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A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I alternate between feeling like throwing things at the TV and laughing my ass off with The Office. It's one of the few things I love madly but have to gear myself up to watch.
We didn't see it as supporting authority.
Yeah, I have friends who felt the same way about it. I just didn't see it that way.
The Office up there with What About Bob? on the list of comedies that are so well done that they're painful to watch. They're both hysterical, but too too real at times. (Especially the last few eps of S2, and the quiz bowl episode of S1 -- I'd laugh, but I can't stop cringing.)
My utter lack of interest in ever seeing another Verhoven film after Robo-Cop prevents me from having anything to say about Starship Troopers.
And no one's even mentioned Showgirls.
And no one's even mentioned Showgirls.
Ah yes, the movie whose main moral was "Don't be the first dancer down the stairs if you're over 30."
Also the movie that showed us that Elizabeth Berkely doesn't have orgasms, so much as grand mal seizures.
That was on Showtime just last night. I have seen it twice now(although I didn't watch it last night). It's like some hideously fascinating wreck. One almost can't help but rubberneck. And Gina Gershon, which is never a bad thing.
It's like some hideously fascinating wreck.
Yes, this.
I just heard that Fay Wray has passed.
I just heard that Fay Wray has passed.
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Whatever happened.... to Fay Wray?
Interesting take by Charles Taylor on Tom Cruise and his "stardom" -- which ties in oddly to our discussion over the weekend.
I read this article last week and it made me really mad. It does tie in to the discussion you guys were having, and I actually wrote a letter that I was going to send in to Salon (but I didn't because I'm not THAT far gone--yet) about why movie criticism seems to be dieing (or dead) in this country, when one of the premier publications known for its thoughtful criticism is wasting its time (and mine) with crap articles which do nothing but take easy shots at Tom Cruise by comparing him with other movie stars. Can't these people find something else to say about film besides spending three pages on why Tom Cruise isn't as good as Lee Marvin or Johnny Depp? It's depressing when there are so many deserving movies that don't get much press, and "criticism" now often takes the form of making "best" lists and useless comparisons.
eta: Apologies for this post, I know it's kind of a retread.
Whatever happened.... to Fay Wray?
She went ape.
I have this from a reliable source -- a graffito on a carrel in a law school library.