I was just watching that, too, Sumi! Bravo Two Zero. Sean looked great in the camis, and even looked good under torture. Since I missed the first 45 minutes, I didn't catch his character's last name until he was asked for it by his captors, and then I realized that we had the book the movie was based on at the bookstore (the history section was one of mine to stock and organize, so I remember those books more than others).
Gunn: Well, how horrible is this thing? Lorne: I haven't read the Book of Revelations lately, but if I was searching for adjectives, I'd probably start there.
'Hell Bound'
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Kathy A - Dec 26, 2005 8:44:54 pm PST #9363 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Gris - Dec 26, 2005 9:08:43 pm PST #9364 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Just got back from Geisha. I enjoyed it more than i expected based on the reviews - maybe that's why. I didn't have very high hopes. It was absolutely stunningly beautiful.
The first part was better than the second part, I thought. It got a little long in the tooth by the end.
Ziyi Zhang looks really good with blue eyes, though.
Atropa - Dec 26, 2005 9:28:31 pm PST #9365 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I think I just saw a vapor trail in Seattle as Jilli shot to the nearest theater.
We still haven't seen Kong yet, so there's no way I can talk Pete into costume-drama silliness. But oh yes, I plan on seeing it.
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2005 9:48:37 pm PST #9366 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I couldn't finish Bravo Two Zero. The torture scenes reminded me that I had less unpleasant things to look at...anywhere else.
Jessica - Dec 27, 2005 3:49:46 am PST #9367 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Jess, that's a reasonable excuse, but
Hey I never said it was a good handwave...
It got a little long in the tooth by the end.
Yeah, the momentum kind of died after Gong Li left. And the final scene was just creepy -- it was played as a Big Romantic Scene, but all I heard was "Ever since I saw you as a ten year-old, I thought you would grow up to be really hot, and that I could buy you."
tommyrot - Dec 27, 2005 6:38:15 am PST #9368 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.
WASHINGTON - The documentary “Hoop Dreams” and footage of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake are among the 25 movies picked this year for the National Film Registry, a compilation of significant films being preserved by the Library of Congress.
Fictional films chosen by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington range from the Buster Keaton comedy, “The Cameraman,” to the Christmas classic “Miracle on 34th Street” to the 1982 teen comedy “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.”
FTaRH is a classic! Woo hoo! And timely too, considering Vincent Schiavelli's death.
“The films we choose are not necessarily the ’best’ American films ever made or the most famous, but they are films that continue to have cultural, historical or aesthetic significance,” Billington said.
Oh.
Kathy A - Dec 27, 2005 7:07:46 am PST #9369 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Wasn't the Zapruder film in the first batch of Registry films?
Tom Scola - Dec 27, 2005 7:10:24 am PST #9370 of 10002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Wasn't the Zapruder film in the first batch of Registry films?
Yep. [link]
[Edit: OK, not the first batch]
Aims - Dec 27, 2005 7:32:36 am PST #9371 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Saw "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" this weekend. I got it and Willy Wonka for Christmas.
LOVED it. Loved, loved, loved it.
But I've had that damn song in my head for 3 days.
Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka, the amazing choclatier....
Allyson - Dec 27, 2005 10:10:44 am PST #9372 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I saw Brokeback yesterday, and I completely haven't been affected by a film in this way, ever.
I'm still wrapped in it, and I woke up thinking about it.
Part of me wishes I hadn't seen it, and i am not sure if I can ever see it again.
I'm sure that sounds all melodramatic, but it's true.