I just barely realised today that one of the local "art" theaters is 2 blocks away from my work, and I get a 2 hours lunch nowadays. This could be a bad combination.
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
Mal ,'Safe'
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Gandalfe - Jul 21, 2004 10:29:10 am PDT #1117 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Polter-Cow - Jul 21, 2004 11:18:57 am PDT #1118 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
This is the part of the conversation where I start to babble about film being an audiovisual medium
Another thing about the movie was the fact that I thought, "Oh, he's doing that thing where he's 'speaking in images.' Shit, and it's working."
tommyrot - Jul 21, 2004 2:03:09 pm PDT #1119 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
NYT review of Catwoman.
Like "Garfield," "Catwoman" is really a parody of catitude, offering glib mockery of a domestic species notorious for its pride and hauteur. It exhibits nothing like the sympathy that "Spider-Man" brings to the melancholy arachnid soul, or the insight that "Shrek 2" offers into donkey neurosis. But the cats of the world will get over this insult. Most likely by sleeping through it.
"Catwoman" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is some violence, and a sex scene from which the ear-splitting yowls have been deleted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 21, 2004 2:21:27 pm PDT #1120 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If she makes Snow Bitches next.....
Isn't that basically what Catwoman is in the context of her career? It has the domestic pet imagery, and ends up doing a 180° from the intended mood (Snow Dogs was intended to be a comedy, and Catwoman wasn't...).
Next up, watch Halle abduct a bus full of Desi Arnaz impersonators.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 21, 2004 5:45:20 pm PDT #1121 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
On a COMPLETELY unrelated note, any Cronenberg fans interested in his early, completely self-made experimental movies should note that two of them are on the 2nd disc of the special 2-disc FAST COMPANY dvd. FAST COMPANY being the shoot-out at the dragstrip exploitation movie he made (either before THE BROOD or SCANNERS, can't remember which) which is an unabashed B-movie with with stars to match (Claudia Jennings, John Saxon, etc.).
I just watched STEREO and, yeah, it's basically a student film, but it's not dumb. I figure it HAS to be a satire, since it takes place at the CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR EROTIC INQUIRY. :) The man did have a good eye for striking architecture and composition even then, though. And he photographed and edited the damn thing himself back in the very early 70s. I believe he managed to beat John Waters at the DIY thing, even, and with a helluva lot more style.
Also, the most prominent actor looks like a really fey, and (believe it or not) an even-more-creepy-than-either cross between Walken in DEAD ZONE and Spader in CRASH.
Sue - Jul 21, 2004 5:56:37 pm PDT #1122 of 10001
hip deep in pie
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR EROTIC INQUIRY.
hey, it could happen....we happen to be very curious...
JohnSweden - Jul 21, 2004 6:45:59 pm PDT #1123 of 10001
I can't even.
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR EROTIC INQUIRY.
hey, it could happen....we happen to be very curious...
And if anyone could turn sexual curiosity into a bureaucracy, it's us.
OTOH, committee meetings could be slightly more tolerable.
Fred Pete - Jul 22, 2004 4:07:36 am PDT #1124 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Next up, watch Halle abduct a bus full of Desi Arnaz impersonators.
OTOH, at least Rat Race was supposed to be a comedy.
beekaytee - Jul 22, 2004 7:48:41 am PDT #1125 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Skippity-doo-da--after taking an entire day away from my computer. Unprecedented. (plus venetian blinds got washed in the bathtub...it was an ordeal)
Magnolia grew on me like kudzu. I could not get it out of my mind for days and days. The themes, the visuals, the possibilities. It wasn't a love-based fascination, but an intoxication in the almost literal sense.
oops. gotta go. more later.
Fred Pete - Jul 22, 2004 7:57:17 am PDT #1126 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I saw A Farewell to Arms on TV. Rock Hudson pretty, and bonus points for a romantic lead named "Frederick." Also some good "war is hell" scenes.
But really, a love story where no chemistry appears until the last half hour? What's the point?