'Shindig'
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.
I am Thomash on Preacher. Thus why the scared.
Though I do think there are some side-stories of Preacher that could be done as movies. Make a bloody series - if you don't try to do the whole thing the first time, then when the pacing is good and the money is profitable, you have automatic sequel stories ready to go!
I am so very happy about this. It hurts how happy I am.
Yikes! They're remaking My Friend Flicka and they're changing Ken to Katie!
My thoughts on Sin City. 'twas good, yo.
I saw Sin City earlier today. I also loved it. It was probably the best movie I've seen since Dirty Pretty Things , and that was a year and a half ago.
Also, I just realized that my campus is having a free showing of Showtime's Kristin Bell-starring Reefer Madness tomorrow night. Will try to get tickets.
Having just read Book 1 of Sin City (The Hard Goodbye), I don't think I can handle the violence. It's not just extremely violent, it's sadistic, fucked-up, psycho violence. It was hard to read, which leads me to believe that seeing 3-dimensional people undergoing some of that nasty shit would be too much for me to handle.
Which is too bad, because I had really looked forward to seeing it. But -- no. I know my limits w/r/t violence on film, and Sin City, if it's as faithful to the comic as people say it is, blows past the limits almost immediately.
I'm not too worried about the violence in Sin City because it looks so stylized. I don't think it'll register like the ear cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs. It'll be more like the Crazy 88s fight in Kill Bill. I think.
Just watching Tombstone on cable. Damn the casting was good. Aside from all the people I do remember being in the movie, Thomas Haden Church, Terry O'Quinn, Michael Rooker, John Corbett.
Fucking love that Latin showdown between Doc and Johnny Ringo too.
From a Wyatt Earp timeline:
1878, July 26 - Three Texas cowboys hurrah Dodge before riding back to camp. One of their stray bullets smashes into the dance hall where Eddie Foy, a very famous performer of the day, is watching Bat Masterson deal Spanish Monte with Doc Holliday. Policemen Jim Masterson and Wyatt Earp give chase. In the ensuing volley of gunshots, one of the cowboys, George Hoy, falls from his horse, wounded. Even though he only is hit in the arm, he dies about a month later from infection.
Isn't it weird when famous historical names intersect like that? Eddie Foy and Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp all in the same room during a gunfight?
That IS weird.
I was trying to come up with some scientific explanation based on how fewer people = greater coincidence, but it's not even washing with me, so I'll skip it.
It's probably as simple as notable people increase their notariety by hanging out with notable people. Isn't that what fuels Page Six?
At any rate, the intersecting stories is one of the things I enjoyed about the first season of Deadwood too.
It'll be more like the Crazy 88s fight in Kill Bill. I think.
Because it's black-and-white, that's exactly how a lot of it comes across. Except unlike in Kill Bill, there are also guns. And people getting reamed with bullets.