I saw a thing about that movie and put it on my list of things to see when it comes on the Netflixes, so this confirms my decision.
I mean the part about the Lady Buddy. Not any part of any other thing that you may or may not have had addressed to somebody else that I would have creeped on, and how dare you even suspect me of such a thing?
I am seriously intrigued! I have been itching to go see a movie but I couldn't find anything in theaters that interested me. Like seriously, I had C in the car willing to go to a movie, (this is a rare feat) looking at movies to go see and I couldn't find anything that even slightly interested me. Now I do!
Mr. Man!
ETA: So this wasn't a call to camp, but an actual for reals awesome recommendation? Now I am even more intrigued!
Since our self-bannanation from the theater is going on nearly 5 months now, we have been taking advantage of on-demand to watch Oscar nominated movies. A few weeks ago, we saw Midnight in Paris, and last week, Moneyball. I think I liked Moneyball better than Midnight in Paris, but they were both pretty good and worth the $5.
Had some problems with the protagonist-come-antagonist's actions from a rational point of view--why would you rob a convenience store if you had superpowers? Use them for good and get paid for it. But given he's gone out of his mind, I suppose his irrational criminal activity can be explained in that way.
I drove to a not-too-distant art-house theater to see Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy last weekend. But as it turned out, the projector was broken or some such thing. So I saw The Artist instead. As it turned out, I quite enjoyed it. Too bad it seems to be playing only in art-house theaters.
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Jeg reiser alene (I travel alone) is the story of Jarle who is informed that he has a 7 year old daughter from a one night stand he had when he was 17 and that the girl's mother is sending her to him for a week. Great movie, superbly acted (the little girl especially is doing a fantastic job!). 8/10
Trollhunter is the story of Norwegian students trying to investigate illegal bear hunting. Instead they meet Hans, a member of a secret government agency. Hans is a Trollhunter making sure that Trolls stay in their territory and if they don't he has to eliminate them and keep them hidden from humans. The movie is a little like the Blair Witch Project or Cloverfield in that everything we see is filmed by the students (the camerawork is a lot less shaky, though). Anyway, one of the best monster movies I've seen in a long, long time. 9/10
Blackthorn: Sam Shepherd stars as James Blackthorn, an alias of Robert Leroy Parker, aka Butch Cassidy, the train-robbing outlaw. The film's premise is that he and Harry 'The Sundance Kid' Longbaugh survived being surrounded by the Bolivian army in 1908. After receiving a letter that said the one-time love of his life, Etta Place, has died and had a son that may be his, Blackthorn decides to cash in what he has and return to the U.S. from Bolivia. On the way, he loses everything when he meets up with a Spaniard with bandits on his trail, helps the Spaniard find the money he says he looted from his employer and escape from the bandits. The Spaniard is played by award-winning Spanish actor Eduardo Noriega. The film has been nominated in numerous categories of the Goya Awards (Spanish Films).
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Finally got around to seeing The Iron Giant. Good film, worth the time for kids and parents. I realized that I had to explain the Cold War/Red Scare stuff to the Li'l Puppet. Okay, so I maybe spent 2 sentences on it 'cause we both wanted to watch the movie rather than hear me blather.
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Camille, starring Greta Garbo as the doomed tubercular prostitute Marguerite and an incredibly youthful Robert Taylor (srsly it's almost scary; he was 26 but he looks 18) as her star-crossed lovah Armand. It's a little stilted and artificial, as was the style in those days, but Robert Taylor turns out to have actual emotional range and Greta, once she stops with the fake laughs at weird times (it's a convention of the calculating, aloof courtesan which she sheds once she finds True Love) does a solid job as well. As always, her face is extraordinary to watch on account of the planes of it. Whoever lit her deserved an Oscar.
I've DVRd tons of old movies the past couple of weeks thanks to TCM's Oscar month.
I saw Midnight in Paris last night, Woody Allen's latest. I was not impressed at all with his previous European adventure, Vicky Christina Barcelona, but this one was pretty good.
I'm in general agreement with all of his suggestions. I think that would have been a better movie than what we got. Also to note, he kinda looks like a young George Lucas.
Forbidden Planet Third time seeing it. Corny title, thoughtful science fiction mystery movie with excellent special effects for the time.
Note when the first lunar mission takes place in its timeline. Pretty funny, considering it actually happened just thirteen years after the movie was released.
The Andromeda Strain Again, third time seeing it. It's by no means a flawless film, it
has an irritating deus ex machina resolution, which is "necessary" because Crichton invented a most improbable bug--one that can convert electromagnetic energy directly into matter, apparently instantly and with 100% efficiency (thermodynamically impossible), so it can survive a nuclear bomb. What kinds of chemical bonds are holding its atoms together?! And he completely fails to note that a fuck-tonne of energy is tied up in matter*, which means that it takes a fuck-tonne of energy to create a small amount of matter. If you could convert a gram of matter completely to energy, it'd yield 8.98755179 x 10^13 joules. Which of course means that, assuming Andromeda was 100% efficient, it would take that much energy input to grow one gram more massive. Scary!
It is a well-acted film that depicts competent scientists doing science with real scientific instruments, and the Andromeda organism is an interesting idea, he just made its features cartoonishly impossible, instead of dialing it back and creating something that could be believed in.
Saw The Lorax yesterday. It was cute and funny. I laughed quite a bit. It doesn't change the Dr. Seuss story so much as combine it with another story altogether, and it sort of works. IIRC, the book and the original animated short ended on a downer beat, inviting the audience to provide its own happy ending. The new film ...
p. much tosses that out and hands the audience the happy ending all neatly wrapped up. So Seuss purists will probably be put out by that. Since this was never one of my fave Seuss books, it didn't really bother me, other than a mild feeling of, "Bah, typical Hollywood."
I never would have picked Danny DeVito for the voice of the Lorax, but it's not as jarring as I thought it would be. The voice talent is decent all around, nothing that really stood out, but competent. The characters are adorable (some might complain they're too schmaltzy-cute, but they didn't give me diabetes), especially the fish. There's no explanation for why they're not confined to water at all, but what the hell. That's not part of the Seuss depiction, but it's not at all inconsistent.
In all, not a masterpiece, but entirely fun and worth seeing once. I await the inevitable backlash from conservative nutjobs, about how it's brainwashing our kids with enviro-propaganda, with bored breath.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
Sweet camera work at times. Excellent actors, especially Ronan. But what happened? Did some asshole producer fuck up the story and ruin the pace? It was a bit like watching a guy with a straight flush lose.
It'd been the better part of a decade since I last saw it. Still hilarious.
"Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful."
Coincidentally, I heard one of the people associated with the movie interviewed on NPR this morning. He told of how he once had a fan come up to him and say, apparently in all seriousness: "I was a fan of Spinal Tap before the movie."
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To be honest, Spinal Tap didn't exaggerate that much in their parody. It would be pretty easy for someone who didn't know to associate it with what they'd heard about other bands. I used to listen to power metal, and even the soundtrack could have passed muster for a middle of the road band.
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