'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
I've just looked up the director, and it's not Paul V-whazzhisname. It's someone named Michael Caton-Jones, who's Scottish and has made some decent films in the past-- Rob Roy, Scandal, Memphis Belle, etc. Huh.
At one point Cronenberg was attached to it of all people. That would have been....interesting. Glad he went with HISTORY OF VIOLENCE instead.
(For those who, unlike me, know when to stay away from bad French cyberpunk, this is quite possibly the worst book ever written. I'm just curious enough to go back and give it another try before the movie comes out.)
when to stay away from bad French cyberpunk
Always?
I couldn't get the trailer for Basic Instinct 2 to run, for some reason.
In utterly unrelated news, I was cruising through IMDb, looking up various people, and I discovered an interesting bit of triva -- Logan Ramsey, dead character actor and husband of Anne Ramsey (who played Danny DeVito's mom in Throw Momma From the Train), is the son of Lt. Cmdr. Logan Ramsey, who sent one of the most famous radio messages in history, AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR, THIS IS NO DRILL, immediatly after sounding the alarm from Ford Island.
Talk about shoes you have no hope of ever filling.
Always?
But I like bad cyberpunk. And I like overwrought French philosophy. Who knew they'd be such a tragically bad combination? (THAT WAS RHETORICAL.)
Anne Ramsey (who played Danny DeVito's mom in Throw Momma From the Train)
Helen Hunt's sister from Mad About You played Danny DeVito's Mom? That's some range.
Went to a screening of Firewall last night. SUCKS. It plays as if you fed every thriller cliche into a blender and then filmed whatever came out. Really obvious and shallow and bad, but I predict people who like not thinking at all--like, don't even want to worry about what might happen next--will enjoy it. Bettany is cute when he is being menacing, though.
SUCKS.
Heh. Harrison Ford's TDS appearance last night indicated as much.
Helen Hunt's sister from Mad About You played Danny DeVito's Mom? That's some range.
That would be Anne Ramsay as Helen Hunt's sister. I wonder if she actually spells it the same, but had to change it because the other Anne was Ramsey first.
Also, when did IMDb start integrating the Notable TV Guest appearances into the main acting listing? Whenvever it was, I like it. I don't have to scroll all the way to the bottom to look up TV shots, like they're some bastard stepchild.
What a waste of Bettany. I won't lament Ford.
This cool, classy blonde stinking of funk, like a feral Grace Kelly.
I still want to be JZ when I grow up. I want to marry this sentence.
The sentence, not Stone.