Willow ,'End of Days'
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.
I wrote down a thesis somewhere to the effect that To Live and Die in L.A. is as total and exact a celluloid expression of the middle-80s as can be had. Gay anxiety, excessive displays of teh macho, cynicism, people literally printing money, hair gel, tight pants, short shorts, drugs, psychotic acts of revenge, flames, paranoia, abuse of power, and John Pankow's fishbelly-white butt. Perfect!
Plus, Wang Chung on the soundtrack!
Plus, Wang Chung on the soundtrack!
Everybody have fun tonight.
The girl on the left (plays Lucy?) could be Loona
Hmmm. A bit too traditionally pretty for Luna, I think. Although they could probably do a lot with make-up and a blond wig.
I really have to see "The Long Goodbye", it looks like. Altman's a bit of a hit-and-miss for me, i.e. loved "Gosford Park", "The Player", "McCabe & Mrs. Miller", lukewarm on "Nashville" and "Short Cuts", annoyed witless at "Pret-a-Porter".
Is Loona a blonde? I thought she had darker hair. Must to read again.
I am so bad at fandom.
"The Long Goodbye " is brilliant.
Another vote for loving Altman's The Long Goodbye.
Best entrance evah? Harry Lime certainly ranks in the top five, but I still think Tim Curry's entrance in Rocky Horror is my favorite.
That'd get my vote, though Vincent Price's thunder-punctuated "I HAVE ARRIVED!" in House of the Long Shadows is a contender too.
I really have to see "The Long Goodbye", it looks like. Altman's a bit of a hit-and-miss for me, i.e. loved "Gosford Park", "The Player", "McCabe & Mrs. Miller", lukewarm on "Nashville" and "Short Cuts", annoyed witless at "Pret-a-Porter".
This is all true for me, too (except for Short Cuts, which isn't as great as the best Altman, but is better than Nashville), but The Long Goodbye is up there with McCabe & Mrs. Miller. My other fave-rave Altmans not on this list are Thieves Like Us and (to a slightly lesser extent) California Split.
Okay, Moulin Rouge is on VH-1, and I'm reconsidering my previous underwhelmed-ness.
I still think it's got HUGE flaws, and a lot of them. But even the flaws are done in a grandiose way, and I think it's that grandiosity -- along with Ewan's unbelievable way of lighting up the screen -- that redeems it.
But even the flaws are done in a grandiose way, and I think it's that grandiosity -- along with Ewan's unbelievable way of lighting up the screen -- that redeems it.
Yep. I freely admit it's a flawed movie, but that doesn't change my love for it.