mr . brooks
in the thriller mr brooks, mr. brooks and marshall (who is an imaginary character and only visible to mr. brooks) are always having conversations besides mr. smith in car, but mr. smith never asked mr. brooks to whom he is talking to .
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there are plenty of less obvious reasons to hate mr. brooks, too .
dane cook and kevin costner explore their dark sides in
mr. brooks .
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mr. brooks
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i really like mr. brooks, but think they should end it as is .
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are there any movie with a theme similar to mr. brooks (2007 movie) ?
ramin djawadi' s
the thumbprint killer
, from the mr. brooks soundtrack .
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mr. brooks hits theaters on june 1, 2007 (pushed back from it’s original march release) .
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from a dessert cafe, marshall spies on a couple dancing in a studio while mr. and mrs. brooks enjoy their ice cream. later, mr. brooks rocks and cries and prays in a bathroom. he does an obscene amount of praying and crying in bathrooms in this movie. it’s also worth noting that mr. and mrs. brooks actually refer to themselves as mr. and mrs. brooks, in that “cute” way of married olds in movies .
mr. brooks also teaches at yale university, and is a member of the american academy of arts and sciences .
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if anything, dexter' s a good alternative to mr. brooks, well, that' s how i thought .
the conversations that mr. brooks and marshall have are taking place inside the brain of mr. brooks. any other actual person in the same vicinity would not be aware that mr. brooks and marshall are having a conversation at all. another person might notice mr. brooks in somewhat of a daydreaming state, but they wouldn' t see him physically talking to marshall. mrs. brooks didn' t even realize that the two of them were speaking when he and marshall actually had a heated and emotional discussion about killing the couple from the dance studio .
mr. brooks, of course, is the world’s most professional killer, and we know this because of his amazing ridiculous disguises .
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mr. brooks cast list, listed alphabetically with photos when available. this list of mr. brooks actors includes any mr. brooks actresses and all other actors from the film. you can view trivia about each mr. brooks actor on this list, such as when and where they were born. to find out more about a particular actor or actress, click on their name and you' ll be taken to a page with even more details about their acting career. the cast members of mr. brooks have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
finally, at a news conference in south carolina, mr. trump said “i disavow” when pressed on mr. duke. he later described mr. duke as a “bad person. ”
what are the chances of a follow - up film to 2007' s mr. brooks (staring kevin costner and danielle panabaker) ?
mr. trump did not single out the marchers, who included the white supremacist richard spencer and mr. duke, for their ideology .
they meet in the conference room; dane cook refers to himself as “mr. smith. ” he tells mr. brooks that he doesn’t want money; he was simply taking pics of his exhibitionist neighbors for future jacking material, as you do, and when he saw mr. brooks kill them, he got all orgasmically shivery himself. he wants to go kill someone with mr. brooks! twist! we have (potential) serial killer number three! mr. smith wants to find a victim with mr. brooks and murder the victim together…and soon. kevin costner gives one of several bizarre, intensely blank line readings with, “i feel i must warn you. killing can be very addictive. it can ruin your life. ” mr. smith’s all, “eh, whatever. let’s do this. ”
frailty and mr. brooks are 2 movies i really want my husband to see. netflix and my library don' t seem to agree ...
album cover has
music from the motion picture
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mr. brooks almost certainly suffers from a form of dissociative identity disorder. this disorder leads a person to be controlled by another personality living within themselves. while some people cannot control their conversations with this other personality or personalities, mr. brooks surely can control his conversations with marshall, especially while he is around other people .
in one twitter post on saturday, mr. trump nodded to that inclusiveness .
mr. brooks breaks into mr. smith’s apartment in the middle of the night and scares the shit out of him, then literally disappears into the darkness, the security chain on the door making it clear that he can’t have gone out the door. mr. smith murmurs, “wow. ” it is so, so stupid .
british heavy metal band, asking alexandria, wrote the song
hey there mr. brooks
as an homage to this movie on their first album stand up and scream .
i remember reading about kevin costner saying that the initial script was put together with an idea that it could be sequelized. are there any plans for mr. brooks 2 ?
