'Potential'
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.
may I recommend seeing The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D, then?
I actually don't like the NBC.
sound similar to Kayako's signature death rattle while one is in the midst of a Grudge movie showing.
Ha!
They're showing all three Saws here as a halloween thing. Gyah, NO THANK YOU.
I saw The Prestige last night. I thought The Illusionist was better for a period look and for generally being pretty, but The Prestige had a better, more complex plot. I was still a step ahead of most of the mystery of The Prestige, but at least a couple of things kept me guessing. Plus, it was fun to listen to the people in the film arguing about whether that was Bowie or not.
I actually don't like the NBC.
It's off to Oogie Boogie's with you!
if they gave it to him people might assume it was a comedy
It wasn't?
Plus, it was fun to listen to the people in the film arguing about whether that was Bowie or not.
See what I mean about the mustache?
Saw Marie Antoinette and The Last Kiss tonight. Man, I didn't go in with great expectations for either of them, but I didn't walk out terribly satisfied either.
I saw Marie Antoinette last night too and, with reservations, thought it was pretty darn successful. I'm slowly convincing myself that I haven't ever been exposed to as many dunderhead reviews from professional critics as I have been with this film though. Hate it, fine, but don't whinge about it being stultifying in its relentless hedonism when its main concern is capturing the way relentless hedonism is stultifying.
Also, I thought Kirsten Dunst acted all good and stuff.
Most of the criticism of Marie Antoinette is, as far as I'm concerned, thinly veiled cattiness about Sofia Coppola herself. Some of it's not even veiled at all (coughDanaStevenscough).
Not that the film doesn't have some fairly major flaws, mind you, but it's really NOT about how much fun Sofia Coppola thinks it is to buy shoes.
Some of it's not even veiled at all (coughDanaStevenscough).
Thank you. Dana Stevens and Andrew O'Hehir were the American critics I was thinking of when I wrote that. I do think it was partly about how much fun it is to buy shoes (and eat cakes and go hunting) because having fidelity to experience seems to be very important to Coppola but she was also putting that in a wider context.
I enjoyed The Prestige, but I really, really feel like I need to see it again before I can say how much I enjoyed it. If that makes any sense.
But my crush on David Bowie continues unabated! Of course, he'd have to lead a pogrom against cute fluffy kittens in order to put a dent in my crush at this point.
I think it was partly about how much fun it is to buy shoes (and eat cakes and go hunting)
Well, yes -- I'm not saying she doesn't think buying shoes is fun. But most of the really negative reviews have boiled the movie down to "OMG having money is TEH AWESOME!" which is just wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to start.