Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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You know how really shitty movies can sometimes get better over time? That's not happening with The Phantom Menace. I'm getting more pissed off at George Lucas by the second.
Of course I could blame myself. I'm watching it on HBO on Demand.
I swear, I thought it might be better after a few years.
::checks again::
Nope.
wrod. Sometimes it's a mood thing but not with that one.
No, no, no. Don't. And, for the love of God, don't watch Clones. ::shudder::
watched Alpha Dog earlier. it was a great movie, but the ending killed me. not that i wasn't expecting it since it's a true story and all...
question (a la Dwight Schrute). do all Oscar nominated movies have to be so freaking sad? gah.
OK. We finally watched Harold and Kumar. At one point, the DH was lying face down on the floor in front of the TV, crying, he was laughing so hard. Kal Penn has got screen charisma and to spare.
I think I would have liked Harold and Kumar better if it had worked from an absolutely straight-faced production: like, if the raccoon stunt had been less obviously fake; if the cheetah thing had been replaced with something that could actually happen. I like slapstick as much as the next person, but I like my slapstick to look like it is happening without too obvious an authorial hand helping it along.
I admit, the likelihood of a coked-out Doogie Howser, looking for girls, showing up in rural New Jersey is not high; but being able to ride a cheetah, I am thinking no.
At one point, the DH was lying face down on the floor in front of the TV, crying, he was laughing so hard.
Which point? Because the scene with Hold On does that to me every single time.
Hold On is on the work radio RIGHT NOW!!
AIFG.
Nutty commenting on the realism of scenes involving cheetahs? The comedy practically writes itself.
Makes me wonder if she likes Bringing Up Baby.
Hee.