Mystic River

Post by **danlo** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 8:11 pm

I, for one, loved this movie! Very powerful preformances by Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay-Harden, Sean Penn and (and yes Foul even your boy) Kevin Bacon. Superbly directed by Clint Eastwood who also selected the music. I've never read the book but it had the feeling that it did justice to the written work. I discussed the movie with my dad this morning, who has read the book but hasn't seen the movie, and he said it sounds like Clint did a very respectable job.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:47 pm

danlo wrote:(and yes Foul even your boy) Kevin Bacon.

I don't have anything against Bacon as an actor, per say. He's just the seventh sign of the apocalypse, is all.

Post by **matrixman** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 11:42 pm

I think Unforgiven is still Clint Eastwood's best movie (by a fair margin), but Mystic River was very good. Great cast--including Mr. Bacon.

This movie was a refreshing alternative to Return of the King last year.

prepares to be slaughtered by LOTR fans

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:57 am

It was also a refreshing alternative to the the Matrix Reloaded and the Matrix Revolutions last year .

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:14 am

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH - MATRIX!!!!!!!!! And thank you for bringing it up, Foul! Allow me to point something out:
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions
Mystic River

Coincidence??? I think not!!

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:25 am

Perhaps it's a subliminal message that hints at a collaboration betwixt Clintwood and the Wachowskis, resulting in a Matrix-meets-Sean Penn romantic comedy? Mystic Matrix, perhaps?

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:28 am

Entirely possible!

And I'm sending you 5k WGD's just for putting "betwixt" in your post!

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:30 am

Awesome. I knew that word had a purpose somewhere, just didn't know till now.

Post by **matrixman** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:22 am

Lord Foul wrote:It was also a refreshing alternative to the the Matrix Reloaded and the Matrix Revolutions last year .

No kidding, Lord Foul. After the sensory assault of Revolutions, you definitely need something refreshing...like deodorant, Lysol disinfectant, a hot bath, strong alcoholic beverages, anything...

Post by **FizbansTalking_Hat** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:58 pm

The book was even ebtter than the movie, which is almost always true, but this movie came very close to doing it the way the book did. The acting was superb and the big names, Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Clint Eastwood, you can't go wrong with any of those people, they've been around for ages and have done some very nice work. Cheers for this movie, havne't bought it, don't know if its osmething I could watch over and over again and enjoy, btu its a nice film and deserves all the accolades it's recieved.

Post by **Old Darth** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:48 pm

Good not great movie. Really disliked the last 10 minutes.

Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:29 am

Good, solid film. Robbins was fantastic. A little overrated, IMO, though...

Post by **lucimay** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:43 am

book was better. robbins was great.

Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:53 pm

'Seems that most of the really good films out there are adaptations...guess that makes sense....

and some average ones,

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:11 am

thought the movie to be fantastic. really love Clint's directing. check out Perfect World...

Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:17 am

imdb'ed 'em...hol-e crap:

- Perfect World
- Mystic River
- Gran Turino
- Changling
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- Unforgiven
- Million Dollar Baby
- Outlaw Josey Wales
- Pale Rider

I never realized just how good a director he is...he's almost on Spielberg's level, looking at that list...

...almost.

Post by **lucimay** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:59 am

oh puhleeeese! are you serious?

gag.

i can't stand his maudlin movies.
i'd prefer to see him act.
unforgiven is the only one of his
directorials i liked.

redford exactly the opposite.
can't stand to watch him act (except for Spygame)
love the films he's directed...er...most of em anyway

Ordinary People
The Milagro Beanfield War
A River Runs Through It
Quiz Show

(didn't care for bagger vance at all)

Post by **Rigel** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:53 am

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:- Letters from Iwo Jima

Am I the only one who preferred Flags of our Fathers?

LfIJ just pissed me off.

Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:08 pm

I think you are the only one, Rigel...

Redford's really good...Horse Whisperer and Sneekers are two others of his that i like...

Post by **Rigel** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:51 pm

Let's do a quick comparison, shall we?

Flags of our Fathers:
Average, basically good boys thrown into a hellhole that is one of the worst battles of WWII.

Letters from Iwo Jima:
A bunch of soldiers are so suicidally stupid that they deserve to get shot, and they do.

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

Mystic River

Mystic River

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