So The Score wouldn't have sucked had it been in Vegas?
I didn't hate The Score. Granted, it was Generic Heist Movie, Style 7 Plus Twist C, but still. Heist. Plust great cast.
Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
'Lineage'
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Jesse - Jul 16, 2004 5:30:25 pm PDT #744 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dana - Jul 16, 2004 5:37:17 pm PDT #745 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Was that the one with Ed Norton? I liked that one too.
And I liked Reign of Fire, in that profoundly cheesy way. But as far as eye candy went, not bad at all.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2004 5:41:58 pm PDT #746 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, Norton, De Niro, Brando.
Sean K - Jul 16, 2004 5:45:08 pm PDT #747 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Brando.
Brando getting winded by the effort it took to walk from the front door of a bar to the nearest table.
I liked that movie too, but Brando looked like he was about to colapse under his own gravitational pull in that movie.
Volans - Jul 16, 2004 5:46:05 pm PDT #748 of 10001
move out and draw fire
what I've heard about the casting
Like Ged being...white? Yeah.
sumi - Jul 16, 2004 6:06:36 pm PDT #749 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Hmm, I didn't think it mattered that the events that happened at Troy were pre-literate since the story survived via the oral tradition for centuries before anyone bothered to write it down.
Consuela - Jul 16, 2004 7:08:51 pm PDT #750 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Like Ged being...white?
I think the entire cast is white or Asian. Not... well, I would have gone for Filipino, myself, not east Asian. Or Native American or latino.
It's just -- I fear they're turning it into something less meaningful and more epic. Less personal, less true. Because fantasy-on-film is always, always about huge epic battles, the fate of the universe stuff.
Not one arrogant kid making a mistake, and risking everything--with the help of some friends--to set it right.
And I'm not sure they'll let Ged make the mistake. Makes him too fallible.
I'm scared.
Strega - Jul 16, 2004 7:32:13 pm PDT #751 of 10001
And, um, I can't think of any other dragon movies, period, let alone good ones.
Dragonslayer!
I think. I haven't seen it in 20 years. But it's finally out on DVD and so it's next in my Netflix queue.
Kathy A - Jul 16, 2004 7:39:36 pm PDT #752 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I didn't hate The Score. Granted, it was Generic Heist Movie, Style 7 Plus Twist C, but still. Heist. Plust great cast.
I'm with Jesse--I rather liked The Score, but that might be partially due to the Montreal setting (we don't get to see that city featured too often onscreen, unfortunately), and partially because of my everlasting affection for Heist Films (due to my extremely early exposure to The Sting, I think). Also, I liked the chemistry between DeNiro and Norton, and even though Angela Bassett was basically wasted in her two minutes onscreen, she always adds something to the overall strength of the film.
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2004 7:45:36 pm PDT #753 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Strega! I finally saw Alien. Though I think Aliens is the one you're always quoting.
Alien takes an almost unnecessarily slow time getting started, but once we get some hardcore alien action, it's pretty good. What was the state of alien movies before, that this was so remarkable, though? I mean, really, all it is is a movie about an alien picking off the members of a crew one by one. And the protagonist happens to be female, though she doesn't really have any character besides "tough" and "loves her fucking cat." There might be some deeper meaning there, but I often wonder why some classics are, well, classics. What did Ridley Scott do to get himself a place in the canon?