Yep. Which is another reason I love him more now after seeing Grindhouse.
And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.
Giles ,'Touched'
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Polter-Cow - Apr 07, 2007 9:18:29 am PDT #8103 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
juliana - Apr 07, 2007 10:34:06 am PDT #8104 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Speaking of schlock, I'm about halfway through Reign Of Fire, and I am absolutely in love with this movie. So many cliches, so little time, and an extremely pretty cast to boot.
Ash - Apr 07, 2007 11:29:22 am PDT #8105 of 10001
Reign of Fire did have the pretty. I need to watch it again with rifftrax, though.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 07, 2007 2:02:54 pm PDT #8106 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
Unfortunately, the excess hotness Bale added by working out was counterbalanced by McConnaghey's fugly beard and bald head, in some sort of weird attractiveness zero-sum game.
Gris - Apr 07, 2007 2:23:54 pm PDT #8107 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I just got back from Grindhouse. I definitely liked the Rodgriguez flick more - it took WAY too long for anything to happen, and even when it did it was anticlimactic in the Tarantino one. And my favorite trailer was actually Machete, though I loved them all.
Dana - Apr 07, 2007 2:28:24 pm PDT #8108 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Unfortunately, the excess hotness Bale added by working out was counterbalanced by McConnaghey's fugly beard and bald head, in some sort of weird attractiveness zero-sum game.
But...Gerard Butler! He totally contributes some hotness (to a really silly movie).
Invisible Green - Apr 07, 2007 3:12:48 pm PDT #8109 of 10001
I just saw Grindhouse as well. I really liked it, especially Rodriguez's half. Tarantino's section was pretty good, although it really wasn't what I expected - way too much talking and not enough violence. I loved the Thanksgiving trailer! Lots of laughs from that one; also, I think it would've been an actually entertaining movie if it were real.
juliana - Apr 07, 2007 3:24:45 pm PDT #8110 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Unfortunately, the excess hotness Bale added by working out was counterbalanced by McConnaghey's fugly beard and bald head, in some sort of weird attractiveness zero-sum game.
But...Gerard Butler! He totally contributes some hotness (to a really silly movie).
Also Alexander Siddig. Rrrrrrowr. McConaughey's beard was counterbalanced for me by the tattoos and his complete OTTness as the cigar-chompin', crazy-ass, death-defying 'Murrican.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Apr 07, 2007 4:28:28 pm PDT #8111 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
I heartily recommend Sunshine for a night at the kinotheque. Or I don't, really, because I have no idea if the anxieties it played on belong to people in general. It was mostly about stuff getting frazzled with the philosophy I couldn't make heads nor tails of kept to a minimum. Though, unfortunately, it fuels one of the twists so I couldn't go "You're silly, I discard you" to it. And a third act problem common to both Boyle and Garland pops up here again. And parts of the last twenty minutes are alternately wilfully and accidentally hard to follow. But generally it's tense and involving and pretty and well worth seeing.
§ ita § - Apr 07, 2007 5:10:14 pm PDT #8112 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanksgiving cracked us right up. Though the pervy guys in the group are sad that She Wolves of the SS isn't a real flick. One of them is going out to find Women in Cages though.
As for Reign of Fire I view it as a British movie (when the guy was riding to the rescue on the horse, he was a knight and not a cowboy. I don't know exactly how to explain that) with not very subtle commentary on the post-colonial age.
Loved McConnaughey. Adored. Not for the pretty, although he's sure brought that in his time.