So, TBS is showing it tonight. I guess I’m about halfway through. It’s not…terrible, but it certainly isn’t in the Pantheon of cinematic achievement. It’s nicely shot, the story needs help, and I was really happy when he killed Giovanni Ribisi’s character. We’ll see how it goes from here out.
Did you like “The Postman?” Have you liked anything that Costner has done in the last 10 years or so?
Jeez, it’s getting worse…
Probably for the same reason that I watched Starship Troopers the other week. Sometimes you watch the movie just to see if it’s as bad as everyone claimed. In the case of Starship Troopers, it was even worse.
I liked “The Postman.” I thought it was a pretty reasonable cinema adaptation of Brin’s novel. It got rid of the stupid genetically-modified super-soldier thing, which nearly ruined my enjoyment of the book.
It moves more briskly than “Dances with Wolves,” though the score isn’t nearly as good.
And has a cameo of Tom Petty as Himself, which always amused me.
Ah Postman you give out hope like candy from your pocket!
Ceeeerrrippes! I loathed this movie. I mean when a certain rock star shows up (not wanting to spoil it too much) I nearly puked. By the way seeing as you are watching it on TBS be prepared to watch for the next three freaking hours!! The movie was long to start but That station puts in a commercial break every 5 minutes. I once got sucked in to watching Needful things for a whole afternoon. It was an hour an a half movie and it took two hours and twenty five minutes to watch. I hate you Ted Turner!
I liked The Postman. It was boring at times but it’s not any worse than 50% of the movies out there. Definitely better than Waterworld, which wasn’t as totally awful as everyone seemed to think.
I think I just like epic stories. Especially when they’re shortened to about 3 hours.
Awful film. Just awful. At least ST was fun cheese 9with moderate nudity). Postman was blech.
As for Costner in the last decade, I found Tin Cup not without its charm. Of course it had a glaring mistake that very few moviegoers caught. It isn’t interesting so I will not post it here. It involves CBS Sports Anchor Jim Nance.
The Postman is a really fun movie. I love the heavy handed stuff like the soldiers getting rowdy and upset when the projectionist shows an action movie (Universal Soldier to be exact) and don’t calm down until he puts on SOund of Music.
I rather liked it. It wasn’t as bad as everyone told me it would be. But then, I am a post-apocolyptic nut.
Man, do I feel like a dope.
I watched the first part of The Postman. I probably would have watched the whole thing but I switched over to the ballgame. I actually like that movie. I liked Waterworld too in a weird way. What can I say, I have a weakness for post-apocolypse flics (yeah, you and me both JPBryan), even when they’re really bad.
But that’s not what makes things bad … I rented Starship Troopers today and already watched it.
But I have a decent excuse – I decided to read the book (I’m about halfway through), so I had the itch to re-watch the movie.
[sub]I kind of like that movie too[/sub]
It’s a lot different than the book, but (and here’s something that will seal my popularity among the sci-fi folk) I’m finding the book pretty goofy and dated.
Oh well, maybe tomorrow I’ll go rent Krippendorf’s Tribe. Maybe I’m wrong about that movie and Jenna Elfman can carry it.
I was forced, forced by my boyfriend to watch that movie. Actually it wasn’t that bad, I actually enjoyed it, and it was kind of neat that Tom Petty had a small role.
If you think that movie is bad, try and watch what my boyfriend rented the next day… that god awful “Battlefield Earth”. Hurl! shrug What can I say? My boyfriend has bad movie tastes.
The movie is garbage. It sucks almost to the point where you think that maybe it’s a satire type thing, like a spoof. Nope… When Tom Petty showed up on the screen, I knew it was no joke. If it was a joke… it wasn’t funny, try terrifying. Kevin Costner makes himself the hero, and brings his whole damn family on camera. It just seems self indulged. And then, there’s Olivia Williams… Oh, why did the woman I lusted over in Rushmore choose to be in such testicle sweat!? WHY???
One of my all-time favorite times in a theater was watching The Postman. Here’s why:
I was a megaplex manager and it was my last night on the job. We had to assemble the assorted Postman prints and pre-screen them before the next morning’s opening. Very few of the reviews were out yet, so we didn’t know much about it or how good it was.
Well, let me tell you, after 20 minutes (and knowing there was still more than 2.5 hours left), we slowly started to do MST3K, just the three managers by ourselves in this empty movie theater at 2 in the morning. The movie was as bad as anything I’ve ever seen in the theater (and leagues more abyssmal than the other movies listed so far, though I haven’t seen BE), and the only way we knew we would cope was making fun of every second of it–which wasn’t hard given that it had ludicrous writing, terrible acting, and the most predictable, pretentious, self-important posturing imaginable. Horrendous movie, but I will always remember that night laughing our asses off on the eve of me moving on to bigger and better things.
As for Costner, his best movies remain the ones he did in the late 80s (Bull Durham, The Untouchables) before he won 2 Oscars(!) and got this high-falutin’ bug up his ass.
To be honest, I couldn’t finish watching it. The wife came in and her reaction was something like “Did you have some sort of head injury? Why are you watching this?” So, rather than confirm her suspicions, I turned it off.
The Postman was being shown on “The Man Made Movie” and it was interesting seeing how a regulation horseshoe pit is made.
ArchiveGuy:
Reminds me of Mystery Science Theater X000.
I miss that show [sub]except for the banter breaks and commercials.
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Jeez, I wonder why?
I could not bring myself to watch this movie. However, I really enjoyed the stories when they were published as novellas in Asimov’s magazine a couple of decades ago. Damn, I really am old…
I liked The Postman, though I didn’t think it lived up to all the praises heaped upon it. Massimo Troisi was great as Mario, the poorly educated son of a fisherman hired to deliver mail to the exiled Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. You can see during their conversations that Mario is…
Oh, this isn’t about the 1994 foreign film Il Postino? What’s it about?
Oh, shit, that Costner piece of crap?! I’m hauling my ass outta this thread!