tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post9091190641173012294..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: LABOR DAY: My reviewBy Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-91885636823540374352014-02-04T09:39:13.258-08:002014-02-04T09:39:13.258-08:00Iv'e always been fascinated with Kate Winslet&...<br />Iv'e always been fascinated with Kate Winslet's charm on her movies. I'd still be watching this even if the reviews of it sounds oddly bad.<br />KZ of Austin TX home theaterhttp://kzaudiovideo.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-18322167213449784242014-02-01T02:46:07.240-08:002014-02-01T02:46:07.240-08:00Anonymous: That's all very well and good, and ...Anonymous: That's all very well and good, and I've always been one to defend directors (and especially actors) who choose to work rather than go broke waiting for the perfect project. But by all accounts, LABOR DAY was a "passion project" for Reitman. In interviews he has said he "fell in love" with the book when he read it in galleys and wanted to be "very true to what it was." He actually wanted to make it before YOUNG ADULT, but waited for Winslet's availability. Sure, he could be lying about all this, but I doubt it. Guys like this (4 Oscar nominations by age 32) have their own production shingles and develop their own projects, pitching them to studios until they find backing. Highly unlikely that he would develop a commercially iffy project like this if he didn't believe in it. It doesn't sound like the kind of project a studio would develop these days, nor the type they'd offer to Reitman, whose previous films have more pronounced (and intentional) comic elements. I assume Reitman has a deal with Paramount, since they have distributed all his films since UP IN THE AIR. I'm guessing that deal was made coming off the heat of JUNO. Commercially, it paid off with UP IN THE AIR; but YOUNG ADULT made less than $23 million worldwide (luckily, it only cost $12 million). I'll be shocked if LABOR DAY is a hit, so it will be interesting to see if Paramount stays in the Reitman business. jbryantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-26925911351040173982014-01-31T12:55:57.647-08:002014-01-31T12:55:57.647-08:00Yeah, I lost all interest in this movie when I saw...Yeah, I lost all interest in this movie when I saw Winslet and Brolin fondling raw eggs together in the commercial. <br /><br />My first thought was,"Wow, they are trying to rip off the clay modeling scene in Ghost."<br /><br />My second thought was, "As if handling raw egg isn't gross enough, why the hell would I want someone else sticking their hands in it with me?"Barbara C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13066983078171521691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-12619286732886577102014-01-31T10:46:21.977-08:002014-01-31T10:46:21.977-08:00Jason Said:
"Anonymous", first of all.....Jason Said:<br /><br />"Anonymous", first of all.. well, no, I don't think Ken did (though maybe that Bar Wars thing). Second, there's a big difference between an episode of a TV comedy and a feature film. But I am sorry to hear that Reitman is broke!"<br /><br />Jason, it's not an issue of being "broke," it's an issue of having bills to pay, and needing a project to pay the bills, as well as wanting to work. Many movie directors will tell you they took on a project because they hadn't worked in a while, for whatever reason, and that project was what was available. Sometimes a director might even take on a project as a favor, for whatever reason, to whomever. It doesn't mean that director is on the skids creatively, or economically.<br /><br />Furthermore, I know one film director, who's made good movies you've heard of, he's very good at what he does, who has been hustling for work since he started. They don't just fall in his lap. Sometimes he takes on a project simply because he hasn't worked in two years, the project was not too embarrassing, and–he'd like to make some money once in a while. Nothing to do with being broke.<br /><br />Ken knows all this stuff, so I don't know what got into him.<br /><br />As for you, quit playing the schmuck.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-29436992145017418992014-01-31T04:24:02.591-08:002014-01-31T04:24:02.591-08:00No, benson, the running should end in a couple of ...No, benson, the running should end in a couple of weeks... if movie-goers are lucky. Ralph C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12488657064245017543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-49797734684070610892014-01-30T22:45:09.437-08:002014-01-30T22:45:09.437-08:00Hey! I love Killer Klowns From Outer Space! It exp...Hey! I <b>love</b> Killer Klowns From Outer Space! It explains why so many people have a innate revulsion of clowns. Almost a Jungian archetype.cbmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08341157122141290094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-65655649840172796382014-01-30T20:21:50.684-08:002014-01-30T20:21:50.684-08:00A friend gave me the book after she read it on the...A friend gave me the book after she read it on the flight in. I read it on the flight out. It's the source material that is the problem. Trust me, the pie is the most believable character in the whole story.Sunshine Vitaminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-46795446164703709842014-01-30T18:47:22.196-08:002014-01-30T18:47:22.196-08:00Can I have the pie without Josh Brolin?Can I have the pie without Josh Brolin?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-53626540065802818782014-01-30T18:07:27.582-08:002014-01-30T18:07:27.582-08:00Sounds like they could have called the movie "...Sounds like they could have called the movie "Pretty Man". <br /><br />The fantasy some women have of taking on a 'bad boy' for the excitement of it and then remaking him into the ideal boyfriend/husband is one you see in real life every day, especially if you search your local police report for repeat offenders under family violence cases. It's just surprising Maynard would use that as a jumping off point for making a bad boy turn so good you can't help but role your eyes at the disconnect from reality.Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-36439529913120613442014-01-30T15:42:01.824-08:002014-01-30T15:42:01.824-08:00So you're saying, "January 31st, 2014; th...So you're saying, "January 31st, 2014; the day the running stopped" is a dead giveaway?bensonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-28609114246675722172014-01-30T14:57:18.665-08:002014-01-30T14:57:18.665-08:00This movie sounds like it has the same plot as abo...This movie sounds like it has the same plot as about half the episodes of The Fugitive with David Janssen. Except that he was innocent and we knew he would escape in the end. I always envied him -- he would roll into town, meet a beautiful girl, talk as little as humanly possible, and by the first commercial she was madly in love with him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-14575888560084440632014-01-30T14:45:22.222-08:002014-01-30T14:45:22.222-08:00That's pretty much what Entertainment Weekly s...That's pretty much what <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> said in their pan of this turkey also, only they weren't anywhere near as funny.D. McEwannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-83656797545426178992014-01-30T14:33:14.003-08:002014-01-30T14:33:14.003-08:00Ken, I have a page from a Cheers script used by my...Ken, I have a page from a Cheers script used by my old friend, Jackie Swanson, and I'm wondering what the letter under the page number in the top right corner is for. It says (J). She isn't sure why it's there. Thanks.Bobhttp://bobdorigojones.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-11920520201659630062014-01-30T13:29:08.717-08:002014-01-30T13:29:08.717-08:00@norm
Norm!
