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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.
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.
And I have no Clooney love.
None, at all? Or just platonic.
I think I've recently moved from none at all to platonic.
OK. Just curious.
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.
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.
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?
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.
was confused about why the hell I should care
Yeah, me too. A non-linear should be more involving than a linear, to account for the work the viewer has to do to piece things together.
Wasn't sure if I got it, because I rapidly stopped caring. Now I don't remember enough to say.
I think I found the director's cut kind of irritating (for large part because of the changes in the musical cues, and a lesser part because it was more fun before it put in all the explanations of what was going on), but I liked the released version of DD as a mood piece.