July 1, 2010: Summer movies

 

>> Rooney: TONIGHT ON

"GREATER BOSTON".

>> GUYS, LOOK, I DON'T KNOW

WHERE I AM.

>> Rooney: HITS AND MISSES.

THE MUST SEE AND MUST NOT

FILMS OF THE SUMMER.

PLUS BOOKS AT THE BEACH, THE

PAGE TURNERS THAT WILL KEEP

YOU RIVETED.

IT'S "GREATER BOSTON"'S

SUMMER BOOKS AND MOVIES

SPECIAL.

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>> Rooney: GOOD EVENING.

THERE IS NOTHING MORE

SUMMERY THAN THE FOURTH OF

JULY SO TONIGHT WE'RE GOING

TO KICKBACK AND LOOK AT

SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT.

WE'LL TALK WITH LOCAL

AUTHORS ABOUT THE BOOKS THAT

MADE THEIR MUST-READ LIST.

BUT FIRST, JARED BOWEN GETS

US TO UP TO SPEED WITH WHAT

HOLLYWOOD HOPES WILL BE

PAYING TO SEE THIS SUMMER.

>> THIS IS SHAPING UP TO BE

THE SUMMER SIB MA SIZZLE.

WE'RE REDUCED TO RETREAD.

>> THE REASON I'M ALIVE IS

BECAUSE YOU TOOK A SHOT, YOU

TOOK IT AND MISSED.

>> Rooney: "IRONMAN 2"

STARTED THE SUMMER SEQUELS

TO BE STARTED BY SHREK FOREVER

AFTER.

>> WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, YOU

GOT SO FAT-- FANCY.

>> ARE YOU ON A CAPEL IN THE

MIDDLE OF THE ARABIAN

DESERT.

IF YOU ARE NOT HAVING A HOT

FLASH ARE YOU DEAD.

>> SEX AND THE CITY 2 ENSUED

DUMPING THE DAMES IN ABU

DHABI.

ONLY "TOY STORY" 3 ACHIEVED

A FEAT RARE FOR THIS OR ANY

OTHER SUMMER, MOST CRITICS

RAEFD IT'S AS GOOD AS THE

FIRST.

>> FOLKS, IF YOU WANT TO

STEP RIGHT THIS WAY.

>> ALSO ON THE REPLAY REAL A

CONTINUE TEAM, BY MOST

ACCOUNTS A IS FOR ABYSMAL

BUT A REMAKE OF THE CAR ATE

KID STARRING JACKIE CHAN AND

WILL SMITH'S SON JADEN.

NEW TO THEERTS, THIRD

INSTALLMENT IN THE TWILIGHT

SAGA "ECLIPSE"

>> SHOULD LEAVE, NOW.

>> SHE HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW.

>> SHE IS THE ONE WANTS.

>> FROM VAMPIRES FROM

VAMPING TOM CRUISE AND

CAMERON DIAZ START IN THE

ADVENTURE COMEDY NIGHT AND

DAY MUCH AND WHICH WAS SHOT

IN AND AROUND BOSTON.

>> IT IS A BEAUTIFUL DRESS.

>> MOMMY, I WANT MORE MILK.

>> GIVE YOU A LITTLE

SOMETHING.

>> HE'S SO CUTE.

>> HOW OLD IS HE?

>> 48 MONTHS.

>> THAT'S FOUR.

>> YEAH.

>> ALSO SHOT HERE THE ADAM

SANDLER COMEDY GROWN-UPS

ABOUT FIVE FRIENDS REUNITING

WHEN THEIR HIGH SCHOOL

BASKETBALL COACH DIES WHILE

ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN

EF-- NEVADA LOVE RANCH IS,

ABOUT A COUPLE WHO OPEN THE

FIRST LEGAL BROTHEL.

>> LISTEN I GOT 25 PSYCHOTIC

WHORES.

>> THE SENSATION OF SUNDANCE

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT ABOUT

A LESBIAN COUPLE WHOSE KIDS

WANT TO KNOW THEIR BIRTH

FATHER.

>> BUT THEN I DROPPED OUT OF

SCHOOL.

>> OH.

YOU DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE?

>> YEAH, JUST WASN'T MY

THING.

>> NO, HUH?

S WHY'S THAT.

>> SWEDEN'S THE GIRL WHO

PLAYED WITH FIRE IS THE FILM

ADAPTATION OF STEVE LARSON'S

NOVEL, THE SECOND IN HIS

INCREASINGLY POPULAR

MILLENNIUM SERIES.

