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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.
Because I couldn't wait for Netflix, I sent DH out to rent Underworld: Evolution. Nope. Not ashamed.
Cash, it's got Kate Beckinsale in PVC, no other excuse necessary.
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.
That sounds good, but I won't watch it until after I'm done mainlining West Wing, due to your final sentence.
In something very vaguely related, Martin Sheen does the voiceover at the beginning of the trailer for Who Killed the Electric Car, which I saw before An Inconvenient Truth. I thought that was a good touch, since a significant portion of the viewing audience probably associates his voice with President Bartlett.
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.
This is totally me. I saw that movie when I was eleven or twelve, on TV, and ever since then Martin Sheen has carried a vaguely sleazy, very creepy vibe for me. Loved the movie, though, and the book, too.
I saw A Prairie Home Companion this afternoon, and it was pure joy. Just really really pleasant to watch. And great music, and some of it is just hysterically funny. I'd see it again in a second.
oh, yay!
I rather liked it, too, although it struck me a little more Altman than Keilor. I am really glad they made it, though, since, like the t-shirt says, "extinct is forever".
It strikes me Keillorness might be hard to film and I'm not sure why.