I just saw the trailer for Sin City--looks great!
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
'Potential'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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Kathy A - Dec 23, 2004 7:39:22 pm PST #7355 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
tommyrot - Dec 23, 2004 7:44:59 pm PST #7356 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
NYT review of Fat Albert: [link]
One of the truisms of contemporary pop culture is that just when you think it couldn't get any worse, its purveyors any more shameless, you are proved decisively wrong. Based on Bill Cosby's corpulent charmer and his band of brothers, the "Fat Albert" movie opens in theaters just days after the release of the DVD compilations of the original show. DVD's for the program are featured so prominently in the movie - characters repeatedly deliver their lines in front of promotional posters for such discs - and the movie feels so much like an extended-play sitcom, I half expected Mr. Cosby to pop up on-screen to sell me the discs along with a Coke.
Gawd, that review trashes it. Is it Teppy who's gonna see it? Should someone warn her?
dcp - Dec 23, 2004 7:49:43 pm PST #7357 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I thought it was a "truism of contemporary pop culture" that any movie with Bill Cosby in it has to be a horrible, awful, avoid-at-any-cost disaster.
Kalshane - Dec 23, 2004 7:52:10 pm PST #7358 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I just saw the trailer for Sin City--looks great!
It does. Unfortunately that trailer didn't get along with my PC. Here's the one at Quicktime.com. [link]
ETA context
Alicia K - Dec 23, 2004 8:00:51 pm PST #7359 of 10001
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Okay, I hate to interrupt the intelligent movie discussion with my blathering cheese, but: I just saw Phantom and freaking loved it.
It was everything I hoped it would be: huge, sweeping, over-the-top, craptacular melodrama. With songs! It's entirely possible that most of my love is due to nostalgia, but I'm okay with that.
Gerard Butler? Sex on wheels, baby. The "Point of No Return" scene was reeeeeeeeeally hot. Too bad his voice didn't quite measure up. Not enough oomph for my taste.
Emmy Rossum did a fine job as Christine (really, there's not much you can do with that role except sing, have curly hair, and act all entranced). Her voice is lovely; a bit too scoopy, but so much more pleasant than Sarah Brightman.
Oh, and Patrick Wilson is so pretty, but had a really bad wig.
Can I buy this on DVD yet?
Sean K - Dec 23, 2004 8:23:20 pm PST #7360 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
But as I recall you still had time to see (a) Freddy vs. Jason and (b) Blade: Trinity Whatev.
::AHEM::
I saw Freddy vs. Jason on DVD, and I *still* have not seen Blade: Trinity, Mr. Smarty McSmartypants.
Of recent movies, I went out of my way to see Lemony Snicket, for obvious reasons, thankyouverymuch.
Atropa - Dec 23, 2004 8:51:37 pm PST #7361 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It was everything I hoped it would be: huge, sweeping, over-the-top, craptacular melodrama. With songs!
Excellent. Now I just have to figure out when I'm going to be able to go see it ...
Connie Neil - Dec 23, 2004 9:05:46 pm PST #7362 of 10001
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Hubby and I are planning on either The Incredibles or Lemon Sniket for our Christmas excursion. Heck, we could do both, the two together are as long as an LotR movie--and without the health curse!
Alicia K - Dec 24, 2004 6:57:16 am PST #7363 of 10001
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
After squeeing over something directed by freaking Joel Shumacher, I feel like I have to validate myself:
I do actually like good movies, too. I finally saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind a few nights ago and loved it extremely.
So yeah, don't kick me out of your club!
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 24, 2004 7:40:46 am PST #7364 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 thought it was a "truism of contemporary pop culture" that any movie with Bill Cosby in it has to be a horrible, awful, avoid-at-any-cost disaster.
How many people got suckered into seeing Ghost Dad at the theaters? Surely that experience was horrific enough to serve as aversion therapy for any subsequent Cosby movies...
I rented Sugar and watched it last night. Weird little movie. But after taking a recent series of hits from Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, and Ian Somerhalder about how very uncomfortable they were acting out scenes of affection with male costars, it was refreshing to run into Brendan Fehr's total lack of self-consciousness. I mean, he did stuff I'm not sure I'd be comfortable doing in view of a third party, much less a camera.