Woody Allen’s Match Point starring DL fave Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Sure, I know you dried her out,

but it won't last.

Neely hasn't got that hard core

like me.

She never learned to roll with the punches.

I went for Mr. Jonathan Rhys Meyer's (not a Woody Allen fan) and I enjoyed him more than I enjoyed the film. I also loved his passionate turn in the tv "Dracula" series a few years back.

He does passion well and I can't help imagining that he would be one hot fuck. It's about time he did a gay film and really let it all hang out.

Did Allen make Chloe annoying on purpose? Every time JRM is out of sight she’s frantically screeching “Chris! chriiiiiiisss!” Come on, the house isn’t that big.

Only three replies - great. So nobody saw this piece of shit.

R4 here, sorry

Hahahahaha, come on, forget its Woody. It’s an entertaining film! British people were offended because they claim they don’t talk like that.

Matthew Goode is hot.

Love this movie and the twist at the end

Plus it has the great Margaret Tyzack as the old lady who gets murdered.

It’s one of the few Woody Allen movies I enjoyed.

The story is similar to the book, An American Tragedy and the movies A Place in the Sun and Room at the Top.

Woody has repeatedly referred to this as his favorite of his 50 films in recent interviews... it was truly a star-making performance for Scarlett Johansson. She is luminous. You can tell Woody was totally and completely in love with her and filmed/wrote for her as such.

It would've been a totally different movie had Kate Winslet not quit/been fired (did the full story on that ever come out? Scarlett stepped in with a week's notice or some such). Winslet and Rhys Meyers would be miscast opposite each other, I think... she reads too old (even then). But, you never know...

Anyway, I think this will be the one Woody Allen drama to stand the test of time... HANNAH & HER SISTERS, MANHATTAN, ANNIE HALL, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS and even STARDUST MEMORIES are too comedic to be considered full-out dramas, so they don't count (but all are modern classics, obviously).

This blows away the boring INTERIORS, drab ANOTHER WOMAN and confused CASSANDRA'S DREAM, all of which otherwise have their dramatic virtues.

I had no idea Kate Winslet was supposed to be in it. I guess she had no hard feelings as she just made another movie with him. I don’t see her in this role, as a desperate, talentless American actress gold digger. Johannsson is perfect. She’s sexy but not beautiful - there’s something piggy about her her nose/profile, but not something a straight man would notice I guess.

Mrs Hewitt is the epitome of jealous elder frau cunts.

It has Matthew Goode in it. Which makes it better than most Woody Allen movies.

I'd like him to be my Assigned Male.

Woody Allen doesn't have original ideas anymore. This is recycled from the Theodore Dreiser novel An American Tragedy just like "Blue Jasmine" is pretty much Streetcar Named Desire.

Well, yes.....it has the YOUNG Matthew Goode in it.

But have you seen him recently?

Yes, and I'd suck his dick so hard, it was coming out my dick.

I felt so guilty for wanting him to kill Nola and get away with it. Was also hoping he’d kill clingy-ass Chloe, too.

And I hated the way Scarlett Johanssen pronounced “mobile” (the British way).

ANOTHER BRILLIANT PIECE FROM THE WORLDS GREATEST DIRECTOR

R3: Chloe almost always is annoying.

How about some Scotch, Irish?

I like this movie though it feels a bit like Crimes and Misdemeanours lite. I also really like Scoop and Mighty Aphrodite, even though I now hate Woody Allen as a person.

So many movies in which a man commits a clandestine crime or crimes and gets away with it, even prospers. What's Woody trying to say?

Scarlett Johansson looks like some troll from 'the hobbit' with her original face, complete with the weird dumbo ears. Woody is a troll from inder some God forsaken bridge. Kate winslet is a sow. Dumb with it. Mia Is Everything

*under

I agree, the story isn’t original, it’s just fascinating observing this rich, entitled family and how they act and speak. When Chloe brings up world events to try to engage Chris, you can tell she doesn’t really give a shit. Same with Nola’s. They are vapid with no concerns but the flip side is no intellectually curiosity, either. Chloe doesn’t care about opera, nor does Tom for that matter. Chloe’s “interest” in modern is shallow and uniformed, as evidenced by what she chooses to buy for their apartment as well as display in her new gallery.

