Author Topic: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS  (Read 61836 times)

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Re: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
« Reply #140 on: December 18, 2010, 06:15:36 pm »
Finally!  I see it's playing both at the multiplex and the art house cinema. 

Despite another nasty cold and expected snow, I'll try to see it this week.

It's important that everyone goes and spends money to see this in the theatres.  Opening weekend would be preferred.  Otherwise movies with gay characters will continue to remain hard to get made and then released!  This is our chance!

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Re: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
« Reply #141 on: December 18, 2010, 10:07:43 pm »
I'm planning to see it tomorrow!
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Re: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
« Reply #142 on: December 20, 2010, 11:51:10 pm »
I'm planning to see it tomorrow!

What did you think of it in the theatre?  Did it have more of an impact on you this time?

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Re: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
« Reply #143 on: December 21, 2010, 05:13:16 am »
Yes, I definitely caught more of the asides. Ewan's performance was much better when you could see his face more clearly. The crowd was mostly hetero couples or gays and their opposite sex friends. No one walked out. The movie was well attended.  :)
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Re: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
« Reply #144 on: December 23, 2010, 12:11:14 pm »
David Edelstein applauds Jim Carrey's performance in this film!
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Re: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
« Reply #145 on: December 23, 2010, 04:04:17 pm »
David Edelstein applauds Jim Carrey's performance in this film!

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Re: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
« Reply #147 on: December 23, 2010, 07:14:24 pm »
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Re: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
« Reply #148 on: December 23, 2010, 11:10:26 pm »
Granted I can't stand Jim Carrey, but that looks dreadful.

Well, I saw it tonight.  I still can't stand Jim Carrey, but the film wasn't completely dreadful. 

Hardly more than a dozen people in the theatre. 

I found the silly and farcical stuff too jarring, against the more serious parts of the film. 

Ewan McGregor was as understated as Carrey was overblown. 

Most (?all) of the kissing scenes were done in silhouette, interestingly.

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Re: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
« Reply #149 on: December 31, 2010, 12:58:16 am »
It's important that everyone goes and spends money to see this in the theatres.  Opening weekend would be preferred.  Otherwise movies with gay characters will continue to remain hard to get made and then released!  This is our chance!

I'm afraid at least one long-term gay rights activist would probably disagree with you, Eric. Mark Segal is the publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News and has been active in the gay rights movement since the 1970s. In his own column in this week's edition of the paper, he calls it "by far the worst LGBT film of 2010," and, worse, "the Amos and Andy film of gay people."

Segal describes Carrey's Steven Russell as "a stereotypical gay character we have not seen in decades" [apparently Segal has forgotten Jack in Will and Grace--J.W.]. He goes on:

"This fim plays to the worst stereotypes while pretending to be entertainment. It's disguised as a film for sophisticated individuals in large metropolitan urban cities. The problem is it is in wide release. One question: Would you want this film to be the first film about gays people see? Just imagine someone in Mississippi or Alabama watching the swishy thief--and, oh, let's not forget his ex-lover/kept boy who, to add a little sympathy to the story, dies of AIDS.

"Yes, this is the perfect film about gay men your right-wing Christian Republican wants to see. A swishy thief who either dies or ends up in prison."

He concludes, "A film with gay characters can still be trash. And that's where this film belongs, in a trashcan."
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