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.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
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bon bon - Aug 20, 2004 6:34:41 pm PDT #2945 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
quester - Aug 20, 2004 6:42:42 pm PDT #2946 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Have you seen Pearce in Pricilla, Queen of the Desert? Quite funny.
bon bon - Aug 20, 2004 7:42:46 pm PDT #2947 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Geez, I can't believe I'd forgotten about Priscilla.
DebetEsse - Aug 21, 2004 12:30:56 am PDT #2948 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 21, 2004 3:45:23 am PDT #2949 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
And the smurfs conversation, particularly, cracked me up.
Hasn't the creator of the Smurfs agreed that Donnie was right WRT their sex lives?
Angus G - Aug 21, 2004 4:49:16 am PDT #2950 of 10001
Roguish Laird
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.
Angus G - Aug 21, 2004 4:50:00 am PDT #2951 of 10001
Roguish Laird
BTW I saw Richard Kelly interviewed on Oz TV the other night...he's cute!
Jon B. - Aug 21, 2004 6:09:04 am PDT #2952 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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?
Angus G - Aug 21, 2004 6:17:01 am PDT #2953 of 10001
Roguish Laird
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).
Kate P. - Aug 21, 2004 7:13:37 am PDT #2954 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, and Kevin Spacey. Goddamn, that's a great movie.
Dana speaks the truth. L.A. Confidential is fantastic.
I remember being not all that impressed with Donnie Darko. I wonder if I should give it another try.