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.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
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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
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.
Theodosia - Apr 02, 2007 2:46:51 am PDT #8061 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
JG-L rocked on Third Rock from the Sun as a mature and wise scientist having to assume the persona of a teenager, so I'm not surprised he's moved on to better things.
esse - Apr 02, 2007 2:48:42 am PDT #8062 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Salon has a really insightful intewview with him regarding The Lookout and his career: [link]
He's becoming a favorite of the indie circuit for his willingness to take on darker and conflicted characters. Not bad for a guy who cut his teeth on Angels in the Outfield.
Beverly - Apr 02, 2007 5:40:07 am PDT #8063 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I had seen Gordon-Levitt as a child actor, was most familiar with him for a Lifetime movie about a child who divorced his neglectful parents to stay with an adoptive or foster family. But he absolutely blew me away in the first few episodes of first season Third Rock. Amid all the buffoonery of the adults, somehow this kid seemed to embody the mature and wise scientist Theo notes above. He didn't parody it, he didn't overplay it. In quiet minutes between himself and Lithgow, he simply was this wise elder.
Of course he played human puberty for laughs, but it was the "old soul" business that got me. Similar to Christian Bale, actually.
Polter-Cow - Apr 02, 2007 5:43:32 am PDT #8064 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JG-L fans have seen Brick, right? He's really good in that.
smonster - Apr 02, 2007 6:36:17 am PDT #8065 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I always think of JG-L in Ten Things I Hate About You, aka my favorite teen movie not made in the 80s.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 02, 2007 6:40:01 am PDT #8066 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 think I passed on Brick because Ehrenstein raved so much about Gordon-Levitt in it that I unfairly associated my distaste for the reviewer with the film itself. Probably need to correct that via Netflix.
Hayden - Apr 02, 2007 6:45:20 am PDT #8067 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I unfairly associated my distaste for the reviewer with the film itself
Don't say that around Evil Jimi.