Contagion (2011)

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Hmm Traffic and Che are incredible movies... what are you talking about?
Did not see Che, was not a huge fan of Traffic. This guy is not in the upper echelon of Directors in my opinion. Also he casted Sasha Grey as a lead in one of his films.

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Eternal-Fighter wrote:I'll see it for the cast.
Same here man.

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allstarr55js wrote: Also he casted Sasha Grey as a lead in one of his films.
You realize that is irrelevant...

Sasha Grey did very good for that role because she actually played herself in a way... So I don't get the point... Okay, let's say you didn't liked Traffic even if it is one of the most accurate (if not the most accurate) movie about the drug trafficking business... That won't be a problem... but still, to call him underrated is such a cliche... Not to mention, what's wrong with casting a porn actress... If I think a porn actress fits the role I have in mind then f**k it, I would higher her immediately... 8-)

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Sasha Grey did very good for that role because she actually played herself in a way
Sasha Grey actually did play herself on Entourage and she was awful. :lol:

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Vader182 wrote:Honestly, this seems more like a movie where you wonder how this great cast got stuck in such a bad movie. The oceans films were good, not great, but nothing else he's done I find worth mentioning.
You don't know the movie is bad, because you haven't seen it yet.

I disagree, I think the Oceans films are fantastic, great writing and amazing chemistry between actors.

My problems with Soderbergh comes from the way his films look outside of the Ocean films. I hate the blown out highlights and flat look a lot of his films have. But I have this problem with many films, doesn't seem to bother many others.

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I love OCEAN'S EVELEN. Don't care so much for the other two. ERIN BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC were solid. OUT OF SIGHT and SOLARIS have their moments. Never saw CHE or THE GOOD GERMAN.

This movie is in my top 10 anticipated for the 2011 though.

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RomanM wrote:
Vader182 wrote:Honestly, this seems more like a movie where you wonder how this great cast got stuck in such a bad movie. The oceans films were good, not great, but nothing else he's done I find worth mentioning.
You don't know the movie is bad, because you haven't seen it yet.

I disagree, I think the Oceans films are fantastic, great writing and amazing chemistry between actors.

My problems with Soderbergh comes from the way his films look outside of the Ocean films. I hate the blown out highlights and flat look a lot of his films have. But I have this problem with many films, doesn't seem to bother many others.
I know I haven't seen it yet mate, haha. I'm making informed speculations about the quality of the project based on his previous work. Ocean's 11 is finely made film, great chemistry and so on, and the other movies are all very, very entertaining and I even find Ocean's 12 extremely entertaining which many people don't.

I've felt this way about most of his movies before and still after seeing them, though. I just ask myself 'how did he get all these guys into this movie?'

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They are shooting in San Francisco.

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Doesn't sound great from the description and director history, but I guess we'll have to see. :think:

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Soderbergh has been doing interviews lately and is reaffirming his intention to retire soon.
“The tyranny of narrative is starting to really weigh on me. I’m convinced that there’s some other way of organizing images and ideas that can create an emotional response in an audience. I can’t figure out what it is. I certainly don’t think I could get somebody to write a check to let me go off and take however long it takes to figure it out. I just need to step out. I’ve been running really fast in a certain direction for awhile. I want a change.”

“It’s a sense of having been there before,” Soderbergh continues. “That’s when I started thinking seriously about a shift. I don’t like that feeling. I don’t like the feeling of repeating something I’ve done.” Soderbergh notes that he’s not quite done yet — besides the already-completed films Haywire and Contagion, he’s in pre-production on the Liberace biopic with Matt Damon and Michael Douglas, and he’s currently planning to make a film version of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (starring longtime collaborator George Clooney) as his cinematic swan song. “Everything else, I’ve gotten rid of,” he tells Anderson. “For the last three years, I’ve been turning down everything that comes my way. You’re not gonna have Steven Soderbergh to kick around anymore.”
http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/03/11/steve ... etirement/

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