Uh oh.
Festival darling “Blue Valentine,” starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, has received the dreaded NC-17 rating.
That means, unless the director takes another cut before the film’s scheduled December 31st release, it won’t hit most theaters and probably won’t get the Oscar nomination that most critics say it deserves.
Bad news…or is it?
While “Blue Valentine” stars two Oscar nominees in Gosling and Williams, you could argue that its subject matter — the end of a marriage — has been done. Perhaps only women will be interested, and then only women who love Gosling enough to endure what is no doubt a bit of a downer.
Publicize the movie’s current NC-17 rating, and suddenly the movie sounds a bit more interesting, doesn’t it? Must be awfully sexy. Even if they do the necessary edits to earn the R rating — which of course they will unless they don’t like money — there will be quite a bit of skin, which should lure men and women alike.
More money, more awards, more audience.
I’ll bet Disney wishes their films could get an NC-17 every once in a while.
From page to screen
I can’t believe it.
After slogging through that relentless tome of a book, believe you me, it’s nothing short of a miracle.
Several factors have come together to make me want to be one of the first folks in the theater.
1. Whereas most books are better than their on-screen interpretations, the Tattoo movie can’t miss. The English translation of Stieg Larsson’s bestseller was front-loaded with the most mind-numbing tedium imaginable before getting to the action that propelled readers through the rest of the book. Stieg even found a way to make the ending slow.
Based on director David Fincher’s reputation and the killer trailers I’ve seen to date, I think it’s safe to say he hasn’t adopted the author’s penchant for pokey pacing.
I’m also psyched to hear Tattoo’s musical score is the work of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who penned the brilliant, Oscar-winning score for The Social Network. In fact, the score for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has already been nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Of course, Tattoo has a great cast. And I’ve already mentioned the intense trailers. Some critics have even applauded the film for sticking closer to the book’s original plot line than the Swedish version did.
Closer to the book? I don’t want to know!
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