I thought it was supposed to be easier to make good movies out of bad books - Bulkington

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Topic - Duncan's meditation on Scorsese and Eastwood - clarkjohnsen 15:34:55 03/14/05 (42)

Re: Sounds like you would like... - Dave-A 06:58:23 03/18/05 (0)

Re: Duncan's meditation on Scorsese and Eastwood - rico 07:25:12 03/15/05 (2)

Huh? - rhizomatic 14:19:51 03/16/05 (0)

Good point! nt - clarkjohnsen 07:18:48 03/16/05 (0)

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)

Re: Huh? - jamesgarvin 15:41:28 03/16/05 (1)

Re: Huh? - Bulkington 06:51:14 03/17/05 (0)

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)

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I thought it was supposed to be easier to make good movies out of bad books - Bulkington 12:24:15 03/17/05 (0)