oh, i'm sure he'll find some european ingenues to make doe eyes at some thinly-veiled, handsomer, slightly younger iteration of himself.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
slightly younger? with Jesse Eisenberg, he's had to go two generations now.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
yeah that occurred to me. i guess even liam neeson has got to be 15-20 years younger than woody at this point.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
as opposed to earlier, when liam neeson was merely 10 years younger than woody.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
if indeed he wasn't always
xp ffs
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
liam neeson gets younger every year fyi
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
A Rainy Day In New York coming out everywhere except the USA:
https://thefilmstage.com/trailer/first-trailer-for-woody-allens-a-rainy-day-in-new-york-starring-timothee-chalamet-elle-fanning-selena-gomez/
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
bcz of our sense of justice
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
if only it were because distributors realize his scripts are awful
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 May 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
agreed
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 May 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
https://thefilmstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A-Rainy-Day-in-New-York-620x308.png
Chalamet looking like a young Fran Lebowitz here.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Friday, 17 May 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
Please don't lump us all in with the French and the Italians.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 18 May 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/amazon-studios-woody-allen-rainy-day-in-new-york-rights-1203220413/
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 May 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
it's crazy how his good/bad ratio fell off so completely around 2002 or so. Everything afterwards is so lazy and half-baked. Given that he's a incapable of evaluating is how work, I don't expect he'll ever cop to some big shift in his process but ... what happened around then? the Dreamworks deal? Did he lose some key collaborators or something?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Jean Doumanian?
― Tales of Jazz Ulysses (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
xp. personally i feel like his ratio falls off somewhere just after, i dunno, deconstructing harry (which i actually don't even think is particularly good in hindsight, but in the terms of later period woody allen is definitely among the better pictures)
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
like if you take away sweet and lowdown and small time crooks the run of bad to mediocre that starts with celebrity kind of never stops
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
you don't like Sweet and Lowdown?
We can quibble about the demarcation point somewhat, it just feels like something went seriously awry at the start of the millenium
xps
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
yeah i guess i am quibbling a lot. i consider sweet and lowdown and small town crooks to be among the better movies he's made in the last 20 years. i'm honestly not crazy about either of them, but besides anything else/match point/whatever works they're masterpieces
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
by besides I'm meaning "in comparison to", oof. my brain
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
his slide seems to roughly coincide with his realization that he could no longer credibly play a romantic lead, maybe that just sapped his interest
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
Yet from 2005 until fairly recently he released several films that became among his highest grossing: Match Point, Scoop, Midnight in Paris, To Rome with Love, Blue Jasmine.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
those movies are (mostly) bad!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
Mostly just released to long-haul flight entertainment systems I think
― Sent me the wrong t-shirt it says let’s summon demons (Matt #2), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
I offered description, not criticism. One of my hobbies in the last decade is writing long reviews of bad Woody Allen films. It was like sit-ups: not too strenuous, felt virtuous afterward.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
I always forget that so many of these nu-Woody flicks were big moneymakers
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
well, relatively
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
not sure what would make me interested in seeing any film by Woody Allen, having seen none to date
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
are any of them good
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Tuesday, December 10, 2019 6:01 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Relative to their budgets a few of them (MIP in particular) were HUGE money makers.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
lol silby
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
like are any of them not about he, Woody Allen, fucking a much younger woman?
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
The only mildly amusing Allen movie in the last twenty years is Irrational Man, only because it's weird watching Joaquin Phoenix adjust his quirks to Woody.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
srs question: are these joke questions
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
here's the woody allen movies I'm aware of:
whatsit, the one named for the girl, Annie Hall: the plot is Woody Allen gets dumpedManhattan: I assume it's set in ManhattanBlue Jasmine: only aware of this because of a Comedy Bang Bang gagEverything you wanted to know about sex: I don't want to know about sex
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
shakey I never joke
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
uh ok
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
I like Vicky Cristina Barcelona but mostly because of Penelope Cruz. Most W. Allen films consist of conversations that I would slowly walk away from in real life.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
Broken down his filmography through 2002 with a yes/no question (yes indicating that it involves said fucking):
What's New Pussycat? - NoWhat's Up, Tiger Lily? - NoTake the Money and Run - NoBananas - NoPlay It Again, Sam - NoEverything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) - NoSleeper - NoLove and Death - NoThe Front - NoAnnie Hall - NoInteriors - NoManhattan - YESStardust Memories - NoA Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy - NoZelig - NoBroadway Danny Rose - NoThe Purple Rose of Cairo - NoHannah and Her Sisters - NoRadio Days - NoSeptember - NoAnother Woman - NoCrimes and Misdemeanors - NoAlice - NoShadows and Fog - NoHusbands and Wives - YESManhattan Murder Mystery - NoBullets Over Broadway - NoMighty Aphrodite - YESEveryone Says I Love You - NoDeconstructing Harry - sort ofCelebrity - NoSweet and Lowdown - NoSmalltime Crooks - NoThe Curse of the Jade Scorpion - YES
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
a bunch of those are good-to-great. Annie Hall in particular is a comedy milestone/landmark film imo.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
some of them are about him fucking a woman his own age. one of them is about Javier Bardem fucking two women, one of whom is five years younger than him* and one that is fifteen years younger than him. one is about Jason Biggs fucking someone his own age, but it is much worse than any of the American Pie movies.
* (that he has repeatedly fucked onscreen for 26 years and counting, as of Everybody Knows)
― insecurity bear (sic), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
dang xpost
this has a chart of the age gaps between pairings in his films. https://www.mic.com/articles/185578/heres-a-chart-showing-the-age-gaps-between-romantic-partners-in-woody-allens-movies
I wonder if silby would like Annie Hall.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
I wonder a lot of things
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
lol I looked up the Biggs one and forgot it's about him cheating on his girlfriend with a slightly younger woman and seeking advice from Woody Allen on what to do about it
― insecurity bear (sic), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
I think you wouldn't. But if you ever get mono maybe you could give it a shot. It's fine. xpost
― Yerac, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
I'm not exactly seeking out movies about het romances these days
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
my lesbian boomer pals and i get into arguments about it because they love it and I am like ... it's ok.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
the main thing it has going for it is that NYC isn't overcrowded in it.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
I bet a silby could enjoy several of the good-to-great Woodys, including Annie Hall, if able to set aside "imo Woody is a sex creep" preconceptions. But there are plenty of other movies to watch.
xpost again, I went off and read the Mic chart
― insecurity bear (sic), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link