Reviews, critics, etc..

fruitbat · Post by **fruitbat** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:04 pm

Thanks for the links, Vig.

Post by **Hilary the Touched** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:07 pm

OMG

Is he really wearing a brown belt with that suit????

Pic's rare stabs at more stylized expression (the protag's recurrent delusion of people breaking out in Mahler songs . . . fall flat, though they suggest a more imaginative take that could have worked better in truly cinematic terms.

Um, the conceit of confectionery-style musical interludes is straight out of the original script. I'm not entirely clear on what their issue was with this movie . . . but am similarly sorrowful that the reviews aren't better.

Helen8 · Post by **Helen8** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:21 pm

Is he really wearing a brown belt with that suit????

Maybe forgot to pack the black one in haste.

Post by **Hilary the Touched** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:49 pm

Comments from Jodie Whittaker, who plays Halder's love interest:

"As for Jason, Jodie said: 'I'm surprised by how normal he is. He's so excitable, he's so passionate about life and people and meeting new people. It was a phenomenal cast to be a part of.'"
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/sho ... ticle.html

Vicente Amorim (the director): "Well, for one, they're probably two of the best actors of their generation," he said at the movie's premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

"Viggo has a kind of gentle masculinity, which is perfect for the part, and Jason has a spark that's necessary for the portrayal of the character as someone lively and not as a victim. And that was fabulous and fundamental for the dynamic of the movie."
http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/sho ... ticle.html

Vig · Post by **Vig** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:38 pm

Im sorry Im lost this is Jason site hee

http://www.viggo-mortensen.cz/Galerie/A ... rait/1.jpg
http://www.viggo-mortensen.cz/Galerie/A ... rait/2.jpg
http://www.viggo-mortensen.cz/Galerie/A ... rait/3.jpg
http://www.viggo-mortensen.cz/Galerie/A ... rait/4.jpg
http://www.viggo-mortensen.cz/Galerie/A ... rait/5.jpg
http://www.viggo-mortensen.cz/Galerie/A ... rait/6.jpg

Wihnout watermark

Post by **Hilary the Touched** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:54 pm

Vig, sorry for messing those up--can you please repost just the LINKS to those photos?
We absolutely appreciate your wanting to share them, and there are many members here who are also fans of Viggo, but it is our board policy not to post copyrighted material here.

kjshd05 · Post by **kjshd05** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:30 pm

Hilary, that was the same belt he had on with his jeans, in the more
candid photos...I'm with Helen, he probably forgot his black dress
belt....LOL

Helen8 · Post by **Helen8** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:48 pm

Well, not a review, but something good anyway:

'Good' things ahead for Jason as he launches new movie in Canada

By hellomagazine.com hellomagazine.com
Tuesday, September 9 02:57

His small screen work has already made him a familiar face in Britain, and now Jason Isaacs looks set to make his mark in Hollywood. The Liverpool-born actor, who's just wrapped Green Zone - in which he shares the screen with Matt Damon - presented his new movie Good in Toronto.

The Thirties-set film, which is already generating Oscar buzz among film pundits, tells the tale of John Halder, a German professor whose morals are tested after a book he has penned gets favourable attention from the Nazis. Jason plays support to Viggo Mortensen as his Jewish best friend Maurice.

This week's unveiling of the film, which was also attended by Jason's British co-star Jodie Whittaker, marked the fruition of a long term project for Jason. Although he began work on it in 2005, the production stalled due to funding issues and the departure of original leading man Hugh Jackman, who left to do X-Men 3.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/hello/20080909 ... b94e1.html

It goes on to mention others in attendence.

kjshd05 · Post by **kjshd05** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:51 pm

thanx Helen, at least that is a positive article....

catloveyes · Post by **catloveyes** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:55 pm

Many thanks Helen...this is a much more upbeat article!!

Hugs,
Kate

Angel Tavington · Post by **Angel Tavington** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:07 pm

It's nice to read something positive about "Good"!

~me

Chari910 · Post by **Chari910** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:55 pm

Comingsoon.net likes it better than Appaloosa, and they love Jason!

There are a couple of movies playing this year that might be seen as derivative due to their genre but feature such good writing and great performances that it's hard not to take them seriously. Viggo Mortensen is getting a lot of attention for the number of movies he's appearing in this fall after his Oscar nomination last year, but the better of his two at TIFF is Good (THINKFilm - Dec. '08), a drama based on the play by C.P. Taylor, about a German literature professor whose fiction novel is embraced by the Third Reich during their early days, allowing him to live luxuriously even as his marriage falls apart. Viggo is very good in this but it's the performance by Jason Isaacs as his long-time friend and colleague, an affluent Jewish scholar whose life crumbles as his friend's star is on the ascendant, that leaves a lasting impression. (And I'm not just saying that because I learned that Isaacs often reads ComingSoon.net!)

Rex Reed loves it too! (He always loves Jason)

But in the electrifying German-British co-production Good, my favorite film of the festival, even this mesmerizing chameleon, who has proved he can play anything, surprised the hell out of audiences, who emerged stunned. Set in the dusky shadows of 1938 Berlin, he plays a shy, nerdy professor of literature who writes a novel about euthanasia that attracts the rat-eyed attention of Himmler, Goebbels, and Hitler himself, all of them hungry to recruit talented intellectuals with admirable reputations to give a veneer of false respectability to the social reforms of the Reich. Flattered, the innocent and apolitical professor finds himself slowly seduced into a political machine he neither understands nor has any interest in, until his best friend, a Jewish psychiatrist (also played against type by the terrific Jason Isaacs, who usually plays villains), shows him firsthand the cruelties his fellow privileged Germans are capable of. “I don’t even go to the office,” protests this “good German,” but by the time he is shaken from his complacency by a visit to the “camps,” the movie has left him—and everyone who sees it—wrenched. Fabulous movie, haunting performance, and Viggo was everywhere doing PR chores to give it the promotion it deserves—shaking hands, helping one fan repair his camera for the best angle, smiling widely at all and sundry, and charming a jaded festival out of its socks.

Renowned for idiotic questions, the press conferences are always worth avoiding, but the one with Viggo earned applause, as he was a good sport and demonstrated his rarely seen sense of humor. One jerk, referring to his roles as cowboys and as the full-frontal-nude Russian spy in the brutal sauna scene in last year’s Eastern Promises, asked, “Which is harder—appearing stark naked or carrying a six-gun?” Viggo’s trademark sex smolder faded, and bursting into a shit-kicking grin and without missing a beat, he shot back: “I would say appearing stark naked while wearing a six-gun.”

I’ll have what he’s having.

kjshd05 · Post by **kjshd05** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:11 pm

fabulous Char, thanx for posting positive artlcles..

Good is looking better...LOL

(we already knew it was)

Post by **Hilary the Touched** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:00 pm

Thanks for those, Char!

Marie · Post by **Marie** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:27 pm

Nice reviews - there is hope that we will get to see this!