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Listen to your friend Billy Zane
 Hello Cinecast Listener,
From Chicago, this is The Dope Sheet...
A couple of quick notes before jumping into the mailbag: Cinecast
#92 (on location in NYC!) with a review of "Lucky Number Slevin,"
Massacre Theatre and our Top 5 New York Movies preview will post
tomorrow (Tuesday) instead of Wednesday.
If any of you are wondering what happened to "Find Me Guilty,"
well, it was yanked from 316 screens down to just 54 on March 31.
Last weekend, as far as I can tell, it dropped to zero. Why review a
movie nobody can see, especially when we weren't all that excited in
the first place? At least "Slevin" is new and has some intriguing
stars. Plus, it also takes place in NYC.
A suggestion: Top 5 Films you've changed your mind about.
Films that you once loved, and no longer do, or films you've grown to
love, or films you've given another chance, etc... and so on. Might
be interesting.
Yours,
Joe, Raleigh, NC
Thanks, Joe. You aren't the first person to suggest this
potential top 5 list, and it has been discussed briefly on the show
before. I can't recall the episodes, but a few of you might remember
the discussions about my flip-flops on "Ocean's Eleven" (
underwhelmed the first time,
now a big fan) and "As Good As It Gets" (funny the first time, now
"As Bad As It Gets").
Coincidentally, Sam recently re-watched a Coen Bros. movie --
I'll let him reveal which one, but we've talked about it a couple
times on the show -- and found that it wasn't as amazing as he'd
always thought. And then just this past weekend in New York City, I
was hanging out with
Matt Singer,
who recounted a story about a friend (I think it was a friend) who
bumped into Ben Stiller somewhere in NYC and asked him to do 'Blue
Steel.' And Stiller did!
That, of course, took us to "Zoolander," which we both
admitted to not really caring for when we saw it in the theatre. But
Matt professed to finding it hilarious now, and although I've yet to
watch it again, just talking about the movie with Matt made me
remember all the funny moments I laughed at ("They're break-dance
fighting.")
My theory -- the one I just thought of while typing this email --
is that "Zoolander" might be the perfect flip-flop movie. Or at least
the perfect example if you're flipping from bad to good. You go in
with maybe unreasonable expectations (Owen Wilson is always
hilarious, isn't he?) ... and then it begins OK but starts to feel
like an "SNL" sketch stretched out to 90 minutes...
When you watch it again, however -- just speculating here -- you
stop thinking of it as a "movie," something that has to be at least
semi-cohesive, and just anticipate and enjoy the most
quotable/memorable scenes. The next thing you know, you're constantly
quoting a movie that you at first didn't really enjoy.
I think Top 5 Flip-Flops would be a fun top 5, and I've come up
with a few others I would consider including. But right now "Ocean's"
and "As Bad As It Gets" are my only two definitive choices.
What would make your Top 5? Email your list or any questions for
The Dope Sheet to
dopesheet@cinecastshow.com.
Sam's up next week, so feel free to submit any specific questions
you might have for him.
Thanks for reading and listening,
Adam
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