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The Fortune (Nichols,
1975)
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1959)
Betrayal (Jones,
1983)
Play It As It Lays (Perry,
1972)
The Outfit (Flynn,
1973)
Alex in Wonderland (Mazursky,
1969)
The Legend of Lylah Clare (Aldrich,
1968)
In The Cool of the Day (Stevens,
1963)
That Cold Day in the Park (Altman,
1969)
The Fox (Rydell,
1967)
Thumb Trippin' (Masters,
1972)
Midas Run (Kjellin,
1969)
At Long Last Love (Bogdanovich,
1973)
Outcast of the Islands (Reed,
1951)
Mike's Murder (Bridges,
1984)
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1930's-1950's
The Moon's Our Home (Seiter,
1936)
Sh! The Octopus (McGann,
1937)
The Mating Season (Leisen,
1951)
Bad for Each Other (Rapper,
1953)
The Phenix City Story (Karlson,
1955)
Run of the Arrow (Fuller,
1956)
House of Secrets (Green,
1956)
Macabre (Castle,
1958)
The Fiend Who Walked the West (G. Douglas,
1958
Five Gates to Hell (Clavell,
1959)
1960's
Key Witness (Karlson,
1960)
Summer and Smoke (Glenville,
1961)
The Chapman Report (Cukor,
1962)
Bachelor Flat (Tashlin,
1962) [on Hulu]
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1963)
A Thousand Clowns (Coe,
1965)
You're a Big Boy Now (Coppola,
1966)
Dark of the Sun (Cardiff,
1968)
Skidoo (Preminger,
1968)
Last Summer (Perry,
1969)
The Comic (C. Reiner,
1969)
1970-1974
The Revolutionary (Williams,
1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife (Perry,
1970)
Tropic of Cancer (Strick,
1970)
I Never Sang for My Father (Cates,
1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion (Newman,
1971)
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (Turman,
1971)
'Doc' (Perry,
1971)
The Music Lovers (Russell,
1971)
Drive, He Said (Nicholson,
1971)
The Steagle (Sylbert,
1971)
The Last Movie (Hopper,
1971)
Made For Each Other (Bean,
1971)
The Day the Clown Cried (Lewis,
1972)
Hickey & Boggs (Culp,
1972)
The Carey Treatment (Edwards,
1972)
Pete 'n' Tillie (Ritt,
1972)
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (Pakula,
1973)
Man on a Swing (Perry,
1974)
Open Season (Collinson,
1974)
The Tamarind Seed (Edwards,
1974)
Law and Disorder (Passer,
1974)
Homebodies (Yust,
1974)
Stardust (Apted,
1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette,
1974)
1975-1979
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (Richards,
1975
At Long Last Love (Bogdanovich,
1975)
Hearts of the West (Zieff,
1975)
Welcome to L.A. (Rudolph,
1976)
W.C. Fields and Me (Hiller,
1976)
Citizens Band (Demme,
1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (Aldrich,
1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Brooks,
1977)
Movie Movie (Donen,
1978)
The Medusa Touch (Gold,
1978)
American Hot Wax (Mutrux,
1978)
Hot Stuff (DeLuise,
1979)
Scavenger Hunt (Schultz ,
1979)
Players (Harvey,
1979)
Rich Kids (Young,
1979)
Nightwing (Hiller,
1979)
Screams of a Winter's Night (Wilson,
1979
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? (Katselas,
1979
1980's
The Awakening (Newell,
1980)
Simon (Brickman,
1980)
God's Angry Man (Herzog,
1980)
Twice Upon a Time (Korty & Swenson,
1983)
Trouble in Mind (Rudolph,
1985)
When the Wind Blows (Murikami,
1986)
Housekeeping (Forsyth,
1987)
The Glass Menagerie (Newman,
1987)
Patty Hearst (Schrader,
1988)
Running on Empty (Lumet,
1988)
Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway,
1988)
Haunted Summer (Passer,
1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years(Spheeris,
1988)
1990's
Men Don't Leave (Brickman,
1990)
Old Times (Curtis,
1991)
Prospero's Books (Greenaway,
1991)
City of Hope (Sayles,
1991)
The Baby of Macon (Greenaway,
1993)
King of the Hill (Soderbergh,
1993)
Dadetown (Hexter,
1995)
SubUrbia (Linklater,
1997)
comment #1
JapAdapters
says ...
I'd rather punch myself in the face.
Posted by JapAdapters
at February 1, 2009 11:59 AM
comment #2
Ryansi51
says ...
oh my god girls are gonna eat this shit up with no need for utensils.
it validates every thought they've ever had about an ex; that he'd come crawling back if he could only see what he was missing.
