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Ophiliasgrandma

Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 10:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anyone? I am dying to see it. The hubby and I will probably catch it tomorrow.

Halfunit

Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 10:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yup, we're going to see it as soon as I finish the book.

(Amazon had a special that included this book along with "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" - An Unauthorized Autobiography of Chuck Barris, the Gong Show host who claims to have been a CIA agent?!? This movie is supposedly in the works to be released next year.)

Please let me know what you think of it, OG.

Webkitty

Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We planned on seeing this today, the previews looked good, but after a nice start to the day, a migraine blew in

We'll probably go this week sometime. I think Ketchup was going to see it today so maybe he'll come here and give us a review

Ketchuplover

Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just got back. There was a good sized crowd,more than I expected.

I liked this movie. I'm not that good at explaining why I like or don't like stuff. I just
know I liked it.

Ok. I'll try :) Fine acting all around. Some comedic relief to ease the tension. Actually there wasn't much tension/suspense. Only one graphic scene involving blood and mild at that.

Very well made. Its your basic cops&robbers movie. The fun is in the chase.

How does it compare to TTT? Personally I liked CMIYC a little better. Look,just watch both & form your own opinion. :)

Halfunit

Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 5:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks KL... one question....

Did you find yourself disliking Frank for what he did, or admiring him for his "talents"?

Ketchuplover

Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 5:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm not proud to say this but yes I admired his talent. Of course he had duped me I'd be singing a different tune. Just being honest.

I think that's what drives the movie. Also it doesnt hurt that Frank didn't harm someone physically.

Juju2bigdog

Friday, December 27, 2002 - 8:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw it today. I liked it a lot. Tom Hanks was just as good as he has been in any of his movies, and Leonardo really can act.

Sometimes it is very, very hard for ex-cops to watch cops and robbers movies, but this one rang true for its time. Well, at least the check forgery part. I was around and chasing check artists myself not too many years after this film setting. In those days there was a certain amount of camaraderie between the con man and the federal agent who was smart enough to bring him to ground. The only part that had me protesting out loud was the sentence of twelve years to be served in solitary. Con men don't get sentenced to solitary. The twelve year sentence was within the realm of possibility, but he would only have had to serve one third of it (under the federal system at that time), so being out in four years was also believable. Being hired as a consultant to the FBI is also believable, both because of his knowledge base and to keep him off the streets so they wouldn't have to catch him again. BUT, he would have been paid as a confidential informant most likely and would not have had the run of the FBI offices. On the other hand, I guess the movie IS based on a true story, so most of it really did occur.

Anyway, I'd recommend the movie.

Ophiliasgrandma

Saturday, December 28, 2002 - 10:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw the 'real deal' on 60 Minutes last week. I guess everthing they say happened after he was caught is true...FBI gig and all. He is now a very wealthy man.

Ketchuplover

Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 9:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I guess crime does pay :(

Ophiliasgrandma

Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, it surely did for him! But just let one of us try and we'd wind up in the hoosgow til the end of time.

Babyruth

Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 9:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Juju, I enjoyed reading your post. Thanks for that info!

I saw this movie today and really enjoyed it. Very entertaining, very interesting. You're right, Leo was good. He's one hell of an actor when properly cast in a good role.

Now I wish I'd seen the 60 Minutes show that Ophiliasgrandma saw, because I'm dying to know how much of the story was factually true and how much was embellished for the moviemaking.

Ophiliasgrandma

Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Going to 'Catch' me some Leo this afternoon with the hubby unit. I'll let you know what I thought of it.

Ophiliasgrandma

Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 6:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Enjoyable! Thoroughly enjoyable!

Webkitty

Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 1:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Excellent movie and Leo was brilliant!

Ophiliasgrandma

Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 1:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What's not to like about the boy, eh?

Webkitty

Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
He's underrated as an actor, imo. We also saw Gangs of New York, and although I didn't like that movie, HE gave a good performance.
Actually, I've never been disapointed in his acting abilities.

Muse

Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 11:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think Leonardo DiCaprio is a good actor as well. I'm not impressed with the way he comes across in interviews (at least the way he used to - I haven't seen any recent ones), but I do think he's talented.

Anyway, loved the movie. Great performances from DiCaprio and Hanks. Christopher Walken was outstanding as well.