the story is basically (not basically) that mr. brooks is a successful businessman in portland who is also a serial killer. his serial - killer alter - ego, earl, is played by william hurt (don’t worry about it, it’s the worst .) mr. brooks tries not to be a serial killer by going to aa meetings, but that’s not working because you can’t go to aa meetings for being a serial killer. so he kills a couple of people, and dane cook photographs him doing it, but instead of turning him into the cops or blackmailing him for money, dane cook blackmails him into taking dane cook along for a murder. meanwhile, mr. brooks’s daughter has dropped out of college but is being cagey about her reasons, and then it turns out that a friend of hers was murdered down at college and mr. brooks is like “oh no, she’s got the killin’ disease, ” and he goes down to her college and kills someone to cover up for his daughter. the end of the movie is a whirlwind of poorly thought out intrigue and double - reversals because also demi moore plays a cop who is chasing mr. brooks and mr. brooks decides that he likes her so he kills her ex - husband because he was extorting her for five million dollars because it’s also an important detail (no it’s not) that demi moore is a multi - millionaire who is also a cop, and then dane cook tries to kill mr. brooks, but mr. brooks has it all figured out, and then mr. brooks calls demi moore and she’s like “where are you, criminal? ” and he’s like “smirk smirk” and then mr. brooks drops a cellphone off a parking structure and goes back to his family .
the stupidity of his pottery studio is only out - dummied by the surprisingly convenient moment at the end when mr. brooks leads dane cook into a cemetery and dane cook says “how did you get the keys” and mr. brooks says “i own it. ” sure, he owns a cemetery. who doesn’t. besides everyone. everyone doesn’t own a cemetery .
the next day, mrs. brooks is giving jane brooks a hard time for dropping out of college. jane reveals that she’s pregnant. twist! jane wants an abortion; mr. brooks isn’t having that. he’s all, “it’ll be super fun to have a grandbaby around! we’ll raise her! ” without consulting mrs. brooks at all, who looks like she might vom. jane magnanimously replies, “if it means that much to you, i’ll think about it. ” she sucks so much. mr. brooks says to mrs. brooks, “looks like we’re going to have to start getting up much earlier in the mornings. ” what he doesn’t say is “by ‘we’ i mean ‘you, ’ because you’re the woman. ” he sucks too .
while democrats and some republicans faulted mr. trump for being too vague, mr. duke was among the few trump critics who thought the president had gone too far .
but when this mind - bender of a thriller sticks to the war going on between earl and his conscience, mr. brooks spins a web that will wrap you up in nightmares .
we open on a title card, white on black: “the hunger has returned to mr. brooks’ brain. it never really left. ” yay! this movie is hilarious from go .
the contents of your safety deposit box, mr. smith... have vanished !
mr. soderbergh ultimately connected with hollywood’s leading authority on distribution: dan fellman, a former warner bros. executive who now runs a consulting business. mr. fellman, who became an executive producer on “logan lucky, ” devised a plan that mr. soderbergh liked .
so many characters with so much trite, stupid back story. so many serial killers. so many twists. so many dropped storylines. such a weak - ass ending. meet mr. brooks .
mr. brooks follows earl brooks (costner), an upstanding businessman who moonlights as a serial killer. demi moore plays an investigator on the chase. this eventually leads to “a strange symbiotic relationship between the two. ” dane cook also stars. if you havent seen it yet, check out the trailer .
when mr. brooks takes mr. smith to a cemetery to have him kill him, he changes his mind, killing mr. smith instead and tossing him into an open grave. he calls atwood anonymously, indirectly letting her know that smith wasn' t the fingerprint killer. that night at home, as he kisses his daughter good - night, she turns and stabs him in the neck with a pair of scissors. as he dies, he wakes up... the last part was a nightmare. mr. brooks tries to go back to sleep reciting the alcoholics anonymous prayer .
mr. brooks has a ceramics studio where he keeps a whole bunch of identical sneaky clothes and shoes. he changes into a sneaky outfit and drives off in a sneaky, anonymous toyota. he then sneakily breaks into the dance couple’s apartment, holding a gun in a plastic bag. they have typical movie sex. mr. brooks kills them super loudly. i mean, mr. brooks himself is being quiet and stealthy, but once he starts shooting and the techno soundtrack kicks in, it’s crazy loud. the volume variation in this movie is wack. anyway, we’ve reached our first twist! mr. brooks is a motherfucking killer. you should know that kevin costner makes the bold acting choice of getting all orgasmically shivery after he gets his murder on. it’s not a good look for him. he meticulously cleans up the joint, because he’s a brilliant, fastidious, uncatchable serial killer who’s been doing this for years—although he’s tried to stop! —but he forgot to close the curtains before he murdered the sexy exhibitionist couple. maybe he wants to get caught? (twist !) marshall, however, does not. he makes mr. brooks close the curtains. too late, marshall! mr. brooks takes pictures of the sexy carnage .
