In Reply to: Duncan's meditation on Scorsese and Eastwood posted by clarkjohnsen on March 14, 2005 at 15:34:55:
shows what a poor writer truly he is.
Can't say I agree with his opinions, either. "Mystic River..." one of the best nominated films of the past 77-years!!!?
If Duncan can't see the commercialization and cliché in MDB, he has problems far beyond his writing---and that ain't good for a self-styled critic of any medium.
MDB and Mystic River are good, perhaps VERY good entertainment, but neither rises to Unforgiven's heights, which is the pity. Why Morgan Freeman allowed himself to be cast as such a kowtowing loser is beyond me.
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Follow Ups
- Good God, the last sentence in his first paragraph - tinear 16:24:11 03/14/05 (37)
- Mystic River is filed with The English Patient - Bulkington 09:45:58 03/15/05 (32)
- A very poor linkage: - tinear 14:08:22 03/15/05 (5)
- Doesn't seem so poor a linkage. - rhizomatic 12:55:52 03/16/05 (0)
- Re: A very poor linkage: - jamesgarvin 15:30:16 03/15/05 (2)
- Re: My take - rico 08:15:54 03/16/05 (0)
- Excellent points about Eastwood: who'd have thought after - tinear 16:56:57 03/15/05 (0)
- Oops, I KNEW it was Eastwood. nt - tinear 14:12:11 03/15/05 (0)
- Re: Mystic River is filed with The English Patient - jamesgarvin 10:25:23 03/15/05 (25)
- Why go to a baseball game when you could go to the art museum? - rhizomatic 13:05:15 03/16/05 (4)
- Re: Why go to a baseball game when you could go to the art museum? - jamesgarvin 14:17:40 03/16/05 (3)
- Har har har! - rhizomatic 14:26:20 03/16/05 (2)
- Re: Har har har! - jamesgarvin 15:58:57 03/16/05 (1)
- Actually - rhizomatic 17:20:01 03/16/05 (0)
- Huh? - Bulkington 12:08:07 03/15/05 (19)
- Re: Huh? - jamesgarvin 13:32:48 03/15/05 (18)
- Re: Huh? - Bulkington 13:40:09 03/16/05 (2)
- The masses are too dumb, not smart enough to know what is good and not good. - rhizomatic 13:31:03 03/16/05 (13)
- Re: The masses are too dumb, not smart enough to know what is good and not good. - jamesgarvin 15:55:18 03/16/05 (12)
- Don't you get it? Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon practically *stink* of high art... ;-) ... nt - clarkjohnsen 11:20:36 03/17/05 (4)
- Hung up on the term? - rhizomatic 11:35:22 03/17/05 (3)
- 'Scuse me, not my term. I repeated it in jest. Lighten up. And as I said elsewhere... - clarkjohnsen 11:42:12 03/17/05 (2)
- Did you like the book? - rhizomatic 11:49:55 03/17/05 (1)
- I thought it was supposed to be easier to make good movies out of bad books - Bulkington 12:24:15 03/17/05 (0)
- Well, no... - rhizomatic 17:34:57 03/16/05 (6)
- Re: Well, no... - jamesgarvin 09:26:56 03/17/05 (5)
- And let us not forget, it's scripted from a frikkin' BOOK by a frikkin' MYSTERY writer. How much higher can art go? nt - clarkjohnsen 11:24:18 03/17/05 (0)
- You don't think that intentions are *implicit* to works of art? - rhizomatic 10:25:44 03/17/05 (3)
- Re: You don't think that intentions are *implicit* to works of art? - jamesgarvin 13:09:47 03/17/05 (1)
- But I'm not judging Eastwood. - rhizomatic 13:54:02 03/17/05 (0)
- Oh, by 'supplementary baggage' here, - rhizomatic 10:27:05 03/17/05 (0)
- "The arbiter of what is middle-brow entertainment..." Haw! - clarkjohnsen 07:44:33 03/16/05 (0)
- I agree about the writing. This is the worst writing I've read in a ... - jonbee 07:48:36 03/15/05 (2)
- "commercial publication" LOL! Let me tell you about the Reader - padreken 08:51:57 03/15/05 (1)
- Coupla years ago they printed an exhaustive survey/story of... - clarkjohnsen 07:33:11 03/16/05 (0)
- Re: Good God, the last sentence in his first paragraph - jamesgarvin 06:50:44 03/15/05 (0)