Saw Capote last night. Very depressing, but also fantastically good. Philip Seymour Hoffman is amazing, and Catherine Keener is very good, too, and Clifton Collins is no slouch. Basically, the acting's great, the story's intriguing, the direction is artsy, the movie is really, really awesome.
Gunn: Well, how horrible is this thing? Lorne: I haven't read the Book of Revelations lately, but if I was searching for adjectives, I'd probably start there.
'Hell Bound'
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Gris - Oct 09, 2005 11:39:03 am PDT #7752 of 10002
Hey. New board.
sumi - Oct 09, 2005 2:53:20 pm PDT #7753 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Curse of the Were-Rabbit is totally one of the movies that I must see.
Polter-Cow - Oct 09, 2005 4:52:03 pm PDT #7754 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just saw Crash, which was a really good movie. Definitely gets the Polter-Cow Seal of Approval. Of course, I'm a sucker for movies about intersecting lives (cf. Magnolia, Happiness ), but this one was squarely focused on race relations, and I think it worked in a very real way, looking at the way people can react in different ways at different times. All the characters were painted in shades of grey. I also really liked the music.
Sean K - Oct 09, 2005 6:59:30 pm PDT #7755 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I just saw Crash, which was a really good movie.
You're of course speaking of the most recent one, about lives intersecting in LA, and not the freaky Cronenberg movie about people who get off sexually by being in car crashes, yes?
Polter-Cow - Oct 09, 2005 7:09:27 pm PDT #7756 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yes. Is that one not a really good movie?
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2005 7:12:52 pm PDT #7757 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I liked it. But it's very strange and I think some find it disturbing.
Atropa - Oct 09, 2005 7:23:58 pm PDT #7758 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Mirrormask.
Oh my god, Mirrormask.
If it is playing ANYWHERE near you, you must go see it. It's beautiful. Gorgeous, gorgeous visuals that I want to overlay on the world around me.
Scrappy - Oct 09, 2005 8:44:51 pm PDT #7759 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I just saw A History of Violence.
Liked it, although I thought it fell apart in the last act. Viggo is AMAZING. There is a scene where he stands up as Tom Stall and then walks toward Ed Harris and literally turns into Joey before our eyes. His whole physicality changes.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 09, 2005 8:49:52 pm PDT #7760 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
Viewing #5 of Serenity may be it for me for a week or two. I've seen it enough times in a short enough period that I started to drift off early on, though once the heist got underway the action was moving fast enough to keep me engaged. But during the fight at Inara's I found myself imagining Companion self-defense training with the Operative falling victim to pepper perfume spray, nerve Astroglide, or a high-powered "back massager" with its batteries set on overload .
Best line this viewing: "At last, we can retire and give up this life of crime."
Mal was right: Fanti is prettier than Mingo.
I noticed for the first time that Kaylee actually stepped on a wounded Jayne on her way to fuss over Simon after the folks on the mule narrowly escaped the Reavers.
DavidS - Oct 09, 2005 10:05:15 pm PDT #7761 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh my god, Mirrormask.
I told you!
Hee to Matt's notation on the twins.