But Finding Nemo? Excluding the beatiful animation, the movie was awful. Horrible dialogue and acting.
Wow. Now you have to be dead to me. Shame, really.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Gris - May 26, 2005 8:15:28 am PDT #3383 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Sue - May 26, 2005 8:18:19 am PDT #3384 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Have you tried watching LoA on the big screen? Because that made all the difference for me.
I have the attention span of a tse-tse fly, and so many movies that I have been unable to sit through at home just came to life in a movie theatre. I tried to watch McCabe and Mrs. Miller recently, and it was so dark on my TV I turned it off after 20 minutes.
I need to live somewhere with a great rep cinema.
DavidS - May 26, 2005 8:19:13 am PDT #3385 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love Ellen Degeneres' performance in Nemo.
Betsy, they played one of your favorite movies on cable this morning: Swashbuckler. Robert Shaw! Young James Earl Jones! Young Genvieve Bujold! Going over cliffs in banana carts! All the actors of the 70s who never got a shot at costume dramas.
Hayden - May 26, 2005 8:20:18 am PDT #3386 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I thought that the 2nd LOTR movie was the keeper, myself, although I liked all of them.
Also, I've only seen McCabe & Mrs. Miller on DVD, but I'd sure love to see it on the big screen.
JZ - May 26, 2005 8:23:05 am PDT #3387 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I love them for including Double Indemnity, In A Lonely Place and The Lady Eve, but The Awful Truth over It Happened One Night?
I love TAT, think it's utterly brilliant, but IHON was several years earlier, and it's just the damned Shakespeare's Collected Works of romantic comedies: love it or hate it, it was early and enormous and everything in the genre that's been made since has been either standing in, fleeing from, or standing back and observing or deconstructing its shadow. As much as I love It's A Wonderful Life, (and as much as I think it's in many ways Capra's best and richest and darkest), if the listmakers were trying to stick to just one film per director, I'd still have to go with IHON for sheer seminal influential ur-genre-exemplarosity.
Jesse - May 26, 2005 8:25:37 am PDT #3388 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I heard something about that list that made it pretty clear they were picking their favorites, not the Best or Most Influential. Which that page doesn't indicate at all.
Hayden - May 26, 2005 8:27:50 am PDT #3389 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I've never seen In a Lonely Place, but the PF movie geeks just rated it higher than Rashomon in a deathmatch, so I'm definitely interested.
DavidS - May 26, 2005 8:28:49 am PDT #3390 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've never seen In a Lonely Place, but the PF movie geeks just rated it higher than Rashomon in a deathmatch, so I'm definitely interested.
In A Lonely Place is great. It's more like a European movie about a fucked up relationship than a Hollywood movie. All kinds of shades of gray and tragic.
Jessica - May 26, 2005 8:36:20 am PDT #3391 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Invisible Green's post looks like English....
Dana - May 26, 2005 8:36:41 am PDT #3392 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
...but it comes out in crazy talk!