'War Stories'
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.
Oh my God. That made me cry. It was so beautiful.
Oh, yes. Me too. And it seemed so true to how CP was portrayed throughout the movie. The idea that Porter deeply loved Lily, even though he was strongly sexually attracted to men, was something that I really liked. So often movies show love as some all-encompassing package -- to love someone is to lust after that someone is to be totally happy with that someone. I liked how the movie showed love as much more complex than that.
Sexy actress Halle Berry counts the skintight catsuit she had to wear for Catwoman as the "true highlight" of making the movie. The Oscar-winning beauty enjoyed slipping into the sassy outfit for her feline character on a daily basis. She says, "(The suit was) the highlight of the whole movie experience. It was empowering. Besides the obvious sex appeal, it really takes a certain level of confidence to pull it off. We all have physical flaws, but you can't hide them when you're wearing it." But fans hoping to get their hands on the outfit which adorned her curvaceous body are in for a disappointment as Berry plans to keep it for herself. She explains, "It's mainly because I didn't want it to end up on eBay." And Berry is also unsure whether her movie outfit will spark any kind of fashion frenzy, adding, "They've always been in fashion, but they come and go. They're not the most practical thing to go around wearing."
IMDb tells me that Theresa Rebeck has a story credit. She wrote Spike Heels ! She's a respected playwright! What the hell is she doing?!
She's a respected playwright! What the hell is she doing?!
At a guess? Weeping bitterly.
God, people toss around the word "empowering" in the strangest ways. I would have said "capering around like an idiot in impractical clothes." Yet, to Halle -- "empowering."
She's a respected playwright! What the hell is she doing?!
Laughing all the way to the bank?
"We all have physical flaws, but you can't hide them when you're wearing it."
Nope. That's what CGI and airbrushing are for.
I sacrifice myself so that others may be warned.
Jessica, I'm grateful for your sacrifice, but it was so unnecessary. This was like standing too close to Bikini Atoll to be able to tell us that nuclear war is a bad idea.
That said, I think I'm going to look for a theater where De Lovely plays about the same time as Catwoman so my money can go to the former while I observe the train wreck.
Is it just me, or do these kinds of stinkwads come from Warner more than the other studios? (see: Earth, Battlefield)
I think as long as Warner has the HP series, they'll get by.
Is it just me, or do these kinds of stinkwads come from Warner more than the other studios? (see: Earth, Battlefield)
Warner is one of the big boys, and I think all the big boys have this problem. It's a question of sheer volume - they produce so many pictures a year, they're going to have a larger number of "pedestrian or worse" offerings.