Anybody seen Code 46, a Tim Robbins/Samantha Morton futuristic movie from 2003? I was flicking channels last night and caught most of it and found it kind of haunting and interesting. Major cool points for having Mick Jones of the Clash singing Should I Stay or Should I Go in the karaoke bar.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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JohnSweden - Apr 17, 2006 7:52:47 am PDT #1340 of 10001
I can't even.
Jessica - Apr 17, 2006 7:55:30 am PDT #1341 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Code 46
I barely remember it now, but I remember wishing it were better, because I really liked the premise and the actors.
Hayden - Apr 17, 2006 7:58:19 am PDT #1342 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
That's in my queue. I'm hit-or-miss on Winterbottom films, but I think they're all worth a viewing.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 17, 2006 8:22:54 am PDT #1343 of 10001
"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
I think I may be the only person besides Winterbottom himself who liked 9 Songs for the music and concert footage as well as the sex.
Hayden - Apr 17, 2006 8:43:35 am PDT #1344 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Some of the reviewers seemed to like those sections much more than the sex, too.
JohnSweden - Apr 17, 2006 10:31:23 am PDT #1345 of 10001
I can't even.
I barely remember it now, but I remember wishing it were better, because I really liked the premise and the actors.
Yeah, I think it was maybe me filling in the spaces, because it was a less is more kinda of film, if you get me. I also just recently read Nekropolis by Maureen McHugh, which happens to be about an oppressive, slightly futuristic society, with an against all odds "love" story, written in a slightly surrealistic fashion. Huh.
Scrappy - Apr 17, 2006 4:06:35 pm PDT #1346 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I saw The Notorious Bettie Page last night. It was buoyed by a wonderful performance by Gretchen Mol and a couple of lively supporting folk. There were some deliberate stylistic choices in terms of narrative and use of stock footage and acting style which violently divided the folks in our party. People seemed to either kinda like it--or at least to think the choices were interesting--or HATE it. We ran into Eli Roth, writer/director of scary-type movies, in the lobby (who the BF knows a bit) and he was incredibly vocal, actually rather obnoxious, in his dislike. Funny thing, his glamorous Hollywood date was ... his parents.
Gris - Apr 17, 2006 6:06:53 pm PDT #1347 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I kinda liked Amanda Bynes' character in Robots. I don't remember why.
Basically, though, if you're not watching it on IMAX, probably no reason to watch it. It was good for the pretty (especially considering I was almost a Computer Graphics major, and the method that that company - they also made Ice Age - uses for CG is, in my opinion, even gorgeouser than Pixar's method).
Volans - Apr 17, 2006 10:07:56 pm PDT #1348 of 10001
move out and draw fire
MSN did their Top 10 Scariest Movies Ever:
10. Blair Witch Project
9. The Uninvited
8. The Ring
7. The Innocents
6. The Others
5. The Tenant
4. Don't Look Now
3. Carnival of Souls
2. The Shining
1. The Haunting (1963)
Discuss.
(My immediate two cents: I didn't find BWP scary at all, and I'd include Suspiria. )
Kathy A - Apr 17, 2006 10:16:06 pm PDT #1349 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
BWP freaked me out completely. In the beginning, I was rather bored, but the tension got ramped up in the last hour and by the final run through the old house, my sister and I were practically pounding on each other's forearms (last time we did that was for Poltergeist). I didn't quite get what the guy was doing in the final shot, but as the lights came up, my sister stared at me with wide eyes and said, "He was standing in the corner, facing the wall!!!" and I put it together and shrieked, "Oh, my God!"
I wouldn't watch it again, though, just because I know I couldn't get that same feeling a second time.
Sad thing about that list is that the only other film I've seen on it was The Others, and that was the edited-for-TV version on TBS.