I actually totally agree with the Times review: [link]
I hoped it would have been awesome, too.
River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.
'Safe'
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Jesse - Aug 27, 2006 1:08:55 pm PDT #3757 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Scrappy - Aug 27, 2006 1:23:00 pm PDT #3758 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I'm going tonight. Tickets are already bought.
clanking sound of gears turning as expectations are lowered
SailAweigh - Aug 27, 2006 2:08:04 pm PDT #3759 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oh, that sounds like it could have been a really good movie. It still may be enjoyable, at least for the music.
Jesse - Aug 27, 2006 2:15:39 pm PDT #3760 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think lowered expectations will be your friend, Robin.
The other thing I noticed was the "black" preview reel -- two movies set in Africa, two in prison, one with Denzel.
juliana - Aug 27, 2006 3:08:12 pm PDT #3761 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Too bad about Idlewild.
Just had a Very Canadian Movie Session w/M. Hard Core Logo and Men With Brooms. I quite liked HCL, and LOVED Men With Brooms. Just loved
sumi - Aug 27, 2006 3:16:39 pm PDT #3762 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
ASH has been cast as Sir Walter Elliot in the new movie of Persuasion.
Ooh, Rupert Penry-Jones as Captain Wentworth. Sally Hawkins as Anne. . . don't know who Sally Hawkins is.
JZ - Aug 27, 2006 4:24:48 pm PDT #3763 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Sally Hawkins as Anne. . . don't know who Sally Hawkins is.
I don't either, but apparently she was in Tipping the Velvet, which IIRC several Buffistas have read and seen and have big deep love for, so there's got to be someone here with an informed opinion on her. I sortakinda remember a copy of the novel floating about at the LA F2F with some happy discussion of the film version, but not who was doing the actual discussing.
Dana - Aug 27, 2006 4:32:17 pm PDT #3764 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Why are they making another version of Persuasion?
sumi - Aug 27, 2006 4:41:39 pm PDT #3765 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Because they can?
Because P&P did really well?
But ASH in Regency costume!
Fiona - Aug 27, 2006 11:39:31 pm PDT #3766 of 10001
I don't either, but apparently she was in Tipping the Velvet, which IIRC several Buffistas have read and seen and have big deep love for, so there's got to be someone here with an informed opinion on her.
I didn't see "Tipping the Velvet", and she wasn't one of the leads in that, but she was a lead in "Fingersmith", and very good in that. She also had excellent reviews for a BBC play that was on a couple of weeks ago. I like her.