We has a good Christmas Movie Day yesterday. Saw Fun with Dick and Jane which was not as bad as we thought it might be, luckily. probably not worth going to the theater, but a good rental. We also saw King Kong, which, yes, was too long, but I was completely caught up in it. Naomi Watts is very good, and so beautiful that it is pure pleasure just to look at her face. The group I went wih was mixed on Jack Black--I liked him a lot but several peeps who were with us HATED him. We all thought it was lame that noone ever seemd to be aware of heights, even when they were on the top of a cliff or running along a crumbling rock wall or on top of the Empire State Building.
Nandi: I ain't her. Mal: Only people in this room is you and me.
'Heart Of Gold'
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Scrappy - Dec 26, 2005 7:01:40 am PST #9349 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 26, 2005 7:28:43 am PST #9350 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
As for that last, I guess getting slung around like a rag doll by a giant ape as he clambers over mountains and falls from ravines would be a pretty intensive form of acclimation therapy for one's acrophobia .
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2005 7:30:46 am PST #9351 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, she was probably thinking, "Well, at least I'm not about to be eaten by a T-Rex ."
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2005 7:32:26 am PST #9352 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm somewhat afraid of heights myself. But if I had been there, I would have been most traumatized by the penis/vagina dentata worm thingies .
Scrappy - Dec 26, 2005 8:16:53 am PST #9353 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I was embarrassed watching them. I never said they were offensive, and I don't think the two are equivalent.
I agree. I misread your earlier post, I think.
Betsy HP - Dec 26, 2005 10:14:55 am PST #9354 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2005 10:15:59 am PST #9355 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, my. That's young.
Betsy HP - Dec 26, 2005 10:30:23 am PST #9356 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
This whole mortality thing? I'm against it. Especially as applied to me.
DavidS - Dec 26, 2005 1:11:00 pm PST #9357 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dern. Vincent Schiavelli died.
Gnarly.
Jessica - Dec 26, 2005 2:56:47 pm PST #9358 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Saw Geisha. It's too long, but not as bad as I'd expected. It's overwrought campy melodrama posing as art, but I wouldn't regret watching it on DVD.
Ziyi Zhang is beautiful, but not remotely convincing as one trained in "the art of conversation" -- her character spends most of the film staring blankly into space, and then looking startled whenever anything happens. I can't tell if she had more lines and they were cut, or if having her be mostly silent was the plan all along. (And anyone who's seen House of Flying Daggers knows she *can* act, she's just not doing it here.)
Gong Li is just terrific, and staggeringly beautiful as always. She's got this kind of gothic slut geisha thing going, and it doesn't matter how historically believable she is or isn't, she's the most beautiful woman on the planet having loads of fun playing a slutty bitch with fantastic clothes. So it works. She should keep working on her English so she can get cast as Death.
Betsy, I know you had nitpicks about the makeup -- it's not much of a spoiler to say that they're in whiteface for the first half of the film, but after the war there's supposedly not enough money for Real Geisha Makeup or kimonos anymore, which is the reason given for the naturalistic look.