'Serenity'
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.
What did Judd bulk up for?
As far as I can tell, Monster In Law is about a snotty WASPish woman being horrified that her son has brought home a Latina fiancée. A comedy about that, I mean.
The thought makes me cringe, despite ample opportunities, I'm sure, for Vartan to be affable.
I don't so much see it as being a Latina issue... I imagine if Vartan's character brought home the Virgin Mary as his fiance Fonda's would fault her for being holier-than-thou.
Well, I saw the trailer after the one for Guess Who, so I was kinda skewed that way. I have no urge to see it cold and find another interpretation.
I just unexpectedly ran across the climactic stained glass skylight scene of Suspiria while channel surfing. Argento was so over-the-top they must have needed rockets to get the actors to set
I just watched about half an hour (all I could stand) of that, myself. Yikes.
In other news, 11 minutes of behind-the-scenes on Sin City.
Were you watching the Bravo 100 scares thing? Even though I don't like scares and avoid horror movies--they just make me uncomfortable, rather than exhilarated-- I really found myself watching the whole four hours of the thing with my hands over my eyes at certain scenes.
It's a very good special, though-- they bought rights to all the scenes, and didn't skimp on the gore. Plus they had practically everyone-- even Dario Argento-- commenting on the thing.
Did that feature Audition? I think it's what made me go out and rent it.
Well, stay in and Netflix it.
No, they were playing Suspiria on IFC earlier today. Though I have seen the 100 scariest moments special, and really liked it. (It was my first exposure to The Audition too, though I've not yet worked up the nerve to rent the latter...)
Did that feature Audition? I think it's what made me go out and rent it.
Yes. I covered my eyes for Audition. Why did you want to rent it? I had no idea you were into horror-- and that seemed to be the most horrific film on the list by far.
ETA: I should be careful when griping about lack of scares—I just unexpectedly ran across the climactic stained glass skylight scene of Suspiria while channel surfing. Argento was so over-the-top they must have needed rockets to get the actors to set.
Ahh, the first and last movie to ever put me under my seat. Nothing, and I mean nothing, has ever freaked me out like the first 15 minutes of that movie (the scene discussed above is part of that). The big feeding scene in TROUBLE EVERY DAY came closest (some of Cronenberg has come close to that as well), but that was more sad and disturbing than central nervous system disrupting. It's intersting become completely jaded about scary movies when you're 13.
Incidentally, while nothing else of his is quite as OTT, DEEP RED, INFERNO, TENEBRAE and OPERA are all worthy Argento flicks (strong stomachs required for most of these, though - he doesn't stint on the pate')