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Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
by mrbuckyk in mrbuckyk Blog

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"Watched this in gambling country which kind of added to the film... it was entertaining if not a little formulaic/predictable. Not really worth going to the movies for. More of a renter. Great soundtrack, lots of techno. Even has an exclusive LCD Soundsystem track on there. " [More]

Dissapointing.
by minjoe in minjoe Blog

lost interest.

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"Not since the hit gambling film Rounders have I found myself looking forward to seeing a movie of this nature. While I enjoy playing cards, I usually find blockbusters about any form of gambling to be riddled with cliches and usually pretty boring. With a cast that included the likes of Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth, I expected 21 to be different......I was wrong...This movie revolves around a group of MIT students who learn how to count cards and spend their weekends in Vegas racking up cash. In theory, this sounds like an action packed, solid idea. However, the movie is painfully long and takes a great deal of time to get going. About 45 minutes into the movie I found myself already losing intererst wondering why I should care about their method to counting cards when it was incredibly obvious the director of this film had no desire to actually try and make the audience understand how that works.Thus, for around the first hour you are treated to some of the most trite and o ... " [More]

Trade Roughage 08/31/08
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog

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"As expected, 21 came in at the top of the box office this weekend, with a not-huge $23.7 million. And as hoped for by many––maybe even Paramount, who opened the thing on suspiciously few screens––Stop-Loss tanked with $4.5 million. Just three months before their mutual contract expires, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have severed ties. AFTRA president Roberta Reardon said the move was prompted by her former sister union’s dirty dealings in the contract negotiation process. Actual quote: “We can’t trust SAG.” A group of British directors has formed their own union of sorts, called Directors U.K. The goal, according to Variety, is “securing a standard collective bargaining agreement with British employers.” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina " [More]

Trade Roughage 08/31/08
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"As expected, 21 came in at the top of the box office this weekend, with a not-huge $23.7 million. And as hoped for by many––maybe even Paramount, who opened the thing on suspiciously few screens––Stop-Loss tanked with $4.5 million. Just three months before their mutual contract expires, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have severed ties. AFTRA president Roberta Reardon said the move was prompted by her former sister union’s dirty dealings in the contract negotiation process. Actual quote: “We can’t trust SAG.” A group of British directors has formed their own union of sorts, called Directors U.K. The goal, according to Variety, is “securing a standard collective bargaining agreement with British employers.” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog " [More]

Kate Bosworth Blacks Out Her St ...
by lopezdash in Intersection

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"What's the easiest way to lose your inhibitions when filming a sex scene that millions of people will see? Copious amounts of booze, of course! That's the route Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess went while filming their steamy tryst in the Las Vegas drama '21.' In fact, the two got so thirsty, Bosworth says she blacked out and can't even remember filming the fling, PEOPLE reports ."We were both so drunk," the 25-year-old 'Superman Returns ' starlet said, saying she and Sturgess decided "to have a couple of drinks, loosen up and go for it."Sturgess has similar alcohol amnesia."It was brilliant for about half an hour. As we continued to drink ... it just became sloppy and messy. I couldn't stand up at one point," he said.Source: People.com " [More]

SXSW Review: 21
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"The true-story-based 21 comes off as an extremely interesting, though likely unintended concept: a gangster/crime film for nerds. In structure, it’s basically Little Caesar set in the world of card counting, which in fact isn’t illegal, yet in Vegas is viewed as being just as criminal as bootlegging was during Prohibition. There are a number of moments that exactly fit the mold of the crime genre and some moments that even seem specific to individual films (a short scenario involving new identities feels like a wink at a similar scene in Reservoir Dogs if you’re already thinking about gangster movies). But as interesting as the concept sounds, nerds just aren’t as entertaining as gangsters and blackjack and brains just isn’t as cool on screen as bank robberies and machine guns. Coinciding with the crime genre structure are the conventions of the geek-gets-popular genre (I guess as social climbing stories, they’re basically the same thing). The story centers on an MIT student (Jim S ... " [More]

SXSW 2008: Bump on the red carpet
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"Friday night, the movie 21 had its big red carpet premier at SXSW 2008. It’s a true story about an MIT student who bamboozles the Vegas blackjack tables until he gets caught. For me, I thought it’d be fun to hang out on the red carpet here in Austin, which is not known for its red carpets (the one I was standing on was about eight feet long), and see what happens. My story is as follows: 8:30 pm - An hour before the premier - The fidgety reporters and photographers around me are yucking it up about lenses and such when I see a group of kids wearing professional make up and hear shutters start to snap. “It’s the guy from Friday Night Lights!” Someone exclaims, then, “… it’s a show on NBC.” I wait for the flash to charge on my $99 point-and-click camera… Two girls wearing tiaras take a picture of him… But my attention turns to this guy–who I’m developing a little man-crush on–and I think he’ll step on the carpet, but he’s apparently just checking text messages… Then these two step ... " [More]

SXSW 2008: Bump on the red carpet
by paul in paul on spout.com

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"Friday night, the movie 21 had its big red carpet premier at SXSW 2008. It’s a true story about an MIT student who bamboozles the Vegas blackjack tables until he gets caught. For me, I thought it’d be fun to hang out on the red carpet here in Austin, which is not known for its red carpets (the one I was standing on was about eight feet long), and see what happens. My story is as follows: 8:30 pm - An hour before the premier - The fidgety reporters and photographers around me are yucking it up about lenses and such when I see a group of kids wearing professional make up and hear shutters start to snap. “It’s the guy from Friday Night Lights!” Someone exclaims, then, “… it’s a show on NBC.” I wait for the flash to charge on my $99 point-and-click camera… Two girls wearing tiaras take a picture of him… But my attention turns to this guy–who I’m developing a little man-crush on–and I think he’ll step on the carpet, but he’s apparently just checking text messages… Then these two step ... " [More]

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