Jennifer Jason Leigh steals that film. But I'd consider Raising Arizona their best comedy.

J-LawForever

Hawke is only 44. I thought he was a bit older than that. So maybe he can play the buddy. But hopefully he's not in the movie at all. No offense to him.

sunworshipper

Screw him. Eats breakfast and gets an Oscar my butt. Sour grapes for a guy who pretends not to want an Oscar.

J-LawForever

I agree. The hell with him. He should have a bit of cheese with his wine.

from The DailyBeast, Dec. 27, 2014.

Very shady remark!

mlkj13

Good to hear Linklater is potentially part of the film. I've seen Dazed and Confused a bunch of times. Boyhood was good.