Finally saw Hero last night. Wonderful. Still swooning.
And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
Mal ,'The Train Job'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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Scrappy - Sep 12, 2004 5:57:16 am PDT #3843 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
sumi - Sep 12, 2004 6:02:03 am PDT #3844 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Yeah, I watched Hidalgo on dvd and was also appalled that they used Wounded Knee that way.
If only they could have used a horse that really looked like a mustang rather than the horse they used.
Actual mustangs and actual arabian horses are both excellent endurance racers.
I'm not sure that the QH-type paint that they used in the movie would have been the same.
Lee - Sep 12, 2004 6:20:25 am PDT #3845 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Netflix sent me The Apple while I was on vacation. This makes me happy, though I wish I had gotten it before I left so I could have made DX watch it.
Thomash - Sep 12, 2004 6:44:54 am PDT #3846 of 10001
I have a plan.
The movie basically consists of a lot of "now, like my innocence, pie gone" talk about life and dreams and humanity and existence, and I think it might be a really interesting movie to watch with my full attention, because despite it all seeming dangerously close to pretentiousness, there was also some intriguing philosophy in there. It's very much a thinking person's movie.
I saw Waking Life in the theatre with my father last year. Neither of us were tired when we went into the movie but we were fuking exhausted when it was over. We agreed that it was rather pretentious, despite all the pretty colors swirling swirling swirling around. Not to say there weren't some interesting philosophical views, there were quite a few. Quite a lot in fact. And it had Adam Goldberg, which is always a good thing. But it just felt like, after an hour into the film, my skull was going to split open from getting hit by all the metaphilosophical bitch-slapping going on.
Polter-Cow - Sep 12, 2004 6:48:14 am PDT #3847 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But it just felt like, after an hour into the film, my skull was going to split open from getting hit by all the metaphilosophical bitch-slapping going on.
I agree. It was like...TALK LIKE REAL PEOPLE, DAMMIT.
Thomash - Sep 12, 2004 6:55:04 am PDT #3848 of 10001
I have a plan.
Yes, and Happy Birthday PC.
Swirly swirly swirly color, artichoke + wood = marble floor tile, life and stuff. Rinse repeat.
Sue - Sep 12, 2004 10:04:52 am PDT #3849 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I know people who talk like the people in Waking Life. It didn't prevent me from falling alseep several times.
I saw Hero yesterday. It was incredibly pretty.
I just came back from Vanity Fair. Also pretty, but less so that Hero. Rhys Ifans was surprisingly good and hot. I was shocked to see his name in the credits.
Jessica - Sep 12, 2004 10:10:02 am PDT #3850 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But it just felt like, after an hour into the film, my skull was going to split open from getting hit by all the metaphilosophical bitch-slapping going on.
I walked out of Waking Life (walked out of my living room -- we saw it on DVD) -- the way it kept trying to draw philosophical meaning out of scientific observations drove me BATSHIT because the science was ALL WRONG. I got tired of shouting at the screen, and so I left.
I watched Witness for the first time last night, and noticed a very young Viggo Mortensen in a nonspeaking, but prominently visually featured role.
Polter-Cow - Sep 12, 2004 10:16:43 am PDT #3851 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yes, and Happy Birthday PC.
Aw, and you even changed your tag in my honor.
Tom Scola - Sep 12, 2004 10:32:55 am PDT #3852 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I walked out of Waking Life (walked out of my living room -- we saw it on DVD) -- the way it kept trying to draw philosophical meaning out of scientific observations drove me BATSHIT because the science was ALL WRONG.
I really enjoyed Waking Life, and I didn't mind the bad science because I brushed it off as the opinions of a bunch of flaky characters, rather than something that was supposed to be true. And I liked how the movie unfolded, and how it wound up actually having a plot in the end.