Intolerable Cruelty (Now Polling)

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Alexandro

#90
October 14, 2003, 09:57:24 AM
I've been reading reviews for intolerable cruelty...after seeing it of course and i think the problem is that in the reviews the film sounds like so much fun...everything sounds incredibly laugh out loud and cynic and dark and great...but seeing the movie I didn't laugh that much...I kept thinking something incredibly funny was going to happen but it didn't really...except for the wheezy joe stuff, which was amazing...

and george clooney is so fucking great...

but people were laughing, I hope it's a success...cause it's a good movie...not great, but good...and it's better to hear people laughing with this than with scary movie...

Chest Rockwell

#91
October 16, 2003, 04:57:22 AM
I thought Intolerable Cruelty was pretty funny, though it's not really the same comedy as the Coen films. This one seemed to betrying a little too hard at being quirky and outrageously funny, but i let that slide since this was their first movie on whcih they collaborated the writing. I actually probably laughed more in this one than in Fargo or Barton Fink--those two movies are much funnier than Intolerable Cruelty, but their humor is much different than that of Intolerable Cruelty. All in all I thought Intolerable Cruelty was a good movie, though right after seeing it I saw Kill Bill was much more impressed with the latter.

modage

#92
October 16, 2003, 12:37:07 PM
Quote from: Chest Rockwellbut i let that slide since this was their first movie on whcih they collaborated the writing.
they co-wrote Hudsucker with Sam Raimi.
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ShanghaiOrange

#93
October 16, 2003, 02:45:21 PM
Yeah, but Sam Raimi doesn't suck.
Last five films (theater)
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-Thank You For Smoking: ***
-Silent Hill: ***1/2 (high)
-Happy Together: ***1/2
-Slither: **

Last five films (video)
-Solaris: ***1/2
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mutinyco

#94
October 16, 2003, 03:06:01 PM
Neither does Intolerable Cruelty.
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ShanghaiOrange

#95
October 16, 2003, 03:12:27 PM
It sucks compared to the Coens other work. And that's because it was written by people who suck.
Last five films (theater)
-The Da Vinci Code: *
-Thank You For Smoking: ***
-Silent Hill: ***1/2 (high)
-Happy Together: ***1/2
-Slither: **

Last five films (video)
-Solaris: ***1/2
-Cobra Verde: ***1/2
-My Best Fiend: **1/2
-Days of Heaven: ****
-The Thin Red Line: ***

MacGuffin

#96
October 16, 2003, 04:12:04 PM
I wanna know who was responsible for that whole "nail his ass" dialogue. That sucked.
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edison

#97
October 16, 2003, 04:28:39 PM
Quote from: MacGuffinI wanna know who was responsible for that whole "nail his ass" dialogue. That sucked.

good job on the spelling of dialogue, and yeah that did get way played out.

metroshane

#98
October 23, 2003, 11:00:48 AM
Hmmm...finally saw this and I have to say I was pretty disappointed.  I mean it was decent...but all the hype, especially comparing it to His Girl Friday really set me up for disappointment.  I know His Girl Friday, and you IC are no HGF!

BTW, what was so funny about Weasy Joe?  I didn't see one thing funny about him at all.  It's like he was written in for the one inhaler gag.  As a person who suffers from asthsma I can say that I was personally offended at.....ah just kiddin'.
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Ghostboy

#99
October 23, 2003, 12:57:41 PM
I don't think it's that people thought the character was funny as much as they did his magnificent exit.

mutinyco

#100
October 23, 2003, 01:34:13 PM
Yeah...um...Mac, don't go telling me IC sucked while using a Reloaded avatar... :)
"I believe in this, and it's been tested by research: he who fucks nuns will later join the church."

-St. Joe

metroshane

#101
October 23, 2003, 02:00:48 PM
I thought it was a little less than magnificent...but to each is own.  I think it would have been funny if the boss guy would have been flinging spittle from his tube.  Of course the play would be that Clooney would not be able to react to it. Now that's comedy.
We live in an age that reads too much to be intelligent and thinks too much to be beautiful.

MacGuffin

#102
October 23, 2003, 08:28:34 PM
Quote from: mutinycoYeah...um...Mac, don't go telling me IC sucked while using a Reloaded avatar... :)

Better than that Clearasil pimple cleansing diagram you have.
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mutinyco

#103
October 24, 2003, 08:27:52 AM
Actually, it's a diagram of Michael Bay having an orgasm...
"I believe in this, and it's been tested by research: he who fucks nuns will later join the church."

-St. Joe

godardian

#104
October 24, 2003, 07:43:44 PM
Quote from: ShanghaiOrangeIt sucks compared to the Coens other work. And that's because it was written by people who suck.

Suck might be too strong (not to mention nebulous) a word to use for my feelings on it, but I wouldn't disagree too strongly... definitely my least favorite Coen film so far.
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