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i hear good reviews from Stewart's performance so she will be fine
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Yeah but after seeing most of Ellen Page's films, she pretty much plays the same character. That's the one thing I worry about in regards to Inception, she better not play that same quirky smartass character. I don't think Stewart has done enough to prove herself yet. The Twilight films have lame dialogue so I wouldn't blame her for those.
I can also argue that I highly think that is BS but whatever. It would be like if there was a film made about you or myself. Who could say we were wrong for picking a certain actor that we felt best represented ourselves. If someone said that to me over my choice I would just laugh in their face.
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If they made a movie about me, I think Johnny Depp would be great because we look so much alike. And then for fight scenes, replace him with Brock Lesnar...to better capture the beast that I am in combat.
In other words...of course she picked a currently hot actress. It doesnt mean she picked correctly.
In other words...of course she picked a currently hot actress. It doesnt mean she picked correctly.
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It isnt an issue...
As usual I made one tiny remark about a preference I would have had and people decide that it's a huge issue. It's barely worth defending other than the fact that I have seen Stewart in a few films and have NO reason to believe that she is a good actress.
I do want to see the film though.
As usual I made one tiny remark about a preference I would have had and people decide that it's a huge issue. It's barely worth defending other than the fact that I have seen Stewart in a few films and have NO reason to believe that she is a good actress.
I do want to see the film though.
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I think she needs have an edge so not flush her career in the toilet when all the Twilight movies are finished. Stewart has always had that kind of feel as a rocker chick so am fine with it.
Face it Dakota can play anything for she is a good actress all her life.
Face it Dakota can play anything for she is a good actress all her life.
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Has Garths Dark Horizons Review been posted yet?
DH The Runaways Sundance review
The perfect Sundance film is "The Runaways", a film that is both provocative and haunting, a film that captures the mid-seventies with clarity and that beautifully explores the fascinating world of teen girl band The Runaways, fleetingly big at a time of social unrest.
The movie focuses on the often turbulent and protective relationship between guitarist/vocalist Joan Jett and lead vocalist Cherie Currie as they navigate a rocky road of touring and record-label dramas. The film beautifully chronicles the band's formation as well as their meteoric rise under the pervasive eye of an abusive manager.
"The Runaways" marks the feature directorial debut of video artist Floria Sigismondi who directs this riveting and hypnotic work from her own script, one that is both a sharply observed study of character, epoch and the purity of rock n roil. Visually the film is strikingly gorgeous, one that cinematically explores the contrasts between the often hazy world of drug-induced fame and trailer park poverty. But far from being merely a film of visual ideas, director Sigismondi cast her film perfectly and elicited some flawless work from her lead actresses.
Breaking free from the shackles of Bella, Kristen Stewart finally breaks loose delivering a stunning performance that covers a wide range of the acting spectrum yet achieved in a way that is far from self-conscious. Her Jett is ferociously angry, anti-establishment, fragile, sexual and exquisitely vulnerable as a girl desperately running away from a life that is conservative at a time when America was undergoing such pivotal change and not necessarily for the better. Stewart is phenomenal, a powerhouse proving how incredibly talented and multi faceted she is.
Fanning is an utter revelation as this tragic character drawn into a world that ultimately consumes her. Sexy, fragile, luminous and simply magnificent, with this role, she is raw and glorious, well and truly adrift from that childlike persona of a not-so-distant past. This is one of those singular performances that will be spoken of well and truly after the film closes.
The Runaways is a provocative and powerful film about the tragedy of celebrity and fame, media manipulation and the need to regain independence. Its the perfect film for todays celebrity-obsessed America, and sadly shows that little has changed in three decades.
The films soundtrack is a reminder of what great era the seventies was, and the music superbly enhances the films themes. Its a remarkable achievement for this first-time director and one has high hopes for its commercial success once it opens in late March.
DH The Runaways Sundance review
The perfect Sundance film is "The Runaways", a film that is both provocative and haunting, a film that captures the mid-seventies with clarity and that beautifully explores the fascinating world of teen girl band The Runaways, fleetingly big at a time of social unrest.
The movie focuses on the often turbulent and protective relationship between guitarist/vocalist Joan Jett and lead vocalist Cherie Currie as they navigate a rocky road of touring and record-label dramas. The film beautifully chronicles the band's formation as well as their meteoric rise under the pervasive eye of an abusive manager.