i loved this movie. the series * dexter * is such a huge hit. why wasn' t mr. brooks? i can' t get enough of this film. and the soundtrack is fabulous .
we hear kevin costner muttering the serenity prayer over a photo of naked dead people, interrupted by william hurt’s voice whispering things like “why do you fight it so hard? you’ve been a good boy. ” he’s at a gala hosted by the portland chamber of commerce, honoring him as man of the year. he’s a stand - up guy! later, in their sweet lexus, mrs. brooks (marg helgenberger) gives us some easy exposition: daughter brooks is in college, she skipped the man of the year gala, it seems like she’s going to drop out of school, mr. brooks thinks she can do no wrong. william hurt leans forward from the shadowy backseat to coo some instigation in mr. brooks’ ear. “you want to do it! tonight’s the night! you’re the fucking man of the year! you deserve this! ” mr. brooks tells “marshall, ” as this is the name of his invisible dark passenger, “i said no. ” marshall replies, “you say no, but you don’t mean no. pwetty pwease! ” this last bit of compelling argument does the trick. mr. brooks asks mrs. brooks if she’d like to stop for something sweet .
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then there’s the cop on brooks’ tail (demi moore, who evidently still exists), who occupies a subplot that, but for a few preposterous leaps in continuity near the end, has little if anything to do with either brooks or his bumbling new sidekick. she’s on the trail of brooks’ killing spree, but she’s also in the middle of a divorce from her husband (an utter dickbag), and she’s being stalked by another criminal she put away and … what the fuck does this have to do with anything? the writing in mr. brooks was so bad it became almost weird .
mr. brooks is extremely intelligent, highly organized and he is very meticulous about everything that he does. he would not risk his sanity being questioned by others by acknowledging and speaking to marshall as if he were an actual person .
side note: you know what would make mr. brooks so much better? if dane cook and jane and meeks all had inner ids like william hurt following them around, and all the dark passengers met up periodically and pedeconferenced .
all of my earlier commentary notwithstanding, this is truly a devious and entertaining title. brooks’ genuine torment, and the brooks - darker - brooks interactions, are well done; even the budding - monstrous daughter has her moments, particularly in the jump - scare denouement, which practically begs for a daughter - grows - up, daughter - inherits - the - darker - self continuation .
well - respected businessman earl brooks (kevin costner) has a secret: beneath his family - man facade lurks a murderous alter - ego named marshall (william hurt). brooks struggles with his addiction to killing, but marshall enjoys his grisly hobby too much to let go. finally, brooks resolves to commit one final murder, but a voyeur (dane cook) witnesses it and blackmails him to continue. with a detective (demi moore) hot on his trail, brooks / marshall must spin an increasingly elaborate web .
tracy is the most wooden screen performance of ms. moore’s career. looking exhausted and tense, the actress is as expressive as a wax museum effigy. that is not the case with mr. costner and mr. hurt, who pull out the stops to play a horror - movie tag team. in their scenes together mr. costner’s sinister but tortured earl and mr. hurt’s gleefully sociopathic marshall do a sadomasochistic soft shoe of psychological bullying and whining .
earl brooks (kevin costner) is a loving family man and a local business icon. but mr. brooks is deeply flawed and very aware of it. he is addicted to killing. struggling with his pathology, he tries to quit, but his alter - ego ,
marshall
( william hurt), has an altogether different idea. detective tracy atwood (demi moore), battling with her own demons, is extremely frustrated at the lack of clues left by the mysterious killer. when brooks is compelled to perform one last murder, he gets sloppy and is seen by a voyeuristic neighbor. unexpectedly turned - on by what he sees, the prying neighbor, mr. smith (dane cook), has an unusual and disturbing blackmail demand. with detective atwood on his trail, mr. brooks and
marshall
are forced to play out an increasingly elaborate game .
djawadi makes good use of a theme to underscore the scenes in which the murderous animal inside brooks is revealed – a kind of ‘nasty \' theme, if you will. relying heavily on synthesized and filtered sounds and a steady driving rhythm (at times evoking a cardiac monitor), the theme suggests the measured steadiness – and the coldness – of mr brooks \' s approach to killing .
mr. brooks, marshall and mr. smith are stalking the truck - driving asshole. by some fully implausible twist of fate, meeks and his manly girlfriend are in the same parking lot as the truck - driving asshole, and mr. brooks decides to kill him instead, i think? this part is nebulous, even in the screenplay. mr. smith is pouty that he keeps getting jerked around. he wants to kill someone now, dammit! he stalks off and marshall wins my eternal love and devotion by musing, “even if that guy was charming and funny, i still wouldn’t like him. ” it’s satisfying because william hurt is talking about dane cook, although to be fair, the same could be said about this entire movie .
