I loved "Eternal Sunshine", not least because I could tell my friends that I'd seen, "The something something of the something Mind" and they'd know exactly what I meant. Plus Carrey didn't make me want to lunge through the screen to throttle him, which was something of an acting triumph on his part.
The money was too good. I got stupid.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
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Calli - Dec 10, 2004 8:30:42 am PST #7015 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2004 8:46:49 am PST #7016 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
I mean, after the 32nd identical-but-in-different-coloured-silk slo-mo wire-ballet fight didn't you start to wish Jackie Chan would turn up and just twat one of them?
Actually, it made me wish that Zhiang Ziyi would pop up in the next "Rush Hour" or "Shanghai Noon" sequel and kick his hyperactive ass in slow motion while twirling pretty silks in the background.
Jessica - Dec 10, 2004 8:48:47 am PST #7017 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Bwah! Googling "hero screencap" for Suela, and I ended up here. What a small internet it is...
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2004 8:51:28 am PST #7018 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Heh. *I* ended up on a Stargate Jack site, and kinda got distracted.
Kate P. - Dec 10, 2004 8:54:19 am PST #7019 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I lovedlovedloved Eternal Sunshine. Actually, I felt about it very much the way I felt about Lost in Translation; I can't adequately describe it, but they made me both melancholic and hopeful. And they both ended exactly as I would have wanted them to.
Betsy HP - Dec 10, 2004 8:54:20 am PST #7020 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
B ut I wonder how that plays in Japan -- a movie about their culture, written by a white guy, starring a Chinese woman.
Could've been worse. Madonna really, really, REALLY wanted to play the villainous geisha.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2004 9:03:00 am PST #7021 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
Hasn't someone fitted her with a shock collar to condition against acting by now?
Dani - Dec 10, 2004 9:06:24 am PST #7022 of 10001
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
Afer the discussion of Natalie Portman earlier, I thought some of you would appreciate the first sentence of Anthony Lane's review of Closer.
The new Mike Nichols film, “Closer,” starts with a man falling in love with Natalie Portman. From this we may assume that the movie is concerned with universal, a-priori truths...
Hayden - Dec 10, 2004 9:12:41 am PST #7023 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I really want a screencap of the scene in the red iteration where Snow and Moon are fighting in the forest, and Snow stands with her sword high, and the red robes and the gold leaves -- guh. Just stunning.
Yeah. It was as beautiful and lush a film as I've seen. The part that I always think of is the fight on the lake as seen and heard from a distance.
sumi - Dec 10, 2004 11:26:52 am PST #7024 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I find this amusing:
Language Problems on 'Geisha' Set
Chicago director Rob Marshall is finding filming on his latest movie Memoirs of a Geisha complicated, because his cast all speak different languages. Sony Studios refused to cast non-Asian actresses in the big screen adaptation of Arthur Golden's best-selling book about the life of a Japanese geisha, and boasts Chinese Ziyi Zhang and Li Gong, Malaysian Michelle Yeoh and Japanese Cary-hiroyuki Tagawa and Ken Watanabe amongst its stars. An insider on the Japanese set tells American gossip site Pagesix.com, "They hired a 'Pan-Asian' cast. So now they have Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other Asian actors and they have had to hire a load of interpreters, especially since there are like 15 Chinese dialects. It is costing a lot of time to do anything." Producer Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick adds, "We have a Chinese and Japanese interpreter. The movie may or may not be a day over schedule, but we are brilliantly on time for an epic and on budget."
(This is from the IMDB.)