tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post8531456821161420060..comments2023-09-29T05:32:04.308-07:00Comments on StrangePegs: Bridge of Spies (a movie review post)Andrew Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-28211605164321009132015-10-26T11:48:37.427-07:002015-10-26T11:48:37.427-07:00TAS: It's a good movie but it's not one th...TAS: It's a good movie but it's not one that needs to be seen in the theater. It won't lose anything by seeing it on a TV for the first time.Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-22417651956871266332015-10-26T11:47:40.494-07:002015-10-26T11:47:40.494-07:00Briane: Hanks is one of the few that broke out of ...Briane: Hanks is one of the few that broke out of his original mold, which was the goofy, funny guy who had awkward things happen to him. Or something like that. If you look back at his early career, it's all goofy comedy stuff, but he managed to maneuver that by doing some comedy with emotional content, which allowed him to take more serious roles. He's a really great actor, Forest Gump notwithstanding.<br /><br />I'll check those books out.Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-12731524803295786682015-10-24T19:38:04.445-07:002015-10-24T19:38:04.445-07:00The reviews have been excellent. Might check it ou...The reviews have been excellent. Might check it out.The Armchair Squidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10739833215220853127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-62891985198368403292015-10-24T18:37:32.972-07:002015-10-24T18:37:32.972-07:00I haven't even HEARD of this movie. How can th...I haven't even HEARD of this movie. How can there be a Spielberg movie starring Tom Hanks that I haven't heard a word about? <br /><br />Sheesh I've been out of touch.<br /><br />Maybe Tom Hanks is hitting that part of his career where he's just going to play "Tom Hanks." I read an article a long time ago that talked about how Hollywood packages actors as a certain mold: Tom Hanks is like the cool dad actor, someone who's mature but still fun, and then they just keep selling that. That's why actors get so pigeonholed and have trouble doing something else, but it helps sell them. When you see Spielberg on a movie, or Hanks, as you said, you know what to expect.<br /><br />Actually that relates to books: I heard a podcast recently that talked about why a certain author (I forget who) whose first book was a kind of hit and loved by critics then just faded away and it was in part because she wrote so many different kinds of books. Her readers drifted away, because people who'd like the first book then found the second one too different. "If you want fame and riches," the speaker said "Write the same kind of books over and over."<br /><br />It made me think of Jonathan Lethem, who (of the books I've read) wrote a scifi novel about a girl on a weird planet where she learns to sort of astrally project into aliens, and then wrote a book about a barely-successful girl who steals some of her boyfriend's funny sayings to make hit songs and then has her band fall apart just before they make it big. Both were great, but I can see where that would be hard for lots of people to follow.<br /><br />(By the way, you might like him. The scifi book is "Girl In Landscape," and it's sort of the dreamy quiet scifi like "The Book Of Strange New Things," and the other one was "You Don't Love Me Yet." The latter was the better of the two.Brianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01616494058636881575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-76582765382106697602015-10-23T13:42:51.380-07:002015-10-23T13:42:51.380-07:00Jeanne: Depending on what ends up being nominated,...Jeanne: Depending on what ends up being nominated, it could be a contender. And it is quite good.Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-17753358052282281602015-10-23T12:57:10.157-07:002015-10-23T12:57:10.157-07:00It looks good but it probably isn't an Oscar l...It looks good but it probably isn't an Oscar level movie. It's just the type of serious historic drama that can be considered Oscar appropriate. I still might see it though.J E Oneilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09780097298061829471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-16698182553498954002015-10-23T10:21:22.602-07:002015-10-23T10:21:22.602-07:00Alex: It's getting Oscar talk, so we went. As ...Alex: It's getting Oscar talk, so we went. As many of them as we cab get in before December is good.Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-88525975999129923052015-10-23T05:00:18.523-07:002015-10-23T05:00:18.523-07:00I do want to see it. Had too many other movies to ...I do want to see it. Had too many other movies to catch this past weekend though. Not much in November, so maybe I'll see it then.Alex J. Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09770065693345181702noreply@blogger.com