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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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"One of the many things Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich did this week — instead of resigning from his position, as many people desired — was sign into law an increase on tax credits for films produced in his state. So, it should be only appropriate, and somewhat bittersweet, for the inevitable movie about his life and corruption hearings to be shot there. Now that we’ve got a location for the film, it’s time to cast the players in Blogojevich’s scandalous tale. The Washington Post has already published a list of possible actors to portray the lead (John Travolta, Sean Astin, Gary Cole, Stephen Baldwin, Tom Cruise, Ray Liotta, Charlie Sheen, Mike Myers and Steve Carrell), but more difficult than casting Blogojevich (see our pick below) is determining what other significant figures should be prominently featured. A straight biopic calls for way too many characters, so we’ve narrowed the film down to focus on just Blagojevich’s arrest and subsequent (forthcoming) trial. As always, if ... "
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"We’re less than a week away from the release of Tropic Thunder, and as the reviews and puff pieces make their way onto the web, there’s one thing clearly uniting the media’s coverage: talk of Tom Cruise’s appearance in a small role as a Hollywood studio boss. Everyone seems to agree that he steals the show and that his performance — or the joke surrounding it — is one of the comedy’s major highlights, if not the actual best part. Of course, we can expect a good cameo from Cruise every now and then. He showed up for a bit part in Young Guns and played himself as playing “Austin Powers” in Austin Powers in Goldmember. But from what it sounds like, his role in Tropic Thunder is featured for longer than might qualify as a cameo. Some are regardless referring to the performance as an “extended cameo”, and in theory it certainly fits in with the huge crop of so-called “ironic cameos” that have become popular in movies and TV in the last ten years. Still, despite my not having yet seen th ... "
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Confessions Concerning an Uneve ...
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"Kaufman. Clooney. Absurd plot. For these reasons, Netflix recommended that I watch this movie based on other films I've previously viewed and enjoyed, and, of course, I am very susceptible to the suggestions of Netflix and the almighty queue. Apart from that hypnotizing queue (the novelty of which oughtta wear off soon, I promise), the above should have been some magical ingredients for me to enjoy this movie.Operative words in last statement: should have been.Sam Rockwell, aka Zaphod Beeblebrox in a certain book-to-movie that post-dates this film, plays Chuck Barris, formerly real-life host of the Gong Show and the creator of a bevy of mind-numbing game shows in the 60s and 70s such as the Dating Game and the Newlywed Game. He's somewhat of a dysfunctional, intelligent, sex addict with several ideas in his head, and the real man wrote a collection of memoirs and notes in which he suggested that he was a hired assassin for the CIA. This film operates on the premise th ... "
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"Sundance Institute at BAM - "Snow Angels" Saturday, June 2, 2007At the Sundance Institute at BAM, David Gordon Green, director of George Washington, All the Real Girls and Undertow, screened his latest feature, Snow Angels, that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Green adapted Snow Angels from the novel by Stewart O'Nan. Together with cast members Sam Rockwell (
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"I was jogging the other day, listening to Filmcouch #97, and the boys on the program asked whether there are any movies being made in the old spy genre anymore. Pure spy movies, as I think they put it. Or are we now left with, through evolutionary Hollywood transmogrification, only action spies (Bourne), humorous spoofy spies (Powers), and a few self-referential takes on the old genre, viz., The Constant Gardener.So for a few blocks I mentally recapitulated the efflorescence of the spy genre in the Sixties, as I remember it. Fleming, who started it all when JFK told an interviewer that he read the Bond books before bed at night, Len Deighton (Michael Caine as Quiller), the Flint movies. Richard Burton in the first La Carre effort.Then I spent a couple of blocks coming up with the following list:Spy Kids (2001, 2002)
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"Chuck Barris, played by Sam Rockwell, lusts for sexual encounters since roughly age eleven. The movie, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, chronicles Barris' sexual affairs along with his dreams, his game shows, and his licentious murders. This movie is based on Chuck Barris' autobiography. The premise of the movie can be funny. In real life, it is hard to believe that this game show creator murdered many people for the CIA (for why would the CIA let him release such information to the public in an autobiography?). But we are not concerned with real life. In the movie, Chuck Barris does kill people for the CIA. The movie explains his motivations. Barris murders because he gets pleasure from it. He may get pleasure from the murder, but I like to think that his real motivation in killing people is to make the prizes for his game show better. I will say that his motivations for killing are sheer pleasure in the act, a selfish attempt to improve his game show by raising the pr ... "
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"I didn't see this movie when it came out because it didn't sound particurly interesting. I saw it now because I loved Clooney's second film as a director, Good Night, and Good Luck. In a way this is a test run for that film as it also deals with TV and the cold war. It's good, but nowehere near as sucessful. Indie film star Sam Rockwell stars as Chuck Barris, creator of such television achievements as The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game and The Gong Show, which he also hosted. The movie is based on Barris's autobiography in which he claims that he also worked as an assassin for the CIA, although he always TV producing as his real job. Go figure. Despite the fact that I find his claims rather difficult to beleive, the movie is enertaiing and occasoinly funny, particulaly an awful performance of Elvis's "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" by a Gong Show contestant. Once the movie gets going, however, the spy plot is only moderatly interesting, partially because there's no s ... "
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I'll Take CIA Assassians For $1 ...
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"I'm a huge gameshow fan, so when I saw that there was a movie about Chuck Barris (the buy behind the dating game and the Gong show), I was pretty excited to see it. I didn't know a lot about the film when I scheduled my TiVo to record it, but I figured CIA + Chuck Barris = Exciting Film.Was I ever wrong about this one. This film wasn't exciting at all, it was boring and confusing. The limited CIA scenes had limited action and almost no background. One moment you were watching Barris on a date, the next you were trying to figure out who he was killing and why. In the end, the movie's only strength was the character development throughout the film and even that was pretty limited. I especially didn't understand why Julia Roberts or George Cloney was in the film as their performance seemed pretty weak. Overall, I've got to recommend avoiding this one. It's not the worst film ever, but it's pretty bad. "
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