it would, in all likeliness, be all around terrible and do nothing more than open the door for turning' mr. brooks' into another freddy krueger and taking what was an under appreciated, surprisingly slick story and turning it into a disappointing franchise .
not every movie needs a sequel, and i think mr brooks is one of those. it works so well on it' s own that i can' t imagine what benefit another one of those movies could have. it is an awesome movie though .
so many characters with so much trite, stupid back story. so many serial killers. so many twists. so many dropped storylines. such a weak - ass ending. meet mr. brooks. but there’s a reason mr. brooks can’t die at the end even though we’re not even slightly invested in him as a character: the writer / director is planning a trilogy. may i make some suggestions for the sequels? the second film should be called jane brooks and somehow make the daughter matter in the goddamn slightest. mr. brooks can tutor jane in the art of serial killing with competence, and jane can get her own dark passenger, played by sarah jessica parker. atwood starts investigating her murders while yet another one of the serial killers she’s put behind bars escapes and stalks her, and her other ex - husband sues her for support, so the second movie can be exactly like this movie in every way except for the smallest particulars. kind of like back to the future ii, but with serial killers. and the third movie will of course be called baby brooks, where jane’s baby grows up to also become a serial killer. what this trilogy really needs are more serial killers. mrs. brooks should be a serial killer. atwood, too! mr. brooks’ bitchy assistant at the box company, other cop, atwood’s attorney: all serial killers! get to work, bruce a. evans. we’re breathless with anticipation .
.... the contents of your safety deposit box, mr. smith... have vanished !
critical reaction to mr. brooks was decidedly mixed, with some praising the darkness of the story and others claiming the film contained too many sub - plots to be enjoyable. audience reaction mirrored that of the critics to a point. while the film did manage to turn a small profit (despite being released in the middle of a typical blockbuster - filled summer), its returns were not enough to either consider mr. brooks a success or continue with the proposed sequels that costner himself had announced during the movie’s press tour .
mr. brooks’ rude - ass assistant interrupts this inappropriate father - daughter moment to bring him an envelope from the gentleman in the lobby. mr. brooks opens the envelope to find pictures of himself in the dance couple’s bedroom. twist! the photographer? none other than dane cook, looking pasty and priggish and far too pleased with himself. (i’m reading the screenplay as a dialogue refresher, and it describes the character as “pleasant looking. ” he isn’t. i didn’t realize until this very moment that he was supposed to be. )
for mr. soderbergh, that route was a nonstarter. “you’re way too far away from your money, ” he said .
okay! it’s almost over! mr. brooks sits in a cafe chatting with marshall, telling him he doesn’t intend to kill again. marshall is understandably skeptical. mr. brooks reads a newspaper article trumpeting the resolution of the thumbprint killer’s case, because dane cook left a pool of piss at the sleazy ex - husband’s house. i wouldn’t exactly call that “resolved, ” since nobody will ever find mr. smith’s body, but i guess it makes a good headline. mr. brooks steals a cell phone and randomly heads to a roof to call atwood and ask her, in the most non - sequitury non - sequitur of the entire movie, why she decided to become a cop. he tells her that he killed her ex - husband and his hot lawyer and sent atwood to meeks’ apartment (twist !) as a gift, and she realizes that the pissing mr. smith is not the thumbprint killer. atwood answers his question, so that we may receive yet even more unwanted insight into her personal life: her dad always wanted a son or some shit .
of the score tracks, the most impressive are usually the most emotive .
her story
underscores one of the most effective scenes in the film, where mr brooks is forced to confront the truth about his daughter. it \' s one of the rare moments in the film where the score dominates the soundtrack, and djawadi rises to the occasion, capturing the melancholy and frustration of brooks \' realisation .
suicide note
opens in a surprisingly pleasant fashion, giving the thematic material a sensual and urbane sensibility through the use of snare drum and ride cymbal, but by its end turns to snarling, distorted electric guitars to reflect the more sinister aspects of mr brooks \' lifestyle .
the first plot strand is merely mr. brooks and his quasi - struggle with his “killer urges” which are, for some reason, personified as a rival personality named marshall (and played by william hurt). other than this marshall aspect, brooks is an upstanding business mogul and philanthropist who muddles through his boring life until his troubled daughter (danielle panabaker) drops out of college and shows up at home. to top it off, brooks suspects that his pretty - in - pink offspring may have similarly murderous drives. serial killer - ism is apparently genetic. who knew ?
