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The evening's Netflix DVD was Milk. Sean Penn is outstanding. Most of the rest of the cast is not. Victor Garber didn't get much screen time as Moscone, which was a blessing. He is about as much like Moscone as Cate Blanchett, only not as pretty.
Technically, the film sucks lemons through multiple garden hoses, sometimes simultaneously. Truly crappy cinematography, audio levels which jumped all over the place, I finally gave up and turned on subtitles. The black and white clips they showed at the start are disgustingly gratuitously artsy fartsy - all the TV news was in color 10 years before, this was not the 50's. The clips were poorly edited and should never have left the junior high art film project they came from.
The ending was also a study in how not to build suspense, how not to tell a story. The slo-mo at the finale was just stupid. And I never liked Tosca anyway.
The basic story is compelling, Penn carries the show well enough to make it worth seeing. The crowd scenes were impressive. I wonder if
rackstraw ever found himself among those thousands of other extras.
There is a lot of history in there which I either had not known or had completely forgotten. At the height of his fame I was overseas, I didn't hear the story till I moved to CA a few years later, Dianne was Mayor.
Technically, the film sucks lemons through multiple garden hoses, sometimes simultaneously. Truly crappy cinematography, audio levels which jumped all over the place, I finally gave up and turned on subtitles. The black and white clips they showed at the start are disgustingly gratuitously artsy fartsy - all the TV news was in color 10 years before, this was not the 50's. The clips were poorly edited and should never have left the junior high art film project they came from.
The ending was also a study in how not to build suspense, how not to tell a story. The slo-mo at the finale was just stupid. And I never liked Tosca anyway.
The basic story is compelling, Penn carries the show well enough to make it worth seeing. The crowd scenes were impressive. I wonder if
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There is a lot of history in there which I either had not known or had completely forgotten. At the height of his fame I was overseas, I didn't hear the story till I moved to CA a few years later, Dianne was Mayor.
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Date: 2009-07-09 03:19 pm (UTC)He rubs me exactly the wrong way, and I won't watch his movies because of it. I just want to punch him in his sour, craggy, nasty little ferret face.
Makes me glad his character died.
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Date: 2009-07-09 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-09 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-10 06:19 am (UTC)For a more interesting story of an extra in SF, have you come across the story of (I think) Layla Sarakalo?
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Date: 2009-07-10 06:24 am (UTC)For a more interesting story of an extra in SF, have you yet come across the recently discovered trivia of Layla Sarakolo?
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Date: 2009-07-10 06:27 am (UTC)A browser loading issue caused me to think my comment was lost so I re-composed it. Feel free to choose the version you like and delete the other! :-)
Btw, do you have Cupcake?