Just got back from a screening of Tristan +Isolde, which BF is reviewing. It was baaaaad. It was attractive people with paper-thin characters suffering while being lovingly photographed. I told BF it was the OC in Leather tunics. However, if I was 13 years old, I think I would love this movie--due to the many male model types brooding and striding about, and the tragic love, which is expressed not through craxy passionate sex, but through slow motion kissing in close-up with backlighting.
As Willow goes, so goes my nation.
Oz ,'Selfless'
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Scrappy - Jan 11, 2006 8:59:03 pm PST #9804 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 12, 2006 3:11:37 am PST #9805 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Can anyone think of recent genre movies that featured zombies, ghosts and just about any characters who are kinda sorta life-challenged?
I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS definitely goes into the good dead vs. the evil dead.
Actually, Jackson's DEAD/ALIVE, although not so much with the good dead, makes up with double-extra zombie & mom issues.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 3:56:05 am PST #9806 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Man, way to harsh on The OC.
Nutty - Jan 12, 2006 5:46:35 am PST #9807 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Just got back from a screening of Tristan +Isolde
Ha! Complete with plus sign, like that other Romeo & Juliet. Are there any drag queen sidekicks and gunplay?? Anybody dance around the room to Freddie Mercury? I would think up an example of funny anachronism from that Richard Gere Lancelot movie, but I can't think of a single funny thing about it.
Scrappy - Jan 12, 2006 7:51:16 am PST #9808 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
NO anachronisms, unless you count the reading of a John Donne poem, which wasn't, of course WRITTEN YET. @@
Betsy HP - Jan 12, 2006 7:56:16 am PST #9809 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Nothing will ever top the use of the Mozart Requiem to close out Elizabeth. Well, something no doubt will, and then I'll complain about it.
Volans - Jan 12, 2006 7:57:26 am PST #9810 of 10002
move out and draw fire
So the "love potion" wasn't Rohipnol?
tommyrot - Jan 13, 2006 6:39:56 am PST #9811 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.
1. Dogma
2. Constantine
3. The Final Confliect: Omen III
4. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
5. Devil's Playground
Frankenbuddha - Jan 13, 2006 6:57:01 am PST #9812 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Top five God-vs-Devil films
No love for the Cook/Moore/Donen BEDAZZLED? Oh the (in)humanity.
You fill me with intertia.
Strega - Jan 13, 2006 7:17:13 am PST #9813 of 10002
That was my first thought as well!
It's kind of a boring list, considering they could have included things like The Last Temptation of Christ. Or The Devil in Miss Jones. Gosh, that would be an excellent double feature.