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he wants to stop killing, so he decides to have mr. smith (dane cook) kill him after he takes him on his first kill. mr. brooks, with mr. smith, kills det. atwood' s (demi moore) ex - husband and his lawyer and gives her information on how to find the escaped killer she' s also been looking for. he helped her because he respects the fact that she made herself into a good cop even though she came from money and didn' t need to .
this film was excellent quality, it explored so many interesting aspects of a serial killer, a very smart killer who breaks the patterns of the quintesential serial killer, not to mention a father' s love for his wife and daughter. i anxiously look forward to the next mr. brooks and i hope they go into more detail of a serial killers preperation and thought pattern. in addition i would like to see demi moores involvement and possibly mr. brooks abstaining from killing but his daughters urges increasing and the perfection of the killing becoming more intelligent and efficient .
marshall is a creepy flesh - and - blood extrapolation of the inner voice inside anyone who has considered raising hell for the sheer thrill of it. in the world of “mr. brooks, ” there’s no greater kick than acting like a really bad boy and getting away with it .
i loved mr. brooks. the ending was great and unexpected. i really do hope they make a sequel, but don' t screw it up. i also hope the movie can find a larger audience on dvd. i know i will be buying it on the 23rd .
dahl’s book ends with mr. fox and his family and friends hiding deep underground from the farmers who are awaiting the chance to kill them. despite the depths of their isolation, however, mr. fox has found a steady source of food for them—the farmers’ own storehouses :
“after years of shooting my mouth off about absolute creative control, we’re going to attempt to do it, ” mr. soderbergh said .
so far, mr. soderbergh has spent only about 15 percent of his “logan lucky” advertising budget. with only three weeks until release, studios would have typically spent 40 percent. but mr. soderbergh believes that the vast majority of marketing should come immediately before a film’s release .
okay, shit’s finally about to get awesomely retarded. mr. brooks returns home to find cops waiting for him. they want to talk to jane! there was a murder in her dorm, and her bmw was involved. she tells the cops it was stolen, but mr. brooks knows better. twist! jane brooks is our serial killer number four! she killed some guy (her baby’s father, one presumes) with a hatchet. so beautifully, blissfully stupid! mr. brooks cries and prays in the kitchen instead of the bathroom for once. “she has what i have! it’s my fault! ’ marshall’s like, “dude, she is almost definitely going to kill you next. so she can take over the box business. let her go to jail. ” mr. brooks decides instead to cover jane’s sloppy, murderous ineptitude, so he gathers some fake id documents from his ceramics studio and then heads to stanford, donning increasingly hilarious disguises as he does so. first, on the plane out there, he looks like billy ray cyrus in a canadian tuxedo. then, carrying a hatchet in a duffle bag on the stanford campus, he pulls off jeff foxworthy in a snap button shirt and cargo pants. finally, on his way home, he’s a full - bearded, silver - haired professor with a cane. it is absolutely delightful, my friends .
mr. brooks is a 2007 psychological thriller starring kevin costner as earl brooks, who is a successful businessman and family man living in portland, or. who is also a highly prolific serial killer known as the thumbprint killer. the film undoubtedly owes much of its plot points to showtime' s dexter, but was nonetheless a fresh take on the concept and filled with great performances. it wasn' t an overall success, thanks to mixed reviews from critics and a modest box office take of $ 48 million (from a budget of $ 20 million). it was originally supposed to launch a start of a trilogy of films, but those plans were put on hold indefinitely after its release. mr. brooks marked one of kevin costner' s most interesting and unique rolls in a long time, and though this film can easily be enjoyed on its own and very much tells a solo story, it' s easy to see how a sequel could expand on the narrative explored here and dive even deeper into the psyche of mr. brooks and how his inherent darkness affects his family .
who knew that serial killing is an addiction that sufferers hope to overcome by attending a. a. meetings and murmuring the serenity prayer? that, at least, is how the buttoned - up title character of “mr. brooks, ” a nutty variation of “dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, ” deals with such inconvenient urges. “i’m an addict, ” he announces at a 12 - step meeting while withholding the true nature of his cravings .