>> FOR THE KIDS THERE'S

M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN THE LAST

AIR BENDER ABOUT A BOY'S

POWER TO END WAR AND FOR THE

INFINITELY CURIOUS THERE IS

JONES RIVERS, A PIECE OF

WORK, A DOCUMENTARY THAT

COMB BEYOND THE COMEDY FOR

AN INTRIGUING LOOK AT THE

LEGENDARY FUNNY LADY.

>> THE MINUTE ARE YOU NOT

ANGRY ABOUT THINGS, THE

MINUTE ARE YOU NOT UP SET

ABOUT THINGS, WHAT ARE YOU

TALKING ABOUT.

OH MY GRANDSON WAS SO CUTE.

NOT MY COMEDY.

>> I'M FURIOUS ABOUT

EVERYTHING.

>> SUMMER MOVIEWISE, IT'S

NOT THE STUFF OF FLUFF, BUT

IT WILL KEEP YOU THINKING

FOR DAYS AFTER.

>> Rooney: JOINING ME A MT.

RUSHMORE OF MOVIE

AFFICIONADOS ENTERTAINMENT

REPORTER JOYCE KULHAWIK,

BOSTON GROWN FILM CRITIC

WESLEY MORRIS AND OF COURSE

JARED BOWEN, WELCOME TO ALL

OF YOU.

>> WONDERFUL TO BE HERE.

>> Rooney: I HAVEN'T SEEN

ANY OF THESE FILMS BUT THE

ONE I REALLY WANT TO SEE IS

THE JOAN RIVERS DOCUMENTARY.

I'M FASCINATING BY HER.

>> YOU'VE GOT TO SEE HER.

THAT IS LIKE A TRAIN TREK,

THE JOAN RIVERS.

SHE IS SO DAMAGED AND SO

DRIVEN.

SHE IS, AND SHE'S SO FUNNY,

YOU JUST CAN'T BELIEVE, THIS

WOMAN UNLESS SHE'S WORKING

EVERY SINGLE MINUTE,

COULDN'T FEEL LOVED.

CLEARLY, SOME KIND OF NUMBER

WAS DONE ON HER AS A KID.

IT'S A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF

JOAN RIVERS.

AND SHE'S ALMOST --

>> THE RIDE UP AND DOWN, ARE

YOU LAUGHING UP ROHRUOUSLY

AND THE NEXT MINUTE ARE YOU

THINKING CAN'T BELIEVE I WAS

LAUGHING THAT HARD BECAUSE

THEY GET INTO THESE REALLY,

SHE GETS INTO THESE

INTROSPECTIVE MOMENTS WHERE

YOU REALIZE THE NEED FOR HER

TO BE WORKING AND THE

CONSEQUENCES IN HER PERSONAL

LIFE.

IT REALLY IS COMPLETELY BACK

AND FORTH.

>> I WAS SKEPTICAL ONLY

INSOFAR IT SEEMED LIKE IT

MIGHT HAVE BEEN

COMMISSIONED.

BUT I MEAN THEY GOT HER AT A

REALLY GOOD MOMENT IN HER

CAREER.

SHE NEEDS THE MOVIE AS MUCH

AS THE MOVIE NEEDS HER.

>> THAT'S TRUE.

>> BUT WHAT THEY DO WHICH IS

REALLY SMART IS THEY REMIND

THAT YOU THIS WOMAN IS A

PIONEERING AMERICAN

COMEDIENNE.

THERE IS A WHOLE GENERATION

OF COMICS WHO PROBABLY

WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE IN SOME

WAY OR ANOTHER WITHOUT JOAN

RIVERS HAVING DONE WHAT THEY

ARE DOING FIRST.

>> Rooney: THAT'S MY KIND OF

MOVIE.

LOOKING AT SOME OF THE

THINGS YOU TOUCHED ON, THERE

IS NOT A CHANCE IN HELL.

EVEN INCLUDING ""TOY STORY""

>> YOU'VE GOT SEE.

THAT YOU HAVE TO SEE "TOY

STORY" 3.

>> Rooney: IT'S TO THE GOING

HAPPEN.

>> NO, NO.

>> Rooney: OR 1 OR 2.

>> WHY WOULDN'T YOU SEE IT.

>> Rooney: NO.

>>> DO YOU THINK THEY ARE

CHILDREN'S MOVIES.

>> Rooney: THE ANIMATED.

>> YOU KIND OF HAVE TO THINK

OF IT NOT SOME OFS ALIKE

BEING ANIMATED OR CHILDREN

DOES DID.

>> Rooney: I DIDN'T SEE

WALL-E EITHER.

