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Nice acronym, Mom!
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Aims - Apr 28, 2006 3:01:33 pm PDT #1584 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sean K - Apr 28, 2006 3:23:28 pm PDT #1585 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Yeah, but that's a given.
Pix - Apr 28, 2006 8:38:58 pm PDT #1586 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Hiya. I know I almost never post here, but I started raving in Bitches and then remembered that we have a movie thread...
So, yes. Everyone must run, run, to the nearest movie theatre and go see Kinky Boots.
OMGWTF FUNNY and sweet and quirky and fun. Also phenomenal soundtrack and hot drag queens and did I mention GO SEE IT.
JohnSweden - Apr 28, 2006 10:51:37 pm PDT #1587 of 10001
I can't even.
Heh, you want hilarity? Check out CLASS OF '84 where a very young, very chubby Michael J. Fox gets abused (and I think eventually knifed) by Vince Van Patten's gang of psychotic teens. Also worthy for Roddy MacDowell giving a pop quiz to his class using a gun as motivation for them. Teensploitation trash of the highest order.
I saw that tonight! Okay, I was flicking from another movie because of the painful. That was so shot in Toronto. A&A records. Casa Loma. There was indeed a knifing of the Keaton. Al Waxman, the King of Kensington, plays a cop. Roddy McDowell cries, snaps and flips out like a mammal.
Nah, other than being a historical artefact, there's nothing redeemable about that movie. I miss A&A records, though.
Glamcookie - Apr 29, 2006 1:38:38 am PDT #1588 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
And I have no Clooney love.
None, at all? Or just platonic.
I think I've recently moved from none at all to platonic.
erikaj - Apr 29, 2006 3:37:57 pm PDT #1589 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
OK. Just curious.
Volans - Apr 29, 2006 10:57:34 pm PDT #1590 of 10001
move out and draw fire
OK, I have to admit I never watched Family Ties. That came on after my mother forbade TV in our house. And while I saw Casualties of War, I don't remember it. So I totally agree with this:
Jackson is really an excellent director of acting, not just possessed with remarkable casting ability
except for the part where he cast Liv Tyler in LOTR. Fox was so good in The Frighteners.
Another night, another movie: Donnie Darko night before last. After which I didn't fall asleep until 4:00 am, piecing the movie together and having a plane crash phobia attack. Very very good movie. I think it may be the least successful of the non-linears, as unlike, say, Mulholland Drive, I'm not sure the viewer could ever figure out what was going on without outside help, but still good. I can't believe we've had the DVD for about 4 years and hadn't watched it until now.
Sean K - Apr 29, 2006 11:13:55 pm PDT #1591 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I finally saw Walk the Line tonight. Holy smokes that was an incredible movie. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon were absolutely jaw dropping in their performances. And T-Bone Burnett continues to write the most amazing music. A masterful film all around.
Theodosia - Apr 30, 2006 4:12:16 am PDT #1592 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I've seen The Frighteners any number of times -- I think the tonal shift turned off most viewers before they'd developed the PJ love. For me, it's been MJF's best work. You do realize he was acting with a blue screen/tennis ball target for a huge fraction of the movie?
Jessica - Apr 30, 2006 6:35:48 am PDT #1593 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm not sure the viewer could ever figure out what was going on without outside help, but still good.
Maybe the reason I found the movie so irritating is that I was never confused about what was going on. I was confused about why the hell I should care, but the plot seemed pretty self-explanatory.