I’ve walked out on probably a dozen movies in my life, a quarter of which were directed by Woody Allen: “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” “Hollywood Ending” and “Celebrity.” The 21st Century hasn’t been kind to one of the previous century’s great auteurs, but I’m intrigued by his upcoming release, mainly because of the casting.
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That is an awesome bit of casting there! LOVE Larry.
If you walked out on “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” you are tragic, sir.
Allen also killed it with “Match Point,” which was easily one of his best… ever. “Cassandra’s Dream” was pretty good too if not for the kind of trite ending. (But Colin Farrell was very good in it.)
Know this: Woody Allen has never made a bad movie. He’s made a bunch of mediocre ones, but he’s never made a bad movie.
VCB — a bunch of contrived, trite yapping. The beautiful, uptight chick with her equally beautiful, free-spirit friend encounter a handsome artist with a devil-may-care attitude. Ooooh. How original. That was a bad movie. So was September. I’m a Woody fan, but those were bad movies. Plain and simple.
“Match Point” was good, but the ending was ridiculous. If only all cops were that gulliable …
Woody Allen has made great movies and terrible ones. He’s rarely just mediocre.
I’ll give it a chance, but I’m not convinced David can deliver a scripted punch the way Woody Allen used to. People don’t always separate Woody the actor from Woody the filmmaker, but the man had great timing and was wonderfully physical in his own way.