My sense of Badlands is that is it less preposterous and gently dull than either Days of Heaven or The Thin Red Line, which makes it the best Terence Malick movie I have ever seen. Slooooooow as all get-out, but that's intentional. (I do think Days of Heaven is prettier, but pointless.)
Tell you the truth, I saw both Badlands and Days of Heaven as part of the same film festival while I was an undergrad, and I could barely recall either the other day. I think Badlands will stick with me better these days (what with the clean-livin' and all), but I want to re-watch Days of Heaven before issuing any kind of opinion. I also liked The Thin Red Line quite a bit.
It amazes me how Sissy Spacek was all desctructive characters in her youth, Carrie and all, and ended up playing gentle moms in middle-age. Kind of cute -- in the heart of every lunch-maker and mess-cleaner-upper lies the urge to KILL!!!
So true! In fact, I suspect it was her gentleness that made her such an effective blithe accomplice/crazed dirty-bagged killer.
But why couldn't a killer look like that?
Not that KT wasn't brilliant, but SS should have played "Serial Mom"
Nicholas is clearly planning to be grandfather to Superman.
Watch. He'll be an awful klutz and beg people to call him "Kevin".
Nicholas is clearly planning to be grandfather to Superman.
Were that so, he'd have named the kid Jor-El.
Serenity on Friday. I liked it more than any episode in the series. The stakes seemed higher, the characterizations more true, and the story seemed more taut and well-thought.
Corwood and I are as one. I even saw more than one movie over the weekend - Serenity and Corpse Bride. I felt about Corpse Bride the same way I felt about Nightmare Before Christmas. Wonderful visually but lacking in emotion. I just didn't feel any sort of connection with the characters. And I don't like the Elfman music for either movie.
Were that so, he'd have named the kid Jor-El.
I don't think we're in strict continuity-land here.
Corwood and I are as one.
Words I love to read.
A friend has started the rumour that Cage, worried by global warming, is building a rocket-powered crib in his backyard so Kal-El can escape.
A friend has started the rumour that Cage, worried by global warming, is building a rocket-powered crib in his backyard so Kal-El can escape.
So he won't be invulnerable until he crash-lands on some other planet? Cool.
Too bad we're gonna explode, though.
Wonderful visually but lacking in emotion. I just didn't feel any sort of connection with the characters.
Yep, this was my response to "Nightmare." My DH liked it enough that I bought him the VHS (back in the day), but he's the stealth-goth.
I'm still hopeful about "Corpse Bride," but it probably won't be a "Grim Fandango."
