'Out Of Gas'
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.
Sheesh, David, I know *you* were devout. It's in your file.
Moss was wonderful, and I think the first bit of the Lifetime run was decent, but that it went downhill from there. I wish it were available on DVD, too, as my tapes were destroyed long ago.
Quick: Name your favorite Billy Zane role!
Twin Peaks, followed by The Phantom (SLAM EVIL!)
The first (just half a) season was so deliciously melancholy. The second (also half a season) was so quirkily literary and romantic.
Quick: Name your favorite Billy Zane role!
Almost You - the Marisa Tomei & Robert Downey Jr. romantic comedy.
Favorite Ossie Davis: Joe vs. The Volcano.
The Stand, for me. But I think my Stand love is pretty well established.
Matt Frewer as Trashcan Man was pretty inspired casting, I thought.
Molly Ringwald, on the other hand...
Matt Frewer as Trashcan Man was pretty inspired casting, I thought.
Molly Ringwald, on the other hand...
Actually, I thought all of the casting, except for Molly Ringwald, was fantastic for the Stand.
Gary Sinise was perfect as Stu Redman, even though I had my doubts when I first heard he was cast in the part. (I always pictured Stu as being at least ten years older, which made the whole Fran/Stu relationship even more May/Decemberish and icky, but that's just me.) I also loved Ray Walston and Miguel Ferrer, but the guy from Coach who played the "M-O-O-N, that spells XXX!" character was unable to make him less annoying than written, which wasn't his fault but King's.
Tom Moon very nearly made me want to root for Randall Flagg's side.
I was thinking about seeing The Wedding Date for fluffy fun, but its Rotten Tomatoe-meter score is the lowest I've ever seen. Have we ever had a 0%?
It's up to 10% now. There have been a bunch of single digit ratings, including Catwoman. Either Out Cold or House of the Dead is the worst I've ever seen, with a 3%.
You know how the current teaster ads for Hide & Seek say "Don't let anybody tell you how it ends?"
That's because if they did, no one would go see the thing.
I came very close to walking out at the twist. Unless you have a fetish for seeing small children in danger, don't see the movie. Seriously. It was just depressingly bad.