>> I DID NOT LIKE WALL-E AND

I'M NOT NECESSARILY DRAWN TO

ANIMATED FILMS.

THIS IS A UNIVERSAL STORY,

THE "TOY STORY" SAGA WHICH

HAS TO DO WITH YOUR INNER

LIFE.

IT HAS TO DO WITH GROWING

UP.

MAKING ATTACHMENTS.

IT HAS TO DO WITH, YOU KNOW,

LOVING PEOPLE AND THIS IS

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE TOYS

WHEN THEIR OWNER GOES OFF TO

COLLEGE SO IT IS ABOUT

TRANSFORMATION AND

TRANSITION.

IT'S FANTASTIC.

>> I WOULD SAY NOT FOR KIDS.

THAT'S WHAT I CAME AWAY

THINKING, THIS IS HORRIBLE.

>> HEART BREAKING.

>> IT MAKES YOU CRY.

I DIDN'T THINK I WOULD.

>> PARTS ARE VERY DARK, VERY

SCARY BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT

THE TOYS BEING SHUFFLED TO

THIS DAY CARE CENTER AND

THEY ARE MISTREATED AND THEY

TRY TO GET BACK TO THEIR KID

ANDY WHO IS NOW GOING

COLLEGE.

SO OF COURSE-- .

>> IT IS A VERY GROWN-UP

STORY.

>> THERE IS A SEQUENCE IN A

GARBAGE INCINERATOR THAT IS

PROBABLY THE SCARIEST THING

I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.

>> Rooney: I TAKE IT BACK.

>> AND IT IS HEARTBREAKING

AND SAD.

AND PIXAR, TO SAY

THAT-- THEY MAKE MOVIES

PRETTY MUCH BETTER THAN

ANYBODY ELSE CONSISTENTLY

FROM THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO.

I MEAN YOU CAN RELY ON THEM

TO AT LEAST MEET A CERTAIN

BASELINE OF QUALITY AND

OFTEN TO EXCEED THAT.

>> BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY ART.

I WOULD SAY "TOY STORY" 3 IS

ART.

>> YEAH T DEFINITELY SEE IT

IN 3-D.

>> THIS HAS BEEN A GASSLY

SUMMER.

ALL THE THINGS, ALL THE

SEQUELS THAT KICKED

EVERYTHING OFF.

IT SEEMED LIKE THERE IS NO

ORIGINAL AT.

THINGS ARE STARTING TO COME

OUT NOW.

>> I THINK NIGHT AND DAY GOT

A BUM WRAP.

I THINK NIGHT AND DAY IS

EXCELLENT.

TOM CRUISE, CAMERON DIAZ,

YOU'VE GOT TWO FABULOUSLY

CHARISMATIC MOVIE STARS.

>> AND THEY ARE CAR IS MAT

ANYTHING THIS MOVIE.

>> YOU'VE GOT THIS SEXY,

GLAMOROUS STORY LINE.

YOU'VE GOT FABULOUS STUNTS.

>> DID YOU CARE ABOUT THE

STORY AT ALL.

>> COME ON, WESLEY T IS A

SUMMER --

>>.

>> ONE NAME IS ON IT BUT --

>> I THOUGHT THE SCRIPT WAS

COHERENT.

I THOUGHT WAS FUNNY.

I THOUGHT YOU COULD FOLLOW

IT I THOUGHT WAS EXCITING.

I THOUGHT IT WAS GLAMOUROUS.

I THOUGHT WAS LIKE A TRAVEL

LOG OR VIDEO GAME FOR ADULTS.

I THOUGHT IT WAS FUN.

IT WAS A GREAT SUMARY DULT

FLICK.

GROWN-UPS, ON THE OTHER HAND,

IT'S SUBHUMAN.

>> THAT IS THE ONE I

ACTUALLY WANT TO SEE.

>> OH MY GOD.

>> JAERD, PLEASE.

>> PRIMITIVE.

>> Rooney: WHAT IS IT.

>> THE ONE WITH AT AM

SANDLER, ALL THE GUYS GO

BACK.

>> Rooney: YOU LIKE THAT I

WANT TO HER ABOUT THAT

ANNETTE BENING ONE.

>> THAT IS A GREAT, GREAT

FILM.

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT,

ABOUT THE LESBIAN COUPLE WHO

SUDDENLY THEY DON'T EVEN

REALIZE THEIR CHILDREN ARE

TRACKING DOWN THEIR

BIOLOGICAL FATHER, THE SPERM

DONOR.

>> Rooney: HE WAS A SPERM

DONOR.

