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I wasn't under the impression that BB is set mid-century.
Nor was I, until I watched the trailer and it looks kinds Forties.
Re: Psychotic vs. Psychopath...my bad for slanging the term around. I should have said "bad-ass-whackjob-nutball."
I mean, I don't want to take anything away from the erotic appeal of either Batman or Christian Bale, but I do want to clearly define my terms as "going for humorous hyperbole" rather than "accurate analysis of psychological makeup."
but I do want to clearly define my terms as "going for humorous hyperbole" rather than "accurate analysis of psychological makeup."
Duly noted!
Where are you living in Greece? Do you have a portable oxygen tent for Athens?
But I think Leigh/Gable is pretty amazing.
Ah, Clark Gable as Rhett Butler is just wonderful. But then, I'm a sucker for the "rakish, dashing scoundrel" type of guy.
And he's good with a quip, too. He's Spike, 1939. Complete with rape controversy(smacks forehead) Missed that, till right now...
He's also Han Solo.
Complete with rape controversy
Yup. That's the only thing that keeps me from totally loving the movie in an incoherent way. I don't like the whole idea of Scarlett-protests-but-then-it-turns-out-she-just-needed-a-good-fuck.
Whole sections of Han/Leia are quoted from it, yeah. Yeah, I know, Tep, in my head he kind of sweet-talks her and gives her whiskey, so she'll say yes, and the kicking and screaming, is, like a game,but that's not in the movie. Dude, my first fic.(I didn't actually write anything, but I ficced a lot before there was a name for it. Kind of like masturbation.) And I'm just smutting up the posts today.
Sorry, Hec - little prickly at the moment, I am. I'll be living in Athens, and you know, I do have a HEPA filter mask that we got for living in Kuala Lumpur.
Anyone seen Amateur by Hal Hartley? This is one wacky movie.
Of the AFI list, I've seen and don't get the love for --
The Godfather
The Graduate (though I probably should have seen it at 21 instead of 41)
Chinatown (but Nicholson and Dunaway both make my teeth hurt)
Annie Hall
Birth of a Nation belongs in a whole nother category. It (and if I saw GWTW today, I'd probably say the same of it) is a technically brilliant and innovative telling of a story that didn't need to be told.
Anyone seen Amateur by Hal Hartley? This is one wacky movie.
Is that the one with Isabelle Huppert as the ex-nun who writes porn? I haven't seen that. But I do love Hal Hartley.
Fred, man, those are some of my favorite movies, *ever*. I'm getting verklempt.