Who'm I kidding here? I'll never top 21 Jump Street and I know it.
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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evil jimi - Apr 20, 2005 2:02:49 am PDT #2033 of 10002
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Aims - Apr 20, 2005 7:04:46 am PDT #2034 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
We have Ray, Finding Neverland, and Sideways coming today.
erikaj - Apr 20, 2005 7:10:04 am PDT #2035 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I've seen two, not "Sideways" yet.
Vonnie K - Apr 20, 2005 7:16:24 am PDT #2036 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Sideways is out on DVD? Whoo!
EW says that Timothy Dalton/Zelda Clarke version of Jane Eyre is coming out on DVD (sans extras, alas), which for my money is the best adaptation of the book out there, for all its cheap production values and Dalton being way too pretty to be Rochester. Clarke is very good, and Dalton is a champion brooder. I'd forgotten that the damn thing is 5 hours long though. Hmmm.
It's really too bad that nobody filmed JE with Alan Rickman as Rochester, because he's got the charismatic and sexy ugliness and the explosive intensity of the character down cold.
Alicia K - Apr 20, 2005 7:55:32 am PDT #2037 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
I have Sideways and Ocean's Twelve at home, and Million Dollar Hotel on the way. I had to knock my subscription back down to 3-at-a-time for the summer, until baseball season is over.
Between the Mariners and my U2 obsession, I haven't felt much like watching movies lately.
beathen - Apr 20, 2005 7:57:01 am PDT #2038 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Million Dollar Hotel
A cross between Million Dollar Baby and Hotel Rwanda ?
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2005 7:57:31 am PDT #2039 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A cross between Million Dollar Baby and Hotel Rwanda ?
But a comedy.
Betsy HP - Apr 20, 2005 7:59:37 am PDT #2040 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
My love for Johnny Depp's cool just went up another notch.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 20, 2005 7:59:48 am PDT #2041 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I could go for a screwball comedy with Don Cheadle and Hilary Swank as the romantic leads, but even if genocide gets replaced with mass euthanasia I don't think there would be much funny to mine from it.
Kate P. - Apr 20, 2005 8:02:22 am PDT #2042 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Isn't Million Dollar Hotel the Mel Gibson movie with all the U2 songs? I bought the soundtrack to that for my housemate (huge U2 fan) and then copied the best songs for myself. I really like "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (title taken from the Salman Rushdie book, which... has nothing at all to do with the movie, IIRC). Also the Milla Jovovich song, but then again, I maybe have a little thing for Milla.