About Schmidt----->DVD

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Thecowgoooesmooo

June 03, 2003, 06:14:22 PM
I fucking love this movie.

The dvd is out. I picked it up.

It's the dvd I was looking forward to the most this summer and in my opinion, one of my fav movies for 2002. Transfer is great, deleted scenes are excellent! I wish they would have included some of them in there, like the resturant sequences.

Anyone else pick this excellent buy up today!?


chris

MacGuffin

#1
June 03, 2003, 09:31:01 PM
$15 at Target! What a deal.

Being New Line, it's too bad this didn't get the Infinifilm treatment. What's missing is a commentary track. I love Payne's track on "Election"; one of the best commentaries ever. Would've been great to hear what he had to say about this one.
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modage

#2
June 03, 2003, 10:01:20 PM
yeah i loved this movie too.  certainly top 10 for 2002.  saw it twice in theatres, picked up the dvd today. cant wait to watch it again.  the extras are pretty skimpy though, yeah i wouldve really liked a commentary for this one.  isnt the election commentary him talking about how he filmed in a "real school with real students" for 2 hours? i cant remember much else about it.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

godardian

#3
June 04, 2003, 12:47:32 AM
Shit, I wish I'd known about that Target sale before mail-ordering....

Hopefully, my copy will arrive tomorrow.

Payne's commentary (along with some of the cast and crew) on Citizen Ruth is really interesting, too. I love his laid-back yet extremely intelligent way of speaking. He seems like a very cool guy.
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"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

Stay informed on protecting your freedom of speech and civil rights.

tpfkabi

#4
June 07, 2003, 09:16:34 PM
i rented this today. i enjoyed it a lot.

it wasn't quite what i was expecting. i remember all the reviews talking about kathy bates a lot. i had the impression that the entire movie was about him dealing with the in-laws and trying to get his daughter to change his mind. i thought it was going to a more in-your-face type comedy. luckily it wasn't, and i was presently surprised.

but really.
was the k.b. and nicholson nudity really needed? i could've done without that.
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SHAFTR

#5
June 07, 2003, 09:48:44 PM
My problem with the movie (and only problem) is that the family of Kathy Bates is full of really stereotypical people...you would have thought there would have been more depth to those characters.
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modage

#6
June 08, 2003, 12:07:34 AM
Quote from: SHAFTRMy problem with the movie (and only problem) is that the family of Kathy Bates is full of really stereotypical people...you would have thought there would have been more depth to those characters.

isnt that what middle america is like?  more stereotypical than say....the characters in Mallrats? or Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back?
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

SHAFTR

#7
June 08, 2003, 12:11:05 AM
Quote from: themodernage02
Quote from: SHAFTRMy problem with the movie (and only problem) is that the family of Kathy Bates is full of really stereotypical people...you would have thought there would have been more depth to those characters.

isnt that what middle america is like?  more stereotypical than say....the characters in Mallrats? or Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back?

No, it isn't what Middle America is like.  Also, I don't think it is fair to compare Mallrats/J&SB Strike Back to About Schmidt.  About Schmidt is a drama first, comedy second; Mallrats and J&SB Strike Back are comedies, with drama not even fitting in there.
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Ernie

#8
June 08, 2003, 11:02:08 AM
I definitely picked this up. It was weird, I didn't really know what to think of it the first time I saw it and then the more I thought about it the more I loved it...then I watched Election and absolutely knew for sure that I had to pick it up. It's a really cool movie. I think Dermot Mulroney steals it, he's so funny just looking at him and hearing his voice.

godardian

#9
June 08, 2003, 11:47:34 AM
Quote from: SHAFTRMy problem with the movie (and only problem) is that the family of Kathy Bates is full of really stereotypical people...you would have thought there would have been more depth to those characters.

This is a persistent complaint about the film, but I personally think that Payne really avoids stereotyping people. Kathy Bates's family may be odd, but they certainly don't match any Midwestern stereotype I know of.
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

Stay informed on protecting your freedom of speech and civil rights.

Royal Tenenbaum

#10
June 10, 2003, 01:32:58 PM
"About Schmidt is a drama first, comedy second; Mallrats and J&SB Strike Back are comedies, with drama not even fitting in there."

I completely disagree with you. The film is a comdey; it may have dramatic elements, but it is a really really dry comedy. I find the film hysterical, I love it, and it's easily the best film of 2002.

bonanzataz

#11
June 10, 2003, 01:37:44 PM
Quote from: Royal Tenenbaumit's easily the best film of 2002.

ahem...

i thought this was a pta message board!
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modage

#12
June 10, 2003, 03:40:13 PM
Quote from: Royal Tenenbaum"About Schmidt is a drama first, comedy second; Mallrats and J&SB Strike Back are comedies, with drama not even fitting in there."

I completely disagree with you. The film is a comdey; it may have dramatic elements, but it is a really really dry comedy. I find the film hysterical, I love it.

i agree. i just didnt feel like arguing alone.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

©brad

#13
June 11, 2003, 12:25:00 AM
Quote from: themodernage02
Quote from: Royal Tenenbaum"About Schmidt is a drama first, comedy second; Mallrats and J&SB Strike Back are comedies, with drama not even fitting in there."

I completely disagree with you. The film is a comdey; it may have dramatic elements, but it is a really really dry comedy. I find the film hysterical, I love it.

i agree. i just didnt feel like arguing alone.

u film geeks and ur arguing. why do movies have to be cubby-holed into separate sections at blockbuster? all movies are drama, first off, yes? can't about schmidt be a dramatic story with comedic and sentimental elements, along with a whole other shit? geez, dont we have anything better to argue about?

82

#14
June 11, 2003, 01:34:55 AM
Yeah.. ask me a question about omaha... I live here...

Also.. anywhere you go there are "white trash".. but the stereotype wasn't the purpose of why they are like that...  Its more of an uncomfortable situation for Schmidt to be in...

And yes I actually was cast as an extra but didn't get to the phone in time :(
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