Wonder Boys

Started by Finn, January 11, 2004, 06:15:47 PM

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Finn

January 11, 2004, 06:15:47 PM
Any comments on this film? I really loved it! Curtis Hanson did a wonderful job with his camera work and the cast is first-rate. It's a personality movie that has interesting characters.

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modage

#1
January 11, 2004, 06:27:15 PM
i love it too.  first viewing i wasnt blown away by it, but the more i watch it and the better i know the characters the funnier it becomes and the more i enjoy it.  its something i can put on a million times to watch before i go to bed.  quirky, funny, great cast.  i love it.
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NEON MERCURY

#2
January 11, 2004, 07:27:40 PM
.......this film is cool.......ffunnny.....and i like how as soon as the title appears that badass dylan sonng starts playing....the sonng sorta explodes to begin the titles.....

also.....there is so much sh*t you cath up w/ repaeted viweings.....

and downnety is hilarious.........

A Matter Of Chance

#3
January 11, 2004, 07:31:13 PM
I really liked the movie. My favorite part is when James Leer asks why Michael Douglas should take the blame for shooting the dog, and he says, "I've got tenure." The book is really good too.

godardian

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January 11, 2004, 07:36:48 PM
Quote from: A Matter Of ChanceI really liked the movie. My favorite part is when James Leer asks why Michael Douglas should take the blame for shooting the dog, and he says, "I've got tenure." The book is really good too.

I haven't read the book, but I loved Kavalier and Klay. Is it as good?

I really like this movie, too. Someone said in a different thread how Hanson was a "hack" who got lucky with LA Confidential, but I thought this was a more than worthy follow-up.

I don't like Michael Douglas, usually, but he was really good. And McDormand is almost always worth watching.

Really good stuff.
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#5
January 11, 2004, 07:52:02 PM
I love Wonder Boys. One of my all-time favourite films ever. I've seen it at least 50 times and it never gets old to me.

NEON MERCURY

#6
January 11, 2004, 07:56:53 PM
Quote from: Derek237I love Wonder Boys. One of my all-time favourite films ever. I've seen it at least 50 times and it never gets old to me.

...me too.........i think my fav. part is when douglas in VO says something like .."james.________ was a sunnny as his dispositionnn"...then it cuts to that loook on macguire's face......

and the "ground lamb"....is already film..classic... but i have never tried it though.....

ono

#7
January 11, 2004, 08:53:12 PM
Definitely love it.  It falls under the "subtle, sophisticated humor" umbrella along with, say, Wes Anderson's later works.

©brad

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January 11, 2004, 09:14:25 PM
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaDefinitely love it.  It falls under the "subtle, sophisticated humor" umbrella along with, say, Wes Anderson's later works.

later works? by that you mean the second two movies he made?

Pas

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January 11, 2004, 09:25:54 PM
hahaha

ono

#10
January 11, 2004, 09:30:05 PM
Quote from: ©brad
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaDefinitely love it.  It falls under the "subtle, sophisticated humor" umbrella along with, say, Wes Anderson's later works.

later works? by that you mean the second two movies he made?
Exactly!  :-D

Ghostboy

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January 12, 2004, 12:54:32 AM
Quote from: godardian
I haven't read the book, but I loved Kavalier and Klay. Is it as good?




Better than Kavalier and Klay, which I also loved. Read it. Love it. Live it.

Redlum

#12
January 12, 2004, 05:07:29 AM
Honestly one of my favourite movies of all time. I've lost count on the amount of times I've watched it.

The book is great too, and lots more to enjoy and to supplement with following viewings of Wonder Boys. There was a great bit about Grady's Proffessor of English when he was at University, who used to wave a gun out his office window shouting down to students to write about truth.

In addition to the "Sunny disposition" shot, another favourite is the wide shot of Grady, Crabtree and Q in Gradys car after Vernon starts chasing them around: "I just got my hood jumped on.". They're all looking almost straight into the camera, its great.

I prefer Kavalier and Klay as a book but its an epic and hard to compare to something as intimate as Wonder Boys.
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Just Withnail

#13
January 12, 2004, 09:51:02 AM
Just caught it on TV yesterday, which was my second viewing. Loved it the first time, loved it now. Didn't like the ending though. A bit too sunny, but I guess it was fitting.

Henry Hill

#14
January 26, 2004, 11:19:28 AM
definitely one of the best movies of the last 10 years. genius.
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