I'm a little skeptical of Olivia Williams being the best actor in a movie that features Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
'Sleeper'
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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
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.
Scrappy - Jun 17, 2006 8:25:00 pm PDT #2341 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I also liked it better than the second. Bow Wow, Lucas Black and Sung Kang (a young American actor who was excellent) were all fun to watch.
Eddie - Jun 17, 2006 8:27:35 pm PDT #2342 of 10001
Your tag here.
We saw Nacho Libre, which was funny is spots but felt, I dunno, like it wasn't finished.
I agree.
Narrator - Jun 18, 2006 6:35:26 am PDT #2343 of 10001
The evil is this way?
We saw Nacho Libre, which was funny is spots but felt, I dunno, like it wasn't finished.
Not funny enough in spots and really sucked in many others. Nearly walked out but I kept waiting for some pay-off -- something that tied it all together and made some sense. Never came.
Cashmere - Jun 18, 2006 11:09:02 am PDT #2344 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Because I couldn't wait for Netflix, I sent DH out to rent Underworld: Evolution. Nope. Not ashamed.
SailAweigh - Jun 18, 2006 11:11:31 am PDT #2345 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Cash, it's got Kate Beckinsale in PVC, no other excuse necessary.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 18, 2006 11:54:12 am PDT #2346 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
OK, saw a formative film that, upon seeing it on DVD, I realized I've never seen unedited.
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE, which was definitely 70's fare, with a (playing, and must have been close to the age) 13 year old Jodie Foster and and OUTRAGEOUSLY creepy Martin Sheen as the guy who wants to do her.
It's a novel I'd read based on the premise of the movie (by Laird Koenig) when I was in Junior High and it's a very Patricia Highsmith-like indetifying with the person who is not quite right in the head.
I bought the DVD months ago, but hadn't gotten around to watching it, and upon seeing it a) that must have been a body double for Jodie in the nude scene, b) this thing got a PG rating back in the day????? I want to throw this out there for all the fucktard religious right who protest and say that movies have gotten so much worse.
Seriously though, it's a very good, creepy movie, and both Jodie and Martin are superb. Unfortuntately, even in the edited form I saw it in back in the day, Martin Sheen has always registered as this sick fuck no matter what I see him in, including Pres. Bartlett.