'Serenity'
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Uwe Boll is going 3 rounds in the boxing ring with movie critics.
I don't know what's more idiotic -- his movies, or the fact that he thinks that if he kicks a bunch of movie critic's asses that it means he makes good movies.
I hope somebody beats the living snot out of him.
What movie has a crappy old cabin on a beach with a pier with a wheelchair on it?
What movie has a crappy old cabin on a beach with a pier with a wheelchair on it?
Key Largo?
I found out that the advance screening of Serenity actually didn't work out too well as a date movie, as we were both too wrapped up in the film to consider making out. Which set the tone for the rest of the evening.
Key Largo has a closed-for-the-season hotel on the beach with a pier with a wheelchair on it (which in turn has a Barrymore in it).
Thanks, Hivemind!
I've seen Key Largo, but I totally do not have that scene associated in my head with that movie. Weird.
I just watched Wide Awake. Now, I've been saying for some time now that Shaymalan needs to make a nice little domestic movie: something old-school Speilberg. Turns out he already did. It even centered around a kid in 5th grade (at a Catholic school, which is, I think, a lot of why it managed to get some of its cast, including Dennis Leary and Rosie O'Donnell). I guess he has had something of a Speilberg trajectory, only the condensed version.
I have been converted. I worship Samuel L. Jackson as my personal savior and snake handler. Muthafucking snakes on a muthafucking plane! Loved.
Watched District 13. There's a little movie that's better than it had to be! I was just in it for the parkours, lent it by a parkours-happy friend. It's a bit weirdly paced, but I liked how it wended its way through the plot.
I knew going in that one of the parkours inventors was a lead. I was happily impressed with his acting. I hope his friend in Casino Royale does as well.
It became apparent that Jason Statham should star in any English language remake, so it was funny to see that the other lead, the one in the role that Jason was suited for, did stunts on Transporters one and two.
Ok, so The Weather Man. I hated it, Joe hated it, the dog hated it, and the DVD player all but spit it out. Nic Cage's character didn't change. He was aggravating as fuck, and with the exception of Michael Caine, I didn't like anyone in the movie. Bryant Gumbel was ok. But by the end, I just wanted there to be a nuke-lar explosion killing everyone. Seriously. We're going to try to find some Rich and Pat Nixon porn on NetFlix to get the horridness of this movie out of our heads.
Capote. I loved it. He a manipulative little fucker and I loved him for it. PSH was amazing. And, since I have more than a little love for Dan Futterman, I thought his writing was fabulous, but I'm biased. I couldn't watch Perry's hanging and pretty much sobbed all the way through that scene. But, I thought it was a great film.