Xander ,'Empty Places'
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Liese, I'm pretty sure it was a Jatravartid
What do you mean there's a Michael Bay Movie I kind of what to see???
I've been asking myself that for MONTHS. The answer, it seems, is "Multiple wet Ewan MacGregors in a sci-fi dystopia, also with Djimon Hounsou and Scarlett Johannsen."
Hee hee hee. From last week's Entertainment Weekly:
What does Natalie Portman think of George's ability to write romantic dialogue?
"I'll take the Fifth on that," says Portman. "It's fun stuff to work on, but it's not Shakespeare."
Liese, I'm pretty sure
Oh, ok. I'll go along with that.
I also really want to see The Island.
It's scary.
I saw an ad for The Island for the first time this morning, and had to god I thought it was a remake of Logan's Run until the title card came along. (I believe there is a remake of Logan's Run in the works, anyway, so the hot-iggerant-babes-dystopia genre seems to be having quite the revival.)
This morning I watched Strangers on a Train. How did I not know that the classic shot of "everybody in the audience look that way, except for the one creepy person in the middle who keeps looking at you" comes from this movie? How did I not know that the denouement involved a carousel gone berserk? If I had known, the movie would have been higher on the Netflix queue.
I'll say this for Hitchcock: his psychology may often have been overwrought cockamamie, but he knew how to come up with an interesting new visual.
I love Strangers on a Train. Tit for tat.
Hee. From Salon's review of "Unleashed":
But director Louis Leterrier trusts Li to carry the moment, and he does, inventing a wholly new type of character: He's the first Dickensian orphan action star.
"Please, sir, may I kill some more?"
How did I not know that the classic shot of "everybody in the audience look that way, except for the one creepy person in the middle who keeps looking at you" comes from this movie?
I think of that as a Felllini thing.
I saw an ad for The Island for the first time this morning, and had to god I thought it was a remake of Logan's Run until the title card came along.
I'm still not convinced it isn't.
I'll say this for Hitchcock: his psychology may often have been overwrought cockamamie, but he knew how to come up with an interesting new visual.
I think the key to understanding Hitchcock is that the psychology was there only to get to the next interesting visual. Hitchcock came up with the set pieces - it was the writer's job to join the dots. Sometimes it worked out better than others, but oh those dots.