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moongirl719 (
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Mon, Jan 9, 06 at 11:21
| The critics are right...the best Woody Allen film in years. DH liked in particular the realness of the characters' emotions. I liked the suspense. Lifted straight from Hitchcock. And it's GOOD. Really good. |
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RE: Saw Match Point
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| Is this available to rent yet, Moongirl? It did not play long in theatres here. Is it as good as his "Manhattan" or "Annie Hall"? |
RE: Saw Match Point
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| Woodnymph, it JUST OPENED on Friday nationwide. It will probably be coming to you shortly. |
RE: Saw Match Point
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| I hate it when all the good movies come lumped together at the end of the year, and you have to speed up to see them all before Oscar time (if you care about that). Yes, critics in Phila. said the same thing, best from Woody since Annie Hall. |
RE: Saw Match Point
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| I saw "Match Point" over the weekend and thought it was really good, but probably not one of the very best of the year. It's hard for me to say if it's better or not than Allen's other films because it seemed so "NOT" Woody Allen to me. It's got a dark tone to it similar to "Closer", IMHO. It is not a comedy! Definitely worth watching, but you may want to wait until it comes out on DVD since there's so much more out there to see now and it's not really a "need to see on a big screen/theater" type movie, IMHO. |
RE: Saw Match Point
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| Yes a lot of people have compared it to Closer, but I felt it was more like Woody's other darker films, like Crimes & Misdemeanors and Husbands and Wives. |
RE: Saw Match Point
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| I saw it this week and loved it..The London scenery and the acting were both compelling...Wanted to see it before the plot was revealed to me..Very good.. |
RE: Saw Match Point
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| I just saw this and found it well worth the price of admission. W. Allen seems to have returned to his former spirit of strong direction and interesting plot twists. Scarlett Johannsson is a marvel for such a young actress! She just gets better and better. Yes, I agree this was similar in its dark mood to "Closer" which I also liked. But it reminded me of an earlier equally dark film: "Damage" with Juliette Binoche and (I think) Miranda Richardson as the cuckolded wife. Moreover, the constant opera music and dark theme reminded me of "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" with the late Peter Finch. Don't see this film if you hate opera music, LOL! ;-) |
RE: Saw Match Point
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| Just rented this and while I thought it was pretty engrossing, I was disappointed in the end. I don't know, the whole thing felt artificial to me. None of the characters were likable (which I know should not be a basis for judgement) and the ending! But most of all, this didn't remotely resemble a Woody Allen film to me. |
RE: Saw Match Point
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Maybe we shouldn't put Woody Allen into a box in terms of what his films "ought" to be? Maybe the darkness of this film is an offshoot of the darkness of his own life.
I liked the ending, its chilling echo's of Sartre's No Exit. |
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| Well I think that was the whole point why people were stunned. It started off so Woody and then took a strange turn. It's almost like the film was good BECAUSE it was so anti-Woody. It was almost Hitchcock. It's like he's been doing the pretty much the same exact film for decades now, so isn't it nice to see him do something off-kilter for a change? I agree, none of the characters were likeable. But again, I think that was part of its charm. Likeable characters do not necessarily constitute whether a story is good or not. (Look at the classics! Was Gatsby really a likeable guy? Isn't the Rhys-Meyers character a sort of modern-day Becky Thatcher of Vanity Fair?) |
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| Also, I'd like to add, that what I felt was really the whole point of the film (in the way that Signs is not about crop circles) is that this film is about Fate, ie. which side of the net the ball falls on. It's in that one little nano-second of time that Fate rests. What would have happened if things turned out differently? That's why it's called Match Point. Because what happens in that moment determines who wins the game. And that's what I think Woody wanted to explore. And I'd like to add, that's what I liked about it. |
RE: Saw Match Point
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| I agree to your points that i have shared with all of you lily. |
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