Boogie Nights is utter genius. Punch-Drunk Love is insanely brilliant in terms of expressing the sheer mental panic of the character but I'm not sure I could watch it again.
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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Jim - Jul 21, 2004 4:58:37 am PDT #1084 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Vonnie K - Jul 21, 2004 5:02:25 am PDT #1085 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
This would be Kasi Lemmons, right?
Yeah! That was her name. IMDb says she played Jodie Foster's friend in Quantico in The Silence of the Lambs. Nothing recent I've heard of, however.
I have mixed reactions to Magnolia. I found sections of it terribly sad/wonderful (bits to do with Phillip Seymour Hoffman's and William H. Macy's characters; the story of the cop and the junkie-woman), but was irritated witless by the Tom Cruise and Julianne Moore characters (and unlike Plei, I usually like Julianne Moore), despite their emotional breakthroughs at the end.
The WTF-ness of the last few minutes was almost worth sitting through the whole thing though. Personally, my favorite part of the movie was the prologue with the freak deaths narration.
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2004 5:03:09 am PDT #1086 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
it was just...people.
Yup. Boring, loathesome, hateful, pathetic people. The only character I could tolerate was Philip Seymour Hoffman's character.
And the Aimee Mann sing-a-long? No. Just....no.
Vonnie K - Jul 21, 2004 5:16:07 am PDT #1087 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
And the Aimee Mann sing-a-long? No. Just....no.
Heh. I dug the sing-a-long. I adore the Magnolia soundtrack and have been known to do sing along to "Wise Up" whenever it comes on.
Scrappy - Jul 21, 2004 5:16:53 am PDT #1088 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I thougth Julianne Moore and Tom Cruise were hateful--but Bill Macy and the little Quiz boy and John C. Reilly and Hoffman's character all broke my heart. In a good way.
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2004 5:20:30 am PDT #1089 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
And the Aimee Mann sing-a-long? No. Just....no.
Heh. I dug the sing-a-long.
Yeah, but -- dead people were singing! (Braiiiiiiiiinnnnnnssssss....)
Sue - Jul 21, 2004 5:23:29 am PDT #1090 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I thought Tom Cruise's character was the Embodiment of the characters/persona Tom Cruise likes to portray. It was one of the few times that he hasn't made me want to throw things while he's on screen.
I thought that Magnolia was an attempt at something that failed brilliantly. I don't think it succeeded in what it was trying to do, but I thought that there were smaller moments in it that were amazing, and some top-notch acting. That said, I can't bring myself to watch it again.
Oh. Hated the frogs.
Vonnie K - Jul 21, 2004 5:23:36 am PDT #1091 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Karaoke zombies! It's comedy gold, man.
Scrappy - Jul 21, 2004 5:25:58 am PDT #1092 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Sue--that's EXACTLY how I felt. I don't think it succeeds, but there are such wonderful, brilliant moments in it that it makes it worth watching. After the first time I saw it, the frogs ticked me off so much I swore I'd never see it again, but I did last year and found myself liking it even more.
bon bon - Jul 21, 2004 5:33:59 am PDT #1093 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
PTA is yucky!