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Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Is March of the Penguins out? It's not playing anywhere in Chicago.
Saw Mysterious Skin today. It was very disturbing, and had some consistency issues, but was mostly very well done. The acting was especially notable, especially the main guy whose name I'm currently forgetting.
MT should always be a goth girl, but next time it should be in a movie I can enjoy the look, less surrounded by the pain.
Penguins is opening relatively slow, according to their website. Chicago's not getting it for two more weeks--it's only in NY and LA right now.
Tommyrot - That article forgot some of the (admittedly few) actually good ones. The Addams Family movies were spectacular - better than the show ever was. And, of course the Star Trek movies.
I also hear there's something coming out in September, based on some little watched quickly cancelled sci-fi show. It's gonna bomb.
And it's only at 2 theatres in NYC. Sadly, neither is the independent theatre with the comfy seats, big screens, and convenient-to-my-subway-line location, so DH and I went to a double feature of Film Forum's "Paramount Before the Code" series. Which was fabulous. This week is Trouble in Paradise and Blonde Venus. I hope we'll have time to go back at least once more.
I finally saw Night of the Living Dead, the 30th Anniversary Edition with added footage. It was pretty good, and I'm so glad it ended the way it did, with the very last survivor being shot because he was mistaken for a zombie. I didn't know if the movie would go there, and it did. Rock.
There was some baaaaad acting, though (even in the added footage), and that one guy looked like Rob Corddry. Barbra is like the most annoying character in the history of ever.
I agree that the Addams family movies were amazing. I'm not sure that the Star Trek movies count in relation to the article, as it seems to be concerning itself with long-after remakes, using a different cast. In the same vein, I don't think it counts Serenity or the X-Files movie, since they, too, use the same cast as the show. The examples seem to be a different genre from those.