great punchy production, dreamy beach boys vocs….nicely done beck.
as usual.

agree.
butcher boy is a stone classic.  hits it out of the park on every level.

kind of a classic movie even with some annoying stylistic choices on the part of the director.
gary oldman, dennis hopper, gandolfini, samuel l jackson, bronson pinchot, chris walken, tom sizemore….what a character actor fiesta.
watching gandolfini put patricia arquette through that glass shower door shook me up a bit…

a legitimately great movie….def the best film gandolfini was in and he does a great job.
haunting and beautiful piece of work.

daaaamn.
what would ferris think about that?

identity thief i could not even finish….this looks like another skip.

almost as stunning as the fact that he's still alive.

i kinda actually believe he's a scanner as well.
he was pretty convincing in that movie.

i know i do.

he does so have a neck….it just so happens that it's the same width as his head.

i'm not sure the film really works as a whole but i certainly enjoyed all of the central performances, with gandolfini being perhaps the most distinctive.
another high point was the carefully crafted grimy cinematography, perhaps over stylized to the point of drawing attention to itself and distracting from the…

totally agree.  having read the book it seems silly to stretch it out through multiple seasons.  i had the opposite reaction to the tv adaptation of IT, which should (imo) have been much more detailed and extended.

yep.  just watched it recently and re-read the book.  the film is a remarkable condensation of the events/themes.

i agree…the novel IT was very strong and the series was lame by comparison.
the novel was decidedly R rated in so many ways and the tv show felt cartoonish and neutered.
tim curry was pretty damn good…but not good enough to overcome so many shortcomings.

i have to say the preview looked pretty lame and in all honesty in contrast to IT, The Shining, the stand, tommyknockers, dead zone, etc i did not think the novel was particularly good.
the characters felt like cardboard and the twilight zone plot would have been a bit stronger at novella length imo.  it was worth a…

Gandolfini's vulnerability in the sopranos and elsewhere was the key to his effectiveness.  i always think of the scene of him with A.J next to the pool or in the test dream with the coach and his disintegrating bullets.
affecting.

hearing weekly real life updates on the maron podcast makes the whole thing even odder (last week they had a public screaming match in washington).

seems a reasonable assumption that "under the dome" is a finite mini series adaptation of the novel.  am i missing something?

when Gandolfini starts howling at the end as Max sails off i teared up big time.
the absent abusive/loving father was very much present….

when Gandolfini starts howling at the end as Max sails off i teared up big time.
the absent abusive/loving father was very much present….