"The Runaways" marks the feature directorial debut of video artist Floria Sigismondi who directs this riveting and hypnotic work from her own script, one that is both a sharply observed study of character, epoch and the purity of rock n roil. Visually the film is strikingly gorgeous, one that cinematically explores the contrasts between the often hazy world of drug-induced fame and trailer park poverty. But far from being merely a film of visual ideas, director Sigismondi cast her film perfectly and elicited some flawless work from her lead actresses.
Breaking free from the shackles of Bella, Kristen Stewart finally breaks loose delivering a stunning performance that covers a wide range of the acting spectrum yet achieved in a way that is far from self-conscious. Her Jett is ferociously angry, anti-establishment, fragile, sexual and exquisitely vulnerable as a girl desperately running away from a life that is conservative at a time when America was undergoing such pivotal change and not necessarily for the better. Stewart is phenomenal, a powerhouse proving how incredibly talented and multi faceted she is.
Fanning is an utter revelation as this tragic character drawn into a world that ultimately consumes her. Sexy, fragile, luminous and simply magnificent, with this role, she is raw and glorious, well and truly adrift from that childlike persona of a not-so-distant past. This is one of those singular performances that will be spoken of well and truly after the film closes.
The Runaways is a provocative and powerful film about the tragedy of celebrity and fame, media manipulation and the need to regain independence. Its the perfect film for todays celebrity-obsessed America, and sadly shows that little has changed in three decades.
The films soundtrack is a reminder of what great era the seventies was, and the music superbly enhances the films themes. Its a remarkable achievement for this first-time director and one has high hopes for its commercial success once it opens in late March.
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Here is another positive review...
Cinematical Runaways Review by Kevin Kelly
I'll be blunt about this: I really wasn't looking forward to this movie. I'm not the biggest fan of lip-chewing, hair-twirling Kristen Stewart, or the wide-eyed, blank face expert Dakota Fanning. I love rock and roll (so put another dime in the jukebox, baby) as much as the next person, but these two starring in a movie about an all-girl, teen sensation, flash in the pan band from the 1970s? I just didn't think they could pull it off. Hey, at least I'm big enough to admit I was wrong. The Runaways rocked the Joan Jett / Cherie Currie backstory's pants off (literally), and I'll be buying the soundtrack, which features K-Stew and D-Fan singing the blasts from the past.
However, this movie really should have been called The Joan Jett & Cherie Currie Show, because the other Runaways are hardly featured in this movie at all. Sandy West (who co-founded the band with Joan Jett), and Lita Ford's stories aren't given much attention in the film, and Ford seems to exist just to cause drama. Additionally, The Runaways had six different bass players during their short four-year history (including Micki Steele who went on to The Bangles) so the filmmakers decided to create a fictional girl named Robin Robins. She's played by Alia Shawkat of Arrested Development fame, and she unfortunately gets only one or two lines.
Although he's not given as much screen time as Fanning and Stewart, Michael Shannon takes this movie, straps it to his back, and walks away with it completely. He plays their over the top manager Kim Fowley, and he looks like Frankenstein meets David Bowie. He chews up scenery left and right and steals every moment he's onscreen, even when he has no lines. At one point, he just gives a monsterly grimace on the other end of a phone call, and owns that entire moment. When he realizes he's bottled the lightning, he caws "You *****es are gonna be bigger than the f**king Beatles!" Although the relationship between Currie and Jett is caustic at times, Fowley is definitely the bad guy in this movie.
In the effort of cramming their story into two hours, the film rushes through the Joan Jett story as she rags on her guitar teacher for trying to instruct her with "On Top Of Old Smoky" and telling her "Girls don't play electric guitar." In a blink, she's meeting Kim Fowley at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco in Hollywood, and Fowley, smelling money and opportunity, introduces Jett to drummer Sandy West. They start jamming with Fowley listening, who is seemingly coked to the gills with a bent towards pedophilia. He decides the band needs, as he so eloquently illustrates with his finger pointed at a woman's crotch, more sex. He and Jett go trolling for the face of the band back at Bingenheimer's, where they find Mountain Dew-sipping Fanning, complete with feathered-blonde hair, and ask her to audition.
Fast-forward to Jett and West now with Lita Ford and their fictitious bass player rehearsing in a ramshackle trailer in the Valley. Currie shows up to audition, having rehearsed a Suzi Quatro cover song all night, but Fowley quickly nixes it. They end up writing "Cherry Bomb" on the spot, and with some coaxing, Currie nails it. Then he puts the girls through rock and roll boot camp, which includes teenaged boys throwing trash and dog**** at them, so they can learn how to deal with hecklers. With lightning speed, they're off and running, playing parties in Los Angeles, hitting the road for shows, cutting a record, and touring Japan.
