Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Okay, this is what happens when you free-associate through the net...
One of the posters in ita's link claimed to take it's art from what it called a spoiler - "Dude, Where's My Stapler" - which I had to confirm immediately, and quickly discovered was not true.
I did, however, find out that this movie cannot come out fast enough.
Instinctual, unfiltered, and completely unironic except in retrospect response:
DUDE! SWEET!
[eta: And now I've scrolled down to the cast...Luke Wilson is of the good. Maya Rudolph? NSM. Maybe she's funnier when she's not on SNL?]
Hee!
I think Mike Judge may inspire more absolute, utter adoration in me than just about anybody else.
Remember a while back (okay, probably more than a while ...) when we were discussing the movies that the people nearest & dearest to you have to "get", otherwise you will be saddened and worry about how you'll ever communicate with them?
Big Fish
I've had the DVD since it came out, but I finally watched it tonight.
sniffles happily
It really is one of the best movies ever for me.
Jilli is now OFFICIALLY my very bestest friend.
I just got back from a movie orgy afternoon. I went to see Hero and then snuck into Garden State on impulse.
I like Hero but didn't love it. It was very beautiful but it wasn't quite the movie I was expecting, I guess.
However, Garden State was the movie I was expecting and I loved it.
So 2001 was #2 on that list of sci-fi movies.
Is that one of those things that you had to see when it first came out, or had to see at the right impressionable age? Because maybe I don't get Kubrick, but I feel like you could have reduced that to about 30 minutes and had an interesting story.
I saw Garden State this afternoon. Such a beautiful, quiet, subtle movie - I think I liked it more than anything I've seen since The Station Agent. But I fear it's doomed... nothing particularly exciting happens to attract the mainstream audience, and it doesn't have a shocking or weird enough hook to draw in the art house crowd. Just wonderfully realized slice of life story and excellent acting. (Braff is amazing, and Portman proves that she still has it and Lucas can obscure any amount of acting talent.)
Garden State still isn't playing in my town -- but I am excited to see that Hero is!
I hope it's still here next weekend.
Is that one of those things that you had to see when it first came out, or had to see at the right impressionable age? Because maybe I don't get Kubrick, but I feel like you could have reduced that to about 30 minutes and had an interesting story.
Yeah. It's pretty much exactly one of those things. It was unbelievably impressive for its time. I can appreciate the technical and artistic accomplishments of the film now, but the first five times I tried to watch it it put me the fuck to sleep.