Emile Ardolino made Dirty Dancing perfectly.
Well, sure, as Dirty Dancing. However, Dirty Dancing as our imagined Cuban Missile Crisis AU where Baby and what's his butt save the universe or die trying? Totally had to be Milius.
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Emile Ardolino made Dirty Dancing perfectly.
Well, sure, as Dirty Dancing. However, Dirty Dancing as our imagined Cuban Missile Crisis AU where Baby and what's his butt save the universe or die trying? Totally had to be Milius.
Nobody puts Baby in a bomb shelter!
Alibelle's whitefonted review of Elektra cracked me up. I have to see this movie now. Provided I don't have to pay for the experience.
I also now want to see Milius' Dirty Dancing.
Saw In Good Company Last night. I really enjoyed it--Topher Grace was terrific and Dennis Quaid was the hottest 50-year-old ever. Lovely script--light without being insubstantial and also had some really strong moments. The women were underwritten, but it was the men's story, and their story covers a lot of ground, so the women lose out. They weren't badly written, we just didn't spend a lot of time with them.
Robin, have you seen Sidewards? I've decided to hit a matinee today, and I can't figure out if I should see that, or In Good Company.
Sideways, Lee? It's a more intimate, more melancholy, and less glossy film, but will probably stay with you longer, so it depends what you are in the mood for.
That's the one I mean, Robin.
Thanks.
Hey, the Godzilla remake had cool French commandos in it.
Yeah, but most of them ended up as redshirts for the lil' baby Godzillas (coughripoffofraptorsfromJurassicParkcough), and Jean Reno (who kicks ass in anything he's in) didn't have enough to do.
Considering that most of what he did do was act superior and annoying, I think it's just as well he didn't get more screen time. Vicki Lewis, Doug Savant, and the CGI Godzilla were the only performers that I found watchable in that movie.
The coffee scene was funny.
(Head Frenchguy bitches about the coffee, the underling who's doing the cooking holds up a can of coffee marked "French roast" and shrugs.)