At least it has an original concept.
Posted by Ryansi51
at February 1, 2009 12:12 PM
comment #3
cinefan
says ...
The trailer definitely screams "enormous piece of turd". It's very disappointing to see Jennifer Garner take a step backwards in her career after her very winning and affecting performance in Juno.
Posted by cinefan
at February 1, 2009 12:23 PM
comment #4
DeafBrownTrashPunk
says ...
He's still hot and fine-looking.
Posted by DeafBrownTrashPunk
at February 1, 2009 12:36 PM
comment #5
DeafBrownTrashPunk
says ...
and i second that, Cinefan. Jennifer Garner seems like a genuinely nice person and I liked some of her performances.
She deserves better than that.
Posted by DeafBrownTrashPunk
at February 1, 2009 12:36 PM
comment #6
George Prager
says ...
Movie Bob says...
So I'm assuming nobody SAW the movie, right? Cuz, the fact that it's actually pretty good for it's genre and budget might have something to do with it. MIGHT. It's no classic, but the main character is genuinely sympathetic - you WANT to see him get the girl in the end. which gets surprisingly brutal - and it stays admirably far away from pop-culture referencing and smug "whatever"-ism for it's humor in favor of oldschool slapstick.
The fact that what amounts to a one-joke sketch expanded into a PG-13 feature works at all is further testament to Matthew McConaughey's very real comic chops, though since he already stole two whole movies out from under Ben Stiller and Al Pacino one wonders if that really needed further proving. He has the makings of a Tom Hanks (or Clooney - LOVE to see him work under the Coen boys come to think of it...) save that he hasn't yet hit on an Volunteers/Turner & Hootch level script yet.
Posted by George Prager
at February 1, 2009 1:01 PM
comment #7
Jonah
says ...
"He's still hot and fine-looking. "
God, I hate it when people just look at men as sexual objects. It's sexist you bunch of fucking cunts.
Posted by Jonah
at February 1, 2009 1:14 PM
comment #8
vjp81955
says ...
At last, the feminist equivalent of "My Super Ex-Girlfriend." What treacle!
Posted by vjp81955
at February 1, 2009 2:44 PM
comment #9
Chicago48
says ...
It looks like a lot of fun; I'm in.
Posted by Chicago48
at February 1, 2009 3:24 PM
comment #10
The Winchester
says ...
It opens against Wolverine. It's the movie guys will have to get dragged to if the girls don't wanna see sweaty Hugh Jackman with metal claws.
Sounds like a dark, dark weekend.
Posted by The Winchester
at February 1, 2009 5:45 PM
comment #11
Calraigh Bracken
says ...
I didn't think it was possible but McConaughey actually has a worse career trajectory than Kate Hudson.
Posted by Calraigh Bracken
at February 2, 2009 1:59 AM
comment #12
bfm
says ...
The film looks awful (and the critique of the trailer is brilliant), but two things make me wonder if it can really be that bad. One is Jennifer Garner who admittedly has pretty erratic taste in terms of the projects that she takes, but who gives appealing performances. But more than that, Michael Douglas. Maybe he's getting soft now, but usually he picks his scripts carefully and well. The producer side of him seems to have a good eye for what works.
Posted by bfm
at February 2, 2009 7:50 AM
comment #13
Burbanked
says ...
@George Prager: If there's a good movie, cleverly played out in a way we don't expect, this trailer is keeping it a big big secret. This clip simply portrays GHOSTS as - like you say - a one-joke sketch (and, BTW, not really that great of a joke) that goes exactly where you think it will. There's nothing in the trailer to suggest otherwise, so how exactly is it to be judged by the vast majority of not-Movie Bobs who haven't SEEN the movie?
Thanks for the link, Jeff.
Posted by Burbanked
at February 2, 2009 8:41 AM
comment #14
D.Z.
says ...
I used to not be into McConaughey, either, but after Tropic Thunder, I think I can stand him more than Richard Gere at least.
cinefan: You seem to forget that her work consists of Daredevil, Elektra, 13 Going on 30, and Catch and Release; so why are you surprised?
Posted by D.Z.
at February 2, 2009 1:51 PM
comment #15
htownjohn
says ...
This one plus "500 Days of Summer" appear to be destined to pair up as the Double Feature of the Week on a continous loop in Hell.
Posted by htownjohn
at February 2, 2009 4:11 PM
comment #16
Doug
says ...
Jeff,
I think it's pretty clear to your readers you just hate romantic comedies, so there's really no point in your bashing each one that comes along.
Posted by Doug
at February 3, 2009 3:29 AM
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