I didn't say he was anywhere close to Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler, Sean. But there are times he really bugs me. Those times happen to coincide with the times he's being super-schticky. Absolutely everything I saw (blessedly little) related to the Pink Panther remake comes to mind. And I've never seen a movie I totally loved him in, but that could just be because I haven't seen that many movies. Maybe Shopgirl will be that movie for me.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Gris - Oct 14, 2005 8:02:02 pm PDT #8012 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Scrappy - Oct 14, 2005 8:57:09 pm PDT #8013 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Just got back from Capote.
I had heard how great Hoffman was (and he totally was) but I was blown away by the guy who played perry Smith. His name is Clifton Collins and he was INCREDIBLE. Catherine Keener played Harper Lee and she was direct and poised and beautiful in a plain way. It was a pleasure to see a film which was about ideas and themes and never talked down to the audience or overexplained.
Volans - Oct 14, 2005 10:18:44 pm PDT #8014 of 10002
move out and draw fire
The conversation about vampire movies got me thinking and watching, as at one point I thought I had seen every vampire movie ever made (just before going to Romania).
I had totally forgotten that it was Jim Carrey in Once Bitten.
Jessica - Oct 15, 2005 1:11:35 pm PDT #8015 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I just got back from The Squid and the Whale, and it's really good. It's like a tighter, less heightened version of The Royal Tennenbaums. The writing and performances are all top-notch, to the point where they're almost uncomfortable to watch at times. (And, of course, I loved all the real Brooklyn locations they used.)
P.M. Marc - Oct 15, 2005 6:36:50 pm PDT #8016 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
For Jess: [link]
Sean K - Oct 15, 2005 7:13:20 pm PDT #8017 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Okay, I just read that link, and if I'd known how that movie ended, I would have tried harder to sit through it.
The badness, it burned, though. It BURNED!
Lee - Oct 15, 2005 7:21:35 pm PDT #8018 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Sean kind of has a point.
Jessica - Oct 15, 2005 8:10:01 pm PDT #8019 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
if I'd known how that movie ended, I would have tried harder to sit through it.
That's just the kind of defeatist attitude that will get you left behind with the Disco Nazis when the Rapture comes.
§ ita § - Oct 16, 2005 7:35:55 am PDT #8020 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Making of King Kong to hit stores before the movie hits theatres.
I'm not sure I care enough to be the target market, but bless Peter Jackson for changing up how things are done with the behind the scenes information.
Volans - Oct 16, 2005 10:30:25 am PDT #8021 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Wow. The Fog remake is getting thrashed critically. One review compared it to using tracing paper for a tampon.