I still haven't seen Batman Begins. (We went to see Howl's Moving Castle last night instead) Next weekend we're out of town, so it'll have to wait until 4th of July weekend.
Granted, we still haven't seen HHGTTG...
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Sheryl - Jun 19, 2005 3:51:08 pm PDT #4402 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Anne W. - Jun 19, 2005 4:12:49 pm PDT #4403 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I have yet to see Batman Begins, but I just saw Layer Cake. Excellent caper movie with all sorts of twistiness, and fantastic acting. Daniel Craig looks eerily like Steve McQueen.
Unfortunately, this film completely ruined Duran Duran's "Ordinary World" for me in a way that Reservoir Dogs apparently ruined "Stuck in the Middle" for a lot of people.
Plus, Colm Meany! Good stuff all around.
Lee - Jun 19, 2005 5:15:34 pm PDT #4404 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Consuela and I saw the Batman. No Serenity trailer, and we both liked it, but didn't love it. Neither of us could figure out why it didn't grab us as much as it did others, other than neither of us are really superhero fans, plus it seemed predictable to me.
Gris - Jun 19, 2005 5:17:07 pm PDT #4405 of 10002
Hey. New board.
I finally saw Batman.
I honestly don't think a cinematic experience has ever given me a bigger payoff. And I think most fans of the comics must agree with me - it was just so RIGHT.
As everybody's said.
Also, I actually liked Katie Holmes. I didn't like her character very much, but in some ways I blame the writing for that: she was forced to deliver a lot of the movie's Inspirational Messages, which I never love. Even when Bale was delivering such lines (Trailer Lines, I call them sometimes) I didn't love it, but they were a much smaller percentage of his dialogue.
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2005 5:41:47 pm PDT #4406 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I saw not one but two trailers for Chocolate Factory. The first was one I'd already seen, with the goofy song. The second one made it look like an actual movie, although I still have reservations.
Scrappy - Jun 19, 2005 5:47:54 pm PDT #4407 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Anne, I loved that film! I was SO in love with Daniel Craig after it.
Steph L. - Jun 19, 2005 5:56:15 pm PDT #4408 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"Would you like to see my mask?"
Which made me think, "How do you like my darkness now?"
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 19, 2005 6:04:38 pm PDT #4409 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Katie Holmes is suffering in comparison with Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Liam Neeson. It's not that she did a bad job at all, I just don't think she's an Oscar-worthy talent like everyone else with a speaking part in the movie.
Tonight the local Fox News broadcast aired 5-second interview clips with Bale and Caine and did a story about the film. Hilariously at one point they said "Christian Bale plays the part of the hero and Tom Cruise's fiance... Katie Holmes plays his childhood friend" with about a three second pause where the elipsis is. Either it was really odd phrasing or the newspeople were making a dig at the Greatest Love of All.
DebetEsse - Jun 19, 2005 6:11:50 pm PDT #4410 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The thing I didreally like about Katie Holmes is that she's not uber-pretty.
I liked the fight-scene style, for not being able to tell what's going on. Made it scarier, though, yes, frustrating.
We saw Howl's Moving Castle last night, which was good. We were debating the cultural Pedigree (I assumed the original author was British, which, it turns out, yes). I think that explains a lot of the difference from Myazaki's other stuff. And, after the preview for Mirrormask (which, omg I must see), I was thinking about how differently it would have played as a Henson (or BBC) film.
Gris - Jun 19, 2005 6:14:16 pm PDT #4411 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Katie Holmes is suffering in comparison with Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Liam Neeson. It's not that she did a bad job at all, I just don't think she's an Oscar-worthy talent like everyone else with a speaking part in the movie
Point.