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February 2009 
Ode to Woody Allen
Posted on Aug 10th, 2008
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Kaius Maximus
Kaius Maximus
So........
Last night I went to the Director's Guild to see the pre-release of Woody Allen's new movie, Vicky-Christina-Barcelona. My friend Johnny and I got the last two seats in their gi-normous theatre, and MGM's lion roared the instant we sat down to start the show.
Now, I have to admit that Matchpoint and Radio Days are two of my favorite films of all times. But that said, I think Woody has also done a few of my least favorite films of all times, like Celebrity. So I didn't get my hopes up. But, I have to say, the entire audience was rolling like the waves of the North Sea all through the show. Not only was this the best Woody Allen I have EVER seen, but maybe even one of the best films I have ever seen. I thought I might piss myself. I guarantee that in your own life you know at least two of the four main characters personally. Or maybe you dated one. Or possibly have one in your family. Lordy. God save you if it's Juan Antonio.
Woody tackles the two extreme polarities of love leaving nothing in between.... Love: passionate, unpredicatble, and destructive...... and Love: stable, sensible and well, vanilla.
Javier Bardem plays the irresistable Spanish artist (he was the serial killer in No Country for Old Men). Co-starring Scarlet Johansen and Penelope Cruz who out sizzled everyone else in the film.
Oddly enough, I think this breaks the bounds of comedy in that none of the actors are even remotely funny. They all play it straight. But the lines, and the moments, and the story are just hysterical.
There are about 10 very quotable and memorable lines in the film. We laughed for hours afterward remembering them. My favorite being:
"But I still don't understand what your language teacher was doing with a gun."
Go see it. Maybe I'll see you there, cause I'll definitely see it again.
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:-) that is funny…
Woody Allen…He has this funny sorta way of putting reality; comically at the same time making it worth thinking about… his jokes and one liners are actually summaries of our daily lives i think… could he be telepathically receiving our thoughts… ? :-)