>> THROUGH AN ANONYMOUS

OPERATION AND HE BECOMES

PART OF THEIR LIVES AND IT

BLOWS UP THE WHOLE FAMILY

DYNAMIC.

I FOUND IT SO TRUE.

I FOUND NOTHING CLICHED

ABOUT IT, SO CLEVER, WELL

WRITTEN, WELL ACTED.

I LOVED EVERY MOMENT OF IT.

>> AND IT IS SO REAL LIFE.

SO TRUE.

>> I WILL SAY THE WOMAN WHO

MADE IT, HER NAME IS LISA,

SHE MADE A FILM CALLED HIGH

ART, LOWELL CANON.

THERE IS A CONCERN, THERE IS

A KIND OF MECHANICAL ASPECT

TO THE WAY THE SCRIPT WORKS

TO GET THINGS TO HAPPEN.

BUT ONCE THEY START

HAPPENING.

ONCE THE SCENES OPEN UP AND

PEOPLE START TALKING TO EACH

OTHER.

>> IT'S REAL.

>> IT'S GOOD.

I MEAN THEY, THERE ARE

THINGS THAT JULIAN MOORE'S

CHARACTER SAYS IN THIS MOVIE

THAT ARE SO TRUE ABOUT HUMAN

BEINGS IN A RELATIONSHIP.

AND IT'S KIND OF SHOCKING.

BECAUSE YOU THINK SHE'S THE

SORT OF DUMBER PERSON IN THE

RELATIONSHIP.

BUT THE ANNETTE BENING SORT

OF DOMINEERING SURGEON.

IT WORKS OUT AND YOU GUESS

THE SENSE THAT THE COUPLE

LOVES EACH OTHER AND THEY

ARE IN THE WEIRD MOVEMENT.

THEY ARE STUCK WITH THIS

OTHER KID WHO DOESN'T REALLY

SEEM TO BE, YOU KNOW, HE

DOESN'T HAVE HIS ACT

TOGETHER.

>> IT'S NOT PAT, IT'S

COMPLICATED.

THERE IS NO EASY SOLUTION

AND THERE ARE MOMENTS THAT

RING SO TRUE.

WHEN YOU REALIZE SOMETHING

AND IT JUST HITS YOU LIKE A

STEAMROLLER THERE IS A

MOMENT LIKE THAT AT A TABLE

WHERE THE AN ET BENING

CHARACTER REALIZES

SOMETHING'S HAPPENING AND

THE WHOLE MOVIE ALMOST

IMPLODES.

YOU FEEL HURT IMPLODING.

IT'S VERY REAL.

IT'S FUNNY AND TOUCHING.

>> THE ACTING, SHE IS VERY

GOOD.

>> Rooney: WHAT DID YOU

LIKE.

>> I LIKED THIS MOVIE CALLED

WINNERS BONES.

IT'S PLAYING NOW ABOUT A

GIRL WHO IS SORT OF TRYING

TO FIND HER DERELICT DAD,

BASICALLY IN THE APPALACHIAN

TRAIL IT IS REALLY SMART.

A WOMAN DEBORAH GRANITE

WROTE IT AND DIRECTED.

ACTOR WHO PLAYS THE GIRL

JENNIFER LAWRENCE IS REALLY,

REALLY --

>> ABOUT 17 YEARS OLD.

>> AND SHE JUST HAS THIS

SERIOUSNESS BUT IT'S A VERY

ADULT SERIOUSNESS AND THERE

IS NOTHING STAGY ABOUT HER.

SHE'S VERY NATURAL WITH THE

CAMERA.

AND THIS BASICALLY, THIS

MOVIE BASICALLY WORKS FOR

FILM NOIR.

AND SHE RUNS UP AGAINST THIS

TOWN THAT BASICALLY IS WARY

OF HER BEING THERE.

AND BE IT'S THIS REALLY

SMARTLY WRITTEN AND REALLY

WELL ACTED.

AND FROM START TO

MINUTEISH-- FINISH YOU

REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS

GOING TO HAPPEN IN THIS

MOVIE.

IN TERMS OF AS AMERICAN

MOVIEMAKING GOES, IT'S

REALLY ABOUT THIS WOMAN,

THIS PARTICULAR DIRECTOR

HAVING A SENSE OF WHAT SHE

WANTED TO DO.

AND ACCOMPLISHING THAT.

>> BUT THIS YOUNG GIRL

REALLY COMES INTO CONTACT

WITH ALL THESE DARK FORCES

AND IT'S VERY INSURANCE LAR

WORLD IN APPALACHA WHERE

THERE IS INCREDIBLE POVERTY.