But the real story takes place in the cracks between the electric soundtrack. Kristen Stewart steps out of her normal angsty girl act and nails down the punk rock, hard as nails Jett, and Fanning is equally as good with her disconnected portrayal of Currie, who is dealing with the fact that she's abandoning her alcoholic father and her twin sister Marie (played as fraternal in the movie, although they were identical in real life) to embrace a life of rock and roll. It's not long before the girls are full-on in the swing of drugs while on the road, and Fanning and Stewart share an extremely intimate kiss on the floor of a skating rink before the camera swirls them up into a heavily implied sex scene, which is something the movie doesn't shy away from. We see Fowley banging some woman while on a phone call, Currie having sex in a dressing room, and Jett teaching Sandy West how to *********e ... to Farrah Fawcett.
The Runaways flamed out in four quick years, although that timeline feels a lot shorter in this film. By the time the band begins to break up, it only feels like a few months have passed, and that's the only real fault in the movie. To try and keep this under two hours long, they've compacted four years of the first influential, teenaged, all-girl rock band into the Almost Famous story. By the end of the film, Jett is enjoying the rise of her solo fame, and Currie has taken a different path. There are crawls telling us what happened to Jett, Currie, and Fowley, but no mention of the other Runaways, which mirrors the movie. Powerful performances from Stewart, Fanning, and Shannon, and a song showcase that puts in bold what the Runaways were all about, while giving a bit of short shrift to the other band members. These girls were, for a very short time, the Queens of Noise. Fanning's concert performance of "Cherry Bomb" will be ringing in your ears for days.
One final note: Beware Twihards and Twi-Moms, this is not your sweet and innocent Bella. Kristen Stewart's Joan Jett urinates on electric guitars, pops pills, snorts coke, and loves other ladies. Just a fair warning.
Cinematical Runaways Review by Kevin Kelly
I'll be blunt about this: I really wasn't looking forward to this movie. I'm not the biggest fan of lip-chewing, hair-twirling Kristen Stewart, or the wide-eyed, blank face expert Dakota Fanning. I love rock and roll (so put another dime in the jukebox, baby) as much as the next person, but these two starring in a movie about an all-girl, teen sensation, flash in the pan band from the 1970s? I just didn't think they could pull it off. Hey, at least I'm big enough to admit I was wrong. The Runaways rocked the Joan Jett / Cherie Currie backstory's pants off (literally), and I'll be buying the soundtrack, which features K-Stew and D-Fan singing the blasts from the past.
However, this movie really should have been called The Joan Jett & Cherie Currie Show, because the other Runaways are hardly featured in this movie at all. Sandy West (who co-founded the band with Joan Jett), and Lita Ford's stories aren't given much attention in the film, and Ford seems to exist just to cause drama. Additionally, The Runaways had six different bass players during their short four-year history (including Micki Steele who went on to The Bangles) so the filmmakers decided to create a fictional girl named Robin Robins. She's played by Alia Shawkat of Arrested Development fame, and she unfortunately gets only one or two lines.
Although he's not given as much screen time as Fanning and Stewart, Michael Shannon takes this movie, straps it to his back, and walks away with it completely. He plays their over the top manager Kim Fowley, and he looks like Frankenstein meets David Bowie. He chews up scenery left and right and steals every moment he's onscreen, even when he has no lines. At one point, he just gives a monsterly grimace on the other end of a phone call, and owns that entire moment. When he realizes he's bottled the lightning, he caws "You *****es are gonna be bigger than the f**king Beatles!" Although the relationship between Currie and Jett is caustic at times, Fowley is definitely the bad guy in this movie.
In the effort of cramming their story into two hours, the film rushes through the Joan Jett story as she rags on her guitar teacher for trying to instruct her with "On Top Of Old Smoky" and telling her "Girls don't play electric guitar." In a blink, she's meeting Kim Fowley at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco in Hollywood, and Fowley, smelling money and opportunity, introduces Jett to drummer Sandy West. They start jamming with Fowley listening, who is seemingly coked to the gills with a bent towards pedophilia. He decides the band needs, as he so eloquently illustrates with his finger pointed at a woman's crotch, more sex. He and Jett go trolling for the face of the band back at Bingenheimer's, where they find Mountain Dew-sipping Fanning, complete with feathered-blonde hair, and ask her to audition.