mr. brooks attends aa meetings to keep the darkness at bay, all the while marshall ranting at him for being a fucking hypocrite. mr. brooks isn’t going to kill ever again. this is about 15 minutes into the movie, so we’ll see how that turns out. we get to see mr. brooks at work: he owns a box company. he says the words “box business” a lot and i laugh. his college freshman daughter, the utterly forgettable danielle panabaker, shows up in a cab to tell him she dropped out of school. she hangs onto his neck, their faces centimeters apart, for several minutes too long. then she sits on his lap for several more minutes. she wants to live at home, pay no rent or bills, and she refuses to live by a curfew or rules. she loaned a friend her bmw; she’s not sure when she’ll get it back. meet jane brooks. she sucks so much. she tells him she’d like to take over the family box business (heh) one day, and she takes his glasses off his face and puts them on hers. it’s a metaphor! he playfully spanks her bottom when she gets up from his lap, and the whole thing is just abominably gross and wrong. the whole time, marshall is whispering that jane isn’t telling mr. brooks something. like maybe that it makes her uncomfortable when her father touches her ass .
kevin costner definitely gives it the old college try, you know? you can tell he thinks this shit is pretty cool. he rocks the middle america blandness that masks mr. brooks’ bleak depths. the thing is that by casting william hurt as mr. brooks’ violent, sexual id, hurt is the only one having any fun in the movie, while coster just gets to be bland white bread. demi moore is joyless and paper - thin in a role with an inexplicable amount of screen time. with a better actress or a better script, the audience might care about the detective obsessively haunting mr. brooks’ steps, but this isn’t the fugitive and demi moore is no tommy lee jones. we don’t care. and dane cook is dane fucking cook. of every baffling decision the director made in the writing, casting and production of this film that he ostensibly wants to succeed, hiring the sapless comedian for such a hefty role earns the biggest wtf? of all .
serial killers are people too and, in the case of mr brooks, quite sensitive actually. kevin costner slips into the role with ease, battling his inner demon (played by an oily william hurt) and striving to protect his family from the truth. it' s a cleverly plotted story, mixing thrills and domestic spills but writer / director bruce a evans does overcomplicate matters. despite numerous cutesy twists, it' s the gradual unveiling of a warped morality that lures you into brooks' world .
considering the thread had nothing to with dane cook, as opposed to the movie mr. brooks, i was making an attempt at humor regarding a seemingly universal love of hating on dane cook. yes, sometimes sarcasm and straight text do not mesh well, but i (and apparently 3 others) thought it was pretty obvious .
at this point, earl again decides he no longer wishes to kill but knows his compulsion is too great. he devises a plan to write a letter of explanation to his family that he is terminally ill and leaving to save them the pain of watching his demise. he researches the history of detective tracy atwood (demi moore), the lead investigator searching for the thumbprint killer (earl) and determines that her soon - to - be - ex husband, jesse vialo, will be mr. smith' s first victim. mr. smith, however, is not a seasoned killer and leaves his dna at the crime scene, foiling the plan completely. angered, smith pulls a gun on mr. brooks, which earl considered, only to learn that the firing pin has been bent. brooks' brush with death makes him realize that dna will pin the vialo murder on mr. smith and that seeing his grandchild is worth more than walking away from his life .
there was talk of a trilogy, but from what i read it was based on how well the movie did in the box office. hopefully they realize it has gained a cult following since. also costner was only interested in the film because there was talk of multiple films. i would love to see more of mr. brooks !
the main drawback with thrillers in general is that by this time, everyone knows the conventions of the genre so thoroughly that it’s hard to surprise audiences anymore. mr. brooks manages to temporarily dispel that myth by offering up a colorfully multi - layered entry into the genre which is literally quite unlike most which have come before. most, if not all, of this can be attributed to the film’s unique architecture and the various subplots within, all of which seamlessly come together in the end. in an era where audiences can see everything coming a mile away, mr. brooks is that rare collage of a thriller where very few, if any, moves can be anticipated .
melancon said brown didn' t respond for four days, when he forwarded the original e - mail to fema deputy chief of staff brooks altshuler and deputy director of response michael lowder .
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“and you know what this means? ” said mr. fox. “ it means that none of us need ever go out into the open again! ”
sorry, i mean her character, it made no sense to have that character she never even affects the plot. it' s just a perceived threat to brooks that amounts to nothing .
for as bad as the acting is, you have to cut the actors some slack because the dialogue is so badly constructed. when it’s not leaden and generic (“your daughter can’t do any wrong in your eyes, can she? ”), it’s obvious and unimaginative. take for example this scene in which mr. brooks and dane cook drive around looking for someone to murder .
if you' ve seen the film, then you know the rather shocking ending. and the best part is that it is certainly open ended. i' d love to see more mr. brooks sequels and they can only get better. unfortunately what writer / director bruce a. evans says is not too promising, but at least he' d be willing to do it .
