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I mean, there is no point or reason to having a car hit a semi head on, explode into flames, and then reassemble on the other side of the semi, other than doing it for its own sake....Why would anyone want to see a movie like that?
I thought it looked cool! Sometimes I have shallow tastes.
Have you seen The Silver Surfer's package?
Well...it makes sense in a way. What, Galactus is going to permabond swim trunks to him while coating him in silvery metal?
I saw The Good Shepherd today with a couple of friends. It took a 15 minute confab afterwards to figure out just how the plotlines intersected. At the end we all agreed that we wanted Angelina Jolie's character's wardrobe.
just finished Brick. the dialogue tried way too hard to be noir, but it was an okay movie. JGL has really come a long way.
I am so perverse in my movie tastes that immediately upon reading P-C's posts, I bolted to our DVD shelf and started watching Raising Arizona for the umpteenth time. At first I tried to remember particular lines to quote back at P-C to say, "See? How can you not love this? How can you not see how utterly fucking hilarious this is?", but then I realized that I would just end up quoting the entire damn movie line for line, so I gave up on conversion and just wallowed in it.
I would advise going back again in a year or so. Like many Coen Brothers movies, it gets richer with each rewatch.
Also, Hec informs me that I now *am* Holly Hunter as Ed, with the sudden crumply face and the gushes of tears and the howling "I just love her so mu-u-uch!" I don't think the baby-having is Ed's only purpose in life, but if it's something you want it can be (a) devastating to not be able to do it, and (b) ridiculously overwhelming when you do, whether naturally or via quint-kidnapping out the upstairs bedroom window.
I would advise going back again in a year or so. Like many Coen Brothers movies, it gets richer with each rewatch.
I did discover this with The Big Lebowski. The first time, I just didn't get it, and I fell asleep. (I also fell asleep during Raising Arizona, but I don't really blame the movie because I've just been doing that for weeks.) When I saw it again, though, I found it really funny.
Leonard Smalls felt like he came out of a different movie, which was very amusing. I think he should go around making appearances in all other movies.
I'm still pissed at them for making Tempe a cowtown instead of where I went to college.
Ooooo, just got back from Pan's Labyrinth. Easily the best movie I've seen at least since Mrs. Henderson Presents last February,and maybe better than anything since Brokeback Mountain. I loved how it was a very feminist movie, in that Ofelia and Mercedes were the bravest, most resourceful characters. Yet it avoided the trap of making them so in a way that wouldn't be appropriate to the period—they weren't superwomen, just very good at making do with what was at hand. Much as I love them, Joss' stories don't seem so good at empowering women without actually, y'know, involving powers. (Zoe Washburn being the one exception I can think of.)
Do not fuck with Mercedes or she will cut you !