Calamity

Friday, January 03, 2003 - 11:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I refused to see 'Titanic' because I was sick of the hype, disliked that Celine Dion song, and thought it all seemed rather depressing. (Let's go watch a bunch of people & animals drown and freeze to death - whoo hoo! Oh yeah, it actually happened didn't it? Bummer.) I'm not knocking anyone who loves that movie, it's just that the whole phenomenom kinda wore me out. But then, of course, came the Leo backlash, and especially on the UK movie boards his acting talent was ripped to shreds. I'd only seen part of the film he did with Johnny Depp so I couldn't judge for myself. But it really seemed like people were just waiting for him to fall on his face.

Well, too bad for those grouches because I thought he was terrific in 'Catch Me If You Can' and so did everyone with whom we saw it. He was funny, intelligent, charming, and daring. But he really shined when the movie focused on his character's loneliness and desperate desire to reunite his idealized family.

Highly enjoyable film, go see it!

Oh, I saw Tom Hanks on the 'Charley Rose' show and he said his next project is definitely 'The Polar Express'. I love that book - they better not mess it up! But I trust Tom!

Rissa

Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 8:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hubby and I saw this a few days ago and just loved it!! We went prearmed with research :), we read a number of current interviews with Abagnale as well as the original book written back in the 70's. So we pretty much knew what was true and what was embellished... for those who have only seen the movie (I don't think this is spoiling but be warned. LOL):

Abagnale says his dad was a truly honest man and the movie makes him look like a bit of a con artist too.

His mother remarried 20 years after her divorce and never had more children, she did however have more children from her original marriage. Abagnale had 2 brothers and a sister. (he was the 3rd born)

His stint as a doctor actually only lasted a few days because the incident where he is asked to look at a child's leg was true and it freaked him out. He realized this con could have deadly consequences and left.

The Christmas phone calls never happened (sigh). This one I wish WAS true because it was so sweet but he never *chatted* with his pursuers.

His lasting friendship with the FBI agent who caught him is true although the movie made his (Hank's) character more of a compiliation of several agents and changed his name.

In the circa 25 years Abagnale has worked for the FBI he has never been payed a single cent by them.

The movie leaves out some additional prison time he spent in Sweden.

Abagnale says the movie is about 80% accurate, most of its' INaccuracy comes from things left out (like his having siblings) not falsehoods PUT IN. He thinks it is MORE accurate then the book which embellished more then he was comfortable with.

Calamity, I never saw Titanic either. I have seen most of it now because my daughter has the tapes however. I was offended that once again those hundreds of folks in the lower decks were pushed to the side and treated as a mostly unimportant side story. They didn't need to add a spoiled rich girl and her little crush to make a movie about a true event that was fascinating in it's reality. I also have a *thing* about Celine Dion and thought that if I had to sit in a theatre and listen to her singing in the background for over 2 hours that there could have been violence. :) But I have always loved Leo!! Have you seen him in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Awesome performance!!!

Webkitty

Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 8:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Leo was good in "The Beach" too. I can't understand why that movie got panned. The story line was unique and interesting, great acting by everyone, especially Leo, and the scenery was breathtaking.

I think he was nominated for either a Golden Globe or an Oscar for Gilbert Grape, great performance.

I also was impressed with his performance in Romeo and Juliet. Clair Danes was awesome in that too. Actually, the whole movie was fasinating. The take and twist on it was fresh, but they spoke Shakespere as written, interesting.

Ophiliasgrandma

Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 9:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
RISSA-Celine sings only through the credits not through the movie itself.

I loved the slant on this Titanic movie. In reality they did seam together the rich and the poor. There was about as much of Jack and his poverty as there was of Rose and her riches. Other T movies have more below deck stories. Actually, for my money they could make a new Titanic every couple of years telling stories of different people on the voyage from crew to the 4th class passengers.

Calamity

Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've only caught a little bit of 'Gilbert Grape' and didn't see much of Leo in it. I'm pretty sure he was nominated for an Oscar for that role though, as Webkitty said. And I forgot about him playing Romeo.

Rissa, I checked Abagnale's book out of the library and can't wait to read it but I have to finish 'Rocket Boys' first. (That's the memoir that the movie 'October Sky' was based on.)

Brenda1966

Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What a joy to discover some Leo fans here! I think he's awesome and I've enjoyed seeing all the interviews with Leo, Hanks, and Speilberg since this movie came out.

