'Dirty Girls'
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.
Love Me Tonight is wonderful, though The Love Parade is better Chevalier-MacDonald.
5:00 PM That's Entertainment! (1974)
I want to see this to see if it holds up. I saw it in the theater when it originally came out and was enchanted. But '74 was the pre-video, pre-cable days, when small-town types didn't get the chance to see the oldies very often.
in the pit band for Trial by Jury
G & S! Woo!
G&S are my main men.
Dude! I didn't know that! I'm a Savoyard as well. Did you see the G & S parody I posted in Bitches a couple months ago?
No, I didn't. Go you!
It is quarter of nine. I am going to bed. Ah, myriotous life.
Just came back from seeing "Cellular". It's short, fast-paced, has a goofy but not preposterous premise, a low-key sense of humor, and engaging characters, and it manages to be one of the most genuinely entertaining small movies I've had the pleasure to watch in this past year. Also, it has William H. Macy, who automatically makes pretty much anything he's in worth watching. It actually reminded me of nothing as much as "Speed", which ain't a bad thing.
I watched Wet Hot American Summer tonight with some friends, which is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. The extra farts soundtrack is awesome. And, having given several summers of my life to a weirdo arts camp, I can say with some authority that it is actually frighteningly accurate in parts!
I watched "Master and Commander" and "Hidalgo" tonight. It was Boy Movie Night, clearly. So I settled in with my beer and enjoyed the pretty.
M&C was better than I expected, although it took a while to settle into it. The effects were spectacular, and I was really impressed how much they shot out on the ocean. I liked the cast, too, especially Lt. Pullings. And Pippin! Hee. I loved the Galapagos bits. And the weevils. Ew!
Hidalgo was... actually, it felt like two movies. There was the Disney movie with the wacky cartoon violence and adventure, and then there was this rather moving story about a guy owning his heritage and his past. The problem was they really didn't mesh very well, and I was slightly appalled that they used the Wounded Knee massacre as a character driver. I won't even get into the biological implausibilities and inaccuracies: people who know horses better than I do can likely speak to all that. So while I enjoyed parts of it, I was left vaguely unsatisfied.
Finally saw Hero last night. Wonderful. Still swooning.