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This poster is amiable and easy, but Larry David just pantomining the title...I don't know, it doesn't seem like enough. Shouldn't poster art crank up the intrigue levels a tad more? Shouldn't it add context and counterpoint? I'm asking.

Whatever Works is "partly stiff and unconvincing and perhaps a bit too mean-spirited, even for a film about a bitter misanthrope," I wrote on 4.22. "And yet it turns around and goes easy at the end, which I oddly liked and didn't like at the same time. It sure as hell isn't about realism, and yet the fakeness of Whatever Works is pleasing. And I was often delighted that the people-are-no-damn-good humor is as scalding as it is."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 6, 2009 at 11:30 AM

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televisiontears says ...

Of course the whole point of the poster is to let people know that Larry David stars. Even his body language says "Come on! You know you wanna see this. I'm in it!"

Classic Woody font, btw.

Posted by televisiontears at May 6, 2009 11:52 AM

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Sabina E says ...

lame poster.

Posted by Sabina E at May 6, 2009 11:59 AM

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JustThisGuy says ...

Kind of bland.

In less bland news, a PDF of Nick Cave's (of the Bad Seeds) screenplay to a Gladiator sequel (involving roman gods, reincarnation, Christian persecution, immortality, WW2, etc) is supposedly floating around on the internet.

Anybody have any idea where to find it?

Posted by JustThisGuy at May 6, 2009 12:10 PM

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Midwest Doug says ...

The gesture is much more of a "What are you looking at?" or "What's your problem?" than a "hey, whatever" kind of thing. A "hey, whatever" gesture would have him looking up and to the side, with no scrunching of the eyebrows.

Posted by Midwest Doug at May 6, 2009 12:28 PM

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actionman says ...

JustThisGuy -- go to The Playlist blog -- there was a news item about the Gladiator sequel script this past week, with a link to a review of the script. Cave's work sounded beyond blazed.

Posted by actionman at May 6, 2009 1:10 PM

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great scott says ...

Would it kill 'em to put Evan Rachel Wood on the poster?

Posted by great scott at May 6, 2009 3:08 PM

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Gordon27 says ...

"Shouldn't it add context and counterpoint?"

I'm not going to say it shouldn't, but what was the last movie poster that did that? What's the last movie poster that actually had any effect on getting people into a theater?

Posted by Gordon27 at May 6, 2009 3:55 PM

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