Sigh. Kilmer is so amazingly perfect in that film.
You want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Scrappy - Mar 30, 2007 2:50:49 pm PDT #8051 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Kathy A - Mar 30, 2007 3:32:06 pm PDT #8052 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Lovelovelove Real Genius!
"Socrates said, 'I drank what?!?'"
"Can you drive a spike through a 2x4 with your dick?"
"Um, no."
"Sorry, then--a girl's gotta have her standards."
Beverly - Mar 30, 2007 5:33:49 pm PDT #8053 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
We've said "It's a moral imperative" so many times over so many issues, trivial and important and in between, I had literally forgotten it was a quote. Seeing the movie last year and hearing the line just was a little weird. Almost like, "They're quoting us!"
Hayden - Mar 30, 2007 7:19:14 pm PDT #8054 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I've said some mean things about Bogdanovitch over the years, but Robin's story makes me regret every one of them.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 31, 2007 4:26:09 pm PDT #8055 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Just watched some of the CHILDREN OF MEN extras on the DVD, and apart from showing how the mind-boggling car sequence was done (and how the actors managed to do what they did, both outside and inside the car, still astonishes me), they also showed how elaborate the effects were for a sequence that never pinged me as difficult...until they showed how difficult it was - namely the sequence where the baby is born. I was so into the movie at that point that I didn't even stop to think how they achieved that moment. That's some good moviemaking there, I tell you what.
§ ita § - Mar 31, 2007 5:10:27 pm PDT #8056 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Saw Shooter last night. It was pretty much what we went for--gunmanship and action. A lot of explosions considering the gunheavy premise, but what can you do? I managed to spot at least one gun error, my companion more (but that's kinda his job), but it was decent fun.
Some medical "whuzzat?" happening there, but Wahlberg is nice and sulky and Michael Pena does a good job with his role too. Danny Glover does a good creepy. The women aren't...well, they aren't too developed. They support the action. That's their gig.
Volans - Mar 31, 2007 10:15:32 pm PDT #8057 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I'm pretty sure I chose my college solely because Real Genius was filmed there.
Finally watched Casino Royale. That was both a good and bad movie.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 01, 2007 1:21:59 am PDT #8058 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
I saw The Host today. It was interesting, but I can't rave about it like I've seen some reviewers do. The authorities, Korean AND American, seemed too cartoonish for the rest of the movie to me.
DebetEsse - Apr 01, 2007 9:56:59 am PDT #8059 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Once again, I need the hivemind. I've done some googling, but I wanted to verify.
Given that it's a fictionalization, are there any historical...inaccuracies, if you will, in Judgment at Nuremburg? Not that these specific things happened, but that things didn't happen like that?
My TiVo suggested it to me, and it seems like a good place to start my classroom library.
Scrappy - Apr 01, 2007 8:50:11 pm PDT #8060 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Just saw The Lookout, and recommend it highly. Very well written and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is amazing and nuanced. All the actors are great, really. It's a character study disguised as a caper film and succeeds on both counts.