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Chris' Movie Questions: My MYSTIC RIVER Review
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: henrypie on June 29, 2006, 02:37:26 pm ---1. Klaus Maria.... maybe it's the germanophile in me but man oh man, I already know he's sexy.
2. I read Out of Africa but never saw it; I thought the book kinda boring, and that's from someone who does not need explosions to stay interested. However, now that Barb says there's a show-stealing Klaus Maria in it, I'm putting in my netflix queue right away.
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I don't know what it is about Klaus Maria, but man oh man, does he ever do it for me in this one. Maybe it's just that his chemistry/electricity/physics/biology... with Meryl Streep was infinitely better than Robert Redford's was. She's such a good actor that I could suspend disbelief and enjoy how into Denys her character was, but there never seemed to be any bidirectional electricity going on between them, you know? He'd look at her, and it'd just be like "Eh." But she and Klaus would look at each other and KA-BOOM.
Hell, it's making me want to watch it again and just fast-forward through all the scenes he's not in...
twistedude:
Hey! I just posted this!
Klaus Maria is a drag in this movie, and the whole movie, with the exception oif Streep, is fairly draggy, and not worth one of her best shiort stories, like The Ring, The Cardinal's Third Tale, or even Sorrow Acre.
Winter's Talers and Last Tales (not her last, by the way) are her best books of short stories..
So did someone get upset by my saying she died painfullty of syphilis of the spine--or what? There's one scene, toward the end of the movie, where Streep looks EXACTLY like a photo of her, she's in black, and somehow manages to look sharp-boned and skinny as a rail.
slayers_creek_oth:
Ok so now I was interested...so Shea and I watched it tonight....
Ummm....not my cup of tea as Mandster said...although Streeps performance was incredible...the way she mastered that accent...wow! But other then that I didn't care for it much...
littleguitar:
LOL I thought that would happen! It wasn't really my cup of tea either, though I can appreciate why it's a good movie... I love Meryl Streep, she was the only reason I really enjoyed the movie. Who else is excited about The Devil Wears Prada??? Ok, wrong thread... ;D
slayers_creek_oth:
--- Quote from: littleguitar on June 29, 2006, 11:20:54 pm ---LOL I thought that would happen! It wasn't really my cup of tea either, though I can appreciate why it's a good movie... I love Meryl Streep, she was the only reason I really enjoyed the movie. Who else is excited about The Devil Wears Prada??? Ok, wrong thread... ;D
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Its supposed to be really good Mandy...really good! And Meryl Streeps performance is said to be Oscar worthy...as usual really..
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