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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
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.
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.)
For Jess: [link]
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!
Sean kind of has a point.
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.
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.
Wow. The Fog remake is getting thrashed critically. One review compared it to using tracing paper for a tampon.
Ouch. Though, I really don't understand this recent spate of "Let's remake classic horror films with actual budgets and in-your-face special effects." Part of the reason the classic horror films worked was because they didn't have the budget to do massive gore, show-everything special effects. They left stuff up to the imagination.