Wrod. The soldiers and officers who don't believe the Geneva Conventions are "quaint", who believe there is still honor on the battlfield, and that war may not really have rules it should not be barbaric.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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.
Connie Neil - Feb 13, 2005 10:54:52 am PST #9067 of 10001
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Kathy A - Feb 13, 2005 3:52:22 pm PST #9068 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just got back from seeing Million Dollar Baby, too. My dad was laughing at me afterwards because I was such a slobbering mess from the end of the title fight to the end of the movie. I haven't cried that hard or that long at a film since Return of the King, and before then, I don't remember when. Excellent film, and the nominees are well-deserved.
I think I'll try and see Sideways and also possibly Hotel Rwanda next weekend, but it looks like Finding Neverland is going to be impossible to find still playing in the area. I do like to try and see as many of the Best Picture noms before the Oscars, and as many of the other big films as well. I've only seen Aviator, M$B, and Ray so far.
Jim - Feb 13, 2005 11:25:51 pm PST #9069 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Tilda Swinton lovers should check out Jarman's Caravaggio . As should anyone who wants buckets of Sean Bean homoerotic tableaux.
Anne W. - Feb 14, 2005 2:36:11 am PST #9070 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Jim, that whooshing sound you heard was that of dozens of Buffistas rushing to their bunks.
sumi - Feb 14, 2005 5:04:57 am PST #9071 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Jarvis Cocker, Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway are the Weird Sisters.
Beverly - Feb 14, 2005 7:50:12 am PST #9072 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Damn. Netflix doesn't have Caravaggio. And IMDb is telling me it's not on dvd at all, on tape only in UK format. Damndamn.
Sue - Feb 14, 2005 8:25:53 am PST #9073 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Facets says it's out of print. Though I think I've seen it in my video store.
ETA: My video store does have it on DVD.
Lyra Jane - Feb 14, 2005 9:47:48 am PST #9074 of 10001
Up with the sun
So what movies have surprised you guys recently? I was really surprised by "Road Trip." I was dreading it as it rose to the top of our Netflix queue, but I figured I owed it to Patrick to give it a fair chance, given the number of depressing, bad, or depressingly bad movies I've made him sit through. Turns out that, in spite of the presence of Tom Green, it's not that much of a gross-out movie, and parts of it were really funny.
P.M. Marc - Feb 14, 2005 9:52:02 am PST #9075 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Super Troopers, which I expected to be dumb and not funny.
It was nothing at all like the previews indicated, so while it's pretty dumb, it was also really funny. (I'd thought it would be a dumb movie about stupid characters, but instead, it was a dumb movie about characters who, for the most part, had at least half a brain.)
Sue - Feb 14, 2005 9:53:45 am PST #9076 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I was expecting Finding Neverland to be horribly maudlin, and it held back in a pleasant way. And Million Dollar Baby had a lighter touch than I was expecting.