Wow, I had no idea that this has been such an active thread. I just spent three hundred hours (give or take) catching up on it. I'll try to remember to keep up with it from now on.
Michael Clayton - I thought Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton were each terrrific in their roles. The Tilda Swinton role was especially interesting - she plays this awful, high-powered, tough, articulate legal counsel for the bad guy corporation, but we (the audience) are treated to her stumbling rehearsal of her phrasing while she gets dressed in the morning, her shaky lack of confidence in the office bathroom stall, it's cool.
Dan in Real Life - It's amazing how plain old likeable Steve Carell is in it, considering his likeability on "The Office" has more to do with pity at his patheticness. He looks completely different, rather than stocky and stiff, he looks lithe and loose. Very interesting. I've decided he is quite a good actor. Poor Dianne Wiest, it's fucked that she isn't carrying major movies as the star. But no, she's a middle-aged woman...
You all ought to come by and play the
ABCs at the Movies game with Leslie and oilgun and me (and others). We're going through the years, backwards. We started at 2007, and are now doing the movies of 1959. The last 3 movies posted were, North by Northwest for N, Operation Petticoat for O, and Porgy and Bess for P. Anyone want to post a good Q movie from 1959...? We use IMDb as our source and arbiter. The people on this thread would love it!
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