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Igby Goes Down

 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
20:43 / 14.12.04
Really surprised there seems to be no thread for this movie here in the hallowed halls of Lith.

I only saw it cos I was all flu'd up last week, and caught it twice at absurd hours of the norning on Sky...What a fucking great little movie.

So very Wes Anderson I was shocked it wasn't opne of his when the credits rolled (though the absence of Owen Wilson was a bit of a giveaway maybe).

If you liked the Royyal Tenenaums or Bottle Rocket or any similar 'feel' flicks like 'About Schmidt' or 'Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys' you'll LOVE this movie....

Anyone else a fan/hater/totally indeferrent. Contribute!
 
 
D Terminator XXXIII
21:23 / 14.12.04
I saw it last year and was totally taken with it; so taken, in fact, that I got a friend of mine to download it for me.

I love it. Along with movies like the Good Girl, these are the unexpected gems which serve as a reminder what movies can do other than blow shit up in wirefu slo-mo.
 
 
doglikesparky
21:29 / 14.12.04
Yeah, agreed. Caught this one at the cinema when it came out last year at a friends recommendation and loved it.
I went into the film totally cold, having absolutely no idea what it might be about.
It's always the best way to see a film but so much sweeter when it's as good as this was.

Sparky says : Two thumbs up!
Everyone else says : Sparky, shut up. You're not Ebert.
 
 
ibis the being
01:52 / 15.12.04
I didn't really enjoy Igby. I went into it cold as well, but I didn't like the acting or the dialogue - I felt it was all style, no substance.
 
 
FinderWolf
14:12 / 15.12.04
I saw this a while ago and loved it. Jeff Goldblum was great fun, everyone was top-notch, very smart & intelligent film. Ryan Phillipe - wow, I really liked him. I figured someone who was married to Reese Witherspoon and did CRUEL INTENTIONS couldn't be good, but he proved me wrong here! (he was great in Gosford Park, too, now that I think of it...)

And Clare Danes is always wonderful.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
14:23 / 15.12.04
Along with movies like the Good Girl, these are the unexpected gems which serve as a reminder what movies can do other than blow shit up in wirefu slo-mo.

And I thought I was the only person to enjoy the Good Girl. Thank you, Jennifer Aniston, for making a 13 hour flight to Tokyo a little more bearable.

End of threadrot, I promise.
 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
10:22 / 16.12.04
I loved it, even/because of the general unlikeability of so many of the characters.

And the fantastic throwaway lines!

You act as if you hate him.

I do! I totally hate him! Evil - niblet fuck.
 
 
The Strobe
11:16 / 16.12.04
Oh, gosh, I really enjoyed this when it came out. I can't remember it in vivid detail, but it works on the levels it chooses to; it has a shifting sense of realism. Susan Sarandon, for instance, is at the lower scale; Igby nearer the top.

It certainly convinced a friend of mine to try rolling joints in dollar bills...

It's an interesting companion piece, in one way, to Tadpole, which was released at a similar time in the UK. I think Igby is the stronger film, though I have a soft spot for Tadpole.

As I think of it, there's a neat little triptych of young-men-interacting-with-adults movies in the past two years: Tadpole and Igby can be rounded off with Roger Dodger, which trumps the pair of them.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
20:55 / 16.12.04
Hey Scrubbly - as the pedant of this forum, I must point out that its "I do! He's totally hateable!Evil - niblet fuck!"

Just for the record.
 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
09:17 / 17.12.04
Apologies, Money Shot - I was so caught up in the glee of niblet-fuckery (which is just such a glorious insult) that I forgot the hate/hateable difference.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
16:14 / 17.12.04
ryan phillipe is always a great actor... how could you not love is devious, trashy ilnguistic locutions in Cruel Intentions? that movie goes beyond guilty pleasure into high trash. and his performance in Way of the Gun keeps up with Benicio Del Toro the whole way through --

i did think his role was a bit thankless i igby, but he did his best with it.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
23:13 / 17.12.04
the glee of niblet-fuckery

THAT is an album title if ever I heard one.
 
  
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