Sorry, couldn't resist.@norm<br /><br />Norm!<br /><br />Sorry, couldn't resist.Hamidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-32728526399544649962014-01-30T12:28:38.731-08:002014-01-30T12:28:38.731-08:00Thanks for the laughs; check out the interview wit...Thanks for the laughs; check out the interview with Joyce Maynard in the S.F. Chronicle...the pies! the pies! please, make it stop!!!!Victor Velasconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-81855103670190144182014-01-30T11:28:11.828-08:002014-01-30T11:28:11.828-08:00First time I saw the trailer it struck me that the...First time I saw the trailer it struck me that the plot is a cheesy bowdlerization of the very good Clint Eastwood film "A Perfect World".<br /><br />There are clues in some of Reitman Jr's films that he has a very cynical, pragmatic side, it looks like he took on this project purely to make a buck by pandering to the romance novel crowd. Who knows, it might do OK at the box office.-beenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-15993054208975809992014-01-30T11:07:25.846-08:002014-01-30T11:07:25.846-08:00Ken,
Did you not like this movie?Ken,<br /> Did you not like this movie?normhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794603165354675721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-84073447065600343922014-01-30T10:10:24.474-08:002014-01-30T10:10:24.474-08:00Ken,
You missed a book plugging opportunity...&quo...Ken,<br />You missed a book plugging opportunity..."Spare yourself. Better to take the money, go to Marie Calendar’s and buy a pie"...or better yet, buy my bookPNW Coreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-24311226191269071762014-01-30T09:36:08.523-08:002014-01-30T09:36:08.523-08:00So was Seth MacFarlane right?
"Kate Winslet w...So was Seth MacFarlane right?<br />"Kate Winslet we saw your boobs in The Reader, Titanic, Iris, ..., and whatever you're working on right now!"Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-77577703960849698502014-01-30T09:27:24.480-08:002014-01-30T09:27:24.480-08:00Yet clearly J.D. opened some doors for Joyce, righ...Yet clearly J.D. opened some doors for Joyce, right? Otherwise wouldn't her books be in the Harlequin section of Big Lots?<br /><br />Dash Riprocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-38548928146541583682014-01-30T09:27:09.829-08:002014-01-30T09:27:09.829-08:00Food Network, or Cooking Channel, no Food Channel....Food Network, or Cooking Channel, no Food Channel. <br /><br />And my captcha is Quintus smubsta, whom I think was Pope once. Breadbakernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-42336950926324071032014-01-30T09:18:51.626-08:002014-01-30T09:18:51.626-08:00And Joyce Maynard, of course, is the writer who fa...And Joyce Maynard, of course, is the writer who famously had a relationship with J.D. Salinger when she was 18, until she discovered that living with an egotistical hermit three times her age wasn't as much fun as it should have been.BigTednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-30603336210739016952014-01-30T09:10:29.354-08:002014-01-30T09:10:29.354-08:00Ha, they've been showing "Killer Klowns f...Ha, they've been showing "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" on one of the bad-old-movie channels recently. If you hate clowns, it's actually kind of scary. BigTednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-79686058632974718912014-01-30T08:55:58.261-08:002014-01-30T08:55:58.261-08:00Dan
I like Ivan Reitman. He's made some duds,...Dan<br /><br />I like Ivan Reitman. He's made some duds, sure, but some classics too.<br /><br />I'm looking forward to Ken's review of Ivan Reitman's new film, Draft Day, as it's a sports comedy.Hamidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-41531106636724095672014-01-30T08:51:17.361-08:002014-01-30T08:51:17.361-08:00I didn't like it, but I didn't think it wa...I didn't like it, but I didn't think it was as awful as you did. I think the mistake was sending it out as a screener thinking the movie is Oscar bait, which it isn't. It's a small movie with modest goals and it accomplishes them reasonably well. Then again, if they'd never sent out a screener I'd never have watched it. :)Matt Neffer, Boy Spotwelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17370341215309019311noreply@blogger.com