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Swiv (decrepit postgrad)

I quite liked Spy Kids!
please don't send me to the asylum just yet.

And Clooney's turning into quite the, I want to say Cary Grant, but I'm not sure if the analogy's quite right. Anyway - roll on Solaris' appearance in MY local cinema.


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Awix

Hmm, well, I took my little sister to see Spy Kids to cheer her up after our nan's funeral, and she was so bored by it she tried going to sleep in the theatre. Mind you, she was 25 at the time...

I didn't think it was *too* bad, just a bit startling to see people like Cheech Marin and Danny Trejo in a kid's movie... The CGI was ugly though.


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Swiv (decrepit postgrad)

oh, but Spy Kids was fun! I think all the adults were in it 'cos it was a Rodriguez film.

but most cgi is often dodgy - Star Wars looks painted to me, Spiderman looks very fake, Dobby and Gollum worked - but the flying Nazgul were interesting to say the least.


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Awix

Know what you mean about SW, I watched Starship Troopers the other night and the battle scenes in there are less spectacular but somehow more convincing. A lot of the fun of Spider-Man, for me, was the way it didn't try to be cool and hard and real (cf. Daredevil) and just went with the fantastical garish cartoony elements of the story (looks like The Hulk's going down a similar route - yippee!).

George Clooney, all respect to him, ain't the latterday Cary Grant. The closest thing we have to Cary Grant these days in terms of range and ability and fame is Tom Hanks - but he doesn't have Grant's grace or style or charm or wit (or his range, quite). George Clooney is, well, I'd compare him to either Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood, who both came from heart-throb TV roles to superior action movies, and then moved on to more interesting projects they were personally interested in (Eastwood turning director in the process). Not that Clooney's *quite* got the iconic status of either of them, yet, but give him time...


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Swiv (decrepit postgrad)

But Clooney is more a comedy performer - or p'raps rather, not a serious drama kind of guy - he'll probably never work with Sam Mendes say!
Plus, I really cannot bear Tom Hanks... he's just too, chipper, and I can believe him as anything other than Mr-Normal-n-Nice (same way I can't believe Tom Cruise as anything other than a golden boy). Road to Perdition was quite painful, if not quite so much as say, Forrest Gump. And I'm going to ground when they remake the Ladykillers with him in it - even if it IS the Coen Brothers.


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Awix

Oh, God, they're not!

And I thought 'Get Carter' starring Stallone marked the nadir of Hollywood remakes...


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Swiv (decrepit postgrad)

apparently they're moving it to the Southern US, with Hanks as the Professor-mastermind.
One of my friends howled that Hanks wasn't fit to even watch Alec Guiness act...
It is possibly slightly better (only just, and only by virtue of the Coen Brothers being involved) than the Italian Job remake in L.A with Mark Wahlberg as Michael Caine, or the utterly hideous rumour that someone wants to remake Kind Hearts and Coronets with Robin Williams (may saints preserve us) as the D'Ascoyne family.


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