PROMISED LAND (2012) (dir. Gus Van Sant) (Matt Damon, John Krasinski)

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01-04-13, 01:40 PM

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Re: PROMISED LAND (2012) (dir. Gus Van Sant) (Matt Damon, John Krasinski)

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I still don't get how the plan

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The point is that

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Just use your MoviePass and go see it.

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01-04-13, 01:53 PM

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Re: PROMISED LAND (2012) (dir. Gus Van Sant) (Matt Damon, John Krasinski)

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. This film looks like it deserves Razzies it won't get.

It's funny... watching the movie, I honestly did enjoy parts of it. I laughed... I "aww"ed... but... man... summarizing it like that... it really shows you how terrible it was.

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01-04-13, 02:22 PM

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Re: PROMISED LAND (2012) (dir. Gus Van Sant) (Matt Damon, John Krasinski)

I have a friend who is a super-liberal environmentalist, and she just posted that she loved this movie and told everyone to go see it.

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01-04-13, 03:03 PM

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Re: PROMISED LAND (2012) (dir. Gus Van Sant) (Matt Damon, John Krasinski)

Read all the spoilers because of the poor RT score. Too bad. I think a good attempt at the topic could've been made ala The Insider.

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01-04-13, 04:18 PM

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Re: PROMISED LAND (2012) (dir. Gus Van Sant) (Matt Damon, John Krasinski)

I'll probably rent this, as I like the actors.

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01-05-13, 11:08 PM

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Re: PROMISED LAND (2012) (dir. Gus Van Sant) (Matt Damon, John Krasinski)

Saw it and the main thing in spoilers now makes a lot of sense

Eh, I liked it. So the main message from the movie seems to be

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01-06-13, 11:06 PM

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Re: PROMISED LAND (2012) (dir. Gus Van Sant) (Matt Damon, John Krasinski)

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Saw it and the main thing in spoilers now makes a lot of sense

Eh, I liked it. So the main message from the movie seems to be

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You're right-on with the message, except put a period after "fracking" and put the last six words in super-tiny print.

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01-07-13, 01:14 AM

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Re: PROMISED LAND (2012) (dir. Gus Van Sant) (Matt Damon, John Krasinski)

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Sounds like a rewrite of Local Hero which was a good film for it's characters not it's hackneyed story.

That's what it looked like to me.

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01-07-13, 09:17 AM

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Re: PROMISED LAND (2012) (dir. Gus Van Sant) (Matt Damon, John Krasinski)

Interesting article about Promised Land (contains spoilers):

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A pro-fracking documentary, FrackNation, will premier on AXS TV (formerly HDNet) on January 22, 9:00 EST/8:00 CST. The writer of the first article in Post #8 is one of the filmmakers.