I imagine conversations at the Paltrow residences must sound a lot like this movie (with a faux British accent employed by Gwyneth, of course).

Same with Nola’s murder, I meant. It’s just mildly interesting to talk about.

I like the movie enough, but I found JRM and SJ so mesmerizingly beautiful, I couldn't turn away.

I am not surprised people who dont like Woody Allen like this, it is / was the least Allen film until then, I hated it. It is a mishmash of other movies/books witout any of the clever dialogue he could do. It is crimes and misdeamenours with vapid characters. And JRM , though pretty, is the worse actor who ever lived.

Agreed that this is a polished and reasonably entertaining Woody, but ultimately banal and not that interesting. But JRM and Matthew Goode were at peak, drool-worthy gorgeousness here. And a couple of scenes between them have a suggestively gay vibe, very un-Woody-like, and presumably generated by their own chemistry.

It's the only Allen film I've watched in entirety. JRM will never be as beautiful. People comment on how beautiful Allen shot Johannsen but how about JRM? I love the final shot where Chloe reassures Chris the next one will be a daughter--the joy in his face! A man who has it all but at what price?

A lot was made of the love scenes between Johannsen and JRM but I thought the hottest scene was their reunion at the museum. Chris' bloodshot eyes and barely concealed lusty wooing of Chloe.

The dialogue is stupid because it was written by Allen for NYC but he shifted it to London without allowing the actors to budge from the script.

And JRM is a DL fave? Every time I start a thread or post about him--the conversation dies. Meanwhile there a few dozen long running threads about god knows who that guy is.

OK, yeah I admit I too liked it primarily due to what I perceived as tension between Matthew Goode and JRM and because their beauty literally lights up all the scenes they’re in.

But then in true DL spirit I started focussing on the over the top irritating frauyness of both Chloe and her mom. Grease fires for both these useless, needy, vapid, clingy, dumb broads!

If I hadn’t known it was WA, I’d have thought a gay man directed it!

It's his attempt at Patricia Highsmith/American Tragedy. It's good but not an original tale.

I don’t think Kate Winslet bailed on playing Nola, I think she bailed on playing Chloe.

LOVED this movie. The only Woody Allen I like. And Jonathan was excellent in it. Perfect role-kid from nowhere acting rich - which is his real life. Brought in by wealthy people - but was never one of them. Also love the ability to get over on the clueless rich coddled entitled family. Nice people - but are sole beneficiaries of capitalism. I would have been fine if Chloe died. I never hear about this movie. I love DL.

guess woody is in luv with her udders...

Another derivative Allen film. Just watch Strangers on a Train.

R33, SJ came onboard because Winslet left--which I think pretty much indicates the role in question was Nola. I'm glad Winslet left too. She and JRM would have been mismatched in every way possible.

I don't find Scarlett's performance very convincing, but it seems like I'm in the minority.

Hate this film and I generally like Allen's films. No English person ever speaks the way the English people speak in this film. Apparently, it was meant to be set in New York but Allen couldn't get funding so found the money in the UK. Horrible, and deeply misogynistic even for Allen. Oh, and a tepid reworking of Crimes and Misdemeanours, to boot.

Match Point is overrated but it has a couple of killer scenes, the best being when Nola gets drunk and “warns” Chris about coming on to her. The dialogue in that scene was excellent and the chemistry sizzling.

Matthew Goode's character to the waiter: "Frightfully sorry. I'll have the baked potato with truffles. That'll be lovely. Yum-yum."

I had read somewhere that the film's dialogue is not at all how British people, wealthy or otherwise, would speak. But you'd think the British actors on set would mention something, and serve as something like a technical advisors to their clueless American director.

It's good but he had done it better with Crimes and Misdemeanors.

R38, you're not the only one. She was nominated for a Golden Globe--the idiots.

Now Michael Caine says no more Woodys!