Why the backlash against Titanic focused on Leo I'll never understand. Speilberg (or was it HAnks) said he thinks it set Leo's acting career back 4 or 5 years. I think it's back on track now, thankfully. I loved Titanic. It was a very moving love story and I think the whole sinking scene and how everyone on the ship was treated was very well done. It's really worth viewing.

I saw the Charlie Rose show too and one thing that stuck with me was Hanks saying this story is about loneliness and that all the best stories are about loneliness. I even shed a tear during Catch me if You can when I thought about how lonely Frank really was.

I'm so disappointed to read the spoilers about what was true in the movie and what wasn't! The phone calls were wonderful (I wonder who's idea it was to put them in the movie).

Webkitty - I saw the Beach too and thought it was pretty good and different (but maybe I was just drooling over a half-naked Leo). I even visited that very beach when I was in Thailand. It's too bad that movie didn't do better at the boxoffice.

Leo was nominated for both the OScar and the Golden Globe for Gilbert Grape. IF you want to see him do some stunning work, Basketball Diaries and Total Eclipse are good rentals.

On to the movie... I loved Catch me if you Can and can't wait to read the book someday.

Webkitty

Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 1:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh Brenda, yes! The Basketball Diaries was just powerful, great work by Leo, worth the rent, and it was a true story too.

And I agree with you to about Titanic, I don't understand the backlash either Its one of my all time favorite movies and Leo was on his game, flawless portrayal of a poor kid with hope and spunk. What happened below decks in reality didn't have anything to do with him as an actor years later. It was sad what happened to those people, but what has that got to do with his perforance in the movie? <scratching head>
(Although I was drooling over Billy Zane, but I'll leave that for another time, lol)

I don't drool over Leo because he is not in my age group, but I can see that he is a good looking young man. I wish more people could see what a fine actor he is and look beyond that though.

Brenda1966

Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Leo's a little young for me, but he's within a decade and he's legal. :) I fell hard for him during Titanic and then rented everything I could find on his resume.

I noticed you liked him in Gangs but didn't like the movie. I want to see him in this so bad but I don't want to see this movie. Give me stylized gun battles anyday, but don't give me people butchering each other with knives and hatchets. I can't stand these epic blood baths (like Braveheart). I'll probably have to wait for video.

Webkitty

Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Brenda, Gangs was WAY worse than Braveheart, just so you know. In Braveheart, they were fighting for their freedom, in Gangs, the brutality was just that, brutality and mindless hatred, ug.

Kitt

Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 4:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think the Leo backlash was created by the media after Titanic, purely because Leo shunned a lot of the publicity and refused to get straight into another blockbuster movie. I think he's skilled enough that he'll be around for a long time, if other actors/directors keep wanting him for his talent, the media can't be too critical.

I really liked him in this, and in the other work he's done that I've seen. I have the same reservations about Gangs - I want to see Leo but not the movie.

Luvmom

Monday, May 12, 2003 - 8:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My husband and I just watched this movie on the weekend.I loved it.I also wish the phone calls were real.I really had a hard time rooting for one or the other.I know Frank did wrong but I also understood where he was coming from.Leo made the character so real for me.
I love his acting.The best movie he ever did in my opinion is "Man In The Iron Mask". I loved him in the dual role of Luis/Philipe.

Knightpatti

Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Loved the movie! Bought it on DVD and has lots of information on it about making the movie! I think Leo did a great job - he is very talented and of course Tom Hanks was great, too.

Loved The Beach. Titantic, and Grapes. Also, thought Man in the Iron Mask is great.

I agree with everyone here that I do not want to see The NY Gangs. (But Braveheart is a great story about people fighting for their freedom!)

Hummingbird

Saturday, July 05, 2003 - 9:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am going to watch this today on PPV, mainly because of the recommendations in this thread. I really liked Titanic, but then I saw it when it first opened in the theaters. I also got tired of all the hype after a while. As for Celine Dion's song, it fits perfectly in the catagory "Your songs kicks a** but was played too d*** much!"

Abby7

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 5:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hummingbird: Did you like the movie? Just wondering, because I just saw it a couple of months ago. I enjoy biographical type movies/books, so I enjoyed this movie. Enough so, that I ordered the book online. Short book, but good.

Admin

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 10:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Saw this tonight on video...what a great movie! Kept my interest throughout. Good story mixed with some humour and stuff...thumbs up!