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    Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron

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    Image of NotReadyForPrimeTime NotReadyForPrimeTime
    11/26/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    I would never question the judgment of a man who ate his own shoe just to prove a point.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/17/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    I love him. Finis. #wernerherzog
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    11/17/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    It's only been three years since his last dramatic feature, Rescue Dawn. #wernerherzog
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    i love this man and i'll see anything he makes or is a part of. yes, i even watched that jaw-droppingly terrible "the grand" to see what he had to say in it. there are a million reasons i love him, and roger ebert articulated all of them in this 2007 letter [rogerebert.suntimes.com] #wernerherzog
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    James Cameron: The Drinking Man's Werner Herzog. #wernerherzog
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/16/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    Cage is def. in free fall. On a whim, I went and saw a late show of Astroboy, with Nic Cage as the voice of Dr. Tenma, and even as a cartoon scientist's voice he was awful. Wooden and stilted and just disastrous. #wernerherzog
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    11/16/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Sounds like he's going to try another Leaving Las Vegas role in this, in which case, more power to him. It beats the hell out of Ghost Rider.

    Nicholas Cage is one of those actors that, when he's good, he's absolutely, blow-the-doors-off-your-brain brilliant. Which makes the other 98% of his career really infuriating. #wernerherzog
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/16/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I saw a promotional picture for some sort of in theater magazine for The Sorcerer's Apprentice and his mane looks astonishing. That movie is shaping up to really be something. #wernerherzog
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/16/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Do I gather correctly that you liked Leaving Las Vegas? If so, you're not alone in that, but I thought that was one of the most inane pieces of crap I was ever subjected to. I get so deeply tired of the romanticization of abject narcissism that is the stock "tortured soul" movie. #wernerherzog
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/16/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Peggy Sue Got Married and Moonstruck give him a free pass in my book. #wernerherzog
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    11/17/09

    @Cecil's Wielder: He owns in Peggy Sue.

    "She loves you, ooh, ooh, ooh!" #wernerherzog
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    11/17/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: I did like it; I thought his performance was really pretty brilliant. However, all-time favorite of his is Raising Arizona. #wernerherzog
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/17/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: What I dislike isn't so much Cage's performance as the whole movie; as I say, the genre seems to me to view someone's emotional vampirism and total self-involvement as evidence of a poetic soul. Dorothy Parker wrote a great short story, "The Custard Heart", that I always think of in this kind of context. I have compassion for people who find themselves in this kind of narcissistic prison, but works of art that seem to me to romanticize them make me queasy. #wernerherzog
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    11/18/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: I didn't really get that out of it; I mostly got that he was a pathetic, doomed, self-destructive mess, which doesn't automatically equate to a poetic soul. I mean, throughout the movie, there wasn't anything particularly noteworthy, heroic or, hell, even interesting. But, different things to different folks, I suppose.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/18/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Look, a lot of people loved it, so I'm prepared to hear that my take on it is off-kilter. It's been a long time since I saw it; I realized in thinking about it that I didn't even remember the plot. It's just that when you know as many people who've died of alcoholism and drug addiction as I have, you kind of get sick of seeing movies made about that. Self-destructiveness just fucking annoys me at this point. It's so pointless and stupid. I get tired of seeing it treated as if it's inherently deeply interesting and dramatic, so that, for example, someone like James Frey can tart up his stint in rehab with a lot of phony crap and get lionized, not really so much for having gotten clean, but for how sick he supposedly was before he did.
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    Image of Wendy_Kroy Wendy_Kroy
    11/16/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    One of the most fascinating director's-commentary tracks out there is the one Herzog did for Fitzcarraldo - he talks about amputated body parts, tropical disease, and threats of murder with a borderline-psychotic nonchalance, at one point mentioning how the crew almost died during a waterfall sequence but, hey, they got the shot. I'm not a fan of the movie itself, but the commentary track is simply awesome. #wernerherzog
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/16/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    I think Aliens was pretty cool. #wernerherzog
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    Image of Cam/ron Cam/ron
    11/16/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    My favorite Herzog moment. "It was not a significant bullet!" #wernerherzog
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    11/16/09

    @Cam/ron: Herzog is one of my most favorite people. If I were a woman, I would want to have his children. #wernerherzog
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    Image of BunnySkull BunnySkull
    11/16/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    What exactly is used for "prop cocaine" if I may ask?

    I think that as far as ingesting cocaine goes, most actors have dedicated themselves to the method route. #wernerherzog
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    11/17/09

    @BunnySkull: probably manitol. #wernerherzog
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Werner Herzog: The Thinking Man's James Cameron
    well, I'd say Rescue Dawn could be considered a fairly recent release, no? biopic, yes, but still dramatic. #wernerherzog
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    Image of Mymoustache Mymoustache
    09/14/09

    In reply to Oprah Battles Clooney for the Toronto Spotlight; Soderbergh Just Wants to Paint
    Soderbergh is awesome. To punish my 11 year old, I took her to "Che" and made her sit through it...parts 1 AND 2...
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/14/09

    In reply to Oprah Battles Clooney for the Toronto Spotlight; Soderbergh Just Wants to Paint
    ...Steven Soderberg has sold the financing for his next film...

    Is this is a new or old power level in Ho'wood? Selling the right to give a director a ton of money to make his movie? I am in awe.
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    09/14/09

    In reply to Oprah Battles Clooney for the Toronto Spotlight; Soderbergh Just Wants to Paint
    I know Oprah is (co-)responsible for the distribution and promotion of Precious, which is great for the film, but if I hear one more person refer to it as "Oprah's movie" I'm gonna vom.
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    09/14/09

    @homoviper: Also, hasn't Precious been playing festivals since the late '90s? I want to see it, but for god's sake will someone just put that movie in a fucking theater already?
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