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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.
DavidS, I just ordered a fabulous new book on Brigitte Lin. Here's a great review of The Last Star of The East: Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia and Her Films (2005)
Coool! I was trying to explain the cultural significance of this to JZ, but just decided I need to show her Swordsman II.
Did you see where both Ple and I talked about how our candyb books are next to our Wonderfalls brass monkeys?
Next to your brass monkies? Cool. That is a great honor and makes me very happy.
and makes me very happy.
In a not so strange coincidence, that's how Ple and I feel when we see our candyb books. Also, Ple gave me my brass monkey, so I get to fairly bask in the Buffista beneficence.
In movie news, I'm psyched to see the Bad News Bears remake. In part because Billy Bob looks well cast as Walter Matthau, but also liking the idea that Linklater will subsidize his indie films with smarter-than-average kid films. Plus, of course, I am all too well attuned to the Little League milieu.
I have a Return of the Sith question: Wouldn't you think that George Lucas has enough money to have gotten James Earl Jones for that five words or so? I mean, really.
At the very least he could have looped something. It's not like you have to sync the lips.
SW:E3-RotS easter eggs: [link]
One is the Milenium Falcoln making a cameo, which I caught. Another is that Jar-Jar does speak.
I saw Crash this afternoon--I thought it was an excellent parable about race issues today. Yes, the characters were all two-dimensional; yes, the level of coincidences involved was astronomical; and yes, the writer/director kept hammering home the same points until the audience feels numb, but it really left an impact on me. For me, though, the worst scene was when the Matt Dillon character groped Thandie Newton in a sheer power play with her husband . That really hit my squick factor in a big way, and could very well give me nightmares.
For as heavy as that movie was, though, I was made very happy when they showed The March of the Penguins trailer beforehand! I saw it when it was linked way upthread, and nearly died of the cute then, but seeing it on the bigscreen was even better. The audience members around me were all buzzing about it, and I even heard a few "That's another film to see this summer!" around me.
Just watched the newest Island trailer, and, wow, it really is Logans Run II: Bigger, Better, and More 2005. And Ewan's accent seems almost painfully bad in it, shamefully.
Both stars are pretty durned hot, though.
I'll see it if and only if the reviews convince me.
I have a Return of the Sith question: Wouldn't you think that George Lucas has enough money to have gotten James Earl Jones for that five words or so? I mean, really.
Actually, he did, Jones just wasn't listed in the end credits.
Summer movies I wanna see:
Corwood, In a Lonely Place is very good and is also Richard B. from Versus fave movie of all time.
Movies I've watched so far this weekend:
ETA: Director of Layer Cake is directing X-Men 3.