the way the end-credits appear in both traffic and EB (maybe in his other films too but i either haven't seen them or wasnt paying as much attention) - while the movie is still in process, so you don't have this BLACK SCREEN appear and wrap things up and force you into making some kind of judgement/summation. so we get a kind of a profundity-of-the-everyday quality - the 'final judgement' already happened without us noticing (actually, both end scenes i'm talking about here are very much ABOUT the mundane turned profound - benecio attending the little league game which becomes this beautiful cosmic event with the help of eno and everthing being saturated in mars red and erin's workroom squabble which resolves itself into 2 million dollars)
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 12 September 2003 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
sure, some films of his are great, some are okay - and some are crap.but i'd like to hear anyone who's seen schizopolis bad mouth soderbergh. go on, you know you can't.
― dyson (dyson), Friday, 12 September 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 12 September 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
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― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 13 September 2003 08:18 (twenty years ago) link
George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh don't have much trouble getting the media's attention. The swooning and curiosity that's surrounded their quasi-fictional political show for HBO, "K Street," never fails to mention Clooney's charm, wit and sparkling grin, and to lavish praise on Soderbergh, glossing over self-indulgent flops "Solaris" and "Full Frontal," and ignoring his obvious embrace of his own celebrity despite humble, "Gosh I just hate this stuff" interviews to the contrary. A few signature leading-man looks from Clooney and a little self-deprecation from Soderbergh and these two are sophisticated, talented, swashbuckling guys just crazy enough to try something new, blurring the line between politics and Hollywood (what line?) and breaking down the barriers between reality and fiction (what barriers?).
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2003/09/15/k_street/index_np.html
― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link
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― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 10:41 (twenty years ago) link
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― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:10 (twenty years ago) link
On the other hand, Albert Finney's accent. Oy.
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
The first settlement was 500 mil, but that was supposed to be the first of many, in the film...
I just saw EB again last night, and the scene where Aaron Eckhart and Julia Roberts break up is so great. Her speech is so realistic, her delivery. Everything with Finney is hilarious (and I only noticed his accent once). There are some scenes that are overplayed--the brittle female lawyer bitch is too much. But the townspeople are portrayed with so much care that I'm totally baffled by the reaction here. Should movies never deal with small-town victims of corporations? These people are shown to be skeptical and smart. The scene with no sound, with the dad throwing rocks at the company at night--scenes like that put this movie WAY out of the realm of TV movie.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Coat Hanger (c_hanger), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Coat Hanger (c_hanger), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:25 (twenty years ago) link
Traffic is probably my least favourite Soderbergh. Erin Brockovich kicks its ass.
― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
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― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 01:02 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 02:00 (twenty years ago) link
(Pete Scholtes can regularly be seen at www.complicatedfun.com.)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
That said, I stand by my previous statement that Soderbergh 89-99 was better than 00-onwards, but I've decided to try to go through the entire oeuvre and see if a closer look yields anything worth reconsidering.
There.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 18 April 2004 04:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Miles Finch, Monday, 31 January 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Other than Sex, Lies and Videotape, which I also liked, I have not seen any of Soderbergh's other films.
― earlnash, Monday, 31 January 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 31 January 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I haven't seen Out of Sight in a very, very long time, mainly because I have it on VHS and not on DVD, but I plan to rectify this very soon.
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