Summer movies I wanna see:
- Layer Cake: British heist movie. What's not to like? There was also something about the director of this is directing something else but I can't remember now...
- Mysterious Skin: Araki is hit or miss but this one sounds good. Also, Michelle Trachtenberg!
- Howl's Moving Castle: Miyazaki!!
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:
- Laura: Noir goodness.
- Captain Blood: Errol Flynn! Pirates! Woot!
- Team America: World Police: America, Fuck Yeah! The first 15 minutes are the funniest, IMO.
ETA: Director of Layer Cake is directing X-Men 3.
Weekend movies so far:
Bridge on the River Kwai
That's it for now. I'd never seen the movie before, so the way the ending played out was a complete surprise. I don't think that a modern Hollywood studio would have let things play out like they did back then.
Actually, he did, Jones just wasn't listed in the end credits.
Huh. I didn't think it sounded like him.
The Barbra Streisand-Kris Kristofferson version of A Star Is Born. She can sing. He tries to sing material that doesn't really suit his voice. They establish sexual magnetism better than love.
Other than that, it's two-plus hours of Barbra vs. Kris fighting over who can sport the lowest neckline. Kris wins, because the MPAA lets him go shirtless more often without prohibitive rating problems.
Mysterious Skin: Araki is hit or miss but this one sounds good. Also, Michelle Trachtenberg!
And Joseph Gordon Levitt!
I'd never seen the movie before, so the way the ending played out was a complete surprise. I don't think that a modern Hollywood studio would have let things play out like they did back then.
Which is really a shame. Bridge on the River Kwai has one of my all-time favorite endings.
Bridge on the River Kwai has one of my all-time favorite endings.
It really was good. I have yet to put my finger on
why
I found the ending so satisfying, but I did.
Huh. I didn't think it sounded like him.
That's because he was
still whining like Anakin instead of being cool and collected
like the Vader we know.
I have yet to put my finger on why I found the ending so satisfying, but I did.
I'm sure part of the satisfaction is from just how UN-Hollywood it is.
Saw the European release of Brazil at one of our art-house theatres last night. Midnight showing, and my first time seeing it. Still full of the "huh" and brain-overflowiness of it all.
It really was good. I have yet to put my finger on why I found the ending so satisfying, but I did.
Because it was right, rather than constructed for an audience.
My weekend movie:
Apocalypse Now, Redux.
That is one helluva movie, there. And it really didn't feel 3+ hours long. There was only one added-back-in scene that I didn't think was needed.
