Jodie Foster directs "The Beaver"

[RoryN]

(That's the punchline.)

 

[John Doe]

Clever.

 

[RoryN]

And here it is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOSOWNS3jts

 

[phrodeau]

Jerry Mathers should sue.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Jerry Mathers should sue.

People who buy tickets without having seen the trailer should sue.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

People who buy tickets without having seen the trailer should sue.

Beavers should sue.

 

[shoulderblade]

People who buy tickets without having seen the trailer should sue.

OK. So far, people who should sue a) Jerry Mathers, b)People who buy tickets without having seen the trailer and I think c) Canadians, as the Beaver is the National animal of the country.

Keep 'em coming.

 

[Ham Murabi]

Good lord. Can this be real?

 

[Sonny Limatina]

Good lord. Can this be real?

Holy shit. I hadn't watched.

This might not the be career-saver Mel hoped it was.

It's like a take-off of a movie trailer, made into an actual movie, for which they then made a movie trailer.

 

[KRCummings]

Holy shit. I hadn't watched.

This might not the be career-saver Mel hoped it was.

It's like a take-off of a movie trailer, made into an actual movie, for which they then made a movie trailer.

It currently has 88% on the tomatometer.

 

[just pet]

So Mel is willing to be photographed with his hand up the beaver?
A real career booster, that.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

It currently has 88% on the tomatometer.

You should definitely go see it.

 

[SuprSalor]

Oregon State University should sue..

 

[RoryN]

So Mel is willing to be photographed with his hand up the beaver?
A real career booster, that.

Hello you.

 

[just pet]

Hello you.

And hello to you, handsome man

 

[shoulderblade]

It currently has 88% on the tomatometer.

I clicked the 'dislike' button under the screen and it said:.1165 likes, 484 dislikes. Read a couple of comments but experienced some sort of system failure.

 

[RoryN]

Finally saw this. Premise was fine; delivery just wasn't that great. The son's sub-plot was a bad diversion - way too American Beauty-esque.

And the soundtrack...wow. Really bad.

 

[CHNOPS]

Finally saw this. Premise was fine; delivery just wasn't that great. The son's sub-plot was a bad diversion - way too American Beauty-esque.

And the soundtrack...wow. Really bad.

The composed music--the score--or the existing songs they chose to include?

 

[RoryN]

The composed music--the score--or the existing songs they chose to include?

The score. Loud and jarring.

I think Foster was going for an independent film feel with it. But it stuck out like a sore thumb.

 

[CHNOPS]

The score. Loud and jarring.

I think Foster was going for an independent film feel with it. But it stuck out like a sore thumb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp8Y3tk4VWE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvgT4mbCzjo

Funny you mentioned American Beauty. This second sample makes some specific references early on.

Dumb question, so I can test a theory: was the music most often used under silences/montages, or under dialogue?

 

[John Doe]

Finally saw this.

This from the asshole who gave me a ration of shit for linking an SNL parody of a song that was a few months old at the time.

 

[Wok]

Leave it to Beaver as a movie does not sound half bad.

I got excited when I opened the thread.

Then saw the trailer. Aw.