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Author Topic: Michael Clayton Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 10-23-2007 01:02 AM                        The Darjeeling Limited  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-23-2007 10:34 AM                        Joey?  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 10-24-2007 10:43 AM                     I thought it was OK, but whenever Steven Soderbergh involved, you know the film is going to be s-l-o-w. Cutting 20 min would have been good. It was on 7 reels, but only 119 min, so you know they already trimmed some out. SPOILER NOTICE! Why would the hired hit men use a bomb? I thought they would going to make it look like an accident, or something less obvious. Why would the main charactor throw his watch, wallet, etc. in the burning car; that's not goingto fool anyone.  |  IP: Logged Kyle Anderson Film Handler Posts: 86 From: Tyler, TX, USA Registered: Dec 2005 posted 10-24-2007 03:53 PM                     Accelerated flames often don't leave anything of the body behind- bones included (the basis of cremation); it's sortof plausible that they would be fooled by his personal effects in the car and miss the fact that there's no bone dust.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-02-2007 12:00 AM                     Location: Carmike 8, Lawton (where else?) Auditorium: #7 Format: Christie 2K DLP/LPCM 5.1 Rating: 3.25 stars out of 4 Going in, I didn't know what this movie was about. I only heard lots of movie critics (and a couple people I know) really liked it. I liked it too. This isn't an action movie, but I kind of got that vibe from the trailer. The main characters of this story go through a pretty tense pressure cooker. The ending was a little predictable and a couple of other points were left unresolved. But I would still recommend it. The true anamorphic 'scope photography was pretty decent. Nice to see instead of the usual grain-o-rama Super35 stuff (although there were a few shots here and there that were purposefully grainy). I have one minor complaint over something hardly anyone else would care about: title design. This is one area that really shows off the limitation of the 2K d-cinema format. The opening title "MICHAEL CLAYTON" is set in white Copperplate Gothic letters at a fairly small size in the lower right area of a black background. The type is drawing slowly closer to the camera. And the movement made the lettering look totally freaking screwy. It had this really strange jumping, rippling effect as it grew into adjacent pixels of the image grid. As that rippling occurred the "C" in "Clayton" was looking larger and then smaller and then larger than the neighboring letters. I'm fairly sure if I had seen this movie on 35mm I would not have seen the same problem on the opening title. Copperplate Gothic has some really tiny serifs at the ends of its letter stems. It's a type style that is only meant for very high resolution reproduction and usually works best set in fairly large point sizes. In television production type is chosen a little more carefully. And other steps are taken to make sure that coarse pixel grid doesn't chew up the edges of the type. Often the edges of letters are deliberately blurred. Certain kinds of movement is avoided. And the type has to be at least a certain size to not turn into visual mud.  |  IP: Logged Carol May Film Handler Posts: 48 From: los angeles, ca, usa Registered: Nov 2006 posted 12-05-2007 09:09 PM                     I just saw M. Clayton, had no idea what to expect, but I like George Clooney. I was engrossed from the beginning. The reviews all said that the first hour was a little vague, and it was, but I think that's the point. We know that there are corporate shenanigans going on that will be to the benefit of the corporations, but not The People, and that's enough. The movie didn't wander, it was clearly geared towards adults and the filmmakers didn't feel compelled to write something in to make it a better date movie or more enticing to teen boys. Here's to Clooney and to Clint Eastwood for making movies the way they ought to be made  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-06-2007 02:24 AM                     quote: Carol May Here's to Clooney and to Clint Eastwood for making movies the way they ought to be made Amen! How long until they make a movie together?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-06-2007 11:18 AM                     The National Board of Review announced its movie awards for 2007. They awarded George Clooney with Best Actor for his performance in Michael Clayton. A number of respected film critics have already speculated Clooney could pick up a Best Actor Oscar nomination for this movie. The National Board of Review award makes that prospect much more likely.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-06-2007 12:11 PM                        Some people like really bad movies.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-06-2007 01:33 PM                     Actually I did not think Clooney was too bad here. But the script was an insult to the intelligence. SPOILERS AHEAD Clooney is supposed to be a "fixer" yet he walks through the whole movie in a fog supposedly not realizing (until the end) that other people can fix things too. The car bomb ending was ridiculous. I mean just at the moment the bomb was going to go off he stops his car by the side of the road and gets out to look at horses so that (miraculously) he is not killed. Now what are the real chances of that happening. And what's with the car bomb. The killers who went to such lengths to make his collegue's death look like an accident then go after Clooney with a CAR BOMB. Yeah I know the police in these sort of movies are stupid but even the stupid police here would probably conclude it was attempted murder with the use of car bomb.  |  IP: Logged

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