I find most movies in the "THIS IS A COMEDY!" vein to just be obnoxious.
It actually has surprising subtleties. While I blame PMM for making me watch it, I also laughed my ass off.
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
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esse - Feb 11, 2007 2:55:55 pm PST #7424 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
tiggy - Feb 11, 2007 6:10:49 pm PST #7425 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
watched Blood Diamond earlier. those kind of movies really make me realize how easy i have it and how i should be using my time to actually do something productive. also made me feel really guilty for the tiny diamond ring my mom gave me. i don't even like diamonds. i think they're overrated, but it's sort of a family heirloom at this point. it was my mom's great aunt's and it used to be an earring. it was made into a ring when the aunt lost the other one.
anyway...tangent. Blood Diamond was fantastic if you enjoy extremely realistic and subsequently depressing movies.
Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2007 6:16:58 pm PST #7426 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm watching Charade now so I can see at least one good movie this weekend. Twenty minutes in and it's already made me laugh way more than Super Troopers.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 11, 2007 6:20:00 pm PST #7427 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Viva Variety
Oh HMOG I miss this for just the sheer randomness.
He looks like DeNiro! He looks like DeNiro! He looks like DeNiro! He looks...
You talkin' to me?
Frankenbuddha - Feb 11, 2007 6:22:43 pm PST #7428 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm watching Charade now so I can see at least one good movie this weekend. Twenty minutes in and it's already made me laugh way more than Super Troopers
Once you've seen that, check out the remake, THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE. Wahlberg is so not a new Cary Grant, but I thought the role was reworked just enough that he wasn't supposed to be, Thandie Newton is a pretty damn good Hepburn substitute, and I ADORE what the changes they made with the story/supporting characters.
Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2007 6:28:38 pm PST #7429 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'll look into it, Frank, thanks!
Man, I haven't watched an old movie in a while. They don't make 'em like they used to. Look at the camera! It's all steady and shit.
I like how this movie doesn't seem to realize how funny it is.
§ ita § - Feb 11, 2007 8:05:08 pm PST #7430 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I realised, last pruning of my Netflix queue, that The Truth About Charlie and Charade have been released on one disc. So I was able to take Charade off as a duplicate.
Hayden - Feb 11, 2007 8:06:06 pm PST #7431 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I can't recall ever disagreeing with Frank about a movie, but I really didn't like The Truth About Charlie.
And, that was always the weird question of Firefly metaphors, wasn't it? If the good guys are the cowboys, and there definitionally aren't any indians, what kind of conflict are we really talking about?
I think the Reivers are the Indians, Nutty. The conflict of Firefly was the same as in a lot of John Ford's movies: the cowboys were trapped between civilization and barbarity.
Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2007 8:09:04 pm PST #7432 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Charade = made of win! What a great movie.
Megan E. - Feb 12, 2007 2:22:16 am PST #7433 of 10001
Norbit was the #1 movie over the weekend. Humanity is doomed.