“we know that a lot of big - time filmmakers are watching this, ” mr. fellman said. “we want this to be the beginning of a bunch of movies. ”
he' s a wealthy businessman and devoted family man who just happens to have an addiction to other people' s blood. after two years sober, that nagging voice grows more insistent and a couple wind up dead. brooks swears it' s
the last time
but a witness to the slaying refuses to let him walk away. the so - called mr smith (dane cook) is a common - or - garden weirdo who blackmails brooks into letting him tag along on his next job. meanwhile, detective atwood (a hard - nosed demi moore) has picked up the scent .
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when his social media director, dan scavino, posted an image on mr. trump’s twitter feed with a star of david near hillary clinton’s head, with money raining down, mr. trump rejected widespread criticism of the image as anti - semitic. and after years of questioning president barack obama’s citizenship, he blamed others for raising the issue in the first place .
in particular, mr. feige, whom mr. rothman called “exceptionally brilliant, ” worked to re - center spider - man as a boy trying to understand his place in the world, both as a crime fighter and as a teenager. disney also agreed to loan one of its principal characters to the reboot effort: iron man, played by robert downey jr .
as he explored options, mr. soderbergh first considered forming an alliance with the national association of theater owners, a trade organization. why not cut out distributors completely by going straight to multiplex operators? mr. soderbergh soon realized that was not an ideal solution, in part because the justice department keeps close tabs on the adherence of theater chains to federal antitrust laws .
that it doesn’t freak out mr. smith, the photographer in the apartment across the way who snaps earl in the act, is scarier still. mr. smith blackmails earl — not for money but for the chance to stand and watch during his next crime. comedian dane cook is sensational in the role, delivering a portrait of amorality that chills you to the bone .
yearwood, who stars on an emmy - winning cooking show, “trisha’s southern kitchen, ” and has a new line of products with williams sonoma, says brooks is not just her husband but a true partner in life .
i think that as mr. brooks protected his daughter who has also
the killer addiction
like him, may be the daughter should find out about her father double life and protect him or play cat and mouse with him in the sequel... or paly with demi moore character... she would never know who is the killer between the daughter or the father, keeps her guessing ...
earl brooks is a well - respected wealthy businessman, who is recently named as the portland' s man of the year. he is addicted to killing people and is now facing a difficulty in letting go of his habit .
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mr. brooks is a successful businessman, a generous philanthropist, a loving father, and a devoted husband. he is seemingly perfect, but he has a secret. he is also the notorious thumbprint killer, and no one has ever suspected it until now. tracy atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship .
earl' s daughter, jane, arrives at his place of business and informs her dad that she has dropped out of college and would like a job at the company. soon after, mr. smith (dane cook) arrives at the office with photographs from earl' s latest kill and intentions to blackmail the businessman, earl reluctantly agrees to take mr. smith along for the next kill .
“mr. president — we must call evil by its name, ” tweeted senator cory gardner, republican from colorado, who oversees the national republican senatorial committee, the campaign arm of the senate republicans .
the president remained silent on the violence for most of the morning even as house speaker paul d. ryan, mr. trump’s wife, melania, and dozens of other public figures condemned the march .
mr. brooks (kevin costner) realizes that his daughter jane killed the college student, and that is the reason she dropped out of college. he goes and kills someone else the same way she did so that she won' t be a suspect any longer. he is upset that she has the same addiction he does, and worries, because of his alter - ego marshall (william hurt) that she may kill him someday .
in an interview that aired in september 2016, mr. trump said “i am the least racist person that you have ever met, ’’ a statement he repeated at a white house news conference in february .
david brooks became an op - ed columnist for the new york times in september 2003. his column appears every tuesday and friday. he is currently a commentator on “pbs newshour, ” npr’s “all things considered” and nbc’s “meet the press. ”
mr. brooks definitely belongs to the serial killer genre, especially given its scenes of violence, which prove just dark enough for a glossy production such as this to come off as reputable. there are also plenty of scenes in which earl devilishly revels in his favorite maniacal pastime while also trying to fight against it. this is more than brilliantly played out in the moments between him and marshall, who acts as a sort of anti - jiminy cricket, taunting earl and preying on his need to spill blood. it’s clear that marshall represents the dark and sinister yet comforting voice most addicts succumb and cling to. in fact, where mr. brooks really surprises is in the way in which it paints the act of serial killing as an addiction, a disease almost on par with alcoholism in which earl’s need to kill and the satisfaction he draws from it imparts a one - of - a - kind high .
