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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.
There was only one added-back-in scene that I didn't think was needed.
Was it the random plantation scene with the worst dialogue in the movie? -- "Don't you like brandy?" "No, I like brandy, I just don't want any right now."
Actually, I kind of liked that scene, at least up until it was just Sheen and the chick. I liked the French patriarch driving everyone away from his table, and the feeling that this happened every night. It didn't necessarily move the story along, but it paced Sheen's journey out, and added a bit of political commentary.
No, it was the playmates-for-fuel scene. I didn't think it did much for the movie at all, really. And I probably would've left out Laurence (or I guess, Larry ) Fishburne's speech about Arvin getting shot.
(edited to spell "Laurence" correctly, so I'm talking about the right guy)
Just got back from Revenge of the Sith.
Um. If this movie is considered good compared to the first 2 prequels, I am even more glad that I never saw them.
There were a few things I liked about the movie, but on the whole -- it was pretty bad. Yoda cool was, though.
The RotS reviews coming in are making me glad it's damn near impossible for me to get to the theatre anymore.