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"The Holdovers" -- new Alexander Payne/Paul Giamatti movie


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8 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

You people are confusing me.  I can’t decide whether or not to watch it.  Please get your shit together.

it's not nearly as funny as sideways but it's a nice little movie and worth watching.

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12 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

You people are confusing me.  I can’t decide whether or not to watch it.  Please get your shit together.

Watch it. If you do not enjoy this movie I am honestly not sure what to tell you. It’s funny, emotionally raw and you feel good after watching it. 

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26 minutes ago, A-Tex Devil said:

I liked it.   It’s Dead Poet Society if Robin Williams was a dick and everyone hated him.  

Perfect.

Holdovers reminded me a lot of DPS but I couldn't think of a good way to describe the difference - you nailed it.

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On 1/8/2024 at 1:36 PM, ChickenSandwich said:

Solid storytelling, good not great.

It was fine. Giamatti and the kid were good. I have no idea how she won an award for that movie. She didn’t have many lines and she wasn’t very moving. 

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10 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Good film, but it’s a not a rewatchable Christmas classic like Home Alone or Vacation. If you want the sads during the Holidays, knock yourself out. 

you’re fucking useless. 

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Great movie. Cross between Dead Poet Society, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, and The Shining.

Excellent filming like it was actually shot in 1970 except for the 3 point line thing and I believe the Dr. Pepper on the night stand was a little too current and the eye switch thing too.

Acting was great and the setting was like another world in a time gone by like The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings, or an Old Jamea Bond film.

It will join my Xmas rotation.

4.5 Die Hards out of 5.

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Loved it, but as somebody who went to school in New England and has had mental health issues in my family, it punched me in the chest for sure. 

Will become a Christmas staple.

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I was perfectly happy seeing Cillian Murphy win last night because Oppenheimer was that damn good and I've always liked Murphy back to the first time I saw him in 28 Days Later (I think). Giamatti is so, so good though and I'm sure he'll get one some day.

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Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers’ Accused of Plagiarism by ‘Luca’ Writer

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/the-holdovers-accused-plagiarism-luca-writer-1235935605/

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In recent weeks, after Stephenson’s exchange with Mackey went nowhere, he shot off an email on Feb. 25 to the WGA board with the subject line: “An urgent plea for help from a WGA writer in a truly extraordinary situation.” He wrote, “I can demonstrate beyond any possible doubt that the meaningful entirety of the screenplay for a film with WGA-sanctioned credits that is currently on track to win a screenwriting Oscar has been plagiarised line-by-line from a popular unproduced screenplay of mine. I can also show that the director of the offending film was sent and read my screenplay on two separate occasions prior to the offending film entering development. By ‘meaningful entirety’ I do mean literally everything- story, characters, structure, scenes, dialogue, the whole thing. Some of it is just insanely brazen: many of the most important scenes are effectively unaltered and even remain visibly identical in layout on the page.”

He continued: “I’ve been a working writer for 20 years – in my native UK before I came to the US – and so I’m very aware that people can often have surprisingly similar ideas and sometimes a few elements can be ‘borrowed’ etc. This just isn’t that situation. The two screenplays are forensically identical and riddled with unique smoking guns throughout.”

Long article, but really interesting- and pretty convincing honestly.

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