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philosophical rumination.
Cosner is excellent and so is Hurt though don't expect the film to match their efforts.
Cosner plays a "normal" businessman who just happens to get extreme pleasure from murdering. For a clearer, deeper, more satisfying portrayal of a serial lunatic seek out the Dutch "The Vanishing." However, since "V" is at the top of the heap by far, it isn't fair to even bring it up.
"Brooks" is a good popcorn film, a not unpleasant way to spend a few hours.
I don't know why they made a point of identifying the town as Portland. Didn't look like it at all and not ONE noticeable location.
Has Portland become so hip the producers' thought to get a bounce merely from its mention?
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So the film "Mr. Brooks" is set in Portland? Hmmmm. "Mr. Brooks" was shot in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
timbertown, very blue collar and very tough. A NW version of ol' Pittsburgh. A wrong look or word taken wrong and you could be on the receiving end of a beer bottle or bar stool.
It still has grit but it's become hipper and richer, too. Grunge and post-psychedelic bands helped change the image.
It's a city with the feel of a bunch of small towns thrown together. The buzz is out that it's "hot."
I imagine the story upon which "Brooks" is based takes place there. I think producers that mention locations should be shot if they fake it. This example, as I mentioned earlier, is especially egregious.
Interesting. I lived in Portland almost 44 years before moving to a small rural Oregon town 10 years ago. Never thought of Portland as being like you describe it. Most of my time there was either inner or suburban SE, or down town. Was always able to avoid trouble. Maybe I was just lucky.
Rod
hundreds of times. Never felt threatened, in fact, it's one of the greatest small cities in the country. Great mixture of hip/timber, and, as an aside, some superb used record stores. People who speak ill of Portland are a)losers or b)losers.
vaya con dios
gone through after college, it was a fairly ugly town, dominated by industry. McCall and others cleaned it up. It now is one of the best small cities in America.
Bend is cool. I lived in Portland for a year before I lived in Sisters for the same length of time. I love that coffee shop... hell, I saw it's now gone, "Cup of Magic." Great food, damn good coffee.
I hope Deschutes Brewery still has "Obsidian Stout...." (nitro, of course)
Sorry. No insult intended-just trying to be a Proud Denizen of my Adopted State.You're right, Portland in the 70's was a far different place than it is now. It had the Rose Garden (the floral Rose Garden)....and that's about it. Seems, at times, progress (money) can bring a change for the good.
you wouldn't even recognize Bend!
Rod
subdivisions: the huge one west of town with the gorgeous views of the Sisters never should have been allowed. Now, others have sprung up, too, in order to boost population so that the schools built can have some occupancy. I was the leader of the opposition to the bonds for those schools because the figures didn't support building much larger schools. I suspected the planning and construction guys (inseparable) had something up their collective sleeves.
Plus...the Sisters Town Leaders (Reed brothers, Hoyt, et al) wanted their own H.S. football team.
(I'm being half facetious....but only half. (-:
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
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