I just saw The Lake House too, and I have to agree with Jessica. Once I got over Keanu no longer really looking (or sounding) like he used to, I really enjoyed it. It's a nice little movie, and everyone's very likeable, and just, yeah. I liked it.
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Consuela - Jun 17, 2006 3:09:36 pm PDT #2331 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2006 3:11:32 pm PDT #2332 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can you whitefont and tell me how it turns out?
Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2006 3:15:21 pm PDT #2333 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Does Keanu spin the Earth around its axis backward in order to erase the last two years and rendezvous with Sandra Bullock?
Consuela - Jun 17, 2006 3:31:24 pm PDT #2334 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
ita, they fall in love (duh) and set a date to meet in 2006; but he never shows. She gets back together with her ex and they buy an old house to rehab and hire an architect to fix it, and it turns out to be Keanu's firm--except Keanu died 2 years before, in a car accident, on the day in 2006 that she'd first read one of his letters. He was trying to find her, and she saw him die (but didn't know it was him).
So she figures out that that was him, and runs back to the house and tells him not to try to find her, but to wait, and that she's at the house today, now. And he waits and then comes to find her and it's all happy at the end.
It almost makes sense, but really the characters are likeable enough that I didn't mind much that the plot was not entirely stable.
And the house is entirely cool. Very very neat.
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2006 3:45:37 pm PDT #2335 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks. I found Keanu's delivery so irritating in the trailer that I knew I'd never see it.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Jun 17, 2006 4:22:50 pm PDT #2336 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
On Beautiful Women In Films I Recently Watched
I enjoyed X-Men 3 a great deal but what was the story with Olivia Williams appearing in three scenes, with the most taxing of them requiring her to deliver four lines of exposition? While I'm glad that Williams can pay off that car loan now, its frustrating to watch their best actor spending her time staring about a lawn and gasping.
Also, Marion Cotillard in 'A Very Long Engagement' has the prettiest eyes. Y'know that moment where she lowers the tinted glasses? The prettiest eyes.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 17, 2006 5:49:59 pm PDT #2337 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'm a little skeptical of Olivia Williams being the best actor in a movie that features Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Jun 17, 2006 6:23:20 pm PDT #2338 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
She gave one of my favourite performances ever in PJ Hogan's 'Peter Pan'. And she was my favourite thing about 'Rushmore' and, perhaps, 'The Sixth Sense'. I find her unusually sensitive to whoever she's playing with and to the material as a whole, not just to the lines she's been sent off to memorize. So, while I have much respect and love for Stewart and McKellen and have hardly made a study of their careers, Williams would be my pick of the three.
Scrappy - Jun 17, 2006 7:37:22 pm PDT #2339 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Just got back from our "Use free passes to escape the heat" afternoon at the movies. We saw Nacho Libre, which was funny is spots but felt, I dunno, like it wasn't finished. The story has some good ideas, but none of them are developed. Also Jack Black needs a director who knows how to rein him in.
We also saw The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift which had the stupidest script imaginable, but is so unabashed about being a teenage boy's wet dream ("Hi, 17-year-old guy I just met, here's the keys to my incredibly expensive car for you to go race") that it is kinda fun to watch. Fun to watch if you want to see shiny cars in various cool landsacpes. Lucas Black has a charming smile, I have to say.
SuziQ - Jun 17, 2006 8:15:40 pm PDT #2340 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
DH saw The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift today and liked it better than the second one, but not as much as the first.
K-Bug saw The Lake House today and said it was boring.
I saw The Break-Up and feel meh about it. Some funny stuff, but the underlying message annoyed.
How did we all end up at different flicks? K-Bug's team went to the movies, the girls saw one flick while the moms saw another. DH struck out solo.