Comments on: The Popdose Interview: Rod Lurie http://popdose.com/the-popdose-interview-rod-lurie/ your daily dose of pop culture Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Popdose 2011 Fall Movie Preview | Popdosehttp://popdose.com/the-popdose-interview-rod-lurie/comment-page-1/#comment-83588 The Popdose 2011 Fall Movie Preview | Popdose Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:08:50 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=17400#comment-83588 [...] Band, among others. –Jeff GilesStraw Dogs“Straw Dogs is a semi-perfect film to remake,” Rod Lurie told Popdose. “It can be Americanized and modernized, and it can be made one’s own.” Two-and-a-half years [...] [...] Band, among others. –Jeff GilesStraw Dogs“Straw Dogs is a semi-perfect film to remake,” Rod Lurie told Popdose. “It can be Americanized and modernized, and it can be made one’s own.” Two-and-a-half years [...]

]]> By: Jhttp://popdose.com/the-popdose-interview-rod-lurie/comment-page-1/#comment-51160 J Sun, 03 May 2009 04:00:41 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=17400#comment-51160 I just watched 'Nothing but the truth', it was good, but the end just ruined it.... I mean why the hell would you protect a child in this situation. The government and the opposing legal team went so hard at her because they wanted to know the source so they could prosecute (and more) the person who revealed the CIA source. If it was a child, then all they're gonna say is 'what the f**k'... they'd probably even think she was making it up. Once they realise that she isn't they're gonna do nothing about it. They can't prosecute the child, nothing. So the whole story kind of falls on its ass as if the women just thought logically about it then she wouldn't have screwed her life about it. The whole idea of protecting their source sounds great and grand, but only if the source was something other than a totally innocent child, which doesn't actually change anything if they're revealed. If it was someone else, then it might have had more substance at the end. Its like the writer went for some kind of sentimental angle that just totally doesn't work. <br><br>Anyway - I was so gutted with the end that I actually wanted to vent it somewhere.... so there ;-D I just watched 'Nothing but the truth', it was good, but the end just ruined it…. I mean why the hell would you protect a child in this situation. The government and the opposing legal team went so hard at her because they wanted to know the source so they could prosecute (and more) the person who revealed the CIA source. If it was a child, then all they're gonna say is 'what the f**k'… they'd probably even think she was making it up. Once they realise that she isn't they're gonna do nothing about it. They can't prosecute the child, nothing. So the whole story kind of falls on its ass as if the women just thought logically about it then she wouldn't have screwed her life about it. The whole idea of protecting their source sounds great and grand, but only if the source was something other than a totally innocent child, which doesn't actually change anything if they're revealed. If it was someone else, then it might have had more substance at the end. Its like the writer went for some kind of sentimental angle that just totally doesn't work.

Anyway – I was so gutted with the end that I actually wanted to vent it somewhere…. so there ;-D

]]> By: Jhttp://popdose.com/the-popdose-interview-rod-lurie/comment-page-1/#comment-40889 J Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:41 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=17400#comment-40889 I just watched 'Nothing but the truth', it was good, but the end just ruined it.... I mean why the hell would you protect a child in this situation. The government and the opposing legal team went so hard at her because they wanted to know the source so they could prosecute (and more) the person who revealed the CIA source. If it was a child, then all they're gonna say is 'what the f**k'... they'd probably even think she was making it up. Once they realise that she isn't they're gonna do nothing about it. They can't prosecute the child, nothing. So the whole story kind of falls on its ass as if the women just thought logically about it then she wouldn't have screwed her life about it. The whole idea of protecting their source sounds great and grand, but only if the source was something other than a totally innocent child, which doesn't actually change anything if they're revealed. If it was someone else, then it might have had more substance at the end. Its like the writer went for some kind of sentimental angle that just totally doesn't work. <br><br>Anyway - I was so gutted with the end that I actually wanted to vent it somewhere.... so there ;-D I just watched 'Nothing but the truth', it was good, but the end just ruined it…. I mean why the hell would you protect a child in this situation. The government and the opposing legal team went so hard at her because they wanted to know the source so they could prosecute (and more) the person who revealed the CIA source. If it was a child, then all they're gonna say is 'what the f**k'… they'd probably even think she was making it up. Once they realise that she isn't they're gonna do nothing about it. They can't prosecute the child, nothing. So the whole story kind of falls on its ass as if the women just thought logically about it then she wouldn't have screwed her life about it. The whole idea of protecting their source sounds great and grand, but only if the source was something other than a totally innocent child, which doesn't actually change anything if they're revealed. If it was someone else, then it might have had more substance at the end. Its like the writer went for some kind of sentimental angle that just totally doesn't work.