AND SHE'S FIGHTING ALL KINDS

OF DARK THINGS THAT HAPPEN

TO HER.

AND THERE ARE SOME MOMENTS

THAT ARE SO SCARY.

AND WHAT YOU ARE UPLIFTED BY

IS HER EXTRAORDINARY

RESOURCEFULNESS IN THE FACE

OF ALL OF THESE PRESSURES ON

HER.

SHE IS A BREATH OF FRESH

AIR.

YOU HAVE TO SEE WINTER'S

BONE.

IT'S NOT YOUR SUMMER AT THE

BEACH KIND OF MOVIE.

>> IT IS NO NIGHT AND DAY.

>> BUT IT WILL MIST YOU UP

JUST THE SAME AND NIGHT AND

DAY WILL DO SOMETHING ELSE I

WAS LIFTED UP, ABSOLUTELY.

>> BY A HELICOPTER OR BY A

MOVIE.

>> I'M TALKING ABOUT

WINTER'S BONES.

>> OH, ALL RIGHT.

>> AND NIGHT AND DAY.

>> Rooney: WHAT ARE YOU

TALKING ABOUT, JARED.

>> I'M SITTING I DON'T KNOW

WHAT TO TALK ABOUT NEXT.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS LEFT TO

ANTICIPATE.

I THINK I HAVE ALREADY,

EXCEPT FOR WINTER'S BONE.

>> THERE A GOOD FILM OUT

CALLED PLEASE GIVE.

I JUST SAW THAT AT THE

KENDALL, CATHERINE KEEN AR.

>> Rooney: WE'RE ABOUT TO DO

THE BOOKS SEGMENT.

BUT HAS ANYBODY SEEN ANY OF

THE GIRL WITH THE --

>> THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON

TATTOO.

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE GIRL

WHO PLAYS THE FIRE.

>> Rooney: BECAUSE THEY ARE

SORT OF IN THE ART HOUSES.

>> BETTER THAN THE BOOK.

>> THAT IS WHAT I HEARD

TODAY.

>> THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO

SEE THEM PROBABLY AS THEY

SHOULD BE MADE, COMING FROM

SWEDEN AND HOLLYWOOD HAS GOT

THEM THEY ARE GOING TO BE

COMING OUT.

THEY ARE DOING THE STUNT

CASTING.

THIS PERSON THAT PERSON SO

WHEN THE GIRL PLAYS FIRE,

COMES TO KENDALL, EMBASSY

CINEMAS, DEFINITELY SEE IT

THERE.

>> THE BOOKS ARE EXPLOITIVE.

I THINK THE FILM STREAMLINES

THE STORY IN A WAY THAT

MAKES IT MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE

AND MUCH MORE BALANCED.

AND THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYS

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON

TATTOO, YOU CANNOT TAKE HER

EYES OFF HER.

>> Rooney: GORGEOUS.

>> WHAT ABOUT THESE CHEESEY

REMAKES, CAR ATE KID.

>> IT WORKS.

>> IT'S TOO LONG AND NOT

VERY WELL MADE BUT IT HAS

SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF

MOVIES THIS SUMMER SO FAR DO

NOT HAVE.

WHICH IS TWO CHARISMATIC

PEOPLE, BASICALLY PLAYING TO

THEIR STRENGTHS, AND A

REALLY CROWD PLEASING WAY.

THE STORY IS AS OLD AS THE

HIMS.

YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO

HAPPEN.

AND ONCE IT IS HAPPENING THE

MOVE EYE TURNS INTO MORTAL

COME BAT WHICH IS STRANGE TO

SEE TWO 12-YEAR-OLD BOYS

BEATING EACH OTHER,.

>> FINISH HIM.

>> AND THE SCOREBOARD TURNS.

>> IT IS A SUMMER FANTASY

FOR KIDS.

IT'S VERY EMPOWERING TO SEE

THAT.

>> I TOTALLY LOVED THE FIRST

ONE.

I GREW UP WATCHING THAT OVER

AND OVER AGAIN ON THE VCR

BUT I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS ONE

YET.

>> Rooney: THIS HAS BEEN

FUN.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR

RECOMMENDATIONS.

AND YOUR ENTHUSIASM.

>> GET TO THE MOVIES, EMILY.

>> Rooney: I WILL HAVE TO

WORK ON IT.

JOYCE KULHAWIK, WESLEY

MORRIS AND JARED BOWEN,

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND WHEN WE CONTINUE, GUILTY

PLEASURES TO MUST-READS.

THE BOOKS YOU'LL WANT TO

BRING TO THE BEACH.