Zoe ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
The former was probably a lot funnier/more significant when it was made than it is now;
Now you're just talking crazy talk.
and the latter I got through half and asked, "What is the point?" and turned it off.
That one's even funnier than Strangelove!
My heart is made of stone, I tell you.
No magic.
A Clockwork Orange is the only movie I've ever rented, turned off about 15 minutes in, and returned within the hour. I was too disgusted to continue.
The only Kubrick I like is Dr. Strangelove, and it's mostly because I'm fascinated, horrified, and sickly certain that this is how the world works. As it turns out, I was right.
The rest of his that I've seen? Meh. Especially A Clockwork Orange. I just didn't really need to see any of what he had to say.
This is where I express my shock and horror at the utter absence of Barry Lyndon in this conversation, right?
Chrisitan Bale may have joined the Teamsters' Union.
It's a signal that he's in an illicit relationship with Orlando.
This is where I express my shock and horror at the utter absence of Barry Lyndon in this conversation, right?
This is Buffista conversation #5,132, right? I think that's where you come in, Jessica. :)
This is where I express my shock and horror at the utter absence of Barry Lyndon in this conversation, right?
::makes note to finally get around to seeing Barry Lyndon::
A Clockwork Orange is the only movie I've ever rented, turned off about 15 minutes in, and returned within the hour. I was too disgusted to continue.
But aren't the first fifteen minutes just Malcolm MacDowell staring into the camera without blinking?
aren't the first fifteen minutes just Malcolm MacDowell staring into the camera without blinking?
Unless I dismember, he doesn't stop blinking until a ways in. I think he hits up a moloko bar, and maybe indulges in some GBH.
The article that went with that picture I found said that Bale put back on the 63 pounds he lost for The Machinist in six weeks in order to try out for Batman. And, one would assume, it was muscle weight rather than fat as they didn't cast him as Donutman instead.
The mental image of him going on a 'roid rage while bulking up really shouldn't be funny, but it is.