Really, there's not much else to it, is there? But so pretty.

Well, in addition to being an interesting take on what became of the glam era when things got a touch more conservative in the 1980s and certain people started to disavow their previous sexual claims, I think it's like a modern cross of Casablanca and Citizen Kane...

(Though it's possible that the fact that I've owned the DVD for five years and used to watch it at least weekly has me adding depth to it that's not really there.)

I love that movie.

Just watched The Station Agent. I liked it a lot, though I'm not sure if I liked it enough to own it. It's a sweet little picture, though, and the actors all had great chemistry.

JRM as Schmendrick, not the Prince?!? That's just wrong. Schmendrick should be someone older, like Hugh Laurie.

Live version of The Last Unicorn??? Wow. This is exciting news.

(Though it's possible that the fact that I've owned the DVD for five years and used to watch it at least weekly has me adding depth to it that's not really there.)

Hey! I think that depth is there ... wait, this is one of those movies where my opinions are biased by all the pretty on-screen. Never mind.

Also, Brian Molko is adorable.

Isn't he just?

Hey! I think that depth is there ... wait, this is one of those movies where my opinions are biased by all the pretty on-screen. Never mind.

Yeah, I fear neither of us have room to talk on Velvet Goldmine.

Really, there's not much else to it, is there?

Tons more if you like pop history. There's hardly an image in that movie that doesn't allude to at least three other significant events of the London pop scene in the early 70s. It's extremely layered with throwaway visuals which reference specific song lyrics in songs which aren't playing. Like that. And it's all just slightly twisted askew so that Brian Ferry and Brian Eno get merged into one character who turns into the Bowie-conscience, while 80s Bowie conflates with Gary Glitter as ultimate pop whore. Toni's performance is almost equally Angie Bowie and Liza Minelli in Cabaret (a key text of the glam era).

On rewatch the Pretty always lets me down a bit in that Christian Bale is so detached and cold in the framing story when he's hotness incarnate, whereas all his sexual awakening scenes are done wearing an escaped Kristy MacNichol mullet.

I think it's like a modern cross of Casablanca and Citizen Kane...

The CITIZEN KANE is blatant (and admitted), but where do you get the CASABLANCA in it?

Tons more if you like pop history.

And therein lies the rub. I enjoy pop history, but not enough to get all of the references and allusions. I did see a lot of Liza/Sally in Toni's performance, and I did appreciate how bleak and cold the 80s felt as compared to the 70s, but for a person whose area of expertise is geared more toward Mr. Wilde and his predecessors? It was a lot of pretty, and some cracking good language.

No matter. It was still quite enjoyable, and I'll pick up the DVD if I ever remember to look for it on the shelves.

HHGTTG trailer.

With actual people. So it answers some questions upthread.

However -- it's not really being marketed as comedically as one might think.