'Life of the Party'
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.
Substitute Tess of the D'Ubervilles for Wuthering Heights, and this is me.
Ack! Ack! Two books I hate!
I was so disappointed when I finally read Wuthering Heights. This is the romantic hero? This is the famed Heathcliff? He's a puppy-killing psychopath!
And I will spare everyone my Hardy tirade.
She's very good as one of the leads in the "Ultraviolet" though, playing a very modern, poised and rather steely physician.
I spent approximately two hours of my first viewing of the P&P miniseries trying to figure out where in God's name I knew Jane from. When I realized, I was rather startled. "Jane! You grew up to hunt vampires!"
I still need to see that. Stringer's in it.
Actually, I pretty much hate all Hardy, but especially Jude the Obscure, after the reading of which I wanted to slit my own throat.
So did I, but I loved it. Huh.
Aeon Flux opens December 2.
She's very good as one of the leads in the "Ultraviolet" though, playing a very modern, poised and rather steely physician.
In which she is stunningly attractive in a Scully-on-ice way.
I need to see this bloody movie.
Early reviews of Harry Potter are good - metacritic scales them to a 100 from The Hollywood Reporter and a 90 from Variety.
Eh, I thought it was only okay.
Far too episodic, with very little background texture and zero emotional arc for Harry (or anyone else).
Granted, it's a huge and massively plotty book, and streamlining it for the screen couldn't have been easy, but they essentially stripped away everything that gives the book interest, leaving only set pieces. Even at nearly 3 hours, it felt rushed because so little happened in-between the major action scenes. It felt like just slogging through events, rather than a smoothly flowing narrative.
Newell also isn't even remotely able to get as good performances out of the kids as Cuarón did. Radcliffe in particular is in over his head in several scenes, which hurts the climactic scenes immensely.
I saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Jarhead last night. Enjoyed them both. Kiss is all about nothing except how clever Shane Black is, but since he is pretty clever and Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr. are having so much fun, it's a good watch. Jarhead is a bit too long, but gorgeous to watch and not a bad perfromance in it. It is interesting to see a war movie that is not about war at all but is about what the condition of being a soldier is and what that does to you.