A couple of years ago, Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage was the hot ticket on Broadway — a corrosive, bleakly funny snapshot portrait of two married couples forced into each others’ company when their children get into a fight. Now, ever-controversial film director Roman Polanski has adapted the play into a film called Carnage, which stars three Oscar winners (Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, and Christoph Waltz) and Oscar nominee John C. Reilly (staging a return to Academy-bait after years in the comedy world). Still, don’t let all this high-falutin’ talk confuse the issue: Carnage basically looks like the hilarious adaptation of Hockey Dad we’ve all secretly been waiting for. Watch the trailer, and feel the drunken wrath of Chuck Shadowski!
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That’s an unbelievable cast. This will be good.
awesome!!!
This actually looks hilarious.
This movie looks AWESOME. I love Jodie Foster. I might even start to like Kate Winslet again after she stole Meryl Streep’s Oscar.
Sandra Bullock stole Meryl Streep’s Oscar. Kate Winslet deserved hers.
Agreed.
Nah, The Reader was way overhyped and not good.
Yeah but not kate’s performance
Actually, there are about 10 actresses that stole Meryl Streep’s Oscar.
The Reader may not have been a great movie, but Kate Winslet’s performance in it surely was superb and deserving of the Oscar.
Hell no! Kate Winslet is the best in 2009, tell me, who can do the role of Hannah that superb? I guess even Meryll can’t do that during her prime days since she can’t take her clothes off for films, I love Meryll but loving Kate more. Yes, Meryll deserves the other Oscars, she should have won, but certainly not 2009. Hence, Kate deserves more Oscars than just 2009.
Agree Mars, Winslet should have won Oscars for Sense & Sensibilty, Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Little Children. She’s the best actress of her generation and I hope Kate and Jodie will be nominated for this movie.
I think Meryl’s going to be just fine without it.
Agree Mars, Winslet should have won Oscars for Sense & Sensibilty, Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Little Children. She’s the best actress of her generation and I hope Kate and Jodie will be nominated for this movie.
Can’t wait!
This is a great cast. But the original actors in the Broadway play were all wonderful–and they are film actors, too. Marcia Gay Harden won Best Actress Tony, and the other 3 actors were all nominated. I wish they had used the Broadway cast actors instead.
Me too. And what is with changing the nicknames in the movie? The ones used on the stage were hysterical.
Woof Woof!
OMG!!! I cannot wait for this.
Looks amazing
I’m one of the rare people who found the play annoying and over the top. But I will readily admit that as an actor’s showcase, it works and with these four, could be very interesting.
It is hard for me to believe that so many talented actors still support Polanski…
You said the key word: “talented”. And Polanski is known for getting great acting out of talented actors. In the world of the arts, it’s easier to temporarily put aside any dislike you might have for a person when you can respect their ability as an artist.
always liked polanski’s film looking forward to see it…
I still do not understand why they recast this from the stage version when Hope, Marcia, Jim and Jeff are all well-known movie actors as well. They really deserved to be in the film.
Why the American players? Why not the British or even better: the original French? Nah, I think Winslet & Co will do great…
Saw this show in New York and I thought it was terrible. The acting was fine and the direction was brilliant, but the play itself was rather inane, and disappointing. And when I pay over $100 to see a show it should last more than 75 minutes.
I admit I laughed a lot because of the talented actors, but I think it was wildly over-rated as a play.
I’m finding it hard to believe that some people outright hated the play. I saw a very well-done regional performance, not New York, and there wasn’t a single person in the house who wasn’t laughing like a buffoon.
This looks rather hilarious. I’m not entirely sold on the plot, but as a showcase for four fantastic actors, I’m in.