"Gone Baby Gone"

On Oct 21, 8:35 pm, trotsky <gmsi....DeleteThis@email.com> wrote:
> Anyone have comments?

I plan to see it ASAPractical. The book was very good (and is
recommended)... and, besides, I'm personally pulling for Affleck's
ballsy career move...

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nick wrote:
> On Oct 21, 8:35?pm, trotsky <gmsi... DeleteThis @email.com> wrote:
>> Anyone have comments?
>
> Nope. The Wes Craven retrospective I went to pretty much killed any
> chance of seeing Gone Baby Gone this weekend.


Nick, was that humor? I hope you have health insurance so you can get
that cracked face fixed.
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On Oct 21, 8:35 pm, trotsky <gmsi... RemoveThis @email.com> wrote:
> Anyone have comments?

Seems there's more than a few similar international documovies,
Bombay, Brazil, though from a 3rd world perspective, more of an
actuality than press fanfare when indignation arises to issues. I
once tried reading The Onion Field and had to put it down. Also saw
something of a woman, on a different tact, some self-instituted crises
outreach organization for runaway girls that end up hooking the
streets. A portion of significance within an intersecting scope of
national figures from missing children, overall. Perhaps no less
harrowing when presented victimization and emerging patterns of social
behaviorism derived through detailed interviews. I doubt at any level
a movie destined for wider audiences, if to contend with a depth
squalor fathoms, or emerge intact for entertainment values with Morgan
Freeman in it. In the first place, I find them repressive, in the
second, immaterial. There's little to shock me in the Seven Deadly
Sins, and less that's disturbing. And actual case studies don't
concern or affect most people within statistical significance. Dogma
is the only thing I'd care offhand to watch from his linage.
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moviePig wrote:
> On Oct 21, 8:35 pm, trotsky <gmsi....TakeThisOut@email.com> wrote:
>> Anyone have comments?
>
> I plan to see it ASAPractical. The book was very good (and is
> recommended)... and, besides, I'm personally pulling for Affleck's
> ballsy career move...


I saw it Sat. All I'll tell you is that it was like "Mystic River,"
only good.
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Can't really say much with spoiling the plot points. Though, many, many
parts strained credibility, especially the ending. I thought Affleck was
good, and so was the mother. There's also some very good set pieces, and
the character actors they used to play all of the bit parts were solid as
well (except maybe Cheese). I'd probably give it a 6/10.

Though, I agree it was a lot like "Mystic River," but actually worth
seeing.


On Oct 21 2007 9:35 PM, trotsky wrote:

> Anyone have comments?

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On Oct 22, 6:24 am, trotsky <gmsi... RemoveThis @email.com> wrote:
> moviePig wrote:
> > On Oct 21, 8:35 pm, trotsky <gmsi... RemoveThis @email.com> wrote:
> >> Anyone have comments?
>
> > I plan to see it ASAPractical. The book was very good (and is
> > recommended)... and, besides, I'm personally pulling for Affleck's
> > ballsy career move...
>
> I saw it Sat. All I'll tell you is that it was like "Mystic River,"
> only good.

I don't know... I find Casey Affleck's voice extremely grating, I'm
debating whether I should see it or wait till dvd.
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On Oct 22, 7:24 am, trotsky <gmsi....TakeThisOut@email.com> wrote:
> moviePig wrote:
> > On Oct 21, 8:35 pm, trotsky <gmsi....TakeThisOut@email.com> wrote:
> >> Anyone have comments?
>
> > I plan to see it ASAPractical. The book was very good (and is
> > recommended)... and, besides, I'm personally pulling for Affleck's
> > ballsy career move...
>
> I saw it Sat. All I'll tell you is that it was like "Mystic River,"
> only good.

Indeed, I liked the books in that order, too, fwiw. I'll probably
have GONE tomorrow... and, equally probably, will post...

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Garondo Marondo wrote:
> On Oct 22, 6:24 am, trotsky <gmsi... DeleteThis @email.com> wrote:
>> moviePig wrote:
>>> On Oct 21, 8:35 pm, trotsky <gmsi... DeleteThis @email.com> wrote:
>>>> Anyone have comments?
>>> I plan to see it ASAPractical. The book was very good (and is
>>> recommended)... and, besides, I'm personally pulling for Affleck's
>>> ballsy career move...
>> I saw it Sat. All I'll tell you is that it was like "Mystic River,"
>> only good.
>
> I don't know... I find Casey Affleck's voice extremely grating, I'm
> debating whether I should see it or wait till dvd.


He was outstanding. He and Ed Harris made the whole movie.
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ACS wrote:
> Can't really say much with spoiling the plot points. Though, many, many
> parts strained credibility, especially the ending. I thought Affleck was
> good, and so was the mother. There's also some very good set pieces, and
> the character actors they used to play all of the bit parts were solid as
> well (except maybe Cheese). I'd probably give it a 6/10.
>
> Though, I agree it was a lot like "Mystic River," but actually worth
> seeing.


I would go as far as to say that the dramatic tension in some of the
scenes was the best I've seen in any movie. They reminded me of Joe
Pesci's character in "Casino": the situation could explode into violence
at any second. I sure hope Affleck is talented enough to continue
making movies at this level.
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trotsky wrote:
> > You've not said what YOU thought of the end.
>
> I liked the ending because it made me try to think what I would've done.
> At first I thought if he has an integrity he'd have to keep his
> promise to the mother, but at the end when he's stuck there watching her
> you have to think maybe Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman were right, and the
> kid is best off in a home where she's actually taken care of. I still
> don't know what I would've done.

Me neither. I think that sort of decision is easier to make the first
time. As in, if you don't really have any idea how you'll feel
afterward, it's easier to just go with your gut instinct and do the
"wrong" thing that is, ultimately, the "right" thing.

I still think that it was killing the pedophile that made him make the
decision he did. After doing that, he understood firsthand what the
real consequences were to himself, for doing something like that, and
it was harder to go against his promise to the mother when he was
confronted with a difficult decision the second time, even though I
think he knew everyone would be better off if he did.

Interesting moral dilemma.

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