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Trailer: Carnage

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8 Responses to “Trailer: Carnage”

  1. AnneMi says:

    I’m so excited for this! Looking forward to something a bit lighter from Polanski. Also the cast is pretty amazing.

  2. Sara says:

    WOW, the ladies dominate

  3. Mike says:

    God, this feels like a play.
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    not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  4. palmtree says:

    Ironically, the play also suffers from this problem.

  5. LexG says:

    Gandolfini was a FORCE OF NATURE in the play, and good as Reilly is, they’re some enormous shoes to fill. He pretty much WAS the play, and I don’t think Waltz brings the same WASPy dickishness as Jeff Daniels, either.

    The other thing is, it’s so, so, so minor. The play is fun especially as a chance to see four big stars have a 90-minute blowout, but there’s not much “there” there, and not really a movie in it.

  6. JKill says:

    I have zero knowledge of the play but I have to say that looks kind of incredible, the performances look wonderful, and that trailer is genuinely funny. It kind of brings to mind what I dub the Mike Nichols Hateful Relationship Trilogy (WAOVW, CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, CLOSER), all of which I’m a fan of.

  7. cadavra says:

    I saw the play on Broadway, and it IS “Virginia Woolf”–two middle-class couples, one older than the other, get drunk and scream insults at each other for an hour and a half. I enjoyed it, but let’s not kid ourselves that it’s anything more than that.

  8. Tofu says:

    I guffawed pretty hard while watching. Pretty hard, indeed. šŸ™‚

    Anyways, Polankski = take all my money, hell have the wallet.

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