Igby Goes Down...the drain

Started by NEON MERCURY, June 16, 2003, 12:14:42 AM

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NEON MERCURY

June 16, 2003, 12:14:42 AM
OVER-RATED


sorry if this makes people mad....but one of my worst  blind buys  igby is an annoying character

OVER-RATED
** film at most

OVER-RATED

Bill P. character was/is the best part in that film


...stepping off the soapbox now

modage

#1
June 16, 2003, 12:16:51 AM
yeah.  its okay.  points for effort, but i didnt think it came off too well.  modern day catcher in the rye.  good cast.  okay movie.  blind buys are a dangerous business my friend.  now just sit and stew in your anger and think about that movie that you REALLY wanted that you dont own yet.  sit and stew.
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godardian

#2
June 16, 2003, 12:54:33 AM
I liked it, thought it had some crap Gen-X-"cool"-type weak spots with the ill-considered use of music and slo-mo.

But I like themodernage's current avatar better.
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Redlum

#3
June 16, 2003, 06:58:50 AM
I really liked it.

Does anyoneelse think Kieran Culkin is developing an acting style and screen presence like Robert Downey Jr. I think they are extremely similar. And they both have wide, crazy eyes.
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Gold Trumpet

#4
June 16, 2003, 10:14:30 AM
I loved this movie and it was on top ten list from last year. The best part about it is how smart the characters are thought out to be and how unpredictable everything in. The movie works from the basis of the character's personality and tells a story that eventually ends the way we know, but moves paths that are completely unexpected. The movie is consistently smart and not just smart in playing off one thing, but inventive as well. Kieran Culkin was perfect for this role and as believable as being a certain character as any other i've seen.

There is a continuing trend showing up here lately that has been annoying and that is people saying a movie is bad and giving equal words to the fact they hated as to why they hated it. I don't care if someone dislikes a movie I admire, but at least try to make the reason why the first and foremost thing to what you say. People complain about how the board has become too much goofiness without movie talk, well, I say the worst is this.

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Duck Sauce

#5
June 16, 2003, 11:24:42 AM
My complaint about the movie is all the hyper-intellectual dialouge. It seemed to forced

polkablues

#6
June 16, 2003, 02:26:41 PM
Fuck it, I loved "Igby Goes Down".  Every moment of it rang true to me.



(I love right after Susan Sarandon dies, and Ryan Phillipe goes out to Jeff Goldblum, who's playing piano, and Phillipe says "Would you like to see the body?", and Goldblum, without looking up, says, "I've seen it."  Great, great, great.)
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Cecil

#7
June 16, 2003, 02:48:33 PM
cecil says:
igby =  :yabbse-thumbup:

budgie

#8
June 16, 2003, 03:41:47 PM
Quote from: polkablues

(I love right after Susan Sarandon dies, and Ryan Phillipe goes out to Jeff Goldblum, who's playing piano, and Phillipe says "Would you like to see the body?", and Goldblum, without looking up, says, "I've seen it."  Great, great, great.)

Bad, bad boy. What a good thing I don't have spoiler angst.

I'm looking forward to this and Tadpole. Saw both trailers together and this looks better, tho the reviews favour Tadpole, which the trailer for looks awful.

bonanzataz

#9
June 16, 2003, 03:54:09 PM
i saw both and i had the same feelings for both. they were OK and there were definitely very funny parts, but as a whole it didn't do it for me. i think it was mainly because the writer or director decided to make the film too clever for its own good. the smart one liners and the feeling of "oh dear, what a scathing satirical social commentary!" got old really fast. like the writers were saying, "i wish i could've done THIS when i was in high school! imagine if i was smart and clever and got older girls and hid out in the city all by myself! that was always my fantasy and now i can live out my fantasy in my big hollywood movie!" i liked igby a lot more than tadpole, but both suffer from the same flaw, in my opinion. and tadpole shouldn't have been digital. i don't think it works that way.
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Redlum

#10
June 16, 2003, 04:34:29 PM
Quote from: polkablues


(I love right after Susan Sarandon dies, and Ryan Phillipe goes out to Jeff Goldblum, who's playing piano, and Phillipe says "Would you like to see the body?", and Goldblum, without looking up, says, "I've seen it."  Great, great, great.)

Jeff Goldblum is a master. That bit where his trousers are around his ankles is so damn funny.
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ono

#11
June 16, 2003, 06:18:07 PM
I liked the movie a lot, myself.  It was probably one of my favorites of 2002, though I saw it first in 2003.  Saw it in a theater, and at the beginning the sound was off (happens a lot at the place I saw it, but they're forgiven 'cause it was free).  But throughout, I thoroughly enjoyed it.  The dialogue didn't feel forced to me.  I just love intelligent dialogue, even if it does sound a bit unrealistic.  There's a fine line, and Igby Goes Down walked it nicely.

Gold Trumpet

#12
June 16, 2003, 06:33:10 PM
Tadpole is a completely different story. Its juvenile filmmaking at best and so overtly simplistic and obvious that I thought it was directed by a junior high student. That was one of the most unbearable movies to watch.

~rougerum

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#13
June 17, 2003, 09:53:53 AM
Tadpole was fucking GREAT!!!

Igby, on the other hand, didn't grab me.  And an earlier post said Igby is quite an annoying character, and I would have to agree.  The acting was fine though, and the story wasn't too bad, I just don't give a damn about Igby!!!! :evil:
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#14
June 17, 2003, 10:03:37 AM
Quote from: polkablues
(I love right after Susan Sarandon dies, and Ryan Phillipe goes out to Jeff Goldblum, who's playing piano, and Phillipe says "Would you like to see the body?", and Goldblum, without looking up, says, "I've seen it."  Great, great, great.)
dude was that an effing spoiler?? man.
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