You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won: DAVID MAMET POLL

you wanted to go through the looking glass. how was it? was it more fun than miniature golf?

i fn love 'spartan'

― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:44 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm, spartan hits a total sweet spot: twisty fucked up government spy conspiracy shit, rad dialog, val kilmer, no exposition

That's within a wafer of an SB, but I like you.

i can do better...

the real hustle > hustle > house of games

I'd never even heard of Spartan until now. Gotta check this out.

surely u mean the edge?

Shit. Yeah, I guess I do. I went to IMDB and everything, ready to prove u rong. I could have sworn that movie was called The Bear.

the bear is a childrens movie abt a cub who trips balls

the bear in the edge was also in a movie called the bear. as well as clan of the cave bear.

'An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.'

pretty edgy for a kids movie

the bear in the edge was also in a movie called the bear. as well as clan of the cave bear.

and Legends of the Fall.

the bear is a childrens movie abt a cub who trips balls

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:17 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

rofl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8CZn1bR_jg

@_@

i can do better...

the real hustle > hustle > house of games

Either that's a joke, or I'm from the United Kingdom of Kiss My Ass.

otm, spartan hits a total sweet spot: twisty fucked up government spy conspiracy shit, rad dialog, val kilmer, no exposition

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:44 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

the ending is really bad and dumb and has william h. macy screaming mountains of exposition for no reason :[

i dont recall either of those aspects tbh :/

william h macy i kind of h8 tho, edmond was p dire

can't figure out why he takes his name off ronin but leaves it on hannibal and hoffa.

― balls, Wednesday, November 24, 2010 12:33 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark

He didn't want to share credit for the screenplay of Ronin. It's vanity, not the quality of the product.

Spartan, btw. I have an irrational love for that movie.

"Never go into the desert."

It also has one of my favourite taglines of all time.

Taglines: She's missing.

that's the one

man i dunno, spartan ~should~ be catnip, but i remember being meh about it for some reason

I've seen it multiple times and I can't put my finger on why it should stand apart. It's the same theme (masculinity morality in an immoral world etc...) he's been on for a while I think. It's just done well.

Also State & Main is really, really underrated.

Surprised how many of these I've seen. voting GGR. am I the only one who liked Redbelt?

I liked Redbelt.

I guess it's kind of a lightweight compared to most of these, but curious to see if it gets a vote or two

Not a big fan of the guy as director (though he did a great job with "The Winslow Boy," that odd year when both Mamet and Lynch made G-rated movies). I do, however, have a soft spot for "The Edge" and "The Untouchables," as Hollywood pay-the-bills scripts (it's Mamet, really, that won Sean Connery his Oscar). Don't know what to make of the fact that his wives are inevitably the weak link of his auteur works, but really like "The Spanish Prisoner," and "GGR" might be the rarest of adaptations: a playwright adapts his own play and makes it better.

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Mamet will direct a film adaptation of his 1988 play Speed-the-Plow (only time I saw Madonna perform)

http://deadline.com/2016/09/david-mamet-speed-the-plow-directing-movie-adaptation-hollywood-play-1201827446/

how was she?

suited to the role

Killer Takedown of His New Weinstein Play: http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-bitter-wheat-garrick-theatre/