Anyway – I was so gutted with the end that I actually wanted to vent it somewhere…. so there ;-D

]]> By: Jhttp://popdose.com/the-popdose-interview-rod-lurie/comment-page-1/#comment-28631 J Sat, 02 May 2009 23:00:41 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=17400#comment-28631 I just watched 'Nothing but the truth', it was good, but the end just ruined it.... I mean why the hell would you protect a child in this situation. The government and the opposing legal team went so hard at her because they wanted to know the source so they could prosecute (and more) the person who revealed the CIA source. If it was a child, then all they're gonna say is 'what the f**k'... they'd probably even think she was making it up. Once they realise that she isn't they're gonna do nothing about it. They can't prosecute the child, nothing. So the whole story kind of falls on its ass as if the women just thought logically about it then she wouldn't have screwed her life about it. The whole idea of protecting their source sounds great and grand, but only if the source was something other than a totally innocent child, which doesn't actually change anything if they're revealed. If it was someone else, then it might have had more substance at the end. Its like the writer went for some kind of sentimental angle that just totally doesn't work. <br><br>Anyway - I was so gutted with the end that I actually wanted to vent it somewhere.... so there ;-D I just watched 'Nothing but the truth', it was good, but the end just ruined it…. I mean why the hell would you protect a child in this situation. The government and the opposing legal team went so hard at her because they wanted to know the source so they could prosecute (and more) the person who revealed the CIA source. If it was a child, then all they're gonna say is 'what the f**k'… they'd probably even think she was making it up. Once they realise that she isn't they're gonna do nothing about it. They can't prosecute the child, nothing. So the whole story kind of falls on its ass as if the women just thought logically about it then she wouldn't have screwed her life about it. The whole idea of protecting their source sounds great and grand, but only if the source was something other than a totally innocent child, which doesn't actually change anything if they're revealed. If it was someone else, then it might have had more substance at the end. Its like the writer went for some kind of sentimental angle that just totally doesn't work.

Anyway – I was so gutted with the end that I actually wanted to vent it somewhere…. so there ;-D

]]> By: JonCummingshttp://popdose.com/the-popdose-interview-rod-lurie/comment-page-1/#comment-28530 JonCummings Fri, 01 May 2009 00:31:40 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=17400#comment-28530 I plucked "Deterrence" off the pay-cable airwaves (and onto my TiVo) last night for a repeat viewing. After that, I'm going to troll websites with un-monitored comments sections (like this one) and write unbelievably rude things under the work of bloggers I don't like, in hopes they'll get sued.<br><br>As with so many other things about the Internet, we're having to remake our rules on the fly when it comes to holding websites accountable for commenters' nasty remarks. O'Reilly (re: Daily Kos) and Olbermann (re: Fox News' site) are constantly bitching on this subject just as Lurie does here, but the simple fact is that if a blogger or an underfunded website (like ours) wants to encourage lively debate yet can't fund full-time Comments Cops, unfriendly things are going to get through.<br><br>Even the Washington Post's comments pages are filled with defamation and name-calling -- readers pull it off by replacing letters with symbols, as in "Your mother's a $$$lut," to get through the filter.<br><br>Lurie sounds like a good guy. I was riveted by the flawed Deterrence, impressed by The Contender (though lines like "a mouthful of c***" went way beyond where he needed to go), and really liked what he was trying to do with the first episodes of Commander in Chief.<br><br>I wish he wasn't so concerned about being typecast. Considering his flair for political drama and his concern for facts -- I just read (finally) his HuffPost piece on The Reader, and it changed my mind about the value of pursuing that film's historical inaccuracies -- I think Lurie would be the perfect guy to make the definitive film on Bush's torture program, for example. We need good filmmakers with agendas. I plucked “Deterrence” off the pay-cable airwaves (and onto my TiVo) last night for a repeat viewing. After that, I'm going to troll websites with un-monitored comments sections (like this one) and write unbelievably rude things under the work of bloggers I don't like, in hopes they'll get sued.

As with so many other things about the Internet, we're having to remake our rules on the fly when it comes to holding websites accountable for commenters' nasty remarks. O'Reilly (re: Daily Kos) and Olbermann (re: Fox News' site) are constantly bitching on this subject just as Lurie does here, but the simple fact is that if a blogger or an underfunded website (like ours) wants to encourage lively debate yet can't fund full-time Comments Cops, unfriendly things are going to get through.

Even the Washington Post's comments pages are filled with defamation and name-calling — readers pull it off by replacing letters with symbols, as in “Your mother's a $$$lut,” to get through the filter.

Lurie sounds like a good guy. I was riveted by the flawed Deterrence, impressed by The Contender (though lines like “a mouthful of c***” went way beyond where he needed to go), and really liked what he was trying to do with the first episodes of Commander in Chief.

I wish he wasn't so concerned about being typecast. Considering his flair for political drama and his concern for facts — I just read (finally) his HuffPost piece on The Reader, and it changed my mind about the value of pursuing that film's historical inaccuracies — I think Lurie would be the perfect guy to make the definitive film on Bush's torture program, for example. We need good filmmakers with agendas.

]]> By: Terryhttp://popdose.com/the-popdose-interview-rod-lurie/comment-page-1/#comment-28513 Terry Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:28:13 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=17400#comment-28513 I was wondering what happened to NBTT, couldn't wait to see it last year, then nothing. Thanks for informing your readers on the status. Will purchase the DVD today. I was wondering what happened to NBTT, couldn't wait to see it last year, then nothing. Thanks for informing your readers on the status. Will purchase the DVD today.

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