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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I remember I went to see "Smoke" and before the movie they ran a preview for "Living in Oblivion" and I laughed so hard I came back two days later to see it. Much better than "Smoke," though "Smoke" wasn't awful.

"Very Bad Things" got some very bad reviews, and two of my friends with whom I saw it, who are quite hip in all things entertainment, thought it was the worst movie they'd ever seen. Peter Berg directed it; Frears directed "Dirty Pretty Things."

(I'm not a movie savant; I had to google that.)

I liked " Dirty Pretty Things "....right and hated the movie you mentioned. I thought it was poor Bret Easton Ellis inspired crap. Whatever.

I liked " Smoke " quite a bit. But, I also love Paul Auster's books and Tom Waits music.

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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I haven't seen "Dirty Pretty Things" but I like Audrey Tatou (probably why I've avoided "The Da Vinci Code"-- I don't want to change my opinion). I'll have to rent "DPT."

"Very Bad Things" made me laugh hysterically because every time I thought they couldn't top what just happened, they topped it. I also thought "Happiness" was really funny in a completely offensive way.

I hadn't even thought about a Bret Easton Ellis comparison, but I could see where one might make that (though BEE not so funny). I was so-so on the movie from "American Psycho" but as soon as it was over I turned to my husband and said, "That's the guy who should play Batman when they redo the franchise." Once again, a fearsome display of my trivially useless psychic powers...

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Originally Posted by Dixie Porter

Jim Toback asked me to look at the original script before he handed it in. I thought it was bad. Anyway we played poker many times together. The guy was the biggest degenerate gambler I have ever known. He did have a pretty good opinion though. (Baseball was about his best thing. Had a reasonably good opinion)

In the scene at the crap table three of NY's biggest bookmakers have cameos. Jim was trying to get a "little juice" with them.

sometimes I feel liek this guy, sans the desperation and a hott girl in the form of a young Lauren Hutton