Jilli, I've seen it, and I certainly can't remember it being a major plot point. You may want to wait for someone else to weigh in, though.
Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --
Mal ,'War Stories'
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Dana - Dec 23, 2006 1:10:28 pm PST #6591 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
flea - Dec 23, 2006 2:36:03 pm PST #6592 of 10001
information libertarian
See, I like Beatrix Potter (or, well, her art; the woman herself seems to have been inoffensive enough too from what I know of her) but I loathe The Zellweger, as do all right-thinking people.
Glamcookie - Dec 23, 2006 3:02:24 pm PST #6593 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
In the next several days, we plan to see Curse of the Golden Flower and Inland Empire. Last movie we saw in the theater was Volver, which we both enthusiastically enjoyed.
DavidS - Dec 23, 2006 3:37:16 pm PST #6594 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
we plan to see Curse of the Golden Flower and Inland Empire
Exotic imagery overload!
Anne W. - Dec 23, 2006 6:06:08 pm PST #6595 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
We just saw The Good Shepherd. It was interesting, in that it took various elements that would have been major plot points in other movies and turned them almost into background noise while bringing character and mood into the forefront.
In other news, in checking IMDB, I was surprised to find that the "damn he looks familiar" actor in there was the guy who played Aaron in Wonderfalls. Huh.
Laga - Dec 23, 2006 7:31:11 pm PST #6596 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I loved The Zellweger in Cold Mountain and I thought she was perfectly cast in Chicago. Heck I even liked her in Nurse Betty too. I guess I just have no taste!
JZ - Dec 23, 2006 8:02:44 pm PST #6597 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.
Laga, I'm right there with you. I have craxy love for Nurse Betty. Hell, I even like her Bridget Jones, and IMO she made a fine unrequited love for Robert E. Howard.
As long as we're admitting to lack of taste, I might as well state here my preference for the remake of Sabrina and the Gwyneth Paltrow version of Emma while I'm at it.
Still not keen on Julia Roberts, though. I'm not completely insane.
Laga - Dec 23, 2006 8:27:00 pm PST #6598 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Le Gasp! granted I didn't truly embrace either version of Sabrina but I loves me Audrey Hepburn so muchly. Come to think of it I don't really care for My Fair Lady either. I just wish they wouldn't remake mediocre old movies when there are genius writers out there struggling to get their truly original screenplays even looked at.
ETA: I'm right there with you on the Julia Roberts thing. I also don't see what's the big deal about Jennifer Aniston although I will admit she is a fine actress. See The Good Girl if you don't believe me.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 24, 2006 12:05:55 am PST #6599 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's the hair.
Kevin - Dec 24, 2006 3:36:02 am PST #6600 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
There are gossip rumblings I've read about the last pregnant woman on earth being sub-Saharan African, and how (being both black and female) the movie treats her as pawn-material, an object, a belly with no brains, rather than a subject and a character in her own right. I've only seen the trailer, so I don't know whether to take that with a grain of salt, or to get mad in advance.
That's rubbish, quite frankly. Yes, she is treated like that by *CHARACTERS* in the movie (which is kinda also the POINT of the movie), but not *BY* the movie itself.
Children of Men is, frankly, my favourite film ever. It has two of the most accomplished scenes I've ever seen recorded. It's haunting. Yes, there's a lot of politics thrown in without being explored, and yes, the back half is basically a chase movie. However, I don't agree those are real critisms. It's a film which brings horrors we commit abroad back home, and smacks you in the face with them. Yes, it's depressing. Yes, the ending will annoy some people. Yes, ever critism I've heard people aim at it has been part of the creative process they've chosen to take, I suspect.
Anyway. It's a film which stayed with me for a good few days.