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.

I couldn't finish Bravo Two Zero. The torture scenes reminded me that I had less unpleasant things to look at...anywhere else.

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."

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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.

Wasn't the Zapruder film in the first batch of Registry films?

Wasn't the Zapruder film in the first batch of Registry films?

Yep. [link]

[Edit: OK, not the first batch]

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....

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.

I was trolling LJ somewhere and came across a post about Brokeback Mountain to the effect of how the journalist could develop no sympathy for the characters because they "weren't smart enough" to move away to San Francisco.

Womanfully, I resisted the temptation to dope-slap, because somebody that far away from the point would likely be facing the wrong way anyway, and I'd only manage a mild boxing of the ears.

I did not find it overwhelmingly affecting, as a movie -- I tended to watch it on a meta level -- but I think overall that it did what it intended to do. I think it was Jessica who reported that it was a movie that popped up in your thoughts a day or two later, and I find that's true.

Yeah, I've been thinking about it a lot since I saw it last week. And I didn't cry watching the movie itself, but I cried watching the stupid Logo special, which was basically cast and crew sitting around saying, "Making this movie was awesome, everyone was awesome, it was great," because it reminded me about all the stuff in the movie.