And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.

Giles ,'Touched'


Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video  

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Gris - Oct 13, 2005 7:48:32 pm PDT #7976 of 10002
Hey. New board.

They say he literally disappears into this role.

They're right. The movie is pretty great, and Hoffman and Keener are both fabulous.

What's gonna be disappointing is if "Have you Heard?" (the OTHER Capote biopic coming out next year) has a better screenplay (Capote's was adequate, and I mostly didn't pay attention to it because acting. so. good. but it could have used work) and worse acting. Because then I'll just be sad that they cast the wrong Capote in the wrong movie.

ETA: Oh, and Contact mostly annoys me because the whole religion thing is really poorly executed. I'm not an atheist - I'm an agnostic who leans towards monotheism, doing serious research on conversion to Judaism at the moment - and it still sucks. And this is from the perspective of somebody who happens to think that faith in science IS a religion - I could write a whole essay on it (it's the second religion I've lost faith in in my time), but I'm not gonna cuz thread is about movies.

Basically, my point is, even as somebody who thinks the movie's intended points are not too shabby, the writing stinks to high heaven. I also hated the book a lot, though it was rather different, thematically.


Sean K - Oct 13, 2005 8:02:12 pm PDT #7977 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I also hated the book a lot, though it was rather different, thematically.

Yeah, I'd be really surprised if the book had the same message. That's not exactly Carl "The Demon Haunted World" Sagan's style.


§ ita § - Oct 13, 2005 8:02:52 pm PDT #7978 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I loved the book. I could groove on the idea of a message in pi for hours. And I think I did.


Sean K - Oct 13, 2005 8:03:51 pm PDT #7979 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I could groove on the idea of a message in pi for hours. And I think I did.

That was my favorite idea in the movie. It's nice and mind blowing. Even better than a Bible code, if you ask me.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 13, 2005 8:30:29 pm PDT #7980 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

I loved the book. I could groove on the idea of a message in pi for hours. And I think I did.

Unsurprisingly, I'm right there with you. I wish the movie had ended like the book, with Foster's character getting a printout of some iteration of pi where the numbers defined a circular signature on the Work.


Cashmere - Oct 14, 2005 3:24:16 am PDT #7981 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

I saw North Country tonight, followed by a Q&A with Charlize Theron and Niki Caro. I have to say, Charlize seems like a terribly nice person. It's a pity I want to smack every character she's ever played across the face.

The movie is good -- much better, IMO, than Whale Rider, which I thought was only okay. It ends in a really odd place, but it's a well-told story with a really good sense of place, and all the performances are excellent. (Including, probably, Charlize's, but she just bugs me.

Saw this trailer last night. It does look really good.

I just saw a sneak preview of Domino. It was all right, but not what I expected. The marketing make it out to be some sort of Domino Harvey biopic, but it's more of a heist movie. I don't feel like I really learned anything about Domino Harvey or how/why she became a bounty hunter.

I had thought it was a biopic, too. But the trailer ends such speculation. It's pretty much advertising a heist film.


sumi - Oct 14, 2005 4:29:34 am PDT #7982 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

So, Serenity's left my town. . . so has The Constant Gardener. A History of Violence has never been here.

I think that it's Wallace and Gromit this weekend.


Frankenbuddha - Oct 14, 2005 6:32:36 am PDT #7983 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

So is it gonna be Cash vs. Capote for the Biopic Oscar Battle?

And possibly vs. Murrow, though I suspect from what I've heard that Clooney's pic and Strathairn's perfromance are a little low key to generate that kind of excitement.


beekaytee - Oct 14, 2005 6:58:38 am PDT #7984 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

Signed, the woman who owns Untamed Heart.

My sistah, only I suspect for very different reasons.

Watched The Saint last night with Phillip Noyce's commentary. Noyce seems to have a heart as big as the great outdoors, and his professorial commentary speaks to a preparation you don't always see when folks sit down to do dvd extras. I learned a lot about Russia I didn't know.

The extras on Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence absolutely broke me. Even more than the actual, heartbreaking, story.

It's wonderful to listen to someone how loves what they do.


Kathy A - Oct 14, 2005 7:05:59 am PDT #7985 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Jessica, how was Sean Bean in North Country? I was pleasantly surprised to see him (briefly) pop up in the trailer, since, unless he's playing the heavy, he rarely has a role big enough to give him trailer time. I didn't see Flightplan yet (I'll probably Netflix it), but I heard he was good as the captain in that movie.