I saw Because I Said So this weekend. For those who like throwaway fluff, it was a nice sappy screwball romance. Diane Keaton chews the scenery in more than one scene and I started closing my eyes for those, wish I'd had earplugs, too. The fun was the CFerg sighting. I squealed a little.
And what's the fun in becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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SailAweigh - Feb 05, 2007 5:40:36 am PST #7359 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
§ ita § - Feb 05, 2007 6:38:26 am PST #7360 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I...I'm afraid to watch it. I feel like a bad friend, but I was going to wait until I could rent it.
SailAweigh - Feb 05, 2007 7:01:20 am PST #7361 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hee. My daughter and I thought we'd do a mother/daughter bonding thing over it. Eh, NSM. I wanted to smack the shit out of Diane Keaton and Alexia was all, but she's involved with her daughter's life! I wager if I was like that she'd be running for the hills. Yeah, I'd wait until it comes out on DVD. We went to the early-early showing so it was only $4, about the cost of renting it.
Anne W. - Feb 06, 2007 1:29:32 am PST #7362 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I think I might be starting to look forward to Prince Caspian a bit more than I thought I would.
esse - Feb 06, 2007 2:06:41 am PST #7363 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Ooh, pretty! Though I still mentally compared him to Samuel West, who really did a wonderful job as Caspian and was also very pretty. Or at least my mental block for anything negative about the BBC films makes me recall him as wonderful; I freely admit I'm kind of irrationally defensive of that version. Still, looking forward to it.
sumi - Feb 06, 2007 6:17:21 am PST #7364 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
sumi - Feb 06, 2007 6:25:55 am PST #7365 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
sumi - Feb 07, 2007 7:30:31 am PST #7366 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
People who expressed dismay at the Bridge to Terebithia trailer?
You are not alone. The filmmakers behind the movie are too. From the Scifiwire article:
The filmmakers behind Disney's upcoming fantasy film Bridge to Terabithia disavowed any connection with the movie's ad campaign, which they told SCI FI Wire was deliberately misleading. The ads show a boy and girl entering a fantasy world; the scene actually takes place at the end of the movie.
"I believe it's a stretch, and it's a very difficult decision on Disney's part, but we the filmmakers had nothing to do with that promotion," said director Gabor Csupo (The Wild Thornberrys). "We don't really think that it's an appropriate way of selling the movie, but they're convinced that that's the way to get kids interested, and hopefully they will be positively surprised. If they are anticipating a Harry Potter movie, then we are in trouble. It is not a Harry Potter kind of a movie."
Nutty - Feb 07, 2007 7:31:37 am PST #7367 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
It is not a Harry Potter kind of a movie."
Well, depending on whether or not Harry DIES at the end, it might be moreso than he thinks.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 07, 2007 7:54:47 am PST #7368 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Finally saw CHILDREN OF MEN last night, and it's probably the best movie I've seen from 2006 (haven't seen PAN'S LABYRINTH yet though - that's next on the list to see). Just nail-biting sequences that you don't really think to go "How the hell did they do THAT?" until after you've caught your breath, and the movie definitely set you up so that there was no guarantee that it would have any kind of happy ending.
Actually, after all the betrayals during the movie, I'm not sure that I was supposed to feel all that warm and fuzzy about the ship arriving at the end, but since several characters I liked were sacraficed for one reason or another, that's the feeling I'm going with, else it was all meaningless.
Chiwetel Ejiofor continues to amaze me how well he disappears into characters. I'd forgotten he was in it, and it wasn't until after the first big sequence in the car that I went "Hey, wait, isn't that...".