I should watch
The Searchers
so I know what the hell you guys are talking about.
This is funny given the recent conversation in here:
BENDIS: That’s cool. Allan will be very happy. Favorite movie of all time?
WHEDON: My favorite movie for a long time was a dead heat between “The Bad and the Beautiful” and “Once Upon a Time in the West.” But the upstart winner is “The Matrix.”
And just for kicks:
BENDIS: Yeah, I’m completely alone. And you know how I know I’m completely alone? Not on DVD yet. So what’s the last great movie you’ve seen?
WHEDON: Okay, I did see some unexpected greatness in “Kong.” Amidst the hoke and the bloat was some transcendent movie making. It was like the “The Legend of 1900”: a great, lean flick trapped in a three-hour fat suit. But no, I do have a recent great, and it”s not, I don’t think it’s coincidence that the last great movie I watched wasn’t a movie. I’m way late to the game, but I have really good excuses. But I just watched the miniseries opener of “Battlestar Galactica” and I loved the toes off that bitch. I’m not positive what that phrase means. But tension, drama, humanity, and—alien spaceships. I was pretty floored. That’s my call.
At one point, I said (of Sunny), "I want that little girl." Joe replied, "We have that little girl."
He's not wrong, y'know.
I have discovered that movie is much better with the sound off. Beautiful art direction and costumes.
Also holding your thumb in front of Jim Carrey helps.
"Em! Bite the head off that elf!"
I have discovered that movie is much better with the sound off. Beautiful art direction and costumes.
IMO "the sound off" is only really necessary for the Jim Carrey scenes. "Picture off" works even better.
eta: Inevitable Jim Carrey Hateration cross-post.
Also holding your thumb in front of Jim Carrey helps.
If he'd just dialed it down about three notches, it would have been perfect.
That movie is total eye candy. So much to look at and so gorgeously, lovingly detailed.
Having never read the books, how many does the movie cover? The first? The first three?
And, I didn't mind Jim Carrey. He's hit and miss for me. SOmetimes I like him, sometimes he doesn't register, sometimes I want him to die a horrible death by being eaten by a talking ass.
And I ain't talking about Francis, either.
It covers the first three books.
He's hit and miss for me.
I just wish he could stop making every character all about him, and his ad libbing and faces and blah blah. The Count was over the top as it was.
I loved Jude Law's narration.
just wish he could stop making every character all about him, and his ad libbing and faces and blah blah.
Based on The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine, I have to lay part of the blame on the directors who don't reign him in -- it's clearly possible for him to give a good performance, but most of the directors he works with are too willing to let him run rampant.
it's clearly possible for him to give a good performance, but most of the directors he works with are too willing to let him run rampant
That's true. I remember a really early TV movie he did -- Doing Time on Maple Drive I think it was called -- and he was brilliant. I think most comedians who can call up that much manic energy and emotion can go the other way, too -- I think Robin Williams has given some decent dramatic performances, for instance. (Patch Adams aside, of course.)
