Just wondering the opinions of others on this film. i thought it was so real . Every character's actions seemed natural and not forced or fake-pacing was deliciously slow-great acting across the board -and a nice well written piece of revenge(noir?) :arrow: on a side note thought it was cool that it was nom. for an acad. for best pic. but new there was nothing stopping the"A beautiful Mind Made/Marketed Just to Win an Oscar Express" :infinity:
this was my favorite film of 2001, and i still watch it frequently. sissy spacek gave i believe her best perfrmance as well as marisa tomei. todd field is going to have quite a career.
I tried to get into this movie, but I just couldn't.
Guess I need to give it another chance?
perhaps
Quote from: XixaxI tried to get into this movie, but I just couldn't.
Guess I need to give it another chance?
To me this film works on mood. There is nothing releatively "Earth-shattering" about this film but the way it s-s-s-sl-sl-slo-slo-slowly developes to the climax and ends right there. :o It could put many asleep if the "mood" of the film doesn't catch you. I think it is worth another chance.
I thought the slow pacing was amazing. And well...i haven't seen it in a while, but i remember the use of sound was also terrific, but im not exactly sure in what regard at the moment...maybe the lack of music and the use of it with the choirs? Anyway..a superb picture...Xixax, give it another chance, pleeease?
I really liked it. It does work on mood, as someone said above. Sissy Spacek was very good, I thought. They showed her smashing a plate too often in the previews and so on, though.
i didn't really like it... the acting was amazing, but the end i thought was just, well terrible.
it really made me quite angry
and why is that?
I loved In The Bedroom! One of the better acted films to come out within the last few years. I was surprised at just how much it affected me. It literally took my breath away- more than once.
haaated it! (that ones for you, bonanzataz). but i cant remember much of why because i havent seen it since the theatre, but it just didnt do anything for me. it was boring. i didnt get into the story. i cant remember, but i remember the hate.
i like this movie, if only for the stressed interaction between Wilkinson and Spacek.
Quote from: ewardand why is that?
i found the ending to be melodramatic and cheap
I just watched this film again recently and I still think that "In the Bedroom" was the best film of 2001 and probably the best so far this new millenium. The performances are flawless, the score by Thomas Newman is enchanting and Todd Field should have been nominated for Best Director (probably should have won). It's very slow-paced, but that gave me a better understanding of it. I agree with what Roger Ebert said about it. You think you know what the film is about at first, then later you think you know what it's about, but by the end you know what the movie is about once it reaches it's disturbing and heartbreaking conclusion. It's mezmerizing, gripping, disturbing, depressing, artistic and haunting. As for those who didn't like it, well, it probably falls into the "love it or hate it category".
I just saw this one. Nothing negative to say about it . Especially the script stunned me. Tom Wilkinson was playing like his own son had died.
Great movie. I highly recommend it!
I really loved it. I had a slight problem with the revenge -- but when I thought about it, I couldn't think of any other way I'd have ended the movie. SPOILERS At first I thought that perhaps Tom Wilkinson could have lost his nerve in the woods and let the guy go, which would have definitely added an interesting twist to the denoument with him and Spacek in bed. But I think that it's fine the way it is.
I love the quiet in the film the most. The tension it suggests is almost unendurable. The moment where Spacek slaps Marisa Tomei is shocking.
I agree, that slap was shocking.
But for me, the movie was ruined because before I saw "In the Bedroom," I saw Wilkinson in another movie where he played a transgender. So all through the movie, I kept expecting him to get out a pair of falsies.
When In The Bedroom came out, I was living in the middle of nowhere. I had to drive an hour and a half to the nearest city in order to see it.
It was, and is, one of the only movies in recent memory that I saw fresh.
You see, not only was I living out in the middle of nowhere, I was also going through a phase where I was trying to restrict myself from watching television and surfing the internet. The idea was to live in a sort of vacuum.
Anyway, it was during this monk-like stage of my life when I saw In The Bedroom. It wrecked me.
Driving home that night, I felt as if I had just been in a fight, where some awful, irrevocable things were said to someone I care about. A movie has never made me feel like that before. I haven't seen it since.
I had to drive 3 hours to see it the first time.
Todd Field Takes the Back Roads
Source: Variety
Todd Field (In the Bedroom) is developing Back Roads, based on the best-selling novel by Tawni O'Dell, for DreamWorks Pictures with an eye to possibly direct.
Set in western Pennsylvania's mining country, amid Eat 'n' Parks and Lick 'n' Putts, "Back Roads" follows a teenager whose mother is in jail for killing his abusive father and who's left to care for his three younger sisters. Meanwhile, he has taken an interest in a sexy, melancholic mother of two down the road.
Writers Paul Todisco and Ethan Gross, who both worked on Guy Ritchie's upcoming Revolver, will adapt the screenplay.
Field is currently at work on Time Between Trains, which centers on 19th century tragedian Edwin Booth.
Excellent! I'm looking forward to it.
Todd Field Helming Perotta's Little Children
Source: Variety
Tom Perrotta, the writer of "Election," has made a deal in which he will adapt his new book "Little Children" for the big screen for In the Bedroom director Todd Field to helm.
"Children" is described as matching the family dysfunction of American Beauty with the comedy of Perrotta's "Election," which was adapted by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. The book is expected to land at Paramount Pictures.
The novel features suburban town full of perfect parents who are fully devoted to rearing their children for Harvard futures and keeping them safe from predators. The adults escape the excruciating bore-fests their lives have become via Internet porn and extramarital affairs. It concentrates on the affair between one stay-at-home mom with an ex-jock stay-at-home dad who rebels against his wife's wishes that he become a big-bucks lawyer.
I saw it in the theater, and liked it a lot. I bought it recently and re-watched it, and appreciate it a whole lot more. This is a great, great movie.
SPOILERS I GUESS
It's perhaps as horrifying as a movie can possibly be, because losing a child strikes me as the absolutely worst fear realized. You go through life making plans and hoping, just hoping that your family, especially your child, are okay. You can deal with ANYTHING, anything but that.
This movie knows so perfectly when to be subtle, and when not to hold back. This results in some brutally shocking moments that were more crushing to me today than anything in a movie has been for a while (more crushing today than it was the first time I saw it). I felt that the ending was just perfect. I didn't find it melodramatic or unnatural or sensational. When I first watched it, I had the slight sensation that it might've been a little overhyped, but now I declare it underrated. With such a sorrowful song, this movie didn't miss a single note, and it hit me hard and resonated deeply. I think multiple viewings make it so much better, because the shifting of what the movie seems to be about is a little bit of a distraction, whereas knowing what happens give it an air of devastation from the first frame. I was able to sit back and be absorbed by what was happening on screen, and by the tremendous acting, rather than thinking about where this was heading.
This is a movie that understands its characters so fully, and, to me, displays an important view of America today. This is a masterpiece.
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When I first saw it, and there's that shot, where the camera moves down to see that horrific image of the kid...I remember not being able to recover for the rest of the film. This film is absolutely incredible, and I'm really pissed I forgot about it when nominating my films. Hopefully someone remembered?
i don't know if it would have made my top 30 but it certainly is in the top 10 of the decade.
Quote from: JimmyGator on December 25, 2005, 08:38:10 AM
i don't know if it would have made my top 30 but it certainly is in the top 10 of the decade.
Uhm, ok.
People may comment about the slow pacing of ITBR, but every scene tells us something very important that no other scene does. There's not a moment the film repeats an idea.
And the ending is perfect. These two people who thought they were going to be able to move on after they did what they did. And the husband realizing they would never be the same while the wife was still pretending things were somehow back to normal. Effin' marvelous.