Willow ,'Storyteller'
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Just the teaser alone is possibly one of the most gorgeous pieces of animation I've ever seen.
Holy motherfucking Jesus. I thought you were exaggerating. But wow. They...that's all animated? Really? They didn't film real stuff and seamlessly integrate it? It's like the Uncanny Valley of backgrounds.
I am warching Once Upon a Time in the West right now, AIFG. Evil Henry Fonda is filling me with glee.
I love the hell out of that movie.
SO good. I might hazard a suggestion that it is a better film than, dare I say it, The Wild Bunch.
Once Upon a Time in the West
I watched that recently, too! Claudia Cardinale is smoking Hot.
Isn't she? And her scene with Fonda is incredibly sexy, and since she was 30 and he was 63, I found that rather amazing. It's skeevy--but the skeeviness comes from the characters' situation and not from his age. And Bronsn and Robards are terrific. The film has lots of ridiculous plot contrivances (Rich, crippled railroad owner travels with NO SERVANTS?!?) but if you take it as melodrama, it's sublime.
Watched Love, Actually last night. Despite Alan Rickman and Colin Firth, I didn't love the movie. It wasn't bad, but it didn't fully work for me. I thought it tried a little hard.
One thing that really wasn't clear to me - what was the relationship between Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson?
I felt the same way about the movie, Raq. I thought it both worked and didn't work, but the problems were inherent in the concept itself: by cramming so many storylines into one movie, they all get short-shrifted. But I still really enjoyed it. It made me literally smile till my face hurt.
Hee. The review I wrote describes it as "Happiness without the masturbation."
what was the relationship between Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson?
Good friends. Her brother was Hugh Grant.
It's one of my favorites. I'd planned on watching it when I get home today!
Good friends. Her brother was Hugh Grant.
I got that her brother was Hugh Grant, but I wasn't sure that good friends would hug each other like that (man wrapping himself around the woman from behind). And I certainly didn't think that a good friend would say, "It's not that I'm not sympathetic your wife just died, but bye."
Or maybe it's just that her character was a jerk.
P-C, that's it exactly. The story I would've cut first was the guy who goes to America to get laid, as that didn't seem to have anything to do with love. But there was some US-British relations subtext going on, so I guess they left that story in there for that reason.