the financial story of “logan lucky, ” which arrives in theaters on aug. 18, starts in the fall of 2014. according to mr. soderbergh, a “friend” asked him to read the script, about a ragtag group that robs a nascar track, and suggest a director. mr. soderbergh said he loved the idea (ocean’s 7 - eleven, if you will) and wanted to direct the film himself .
the movie also commits one of my biggest pet peeves, which is the “unnecessary hobby to give characters the appearance of depth and also provide some incredibly convenient plot points” peeve. so, mr. brooks is an amateur potter. he has a studio where he tells his wife at night that he is going to “test out some glazes” as a perfect alibi for “testing out some murders. ” after murders he comes home and burns the evidence in a kiln .
a second strand emerges after brooks’ latest killings, wherein he barged in on a pair of boinking socialites only to be witnessed and photographed by a wanking voyeur (dane cook). cook’s character, who is never named, tries to blackmail brooks so that - get this - brooks will instruct him in the delicate art of murder! i’ve already said that costner is unconvincing as an everyman who moonlights as a murderer, but dane cook is positively embarrassing in the same role. as we’ve already seen, dane cook has long worn out his welcome in the media, but this film role actually comes dangerously close to meta - awareness - he plays a blundering nincompoop either so well or so badly that it’s hard to actually distinguish a performance in there .
one of djawadi \' s gifts is knowing when to distort a sound and when to leave it untouched. echo filters are applied liberally to a variety of sounds, but usually with the intent of conveying a (uniquely american ?) sense of urban isolation and coldness. at some of the more sentimental moments, such as in the title track, the music remains in its natural state, perhaps as a way of highlighting mr brooks \' unavoidable humanity .
mr. brooks has an accomplice in his crimes. his name is marshall, and william hurt plays him with such cheeky irreverence that it takes you a few beats to figure out he’s not real. marshall is earl’s alter ego, the voice that goads him into murderous action. after a dinner in his honor, earl drives home with his wife, emma (marg helgenberger), but it’s marshall whispering in his ear, “come on. let’s do it. ”
in addition, mr. soderbergh, who won an academy award in 2000 for directing “traffic, ” wanted full creative control over “logan lucky” advertising. he said studios had never given him absolute say over a campaign. trailers, for instance, are tested with focus groups before they are released and often tweaked based on the responses. “it’s very difficult once you get into studio testing to push back, ” mr. soderbergh said .
in response to questions about the screenplay’s author, mr. soderbergh said in an email, “clarify? me? why would i do that? i can tell you that rebecca blunt is enjoying all this immensely. ”
mr. brooks was my favorite movie in years. i own the movie and watch it all the time. a sequal would be brilliant, and or triliogy. almost the whole movie sends you into a serial killers world and does it well. kevin costnar played his part great as did the rest of the cast. there should be a at least a second movie since the first was left to do so. so hopefully there will be a second one. loran kirby
mr. brooks is a 2007 american psychological thriller film directed by bruce a. evans starring kevin costner , demi moore , dane cook , and william hurt . it was released on june 1 , 2007 . the film follows the eponymous character , a celebrated portland businessman and serial killer ( costner ) who is forced to take on a protégé ( cook ) after being blackmailed , and has to contend with his bloodthirsty alter ego ( hurt ) who convinces him to indulge his " habit " . his life grows even more complicated when a driven police officer ( moore ) reopens the investigation into his murders . 
mr. brooks is a 2007 american psychological thriller film directed by bruce a. evans starring kevin costner, demi moore, dane cook, and william hurt. it was released on june 1, 2007. the film follows the eponymous character, a celebrated portland businessman and serial killer (costner) who is forced to take on a protégé (cook) after being blackmailed, and has to contend with his bloodthirsty alter ego (hurt) who convinces him to indulge his " habit ". his life grows even more complicated when a driven police officer (moore) reopens the investigation into his murders.
mr. brooks is a 2007 american psychological thriller film directed by bruce a. evans starring kevin costner, demi moore, dane cook, and william hurt. it was released on june 1, 2007. the film follows the eponymous character, a celebrated portland businessman and serial killer (costner) who is forced to take on a protégé (cook) after being blackmailed, and has to contend with his bloodthirsty alter ego (hurt) who convinces him to indulge his " habit ". his life grows even more complicated when a driven police officer (moore) reopens the investigation into his murders.