Fast-forward to Jett and West now with Lita Ford and their fictitious bass player rehearsing in a ramshackle trailer in the Valley. Currie shows up to audition, having rehearsed a Suzi Quatro cover song all night, but Fowley quickly nixes it. They end up writing "Cherry Bomb" on the spot, and with some coaxing, Currie nails it. Then he puts the girls through rock and roll boot camp, which includes teenaged boys throwing trash and dog**** at them, so they can learn how to deal with hecklers. With lightning speed, they're off and running, playing parties in Los Angeles, hitting the road for shows, cutting a record, and touring Japan.
But the real story takes place in the cracks between the electric soundtrack. Kristen Stewart steps out of her normal angsty girl act and nails down the punk rock, hard as nails Jett, and Fanning is equally as good with her disconnected portrayal of Currie, who is dealing with the fact that she's abandoning her alcoholic father and her twin sister Marie (played as fraternal in the movie, although they were identical in real life) to embrace a life of rock and roll. It's not long before the girls are full-on in the swing of drugs while on the road, and Fanning and Stewart share an extremely intimate kiss on the floor of a skating rink before the camera swirls them up into a heavily implied sex scene, which is something the movie doesn't shy away from. We see Fowley banging some woman while on a phone call, Currie having sex in a dressing room, and Jett teaching Sandy West how to *********e ... to Farrah Fawcett.
The Runaways flamed out in four quick years, although that timeline feels a lot shorter in this film. By the time the band begins to break up, it only feels like a few months have passed, and that's the only real fault in the movie. To try and keep this under two hours long, they've compacted four years of the first influential, teenaged, all-girl rock band into the Almost Famous story. By the end of the film, Jett is enjoying the rise of her solo fame, and Currie has taken a different path. There are crawls telling us what happened to Jett, Currie, and Fowley, but no mention of the other Runaways, which mirrors the movie. Powerful performances from Stewart, Fanning, and Shannon, and a song showcase that puts in bold what the Runaways were all about, while giving a bit of short shrift to the other band members. These girls were, for a very short time, the Queens of Noise. Fanning's concert performance of "Cherry Bomb" will be ringing in your ears for days.
One final note: Beware Twihards and Twi-Moms, this is not your sweet and innocent Bella. Kristen Stewart's Joan Jett urinates on electric guitars, pops pills, snorts coke, and loves other ladies. Just a fair warning.
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I never said it was a huge issue, these message boards are for discussions and civil arguments. Sorry if everyone didn't just boringly agree with you.
Just curious but what type of martial arts do you know?
Also good to read in those reviews that Stewart seems to have gone beyond the type casting people assume is her only style.
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I dont care if people agree with me...feel free to disagree all day...but if someone is bothered over the discussion even existing then maybe thats their issue, not mine.
And the only martial art I know is run-fu. I couldnt beat up a 12 year old girl.
And the only martial art I know is run-fu. I couldnt beat up a 12 year old girl.
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I guess I couldn't tell the sarcasm in your previous post when you mentioned something about beast fighting style.
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Shannon seems to have Fowley's smarmy Svengali thing down pat. It'll be interesting to see some extended clips on the two Twichicks, so I can make a proper decision about venturing out to see this thing.
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new trailer:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810129048/video
It's amusing how they keep ignoring the other members of the band.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810129048/video
It's amusing how they keep ignoring the other members of the band.
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Seriously, like the review above sniped, it's the Joan and Cherie Show (with 3 other chicks thrown in for good measure). We're talking about Lita Ford here, as well as the band's co-founder (Sandy).
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I thought this movie came out already?
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I have no idea why they focused on Cherie Show, it truly doesn't make any sense. The should have focused on the band as a whole. If they were going to focus on just two people, hands down it should have been Joan and Lita.
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Gee, maybe it has something to do with being based on Cherie's Autobiography?
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Gee, maybe I never knew about that since I wasn't religiously following this movie.
Why are you getting so defensive about as if this was your own movie?
Nivek, you can be pretty cool but at the same time you need to lighten up a bit. Excercise a bit more maybe to let off some of that stress or pent up anger.
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i'm kinda sad that Sandy West passed away due to lung cancer. She was only 47.
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Hey, I'm really not all that interested in it, but the information is readily available here in reviews and else where on the net why Lita and other Runaway members were glanced over.
And sarcasm doesn't speak well over the interwebs, Figs...
And sarcasm doesn't speak well over the interwebs, Figs...
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Movie version of Cherry Bomb. In my opinion, Dakota rocks it hard.
Movie version of Cherry Bomb. In my opinion, Dakota rocks it hard.
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