Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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Just got back from seeing Casablanca at Memphis' grand old Orpheum Theatre. I think the scales may be balanced for that long list of craptacular movies I've seen this year. It was just so beautiful, and so unexpectedly funny.
I know for a fact it's magic—even the mewling brats that crawled over the seat backs to sit beside me a minute before showtime quieted down and watched it almost silently.
I love Guy Pearce's intensity. I'd like to see something new from Bond. But then again, I liked Dalton. ETA: IIRC he was funny in Memento. At least I remember that movie being pretty funny.
Have you seen Pearce in Pricilla, Queen of the Desert? Quite funny.
Geez, I can't believe I'd forgotten about Priscilla.
Saw Donnie Darko (Director's cut) tonight. No, I hadn't seen any version of it before, and, yes, I am a bad person.
However, going into it knowing almost nothing (I knew it was at least mildly depressing and that Jake Gyllenhall and Drew Barrymore [once I saw her. Very good character. I had that teacher twice. Only once she was male, and the other time significantly older.] were in it.) was a good thing.
I feel like I should see it again 1) to see the non-director's cut and 2)now that I've seen the whole thing. I called the plane crash as soon as they talked about the dancers flying.
And the smurfs conversation, particularly, cracked me up.
I have this whole thesis on the idea of reality as a dream, but I am sleepy (hopefully enough that I will sleep despite my issues with things-in-the-dark (currently rabbit-shaped). No I don't have all the lights in the apartment on. That would be wasteful. The ones in the bathroom are off, as I can't see that doorway.), and therefore too lazy to type it out right now or go back and see what people thought of the movie.
I liked it.
And the smurfs conversation, particularly, cracked me up.
Hasn't the creator of the Smurfs agreed that Donnie was right WRT their sex lives?
I saw the Director's Cut recently too. It's still just about my favourite movie of the '00s so far (well perhaps just behind Mullholland Dr ) and I'd quite happily sit through an extra 320 minutes if it was on offer, but in places it did seem to be trying to clarify the story a bit too much for my liking (along the lines of the DVD commentary)...of course, even the "official" interpretation offered by Richard Kelly is still completely incoherent, so it's all good.
BTW I saw Richard Kelly interviewed on Oz TV the other night...he's cute!
Is any of the additional footage in the DD Director's Cut, stuff that isn't included in the deleted scenes section of the DVD?
Jon, there's a whole lot of extrapolated material from the Philosophy of Time Travel book that I don't remember seeing on the DVD (and which sets out, if rather cryptically, the "tangent universe" theory of the film).