I'll just stay home and watch the b/w version again.
I was just about to say that version was in color, but Frank beat me to it.
And if I remade the movieBeverly, I would keep it a small movie, without the WHIZ! BANG!
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Sean K - Jul 19, 2004 11:46:29 am PDT #939 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Steph L. - Jul 19, 2004 11:51:39 am PDT #940 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I saw Delovely last weekend, too. And I am Steph in most things, except for number 6. I don't think Alanis Morisette was up to her song. She seemed to be going for a breathy, strangled effect when the music required a fuller, richer voice.
Oh, what I meant was that I love Cole Porter's music, immensely, and I really dislike Alanis a lot a lot a lot, so I expected to cringe and weep when she opened her mouth to sing "Let's Fall in Love." But she surprised me. I thought any number of singers could have performed it better, but I didn't hate Alanis the way I expected to.
What did you think about the way the movie itself was framed?
JohnSweden - Jul 19, 2004 11:53:23 am PDT #941 of 10001
I can't even.
Memo:
From PRODUCER Mel Gibson:
To director Frank Darabont:
The early dailies look good, especially that nice Keanu kid, but the thing seems awfully chatty. The book burnings are really working. They'll appeal to my "core". Can we have more fire? I think a fire "accidentally" spreading to a really big office tower, with flames whooshing and windows shattering would really resonate.
Lunch Thursday?
M.
[sorry Beverly, I agree. Small and arty.]
Polter-Cow - Jul 19, 2004 11:54:19 am PDT #942 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I haven't seen AI, but it seems it fits the bill.
I've been meaning to mention it, even though it's not well-liked here.
And Existenz.
Mmm, love that movie. Need to see it again. "eXistenZ is PAUSED!"
Beverly - Jul 19, 2004 12:04:14 pm PDT #943 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Huh. My taped-off-cable copy, which I've watched more than once, is in color. I just always think of it as b/w. Maybe because of the subject matter? My mind is a strange and labyrinthine place.
Question for the hivemind: Is Cyril Cusack related to the John-Joan, etc., generation?
Polter-Cow - Jul 19, 2004 12:09:09 pm PDT #944 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Question for the hivemind: Is Cyril Cusack related to the John-Joan, etc., generation?
From my clicking around on IMDb, I would say no.
Vonnie K - Jul 19, 2004 12:22:05 pm PDT #945 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Question for the hivemind: Is Cyril Cusack related to the John-Joan, etc., generation?
Nah. But he's the father of Sinead Cusack, who's married to Jeremy Irons.
Think-y Sci-Fi? Does Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind count? Errr, Twelve Monkeys and Brazil, to bring up a couple of movies mentioned lately.
I should retry 2001: A Space Odyssey. If only the damn Blue Danube didn't render me comatose every time I listen to it...
Thomash - Jul 19, 2004 12:28:28 pm PDT #946 of 10001
I have a plan.
Thoughtful Sci-Fi movies:
Killer Klowns from Outer Space!!!
Or uh, Gattaca, Day of the Triffids, Them, The Thing (either version)
evil jimi - Jul 19, 2004 12:42:04 pm PDT #947 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
No mention of the Nick Roeg version of The Man Who Fell To Earth, so I'll mention it. Other "thoughtful" scifi movies are They Live, Metropolis, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Forbidden Planet, A Boy and his Dog, Frankenstein, Plan 9 From Outer Space and a shitload of movies from foreign climes that few outside that country have ever seen. I know there's a Russian director who made some amazing movies under the Soviets but I'll be damned if I can remember his name, or any of his movies. :(
Jars - Jul 19, 2004 12:44:18 pm PDT #948 of 10001
Um, Cube ? A Boy and his Dog ?