tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post8154221967009404053..comments2023-10-08T03:32:33.151-04:00Comments on bookeywookey: A Good Old Fashioned Mystery, Charles Ives, and Mark Ruffalo (film - Zodiac)Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05511240514127283024noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-4405427958602471582007-09-22T15:33:00.000-04:002007-09-22T15:33:00.000-04:00Oh please don't feel that you HAVE to see Eternal ...Oh please don't feel that you HAVE to see Eternal Sunshine ... if you can't get past the Carrey thing, then perhaps it is not for you! I don't know what it was - but that movie speaks to me, and every time I see it - it feels like a different movie. !!! Amazing!<BR/><BR/>I think Linney is best when she has to play something abstract and mannered - like her performance in The Truman Show (a movie I didn't really like - starring your favorite actor!! hahaha) - but she had to play a caricature - someone who was already acting a part - and she was quite funny and good.<BR/><BR/>I don't buy her when she just has to play a normal woman surrounded by normal people - but she managed to pull it off quite well in You Can Count On me - but I have to say: I think the main reason for that is because she was playing off Ruffalo - who FORCED her to be good, and in the moment.<BR/><BR/>My 2 cents.<BR/><BR/>I miss talking with you in person! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-48459299666175461862007-09-22T15:26:00.000-04:002007-09-22T15:26:00.000-04:00S - I know, I'll just have to see Eternal Sunshine...S - I know, I'll just have to see Eternal Sunshine at some point as a reference point to you. <BR/>I don't have your visceral reaction to Linney but while I always feel she's very skillful and her choices faultless, I never taste blood, you know? She gets an A in her Italian class, but would never be mistaken for a native.Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05511240514127283024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-15366403328777690682007-09-22T14:52:00.000-04:002007-09-22T14:52:00.000-04:00You Can Count On Me is the only time where I have ...You Can Count On Me is the only time where I have been able to BEAR Laura Linney. I can't stand her acting normally. She makes me insane. But I really liked her in that. In my opinion, though, Ruffalo walks away with that movie (him and the little Culkin kid).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-76064897483657196172007-09-22T14:50:00.000-04:002007-09-22T14:50:00.000-04:00Yes! I loved You can count on me! There's anothe...Yes! I loved You can count on me! There's another good movie with Ruffalo in it called In the Cut (I think that's the name of it - with Meg Ryan - it's a great noir performance from him. Very Bob Mitchum-esque)<BR/><BR/>Eternal Sunshine. I probably think about that film once a day, Ted - in my everyday life. It comes up ... as a reference point ... I don't know what it was, it just really got INSIDE me in a way that few films do. Fearless did that as well - that's another movie I probably think about, on average, once every couple of days. Weird.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-6994660132404653352007-09-22T14:47:00.000-04:002007-09-22T14:47:00.000-04:00I'm taken with the theme of that film but I've bee...I'm taken with the theme of that film but I've been avoiding because.... well you know our little disagreement about Jim Carey. Just can't stand him. Don't know what it is. But I may have to see it if Ruffalo is in it. Did you see You Can Count on Me? I just loved that film.Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05511240514127283024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-78685670177391223642007-09-22T14:39:00.000-04:002007-09-22T14:39:00.000-04:00I love Ruffalo too in Eternal Sunshine of the Spot...I love Ruffalo too in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - which was my favorite movie of the last decade. He's so scruffy and WEIRD in it ... and completely blase about the fact that his job involves zapping memories out of people's minds. He doesn't seem to question the larger implications - it's like any other minimum wage job. It's a very funny performance - and his hair is spectacular in it - like Heat Miser hair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com