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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2020 20:35:05 GMT
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Sept 18, 2020 20:37:20 GMT
Love it... and as much as I love Irons in it, I think it's Silver's show (battle of the metals).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2020 20:40:41 GMT
Love it... and as much as I love Irons in it, I think it's Silver's show (battle of the metals).  I think Close is excellent, too. This Japanese poster is everything... Mattsby pacinoyes |
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Post by speeders on Sept 18, 2020 20:49:58 GMT
I expected to love it and was really quite disappointed, especially by Jeremy Irons who I thought was incredibly hammy and two dimensional at best. Feels like a very campy Lifetime movie.
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Post by stephen on Sept 18, 2020 20:53:48 GMT
I think it kinda skirts the realm of tastelessness at times, but Schroeder's deft direction and the trinity of strong performances keeps it from feeling like a too-soon capitalization on a tabloid story. Irons's win is pretty rad but I agree with him that it's a makeup win for Dead Ringers. It's also worth thinking that the movie can be seen through a different lens with the modern-day accusations against Alan Dershowitz.
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Post by quetee on Sept 20, 2020 23:58:00 GMT
I always watch if on cable. Jeremy was so good in the role. I do think the performances are better than the movie though.
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Post by TerryMontana on Sept 21, 2020 5:33:41 GMT
Jeremy was great in it, the movie was kind of OK...
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Post by MsMovieStar on Sept 21, 2020 7:46:31 GMT
Oh honey, I hated the Alan Dershowitz scenes in what is clearly a promotional piece for him. Without that part it would have been a fine movie with Irons & Close.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 16, 2021 22:49:37 GMT
I didn’t think this was so great when I saw it years ago but a recent rewatch has won me over. It’s entertaining, creatively angled, and excellently written by Nicholas Kazan (Impulse, At Close Range, Dream Lover - he seems to like writing about heated relationships and the tricks and mysteries and interest of behavior). Irons is very good… there’s an immortal slowness to him and how he moves. It reminded me of the way Karloff moves in The Black Cat, actually. That tempo makes it seem as if he feels no shame… and there are moments (like the mention of his mother) where he seems to crush whatever feelings may be swimming up in him. He’s also, we sense, impressed by his own lore… or at least leans into it, with the jokes, to avoid the shame of avoiding it. Fascinating performance… though a pinch overrated. I like Jason Patric and Tim Roth and some others more for Lead Actor that year. Back to the script. I sort of caught onto something while watching and it became a constant thing….. Twos. There’s of course the two verdicts - guilty or innocent. Two nights in question, two injections. There’s the two differently styled narratives - Irons and Close flashbacks (coldly upper crust, spooky) & Ron Silver and his paralegal frat house (dished, eager overflow). It’s jarring but intentionally so when Irons visits that house… and we get some of his best acting, not knowing how to hold his cigarette bc the unfamiliarity of the place throws him off, how he’s distracted and needs the ginger prawns at the Chinese restaurant! But back to the Two. Silver’s other case - two brothers facing the death sentence. Their father killed two men. I can’t even mention all the quotes bc there are TOO many. “Two drinks, she becomes irrational” — Christine Baranski says “We fell in love two days after the trial ended” — Close calls herself a “two-time loser.” Etc. And of course one of the last lines… Klaus asks for “Two packs of Vantage.” Old cigarettes… and how ‘bout that package… a target. |
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